Originally Posted by polobunny

This isn't Alberta, man. The inbreds are on the east side.


Also my brother had a stupid friend he met on FB through one of his friends, a blonde girl who believed almost anything he said. My brother name is David by the way.

Twas the year of Pats vs Giants and my brother and I are having wings drinking some beer and he made that friend believe he was Tom Brady through texting. Whenever he'd check his wrist band he would text her telling her he could only text between plays and to look at the TV for him for #12. She knows nothing to football obviously. He tells her his real name is David Tom Brady, but people would call him David outside of football.

So this goes on for a while, she's not sure if she should believe him until he tells her he's gonna wave at her when he gets a second and not a minute after camera focuses on Brady who does a hand motion that kinda looks like a wave at the camera problably to signal one of the guys. I fucking lost it when she texted back all impressed, saying she told her grandpa who was watching with her she knew Tom Brady.

When the Pats lost, she texted him she was still proud of him and "Congratulations for your Super Bowl" as a terrible pick me up.
God we laughed for so long and still do every once in a while.

Originally Posted by GKinColo08TL

That's funny Bunny!

Originally Posted by Jamie's 08 TL

Coffee shot out of my nose reading that story PB.

Originally Posted by TheBlueBomber

Polo I'm dying. Too funny

Originally Posted by TacoBello

Oh, quit yer cryin', boy!

Be smarter than gwairo. Don't ret gwairo win. Work ress hard, deverop better peopre skirrs, move to top of management. Gwairo no smart, but gwairo pray system werr. Outsmart gwairo at own game!

Originally Posted by Yumcha

Wow, that's a stunt by your brother. Give him a high-5 for me.

Originally Posted by polobunny

I shall! Good times to be had when the brothers bang together.

Originally Posted by Yumcha

And I think failing at major projects is also important. I need to start blowing $$$$$$ implementations...on purpose.

Originally Posted by TacoBello

Is that with each other, or just in the same room at the same time?

Originally Posted by Yumcha

I need to turn white too. You forgot that part.

And I think failing at major projects is also important. I need to start blowing $$$$$$ implementations...on purpose.

Originally Posted by TacoBello

It's people with great people skills that move to the top of companies.

It's people with smarts that stay in middle management for their entire careers.

Food for thought.

Originally Posted by thoiboi

Gwairos don't call it "failing", they call it "lessons learned" and business write-offs.

To be gwairo, you should also have a GREAT CPA that knows all the tips and tricks and pay as little taxes as possible.

Originally Posted by TacoBello

If you always dwell on failing, you'll never make it very far. Put a better spin on it, learn, don't do it again, and succeed. Non gwailos are seemingly afraid of taking those leaps we gwailos do- and then we gwailos get shunned when we do no risk, no reward. No top positions.

Call it what you want, but it's gwailos who start these companies and gwailos who continue running them and leading them to success. So really, who's actually failing? it's ok, young padawans. You'll get there one day. But probably not.

And what's wrong with relying on an accountant? That's what they're for. Why would I waste my time crunching numbers when I should be schmoozing and meeting new prospective clients and making my pockets deeper? Shit, we must be doing it all wrong...

Originally Posted by Majofo

Brah, we need to setup APC trip 2.0, cram ourselves into Rick's 458 and hit up the titty bars.

Originally Posted by TacoBello

It's people with great people skills that move to the top of companies.

It's people with smarts that stay in middle management for their entire careers.

Food for thought.

Originally Posted by thoiboi

Asking for a friend... but what if you had great people skills AND smarts? Where would you be?

Originally Posted by TheBlueBomber

I have never read the word gwailo so much in my life. It's like if my unknowingly racist step-dad wrote a book

Originally Posted by TacoBello

We're not trying. We let you do it all on your own

Originally Posted by TacoBello

As a person moves up the chain of command, they generally start relying less on their technical skills and start relying more on their people skills. It's good to have both, but eventually people will outweigh technical.

At first, at the bottom, a person relies on 20% people skills and 80% job specific technical expertise. By the time you're at the top, it's 80% people skills and 20% technical expertise.

Not only are you trying to manage your personnel, any conflicting behaviour types, motivating slackers, encouraging performers, etc, but you also deal with clients, business deals, making sure relationships don't disintegrate, understanding how and why people are the way they are and getting the most out of them in each respective case, whether it be clients, owners, competitors, subordinates, higher ups, etc.

I personally believe that developing your people skills is pertinent. That's not to say that technical skills aren't important, because they are, but how often does the president of, say, Acura care about the technical specs of certain parts of a car? I'm willing to bet, not so much. I'm sure he has knowledge of new developments, etc, but his bread and butter is on the people side.

Originally Posted by Majofo

I've had the expensive stuff Yummy.. I'm good with Henny XO and Kelt VSOP. Not a fan of Remy. My mom has like five or six bottles on display. Rare grande champagne.. I feel guilty even looking at them.. $$

You know asians think blue label is like coca cola.

Originally Posted by polobunny

Not everybody can be a leader. Sometimes depending on your personality type, sticking to doing your technical job well is the best thing you can do. Too many bosses are shitty bosses.

Originally Posted by Majofo

btw.. whose that lovely looking hooker in your avatar. I'd pay her good money for a rim job. Ten.. maybe twelve dollars if she's good.

Originally Posted by TacoBello

Taylor Swift, yo.

Originally Posted by Yumcha

And your comment about JW Blue? It's ...! I say this because my in-laws know ONLY JW. And that's it. If I try to introduce any other form of scotch whiskey, they think it's crap and are not as willing to accept it. I'm like, are you even tasting the drink or so blinded by the brand?!??

Originally Posted by TacoBello

Oh, 100% agreed. People can take courses to help themselves out though. Sometimes people just don't know what they're missing as a leader until it's pointed out to them. It's hard to improve something if you think it's all good in the first place.

Some people have it come naturally, others work diligently to improve, while many just suck horribly and never change, lol.

Originally Posted by Brake_L8

LOL'd at the Tom Brady story. That's too too good.

May have a buyer for the Firebird. Guy from New York is allegedly coming down on Friday and meeting me at work to pick it up.

I put brakes on it last night... pads were basically at the backing plates which made me feel great about having driven it to work yesterday. The CEL popped on during a WOT run on the Beltway so I gotta clear that code, whatever it is. Was one of those *punch it* moments, run the bitch up to 5500 rpm (which is basically where an LS1 experiences valve float) and watch the CEL come on as I kissed redline. Fucking GM.

The car dwarfs my E36 and barely fits in the garage. This is with it pulled in just enough to let the garage door close. Usually there's another oh, foot of room between the nose of the car and the tool cart.

Originally Posted by polobunny

Hopefully your guy isn't a flake, they all too often are. Fucking hate buying and selling shit online. 12 calls 30 texts only to disappear like they never wanted to buy your shit and never answering again. What gives man?

Regarding the brakes, I've went through a rear caliper on the Protégé since it was caliper against rotor for a while. Nothing scares me anymore, I'm invincible.

And oh GM, you and your CELs. Did you scan it yet?

Also that's what she said about pulled in just enough... or something. Can't be arsed making a proper joke.

Originally Posted by Brake_L8

Yeah, I hate selling cars on Craigslist. This guy claims he already has two F-bodies (and I found him on Facebook, he's telling the truth) and has asked the right questions about it.

I didn't scan the code yet, I use an OBD adapter with the Torque app on an Android tablet - and the tablet was dead last night. D'oh. So, it's charging and should be good to go tonight. I don't care what it is, I'm just going to clear it. And bring the scanner with me on Friday so I can clear it as I pull up to meet him, if need be.

#ShadyAssMofo

Originally Posted by Brake_L8

Yeah, I hate selling cars on Craigslist. This guy claims he already has two F-bodies (and I found him on Facebook, he's telling the truth) and has asked the right questions about it.

I didn't scan the code yet, I use an OBD adapter with the Torque app on an Android tablet - and the tablet was dead last night. D'oh. So, it's charging and should be good to go tonight. I don't care what it is, I'm just going to clear it. And bring the scanner with me on Friday so I can clear it as I pull up to meet him, if need be.

#ShadyAssMofo

Originally Posted by Brake_L8

I mean, if it's something legitimate like an O2 sensor that failed, I'll tell him about it. Particularly if the light keeps coming back on. But my spidey-sense has me thinking, based on conditions when the light came on (high RPM, heavy load) that it stumbled/mis-fired just hard enough to trip the light.

I'd bet money that it's a "Cylinder #__ Misfire" and clearing it will make the light stay off for good. My 128i had a Cylinder 6 Misfire logged and the CEL lit when I went to buy it. I cleared it and it never came back in almost 20k miles.

I'm not going to clear it without knowing what it is. Should've phrased that better... I'm not that much of a dickbag.

Originally Posted by polobunny

Worded that way it is better. If it's a misfire it could be a lot of things, including a simple spark plug job or similar. Thought you were trying to be bag of penises for a moment.

Originally Posted by Brake_L8

What I like, versus what I aspire to be, are two different things

The misfire thing is weird to me. On the 128, it had the original plugs (I bought it at 44k), I cleared the code and drove the absolute shit out of the car and the code never came back.

Come to think of it, my M3 pulled similar shenanigans on the drive home (got it in NJ). Threw a CEL for... something. Maybe for an O2 mis-read? Same deal though, I cleared it and drove the car like it owed me money for a few weeks. Never had a problem with it again.

I wonder if the car sitting for a while before me driving it (and driving it hard) has things in a state of Taylor-Swift-inspired "Shake It Off"?