News Article: News & Notes XXXV: You no help me now, I say f*** you Jobu, I do it myself

[Nikishin Go Boom]

Think I might’ve just found the ultimate team merchandise for the most hardcore of fans.

For only $450 Canadian (plus s&h) you can own your very own Carolina hurricanes table constructed out of two severed legs.

Get them while they last. I already ordered 3.

Carolina Hockey Table | Etsy

Is this why most of JRs draft classes never panned out? JR was farming for table legs. Makes more sense now

 

[hockeynjune]

I just a week back bought a new set of summer tires. When asking "I need new rubbers", he guy automatically first offered me budget end tires, and I had to ask for a specific higher tier tires myself.

They actually had a fun ad in the local paper a year ago: "We got cheap and good tires", followed by two separate lists "Cheap tires:" and "Good tires:".

I assume that especially the people looking to dump their current car in near future are a big segment looking to buy for "cheap" and "OK" tires, because it's not economically sound for the seller to buy higher end tires to be effectively given away with the car.

I guess a micro-economy thesis could be written about the overall ineffectiveness tire markets.

The reason for asking higher end tires btw was, that I allowed myself be fooled with low end tires the previous time, and those goddamn Daytons they imposed on failed me one tire at a time. I paid the price difference I initially saved in visits to the tire repair shop and hassle to get the tire fixed or replaced with a used one that the guy sourced a piece a time from his used tires junk demountable.

You can find start up gems for deals sometimes. There was a time when Yokohamas and Kumos were very cheap. Ironman tires are very cheap right now and not too bad. Depends on how you drive the car.

 

[Chrispy]

Think I might’ve just found the ultimate team merchandise for the most hardcore of fans.

For only $450 Canadian (plus s&h) you can own your very own Carolina hurricanes table constructed out of two severed legs.

Get them while they last. I already ordered 3.

Carolina Hockey Table | Etsy

I think I’ve identified the source of Gardiner’s mobility issues.

 

[Sens1Canes2]

We have a large tire retailer in Canada called OK Tire.

Never got that name either. I’m looking for something a little better than just ok.

What do you have against Oklahoma ?

 

[Lempo]

You can find start up gems for deals sometimes. There was a time when Yokohamas and Kumos were very cheap. Ironman tires are very cheap right now and not to bad. Depends on how you drive the car.

I guess in this case a big part of the issue in my case is that the Bridgestone budget label Dayton is apparently optimized for South African use and they're thusly very unoptimized for my Finnish conditions including roads with specific kind of gravel.

 

[To Be Determined]

What do you have against Oklahoma ?

i hope oklahoma's tires are better than kentucky's jelly. that stuff is sorely lacking in flavor.

 

[CanesFanBudMan]

What do you have against Oklahoma ?

The boys there roll their joints all wrong

 

[hockeynjune]

I guess in this case a big part of the issue in my case is that the Bridgestone budget label Dayton is apparently optimized for South African use and they're thusly very unoptimized for my Finnish conditions including roads with specific kind of gravel.

Yupp, Never been a big fan of either. Some of the Bridgestone 4x4 offerings are pretty good tires though.

 

[Svechhammer]

I think I’ve identified the source of Gardiner’s mobility issues.

Sad thing is, these could probably position themselves better than him on a fast break

 

[DaveG]

What do you have against Oklahoma ?

f*** the Sooners?

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

i hope oklahoma's tires are better than kentucky's jelly. that stuff is sorely lacking in flavor.

Not only that. It’s what got bob baffert in trouble

 

[Svechhammer]

Not only that. It’s what got bob baffert in trouble

I thought he said that cancel culture got him in trouble

 

[LakeLivin]

I just a week back bought a new set of summer tires. When asking "I need new rubbers", he guy automatically first offered me budget end tires, and I had to ask for a specific higher tier tires myself.

They actually had a fun ad in the local paper a year ago: "We got cheap and good tires", followed by two separate lists "Cheap tires:" and "Good tires:".

I assume that especially the people looking to dump their current car in near future are a big segment looking to buy for "cheap" and "OK" tires, because it's not economically sound for the seller to buy higher end tires to be effectively given away with the car.

I guess a micro-economy thesis could be written about the overall ineffectiveness tire markets.

The reason for asking higher end tires btw was, that I allowed myself be fooled with low end tires the previous time, and those goddamn Daytons they imposed on failed me one tire at a time. I paid the price difference I initially saved in visits to the tire repair shop and hassle to get the tire fixed or replaced with a used one that the guy sourced a piece a time from his used tires junk demountable.

No one? Really? This isn't just low hanging, it's actually sitting on the ground!

 

[Svechhammer]

No one? Really? This isn't just low hanging, it's actually sitting on the ground!

Nobody touches a rubber when its out in the open on the ground like that

 

[To Be Determined]

no matter the brand, if you have 365 used rubbers its a goodyear

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

No one? Really? This isn't just low hanging, it's actually sitting on the ground!

Lempo has too good a command of the English language to unknowingly leave that one hanging by accident.

 

[MinJaBen]

No one? Really? This isn't just low hanging, it's actually sitting on the ground!

I mean, they are tires. If they were not sitting on the ground then we'd have something to talk about.

 

[LakeLivin]

Rubbers: when I was a kid almost everyone had a pair of these to wear over their shoes when it rained. Are they in use at all anymore? Do they still even make them?
[showing my age here]

 

[LostInaLostWorld]

Rubbers: when I was a kid almost everyone had a pair of these to wear over their shoes when it rained. Are they in use at all anymore? Do they still even make them?

We had them in the 50s and 60s. Don't know that I've noticed them since.

 

[LakeLivin]

We had them in the 50s and 60s. Don't know that I've noticed them since.

Yup, 1960s. And a pair of these if you lived in an area where it snowed a lot.

 

[Lempo]

Lempo has too good a command of the English language to unknowingly leave that one hanging by accident.

Actually it was a verbatim translation and carries the same connotation in the original language. The tire guy could've easily retorted "I see you have f***ed your old ones all awry", had he the good mind to do it.

But, I guess like the cash clerks and some other professions, they have heard them all zillion times already and don't want no part in it.

 

[Chrispy]

Rubbers: when I was a kid almost everyone had a pair of these to wear over their shoes when it rained. Are they in use at all anymore? Do they still even make them?
[showing my age here]

Somewhere along the way, Timberland and Rockport asked

"Why don't we make the SHOES waterproof?"

 

[cptjeff]

Somewhere along the way, Timberland and Rockport asked

"Why don't we make the SHOES waterproof?"

TBF, those are really intended for leather sole dress shoes, where if the soles get wet they'll grind down really quickly. You see them less because much better rubber soled dress shoes exist, and even people who wear leather soles regularly just wear those on rainy days instead.

And nobody's making kids go to school in penny loafers anymore.

 

[LakeLivin]

Somewhere along the way, Timberland and Rockport asked

"Why don't we make the SHOES waterproof?"

TBF, those are really intended for leather sole dress shoes, where if the soles get wet they'll grind down really quickly. You see them less because much better rubber soled dress shoes exist, and even people who wear leather soles regularly just wear those on rainy days instead.

And nobody's making kids go to school in penny loafers anymore.

Plus I've got to believe that men aren't walking in open weather as much as they used to. I say men because I've never seen rubbers for women (yeah, I did that on purpose ).

 

[LakeLivin]

Yup, 1960s. And a pair of these if you lived in an area where it snowed a lot.

Replaced by pac boots; if necessary you'd carry your shoes or sneakers and swap them at the door. We used to play football in the snow in these. You'd put plastic bread wrappers inside the boots and it made it easier to slip them on, as well as waterproof protection for your socks if snow slipped inside the boot. Good times!