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Pipe organ or nothing.
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InitialDave posted:Pipe organ or nothing. I have always wanted to get a car with a BOV and mount a chord set of organ pipes on it
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Apr 2, 2014 23:03
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I tried to switch lanes and almost hit this guy, luckily he started playing a fugue in D minor.
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Apr 2, 2014 23:07
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atomicthumbs posted:I have always wanted to get a car with a BOV and mount a chord set of organ pipes on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx35BcQFpkA
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Apr 2, 2014 23:09
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Sorry locals living out in the mountains of Southern California, I'm the tourist from Illinois doing just the speed limit in a full size family sedan. I'm not used to elevation changes, turns in general, or driving a car bigger than a Golf. I was really impressed by the guys hauling rear end in their full sized pick ups around hairpins with shear drop offs. Someone obviously knows the road.
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Apr 2, 2014 23:56
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pbUMXZvfi8
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Apr 3, 2014 00:08
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Uthor posted:Sorry locals living out in the mountains of Southern California, I'm the tourist from Illinois doing just the speed limit in a full size family sedan. I'm not used to elevation changes, turns in general, or driving a car bigger than a Golf. I find that most timid drivers just seriously underestimate the capabilities of their cars. I'm surrounded by people that live in this area (that is nothing but hills and curves) and yet drive BMWs and Mercedes as if they're on a 12-foot-tall unicycle. I'm not calling you out, as you said you only know straight roads and 90* turns, your post just reminded me about those people.
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Apr 3, 2014 01:55
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Uthor posted:Sorry locals living out in the mountains of Southern California, I'm the tourist from Illinois doing just the speed limit in a full size family sedan. I'm not used to elevation changes, turns in general, or driving a car bigger than a Golf.
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Apr 3, 2014 03:03
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Oh, I'm totally not comfortable with the limits of this car. It's a rental Optima that I had been driving for two days. Comfortable, but vague steering and an automatic transmission that whose shift pattern I can't figure out. Plus, my mother getting nervous if I'm going five over. I pulled over when I had to, passed when I was (shockingly) going faster than someone. I just feel bad when I hold up the obvious locals. The more gentle route home was much better today. (Being a rental, I did test it's limits taking it off road in the desert. Acceptable.)
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Apr 3, 2014 03:44
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It was that way when I was in Maui on Hana Highway. The locals drive pretty fast and crazy. I would have driven faster but I had my mom in the car too!  It was a Subaru Impreza though which was quite nice to have.
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Apr 3, 2014 04:38
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a real rear end nigga posted:whats the best use of money if I want extremely loud horn(s)? Had a girl slowly try to switch lanes into me without looking despite me holding down the horn the whole time. Find a junkyard with 70s-80s Cadillacs. Remove the horn set from one or two of them. You'll find anywhere from 2 to 5 horns in each of them. They're hidden all over the front clip; you'll find them behind the bumper, in front of the radiator, inside the fenders, buried behind the air filter housing, behind the headlights... I pulled a set from a 90 DeVille a few years back and dropped them into my old Altima. It went from the tiniest little meep meep meep meep meeeeeep meeeeeeep to HONK loving HONK, BITCH  Air horns are loud as poo poo, and also  - but you risk tickets, on top of them being a general PITA to install if you use actual big horns with a decent tank and compressor.
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Apr 3, 2014 04:55
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Fiamm Highway Blasters are louder than Supertones and much much cheaper. I thought the appeal behind Supertones wasn't the volume as much as the incredibly obnoxious frequency of both tones together...
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Apr 3, 2014 05:02
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Uthor posted:Oh, I'm totally not comfortable with the limits of this car. It's a rental Optima that I had been driving for two days. Comfortable, but vague steering and an automatic transmission that whose shift pattern I can't figure out. Plus, my mother getting nervous if I'm going five over. I pulled over when I had to, passed when I was (shockingly) going faster than someone. I just feel bad when I hold up the obvious locals. The desert? Did you come down 74 into Palm Desert? That road is amazing...
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Apr 3, 2014 05:06
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a real rear end nigga posted:whats the best use of money if I want extremely loud horn(s)? Had a girl slowly try to switch lanes into me without looking despite me holding down the horn the whole time. I put a pair of Stebel TM-80 magnums on the 250c because the stock horns were busted . They are loud and sound fantastic. A lot of people talk up the Stebel Nautilus, real popular with the motorcycle guys, they're very loud but they're also pretty high pitched. The TM-80 magnums say "I'm a big bad car and you're about to be in a big bad way", and they say that message at the same SPL (139 db @ 2 meters) as the much-loved Nautilus. trouser chili fucked around with this message at 05:22 on Apr 3, 2014 |
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Apr 3, 2014 05:15
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El Jebus posted:The desert? Did you come down 74 into Palm Desert? That road is amazing... Took 67, 78, and 79 from San Diego through Ramona and Julian to Borrego Springs. The end of the drive was switch backs along the side of the mountain. Took 78 the whole way back, which wasn't as steep and had a cool change from desert to brush to forest. About 10 miles east of Borrego Springs was a sand and washboard road for about 4 miles to a scenic view of the badlands, which was fun until I realized we forgot to bring water in case I busted a tire. :-/
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Apr 3, 2014 05:57
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On the way to work last night I was 4-5 seconds behind another car, both of doing the speed limit of 45 mph. I noticed the gap was gradually closing, and I let off the throttle to open things back up... only to have him match my speed as we both slowly came down to 5 mph. He mashed the throttle and took off, and around a minute later we're back to sitting 4-5 seconds apart at 45 mph. Then the gap started closing again. This whole process repeated itself 4 times before I finally got to a good place to pass him, and which point he flipped me the bird. I guess he thought that I was attempting to tailgate him but incredibly bad at tailgating. 
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Apr 3, 2014 13:54
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some texas redneck posted:Find a junkyard with 70s-80s Cadillacs. I have access to an '82 Deville, '84 Eldorado, and an '84 Fleetwood. I may do a little horn shopping this weekend...
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Apr 3, 2014 14:14
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:This whole process repeated itself 4 times before I finally got to a good place to pass him, and which point he flipped me the bird. I guess he thought that I was attempting to tailgate him but incredibly bad at tailgating. Maybe check your headlight alignment or something? Maybe it wasn't your driving that was annoying him.
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Apr 3, 2014 14:40
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 Whoever wrote this note is my hero.
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Apr 3, 2014 21:17
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I don't even need to see the RHD or AA sticker/tax disc to know that's British.
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Apr 3, 2014 21:33
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KozmoNaut posted:
The neat handwriting makes it perfect.
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Apr 3, 2014 21:34
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InitialDave posted:I don't even need to see the RHD or AA sticker/tax disc to know that's British. Because in America we'd just leave a note saying "learn to park, rear end in a top hat." We're a simple people.
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Apr 3, 2014 22:40
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Geoj posted:I thought the appeal behind Supertones wasn't the volume as much as the incredibly obnoxious frequency of both tones together... The appeal is to show them off behind your grille.
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Apr 3, 2014 22:41
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FogHelmut posted:The appeal is to show them off behind your grille. I just wanted a loud hord, so mine are hidden under the bumper. They're also covered in mud.
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Apr 3, 2014 22:57
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Tha Chodesweller posted:Because in America we'd just leave a note saying "learn to park, rear end in a top hat." When my coworker cut off an old lady on the way to the mall, she left a note saying, "What's your hurry, ram jam hurry man?" She was pleasant and had the extra courtesy of giving him his nick name.
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Apr 4, 2014 02:35
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Tha Chodesweller posted:Because in America we'd just leave a note saying "learn to park, rear end in a top hat." Or this.
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Apr 4, 2014 02:41
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I was the person you share the road with today. I was in the wrong lane of a large roundabout, turns out you couldn't go right, only straight on. Had to choose between cutting up an artic in the lane I actually needed, or a guy in a Focus who though I was going to do that and was already trying to take my place in my current lane. Chose the focus. Ah well. Here is your squid for the day: 
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Apr 4, 2014 23:33
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Been collecting videos to show to my students for drivers education and this one shows why A.) you use crosswalks, B.) don't stop and be the "nice guy" to wave a pedestrian through while jaywalking, and C.) PAY ATTENTION TO OTHER CARS JESUS CHRIST. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz4npzMM3cM
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Apr 5, 2014 01:36
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Ringo Star Get posted:Been collecting videos to show to my students for drivers education and this one shows why A.) you use crosswalks, B.) don't stop and be the "nice guy" to wave a pedestrian through while jaywalking, and C.) PAY ATTENTION TO OTHER CARS JESUS CHRIST. Man since the invention of dashcams drivers ed has got to be off the hook. We just had gory Australian safety videos. Universities are, in my limited experience, a den of jaywalkin' though. Whenever I'm at my local one I'm always half the speed limit with my foot covering the brake. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 02:11 on Apr 5, 2014 |
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Apr 5, 2014 02:08
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In my not so limited experience a large percentage of students get so 'at home' when they are on campus that they don't pay attention to loving anything when walking around. Roads are just big sidewalks and parking lots are for parking why would there be any moving vehicles there? This place is completely safe how could I possibly get hit by a car? Add cellphones into the mix and I'm surprised half of them don't get smeared before graduation.
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Apr 5, 2014 02:19
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Every loving day it seems I have to jam on the brakes because of some student walking out in front of the big-rear end, loud box-truck I'm usually driving around campus. Or I'll come around a corner and there will be a gaggle of them walking down the center of the road, oblivious to the sidewalk 2 feet from them. Or they walk right behind me while I'm trying to reverse, even with the obnoxiously loud beeper that can be heard half-way across campus. Last year a girl walked smack into the side of the truck while it was parked because she was so engrossed in her cell-phone. She ran into it so hard I heard the impact while I was inside a building and thought another vehicle had hit it. I say almost daily that the college would run so much better if it weren't for all these loving students e: don't even get me loving started on how they drive. Holy poo poo 
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Apr 5, 2014 02:35
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Terrible Robot posted:I say almost daily that the college would run so much better if it weren't for all these loving students
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Apr 5, 2014 02:46
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I jaywalk, but I'm not a fuckface who does it without looking.
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Apr 5, 2014 03:23
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InitialDave posted:Ah well. Here is your squid for the day: SHARE THE ROAD, CAGERS 
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Apr 5, 2014 05:21
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Too bad there was no warning or sign telling him to, you know, slow down for that curve.
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Apr 5, 2014 05:30
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Also, the solid centre lines are an instruction not to cross into the other lane, even to overtake. They can generally be interpreted as "you can't see what's coming the other way, even if you think you can"
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Apr 5, 2014 07:15
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That gif is also a good example of why you want to have your headlights on always, especially as a grey car in grey-ish weather. Not that the motorcyclist isn't totally at fault here, but still.
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Apr 5, 2014 10:31
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How would that have helped?
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Apr 5, 2014 11:02
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Anime Reference posted:Not like adults are any better, I work in downtown Pittsburgh and see people jaywalk through massive rush hour traffic constantly. Apparently they're too important to walk 20 feet to a crosswalk. Most of my daily commute consists of two-lane road with a 70kph speed limit. Every single day people cross at seemingly random spots and regularly have to run across the street to avoid cars. Walking to crosswalks takes effort.
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If you're sound of mind and body, jaywalking is as safe as walking in a crosswalk. By sound of mind I mean looking before going. People will still try to run you down in a crosswalk, even if you have right of way.
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