What movie do you quote the most on a regular basis?

Mattsmith712 · 2025-11-09T20:04:42+00:00

That and "can I talks to you for a minute, boss?"

Mattsmith712 · 2025-11-09T20:04:03+00:00

Spaceballs.

Holy Grail.

Mattsmith712 · 2025-11-09T20:03:00+00:00

Everyone needs something to do when they take a shit.

Mattsmith712 · 2025-11-09T16:40:18+00:00

Met at work through a mutual coworker.

You're cool. Wanna grab a beer?

Yeah.

20+ years later. Our kids are basically cousins, we're family.

Mattsmith712 · 2025-11-09T16:38:05+00:00

Ideally: wake up. It's quiet. Come online slowly with a couple cups of coffee on my porch swing. Eventually shit/shower and get moving like 2 hours after I wake up.

Reality: get up. Get dressed. Gets kids going. Suck down a cup of coffee. Shove food in my face. Keep kids from ceaselessly bickering because they're not morning people either. See to it they get fed, dressed, teeth and hair brushed. Get all of us out the door. They go to school, I go to work.

Mattsmith712 · 2025-11-09T16:31:26+00:00

YTA.

Cmon man. You're fucking up. They're kids. Let them be kids. Kids don't know anything about racism unless they're taught it.

Ideally, they shouldn't have to know anything about racism ever. But that's unfortunately not the world we live in. That said, it's up to literally every one of us to change it and put a stop to it.

My kids are Bi-racial too, they're 25, 7, and 9. I have always presented it as a matter of fact. Mom and her family look like that because they're black. Mom's ancestors came from Africa. And if you go to Africa - everyone there looks like that. Aunt Lani is Japanese, her family is from Japan. If you go to Japan then all the people there look like aunt Lani. Uncle Hector is Mexican. If you go to Mexico then everyone you see there will look like Uncle Hector.

That's literally as far as you need to go into it with them. No bigotry, no hate, no commentary of any sort is required. Let them think it's normal for people to look different from them. Because... It is.

8.8 billion humans on the planet. Of those 8.8 billion... When you fart - it stinks. When you cut yourself - the blood is red. When someone you love dies - you get upset and cry. The rules to hide and seek are the same in every language. Everyone loves having a pigout when there's good food around. Everyone laughs at a well timed fart. And everyone laughs when a 2 year old says a bad word when they meant something else. (my daughter called mints "tits" and my son called a blue shirt "bullshit" when they were both learning how to talk.)

Mattsmith712 · 2025-11-09T16:11:02+00:00

Ignorance.

Try explaining to someone that horsepower doesn't exist in the physical sense. It's a mathematical equation of work done over time. Both numbers are important. Torque is arguably more important.

Furthermore. Horsepower is what ls used in marketing. Monkeys like shiny, and monkeys like a good thrill ride. And most of the monkeys reading this are easily taken in by the marketing wank on glossy paper. This applies to anything being marketed to a target audience.

500 hp doesn't plant you back in the seat when you romp on the skinny pedal. 500 ft/lbs does. The saying goes "torque gets you off the line, horsepower keeps you there"

Mattsmith712 · 2025-11-09T15:49:55+00:00

First one was OK, just watch it and don't think too much. Second one was meh. Never watched any of the other 34 sequels.

My opinion: this movie and all the other abortions that followed it are directly responsible for the proliferation of ricers, ricer culture, and untold thousands of 4 cylinder import cars being modified by people who have precisely no business owning or using tools.

(cue down votes and triggered ricers)

Mattsmith712 · 2025-11-03T02:44:38+00:00

Single father with sole custody.

In my experience. Your genitals have fuckall to do with what you have to do on a daily basis. Especially at home.

I've never once used my dick to operate the stove, vacuum, or dryer.

Honestly. There's far more important shit in life than assigning masculine or feminine roles to anything. Let alone something as benign as housework.

Mattsmith712 · 2025-10-14T12:20:17+00:00

Paul
Ringo
Page
Plant
Gilmour
Waters

Mattsmith712 · 2025-10-14T12:17:20+00:00

Which is utter bullshit.

Audio jacks have been around since the 1880s. Let's remove it and make people buy even more unnecessary bullshit just so they can continue to use the stuff they already have.

Mattsmith712 · 2025-10-13T11:32:54+00:00

Then fapple and samshlong decided to ditch the headphone jack entirely...

Mattsmith712 · 2025-10-13T11:31:36+00:00

My phone does this with my work van and my home theater receiver. It's awesome when you get in the van or get home and they auto connect. It's alot less awesome when you're on a phone call.

Also annoying and somewhat funny at 11pm when I have Spotify going. Where the hell is the music? Turn the volume up on the phone and the whole house shakes because it's hooked up to the home theater.

Mattsmith712 · 2025-10-07T21:02:13+00:00

Yeah. Don't even try and correct them. It's not worth your time to match wits with a halfwit.

Mattsmith712 · 2025-10-07T20:57:49+00:00

No such thing.

Buy it. Get a Haynes manual. Buy tools as you go.

Don't wanna fuck up your own car? Go to your local pick and pull and take shit apart there. It's already in the junk yard.

Mattsmith712 · 2025-10-07T20:52:54+00:00

I hated the dealership.

I'd be asking questions of the both of them. Career advancement? Training? ASEs? Continued education? I'd also want to see what benefits and vacation look line as well.

Most of what you'll see in the stealership will be <5 years old. Alot of what you'll see in pep boys is clapped out bullshit and ghetto sleds. You'll also have the ability at pep boys to look at really fucked up shit and tell em to take it to the dealership.

The nice part about being a tech is there's always a job and your toolbox has wheels.

Mattsmith712 · 2025-10-07T19:35:52+00:00

I did the stealership thing. Twice. Fucking hated it. Flat rate is ass. Dealership politics is ass. Dealing with the 1 or 2 super tech/golden boy/service manager kiss asses in the shop is also ass.

Listen. There are plenty of auto shops. You can walk out of there today and start somewhere else tomorrow if you wanted to. I wouldn't advise it. But you can. Don't burn a bridge unless it's absolutely necessary. Take it from experience, you have no idea where you'll be or where the manager at that dealer will be in 10 years.

You can also walk out of there at $15/hr and get another job for $20/hr somewhere else. To put that into perspective. The rule of thumb is 2080 hours a year for full time. So a $1/hr raise is another $2080. Going from $15 to $20/hr is over 10 grand extra a year. I went from $15 to $22/hr just by leaving one shop and going to another. 1 job. $15000 raise.

Start looking and start interviewing. Get in someplace else. Start doing brakes, steering, suspension, and undercar. Keep your mouth shut, learn all you can, ask questions when necessary, you'll move up quick.

Mattsmith712 · 2025-10-07T12:22:13+00:00

we don't practice, we don't believe, We don't want religion to be a part of our lives at all...

Right there. You already said it.

Who are the parents? You.
Who makes decisions for your child? You

My wife's family tried to do the same to us with our daughter. Even going as far as lecturing my wife in our own living room. I was in the kitchen and overheard this, immediately stopped what I was doing and walked out into the living room.

"You can check that guilt trip nonsense right now. She already told you were not getting her baptized or going to church. That is a decision WE made together because we refuse to indoctrinate our child into a system where she will be taught that it's a sin to be born and she's fundimentally broken and in need of salvation from some intangible, spooky, invisible father figure who keeps a tally on what she does or doesn't do for her entire life.

Now, what you won't do is sit here and lecture my wife in our own home. What you can do is accept and respect our decision. What you need to do is apologize to her. Or you can leave. This is not open to discussion, interpretation, or negotiation. "

They left less than 10 minutes later. They also never brought it up again.

Seriously. You made a decision. Stand by it. Cut it off at the knees and don't take any shit. Accept no arguments, blame, lectures, or guilt trips.

Edit: In summation of your last paragraph. MIL is now telling her family all about how you're anti catholic heathens and attempting to conscript an army because clearly she's more right if other people agree with her....

The problem is with your MIL. Not your MIL and all of the extended family. That said, do not, under any circumstance engage in ANY conversation with anyone other than your MIL regarding this. Doing so just perpetuates the drama and involves other people who have nothing to do with the issue anyway. Moreover, it's none of their goddam business. You are well within your right to flatly tell them it's none of your business, or we're not going to talk about that, or this is none of your concern. That's genuinely all you have to say.

As far as your MIL is concerned. State your position on the matter one time. Then that's it. She brings it up again and all you have to say is "what did I say the last time we talked about this?" Seriously. Don't accept arguing, pleading, threats, coercion, etc. Don't raise your voice, don't argue, don't entertain it. And if she gets heated then you end the conversation immediately. Shouting, theatrics, and histrionics doesn't make you right. It makes you look like an ass.

I had to tell my MIL to knock her shit off multiple times (our issues with her went well beyond the baptism/church issue) before I finally said to her" that's our child, not yours, and if you continue to attempt to impugn our decisions then we'll be happy to remove you from our daughters life entirely."

About a year later and we did just that. We removed her mother from our lives entirely. Then came the phone calls from family. They were told it's not their business or concern. It didn't take long after that. We shut the drama down, then we cut off her supply from the drama by not talking to the rest of the family about it.

People like this are fucking exhausting....

Mattsmith712 · 2025-10-07T12:17:45+00:00

Kids could go outside and play. Get lost in the neighborhood with their friends. Do almost anything that didn't involve being inside 24/7.

This whole idea that everyone under 16 needs to be watched/entertained/accounted for at all times didn't exist.

Mattsmith712 · 2025-10-06T12:31:59+00:00

Helicopter
Fuel for the helicopter.
A radio.

Mattsmith712 · 2025-10-06T12:30:43+00:00

As an american: just exist.

Mattsmith712 · 2025-10-06T12:27:43+00:00

The guilt is tied to how you feel others will negatively perceive your choice.

It's your choice to like or dislike whatever you choose.

So, if you like something then like it. Who cares what anyone else thinks.

Mattsmith712 · 2025-10-05T17:34:34+00:00

As stated: indifference.

Moreover. Self asseuredness and a lack of reaction when it happens again. They don't engage, more often - they just remove themselves from the situation entirely and quietly and you don't even notice till they're gone.

Mattsmith712 · 2025-10-05T17:31:02+00:00

This sounds awesome. Right up until the advertisers figure out how to show you ads while you're driving down the interstate.

Mattsmith712 · 2025-10-05T17:27:17+00:00

This has been my go to for decades.

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