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How are you all planning on spending this regular old day in which nothing crazy will happen?

I have a series of fake journal entries planned that I'll be posting on my Facebook throughout the day. I have what I think is a neat little story planned, so I'm kind of excited. Otherwise, I plan to watch the Hobbit so if the world does end, I'm ending it in style.

I haven't had a chance to eat all day, so one of the first things I tried to do when I got home was make a 6 egg omelette. I ended up making scrambled eggs.

Yeah man, it's crazy. A few months ago I hated eggs, but I've gotten used to them because it's the only not terrible breakfast food in the dining halls.

MY HOUSE IS ON FIRE, THE MOON HAS TURNED BLOOD RED, THERE IS A DOG OUTSIDE EATING CHILDREN IT WAS TRUE IT WAS ALL TRUE WHY DIDNT WE LISTEN

have you seen this?
Chevy Super Bowl Commercial End Of World superbowl 46

Lol! "Fred didn't make it... Fred drove a ford.." Even though I prefer Ford over Chevy, it's still funny. Personally though, I'm not exactly a fan of new cars anyways. My car (a 1972 Volkswagen beetle) is the only one thy hasn't had engine problems. It had brake problems when we first got it, but that's it. Oh, it also needed new shocks, tie rods, ball joints, steering box. All those where original. Nowadays computer problems seem to be the case in everything. My dads car is having some problem, my sisters car had a problem, and the truck wouldn't start due to a computer problem. Everything is fixed now except my dads car, but that's it.

Another problem with computerized cars, is that they dot check things out, they plug it up to a computer to find out the problem. And if te computer doesn't say what it is, they tell you, "We can't find anything" no, the computer can't find anything. The whole thing with computers, is that thy help with emissions and "Gas mileage" which is false. My car gets about the same anmount of gas mileage as my dads car. They both get about 30 MPG. It's mainly a power boost that helps with emissions, and possibly gas mileage since my dads in an inline 5 style engine, mine is a flat 4 style engine (the inline, flat, V, is the way te cylinders lay. the number is the number of cylinders). I wish they would have stuck to a carb, if they are worried about emissions, they can make the carb the only computerized object in an engine by making it suck in more air or something. The carb used the Bernoulli effect to work, injected cars nowadays use computers. End rant.

Yeah computerized cars getting better gas mileage than ones that don't and having fewer emissions is a proven fact.

They really don't get better gas mileage though. It mainly just helps with horsepower and speed. If you want better gas mileage, you should drive a stick, those are the most efficient ways to drive a car. I guess in other words, they help with emissions, but the computerized parts are expensive, one injector is like $1,200 (for one), a carburetor is like $180 (for my car, but they carry in size). Carbureted cars are also a lot cheaper to work on, cause if something goes wrong, you can pretty much just guess what the problem is and you'll probably be right.

They do get better gas mileage though, you're comparing apples to oranges. Unless your dad's car has the exact same weight, engine size, and aerodynamics as yours saying that they get the same gas mileage doesn't mean anything. On the whole identical cars with computerized injection get better gas mileage than ones that don't. I'm also not sure where you are buying your injectors that they cost $1,200 a pop when I can get a full set of them for $120 directly from Ford, who probably doesn't have the cheapest price for them. I'm also not sure how guess and check is cheaper than computerized. If you have a computer in your car 9/10 times it will tell you what the problem is and you can fix it. The 10th time, you default back to the old guess and check method so it's the same price.

I'm surprised both of you expect anything less in Off Topic. Fwiw, I'm actually finding the car discussion more interesting and relevant than the non-existent Doomsday.

This topic is now about fuel injection, carburetors, and Gremlins. But not goats.

Even I had twinkies after Hostess closed. Best $20 ever spent on Ebay.

I like how people only complain about a thread going off topic when the off topic topic is something they don't care about. I'd be willing to bet about 80% of non-rulings CGD threads go off the original topic at least once. No one is forcing you to read the thread.

Welcome to CGD forums, where hypocrisy is the card that really needs to be banned.

I don't see carburetors or Twinkies anywhere in that post. You're off topic from being off topic...in off-topic. Not cool man.