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suydam

You might be right. Our lab mix has all her teeth and just the two bad ones, only 1of which we have fixed. She’s 14. She ate dry food most of her life which is supposed to be good for their teeth. Now she’s just eating boiled chicken and rice (not because of teeth, but stomach issues). We will enjoy her as long as her quality of life is good.

xwesx

Michaell said:

To bring this around to cars, a couple of friends he met while raising birds had interesting cars - one was a late 70's Fiesta (orange - weren't they all?) and the other a '79 or '80 Celica hatchback, in yellow. I really wanted that one.

There's a good reason for that! When you're driving a little tin can, you have to do your part to maximize being seen!

xwesx

driver100 said:

Apparently, the teeth on larger dogs holds up better than smaller dogs.

That makes sense. Some of those tiny breeds have needles in their mouths!

ab348

Before my weekend guest departed today I took him for a ride in the ATS. He was looking to spot a Kia Stinger at a Kia dealer and also wanted to see if the refreshed 2019 Chevy pickups were on the lots yet. No dice on either count. But we did have a fun sighting. At one of the big dealer group's flagship location, a property with 4 different brand stores, they also keep the owner's car collection. If you talk nicely to them you can do a walk-through although today it was closed. But we got this shot through one of the roll-up doors:



Both the '70 Olds Cutlass Supreme SX and the '80 Mercedes 450SEL were owned by a mutual friend who traded them a dozen or so years ago when he bought an S-Class (which turned out poorly, but that's another story). My buddy did a lot of the work on the Cutlass and it lived in his garage for a number of years due to lack of space at the owner's house. The 450 was bought new and only used for a few years before being garaged for only occasional sunny-day use. The Cutlass is a lovely car in beautiful colors, especially the interior, and ran very strong. I foolishly passed on an opportunity to buy it before the trade.

Subsequently the same mutual friend traded his Lexus SC400 to the same place and we spotted it in there too. But the real jaw-dropper was a '61 Cadillac Fleetwood limo that was parked outside in a breezeway, apparently after being used for an event over the weekend. It was originally from Pennsylvania according to a sticker on the windshield and was absolutely pristine and arrow-straight. It even had flag holders on the front fenders so I presume it was a government vehicle of some sort. What an impressive machine.

abacomike

The dog I had when growing up (from age 10 - 23) was the smartest and most human-like living thing I have ever known.  She often lifted her derrière up to the toilet to poop where I pooped.  Whenever I was in the bathroom, she was there waiting for her turn, just like everyone else in the family - we only had one bathroom to share with 4 adults and one dog.

Her teeth were always in great shape - Milkbone dog biscuits for breakfast and a can of Red Heart dog food for dinner.  At least twice a week we gave her a lamb shank or steak bone which she gnawed on for hours.  If I ever attempted to take the bone away before it got dangerously small, it was the only time she would growl - and show her teeth at me.  That bone was what she lived for.  I believe those bones and hard dog biscuits are what kept her teeth immaculate.

It was just difficult scraping her poop off the toilet rim when she didn’t lift her derrière high enough - but she was worth every scraping I had to do - I loved her more than anything else in my life at the time - and I knew how much she loved me!

iluvmysephia1

That sounds like a great pup, Mike. Good for you!

I'm fixin' ta give our orange tabby Casper his Hartz Ultra Guard Pro flea-tick-mosquito combo medicine any minute now. Mrs. iluvmysephia1 won't let him outside until the medicine has a chance to work on him tonight. He's meowing loudly right now - he wants out really badly. He's as big as a bobcat and mean to birds - he'll kill them as quick as he can if just given the chance.


Matty (grey) and Casper (orange)

Matty went blind last year in Kansas City. He gets spoiled to the max these days - Daddy gives him plenty of attention throughout the week. Casper is the outside cat primarily, though, as shown, he'll nap with the best of 'em!

jwm40517

An old friend has a Poodle mix that is 8 or 9 I think. Every evening she lays on her back to get her teeth brushed, then rolls over to get the other side done.

fintail

That 450 SEL (W116) is pretty uncommon in mint condition - few people bothered to save those, as they are guzzlers and are heavy sedans. 1980 was the last model year in NA, that one appears to have Euro lights with US spec bumpers (which look trimmer due to the angle of the pic). I will wage the S-class bad experience was on a W220, early 00s vintage, those cars could be troublesome.

ab348 said:

Before my weekend guest departed today I took him for a ride in the ATS. He was looking to spot a Kia Stinger at a Kia dealer and also wanted to see if the refreshed 2019 Chevy pickups were on the lots yet. No dice on either count. But we did have a fun sighting.

fintail

That kind of stuff is another reason why I have a dashcam - I'd like to have something to fall back on if I end up in an unfortunate incident and the authorities investigate it in a maybe typically goofy way.

andres3 said:

Agreed, if an extra 20 MPH from oncoming traffic makes you crash, you are probably cutting it way too close making that left turn in the first place. Sort of like running in front of a train. Why cut it so close?

xwesx

ab348 said:

Before my weekend guest departed today I took him for a ride in the ATS. He was looking to spot a Kia Stinger at a Kia dealer and also wanted to see if the refreshed 2019 Chevy pickups were on the lots yet. No dice on either count. But we did have a fun sighting. At one of the big dealer group's flagship location, a property with 4 different brand stores, they also keep the owner's car collection. If you talk nicely to them you can do a walk-through although today it was closed. But we got this shot through one of the roll-up doors:

Both the '70 Olds Cutlass Supreme SX and the '80 Mercedes 450SEL were owned by a mutual friend who traded them a dozen or so years ago when he bought an S-Class (which turned out poorly, but that's another story). My buddy did a lot of the work on the Cutlass and it lived in his garage for a number of years due to lack of space at the owner's house. The 450 was bought new and only used for a few years before being garaged for only occasional sunny-day use. The Cutlass is a lovely car in beautiful colors, especially the interior, and ran very strong. I foolishly passed on an opportunity to buy it before the trade.

Subsequently the same mutual friend traded his Lexus SC400 to the same place and we spotted it in there too. But the real jaw-dropper was a '61 Cadillac Fleetwood limo that was parked outside in a breezeway, apparently after being used for an event over the weekend. It was originally from Pennsylvania according to a sticker on the windshield and was absolutely pristine and arrow-straight. It even had flag holders on the front fenders so I presume it was a government vehicle of some sort. What an impressive machine.

That's impressive.

Perhaps a testament to the quality of care the cars of your "mutual friend" received, given that three trades all ended up in the owner's collection. Or, just bad taste on the collector's part!

Hard to say on that limo. Weren't there fleets of such rigs equipped like that for foreign dignitaries, etc., to fly their flags as well?

xwesx

fintail said:

That kind of stuff is another reason why I have a dashcam - I'd like to have something to fall back on if I end up in an unfortunate incident and the authorities investigate it in a maybe typically goofy way.

andres3 said:

Agreed, if an extra 20 MPH from oncoming traffic makes you crash, you are probably cutting it way too close making that left turn in the first place. Sort of like running in front of a train. Why cut it so close?

Yep, that was our motivation!

Andres, I'm not jumping on the "everything you say is garbage" bandwagon here.... Drop the assumptions, though! My goodness. If you seriously think that a 20 mile per hour difference in a low limit area, such as 35-40 mph, doesn't make enough of a difference to cause a crash, then perhaps you should stop speeding at all because your judgement is seriously impaired.

Particularly where sight distances are involved, there is a certain level of behavioral expectation involved with traffic flow. Once someone commits to an action, if someone else comes along that is an extreme outlier of that expectation, it is quite easy to see how a collision can result. It has nothing to do with "cutting it close," it has to do with reckless behavior on the part of the outlier.

ab348

xwesx said:

Hard to say on that limo. Weren't there fleets of such rigs equipped like that for foreign dignitaries, etc., to fly their flags as well?

Not sure. The Pennsylvania tag threw me somewhat. Maybe it was the governor's car in the early '60s? Not sure what sort of foreign dignitaries would be in PA back then.

xwesx

ab348 said:

xwesx said:

Hard to say on that limo. Weren't there fleets of such rigs equipped like that for foreign dignitaries, etc., to fly their flags as well?

Not sure. The Pennsylvania tag threw me somewhat. Maybe it was the governor's car in the early '60s? Not sure what sort of foreign dignitaries would be in PA back then.

True. PA is close to DC, New York, etc., so figured the company could be based out of Philly or something, realistically.

imidazol97

More than 250 words--alert
Appliance service made automated appointment call Saturday evening meaning the part came in. 4:30 today the service guy rolls up and digs through the back of his minivan. Then he spends about 15 minutes on his cell phone. He came to the door and said the distribution center had 2 or 3 of the circuit boards and shipped on to them. It was on the manifest. But it's not in his parts that he picked up this morning.

Apparently the company doesn't audit the parts that came in on SAturday to match the order they gave. OR another repairman saw the part in this guy's bin and grabbed it. The part is now out of stock until NOVEMBER 11, 2018. That's 6 weeks. Apparently lots of problem with this part and Whirlpool must be getting them from Lower Slovenia.

I told the Lowes warranty center I'd like a new refrigerator instead of having to wait 6 or MORE weeks. I said I'd pay a usage fee for the 2.5 years I've had it since they likely have an identical refrigerator in stock at the local Lowes store to deliver on Wednesday. Lowes lady couldn't contact the appliance repair company since it was after 5 pm. Lowes will pay for $325 of rental cost. I emphasized I'd like a new refrigerator, dang the rental costs.

Since she couldn't contact the service company, she said her supervisors would contact them about the problem part. But emphasized they only replace after 3 major service calls within a period of time--ice makers are not major parts in counting service calls. It's a lemon clause. I didn't ask what they do with the lemons they take back. Give them a clean title and sell them as scratch & dent?

If the repair company had called me this morning the part wasn't in the serviceman's bin, I could have dealt with Lowes, and the service company could have been contacted real time.

Now I'm at their mercy. Meanwhile I rented a refrigerator for the garage from a rent-to-buy company. They would have delivered it with an hour or two if the service company had let me know early in the day...

The only good thing is that the fall apple that fell from a tree just outside the city limit hit the ground instead of my car. It fell right in front of my headlight.They have a wrinkled yellow green skin like a thickened skin grapefruit. People put them in their house to repel insects.

abacomike

imidazol97 said:

More than 250 words--alert Appliance service made automated appointment call Saturday evening meaning the part came in. 4:30 today the service guy rolls up and digs through the back of his minivan. Then he spends about 15 minutes on his cell phone. He came to the door and said the distribution center had 2 or 3 of the circuit boards and shipped on to them. It was on the manifest. But it's not in his parts that he picked up this morning. Apparently the company doesn't audit the parts that came in on SAturday to match the order they gave. OR another repairman saw the part in this guy's bin and grabbed it. The part is now out of stock until NOVEMBER 11, 2018. That's 6 weeks. Apparently lots of problem with this part and Whirlpool must be getting them from Lower Slovenia. I told the Lowes warranty center I'd like a new refrigerator instead of having to wait 6 or MORE weeks. I said I'd pay a usage fee for the 2.5 years I've had it since they likely have an identical refrigerator in stock at the local Lowes store to deliver on Wednesday. Lowes lady couldn't contact the appliance repair company since it was after 5 pm. Lowes will pay for $325 of rental cost. I emphasized I'd like a new refrigerator, dang the rental costs. Since she couldn't contact the service company, she said her supervisors would contact them about the problem part. But emphasized they only replace after 3 major service calls within a period of time--ice makers are not major parts in counting service calls. It's a lemon clause. I didn't ask what they do with the lemons they take back. Give them a clean title and sell them as scratch & dent? If the repair company had called me this morning the part wasn't in the serviceman's bin, I could have dealt with Lowes, and the service company could have been contacted real time. Now I'm at their mercy. Meanwhile I rented a refrigerator for the garage from a rent-to-buy company. They would have delivered it with an hour or two if the service company had let me know early in the day... The only good thing is that the fall apple that fell from a tree just outside the city limit hit the ground instead of my car. It fell right in front of my headlight.They have a wrinkled yellow green skin like a thickened skin grapefruit. People put them in their house to repel insects.

So sorry to hear this mess you are in.  If you can’t count on Lowe’s to be reliable, who can you count on?  Keep us posted, imid.

driver100

Imid, what a mess. If anything can go wrong, it probably will.
I think you deserve that new fridge that is sitting in the store...to make up for all the incompetence.
If I needed a new fridge, I honestly don't know what I would buy, I don't think I trust any of them. We now have heard problems about Samsungs, LGs, GE isn't great these days, now Whirlpool. What is left. remember, what was good 10 years ago isn't necessarily good today....and where are these fridges being made?

suydam

“The only good thing is that the fall apple that fell from a tree just outside the city limit hit the ground instead of my car. It fell right in front of my headlight.They have a wrinkled yellow green skin like a thickened skin grapefruit. People put them in their house to repel insects.”
— We call those Osage Oranges.
That is just awful about your fridge. I’ve never had an appliance out of service that long.

stickguy

for the most part, they are all good. And all have some number of problem units. And it sucks to get one of them, and sucks even more to get stuck in unavailable parts limbo. And in bureaucracies, which Lowes certainly is, when things deviate from the norm, it screws up the wheels of progress.

This is also one reason I bought mine at a local store, not a chain. About the same price in the end (at most $50 difference) but they deliver themselves, and are also the service place. so no passing the buck.

abacomike

I’ve been watching “the Good Doctor” on ABC since 10;00 PM.  In 44 minutes of showtime there have been 15 minutes worth of commercials.  That’s Outrageous!  In an hour long program, there are 23 minutes of commercials which is criminal.  Thank goodness for cable!

stickguy

Or the DVR. You can also watch on demand from most cable companies, and get without commercials.

henryn

abacomike said:

I’ve been watching “the Good Doctor” on ABC since 10;00 PM.  In 44 minutes of showtime there have been 15 minutes worth of commercials.  That’s Outrageous!  In an hour long program, there are 23 minutes of commercials which is criminal.  Thank goodness for cable!

Once I got my first DVR, I never again watched programming that contained advertising in real time. There is about 17 minutes of advertising in the typical one hour TV show, so if you wait until 17 minutes past the hour to start watching, you can fast forward through all of the commercials. About the only thing I watch in real time are sports, and about the only sports I follow anymore are college football. So when football season rolls around, I see commercials for the first time that year. And of course, the super bowl, where the commercials are often the best part. Being on an anti-NFL kick, I hadn't watched the super bowl for several years. But these days some women I know through a Meetup group throw a party every year for the super bowl, so there I am.

henryn

And speaking of cars (for a change), I watched "How It Ends " on Netflix over the weekend. Good movie, not great, but I like Forest Whitaker, and I like apocalyptic end of the world movies, so I enjoyed it. But what I wanted to mention (car related), one of the stars of the show was a Cadillac CTS.

jmonroe1

henryn said:

abacomike said:

I’ve been watching “the Good Doctor” on ABC since 10;00 PM.  In 44 minutes of showtime there have been 15 minutes worth of commercials.  That’s Outrageous!  In an hour long program, there are 23 minutes of commercials which is criminal.  Thank goodness for cable!

Once I got my first DVR, I never again watched programming that contained advertising in real time. There is about 17 minutes of advertising in the typical one hour TV show, so if you wait until 17 minutes past the hour to start watching, you can fast forward through all of the commercials. About the only thing I watch in real time are sports, and about the only sports I follow anymore are college football. So when football season rolls around, I see commercials for the first time that year. And of course, the super bowl, where the commercials are often the best part. Being on an anti-NFL kick, I hadn't watched the super bowl for several years. But these days some women I know through a Meetup group throw a party every year for the super bowl, so there I am.

You might not want to hear this, except for not watching the NFL, we might be related.

jmonroe

driver100

stickguy said:

for the most part, they are all good. And all have some number of problem units. And it sucks to get one of them, and sucks even more to get stuck in unavailable parts limbo. And in bureaucracies, which Lowes certainly is, when things deviate from the norm, it screws up the wheels of progress.

This is also one reason I bought mine at a local store, not a chain. About the same price in the end (at most $50 difference) but they deliver themselves, and are also the service place. so no passing the buck.

All good points and I tend to agree on many things. But, sometimes the power of a big box store to put pressure on a manufacturer can work in your favor. Depends on the level of service....Costco has a lot of power!

driver100

jmonroe1 said:

henryn said:

abacomike said:

I’ve been watching “the Good Doctor” on ABC since 10;00 PM.  In 44 minutes of showtime there have been 15 minutes worth of commercials.  That’s Outrageous!  In an hour long program, there are 23 minutes of commercials which is criminal.  Thank goodness for cable!

Once I got my first DVR, I never again watched programming that contained advertising in real time. There is about 17 minutes of advertising in the typical one hour TV show, so if you wait until 17 minutes past the hour to start watching, you can fast forward through all of the commercials. About the only thing I watch in real time are sports, and about the only sports I follow anymore are college football. So when football season rolls around, I see commercials for the first time that year. And of course, the super bowl, where the commercials are often the best part. Being on an anti-NFL kick, I hadn't watched the super bowl for several years. But these days some women I know through a Meetup group throw a party every year for the super bowl, so there I am.

You might not want to hear this, except for not watching the NFL, we might be related.

jmonroe

Does that mean he gets jmonroe0 (zero) as well as #1?

venture

jmonroe1 said:

henryn said:

abacomike said:

I’ve been watching “the Good Doctor” on ABC since 10;00 PM.  In 44 minutes of showtime there have been 15 minutes worth of commercials.  That’s Outrageous!  In an hour long program, there are 23 minutes of commercials which is criminal.  Thank goodness for cable!

Once I got my first DVR, I never again watched programming that contained advertising in real time. There is about 17 minutes of advertising in the typical one hour TV show, so if you wait until 17 minutes past the hour to start watching, you can fast forward through all of the commercials. About the only thing I watch in real time are sports, and about the only sports I follow anymore are college football. So when football season rolls around, I see commercials for the first time that year. And of course, the super bowl, where the commercials are often the best part. Being on an anti-NFL kick, I hadn't watched the super bowl for several years. But these days some women I know through a Meetup group throw a party every year for the super bowl, so there I am.

You might not want to hear this, except for not watching the NFL, we might be related.

jmonroe

Now that's just not nice.

venture

imidazol97 said:

More than 250 words--alert
Appliance service made automated appointment call Saturday evening meaning the part came in. 4:30 today the service guy rolls up and digs through the back of his minivan. Then he spends about 15 minutes on his cell phone. He came to the door and said the distribution center had 2 or 3 of the circuit boards and shipped on to them. It was on the manifest. But it's not in his parts that he picked up this morning.

Apparently the company doesn't audit the parts that came in on SAturday to match the order they gave. OR another repairman saw the part in this guy's bin and grabbed it. The part is now out of stock until NOVEMBER 11, 2018. That's 6 weeks. Apparently lots of problem with this part and Whirlpool must be getting them from Lower Slovenia.

I told the Lowes warranty center I'd like a new refrigerator instead of having to wait 6 or MORE weeks. I said I'd pay a usage fee for the 2.5 years I've had it since they likely have an identical refrigerator in stock at the local Lowes store to deliver on Wednesday. Lowes lady couldn't contact the appliance repair company since it was after 5 pm. Lowes will pay for $325 of rental cost. I emphasized I'd like a new refrigerator, dang the rental costs.

Since she couldn't contact the service company, she said her supervisors would contact them about the problem part. But emphasized they only replace after 3 major service calls within a period of time--ice makers are not major parts in counting service calls. It's a lemon clause. I didn't ask what they do with the lemons they take back. Give them a clean title and sell them as scratch & dent?

If the repair company had called me this morning the part wasn't in the serviceman's bin, I could have dealt with Lowes, and the service company could have been contacted real time.

Now I'm at their mercy. Meanwhile I rented a refrigerator for the garage from a rent-to-buy company. They would have delivered it with an hour or two if the service company had let me know early in the day...

The only good thing is that the fall apple that fell from a tree just outside the city limit hit the ground instead of my car. It fell right in front of my headlight.They have a wrinkled yellow green skin like a thickened skin grapefruit. People put them in their house to repel insects.

I hope I don't have that to look forward to. I bought mine using my Amex card so the misery may last longer than I expect.

I probably wouldn't be able to stand it though. I suspect the broken one would be well on it's way out.

graphicguy

Interesting note on TV commercials....I rarely watch any shows “live”. I watch the NFL (and of course, my Bengals), NCAA Basketball, MLB (Reds...which makes me sad), a little NCAA Football, although my alma mater isn’t a powerhouse by any stretch (and rarely televised)...all live.

All the rest? I have on my DVR. I do that for the specific purpose of being able to FF through commersials.

Outside of the NFL, I can’t remember the last time I watched ANYTHING on the big stations ABC, CBS, ABC, Fox....that includes news. I don’t need their opinions on the news. I have my own.

I just lied. I do watch CBS Sunday Morning.

That’s it, though.

Lots of Netflix and Amazon Prime (which offer on demand service). I DVR shows on FX, AMC and Velocity!

I would imagine ad revenue on the OTA stations is a tough row to hoe right now.

ab348

When my buddy stayed with me over the weekend I got a look at how many people, perhaps most, are in today's world and how I am different. I mainly use the TV to watch live sports, some home improvement and car shows, very few episodic drama or comedy series, and local news. I swore off CNN years ago along with the other news nets, and seldom watch network news programming unless there is a major disaster or similar big happening. If I am interested in a political issue I tend to seek out long-form think pieces on the net before making my own conclusions.

He was the very opposite of me. On Saturday night I was watching the MLB playoff game but wasn't particularly invested in it, so when he asked if he could switch channels I agreed. He went straight to CNN and the other news channels. All weekend he was on his phone reading about what the media and whomever he followed on Facebook considered the news of the day, asking me what I thought about US politics, the Kavanaugh business, etc etc. It seemed clear that his views on those things were the same as what he had watched on those networks and online. He also seemed to like to wallow in the tragedies they report on as he was quite caught up in the NY limo accident disaster. Of course I felt bad about that but in his case he seemed obsessed by it and had a very strong reaction. I see the same thing in my social media viewing, that there are a large number of people who absorb the headline or quick-hit conclusions on how they are supposed to feel about something that they see there as gospel and cannot be bothered to think beyond that. It is the news equivalent of fast food, filling but not necessarily good for you. Rather sad.

venture

ab348 said:

When my buddy stayed with me over the weekend I got a look at how many people, perhaps most, are in today's world and how I am different. I mainly use the TV to watch live sports, some home improvement and car shows, very few episodic drama or comedy series, and local news. I swore off CNN years ago along with the other news nets, and seldom watch network news programming unless there is a major disaster or similar big happening. If I am interested in a political issue I tend to seek out long-form think pieces on the net before making my own conclusions.

He was the very opposite of me. On Saturday night I was watching the MLB playoff game but wasn't particularly invested in it, so when he asked if he could switch channels I agreed. He went straight to CNN and the other news channels. All weekend he was on his phone reading about what the media and whomever he followed on Facebook considered the news of the day, asking me what I thought about US politics, the Kavanaugh business, etc etc. It seemed clear that his views on those things were the same as what he had watched on those networks and online. He also seemed to like to wallow in the tragedies they report on as he was quite caught up in the NY limo accident disaster. Of course I felt bad about that but in his case he seemed obsessed by it and had a very strong reaction. I see the same thing in my social media viewing, that there are a large number of people who absorb the headline or quick-hit conclusions on how they are supposed to feel about something that they see there as gospel and cannot be bothered to think beyond that. It is the news equivalent of fast food, filling but not necessarily good for you. Rather sad.

Excellent comments.

One recent story that everyone seemed so upset over was the guy who went out with different women on dates to restaurants and left without paying. I asked why was he supposed to pay? Was there an agreement that he was going to pay - or was it just assumed? Equal rights aren't always equal.

ab348

This is interesting, especially as it deals with the usually peerless Honda:

https://www.consumerreports.org/car-repair-maintenance/honda-cr-v-affected-by-engine-trouble/

ab348

venture said:

One recent story that everyone seemed so upset over was the guy who went out with different women on dates to restaurants and left without paying. I asked why was he supposed to pay? Was there an agreement that he was going to pay - or was it just assumed? Equal rights aren't always equal.

Geez. When I was younger and went out on dates with women I always paid and sometimes they left before the bill came. Figured that was one of the many unwritten rules of the dating game (I always thought there should be a book of those). Explains why I am single at my advanced age I suppose.

stickguy

There is a thread on Edmunds about the CRV engine problems. Not pretty stories.

fintail

Constant news feeds are a new opiate, joining pro sports, flowery books, and personal protection devices as soothing distractions in the US. Maybe most dangerous in that there are very few domestic news sources that could even remotely be called non-partisan (you're more likely to get better coverage from Al Jazeera than big name domestic sources), and certain media firms also become propaganda outlets for whoever is occupying the swamp at a given time. I visited some relatives who had FOX blaring in the background all the time, and some of the questions they asked me about visiting Europe made me furrow my brow, thanks Sinclair and FOX.

ab348

fintail said:

I visited some relatives who had FOX blaring in the background all the time, and some of the questions they asked me about visiting Europe made me furrow my brow, thanks Sinclair and FOX.

My friend seemed to like CNN and MSNBC which I interpreted as being on the other end of the spectrum.

fintail

They can definitely be about as bad, maybe just lacking the endorsement of a regime. I can't recall the last time I tuned into any of them.

ab348 said:

My friend seemed to like CNN and MSNBC which I interpreted as being on the other end of the spectrum.

bwia

Is there a mercy rule in baseball? If so, it should have been applied last night in the Red Sox 16 - 1 shelacking of the Yankees.

When a game is lost the manager should be able to throw in the towel and concede the game to the opposing team. Rather than embarrass the players and wasting the arm of pitchers such lopsided games should be called 

ab348

bwia said:

Is there a mercy rule in baseball? If so, it should have been applied last night in the Red Sox 16 - 1 shelacking of the Yankees.

When a game is lost the manager should be able to throw in the towel and concede the game to the opposing team. Rather than embarrass the players and wasting the arm of pitchers such lopsided games should be called 

Boone, the Yankees manager, is being roundly second-guessed by the NYC media today but I'm not sure what else he could have done. None of the pitchers he called in seemed to have the magic needed to shut down the Boston bats last night. If he pressed every button correctly instead, maybe they would have lost 8-1.

imidazol97

ab348 said:

This is interesting, especially as it deals with the usually peerless Honda:

https://www.consumerreports.org/car-repair-maintenance/honda-cr-v-affected-by-engine-trouble/

Soapbox ON.
Say it's not so! Honda. Problems. Not immediately repaired and warranty extended to 500,000 miles.

It's taken them since 2017 reports to "fix" a problem and they're still "working on a fix"

Everyone knows if this were a GM product there would be instant outrage. There would be marching
in the streets about how GM took money for a bailout (much was repaid as required).
There would be constant talk about uncle so-and-so who had a 1996 pickup that did this or didn't do
that.

Soapbox off.

Incidentally the talk mechanic on the radio in Cincinnati several weeks back admitted there was a problem with some recent years of RAV4's where some part was failing. A caller had the problem. I can't recall the problem now.

Otherwise the shop owner wouldn't have admitted to having seen the problem in his shop. He does ads for a Cincinnati toyota store and constant talks about how they're the best and most reliable of all cars.

jmonroe1

OK @Imid you're going to get blamed for this since you're the one that brought up appliances.

My AC compressor cooling motor is going bad. I had to manually start it because the starter winding is acting up. Two days ago at about 9 PM I noticed the air was not as cool as it should be so I went outside and heard the compressor motor running but the cooling fan wasn't. Just sat there humming in the stalled position. So I quickly went into the house and grabbed a table knife and put it through the grill at the top and spun the fan blade quickly and the motor took off. I knew this would only work until it cycled off because the next time the thermostat called for cooling the same thing would happen. So I forced the situation by raising the thermostat setting to shut the unit off. After a few minutes I lowered the thermostat to turn the AC back on. I ran outside expecting to use my knife trick again but this time the fan was running like normal. I knew I still had a problem but at least I was getting cool air and I'd look into this more in the morning. About the time I'm ready to go upstairs to bed a couple hours later, I noticed the air was not so cool again. Back outside I go and the fan is now off. If only the starter winding was bad it should have kept running but it wasn't. Now I deduce the motor shut off because of the internally mounted thermal cut off inside the motor itself. I ain't good enough to jury rig that (not that I'd even want to force a hot motor to continue to run), so to prove my theory I let the motor cool down for about 20 minutes. Sure enough, when it had a chance to cool down it would run again but I had to use my knife trick again. And of course we are in an unusual October hot spell; high 80's with high humidity. That figures, furnaces don't go out when it's hot like it is now nor do your windshield wipers fail on sunny days. This is just living proof that Murphy's Law is alive and doing well.

Now I know the motor is bad so I went onto Amazon to order one (costs about $106 with tax but I got free shipping). However, it will take almost a week to get here but if I wanted guaranteed 2 day delivery that would have been an additional 86 bucks. I don't need to do that because we are going to have a return to more Fall like weather in a few days.

FWIW, before I went to Amazon, I called the place that installed my Lenox furnace and AC in August of 2008 to see if they would sell me a motor. They won't although at the time I was talking to the guy when he was at my house giving me an estimate he said they would sell parts to their customers but not non-customers. When I brought that up to the woman that answered the phone she said that policy has now changed (cited a problem they had doing that), so no parts sales to anyone anymore. For fun, I asked what it would cost for them to replace the motor. It will cost $86 just for the guy to come to the house (I live less than 2 miles away) and she guessed, based on her experience of working there for years, that the motor would coast a little over $240 plus around an hour's labor at another 80 or so bucks to install it. Sure glad I know how to use a knife.

All I need from you @Imid is your street address so I can come over to properly thank you. :@

jmonroe

driver100

All I need from you @Imid is your street address so I can come over to properly thank you. :@
jmonroe

Don't do it imid.......he is trying to get a free nights B&B. And he will probably bring his twin with him too.

jmonroe1

bwia said:

Is there a mercy rule in baseball? If so, it should have been applied last night in the Red Sox 16 - 1 shelacking of the Yankees.

When a game is lost the manager should be able to throw in the towel and concede the game to the opposing team. Rather than embarrass the players and wasting the arm of pitchers such lopsided games should be called 

I'm not a fan of doing that. I know they do it in Little League but these are men playing this game for real money. The winning side uses it as another successful practice. It's nice to be on that side of the practice vs. the guys on the other side. I've been on both ends in my day and being on the wrong side teaches you that you have to find a way to get better because when you're grown up nobody is going to give you anything when playing sports and I wasn't even paid for those lessons.

jmonroe

driver100

imidazol97 said:

ab348 said:

This is interesting, especially as it deals with the usually peerless Honda:

https://www.consumerreports.org/car-repair-maintenance/honda-cr-v-affected-by-engine-trouble/

Soapbox ON.
Say it's not so! Honda. Problems. Not immediately repaired and warranty extended to 500,000 miles.
It's taken them since 2017 reports to "fix" a problem and they're still "working on a fix"
Everyone knows if this were a GM product there would be instant outrage. There would be marching
in the streets about how GM took money for a bailout (much was repaid as required).
There would be constant talk about uncle so-and-so who had a 1996 pickup that did this or didn't do
that.
Soapbox off.

All makes of cars can have a problem.
It would probably be reported if it were a GM....but, it got reported even though it wasn't a GM.
Honda is stepping up to fix this issue, but, few do it on their own before they are made to do it.
Once again, we have to wait and see how this ends up.....how they treat the problem is the critical factor.
Incidentally, Honda has a very good reputation....this is unusual, so lets not get too excited yet.

abacomike

bwia said:

Is there a mercy rule in baseball? If so, it should have been applied last night in the Red Sox 16 - 1 shelacking of the Yankees.

When a game is lost the manager should be able to throw in the towel and concede the game to the opposing team. Rather than embarrass the players and wasting the arm of pitchers such lopsided games should be called 

And what about the Yankee fans who had to suffer as well? 

imidazol97

driver100 said:

All makes of cars can have a problem.
It would probably be reported if it were a GM....but, it got reported even though it wasn't a GM.
Honda is stepping up to fix this issue, but, few do it on their own before they are made to do it.
Once again, we have to wait and see how this ends up.....how they treat the problem is the critical factor.
Incidentally, Honda has a very good reputation....this is unusual, so lets not get too excited yet.

This has been known for almost 2 year. In China they addressed the problem as a safety recall, which means every owner gets notified. In the US they think they'll do a "product update," i.e., a secret recall, and only if the dealer lets you know when you complain. LOL

An engine running on oil diluted with gasoline is wearing the rings against the cylinder walls like metal on metal without any oil The bearings are similarly wearing rapidly. If I had an engine that was running on oil diluted with gasoline, I'd want a new engine.

Honda and toyota should get held to the same standard as everyone else.

suydam

jmonroe1 said:

bwia said:

Is there a mercy rule in baseball? If so, it should have been applied last night in the Red Sox 16 - 1 shelacking of the Yankees.

When a game is lost the manager should be able to throw in the towel and concede the game to the opposing team. Rather than embarrass the players and wasting the arm of pitchers such lopsided games should be called 

I'm not a fan of doing that. I know they do it in Little League but these are men playing this game for real money. The winning side uses it as another successful practice. It's nice to be on that side of the practice vs. the guys on the other side. I've been on both ends in my day and being on the wrong side teaches you that you have to find a way to get better because when you're grown up nobody is going to give you anything when playing sports and I wasn't even paid for those lessons.

jmonroe

Not to mention it’s a playoff game. You don’t give up on those. You don’t give up on your fans. Many a game has seemed hopelessly lost and players have come back to rally.

stickguy

abacomike said:

bwia said:

Is there a mercy rule in baseball? If so, it should have been applied last night in the Red Sox 16 - 1 shelacking of the Yankees.

When a game is lost the manager should be able to throw in the towel and concede the game to the opposing team. Rather than embarrass the players and wasting the arm of pitchers such lopsided games should be called 

And what about the Yankee fans who had to suffer as well? 

That was just a bonus!

stickguy

Oh, if I had one of those CRVs I would be going lemon law too. At minimum a replacement engine, but that still is going to hammer your value I would think. But, until they actually fix the problem, what is the point of a replacement?

so lemon law, all my money back, is the bare minimum. and something they will fight tooth and nail so they don't have to buy back 1/2 million plus of them.

berri

Maybe they ought to just go back to their conventional 4 banger. It was sort of bullet proof like Toyota's.

stickguy

they do. if you want the strippo model.