If I went to a mechanic for my car and told them I had a problem with the aft starboard tire would they think I'm a dork?

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• DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yes.

  Life Pro Tip. Don’t play stupid games with people when they are working.

  At best it’s rude, and at worst it might get you thrown out of the shop

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• MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Dork and no clue WTF you’re talking about.

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• cattywampas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yes, and they would probably be annoyed that you were wasting their time.

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• BurgerBaron@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yes.

  Unless you drive a 70’s Cadillac or something equally gigantic that barely moves with all that displacement, in which case it’s a pretty good joke about driving a boat ;)

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  • RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    so steal my dad’s 60’s chrysler 300 and do it. got it.

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  • ITGuyLevi@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    87 Oldsmobile Toronado, even the gear selector was like a boat… Best $200 car I ever had and I’d love to find and fix another.

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• cecilkorik@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yes, that would be a strange thing to say, and unless they also happen to be boaters, most mechanics probably have no idea what side “starboard” is, and maybe not even “aft”, so it won’t even be useful information to them, which actually makes it quite frustrating. Similar to someone coming in with a vague and incomprehensible complaint that there car is making “a noise” and they want it fixed, but they can’t explain in any useful way what the noise is, where it’s coming from, when it happens.

  Just to be clear, the correct and accepted terminology options are “rear passenger side”, or “right rear”.

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  • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The most effective is driver/passenger side because most people use right to mean the right side while in it (passenger in the US) but a few say right side when looking at the car from the front (driver in the US).

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    • noughtnaut@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Idk, I asked my mechanic to replace the locks in the driver door (which is a word in my language) and the opposite rear door.

      They changed one lock, on the wrong front door. -_-

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• ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Is your car an amphibious vehicle? If not use the standard language for the thing you’re referencing.

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  • GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Is your car an amphibious vehicle?

    Image

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• davidagain@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yes.

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• Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Well. You are a dork. So whatever

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• warbond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  How far abaft of the beam? How far from centerline? Is that first or second deck?

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• justdaveisfine@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yeah but they’d probably find it a little funny too.

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• Yaky@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  They will laugh and then keelhaul you.

  Was waiting for my car, guy walks in and says to the manager “Hey, can you fix my girlfriend’s car? It’s, like, all fucked up” without elaborating further. As any public-facing job, they have some tolerance for bullshit and will probably ignore it.

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  • noughtnaut@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Being keelhauled under a modern car sounds no less painfully lethal than the original. Yikes.

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• JoeTheSane@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Oh, definitely. But, who the fuck cares?

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• DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  As an ex-mechanic and ex player of Sea of Thieves, yes, I’d laugh. I’d understand, but I’d laugh. Other mechanics likely wouldn’t understand what you mean since pretty much the only crossover terminology between ships and cars is ‘wheel’.

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• magnetosphere@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m sure they’ve heard worse.

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• blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  If you were dressed as an admiral and had a smirk on your face you’d be reet

  probably

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  • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Or they’re might leave a present for you on your poop deck.

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• notsosure@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Do you squint, smoke a pipe and like spinach? If yes they might think you’re Popeye the Sailorman.

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• RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Try it and report back.

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• Big_Boss_77@fedinsfw.app ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Drugs, probably

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• garibaldi_biscuit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Old school Anglo is nearside (to kerb) and offside

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• joeljoelle@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I dunno, I think a lot of mechanics are dorks too, just a different kind of dork

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