PennSilverTaco's "Perfect 5-Lug Regular Cab" Build, Aspergers, and General BS MegaThread!

I love my neighbors, but my complaint is about the bar. I don't think "cougar bar" is the right term here. I love older women. I'm 30. I'd happily date a 40-something woman. The problem is that this nightclub goes way beyond a mere cougar bar. The female patrons are generally 10-20 years above my preferred maximum age. The rest of the patrons are also old, and/or just plain weird. This bar charges a cover even when there is no band or DJ performing, which is absolute bullshit in my opinion. I've been there twice; Once for a neighbor's 40th birthday (Which was a lot of fun), and another time when I was bored (not so fun). I worked at a primo bar/nightclub/music venue, and while this other place is physically bigger, it can't hold a candle to the bar where I worked.

 

A house just down the road from me caught on fire the other nite, total loss, burned completely to the ground.

 

I just don’t understand what part of “it’s not my kind of bar” they don’t understand...

 

Same size and price as your house?

 

It was a little smaller than my house, was blown away how it just completely disintegrated.

 

They gonna rebuild?

 

It was some 20s or 30s aged guys there, not sure what their situation was, hopefully they got out of the house and also had insurance.

 

If I ever find out what happened there I will let you know.

 

They are all the same to me honestly. Never noticed any difference

 

@El Duderino
@Running Man
@shakerhood

I am starting to get fed up with the goings on at movie theaters. A little more than ten years ago, the vast majority of people did not have smartphones. Nowadays, people see everything they do in life as something that must be posted to social media! I am guilty of this, but I never use my phone during movies. Before the movie, I post what movie I'm seeing and what theater I'm at, and also tag any friends who are with me. After this, the phone gets silenced and generally is not touched until the movie is over.

I've seen moviegoers, mostly teenagers who aren't even old enough to drive, updating their Facebook status, texting, and even taking selfies during the movies. My cousin and I went to see one of the Planet of the Apes movies a couple of years ago, and there was this group of kids taking selfies and doing other dumb shit. My cousin and I got pissed, and she (my cousin) went to complain. The kids figured out it was us who complained and one of them F-bombed me as she was leaving after the movie.

Maybe a week ago, my friend and I went to see Terminator: Dark Fate. My friend and I sat next to each other, and there a middle-aged woman sitting on the other side of my friend. She was looking at pictures on her phone, and she hadn't even bothered to dim the screen. The light was in my eye, so I finally leaned across my friend and rather gruffly told the woman to put her phone away because the light was in my eyes and it was distracting me from the movie. She complied and did not take her phone out through the rest of the movie. Particularly galling was the fact that this was a grown-ass woman and not some kid.

 

Haven’t been to a movie in years. I don’t feel comfortable in movie theaters

 

I did not get my first cell phone until right before I started 9th grade, which would have been about August 2003. It was a nice flip-phone, not a cheap one but not anything fancy like a Motorola RAZR or a Sony Ericson. I think it was a Nokia, and it probably was capable of sending text messages, but I don't believe I started text messaging until about 2007 when I got my second cell phone. I got my first cell phone with a QWERTY keyboard in 2009 or 2010, but it still was not a smartphone. My very first smartphone was a hand-me-down iPhone 4 from my mom, and I got it in late 2012 if I remember correctly. Right now I have an iPhone S.

It rather annoys me that kids as young as 5 are getting iPads and smartphones. When I was 7, my parents bought a 9-inch Symphonic TV with a built-in VCR that could be plugged into a cigarette lighter. With my extensive collection of VHS tapes, this was all I needed for entertainment on long car rides. In 2000, my parents bought a GMC conversion van with a TV and VHS player, or VCP (it couldn't record TV shows). In 2004, they traded the GMC for a Honda Odyssey that had a built-in DVD player. Since 2004, the family car has always had a built-in DVD player. Though my taste in movies has matured over the last two decades, I still do watch movies in the car on long trips at the age of 30. I played Red Dead Redemption II in the back of my dad's GMC Yukon!

America is becoming more and more independent on technology, and I think this will have some very serious repercussions in the future. I can understand the need for entertainment in the car on long drives, but this constant need by kids to be entertained will result in a generations of spoiled brats.

The incident during Planet of the Apes is proof of this. Kids feel entitled to do whatever the hell they want, and they either throw fits and/or become downright belligerent when told they can't do something.

 

For the same reasons as me?

 

Just last night, I saw Midway with two friends (including the one I'd seen the newest Terminator with) at the same theater where we'd gone to see Terminator. In the last couple years or so, much to my annoyance, movie theaters have started assigning seats much like has been done at concerts and sports events for decades. At particularly popular movies (like any Avengers movie), this comes in handy, but for the most part it is just an unneeded annoyance.

At Midway, we got three seats next to each other. Unfortunately, the movie had just opened a day earlier and was more popular than we had anticipated, so we had to settle for seats in the very first row.

We unwittingly ended up sitting too far to the right. I did not realize this until we'd been sitting there a good 15-20 minutes (the movie hadn't started yet), but this hadn't been the first time I'd come to this theater and reserved seats had remained vacant for the whole movie. Another five or so minutes later, this older couple showed up and took it a bit too personally that we were in their seats. I apologized and was ignored by both the man and the woman. The man was a bit annoyed that I'd spilled a tiny bit of popcorn in "his" seat and gave me a dirty look as he brushed the popcorn out of his seat. I apologized again, and was again ignored.

This old man insisted on taking up the entire armrest with his elbow, including my half of the armrest. When I asked him please move his arm over (I know he heard me), he blatantly ignored me and kept looking straight ahead. My friend Mike was sitting between me and my other friend and is much smaller than me. He is comfortable putting his hands on his legs or in his lap. I am big and like to spread out, but unlike the old fart next to me I respect other peoples' boundaries. I talked Mike into switching seats and was fine for the rest of the movie.

From now on, if the movie isn't completely sold out, I am going to reserve five seats so there is a buffer zone between my friends and the other moviegoers.

 

I am getting fed up with aging baby boomers, and people who were born right before during World War II (like the recidivist drunk asshole who hit my truck back in 2015; He was born in 1945 according to info from his driver's license in the police report). There are exceptions to the rule, but a lot of these people have decided that they just do not like people from my generation and often make no attempts to hide this fact.

 

A perfect example would be this time maybe two or three years ago when I still worked at Puck. It was right before a show started, and the only people in the basement level indoor "venue" bar were myself and the sound guy. "Soundman Mike" is a good friend of mine, and he was not quite sixty at the time. An older "baby boomer era" couple came in wanting to know something about that night's show. I did not know much about the show, but it was enough to make any rational person satisfied. The guy and his wife asked me about the show, and I told them to the best of my abilities. The husband became quite pissed off, and angrily said "Let's go" to his wife. Soundman Mike heard the commotion, came out from his sound booth, and told the couple pretty much the exact same thing I'd just told them. The man politely thanked Mike for the info and left. I was floored (not at Mike, but at the man)!

The generation gap is becoming more and more of a problem, with regards to aging baby boomers thinking they automatically know more than millennials just because they are older (which is far from the truth in some cases).

 

I am guilty of looking down on people younger than me, but this is typically when they are in positions of authority and/or telling me what do. A perfect example would be teenage cashiers at the pizza place where I worked as a delivery driver from July to November of 2015 trying to make me do grunt work like sweeping and cleaning while they went on their phones (I put my foot down and stopped this immediately).

An even bigger issue for me than taking orders from people younger than me is taking orders and/or working for someone who is considerably less intelligent than I am.

 

Who else here loves WWII movies? Dunkirk was awesome!

 

My best friend’s mom’s shitbox commuter appliance was totaled by a falling tree branch during a freak storm on Halloween! It is a 2009 Chevy Cobalt LT with a little over 90K miles, and my friend took and passed his driver’s test in it maybe a month before it was totaled. This was supposed to be my friend’s car, but it started having annoying problems (mostly electrical), and he bought himself a 2017 Chevy Trax for a ridiculously low price.



Ironically, the car was at the repair shop when the tree branch landed on it. It had been brought home from the repair shop, and then brought back when the problem reappeared the same day.

The damage may look like it’s as simple as replacing the windshield and driving as-is, but the car apparently had a lot of unseen structural damage and the repair costs exceeded the value of the car, which was worth maybe four grand. The was purchased used in cash to replace a 1997 Monte Carlo that was falling apart.

 

Same here, it's been several years since I last paid to go into the Theater to see a movie, think it was a James Bond movie but several back.