The Not Happy Thread

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  1. BayView

    BayView Huh. Interesting. Contributor

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    Just donate to a charity in his name and move on. If he's not going to be happy regardless, at least with a charitable donation your money won't be totally wasted.

    We used to do that thing in our family where you buy livestock for people living in rural poverty. I don't remember donkeys being one of the animal options, but if they were, you could buy a jackass in his name!
     
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  2. LostThePlot

    LostThePlot Naysmith Contributor

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    Hmm... "I have donated 10 bucks to the Brighton Sanctuary For Intransigent Jackasses. Now at least one of us is happy."

    Yeah, that would work :D
     
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  3. NobodySpecial

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    I'm about tapped for ideas. It may be time to fall back to your own childhood and get him a tie or a bottle of after shave.
     
  4. LostThePlot

    LostThePlot Naysmith Contributor

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    You know the worst thing? He does not wear ties or aftershave.

    But I have decided to outsource this problem to my sister. She can go shopping on my behalf and my mother won't judge me, that's win win.
     
  5. Link the Writer

    Link the Writer Flipping Out For A Good Story. Contributor

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    Ever have those days where you’re just...pissed off for absolutely no legit reason? You’re tensed, you’re more anti-social than usual and just about every little thing is enough to set you to the brink of exploding? That’s how I’m feeling right about now.

    Is it the Trump/net neutrality thing? The cold weather? I’ve honestly no goddamned idea. I’m just...pissed.
     
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  6. LostThePlot

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    For me it was more "you have to move house in 8 days, oh and by the way 4 of those you're away for work, and everyone you've ever met is trying to help and making me want to scream". But each to their own.

    And seriously, there's nothing wrong with a certain bellicose attitude to the world. Seriously, other people suck; smack one of them around and it'll make you feel better.
     
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  7. big soft moose

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    With me its generally because I haven't had my morning coffee yet
     
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  8. GingerCoffee

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    Could be worse. Cost me $3,000 to repair and retrieve my car after I killed the clutch in uphill bumper to bumper traffic coming back from viewing the total eclipse last August.
     
  9. The Dapper Hooligan

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    Wow. You could have easily boughten a decent used car for that. Also, stick shift rules! *fistbump*
     
  10. NobodySpecial

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    What are you driving that would take a $3000 clutch? Makes me miss the old days when I could fix it myself even more.

    God, this getting old shit sucks.
     
  11. LostThePlot

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    Over here we just call that "a car" :p
     
  12. Cave Troll

    Cave Troll It's Coffee O'clock everywhere. Contributor

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    They had to have replaced the entire transmission, and it costs extra to set up the clutch
    correctly. Though transmissions have like a billion parts to them.
     
  13. Iain Aschendale

    Iain Aschendale Lying, dog-faced pony Marine Supporter Contributor

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    Japan has separate driver's license categories for automatic and manual transmission. Also motorcycle licenses are divided into...three, I think, different engine size classifications, and one of the test requirements is righting a downed bike.
     
  14. big soft moose

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    In the UK you can get an auto only driving licence - but hardly anyone does because autos are rare. A standard diving licence covers you to drive both.

    With bikes once you've done your theory test you can ride a 50cc (or a 125cc if you're over 17) with L plates until you get your practical licence ... at age 19 you can ride a bike outputting 35KW (46HP) which effectively limits you to about 2-300 cc, and at age 24 its unrestricted

    I had an AR50, then a Yamaha 350cc, then a Harley 750cc - then a transit van used me and my bike to demonstrate newtons laws and a broken collar bone decided me that cars were safer
     
  15. LostThePlot

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    Man I hate driving an auto. It's like driving a dodgem. I decide when I change gear, damnit!
     
  16. big soft moose

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    I dunno I quite liked it when driving in stop go traffic - its not much fun on the open road granted, but the year I spent commuting through the oxford rush hour the auto was great
     
  17. The Dapper Hooligan

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    Autos and manuals are under the same license in Canada, but motorbikes require a separate license. Then you have different license classes depending on weight or passenger limits of the vehicle, then a separate license for air brakes.
     
  18. Iain Aschendale

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    I've never learned to drive stick. Very nearly got a bike license twenty-five years ago (my home state had some complex learner's permit rules that made practice time a PITA), so I do know how to shift without killing myself, but my family never owned anything but automatics, so... I think manual transmission is mostly for sports cars in the US, not sure though.
     
  19. LostThePlot

    LostThePlot Naysmith Contributor

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    Nah, I never even really noticed that I was working on the clutch in that stuff. And it feels good when you finally get out of the traffic and can redline it before you change up.
     
  20. The Dapper Hooligan

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    I once popped a main brake line at 9pm on a Saturday and was still able to make it from Nova Scotia to Ontario by using the gears to slow it down and doing my best to stay out of traffic. Not that I'm condoning such behaviour, but if I were driving an auto instead of a manual I would have had to have parked it and spend at least three days and a thousand dollars getting it towed to a shop to get it repaired.
     
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  21. NobodySpecial

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    Actually, standard transmissions aren't so standard anymore. Most are automatics. A stick shift is almost an anti theft device these days; car thieves can't drive a stick either.
     
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  22. GingerCoffee

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    I tried, they didn't have a decent used car option at the dealership. They had a couple of over-priced cars with the same amount of mileage my car had. If/when I buy a new car I don't want one with the same 100K+ miles on it as mine has.

    I'm ready to retire my stick shift. It's inconvenient on hills in traffic.
     
  23. Trish

    Trish Damned if I do and damned if I don't Contributor

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    My dad wanted a stick and couldn't find one anywhere (not in what he wanted anyway).

    I certainly am capable of driving stick, but always preferred automatic.
     
  24. GingerCoffee

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    Clutch was $1800. Emergency tow to the dealership 30 miles away, $450. Rental car to go back for the car, one-way drop off in a different state, $500. And $60 I gave an incredibly good friend for gas (he tried to refuse it but I wouldn't let him). He drove up from Seattle to get us in Oregon. There were no hotel rooms and no rental cars in The Dalles because of the eclipse.
     
  25. GingerCoffee

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    I learned on a manual and have never driven anything else. It's time for a change.
     
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