Neanderpundit

Roberta X was kind enough to link to me as well, thus I return the favor. I’m not sure what “shaggy” means, but hey. Thank you, Ma’am!

One post about a bluetooth device brings the phone retards out of the woodworks.

Listen: If YOU are too stupid and uncoordinated to drive a car and talk on the phone at the same time, by all means, do NOT do so. I can. And do. I can drive 75 mph on twisty country roads and talk on the phone AND eat a cheeseburger. This is not for everyone. In fact, most people should NOT do this. Most people should also not operate an engine lathe, either, but that doesn’t mean that I cannot. Piss off. I’ll put my driving record against anybodies, I only know two people who drive more than me, and they ALSO have coordination.

A friend sent me this clip from a California news show.

IN case the link disapears, the clip is about a local oil change chain charging for repairs they don’t do.

This surprises me… not at all.

I see this kind of work done all the time- and the less you know about cars the more likely you are to be victimized by one of these assholes.

Now, growing up, I knew shops that did this to people. If you had a clue, you could get good service from them, because they knew you would check their work. If you were clueless, you’d get ripped off every time.

I watched people I knew get ripped off over and over again, and they kept going back and trusting these yahoos, despite warnings from me.

Now, all the people I was close to, were knowledgeable about mechanical things. I didn’t have any friends who weren’t, because I figured, if you couldn’t figure out the simplest thing about cars, you were an idiot. I carried this misconception around with me for ages, until I began to get to know those “other kind” of folks.

It was an awakening that people could be good at one thing and not another- as I found my own limitations I began to recognize that the limitations in others were not stupidity but difference.

If, as a member of your chosen profession, you see someone about to be ripped off, you owe it to them to at least warn them. I’m forever telling people to avoid this or that or the other shop or repairman or technician, and I give reccomendations to people who do good work and are fair. Likewise, lawyers, doctors, other professionals have helped me not be taken advantage of.

This is also true of liberalism. At it’s core, liberalism is like the Jiffy lube employee promising you to change your fuel filter, taking your money, and doing nothing. The problem is, these people cannot be warned, because even if you PROVE to them they are being ripped off, they refuse to acknowledge the danger they are in, because they place more value on the feeling they receive than the reality they can observe. What do we do with those people?