Rant Thread

[JatoTheRipper]

As if scAmazon didn't already suck enough balls, now they are delivering "overnight". You know what that means? They are delivering while you are sleeping. Last night I was awoken by my girlfriend's dog barking. Normally I'd blame the dog, but in this case, I don't blame her for barking when a stranger comes into the driveway and onto the porch!

Amazon with every cell in my body! I know it won't happen in my lifetime, but I seriously hope this place goes out of business for the better of all of us.

 

[Greatscott]

II am blessed to live across the road from sever thousand acres of state and mill land. It provides a wonderful place to go offroading, has some ad-hoc shooting ranges, and is a great place to walk the dogs... most of the time.

The off-roading community that uses this land is, for the most part, courteous. I have yet to be on a walk and have motorcycles, ATVs, SXSs or full-sized rigs go screaming passed. I always pull the dogs well off the road, and the rigs always slow down to a respectable speed as they pass.

With that having been said, we have some real ass-hats around here. We are on the boarder of two counties, and both of these counties offer free trash disposal (up to a limit per visit), and fee appliance disposal. There is really no reason, at all, for people dumping their trash or appliances in the woods, other than sheer laziness. While walking the dogs in the woods Thanksgiving day, I ran across several large trash piles, along with half a dozen washers and dryers.
I have questions for these people, like "who taught you this was OK?", and "are you teaching your children this is OK?".
Every now and then people will post up rants about this on the local Farce Book page, and the responses are almost universal, blaming the "California Transplants", which everyone knows is BS, it is very much the natives that are doing this. This is proven from time to time when the offender was dumb enough to throw away mail with their name and address.

Of course, I wonder about the people who go to sporting events or the movies and leave/dump their trash at their seats instead of throwing it away.

//endith rant/

 

[JatoTheRipper]

II am blessed to live across the road from sever thousand acres of state and mill land. It provides a wonderful place to go offroading, has some ad-hoc shooting ranges, and is a great place to walk the dogs... most of the time.

I am jealous of this!

The rest of your rant sadly comes with the modern age of entitled people that are never held accountable for their actions. I bet a lot of them were taught to be this way.

 

[diezel666]

One of my favorite things to do.... Is when I see a trash pile like that. I pick through it and see if I can find a name and address. I'll do some research and find out who it is and if my info is correct. If I have the time, I'll clean up that mess, and deliver it to their driveway.

One time that I did it, paid off well more than I had planned. They called the cops! Cops showed up, found out they hired a handyman to haul away the garbage. Handyman was arrested for not being licensed (he was fronting as a contractor), and charged for all of that, plus illegal dumping on top. I laughed for a week.

Remember, you may be an asshole. But if you do it the right way....... well... It works well.

 

[Greatscott]

Remember, you may be an asshole. But if you do it the right way....... well... It works well.

What do you mean "...may be an asshole"?
I think if you talk to my friends, coworkers and wife, all doubt will be removed.

 

[ferp420]

i have the same problem here in the desert the dump is free under 700lbs a week but people still dump there shit about a month ago someone dumped a truck load in my driveway kinda and i was able to see the truck that dumped it and dumbasses left.there personal mail in the trash went by the house and sure enuff the truck was parked in the driveway
let the cops handle it the county came and got the trash and i washed my hands of it

it turned out to be a halfway house so i would assume someone went back to jail but i dont know what happend but sounds like they have alot of problems on there own outside of thinking its ok

 

[high plains drifter]

When I was kid back in the early 70's, my old man would take me to the recycling center on Saturday mornings... must've been in the fall b/c it was always cold. And I hated it but I did it b/c back then you just did what your parents told you to do. There was no "getting out of it". No plastics that I recall. It was glass, metal ( like tin cans and stuff), and newspaper. Even beer/ soda cans were tin... no aluminum. My job was smashing down cans and glass with a long steel pipe and tying newspaper into bundles to load into the back of a semi-trailer. This was long before recycling bins or even plastic trash bins. The trash went into the old round metal cans with the separate metal lids. They were heavy and rusty and nasty lol.

But back then things didn't come easy and there was zero sense of entitlement. My dad wasn't some tree-hugging hippy. He was an insanely hard-working conservative who did it all himself. But he was extremely passionate about keeping our land clean. I remember him taking his shotgun down to the riverbank that ran through our property where people would be fishing and telling them that if they expected to come back, that they had to pack out every bit of trash that they brought. Some did/ some didn't.

But as much as I hated picking up trash and going up to the recycle center, those things made me into an adult that doesn't litter. Whether camping, off-roading, or whatever... I not only have always packed out all my trash but wound up usually packing out other people's trash too. I just can't litter... even if I have to stuff something into my pockets or carry it around. It's a conscience thing and I'm sure it goes back to how I was raised. Around here I see it all the time... from just throwing trash out the car window to full-on dumping of appliances, mattresses, etc anywhere there is public land with no cameras. It makes me sick but it's the world that we live in.

Raise your kids like a dirty disrespectful animal and they will always be dirty disrespectful animals.

 

[JatoTheRipper]

Only in a deranged shithole would this be acceptable! People in this country are mentally ill and lost. The problem is, they are getting what they want because they throw the tantrums!

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[Col_Sanders]

I placed an order from VP on the 4th. It shipped on the 5th and was originally supposed to be here on the 9th. It is currently in the void, where it will spend a few days. This happens to pretty much every single order i get shipped USPS from them.

 

[Goro Majima]

Sometimes you just need to get away from the city (EffBee) and chill in an old town out in the woods or hills (RCC).

 

[itstoobright]

Raise your kids like a dirty disrespectful animal and they will always be dirty disrespectful animals.

I feel like most parents these days need to hear this. But then again, they are probably not strict enough to do anything about it.

 

[JatoTheRipper]

People who drive in the left lane and hold up traffic should be tortured to their death.

I placed an order from VP on the 4th. It shipped on the 5th and was originally supposed to be here on the 9th. It is currently in the void, where it will spend a few days. This happens to pretty much every single order i get shipped USPS from them.

Gotta love that union work!

 

[Gula]

Placed 2 orders on Dec 17 one from FMS for the fj40 body parts, and one order on AliExpress for the leafspring conversions.

Leafspring got here yesterday from CHINA!

However, the body is expected to arrive Jan 2. from tallahassee florida...................

 

[ferp420]

i ordered a set of 2.9 tires from horizon back in november they marked them as shipped 2 weeks ago but usps says it still hasent received the packadge


i think usps slowed down so that orders from china feel like there shipping faster
used to be 4 day at most to get from east! coast to the west coast now its 4 days from 20 miles away
2 weeks from the east coast

 

[bgredjeep]

i ordered a set of 2.9 tires from horizon back in november they marked them as shipped 2 weeks ago but usps says it still hasent received the packadge


i think usps slowed down so that orders from china feel like there shipping faster
used to be 4 day at most to get from east! coast to the west coast now its 4 days from 20 miles away
2 weeks from the east coast

Given Horizon's recent track record, I would not be surprised at all if it's still sitting on their shelves. That is of course if they didn't oversell their stock and they just haven't told you yet.

 

[diezel666]

i think usps slowed down so that orders from china feel like there shipping faster
used to be 4 day at most to get from east! coast to the west coast now its 4 days from 20 miles away
2 weeks from the east coast

One of the most maddening things about UPS, is their Logistics side. In many cases "Ground" will be 7 days, even if it sits in a warehouse close to you and is delivered on the 7th day. Only in some cases when their logistics says they'll need more warehouse space in certain warehouses, will they expedite moving items.

 

[ferp420]

i ordered a set of 2.9 tires from horizon back in november they marked them as shipped 2 weeks ago but usps says it still hasent received the packadge

i contacted horizon turns out the tracking number was for the wrong carrier
then the agent says oh it was delivered right on went out to look for it no were to be found ask him to check it again he sead do you want to reship or a refund lol so i looked up the right tracking number and turns out it was delivered to a differnt town lol

i don't know if it was horizon or fed-epps but hay ether way thats a big oops

 

[Greatscott]

If I had to be, I'd say it was Fedx, Horizon just prints the label and slaps it on the box. It sounds a lot like the postal system around here. A couple of times a month I get mail with my PO Box number, but for a completely different town.