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Ode to a working man.

But the massive jacked up rides for a suburban big box store hauler only serves the secondary market of catalytic converter harvesting while you're gittin' groceries.

If you were transporting the prize heiffer or, as noted: Ten feet tall, then the extra spring-travel would be warranted. So, being a Wee Stickman, I have no need to lift sheets of plywood over my head just to get them in the bed.

A person for each truck - and a truck for each person.

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Dude. Been a stickman all of my life. I couldn't understand the SUV craze until a met a family of mexicans all of which seemed to be hiding three of me inside of them. They COULDN'T fit into a 'normal' vehicle. ONLY an SUV could accomodate the bulk they had acquired as they were americanized.

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I am amazed how fast and totally the people from the diverse cultures of the world that come to America become AMERICANIZED i.e lazy.

They did not realize that when they came here they were entering into deeper level of hell. The countries they came from were not as bad. They had one dictator who could be killed easier then a host of millions of vermin. They did not have psychopaths occupying CONgress who are plotting and scheming 24/7/365 to find new ways to scam the gullible and ignorant people. Their native countries did not have the myriad of alphabet soup agencies i.e. IRS,FBI,CIA, FDA, HSS, etc, etc, that are also occupied by, literally millions of parasites, that will consume their very life force.

I bet they would never consider coming here had they been aware of just how evil this place is.

We live in hell.

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A fundamental question is:

If they are from there and they love their land (a 'country' typically denotes a political or cultural construct), then why didn't they stay to FIX IT?

There was the SEED of laziness!

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In the 1970s you had to lock in the hubs WITH YOUR HANDS. You knew if it was engaged soon enough.

Electronic anything gives the promise of convenience while taking away ALL control of the user.

POS is now a Make AND Model of vehickle.

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Nov 28Edited

I had a 1984 GMC High Sierra 2500 that was a 4x4. I had to manually turn the knobs on the wheels to engage the 4x4 function. So what! Simple! Less freaky expensive parts to break. AND! if you had to hire a mechanic then you were probably declaring Chapter 11 Bankruptcy soon after. Then not too long after that fiasco you had to sell that damned POS to afford a few months of rent and some cheap(er)food. Maybe even end up eating DOG DOOF!

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Except for the pressure-cooked road kill the put in dog doof, it ain't so bad!

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Thy old farm truck/car wouldst ye not trade for that pos.

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I exist in a permanent state of awe that fuckers have enough money to buy a device that costs as much as a house. I'll never see that kind of money in a lifetime.

Then to maintain JUST THE MOBILE HOME so to speak the costs of repair are more than I will ever see in a lifetime, let alone the fact that on the farm unless it required special tools and skills WE FIXED EVERYTHING OURSEFFS.

But then you factor in expensive homes, expensive tastes (in doof), and entertainment, and all of the other things that come with modern life in this shitforbrains culture and I am baffled by WHAT *ANYONE* could DO to earn that amount of money to sustain such idiocy.

I worked under metal roofs in barns where the thermometers were pegged at 120F. Tossing around up to 100 pound bales of hay from age 13 onward. I've never met a pencil and clipboard jockey that was worth a dime that they earned.

We used to say in the factories: Who's dick do I have to suck to get a job like that.

Opulence.

The word of the day.

I despise it.

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First thing I noticed was the million dollar homes on that vid. When Mileikowsky pulls the grid down of hamerica as Drumpf moves to Yerusalem, mad max cometh to suburbia.

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I'm down with Mad Max as long as the goal is to get rid of the riffraff on the way to getting rid of the authors.

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Nov 28Edited

Back in the day I used to fix my own vehicles without much effort. Decarbonize the points, adjust the gap, adjust the timing with few simple hand tools. Today one needs an expensive computer and high level skillset to use it to fix an automobile. I yearn for the day where I had to use my muscles to roll down the window. I see that as a plus. Try to fix a broken electric window motor. Got to buy an expensive replacement. Convenience has been sold to the consumer as a benefit which now is becoming clear that it is a big fat lie. It only benefits the corporations that sold us the POS.

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1988 olds delta is my only wheels. 1800 $ used from local mechanic who says the new builds (computer run) are pos.

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You are smart. I'm stuck with a new POS which I paid ungodly amounts of money for, so i'm not in a position to buy a used vehicle as that would kill me financially..

Change oil frequently because that's the primary maintenance requirement that you need to do to keep your automobile running for 500K miles.

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Nay, thou art smart. Thou speakest czech, german and angloish. I speaketh angloish only. Thou didst know Weaver, Mclamb and Gritz. If ye hadst been in north dakota in 83, wouldst thou joined with Kahl in battle with IRS. A firefight in hell it was, and since we still be in hell, we want "hell" translated in czech.

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Nov 28Edited

Ich dachte, du konntest Deutsch., weil du deutsche Worter verwendest in ihrem Profil.

I thought you knew German as you use German words in your profile.

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wörterbuch's avatar

Only a few words. No clue on grammer.

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peklo, hell yes

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Patrick Jordan's avatar

You, my friend, are of Mycroftian Genius, and possibly of Amish dissent.

A pre-computer car is the modern equivalent of a horse and buggy these days.

I've been seriously considering a Rick Shaw since I don't like imprisoning animals and I would pay Rick well especially on rainy days.

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Dude.

Points. You're a dinosaurass.

A child these days don't KNOW what points are. They think it is something that you get if you what enough DIY hack videos and buy enough repair parts online.

A car with hand-rolling windows can't be backed into a lake by a computer and then drown you for lack of escape possibilities.

Fix an electric window?

First you have to figure out how to get off the inside door panel without harming anything else in the process. Then you have to take off the weather protection skin without damaging that in the process. Then you have to find the broken bit. Then you have to mortgage your first born child to buy the part and then do what we call reverse vietnamese surgery to replace the part, because either they used authentic Irish Leper Cons or the tiniest vietnamese woman with the smallest of hands either of which build the parts from the components up inside the door frame because the finished parts can't fit through any of the openings, and then they are riveted or spot welded to the barriers so that removal replacement is a nightmare. Such engineers should be publicly jibbeted so that crows can feast on their eyeballs.

There was a buy-back of old used cars that were put in the desert and then acid poured down the engina blocks. This techno-take over was planned a generation in advance.

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Nov 28Edited

Yeah man! POINTS! You know that little metal file used for filing the points? Looked exactly like a fingernail file. I still got one somewhere. Saving it just in case I need it in the aftermath of the soon-coming-to-your-neighborhood Apocalypse and the only vehicles running are old ones without the computer and electronic anything. Heck if you need a FOB to open the damn POS then its a POS to the nth degree. Dig it man?

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In a pinch my old man would use a popsickle stick and emery paper.

You could tune a car by ear.

No fancy computer with $5000 software that requires updates every year.

FOB

Freight On Board.

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Don't forget the simple carburator. The venturi supplying the fuel and oxygen into the carburator and the screw you had to use to tune the mixture of O2 and benzene containing fluid, aka gas to get the proper mixture of O2 and fuel? It was too LEAN i.e. not enough O2 was in the mixture. It would misfire, create black smoke, and run rough!

It was RICH if too much air was in the mixture. Oh, the good ole' days!

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The car burr ate who?

I know for a fact that a fuel injected system can get ONE HUNDRED MILES TO A GALLON.

They have them set so that you get no better mileage than a single barrel did back then, so why do the anesthetized apes accept such a blantant technical lie?

There could have been 5Xs less pollution from the 1960s to this era. So, the default conclusion is that ALL of this destruction was planned.

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I am aware of the fuel injection benefits. Because they put limits on the efficiency of such engines is proof positive that they don't care about the climate and the environment. Like you say Opposite Day. Every damn thing is inverted in this place.

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At our level, as motorheads, it is obvious that fuel injection on tractors and automobiles was around since 1930s so the tech was there. Tractors can run on gas or diesel. Every diesel engine I've seen had injectors. Diesel himself designed his engine to run on the Green and Sustainable VEGETABLE OIL, so immediately you know that all of what followed was a pre-planned fraud.

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Short answer is - I don't know Maybe they heard that everything is free here.

In the Czech language we have an idiom:

A cooked goose will not fly into your mouth. English equivalent would be - There's no such thing as a free lunch.

When I watch youtube videos my viewing is interrupted with commercials or advertisements for free food from your state. It occurs very frequently. They are conditioning us to be dependent and lazy. Just like when they destroyed all the old vehicle so that we wouldn't have any carburated motors and then introduced the computer chips controlling every automobile function. Once there is enough useless eaters on the dole then they will pull the plug. We will have a lot of starving people in the near future. I guarantee it.

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It has all of the appearance that the controllers like to pull the wings off of flies because it amuses them.

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