I've been meaning to ask you something.
You clearly know a lot about cars, and have obviously taken a long time to build up that store of information.
When was the last time someone asked you a question, about cars, to which you didn't know the answer, but felt obliged to make up some bollocks to hide your ignorance?
( Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Tue 21 Jun 2011, 20:40, archived)

I'm not afraid to say "I don't know"
but I do give people bullshit information if they didn't ask me politely, and then they fuck off and buy an Alfa.
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Tue 21 Jun 2011, 20:47, archived)

I figured you'd be like that now,
but I also reckon your interest in cars predates such maturity.
( Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Tue 21 Jun 2011, 20:48, archived)

oh yeah
but there was a time where I had to speak to a members club for an article I was writing, and in the pub where they met they all brought along a bit of their car, and the others had to identify what the bit was. It was when one guy put down a washer on the table and another guy said "ahhhh, that's the olive sleeve for the thrust bearing in the gearbox" that I thought "nah, fuck it, whatever happens I'm not going to turn out like that."
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Tue 21 Jun 2011, 20:50, archived)

That's the problem with hobbies, right there.
My father has recently started getting back into model trains.
It's something he's wanted to do since he was a kid, and why not? He's got the time and money now, but he's quite rightly terrified of being associated with model train people.
( Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Tue 21 Jun 2011, 20:53, archived)