xpost Yeah but the shit job of changing a tire has to be better than like being stuck on the side of the road for god knows how long and then paying out the ass for something you can do yourself, no?
― retrovaporized nebulizer (╓abies), Thursday, 10 December 2009 18:34 (fourteen years ago) link
How to change a tire:
1. Curse repeatedly at tire.2. Call my insurance co's Roadside Assistance.3. Relax while tow truck dude changes my tire.
― james cameron gargameled my boner for life (Pancakes Hackman), Thursday, 10 December 2009 18:37 (fourteen years ago) link
can change a tire, can't tie a tie
― everyone stop (dan m), Thursday, December 10, 2009 11:11 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Flip that for me. I had to tie a lot of ties in high school b/c I was in lol theatre/choir and had to get dressed up for shit like Cabaret Night or w/e. As for as changing tires go, it probably wouldn't be a bad skill to acquire, but judging by my aptitude for technical stuff like that, I'd probably just as soon call a tow truck.
(haha xpost)
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Thursday, 10 December 2009 18:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Ha well I suppose if you don't really have to pay for it...xp
― retrovaporized nebulizer (╓abies), Thursday, 10 December 2009 18:39 (fourteen years ago) link
i ended up having to change a tire a few times and it was a lot easier than i thought it would be, even though i never had done it before until the first time i had a tire pop
― eight woofers in the trunk sb'n down the block (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 10 December 2009 18:41 (fourteen years ago) link
most cars come with instruction manuals that tell you how to change the tire
― wtf?!? just randomly started crying! (HI DERE), Thursday, 10 December 2009 18:41 (fourteen years ago) link
men can't read
― super sexy psycho fantasy world (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 10 December 2009 18:42 (fourteen years ago) link
-dockers
IKEA furniture comes with instruction manuals, too. Just saying.
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Thursday, 10 December 2009 18:43 (fourteen years ago) link
actually changing a tire is easier than putting something from IKEA together IMO
― eight woofers in the trunk sb'n down the block (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 10 December 2009 18:44 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah changing a tire really seems like something u dont need to learn - its just obvious
― Richard Snorkeling (ice cr?m), Thursday, 10 December 2009 18:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Haha, maybe for you.
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Thursday, 10 December 2009 18:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Putting together furniture that comes with instructions may be time-consuming but it isn't that difficult! They tell you what to do, usually with diagrams showing how things fit together!
― wtf?!? just randomly started crying! (HI DERE), Thursday, 10 December 2009 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link
not trying to be superior manly here just curious what part was giving u trouble jaymc - the jack? the unscrewing the lugnuts?
― Richard Snorkeling (ice cr?m), Thursday, 10 December 2009 18:53 (fourteen years ago) link
i tried to change a tire once and the lugnuts were too tight so i had to call a two truck
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Thursday, 10 December 2009 18:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Changing a tire, something I have only done a few times, is relatively easy; easier in my opinion than putting on most snow chains.
― l'homme moderne: il forniquait et lisait des journaux (Michael White), Thursday, 10 December 2009 18:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Lugnuts have kicked my ass on more than one occasion.
Personally I have to savor an accomplishment on the level of changing a tire for at least a week. Two, if it was on my wife's car.
― Brad C., Thursday, 10 December 2009 18:57 (fourteen years ago) link
I find that it's not always that intuitive, though. I get easily confused about whether something should be upside-down or right-side-up, which way to turn the screw, things like that. I had an IKEA sofa that sat half-assembled in my apartment for over a month because I couldn't figure out how certain parts fit together. It's immensely satisfying when I'm able to get it done, but it can also be pretty frustrating at times.
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Thursday, 10 December 2009 18:57 (fourteen years ago) link
No one else is noticing that we're going around in circles?
― Cronenberg sleazy (kenan), Thursday, 10 December 2009 18:57 (fourteen years ago) link
right tighty lefty lucy
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Thursday, 10 December 2009 18:58 (fourteen years ago) link
I've never done it.
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Thursday, 10 December 2009 18:58 (fourteen years ago) link
xxpost we'd pull over and ask for directions, but...
― it's like 10,000 goons when all you need is a trife (m bison), Thursday, 10 December 2009 18:58 (fourteen years ago) link
^^works for almost all screws/lugnuts
Oh, I know. That was a bad example. Although sometimes when screws don't stick I wonder what I'm doing wrong.
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Thursday, 10 December 2009 18:59 (fourteen years ago) link
if yr lugnuts are too tight you should wear boxers, maybe AYO
― elmo leonard (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 10 December 2009 18:59 (fourteen years ago) link
don't overtighten your lug nutz fellas
― eight woofers in the trunk sb'n down the block (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 10 December 2009 18:59 (fourteen years ago) link
doh elmo beat me : (
It's toally easy. And you'll feel like Mr. FuckMeNow when you do it successfully, even though it's not really that big of a deal.
Again, though, I feel we have covered all this before.
― Cronenberg sleazy (kenan), Thursday, 10 December 2009 19:00 (fourteen years ago) link
you think changing a tire is easy and yet using a level eludes you
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Thursday, 10 December 2009 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link
ha m. bison's directions thing reminded me of my wife's totally maddening habit of not using GPS systems correctly because she is convinced that knowing how to read a map means she can navigate better than the computer; this was a real treat when we were attempting to drive in DC
― wtf?!? just randomly started crying! (HI DERE), Thursday, 10 December 2009 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Sometimes the guy who put the tire on got over-zealous with the air wrench.
― Brad C., Thursday, 10 December 2009 19:03 (fourteen years ago) link
This thought strikes me sometimes -- it's the things that are actually NOT all that hard that sometimes seem the most impressive to other people. The things you really struggle and sweat over, nobody else gives a shit.
Discuss.
― Cronenberg sleazy (kenan), Thursday, 10 December 2009 19:03 (fourteen years ago) link
And you'll feel like Mr. FuckMeNow when you do it successfully
what if you feel like this anyway, w/o needing to involve tyres?
she is convinced that knowing how to read a map means she can navigate better than the computer
she is RIGHT! whenever i navigate i always do it from a map and ignore the lying lies emanating from the gps
― lex pretend, Thursday, 10 December 2009 19:04 (fourteen years ago) link
It's like, the system will be "turn right now" and she'll be staring at the map on her iPhone going "oh no that can't be right, keep going straight oh oops this actually goes one way the wrong way, time for a 7-minute detour"
― wtf?!? just randomly started crying! (HI DERE), Thursday, 10 December 2009 19:04 (fourteen years ago) link
I should probably not post on this thread anymore, or at least while we're still on this train of thought. In the past, it's gotten ugly.
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Thursday, 10 December 2009 19:04 (fourteen years ago) link
oops this actually goes one way the wrong way, time for a 7-minute detour
^^ New DC motto
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Thursday, 10 December 2009 19:05 (fourteen years ago) link
the thing is, if you take a wrong turn using gps, you end up not knowing where the hell you are, but if you accidentally misdirect someone while following a map, it's fairly easy to get back on track
― lex pretend, Thursday, 10 December 2009 19:06 (fourteen years ago) link
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Thursday, December 10, 2009 12:57 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark
not to pick on you duder but i have a kneejerk rage for ppl w/o this kind of spatial reasoning. it's kind of jerky but i can't help it. no! rotate it...the other way! the other fucking way, just look at it! god!
― goole, Thursday, 10 December 2009 19:06 (fourteen years ago) link
YOUR OTHER RIGHT.
― WHY DON'T YOU JUST LICK THE BUS DIRECTLY (Laurel), Thursday, 10 December 2009 19:06 (fourteen years ago) link
one should navigate london by consulting MES, imo
EXIT THIS ROMAN SHELL
― goole, Thursday, 10 December 2009 19:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Too many xposts
More like 6 minutes amiritehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLUUpBphZps
― Cronenberg sleazy (kenan), Thursday, 10 December 2009 19:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Also I liked how, in driving down to DC, she made an executive decision to get off of the New Jersey Turnpike and directed us straight into traffic for a 76ers game.
ftr my one snafu happened because the actual street we needed to go down was blocked off and we had to navigate around some other ridiculous one-way-the-wrong-direction streets before we could circle back to our hotel
I don't know, my GPS is very, very good about putting you back on track (although I do use the map on my phone to corroborate its instructions so I do get what you're saying)
― wtf?!? just randomly started crying! (HI DERE), Thursday, 10 December 2009 19:08 (fourteen years ago) link
you IKEA furniture, surrounded by hail!
― eight woofers in the trunk sb'n down the block (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 10 December 2009 19:08 (fourteen years ago) link
i think one way streets should be 100% illegal
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Thursday, 10 December 2009 19:09 (fourteen years ago) link
marketing of GPS systems --> triumph of male technology fetishism over stubborn self-reliance in not asking for directions. PROGRESS.
― elmo leonard (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 10 December 2009 19:09 (fourteen years ago) link
You guys who have probs w/loosening lugnuts need to learn to keep a can of WD-40 in your trunk. Works miracles.
― james cameron gargameled my boner for life (Pancakes Hackman), Thursday, 10 December 2009 19:11 (fourteen years ago) link
xp I look it up on Google maps before I leave the house, and draw myself a little map sometimes.
― Cronenberg sleazy (kenan), Thursday, 10 December 2009 19:12 (fourteen years ago) link
xp Says the guy who calls a tow truck?
PS: You're right!
― WHY DON'T YOU JUST LICK THE BUS DIRECTLY (Laurel), Thursday, 10 December 2009 19:12 (fourteen years ago) link
this is a real bro-down of a thread
― everyone stop (dan m), Thursday, 10 December 2009 19:12 (fourteen years ago) link
You guys who have probs w/loosening lugnuts need to learn to keep a can of WD-40 in your trunk.
sounds painful
― wtf?!? just randomly started crying! (HI DERE), Thursday, 10 December 2009 19:12 (fourteen years ago) link