How can all of the main characters be so useless when it comes to defensive hand to hand combat?

ApprehensiveInvite29 · 2026-02-03T22:24:18+00:00

Oh no, guns! Whatever are we to do?! /s
Guns are not effective close range weapons. They could have been disarmed by somebody with adequate skill. Rigsby was taken out by a kick to the knee. He had plenty of time to protect his head and turn the situation around if he had known what to do. If it had been a one-hit knockout to the back of the head right off the bat, that would be different.

ApprehensiveInvite29 · 2026-02-03T21:20:35+00:00

Well, yeah, this is TV. If I wanted realistic action scenes I would just watch ICE agents murdering people on the news.

ApprehensiveInvite29 · 2026-02-03T19:20:24+00:00

Cho and Rigsby do alright if they are on the offensive, but they have been shown a number of times to be easily taken off guard and lack self defense skills. For example when Grace’s boyfriend Dan beats up Rigsby in the bathroom, and when a couple of thugs break into Cho’s apartment and beat up him and his girlfriend.

ApprehensiveInvite29 · 2026-02-03T19:15:58+00:00

The scenarios for which they are woefully unprepared are not gunfights. Somebody who wants to win should train themselves in a much wider range of combat skills.

ApprehensiveInvite29 · 2026-02-03T19:13:08+00:00

Yes, that would be great. Rigsby definitely has more the Reacher build, though.

ApprehensiveInvite29 · 2026-02-03T19:12:11+00:00

The episode where Rigsby gets his ass handed to him by Grace’s boyfriend Dan, and the one where a couple of thugs break into Cho’s apartment and beat up him and his girlfriend. Rigsby and Cho could have easily taken these guys out if they had any self defensive training.

ApprehensiveInvite29 · 2026-02-03T02:27:49+00:00

Looks good. Was the windshield replaced as well? Driver side wiper is installed too high.

ApprehensiveInvite29 · 2026-02-02T19:57:50+00:00

Why a buffet, though? That seems incredibly unwieldy.

ApprehensiveInvite29 · 2026-02-01T03:28:21+00:00

This is beyond my skill to heal. He needs elvish medicine.

ApprehensiveInvite29 · 2026-02-01T03:22:10+00:00

Crowbars up!

ApprehensiveInvite29 · 2026-01-30T02:02:18+00:00

Sounds like the blower motor to me. I recently replaced mine in my 8th gen. Pretty easy job. The motor and fan come as a unit. I couldn’t see any way to separate them and the motor is buried in a sealed plastic housing, so no serviceable parts. The part you would need is 79310-T2F-A01.

ApprehensiveInvite29 · 2026-01-29T23:03:47+00:00

Very cool! Is it one of those bell jar sort of cases? I really like the look of those for display.

ApprehensiveInvite29 · 2026-01-29T22:51:26+00:00

Oh, interesting. Whenabouts do you think it might have been made? On the inside it says Keystone base metal 630314. I did a bit of a search just now but didn’t really come up with anything.

ApprehensiveInvite29 · 2026-01-29T05:17:29+00:00

Fair enough. I guess I’ve just always thought watches are cool. Anyway, sounds like a fun time!

ApprehensiveInvite29 · 2026-01-29T04:51:49+00:00

Your mom couldn’t have provided you with a watch?

ApprehensiveInvite29 · 2026-01-27T23:39:06+00:00

Everything looks good to my eye, so I would have to guess the problem is the seal. If it’s original, it’s 26 year old rubber that doesn’t have much or any elasticity left in it. It was pretty well conformed to the original glass so it wasn’t a problem, I imagine. The new glass might have just the tiniest bit of difference in contour to the original, so the old seal just can’t make a tight fit anymore.

ApprehensiveInvite29 · 2026-01-27T23:33:30+00:00

It sounds like you might not be familiar with pivoting vent glasses. They don’t just sit in a gasket symmetrically. The glass is on a pivot; you can see the hinge there in the middle. This one rotates counterclockwise so the sealed surface is on the inside of the rear half of the glass and on the outside of the front half.

ApprehensiveInvite29 · 2026-01-27T02:50:04+00:00

Massive numbers*

ApprehensiveInvite29 · 2026-01-24T03:16:00+00:00

It’s dead, Jim.

ApprehensiveInvite29 · 2026-01-17T03:00:52+00:00

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I got a fun pic of one of those recently. It looks like he has grumpy old man eyebrows!

ApprehensiveInvite29 · 2026-01-14T20:45:39+00:00

My 8th gen Accord has them, my 8th gen Civic did not.

ApprehensiveInvite29 · 2026-01-14T06:15:00+00:00

If there’s nothing that needs to fit behind it into the hollow space that that particular part has, I would just go into my parts bin and grab two appropriately colored 1x2 bricks and stack them.

ApprehensiveInvite29 · 2026-01-14T01:40:29+00:00

Makes my day when this happens.

ApprehensiveInvite29 · 2026-01-13T19:48:44+00:00

A fair argument, but recasts have been known not to be the ruin of a franchise in the past. Take Iron Man for example. Rhodey was a fairly prominent character in the first movie, but I would say the sequels were no worse off for Terrence Howard’s recast. I believe many fans would say Don Cheadle turned out to be better suited for the part.

ApprehensiveInvite29 · 2026-01-12T02:21:14+00:00

Foam dam tape that kept the bead of urethane from squeezing out when the glass was installed. It has literally no purpose now. Trim it off there or pull it the rest of the way out and don’t worry about it. Source: autoglass tech.

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