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I got this in an email a few weeks ago. As the cars get smarter the drivers get dumber.

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If anyone thinks this is a joke, rest assured it is not.
We'd recently purchased a new Porsche, and it warns against drinking the coolant.
My question? If a person is so ignorant as to think it's okay to drink coolant, is that person intelligent enough to read the warning?

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No.


You also need a license to fish but not to have children.

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Ya Seth, and no limit either!

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You can't fix stupid

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Or intelligent enough to drive!

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You would have to go special training to open most of todays batteries

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Not literally true, but very amusing.

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https://www.fordbarn.com/forum/attac...1&d=1777174570

Brad in Maryland



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How will future generations be able to drive manual transmission while holding their phones and scrolling the internet asking AI .... "How do I....."

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They will just ride the bus or call Uber. Most don't want to drive their own car or even own a car. Seeing how people drive around in our town many should not even own a car. Most cars seem to have "broken" turn signals and have no speedometer.

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I rode in a new GMC recently. All of the gauges were on digital screens. There were no knobs or buttons anywhere. File under the sad but true category. It was repulsive.

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Boy oh boy, can I ever relate to your statement ! ! Also, if you have to follow that close, why didn't you leave for work earlier in the day? You will not get there quicker by"drafting" on my bumper !

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America has changed in a very dramatic and unprecedented way since the 1960s. The people the old manuals were written for are still here, just in lesser numbers.

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It's all so true.

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Even the label on Preparation H says do not take orally. Sheesh
Rich

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You can lead a man to ponder,
But you can’t make him think.


True story;

We were changing the engine on a semi tractor,
Uncrated the new engine and this was written on the PAPER info tag zip tied to the side of the engine;

“DO NOT LIFT ENGINE BY THIS TAG”

So yes, someone was that stupid!

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You and Pete got me laughing so hard I spilled my coffee!

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Some good ones here :-)

One that always brings a smile to me is the Braille keypad within the airport parking garage elevators.

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Don't eat the yellow snow!...
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Warning on a clothing iron: REMOVE CLOTHES BEFORE IRONING

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Or the tag on the pillow that gave us nightmares as a kid. 'Do not remove this tag under penalty of Law' ... "M'am, we're here to inspect your pillows"

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Bohica

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your in the army now

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set swobobo years ago we used achol for anti freez. before the anti freez you know of today. & it was common to hear of people dyeing & going blind from drinking it. most common brand was zerex. it also went on fire when the car overheated. how maney of you old timers remember this

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I remember my uncle buying a quart of alcohol antifreeze for 10 cents this was late 50’s early 60’s.

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Remember my dad saying when they parked outside in the winter when very cold he would put a little alcohol in a pan lite it up and slide it under the engine to warm it up.

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When I was growing up, my dad had a new company car every two years, so he had it easy, My best friend's dad drove older cars and used alcohol antifreeze. I guess the alcohol wasn't a very good summer coolant, so his dad would drain the alcohol out every spring after it got warm, and stored it in fruit jars on a shelf in the garage for use the next winter.

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When my father was young, his dad had a John Deere D. They didn’t have permanent anti freeze, so alcohol it was, at least in the spring and fall when it would most likely freeze at night. Problem was, the D would get warm enough to boil off the alcohol, so one had to be diligent about topping it off at night.

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I worked with an older guy from Downeast…told me him and his Dad used kerosene in their tractors when it was below freezing……..to the original topic of the thread…I had one of those shades you put behind your windshield to protect the dash from the sun, there was a tag on it that said “Remove before driving vehicle”……….Mark

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I run a mechanics shop and I have a sign on my wall that says “I can’t fix stupid, but I can charge for it”

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I made a sign to hang up in my shop:

Shop Rate: $20 per Hour
$30 per Hour If You Watch
$40 per Hour If You Help

Terry

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Not only are all of your rates wildly out of date, you're missing the last line :

"Dumb looks are still free"

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Real gearheads dont need instructions.


1. There would be implications that the part actually fit and worked on the vehicle as described in instructions.
2. It would require the manufacturer to be able to both write and communicate.
3. It would require the customer to be able to both read and comprehend.
4. A competent customer will figure it out without instructions.
5. An incompetent customer won't figure it out even with instructions.
6. Why bother?

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I'm surprised Kube hasn't chimed in with his:

"I can explain it for you. However, I can't understand it for you"

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Not sure if folks are aware how many people were maimed or killed when belt driven equipment was the norm. Hands getting caught in belt, body parts removed if/when belt came off pulley. Wonder how many people on here snickering about modern stupidity have seen a steam engine belted to a prony brake when the belt starts to jump. Brake operator gives the order for the engineer to back off immediately. Imagine that situation with a buzz saw or threshing machine. Think everybody in the old days knew how dangerous a belt on the fly was? Not unless you saw one unleashed. Then , later when pto shafts replaced belt pulleys, how many limbs were lost, and whole bodies spun around shafts until nothing but pulp remained. Ever notice modern pto shafts have a plastic sleeve to help alleviate entanglements? I remember John Deere coming out to farms in the 80s to weld the large clean out access on the clean grain auger on combines. They left you a slot barely large enough for fingers, no way for flighting to grab you. JD also came around in the 80s and installed guard on the 10 and 20 series tractors that was meant to prevent folks from standing in front of rear tire and jumping solenoid. Not a problem, unless tractor was in gear, then big problem. Think head with lug imprints in it.
My first venture in heavy equipment involved training from a rep with Butler CAT. He showed us his hand, it was missing most of the fingers. He was probably in his 60s at the time, the time frame was early 90s. He said catskinners his age were missing at least one finger. Why? Blades were cable operated, cable would get bunched up in the winch, and of course in went the hand to “fix” it. Out comes the hand missing fingers. I knew older farmers who were missing hand parts, thanks to corn choppers.
For all the folks that know what corn head grease is, but clueless as to what a corn head is, you wouldn’t know about the combination of a Farmhand F10 loader and a narrow front tractor is all about. Accident waiting to happen.

Care to guess show many older, smarter people were killed or maimed from working on 2 or 3 piece wheels before cages became mandatory?? I’ll bet many dollars several ol’ timers scoffed at the new fangled safety cage and didn’t make it to retirement before their luck ran out.

Anybody work in industrial settings? What do you do if you have to repair? Lockout/tagout. Where did that come from? Too many injuries or deaths from being in harms way and no clear rules about others knowing your whereabouts.

So, no people aren’t dumber, industry on any level has become more responsive to warning people of the dangers.