Late Night Oppo

"K-Roll-PorscheTamer" (k-roll390)
12/12/2018 at 22:35 • Filed to: Late night Oppo

How’s it going? I’m just reve ling in the forever- awesomeness that is the Eagle E-Type.

DISCUSSION (32)

Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras > K-Roll-PorscheTamer
12/12/2018 at 22:48

Counting down the days till thr holiday break, I’m mentally shot and need a few days to recoup

CB > K-Roll-PorscheTamer
12/12/2018 at 22:49

Tired, and I’m only three days in to my week. Four days to go. Sunday night can’t come soon enough.

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > CB
12/12/2018 at 22:50

Why specifically Sunday?

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras
12/12/2018 at 22:50

You can make it!

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras
12/12/2018 at 22:50

You can make it!

CB > K-Roll-PorscheTamer
12/12/2018 at 22:58

That’s when my row of shifts ends. Then two days off, then back to work for ten days in a row.

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > CB
12/12/2018 at 23:03

Come to think of it, I’ve no idea what you do for work. So your shift makes me confused.

Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks > K-Roll-PorscheTamer
12/12/2018 at 23:18

Settling in with whiskey to wash away all the people who Act Like Massive Assholes Just To Be Massive Assholes around here. Has me seriously debating if I want to keep hanging around Oppo.

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks
12/12/2018 at 23:21

What’s got you tense and such in OppoLand? I’m with whiskey as well, If you’d like to chat, I’m willing to listen.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > K-Roll-PorscheTamer
12/12/2018 at 23:23

A bargain at under $300,000!

CB > K-Roll-PorscheTamer
12/12/2018 at 23:29

Chandelier inspector. Maybe.

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > CB
12/12/2018 at 23:35

That’s the kinda shift and chande lier inspect has? Neat.

CB > K-Roll-PorscheTamer
12/12/2018 at 23:40

It’s a thankless job, but someone has to do it.

Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks > K-Roll-PorscheTamer
12/12/2018 at 23:42

Eh, just all these children who think they know better than actual certified experts, who set up throwaways to harass and start shit with personal attacks , and who talk a ton of shit about things they couldn’t even spend 30 seconds Googling just so they can feel better about their income or getting ripped off .

Just feels like so much of the exact same shit that is the reason I don’t call the SV headhunters back. I don’t like having to deal with people who refuse to accept that someone else knows their shit, and I absolutely despise the ones that just respond to facts they don’t like with ‘NO U’ or more trolling bullshit. Instead of even attempting to understand or learn something.

Goddamn , I need more whiskey.

promoted by the color red > K-Roll-PorscheTamer
12/12/2018 at 23:54

Jusss being chill. Have to take off work early tomorrow so I can schlep the Miata down for a replacement to p at Mazda’s expense.

Work’s fun though a little dry. New coworker can be a bit of a Debbie Downer with how honest he is, but I’ll chalk it up to him being new to the job. I get a lot more done when it’s just me in the office with a Gordon Ramsey show playing in the background.

winterlegacy, here 'till the end > Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks
12/12/2018 at 23:54

Oppo itself seems fine, honestly. It’s the other GMG sites that tend to have a lot of that.

I’ve resigned myself to just trying to crack jokes for the most part. Easy karma, and you get all the time in the world to make a good punchline.

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks
12/12/2018 at 23:57

As a 23 year old, I still consider myself a child in certain aspects of life. What you’ve dealt with is an ongoing symptom of the reliance on social media and the F’ed-upness that is our distribution of news and whatnot. Some people take the first news their given or what appeals to them as fact and truth and roll with it.

Ideally it’d be best to take news from both the left and right, find what they’ve got in common and treat the commonality as fact and develop one’s own opinion.

Don’t drink yourself to death now.

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > promoted by the color red
12/13/2018 at 00:01

How’s the top at Maz da’s expense if you don’t mind my asking?

Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks > K-Roll-PorscheTamer
12/13/2018 at 00:11

Yeah. I’ve got close to 2 decades on you, and you’re more of an adult than the people who insist they’re older than me. (Remaining unconvinc ed.) And of course, the worst offenders are always the ones going “SEE SEE! BAD MAN LIED! HOW CAN YOU NOT SEE IT!” Then turn around, lie the same way, and demand everyone accept their lie as the gospel truth.

And what, these children actually believe someone like me just sits around and eats bon-bons for 20 years? Someone who will tell you straight to your face “I got no clue about carbs, just convert it to EFI.” Especially when that guy goes out of his way to be as helpful as possible. This shit isn’t easy to learn. It’s VERY hard work, and 5 minutes on Google doesn’t make you an expert. But they’d rather shit where they feed. Preferably, on the people doing the feeding.

And I’m just fucking sick and tired of being the target by virtue of being the only one who’s put in the kind of effort required to know all these various things. Especially when I’m more than willing to say “I don’t know.”

Drinking myself to death sounds like a capital idea, but there isn’t enough whiskey in the house.

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks
12/13/2018 at 00:20

No wonder you can afford a 997 and still be in the green, kudos!! I will catch up with a 981 or 982 Cayman soon enough. Unfortunately like I said, it’s a symptom of the times and we can either make the effort to cure them one at a time or not at all. The former entails understanding the individual, their background and why they feel the way they do. I promise the suffering in the long term can equate to long term positiv ty; rather than short term positivi ty and long term suff ering that the world seems pretty content with.

Don’t give up. Never surrender. Suicide by any means, even pleasure, is not the answer.

Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks > K-Roll-PorscheTamer
12/13/2018 at 00:34

Yeah, the childish jealousy just makes it all the more “why the fuck am I putting up with this shit?” Yeah, I own an exceedingly rare 997.2 C4GTS. Know how? I put a deposit on it less than an hour after it hit the market and prayed to hell the PPI wasn’t a clusterfuck. I went through financing hell because they couldn’t price it right in their system, and then financing annoyance when they wanted a bigger down payment because I haven’t bought a car this expensive before. Even though it was literally the cheapest in the country by a wide margin. Dumb luck with timing and dumb luck with bad data. That’s it.

But you know what? Suffering in the long term doesn’t have any positive benefits. It just doesn’t. I’m proof of that right here. Any time I try to educate, flooded with trolls and children. Any time I bring up that I know something else, “no you don’t you’re just lying.” Any time I mention I’ve done it before, “no you haven’t and you don’t have to be in every conversation.”

Can’t fucking win for trying. Just rack up more and more stress and ‘he got owned’ shrieks from pre-pubescent shits.

You reach a point where it just fucking isn’t worth the headaches any more. Because all the children do nothing but circle their fap-wagons screaming “THE PROBLEM IS YOU, IT’S YOUR FAULT YOU GET BULLIED, IT’S YOUR FAULT YOU GET HARASSED, IT’S YOUR FAULT YOU GET DOXXED!” Which is exactly what’s going on here, now.

Suicide? Eh, maybe a little far. But just saying “fuck it, delete all my shit, I don’t care to be associated with this any more”? Might not be so far around the corner. It’s been made pretty damn clear a not insignificant portion of the folks here would cheer and set off fireworks then.

Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks > winterlegacy, here 'till the end
12/13/2018 at 00:38

Yeah, no, it’s not. Somebody created a new burner account today - now banned - to do nothing but make personal attacks, harass, and attempt to dox me.

Jalopnik I have the occasional random who thinks they’re an expert because they read some 2 page writeup on the internet. I put ‘em in their place when warranted, and move on.

But Oppo? Yeah. No. Just a constant stream of personal abuse and baseless attacks over the past two weeks or so.

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks
12/13/2018 at 00:50

The way I see it, life is a series of never-ending problems. As such, it’s up to US to pick which problems we want to have. You went through the problems of acquiring the 997 you wanted and I’m sure (I hope) you’re happy with the results.

Suffering through long term does have benefits. Having dealt with depression and anxiety since at least 7th grade (2008 at least). I could’ve offed myself at anytime if I could muster the will and ability. 10 years later, and I’ve still got problems to deal with. But I ‘ve got more problems now than back then, and a lot of them are good rather than bad. To own a Turbo Porsc he and Mustang, you would’ve hand to give me drugs or something else to convince me I was capable of that 10 years ago. And here I am.

With mine and the newest generation, we’ve become so entitled that being straightfoward with approaches to debates and such can easily offend. Today it requires a slightly gentle approach and while frustrating, that’s life. Going into debates with the mindset of being more educated/better than the others simply won’t work. Mutual understanding is a goldmine these days. It’s harder than being brash and ready to go as in older times; however to get your message and beliefs across, it is the best way. If you’d rather not after multiple attempts, I understand and respect you regardless.

That said, I’ve been on the mental edge of suicide many times this decade and I cannot count them. That said, as extreme as my response was, I wanna make sure everyone gets the chance to potentially live a life worth living.

promoted by the color red > K-Roll-PorscheTamer
12/13/2018 at 01:32

You would think Mazda would have figured out tops after making Miatas since 1989.

You would be wrong.

Some of the earlier NDs have had tops that rubbed the frame as you raise or lower it. As I enjoy top-down motoring, it means that mine’s started to fray along the seams. It’s a known issue and even Motor Trend had to get their long-term car’s top replaced.

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > promoted by the color red
12/13/2018 at 01:46

Wow......I mean nothing’s perfect, but that truly sucks.

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > promoted by the color red
12/13/2018 at 01:46

Wow......I mean nothing’s perfect, but that truly sucks.

pip bip - choose Corrour > K-Roll-PorscheTamer
12/13/2018 at 02:07

not long home from work

promoted by the color red > K-Roll-PorscheTamer
12/13/2018 at 02:09

Yeah, it’s not the best outcome but at least they’re fixing it. Gives me an excuse to go for a drive anyway, so there’s that.

winterlegacy, here 'till the end > Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks
12/13/2018 at 10:18

That’s strange. Who the hell is actually annoyed enough with you to take the time out of their day to harass you?

I mean, if they slip up, you’ve also got grounds for legal action too.

Milky > promoted by the color red
12/13/2018 at 10:38

Since you’re doing it how does the whole experience go down? Im about to go in for one last oil change before my extended everything part of my CPO expires.

Looks like there are some rub marks lower driver side and I want to bring it up.

promoted by the color red > Milky
12/13/2018 at 10:52

It was pretty easy & painless. I mentioned it to the service advise r last time and made a note of it when I set up the next oil change. They ordered the new top and I picked a day to drop the car off.

My dealer says it’s about a 2-day job.

Milky > promoted by the color red
12/13/2018 at 11:15

Good to know, wasn't expecting 2 day job though.