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T-Square posted:Just curious, why are you opting for a WR over a DRZ? I loved everything about my DRZ and have never been a fan of the WRs at all. I think they look goofy, and there's the whole 250 versus 400 part. I think WRs look better, and I want FI. Also better mpg and ease of maintenance. power is not a big concern for me
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T1g4h posted:Any of you nerds seen American Sniper yet? I keep hearing it's amazing, tempted to check it out. I have no interest in seeing yet another war porn movie. The amount of "oh my gawd this makes me support are troops even more!" and war monger right wing circle jerks it has already inspired turns me off even more. And I say all that as someone who is active duty military. Edit: want a war movie? Watch Restrepo and its sequel. They're on Netflix.
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iwentdoodie posted:I have no interest in seeing yet another war porn movie. The amount of "oh my gawd this makes me support are troops even more!" and war monger right wing circle jerks it has already inspired turns me off even more. That's nice. I'm asking because supposedly it's actually really well done and has a proper, emotional story as opposed to just war porn. If all I wanted was one man army, blow up all the bad dues fluff I'd (happily) go watch Rambo IV again  e: In fact, from a lot of the stuff i've read / heard, it's not exactly a big RAH RAH AMERICA gently caress YEAH flick so much as "War is hosed up and does terrible poo poo to people" type deal. T1g4h fucked around with this message at 04:51 on Jan 18, 2015 |
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Jan 18, 2015 04:47
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T1g4h posted:That's nice. I'm asking because supposedly it's actually really well done and has a proper, emotional story as opposed to just war porn. Like I said, watch Restrepo. And it may have a great story, but it's not being taken as that by anyone but critics and rational people.
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iwentdoodie posted:I have no interest in seeing yet another war porn movie. The amount of "oh my gawd this makes me support are troops even more!" and war monger right wing circle jerks it has already inspired turns me off even more. Did you read and/or watch Jarhead?
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iwentdoodie posted:Like I said, watch Restrepo. And it may have a great story, but it's not being taken as that by anyone but critics and rational people. What exactly did you expect?
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After reading his book I feel this is more accurate.
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iwentdoodie posted:Like I said, watch Restrepo. And it may have a great story, but it's not being taken as that by anyone but critics and rational people. And that's why I zone out on hardcore Conservative opinions on things I'll give Restrepo a look though. PaintVagrant posted:Did you read and/or watch Jarhead? Jarhead was an amazing movie. Jarhead 2... not so much.
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T1g4h posted:Jarhead was an amazing movie. Jarhead 2... not so much. Is 2 where they rally to save the community center?
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Rhyno posted:Is 2 where they rally to save the community center? Yes, but the squad has to beat the snobby prep kids in a downhill ski race to prevent mean old Mr. Johnson and his big corporation from demolishing it. (It's actually something about saving some activist from the evil Taliban while  happens. It's really not very good at all.)PaintVagrant posted:What the gently caress there was a Jarhead 2? Yeah, straight to DVD release. It's cringe inducing. On the whole war books note, I really wish someone would do a movie based off of Chickenhawk by Robert Mason. It's an awesome book and I have immense respect for the Huey pilots of Vietnam after reading it. T1g4h fucked around with this message at 05:11 on Jan 18, 2015 |
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Jan 18, 2015 05:01
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What the gently caress there was a Jarhead 2? Jarhead was a pretty good movie, and a loving incredible book. I went through a war-books phase for a while and read a shitload of stuff that I would probably never touch again, but I re-read Jarhead a handful of times over the past few years.
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Nidhg00670000 posted:After reading his book I feel this is more accurate. The book where he made up a bunch of poo poo? (Chris Kyle was a hosed up person)
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PaintVagrant posted:Did you read and/or watch Jarhead? Both, and I enjoyed them. Every marine I know thinks he should have been shot and hates it.
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Phone posted:The book where he made up a bunch of poo poo? That was pretty much what I got from reading the book and I've heard nothing about things being made up. Movie was a pretty different story. You want to read a story about a seal I recommend the heart and the fist.
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Jan 18, 2015 05:22
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The stories themselves haven't been disputed too much, most of his anecdotes have been attacked and had doubt cast on them. Plus the whole Jesse Ventura fiasco.
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jamal posted:That was pretty much what I got from reading the book and I've heard nothing about things being made up. Movie was a pretty different story. For an autobiographical book, he fabricated a lot of poo poo... like getting into a fist fight with Jesse Ventura, who has since successfully won a few defamation cases.
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Jan 18, 2015 05:31
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I like to think Jesse Ventura is just constantly getting into fistfights regardless of whether or not that specific account is true.
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Phone posted:For an autobiographical book, he fabricated a lot of poo poo... like getting into a fist fight with Jesse Ventura, who has since successfully won a few defamation cases. Yeah, judging from the claims made against him, Chris Kyle was a jackass who liked to tell tall tales.
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PaintVagrant posted:I agree that old hondas are best hondas, as far as lego-esque ease of working on them. But I cant complain about my 08 civic (other than dbw ugh) and 2004 accord. K and R engines both, both are basically unbreakable tanks that cost pennies to maintain. The 08 civic is especially a fantastic handling little car for being a beigemobile/econobox. The R series was prone to the engine blocks cracking, mostly in 06-08 models. Sometimes you just notice it's leaking coolant, sometimes it cracks wide open while driving and you're left on the side of the road. The R was not one of Honda's finest engines. The K series is fantastic though. ExplodingSims posted:Congrats! I've been looking into starting a Roth IRA for a few weeks now. If I can get a halfway decent paying job in my new trade that's the first thing I've doing, is opening up a retirement account. I'm giving serious thought to a Roth as well. It looks like a couple of funds let you do a $0 opening investment and $50 (or more) autodrafts per month with USAA. Though I think I need to get my savings built up a bit more first.
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No arguments about the r series block flaws, although mine is stil under full replacement warranty for another year I think. At 130k I'm way past the typical window for the block issues thankfully. It's a shame people had to deal with that and it certainly ruins the rep of that gen of civic, which is understandable. If I was buying another 8th gen non-si if get a 2010/11, they have the cooler front bumper and don't randomly go boom.
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leica posted:Platoon is the best war movie Wrong, Hot Shots 2.
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HotCanadianChick posted:Apocalypse Now is the best I am probably a terrible person for saying this, but I really didn't like that movie. At all 
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T1g4h posted:I am probably a terrible person for saying this, but I really didn't like that movie. At all I thought you liked story in your war movies. Hmph.
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Guys, am I terrible car stuff for wanting to build something for wasteland weekend?
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iwentdoodie posted:I thought you liked story in your war movies. I do, that movie was just really loving surreal. I couldn't get into it at all towards the end. Like, I get that that was the whole point and it's apparently a critically acclaimed masterpiece, but I just really did not enjoy it.
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Got some nice dinner in a fancy hotel tonight and some jerks gave me a couple hunks of metal.
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^^^^ congrats!!meatpimp posted:is it heretical to say that a lot of the contemporary series have as high a production value as film, but with the extreme length (in relation to a 2 hour movie), they actually do a better job of in-depth storytelling? Naaah, that's completely fair. It has a lot to do with audience involvement and time constraints though. I think even on some shows, especially on HBO the production value and budget is even more so than a typical 2 hour movie. Then again minute for minute, Hollywood movies still have them beat. There's only so long the typicsl person will sit still and be interested. I'm also guilty of that, I will only sit through 2-3 episodes of a show on Netflix before doing something else. keykey fucked around with this message at 07:47 on Jan 18, 2015 |
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When I work a full opening shift at work - which is generally 11-7:30 (or whenever the dinner rush starts to die down), I get a break, usually somewhere between 2-3:30. It's a paid 30 minute break if I stay on the property, or unpaid ~30-60 (usually my discretion, since it's usually still slow when I get back) if I decide to leave. I hadn't washed the Saturn in well over a month, and it was a beautiful day. Took it to my favorite car wash - it's a tunnel wash (yeah I know meatpimp, you're already cringing, but it's a silver econobox that really doesn't even show dirt, much less most scratches), with self-service vacuums/trash before you get to the cashier. I pull into the only empty vacuum bay, empty out all the trash, start vacuuming, and the car to my right backs out. Then I hear a familiar voice say "About time you washed that thing!". Turn around... it's the owner of the store I work at, grinning. He was vacuuming out his SUV. Told him "yeah, it's been drat near 2 months.. usually I wash it at least every 2 weeks, this is the first really nice day we've had in awhile though". We BS a little bit, I get back to cleaning out my car. I get in line to get my car washed.. when I get to the cashier, the store owner (my boss's boss) walks up and tells the cashier my money is no good, and pays for the wash. I usually go for their $15 (top of the line) wash every couple of months, with the lower end washes to keep it looking decent until the cheap spray-on wax and technicolor "clear coat protectant" wear off. He flinched at little when he saw I was going for the good poo poo, but kept insisting on paying for it, against my objections. I finally got him to agree to pay for half instead of all of it. Pretty nice of him. I guess my nose has been a bit brown lately, he seems to talk to me more than any non-manager in the store.
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the spyder posted:Today was a good day. What have you been frying up? Also, meatpimp, didn't you order a set of PDR tools some time ago? What ever happened to that?
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T1g4h posted:I am probably a terrible person for saying this, but I really didn't like that movie. At all Were you stoned and/or drunk? It helps.
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leica posted:Were you stoned and/or drunk? It helps. Totally sober, which may have been part of the problem. I just remember it started out great, then it got really weird and I just sorta went "Huh. Alright then." The above also doubles as a good description for most of my relationships 
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Phenyephedrine is absolute loving garbage. Doesn't do poo poo. Managed to snag myself a Man Flu and it feels like ive had my nose attacked with a belt sander. Looks like i'll have to go find a chemist tomorrow and do the whole "Your not making meth, are you?" song and dance and give them my ID so I can actually get some pseudoephedrine and stop my GOD drat NOSE RUNNING! loving Australian drug laws.
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kastein posted:http://bbbind.com/free_tsb.html I forgot about this site, thanks kastein! After trying to read them and compare notes against the 95 240sx stuff I have come to the conclusion that I have no idea what I'm doing. I'm 100% comfortable using Torque as my gauges. The 240 also reads speed from the differential so the speedo is going to Just Work. I'm electrically retarded, please help!
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iwentdoodie posted:Like I said, watch Restrepo. And it may have a great story, but it's not being taken as that by anyone but critics and rational people. Restrepo and Korengal are amazing films. e- also the best war film is Kelly's Heroes Seizure Meat fucked around with this message at 14:12 on Jan 18, 2015 |
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VikingSkull posted:Restrepo and Korengal are amazing films. Restrepo was loving great. If you haven't seen it, do.
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iwentdoodie posted:Both, and I enjoyed them. Yeah, thats why I asked. The few marines I know were very unhappy with it based on how realistic it was. Apparently bad for recruiting
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