Hostile Workplace

Hostile Workplace

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Can you imagine what it’s like working in a hostile workplace? Coworkers making cutting remarks, people looking at you funny just because you’re dressed for cosplay after work. You didn’t get promoted even though you’ve been working there for nearly four months. This one time, several people went out to lunch and didn’t invite you. One time, an unattractive person even had the nerve to ask you out on a date.

This guy in the video has it easy, comparatively. If the fellows on the ground make wisecracks, he probably can’t hear them because he’s 50 feet in the air and panting like an Olympic oarsman. And I bet he gets paid pretty well, even though he can’t even code a simple PHP app. Life’s not fair, I tell you.

Closing All the Circuses: The Dark Side

Closing All the Circuses: The Dark Side

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What a shame. Once they closed down Ringling Brothers, and Beatty-Cole, The Big Apple, and that sketchy carnival from the strip mall with the consumptive lion with dental problems, there was nothing for these stalwart lads to do except ride public transportation and annoy pedestrians retail, instead of boring them wholesale in a tent, as God and man intended. And with this much free time on their hands, and no place to show off their unique “running faster than persons who aren’t running” abilities, they’re all sure to find themselves at the absolute rock bottom of male humanity: sporting man-buns. I say bring back the circuses, and close the free-range-vegan-artisinal-candy-hookah-latte bar. The weirdo quotient is the same, but at least the circus leaves town once in a while.

Little Known Fact: A Kiwi Can Tear a Land Rover Apart

Little Known Fact: A Kiwi Can Tear a Land Rover Apart

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Geoffrey Croker is a New Zealander who’s restoring a 1978 Land Rover for some reason or another. He is afflicted with the most delightful accent, but you can almost understand what he’s saying most of the time, which is a real plus. He’s offering more than the usual amount of charm and busted knuckles than you’ll find on the typical car salvage video. From time to time, he veers into the brilliant end of the repair spectrum, like the 20:30 mark where he fabricates tapered guide blocks to get the oil seals past the sharp edges of the engine block unscathed. Good on ye, mate, or something.

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The Greatest Auto Manufacturing Plant in the World Is the Junkyard

The Greatest Auto Manufacturing Plant in the World Is the Junkyard

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We’re Borderline Sociopathic boys. We’ve spent a lot of time at junkyards. Sometimes dropping off after we take a hairpin corner at 70 MPH, sometimes picking up our next beater. Of course we spent our pre-driving youth in the junkyard, too. We’d climb over the barbed-wire fence after hours and turn over the odd abandoned engine hood looking for snakes. For a true Borderline Boy, the junkyard is Disneyland. I don’t know why more businesses don’t pick up on that, and mine those places for all they’re worth.

Take for instance this modified and hyper-restored E-Type Jaguar. I want one. In the distant past, I would have wanted two of them, because one of them wouldn’t start, so you could drive the other, until the next day, when that one didn’t start, and you drove the other. But they seem to have straightened out everything under the hood, and recharged the Lucas Electrical Harness Smoke Reservoirs.

1. Buy a junkyard

2. Restore the cars

3.Profit!

It beats making electric cars in a tent in Fremont. The batteries are already in the cars, and they’re full of sweet, sweet lead already. And remember, Mrs. Peel is never going to clamber into your Kia. Get a proper car.