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16th December 2022

Post reblogged from Kontextmaschine with 21 notes

kontextmaschine:

Car parts are like the one mechanical thing where the YouTube walkthroughs don’t have Indian accents, they have southern accents

I was changing a headlight on Darwin and part of that involved removing the grille and they were all like “you’ve got to remove these clips first, you just ::camera has NO view on what’s going on:: get your screwdriver under there and pry up…”

And I was like WHERE? There were like six things and 3 force vectors each that could be. Worse than trying to interpret old GameFAQs walkthroughs, at least when those shifted to YouTube you could SEE where they were talking about.

Maybe “a clip” was just a standard thing in ‘80s auto assembly and it was like that XKCD “even when experts are trying to compensate for it they radically overestimate civilian familiarity with their field” bit

  1. crazyworldhuh reblogged this from justsayin59
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  4. steampunkforever said: @kontextmaschine right now (in the southwest at least) the Honda tuner scene has a strong Mexican/South American presence. a Honda with slicks on all four corners and a Mexican flag sticker on the back window makes Dodge Vipers flinch.
  5. kontextmaschine said: @steampunkforever huh, what kinda social position are “South Americans chasing YouTube dollars by demonstrating automotive repair skills in English in?
  6. steampunkforever said: If the video is newer and about honda repair there’s a chance the accent will be south or Central American
  7. hondacivictrucknuts reblogged this from kontextmaschine and added:
    From watching Jeep repair youtube videos, I think there are some things that are just surprisingly difficult without...
  8. kontextmaschine reblogged this from kontextmaschine and added:
    I was changing a headlight on Darwin and part of that involved removing the grille and they were all like "you've got to...