The Good Banter Thread

[koiguy1969]

if Jesus walked amongst us today.....

 

[koiguy1969]

 

[koiguy1969]

Algae Lamps Invention
French biochemist and Shamengo pioneer Pierre Calleja has invented this impressive streetlight that is powered by algae which absorbs CO2... from the air. We have featured algae-powered lamps before but this one takes out 1 ton (!) of CO2 per year. This is as much CO2 as as a tree absorbs on average during its entire life.

 

[j.w]

They are pretty cool looking lamps too!

 

[sissy]

GOOD YEAR TIRES SUCK i GO OUT AND TIRES ONLY A YEAR AND HALF old 3 flat tires and called my insurance to come to get a tow to get all my groceries home .Well they sent a tow truck and driver even help put groceries in rental car insurance company sent .The tires they said are dry rotted .The truck has hardly been used since November of last year and was in the shop for over a month besides .So far nothing but bad luck

 

[j.w]

Geez sissy I think you need to do a do over on your life! Always seems you are getting the raw end of a deal. Sorry for you and sure hope life takes a turn around for you.

 

[addy1]

No way they should have been dry rotted already, can you go back to where you bought them? They should have some warranty.

 

[CountryEscape]

I agree with Addy. Tires that are less than 2 years old, not hardly driven on, 3 flats in one day? Unbelievable. I would suspect you drove over something on the way to the grocery store, or someone came and let the air out of them as a prank. All tires have some type of warranty, I would think. I have tires I've had on my car 6 years, put 85,000 miles on (rated at 60,000 miles) and besides a little bit of cracking on the sidewalls, they are still good for another 6-10,000 miles. They are Michelins. VERY satisfied with their wear and tear.

 

[HTH]

Agreed on Michelins being good tires. Maybe Goodyear is making tires in China.

 

[sissy]

The garage called at the tires are dry rotted and nothing else they could find and I had them changed at the goodyear store and guy at the garage said it seems to be common for goodyear in the last couple of years .Problem is all they recommend for explorers are goodyear tires .I paid 157 dollars a piece for better tires and this is what I get .He told me I should go with the cheaper wrangler tires and get them changed more often and also buy conditioner or wipe the sidewalls with a very small amount of motor oil so they do not dry out .Cheaper wrangler tires are 87 dollars .I do spray my tires with the conditioner but may try the tiny amount of oil .The vehicles are always under the carport .I never had this problem in NJ had goodyear tires on my ranger truck for over 10 years and on my Thunderbird for 5 years .I had these put on when the truck had around 67 thousand miles and it only has just about 69 thousand mile on the truck now .So around 2 thousand miles for tires geeze .The tire place said the 4 th tire was ready to go too and he said I was not going faster when it happened .The good year tire plant is right here in Danville VA and the goodyear store I bought mine at is in Danville VA also .

 

[sissy]

The cracking was in the sidewalls and I had my tires on my explorer sport trak changed for the same reason dry rot after only 4 years and same thing but went out to my truck under the carport and 2 back tires were flat .The sport trak is a 2001 and only has 30 thousand miles on it now and back then even less

 

[Big Lou]

My aged father-in-law, God rest his soul, drove infrequently. When his tires showed signs of dry rot he didn't but new tires he bought a new car! LOL True story

 

[Big Lou]

Young DirecTV Tech came to our home for the second time in three weeks. Really nice, polite Tecnician but one brick short of a load. On the first appointment he forget his latter. The second time he was getting ready to work when his phone rang. The homeowner at his previous appointment called to tell him he had left his tool bag. Oh, he also had lost his official DTV ID. LMAO. Like I said, he was a nice young Tech.

 

[sissy]

here they charge you tax every year on your cars and it is on the value and I think that sucks also you pay tax when you buy it and tax every year is that double dipping or what .I guess i really can't complain sine it is all cheaper than NJ

 

[Big Lou]

BTW, my photo is blank because I am currently invisible. )