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05-24-2020, 08:13 AM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Eustis FLORIDA
Posts: 23,764
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freighliner FS65
Engine: Cat 3126
Rated Cap: 15
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/r/skoolies is full of IDIOTS
Anyone ever ventured over to the "skoolie" side of Reddit?
OH, the idiocy over there. Its like they just discovered bus conversions lol.
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05-24-2020, 08:57 AM
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#2
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: Philadelphia
Posts: 7,000
Year: 2003
Coachwork: International
Chassis: CE 300
Engine: DT466e
Rated Cap: 65C-43A
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"I just got a 2008 C2 from New Jersey with the side door missing for $10,000. The adventure begins!" 487 upvotes.
I kid, because that was the first bus I was considering buying. But it's not too far off the mark from what gets posted there regularly.
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05-24-2020, 09:03 AM
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#3
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Eustis FLORIDA
Posts: 23,764
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freighliner FS65
Engine: Cat 3126
Rated Cap: 15
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Naive, gullible folks buying complicated, chintzy emissions buses for top dollar. reddit all the way.
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05-24-2020, 09:09 AM
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#4
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: May 2017
Location: Athens, TN
Posts: 1,574
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Amtran
Chassis: International RE
Engine: International T444e
Rated Cap: 76
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Quote:
Originally Posted by musigenesis
I kid, because that was the first bus I was considering buying. But it's not too far off the mark from what gets posted there regularly.
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Ugh, I am also guilty! We were looking at rusty as heck $10k buses before coming here.
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05-24-2020, 09:29 AM
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#5
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: So Cal
Posts: 3,231
Year: 1935
Coachwork: Superior
Chassis: Chevy
Engine: 317 ci/tid / Isuzu
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Ha! I wondered where they had all gone. Skoolie isn't near as much fun to read as it used to be.
Jack  
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05-24-2020, 10:31 AM
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#6
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Almost There
Join Date: Apr 2019
Location: BZN, MT
Posts: 93
Year: 1982
Coachwork: Ford
Chassis: E-350; 4x4 Minibus
Engine: 351c.i.
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It's bad over there. That's not to suggest that I'm a skoolie master (hell, I own a cutaway) but there are some very bad decisions made over there. It's definitely a different culture on Reddit.
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05-24-2020, 10:46 AM
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#7
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Eustis FLORIDA
Posts: 23,764
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freighliner FS65
Engine: Cat 3126
Rated Cap: 15
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They're big on organic insulation and newer buses.
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05-24-2020, 10:54 AM
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#8
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: Philadelphia
Posts: 7,000
Year: 2003
Coachwork: International
Chassis: CE 300
Engine: DT466e
Rated Cap: 65C-43A
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The mod apparently spent 35 grand dealing with his 6.0L. At least he has a sticky up warning people about that engine.
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05-24-2020, 11:06 AM
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#9
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 1,259
Year: 2001
Coachwork: Bluebird
Chassis: All American
Engine: 8.3 Cummins ISC
Rated Cap: 75
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I ocasionally see some okay-decent interior design ideas on the subs but yeah otherwise its all just uneducated buyers with really bad ideas that don't want to take the time to do the research.
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05-24-2020, 11:08 AM
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#10
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Traveling
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Virginia
Posts: 2,302
Year: None
Coachwork: None
Chassis: None
Engine: None
Rated Cap: None
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Quote:
Originally Posted by EastCoastCB
They're big on organic insulation and newer buses.
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C'mon, CB, they gotta have that organic insulation to keep them warm when they're waiting for the wrecker after their MaxxiPadd / VT365 / 6.0 PowerJoke blows up on them...
Why do you think we're supposed to call them 'reddidiots'? 
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05-24-2020, 11:21 AM
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#11
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Eustis FLORIDA
Posts: 23,764
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freighliner FS65
Engine: Cat 3126
Rated Cap: 15
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lol right!
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05-24-2020, 12:53 PM
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#12
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Mini-Skoolie
Join Date: Dec 2018
Location: Tucson, AZ
Posts: 52
Year: 1991
Chassis: Wayne Lifeguard
Engine: 7.3L IDI
Rated Cap: 23,600 lb
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I swing through there every couple days and check it out. I like scrolling through pictures of other people's busses and Reddit certainly makes that easy!
The depth of knowledge on skoolie.net is deeper by far. Thanks for being here, you all!
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05-24-2020, 12:55 PM
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#13
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Eustis FLORIDA
Posts: 23,764
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freighliner FS65
Engine: Cat 3126
Rated Cap: 15
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There are some great folks on there. Wanderlounge being one of them. But I know him both IRL and on this site too. He has a lot of real world skoolie knowledge. Good dude, Josh.
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05-24-2020, 06:33 PM
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#14
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Apr 2019
Location: Savannah GA
Posts: 756
Year: 2003
Coachwork: Bluebird
Chassis: TC2000
Engine: Cummins 5.9 24v
Rated Cap: 54 passenger
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So we can make fun of Reddit users but not Trump supporters?
Herr derr it's funny because they're not like us.
I think there's less hipocracy over there. And my pictures don't get posted sideways.
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05-24-2020, 08:13 PM
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#15
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Eustis FLORIDA
Posts: 23,764
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freighliner FS65
Engine: Cat 3126
Rated Cap: 15
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JDSquared
So we can make fun of Reddit users but not Trump supporters?
Herr derr it's funny because they're not like us.
I think there's less hipocracy over there. And my pictures don't get posted sideways.
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Well a competing site vs Skoolie.net is way different than hashing out political opinions. But I could definitely make fun of the man all day in the right setting!
FWIW I'm always just as shocked with a lot of what I see on the skoolie facebook groups too.
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05-24-2020, 08:46 PM
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#16
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: Philadelphia
Posts: 7,000
Year: 2003
Coachwork: International
Chassis: CE 300
Engine: DT466e
Rated Cap: 65C-43A
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JDSquared
So we can make fun of Reddit users but not Trump supporters?
Herr derr it's funny because they're not like us.
I think there's less hipocracy over there. And my pictures don't get posted sideways.
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I wasn't really making fun of reddit users, since I are one. That subreddit is kind of a mystery to me, though, both in terms of why I visit it and why anybody else does. Conversations there about actual skoolie topics go nowhere, and requests for technical help are met with cricket noises. It's mostly pictures of just-painted bus floors - which are indeed at least oriented correctly - and I don't know who the hundreds of people are that are saying "oh yay, another painted floor!" I suspect it's actually just bots up-voting reddit-hosted pics for some reason. I only really visit to try and save people from buying rusty junk.
That's one thing I prefer about skoolie.net, is that (with a few exceptions lol) I think everybody here is a real human being. Hell, I've met you in person, although maybe they have really good androids now.
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05-24-2020, 08:47 PM
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#17
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Eustis FLORIDA
Posts: 23,764
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freighliner FS65
Engine: Cat 3126
Rated Cap: 15
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I too am a redditor. Well said MG.
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