"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile) 05/18/2018 at 15:07 • Filed to: far side friday

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Die-Trying > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/18/2018 at 15:14

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farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Die-Trying 05/18/2018 at 15:17

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that movie was actually surprisingly not bad... or maybe it was bad enough it was good....

i liked it is what im saying

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Die-Trying 05/18/2018 at 15:18

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random001 > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 05/18/2018 at 15:22

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I also liked it. I have a catastrophically low threshold for being pleased with a movie. Don’t listen to any of my recommendations.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > random001 05/18/2018 at 15:29

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lol im no better... especially if i have beer for movie time (and im a sucker for b movies)

Chariotoflove > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/18/2018 at 15:30

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I know this is an old cartoon because the full-size spare is extinct.

random001 > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 05/18/2018 at 15:42

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Example, I think Pacific Rim is peak awesome....

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > random001 05/18/2018 at 15:46

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was pretty cool yes :D

i also enjoyed the new teenage mutant ninja turtle movies and speed racer

Die-Trying > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/18/2018 at 15:53

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found this one again while looking for it........

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Chariotoflove 05/18/2018 at 16:10

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On the topic of spares and the like, one of my favorite pieces of automotive trivia is the “tire gaiter” or “tire garter”. In the *very, very* short period between the wide adoption of pneumatic tires and the carrying of spares/modern tire chemistry/high speed autos, it was considered a way to have something *like* a spare to get you back on the road if the sidewall split. Or if the tube was patchable but a tire was not available. Enter the tire gaiter, which was a split tube of rubberized cloth to go around the tire or around the tire *and rim*, and to be laced up. Note that this is only a useful thing if (a) most roads are dirt or gravel, (b) the distance to be traveled is short, (c), the tire is very small in cross-section, (d) there is no spare, (e) the speed to be traveled is very, very low, (f) the tire is likely to split (rubberized canvas sidewall or white rubber tire), and (g) the hassle of actually lacing a tube around the tire is a worthwhile endeavour. Not to mention that (h) pneumatic tires have to be widespread enough to make them worthwhile.

In other words, I don’t know if they were even sold in the US, although I’ve got a sneaking suspicion I’ve seen a ‘20s cartoon with a “bandaged” tire... which looked more like an obvious joke than a real thing. The sum total of my knowledge about them is finding a newspaper ad for them dating from the early teens, and a mention in a Dorothy Sayers story - Either the novel The Five Red Herrings(1931) or the short story The Undignified Melodrama of the Bone of Contention (1928). Can’t remember which, but I know both of them had a tire tracks clue involved.

So, basically, I know about something that’s so obscure it almost returns no results on a google image search (gets one, by sheer fluke), has no articles in specialist car websites or publications that I’ve found let alone Wikipedia, and might only be remembered or known about by a few hundred people, if that. People make cracks about buggy whip makers being no longer in business because of cars; I’ve got news for them. The tire gaiter people are so much more out of business that nobody ever heard of them - but they came into existence instantly *because* of cars and disappeared just as quickly.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > random001 05/18/2018 at 16:11

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That’s probably because it is.

Chariotoflove > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/18/2018 at 16:34

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It must be coincidence that the company name “Duco” reminds me of Duco cement. The only way I can see this being used for a sidewall breech would be if you could still patch the tube/sidewall and inflate or else this is a shoe to protect your rim as you inch along on a flat.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/18/2018 at 16:49

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...distance to be traveled is very short...

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/18/2018 at 16:51

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Even if you have a steam car that struggles to break 18mph on a dirt road, “WHUMP WHUMP WHUMP WHUMP” is going to get old fast, I’d say.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Chariotoflove 05/18/2018 at 16:53

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It could be the same Duco, as a really long shot. Not that anybody working there today would have even the ghost of a clue of a fuckin’ idea what you were talking about if you asked them, even if it was.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/18/2018 at 17:05

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Note to the secret anti-share-anything cabal: I didn’t share this as a feared and hated self-promotion ego trip. Chariot did. Presumably because he found my reply-sperg interesting, or something. If you are currently REEEEE-ing into a paper bag about naughty share-monsters, you are authorized to take a chill pill.

Chariotoflove > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/18/2018 at 17:19

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Almost certainly not. I have found keepers of arcane knowledge squirreled away in the bowels of tech support at big scientific equipment companies. For instance, I found someone as Fisher Scientific who knew about the old 1980s Queue CO2 incubator I was trying to resurrect. He sent me the old manual written on a pica typewriter. Then, he did a phone conference with me to pull it open and repair the electronics (there were transistors in there, but no vacuum tubes). But we’re talking a few decades old here, not a century+.

Chariotoflove > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/18/2018 at 17:20

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If there is such a cabal, send them my way.

random001 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/18/2018 at 17:39

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Damn right!

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Chariotoflove 05/18/2018 at 17:50

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There are mixed sentiments on sharing. Once upon a time, probably when we had a lot fewer dudes than now, silly responses that people thought were funny were sometimes shared by the people making them. Self-promotion, yeah, but often worthwhile. It was one of the ways that people like Brian1321 would recruit people for funny shitstorms and joke threads on the front page, for example. More and more, though, we had emigres from other blogs and whatnot sharing their fights on other blogs, starting fights on Oppo political posts (eurrgh), and sharing their “I AM HAVING A FIGHT RIGHT NOW” posts to the main page. It got stupid, and it got ugly, and when combined with sub-blog metastasis and a couple of bad eggs with a lack of maturity, it got to the point where a shared post header would almost always get met with a sigh.

Then the posts would show who shared them. A little shaming wasn’t a bad thing in that context. Around that time, it became possible for *anybody* to unshare. I don’t know but what that may still be possible, because kinja, but I don’t know how it’s done. Some time after, though, the *share ownership* went away again, and so now sharing was a great way for some people to anonymously get their political rah-rahs in and Feel Important by shitposting shares from Gawker, Jezebel, etc. ON AND ON AND ON AND ON. There were some people who thought it was important to forcibly recruit notice to Muh Important Social Issue by sharing and resharing the same article four and five times a day. Uh, no. That bred resentment, and that resentment bred unsharing, and the unsharing/sharing war turned the whole concept of sharing toxic.

“Fun shares” or informative shares are not completely dead and gone for good, but they’re few and far between, and I believe there to be those who - while not in a position to *ban* shares - take a dim view of any share, because of the self-aggrandizement record and the scar tissue of the Hissy Fit Wars. So any time anybody shares a comment like you did, I kind of sigh and start an hourglass until the Share Police (whoever they are, mods or clever users) unshare it as a matter of personal principle, spite, reactive autism, or mere caution. And the thing that kills me is I don’t know they can see who did the share, so policing for EGO SHARES is that much harder.

Oh well.

Chariotoflove > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/18/2018 at 19:17

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I’m gonna hope that all that is calming down, based on the fact that I don’t see much unsharing of in-house posts. I like our current policy for sharing inter-blog posts, but that doesn’t really apply to sharing other Oppo posts.