Voodoo

22 hours ago, Doug said:

🛩️🏢

That's a woman?

I'd need to see her snatchasurus to be convinced.

Her name is actually Karen.

The lord works in mysterious ways.

4 hours ago, BOHICA said:

Depends I would think on age and condition of paint.  If it’s an old tundra with faded and beat up paint it may need a whole paint job to get it to match.

It is usually easy to spot a panel that has been repaired and painted, beside a panel with OEM paint.

If it were my truck, and some asshole keyed it, I’d want nothing but being made whole. 
Full paint job, please.

I got rear ended by a semi, while I was stopped in traffic. He hit me so hard I got stuffed into the two vehicles in front of me. 2 year old truck in mint condition. I used that truck for my business. 401 under the 409.

Bent the frame. I fought with my, yep my insurance company, because of no fault insurance, to just buy me out. 
No they said, we are fixing it, heat the frame and bend it back. Called a lawyer. That gave them the ability to cut off all my rehab, rental vehicles etc. They bled me dry in a matter of weeks. I had to lament. A month goes by and the body shop, a friend of the family says it’s mostly done. Take it for a week and see if it’s good, and bring it back…we’ll do the final stuff.

Had it for the week, seemed good. Was going to take it back that night. Again, stopped in traffic and I got rear ended by a fully loaded cube van. 403 ramp to the QEW.

The frame, where it was heated, folded faster than superman on laundry day. The box hit the cab and fucked more shit up.

I lost my shit on the insurance company, knowing they were in ultimate control.

Again, they said we are going to fix it and brought in a used frame.

I learned a lesson from my previous interaction. 
Ok, that’s your prerogative. You need to put every one of my existing parts, brake lines, ball joints, shocks etc on that frame, or you replace with new.

Imagine replacing an entire frame, under a 4x4 pickup.

And by the way, every one of these parts you have to swap better be good, because I will keep this truck until the day I die and you will get sued if any defect causes me harm, in any way.

If I get injured thanks to your shitty policy, I’ll sue you until I’m a baller.

They finally bought the truck, and paid me enough to get a replacement.

7 hours ago, akvanden said:

Why would they need need to repaint the whole truck? just fix the scratches. 

Not that easy on an older vehicle. Making new paint match older paint rarely works, so painting all panels is sometimes the only option.

The guy is an irrational dick…but arresting him and going through the courts?

If he could cut a check on the spot for all costs, would be preferable IMO, understanding the coppper ain’t a body man and just doing what the law says.

Always act like you are being recorded, because you probably are.

16 minutes ago, toslow said:

If EV is so great, Why is the governments willing to pay percentage of the price?

Canada’s entire auto industry generates 16 billion worth of economic activity per year.

The taxpayer has now thrown 52 billion at the EV industry in just a couple years.

These numbers rival that of Truth social in it’s actual worth to investors and ability to earn a dividend on said investment.

Madness.

Don’t forget skidoo cranks.

OSHA book appears to be missing 

54 minutes ago, BOHICA said:

Tar sands. Hard to believe this is North America.  Third world country shit.

 

Ethical oil. 

Didn't fund Hamas, Putin or the attacks on Sept 11th.

No one was jailed if they speak out, women are employed there and golly gee the don't have to cover every square inch...beers after work too.

Lesser of two evils I suppose.

But I'm saving the planet!!

Conservative party got %33.7 of the vote in 2021.

Trump was at %34 at one time in 2021.

Don't put too much faith in the polls, there is only on that matters.

19 hours ago, steve from amherst said:

What is the long term plan? Ukraine isnt going to win. Russia can drag this thing out for as long as they and we dragged out afganistan. 

Do we dump 350 billion over 3 or 4 yrs and then walk away ?

Did similar in Afghanistan.

19 hours ago, Jimmy Snacks said:

The whole thing is a disaster….

 

 

Looks more like a booby trap.

Why have more than one dude if it’s a suspected mine

9 hours ago, steve from amherst said:

How old is the Kubota? That may be American made.

2008  L5740

8 hours ago, ArcticCrusher said:

You're fucked Karen.

Why is he a Karen when he points out issues in our manufacturing economy?

I prefer to buy parts made by my friends and neighbours, but it is becoming far more difficult to do so.

I bought a used Kubota tractor a couple years ago. It’s well built, Japan is one of our solid allies and the dealer close to me had already served me well on other machines.

I avoid Chinese shit as much as I can. 
My industry has gone down that road. It will pay the price of cheap vs quality.

I see that daily. Poor quality Chinese components. 
 

At least I’m just the guy fixing it…the anger can go towards the manufacturers.

13 hours ago, Crnr2Crnr said:

there's a massive supply over-run people aren't discussing.

Sunday I drove past a small implement dealer that must have had 100 small brand new Kubotas sitting on their lot. Idk who they plan to sell them to?  Same with new cars/trucks, boats, sleds, etc, etc, etc.  

Between existing debt and current interest rates... Chickens may be coming home to roost. 

See the same here. 

Add in rv's and trailers.

Worst part IMO,  is government spending in the last few years has much to blame for it and now we find ourselves powerless to control the inevitable.

The  piggy bank is empty and the ability to stimulate the markets isn't there. 

We are on track, to next year pay roughly %15 of our federal tax in interest alone, or 55 Billion dollars.

I put that figure at roughly $3000 per taxpayer. 

I can see where this may have some validity.

Trump is his own worst enemy when it comes to public relations.

All he needs to do is keep his mouth shut and out of jail for 6 months. R

Run on the "I'm not Joe Biden" platform and he'd have support across many demographics.

TMTG's current valuation of approximately $5 billion is equivalent to about 1,220 times the loss-making company's revenue in 2023 of $4.1 million.

1,220 times the annual revenue.

This in no way makes any kind of financial sense and is a legal pyramid scheme.

Best be one of the first ones out...last one out turn off the lights please.

The Karens of Canada would never allow that ad here.

Yet Ontario announced yesterday a deal with Honda, for a battery plant.

It's set to be twice the size as the deal with VW, which is set to cost the taxpayer 16 billion.

FYI, Ontario isn't swimming in a big pool of extra money. We have a 10 billion dollar deficit adding on to the 400 billion dollar debt.

It's madness upon craziness after lunacy.

5 hours ago, oldslowsledder said:

Miss his Meme's, just saying

X2

That's cheap compared to a drink at a Jay's or Leaf's game. $20 is the kinda the going rate per tall boy.

On 1/27/2024 at 9:02 PM, Cold War said:

I can only imagine the urine to water ratio in that general area is quite high.

8 minutes ago, old indy said:

you should see the look on guys faces when a kid in an aluminum 10' flat bottom jon boat with an old 6 horse Evinrude slowly buzzes by them in their 16-17ftr wit a 25 hoss on back.          some would get downright PISSED!   

  i think i was responsible for a lot of engine upgrades around the bay as a kid  lol

I put a new 9.9 Yammy 2 smoke  on an old alcan tinny,  that I could damn near lift with one hand. 

It was scary lol.

15 hours ago, oldslowsledder said:

Gold!

I love to send these to the brother in law.

I used to think he was smart.

A  smart person would have picked a different team to cheer for decades ago.

1 hour ago, BOHICA said:

What if you didn’t know you open a new credit account or took out a loan?

I've had my data stolen from various breeches at banks, I think I have had free monitoring for 5 ish years.

As stated above, for Canadians, Borrowell offers completely free credit reports online. 

I look weekly despite the free monitoring.

My lack of a monthly payment, mortgage, car, sled etc, impacts to the negative.

4 minutes ago, teamgreen02 said:

The Tesla warranty is almost 10 years long on the battery.  Without a major repair like a drive motor or battery there just isn't as much mechanical on the Tesla to go wrong. 

These new direct injected turbocharged engines with 10+ speed transmissions aren't cheap to fix either.

For sure. The 8 year warranty should offer piece of mind but the potential is there. 

Many of the newer gasser engines being squeezed hard for horsepower and efficiency are problematic and the warranty is no where near the Tesla battery.

Plus one for Tesla.

I'd own one if I could justify another vehicle....and would not expect my friends an neighbor to pick up part of the cost.

That's my only issue with all things green, the grift.