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   Rod Speed to mike   
   Re: Conventional oil hard to find?   
   28 Mar 21 18:00:41   
   
   XPost: alt.home.repair   
   From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com   
      
   "mike"  wrote in message   
   news:s3p80b$bhh$1@solani.org...   
   > On 28-03-2021 07:08 Xeno  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Why do you get so anal about oil specs?   
   >   
   > You and I are the only ones who understood that oil and oil filters don't   
   > necessarily wear at the same rate at all times under all conditions.   
      
   Another dead giveaway, Arlen.   
      
   > Everyone else made all their decisions based on purely money &   
   > convenience.   
      
   Another dead giveaway, Arlen.   
      
   > To them any thought outside of money & convenience would be "anal" to   
   > them.   
      
   > None of them even understood that the articles I listed said what they   
   > said.   
      
   Another dead giveaway, Arlen.   
      
   > Some even said the articles didn't say what the articles definitely said.   
   >   
   > To them to UNDERSTAND what an article said is "being anal" about it.   
   > That's because all they know is money and convenience (and they said so).   
   >   
   > That girl even claimed factory manuals don't say what they say.   
   > To that girl anything that a shop manual says would be anal to her.   
   >   
   > Her mind is set forever at whatever she feels her mind should be set at.   
   > Anything else (like understanding what the articles said) would be "anal."   
   >   
   > I said many times it would be hard to find a bad oil and a bad oil filter   
   > although I also noted what to look for in that oil and in that filter.   
   >   
   > (Also I mentioned that certain oil additives could damage a catalytic   
   > converter when people brought up the zinc additives which is clearly   
   > something none of them had ever heard or thought about in their lives).   
   >   
   > All they ever cared about (and they said so) was their money &   
   > convenience.   
   > They said it many times that this was all they ever considered.   
   >   
   > How can you NOT be considered anal with people THAT thoughtfully shallow?   
   >   
   > To them just UNDERSTANDING something is being "anal" about it.   
   > They couldn't even understand after many prompts what an article said.   
   >   
   > Who is that ignorant to REPEATEDLY fail to understand those articles?   
   > They REPEATEDLY failed to understand what the shop manuals actually say.   
   >   
   > Why are they so ignorant?   
   > All they cared about was their money and their convenience.   
   >   
   > That's why.   
   >   
   > At least they were very clear about that being the only thing that   
   > mattered.   
   > Which is why anything more than that is to them being "anal" about it.   
   >   
   > To understand oil & filters & service intervals was way too much for them.   
   > To understand anything at greater than the level of money is "anal" to   
   > them.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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