Does it specify you have to replace the fuel by putting new fuel in the tank or is the glove box acceptable.
Ymm mbsalb
"You make my mind be so alcoholic larry bird"?
3: That's enough out of you, Bill Simmons. Defending Michael Vick, animal torturer, was the last straw.
OT: I'm in the quaintest little village square in the area. I feel like I'm living the life of the Grade C Martha Stewart.
"You motherfucking mileager, must be such a little bitch"?
4: Michael Vick is leading my fantasy football team to glory.
Your mileage makes me be such a little bitch?
It's the space that makes the title particularly cryptic.
Where's Pause Endlessly when needed?
You make me meal bike saw lateral bowman?
You make me meal bike saw a lateral bowman?
GODDAMIT.
Yo, meat man! My baby stabbed a lobster boy.
Young male men: man boob sale at Lane Bryant!
Yivver me members! Man, bis speech ampediment limits bommunication.
Yog mothoh mawake! Muh boat suhwith a lousand bong!
Your mileage may ...man, be such a little baby.
Speaking of being a little cranky, I just let myself get sucked into the CT thread about Malcolm Gladwell, and now I feel fractious, to say the least.
They have comments with way too many words over there.
Your manhood manifests mightily, but show a little bollock.
y must men make beer so awesome lost balance
You must marry, my boy. Seek a leggy brunette lady billionaire live body.
17: The New Yorker desperately needs editors like Witt.
Yonder moby mopes. Maybe better save a limber betty.
You will find small jerry-can in the trunk of the car; please fill up to the indicated mileage mark that is, approximately, corresponding to distance between your fill location and your return location. On return show the receipt and the jerry can. Mismatches will be penalized.
24 is possibly right regarding the first word, but the rest is a total disaster.
Your mom mean motherfucker, but such a little bitch.
Yikes, mentioning mothers, might be scared anonymous little boy.
Does everybody else know what "Ymm mbsalb" means for reals? Because I have no idea.
Yesterday, many models mentioned barbary,
Sunday alligators licked bidets,
31 sb "You, Moby, may make bluffs, sensing a little bluster."
Your meter maid ... must be such a little bitch.
Your mileage meter ...
Your ... mother ...
Really parsimon? I don't expect those sentiments from you.
What I mean to say is: I don't know what heebie's post title means. Maybe She Mangled It.
I wonder if she rented the car from an agency with a name that starts with two 'm's. Why Must Metro Motors Be Such A Little Bitch?
Maybe that's how "Hertz" sounds through a ball gag?
Or is Avis the one where the counter people wear S & M stuff?
Hertz is the one that gives you a free doughnut with each rental.
Since nobody else is saying much, I'm going to note that I made my first pie crust yesterday. It was O.K., but not great. For my next attempt, I'm going to put the butter in the freezer for an hour after I cut it into chunks and not let a four year old use his own definition of "pulse" on the food processor.
The crust was tender enough, but it wasn't flaky.
How does a four-year-old define "pulse"?
I've been thinking about heebie's post, meanwhile (while I made minestrone soup, since I'm coming down with something vaguely cold-like). Why is requiring that the gas tank be full upon vehicle return so ghastly? That's standard policy. Perhaps it is the requirement that the tank be filled within a 10-mile radius; to have that spelled out is a little obnoxious, that's true, though one tends to do something like that anyway in order to ensure that the gas tank is more or less full. Probably it's the demand for a receipt. Why? one asks oneself.
I'm thinking there's an agreement between the rental place and nearby gas stations that they feed one another business. Hrm. Suspicious! Also maybe, the gas gauges on these vehicles aren't super-sensitive, so a person could fill the tank 30 miles !!! from the rental place, yet the gauge still shows a full tank! Problem!
Did I mention that I'm coming down with something?
Often gas stations within 10 or so miles of an airport will be unrepentant price gougers; gas prices a dollar or more higher than the average for that area.
The more better mileage a vehicle gets, the farther away one could fill the tank without any detectable change in the fuel gauge. Aha.
41: not let a four year old use his own definition of "pulse" on the food processor.
Teach everybody else about the definition of "pulse" while you're at it, please. My office-mate presses his dull pencil relentlessly down into the electric pencil sharpener until it slows to a labored groan. Then he makes a face and declares that the batteries must be dying. (No, dummy, you're burning out the motor. Pulse. Take a deep breath. Pulse.)
a dollar or more higher
Per gallon?! Holy shit! I've never seen that.
I've seen that in rental contracts, but I've never actually been asked for the receipt. One imagines this only comes into play when someone returns a car slightly under full, but then insists that they filled it up, the gauge is wrong, blah de blah de blah.
Showing a receipt for number of gallons added (within a ten-mile radius) isn't going to prove that you actually topped off the tank, though.
I think it's mostly just meant to define "full." (Not that this particular agreement actually uses the word, but it still needs to define the concept.)
Well, it does say "fill up," which is basically the same.
Showing a receipt for number of gallons added (within a ten-mile radius) isn't going to prove that you actually topped off the tank, though.
I suspect they're mostly looking at the date and time on the receipt rather than the amount.
44: On the essay portion, very poorly. Basically, I mean that "stop" is the kind of message that takes a while to process especially if not stopping makes a nice noise.
Teach everybody else about the definition of "pulse" while you're at it, please.
Thanks for the confidence, but I have other hobbies.
54: Oh, I know. I was just quibbling. You'd have to do some notable calculations to just underfill the tank just prior to dropping the vehicle off.
I actually kinda sorta tried to do that with a truck rental (diesel fuel, huge gas tank in that thing, very expensive); we did not work it out right.
I've only rented a car once. They told me I shouldn't fill it up before returning it because the price they would charge me for gas was less than I would get any gas station in the area. This sounded sketchy, but proved to be true.
I've only rented a car once.
What?
I don't understand how this is possible. Don't you travel a lot?
I've only had a real credit card for about two years, so before that I couldn't rent a car, even though it would have been convenient on occasion. But mostly I only travel to civilized places where I can get around via foot/train/bus, plus maybe a taxi ride to and from the airport.
So, if you want to tailgate the big way and fill the entire trunk with ice and beer, you use your own car?
OT: I'm curious whether anyone else here watches the Sunday talking head shows. Curious in particular about Christiane Amanpour, who recently took over as host of This Week on ABC. This morning she hosted a 'town-hall' discussion, more like a panel discussion, with some half-dozen panelists, in front of a live audience, on the rise of Islamophobia in the U.S. (ostensibly about the Park51 Islamic center). It was pretty riveting. Panelists included Daisy Khan, the wife of Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf, and Rev. Franklin Graham. Guess which sides they were respectively on. Gary Bauer showed up. A couple of people were available via satellite and spoke extremely well. There were numerous Muslims in the audience. At the very end, the mother of a young woman who was killed in the World Trade Center spoke forcefully to Graham about what an asshole he was stuff.
The write-up I've linked there doesn't do the show itself justice. Link to the show itself is here. It's worth watching.
The fact that a show like that is on a major network, on Sunday morning, is somewhat fascinating to me. Amanpour has been under attack for her hosting of This Week. What she's doing is rather different from what I've seen on these talking head shows; kudos to her. Obviously ABC is giving her rein to rework things, and I do hope she's not axed (for low ratings).
Panelists included Daisy Khan
Dukes of Hazzard II: The Wrath of Khan.
I don't even know what to make of that comment, Moby.
Have you tried visualizing Ricardo Montalbán in jeans shorts?
Sorry, I'm grumpy. You're making dumb jokes about the woman's name. She's a courageous woman under significant attack, whether as a false Muslim for failing to wear a hijab, or as a seekrit terrorist intending to impose Sharia law on the land, and she continues to stand up in front of the world. So it makes me grumpy.
I also am clearly coming down with a cold or something.
You're making dumb jokes [...] So it makes me grumpy.
Let me introduce you to Unfogged; have you met?
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Suddenly I'm developing this bad habit of talking to the fictional people in my television. "What the hell, Megan? ... Damn it, Don! ... Really, Faye? Don't you know what that asshole just did?"
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As though through a fog, I guess.
(/grump out)
I'm curious whether anyone else here watches the Sunday talking head shows.
I don't think I've ever watched a Sunday morning talking head show. On Sunday mornings when the weather is nice (like today) I'd rather be outside reading or doing something active; when it isn't nice, I'd rather be sleeping. I figure if anything important is revealed on one of the shows I'll learn it later, everything else (I assume) is inside baseball, mostly posturing and PR for the consumption of professional political people and journalists (which isn't to say that sort of thing doesn't have a necessary place in the information ecology). It's just: Sunday morning!
67: I feel vaguely guilty now, if that helps.
I figure if anything important is revealed on one of the shows I'll learn it later...
For the same reason, I rarely watch a speech or debate.
72: I'd never watched them either, but began about six months ago. I don't know; it fits into a different pattern of a Sunday morning, accompanied by a brunch plan, intermittent puttering around, and so on. You certainly get a different perspective watching policymakers in one-on-one interviews than you do any other wise. Or so I feel.
Anyway, yeah, it's the role of the Sunday shows in the information ecology, their impact, that I'm interested in. It's one reason I'm increasingly intrigued by what Amanpour is doing.
71: That was a terrible football game; worse even than the redskins game today, which was also fairly awful in execution (on both sides). I didn't get to see any of the thrillers other than the Baltimore-Pittsburgh game.
max
['I guess I am paying for the sin of watching the end of the last games of the season for the Nat's and the O's.']
Who watches the Sunday morning shows, for the most part? I would have thought Real Americans™ are in church and the rest of us godless heathens are in bed.
77: They don't really start until 10 a.m., and I usually manage to be up by then, despite being a godless heathen. I imagine it's political junkies who watch. Or ... actually, I don't know. The ads speak to people who might buy a new car, or who intend to vote (political campaign ads, these days), or investment or defense contractor ads or, lately, a lot of UPS ads. Don't know what the point of the last is.
The market is: power brokers.
76: Yeah, I'm happy to have spent the day working on a car with my dad. I learned exciting new things about coolant.
42 or wev: unless you use part butter part crisco you will never acheieve the shattering tender flakiness of a real American pie.
|| I just added a pic to the pool. Any thoughts on exactly what sort of bird that is (was)?|>
81: Really hard to tell from the pictures (the gorgeous dog is obscuring most of the key places I'd look to ID something) and I'm no Montana bird expert, but my first thought was a grouse, and from some googling, I'd guess perhaps maybe a Spruce Grouse.
That was kind of what I was thinking too, (), but the wings seem kind of dark.
I'm looking mostly at the tail because that's generally a key ID place. I'm having a hard time deciding and all my bird books are in the car (and I'm lazy), but I think the darker wings would still be consistent with the Spruce. But again, I am kind of terrible at ID'ing birds.
You put a bird in the pool? That seems like the kind of thing Moby* would do.
* Who shouldn't feel guilty at all. Seriously.
78: Also CSPAN radio replays the audio portion of the shows in the afternoon. Listening to that has been a part of my Sunday routine for over ten years, though I've missed the last few due to doing stuff combined with danger of violence against my radio what with all the Park51 bullshit.
it's the role of the Sunday shows in the information ecology, their impact, that I'm interested in.
I've always imagined (being nearly totally ignorant of the business of producing news-talk shows) that their role is one of setting the tone for a news cycle. Guests use their appearance to present what are elaborate press releases for a particular action or opinion, while the hosts model (you might say) some notion of an ideal political subject: educated, connected, informed, and impartial. The degree to which this activity is all kabuki probably varies from a little to a lot depending on the network, the show, the participants, and the topic. Among people who "do politics" professionally, these shows signal who's up, who's down, what can be acted on now, what must wait, what can and can't be talked about right now, as well as other things that would be meaningful to me, probably, if I were one of those people. Which I'm not, so they aren't.
Assessing the impact of the Sunday shows sounds like a marketing question. And I don't know from marketing. But I'm not at all surprised to learn that the commercials are campaign ads and ads for investment brokers, defense contractors, and car companies. The producers of these shows believe, presumably, that the audience for these shows are politically involved/influential, have disposable incomes, and want to know what Brown can do for them.
the audience for these shows are politically involved/influential, have disposable incomes, and want to know what Brown can do for them.
While true, it doesn't explain why ADM and Boeing advertise on these shows. I don't think anyone watching is in the market for a trainload of high fructose corn syrup or a couple of C-17s.
Congressional aides watch it. They might talk to their bosses about ag policy or defense expenditures.
I think TLL's point was that buying ads on those shows is often an attempt to make the media less likely to send Mike Wallace down to your office than to actually reach the people watching the show.
It is all part of the media/ beltway backscratch daisychain.
Wait, isn't Heebie back? WHY WON"T SHE EXPLAIN WHAT THIS MEANS?? What is Heebie hiding?
88: their role is one of setting the tone for a news cycle. Guests use their appearance to present what are elaborate press releases for a particular action or opinion, while the hosts model (you might say) some notion of an ideal political subject: educated, connected, informed, and impartial.
Sure, to an extent, though the tone and subject matter has already been set. The shows read more or less like an extension of the NYT or Washington Post op-ed pages. I don't avoid those papers (well, actually don't read the Washington Post regularly) out of distaste, and don't object to the Sunday shows out of distaste either.
I'll mention again that I'm pleased with what Christiane Amanpour is doing precisely because she's deviating, not only in degree of obeisance, but also in format and subject matter, from the usual. Not always, but frequently enough. She's shifting the nature of the discussion. This write-up captures it fairly well.
94: She's shifting the nature of the discussion.
Which she will probably get a chance to do for a few more months at most. "Washington always wins", especially in Washington.
95: Mm, yeah, maybe so. I suppose I'm trying to drum up support or something. I'm actually quite surprised at ABC for taking her on; it'll be sad if they get rid of her. And it's not like she's Rachel Maddow or anything; she is toeing the line to a fair degree. Just a small shift, but welcome.
Does Rachel Maddow know what "Ymm mbsalb" means? Or Amanpour?
Congressional aides watch it. They might talk to their bosses about ag policy or defense expenditures.
Presumably this is the same reason there was a Northrop Grumman ad for an unmanned drone on Ezra Klein's blog the other day. I mean, I know it's a wonkish policy blog at the Washington Post, but it's Ezra Klein for fuck's sake.
Unmanned drones, covered by the 2nd Amendment? Next week on Meet the Press.
Unmanned drones, covered by the 2nd Amendment? Next week on Meet the Press.
You mean you don't have one, JP? Radio controlled model plane with some C4. Easy Peasy.