Chat is a text only community for casual conversation, please keep shitposting to the absolute minimum. This is intended to be a separate space from c/chapotraphouse or the daily megathread. Chat does this by being a long-form community where topics will remain from day to day unlike the megathread, and it is distinct from c/chapotraphouse in that we ask you to engage in this community in a genuine way. Please keep shitposting, bits, and irony to a minimum.
As with all communities posts need to abide by the code of conduct, additionally moderators will remove any posts or comments deemed to be inappropriate.
Thank you and happy chatting!
German engineering my fucking ass
The whole almost eugenicist racial aspect that is tied to where shit is manufactured is a whole shibboleth of mystic bullshit layered on top of the National character of Peoples that creates a false reality of manufactured shit being graded with racial phenotypes instead of how it's made.
Funnily enough, "made in Germany" was also meant to warn of the bad quality capitalist Germany pumped out after WW2.
Also the PLASTIC oem replacement is priced 25 dollars higher than the brass aftermarket alternative
That brass has lead in it BTW, another cost saving measure! So don't be drinking the shower water.
Awesome
German engineering
Looks inside engine bay oh look at that, it's a mess of decaying plastic and rubber hoses and seals, not meant to last longer than 150k miles, and each year that passes the car sounds more and more like a vacuum cleaner from all them little leaks
Same as any other car but yeah being from Bavaria makes it special ig
German engineering is designed to work really really really well right at the beginning.
I hate how glass is literally infinitely recyclable and we as a society chose plastic instead because it's less prone to break when underpaid teamsters huck boxes into trucks and now we're going to die choking on micro plastics
I know more of it comes tires and polyester clothes but still
I get plastic instead of glass mostly, glass is heavy as shit. What I do not get is plastic instead of paper. Like if you need it to be tight to water, sure, but so much stuff is plastic with airholes, just use cardboard
Aluminum cans are the predominant beverage container now even for beer. No clue why we have to use plastic for water and Gatorade still
Cans are coated in plastic on the inside but a lot less than a whole ass bottle to be fair
That's infuriating...
German engineering my fucking ass
is it made in Germany because id bet it's "made" (designed) in Germany but made in like China or something so the bourgeois get to pay lower wages and then blame the Chinese if there are complaints about the quality (which they specified and the chinese simply made)
At work we use plastic in high heat environments, it's a shitshow of broken parts
I hate how everything is plastic but then it's YOUR FAULT everything is plastic. Bro, I can't buy anything else, take it up with the companies saving 1c per unit
The title also works for actual human shit with all the microplastics around.
I had the same problem lmao, I replaced the american made shitty plastic showerhead that kept breaking with a chinese showerhead so cheap that if it broke 3 times a year it would still be cheaper than the american made one. It has lasted 3 years now.
I come back from being away to steam condensation dripping off the ceilings and water rifling out of the wall like the goddamn Trevi fountain
I got a brutal water bill once from a tap failing like this. Hope you weren't away too long.
On a well so it's the light bill
we've broken 4 shower knobs in the past year. the only one that fits our shower is this cheap plastic piece of crap that snaps immediately if you try to turn it even slightly too hard.
Good thing you got that replaced while you did before Germany can replace the parts with ones that need proprietary tools to remove.