Whiffs found on Facebook

[TheChronicOne]

 

All I've done was ask follow up quesitons. 

I don't know the material very well at all so I confuse easily to begin with. 

[Old Wombat]

Brad, the answer is "No Spectre/Captain Scarlet & Macross are not in the same 'Universe'. The build is a whiff of a sci-fi subject using a sci-fi paint scheme & decals from another series."

It was a harmless piece of leg-pulling that seems to have backfired a bit, even though I did put the 'wink' emoji ( ) at the end.

Sorry if you misunderstood, Scotaidh.

[kitnut617]

So a whiff of a whiff ----   

[TheChronicOne]

Works for me! I didn't think Star Trek and X-Men was a likely combo either but sure enough, it exists.

[Scotaidh]

Sorry, O Chronic One. 

<sigh>  Long story short, I used to work at a drive-up place where everything we sold - not a long list - was written in large letters on large signs the clients had to pass as they drove up to the counter.  I ended up reciting the signs to (roughly) 4 of 5 customers ... because apparently reading was too effing hard for them to do.  But let me read one label wrong so they got 2% instead of Whole milk and they rained down a verbal apocalypse upon me and my boss.

Still one of my pet peeves - as you may have noticed. 

[TheChronicOne]

No worries, mate, you're right!! People should read things and I agree! 


I see it all the time. There's a meme on facebook about it. You could make an ad and post it, "I have a 1995 Ford Turdgobbler for sale. I'm asking $1,500 and you can reach me at 555-5555 between 9AM and 5PM." 

The replies will look like this:    "How much?"      "What make of care is it? Thx!!"    "What's your number so I can call?"    "What year model is it?"  etc

[Rheged]

No worries, mate, you're right!! People should read things and I agree! 


I see it all the time. There's a meme on facebook about it. You could make an ad and post it, "I have a 1995 Ford Turdgobbler for sale. I'm asking $1,500 and you can reach me at 555-5555 between 9AM and 5PM." 

The replies will look like this:    "How much?"      "What make of care is it? Thx!!"    "What's your number so I can call?"    "What year model is it?"  etc

I didn't realise that Uncle Henry was still making that model as late as 1995!

[Scotaidh]

No worries, mate, you're right!! People should read things and I agree! 


I see it all the time. There's a meme on facebook about it. You could make an ad and post it, "I have a 1995 Ford Turdgobbler for sale. I'm asking $1,500 and you can reach me at 555-5555 between 9AM and 5PM." 

The replies will look like this:    "How much?"      "What make of care is it? Thx!!"    "What's your number so I can call?"    "What year model is it?"  etc

I didn't realise that Uncle Henry was still making that model as late as 1995!

Can that be found in 1/24 scale?

[PR19_Kit]

No worries, mate, you're right!! People should read things and I agree! 


I see it all the time. There's a meme on facebook about it. You could make an ad and post it, "I have a 1995 Ford Turdgobbler for sale. I'm asking $1,500 and you can reach me at 555-5555 between 9AM and 5PM." 

The replies will look like this:    "How much?"      "What make of care is it? Thx!!"    "What's your number so I can call?"    "What year model is it?"  etc

I didn't realise that Uncle Henry was still making that model as late as 1995!

Can that be found in 1/24 scale?

AMT were bound to have done it at some stage, even if just as a kerbside...... 

[Nick]

Harry Turtledove wrote an alternative-history novel about the aftermath of Pearl Harbor that was interesting. I think Newt Gingrich did too, and there might be a couple of others.

Wait, wait.... Newt Gingrinch wrote ... well, basically, "Fan-fic?" 

Yup. 1945 by Gingrich and Forstchen. Good concept, poorly written, deserved a sequel. Ejaculatory fan-fic galore - you have been warned  .

Premise: Hitler doesn't declare war on USA after Pearl Harbor, US focuses totally on stomping Japan in 3 years with all they have.
Europe turns into a stalemate as Germany bogs down in Russia and a ceasefire follows.
Germany decides to knock out the Manhattan Project before taking on the US in 1945 using the Wunderwaffe.
While the US is distracted the Nazi launch an uber Operation Sealion.
The Pentagon goes into overdrive working out how to move everything they have to Britain so they can fight back from Airstrip 1.

Today it would work quite well as a comic series in the style of Wunderwaffen or Jour J. As a serious book it sucks.

[zenrat]

No worries, mate, you're right!! People should read things and I agree! 


I see it all the time. There's a meme on facebook about it. You could make an ad and post it, "I have a 1995 Ford Turdgobbler for sale. I'm asking $1,500 and you can reach me at 555-5555 between 9AM and 5PM." 

The replies will look like this:    "How much?"      "What make of care is it? Thx!!"    "What's your number so I can call?"    "What year model is it?"  etc

It goes both ways.  I used to use a motorcycle dealers where no matter how much detail of make, model and engine capacity you provided in your first enquiry at the parts desk the response was always a gormless "what bike's it for".

[scooter]

No worries, mate, you're right!! People should read things and I agree! 


I see it all the time. There's a meme on facebook about it. You could make an ad and post it, "I have a 1995 Ford Turdgobbler for sale. I'm asking $1,500 and you can reach me at 555-5555 between 9AM and 5PM." 

The replies will look like this:    "How much?"      "What make of care is it? Thx!!"    "What's your number so I can call?"    "What year model is it?"  etc

It goes both ways.  I used to use a motorcycle dealers where no matter how much detail of make, model and engine capacity you provided in your first enquiry at the parts desk the response was always a gormless "what bike's it for".

Very true.  I belong to a private bus conversions for sale group on FB, and those are usually buried in there somewhere in the comment thread.

[PR19_Kit]

It goes both ways.  I used to use a motorcycle dealers where no matter how much detail of make, model and engine capacity you provided in your first enquiry at the parts desk the response was always a gormless "what bike's it for".

When using UK car service departments it's a total waste of time giving them all the details these days, I just say the registration number and they look it up on their all singing, all dancing computer system.

What people do who don't know their reggie I have NO idea.

[Rick Lowe]

When using UK car service departments it's a total waste of time giving them all the details these days, I just say the registration number and they look it up on their all singing, all dancing computer system.

What people do who don't know their reggie I have NO idea.

Yeah, we have the same here and it gets a bit scary and Big Brother when all you have to do is quote the Rego and they can give you chapter and verse about your car... useful though, when you've just purchased said used vehicle.

[kitnut617]

When using UK car service departments it's a total waste of time giving them all the details these days, I just say the registration number and they look it up on their all singing, all dancing computer system.

What people do who don't know their reggie I have NO idea.

Yeah, we have the same here and it gets a bit scary and Big Brother when all you have to do is quote the Rego and they can give you chapter and verse about your car... useful though, when you've just purchased said used vehicle.

Over here on this side of the pond, they just want the VIN number, I don't think they can use the registration like that here because it's the person who gets registered to drive the vehicle. When we buy a new vehicle, most times we transfer the registration to the new vehicle.