End of the world is pending.

[jonasv]

Read this thread http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1202&page=1&pp=20

By the way, did you know that 95% of statistics are made up on the spot?

I said "I think...". Not a statistic but a guess. I don't want to post in this thread anymore, I tried pm'ing you but your inbox is full. But at any rate I stand by my guess: about 5% of the RFF'ers is a) over 30 and b) thoroughly check (and if necessary fix) their own car weekly.

But what if I'm mistaken? Then you "only" insulted 75% of the RFF'ers by calling them pathetic?

 

[oftheherd]

Guess that makes me an outlaw then. Still, better than running with the herd I suppose.

Pardon me?

 

[jonasv]

It seems to be the MTV generation's answer to everything, and is not a US only expression, I hear many teenage girls, such as yourself, use it in their everyday vocabulary.

And the generalisations and insults continue. Let it rest man.

I never watch MTV or similar. We never say "Like, what-everrrr" over here.

RML is an adult, husband of a beautiful wife and father of a beautiful kid.

What's the point in calling him a "teenage girl"? Does it make you feel better?

 

[ClaremontPhoto]

Andy. Drop it. Walk away, and have some whelks at Leigh on Sea.

 

[Andy K]

RML is an adult, husband of a beautiful wife and father of a beautiful kid.

What's the point in calling him a "teenage girl"? Does it make you feel better?

MNaybe if RML didn't post like a teenage girl having a hissy fit, then people would not assume he was a teenage girl.

 

[Socke]

do you repair your own shoes?

Yes, I mended broken seams on sailing shoes and repaired lashes on sandals a couple of times

do you make toys for your kids?

No kids of my own, but did that for my brothers and sisters kids

do you pick up a screw on the street, saying, it might be just good for something?

No

do you make your own, personalized postcards when there's someone with a birthday, or for christmas or whatever?

Yes

do you make your own lures for fishing?

I learned that from my father but don't do any fishing, so no

do you upgrade yourself your computer by changing things inside?

Yes, and others as well, that's part of my job

do you make your furnitures yourself?

I built my own bed once, built my own desk and made a few lamps
Everything else is from IKEA

do you raise yourself a pig for a year, then butcher it and produce sausage, etcetera?

Not in the last 15 years, but my sister is a farmer

do you bake your own bread? do you gather the wood for the oven to bake the bread?

Baking bread in an electrical or gas oven is hard enough, maintaining the required temperatures in a wood oven is way beyond my skills.
But I have one of those modern contraptions which are somewhere between an open fireplace and a stove, I can burn almost anything in it but usualy use wood.
I once lived in a very rural place where two stoves where the only way of heating and I used briquette and wood.

do you sharpen your knives at home?

Of course!

do you make your own cloth from wool or whatever raw material?

No

do you keep chicken and wait for them to lay that damn egg?

Not anymore, but see the pig question above.

etcetera

It's all easy and doable by anyone. But you can't do all these yourself [and have a job as well]. Everyone is doing SOMETHING on his own, instead of running to a specialist. Some people prefer other things than maintainance of a car; most of us are willing to pay for the "luxury" of not doing what we don't like, if there's someone who can do it for us.

I did maintenance on my cars and motorcycles when I lived in the country, now I don't have the space to do it, else I'd set up a darkroom .
I once rebuilt a VW beatle engine and the engine of my Yamaha SR500, which grew to 600ccm thanks to a Porsche piston and cylinder. Some work had to be done by specialists due to the lack of propper tools and I wouldn't have known how to operate the tools anyways.
I rebuilt the starter of my Mini 1275GT with parts from an electric drill, repaired carburators, alternators, ignition distributors, changed brake pads on drum and disk brakes and much more.

But on todays cars I can't even change a light bulb, ok, some of them. The Xenon headlights are on 25,000 Volts and that is nothing I would mess around with.
The engine compartment is so packed with a supercharger and intercooler that I'm happy to find the oil dipstick and the cap where I fill up the oil. From a quick glance, my modern Mini has no spark plugs and I won't mess with the brakes of a car capable of 140 mph.
I don't have to look after tire presure, the car does it for me, I don't have to check cooling water or the water to clean the headlights and windscreen, the car does it for me. It checks most parameters and shows a warning if anything is wrong.

When I think back to the end of the eighties, my fathers Porsche had all the belts but no tools. It wasn't expected from a Porsche driver that he can change the fan belt but it was expected that the ADAC mechanic didn't have the right belt.
Then the procedure to change the sparkplugs on a 911 Turbo began with getting the engine out of the car!

 

[Pherdinand]

When i was a teenager sometimes i wished i was a teenager girl for an hour or two. You know, to find out all those little secrets. And to figure the shortest wat to the heart of a teenager girl.

Oh boy, good old times.

Come on, guys, let's not fight over such a stupid subject , life is too damn short to waste it.

 

[Andy K]

I tried pm'ing you but your inbox is full.

No you did not try PMing me, or you tried PMing the wrong person, because my inbox is empty and is always empty because I delete messages once I have read them.

 

[back alley]

this thread has long stopped being about rf photography.

some of you have behaved like, well, i'm not going there.

but consider this a warning as i will be watching more closely and imposing temporary bans on just plain rude behaviour.

joe