Tag: cars

According to this study, 6% of drivers shouldn’t be allowed to live

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Almost coincidentally just days after I witnessed some sorry excuse for a human being run over a dead dog carcass, this interesting study emerged. Long story short: person conducts experiment where fake animals are placed on the shoulder of a road, and then he watches 1,000 cars drive by to see how many people go out of their way to harm what they think might be a living creature.

94% of people are thankfully, fortunately sane and normal, and do not deliberately make efforts to swerve into the shoulder to run over an animal. Unfortunately, that means 6% of people do. Roughly sixty people out of a thousand feel the need to exhibit their existential superiority over an animal, by killing it; behind the armor of a 2,700+ pound shield of plastics, metals and rubber moving at around 55+ mph.

I won’t elaborate on everything, since it is an interesting read and video, but it’s worth mentioning that out of those sixty worthless fucks, 89% of them were driving SUVs. Much like GMC Yukon.

I won’t wish any further harm on these miserable sacks of shit that get their rocks off on running over animals, but I wouldn’t shed a tear or feel an iota of guilt if any of these people were severely hurt, injured, or killed in a car accident.

I don’t really wish ill will onto others that often

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Contrary to popular belief, I know.  But really, when the days are over, I don’t really want to see anyone get severely hurt or anything.

I’m in a pretty upset mood tonight, and not because the Braves got owned like slavery were legal again, anything work-related, or something trite like that.  I’m upset because I saw a person on the road whom while in front of me, I witnessed as they applied their brakes, and took great care and effort into running over a dead animal on the road.

Honestly, if it were a squirrel or possum, or another common varmint-type of animal, I would have been disturbed by the careful effort in running it over, but the size and fur color of the already-dead roadkill was most definitely a dog.  And the fact that this piece of shit deliberately ran it over, bothered me immensely.  Even he had to know based on the size of the roadkill, that this was no common rodent.  But this waste of human space slowed down, leading me to believe that he was going to turn left or something coming up, but then I saw as he veered slightly, before seeing the carcass being flung upward a few inches after the impact.  I winced as I passed it between my tires, and watched as this asshole in the Yukon proceeded forward.

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The NBA Slam Dunk contest is stupid

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For obvious reasons, one or two of the televisions in the locker room at my gym is always on the NBA Network.  This week, they’ve been systematically broadcasting apparently every single year of the NBA’s dunk contest.  Recently, I got to thinking about just how stupid the dunk contest really is.

As much as I understand the appeal and occasional functionality of dunking, I can’t help but thinking that a contest of dunking without defenders, a clock or any resistance is pretty much the dumbest thing in the world.  And it gets worse with every single year, with players looking to add gimmicks, costumes and props to their foolish exhibitions in order to impress designated judges who assign scores based on, lord knows what.

And with each passing year, much as there are more crowd shots of other players and devastated fans, out of their seats, OHHHHing and making guttural sounds of approval at what they witnessed, there have been more and more people in the locker room glued to the televisions, making much of the same reactions.  And for what?  Guys that are taking a basketball, and doing whatever they can possible in the fractions of a second before they attempt to force it into an uncontested hoop.

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Side batteries are the stupidest pieces of shit on the planet

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Today is one of those days where I wish every living creature on the planet would go fuck themselves.  From a bunch of petulant immature fucks scattered throughout the country, black women who don’t know how to drive, the Atlanta Braves, all the way to people who manufacture side-terminal car batteries.

Seriously, is there anything stupider on the planet than side-terminal car batteries?  I had an episode today, where I was tasked with switching out a battery of a Chrysler Sebring.  No big deal, I’ve swapped batteries on a variety of vehicles in my lifetime before, it’s pretty easy, to be perfectly honest.  That is until I realized that the only replacement battery I could find were side-terminals, despite the fact that the car’s previous battery was top-terminal, like most normal cars have.  But leave it to Wal-Mart to have nothing but side-terminal batteries, for some reason.

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FREE CANDY

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I’d say something about how much it has to suck if you have a van, and you happen to neglect it to where it gets pretty filthy, but considering the part of town in which this FREE CANDY van was sighted, I’m willing to bet that this was done deliberately, for amusement, and that the owner of the van is very much aware of it.  That is, if he/she didn’t do it themselves in the first place.

When it rains it pours

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Fortunately, the title of this post isn’t so foreboding as much as it is literal.  I just spend the evening at the ballpark where despite the no-rain-when-it-was-supposed-to-rain Monday and Tuesday, it decided to pour like a motherfucker on it’s-not-going-to-rain Wednesday.  Oh, and the Braves lost to the Yankees again, and for those keeping count, which is unlikely on my brog, but the Braves haven’t taken a series against the Yankees in eleven years.  Granted, the Braves don’t play the Yankees every single year, but it’s still sad sounding to hear that it’s been that long since the Braves could say they bested the Yankees.

Anyway, I can honestly say that today was better than the day prior.  Despite having to hobble into work on a donut, I did the responsible thing and cleaned up my assignments before ditching work to address my issue.  The best news of the day came when I took my car into a tire shop, and they confidently, and without any hesitation looked at the puncture in my tire and said “yes” that it could be patched.  Ten minutes is all it took, and it only cost me eighteen bucks.  Bonus.

Work was productive, which is always a good feeling, and my boss was completely okay with me leaving early to go to the game.  Where I would proceed to game the system again, and come into possession of two bobbleheads, leaving me with an extra I can explore possibly selling on eBay for easy money, or trading it in the future.

With the exception of the shitty weather and the shitty outcome of the baseball game, it really wasn’t a bad day.  I’ve been giving a lot of thought to what’s been eating me, and I feel that I have a slightly clearer idea.  Unfortunately, most of it kind of has to do with those inevitable and helplessly omniscient “that’s just the way the world is, and there’s not really anything you can do about it” conclusions, so I guess I just have to wait out the storm, and have a glass of cranberry juice or something.

Sounds about right

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And here I thought I was having a pleasant day.  Purchased an iPad at a discounted cost, found a strip club $20 on the sidewalk, and was kept busy enough at work to make the day kind of breeze by.  When I left work, I figured I would pick up Jen, be off the hook for dinner with tasty leftovers, and then watch the Braves vs. Yankees game while playing with my dog.

When I got in my car and pulled out of my space, I realized that the tire light was on in my car.  My car has low-profile tires (standard, please), so it wasn’t much of a surprise to me that one or more of them might be having some deflation after the last 17 months.  But still, I don’t like seeing any warning lights on in my car, so I planned on rectifying the air issue when I got home.  The initial cruise test revealed that there was a slight pull to the left, so I figured the low tire was on the driver’s side; normal, since I primarily am the only driver, so there’s always more weight on the left side.

After picking up Jen, I did the cruise test again, and this time, the pull happened to be a bit stronger.  At this point, I made the decision to stop at the next gas station ASAP, since I figure my tires weren’t warm enough to be filling up hot tires yet.  I pull off at a gas station, and I get out of my car, and see that the front driver’s tire is indeed, pretty low.  Surprisingly low.  Unusually lower than I thought it might be.

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