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Cat Terrist posted:I've been wandering around WRC pits and V8Supercars and 12 Hour and Lord knows what else. It still comes down to the racing and NASCAR on ovals is still absolute poo poo. It needs to be the right ovals, but the problem is that they've taken just about all of the racing out of the current iteration of the car. Even a track like Phoenix which should allow a driver worth a drat to be able to make a move happen, is now a procession where outside of a yellow flag it's rare for a car to be closer than half a second to the next in front or back. Oval racing shouldn't be five hours of everyone waiting for the last 50 laps (gently caress you, Coca-Cola 600) before they think about doing much, it should be a run for the finish from the word go. Bonus points if you've got a crazy-eyed kid from Toowoomba doing his damnedest to prove to the world* that he's better than three second place finishes in a row. *what little of it was watching
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Comrade Flynn posted:Since I posted about it in here I ended up buying it: 
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I'm in our family cabin in Pigeon Forge right now. At the top of a mountain road with a 10 percent grade. In a Volt. I had planned to leave Saturday, but I may be stuck. 
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Comrade Flynn posted:I've owned some of the most impractical cars ever made and I've never regretted it. Except when the tire fell off my Lotus. Comrade Flynn posted:I'm absurdly cheap. I'm upgrading my 3 year old PC piece by piece because I'm too cheap to buy a whole new system. Goober Peas posted:I'm in our family cabin in Pigeon Forge right now. At the top of a mountain road with a 10 percent grade. In a Volt. I had planned to leave Saturday, but I may be stuck. Thunder snow headed this way, should be a fun night.
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Already seeing some thundersnow here. Between that and the ice sliding off the roof, it's kinda creepy (in the exciting kinda of way).
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Yesssssss Goober Peas posted:I'm in our family cabin in Pigeon Forge right now. At the top of a mountain road with a 10 percent grade. In a Volt. I had planned to leave Saturday, but I may be stuck. Better to be at the top of a mountain road in the winter, needing to get to the bottom, than the other way around.
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Feb 17, 2015 00:51
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NitroSpazzz posted:A few episodes in on this, good show so far. Thanks for the recommendation. The show really hits its stride seasons 2 and 3. All other seasons have been far better than average television shows. It also has just enough oddball crap to keep from taking itself too seriously which is appreciated. Plus Natalie Zea is one of the finest women on TV.
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MrChips posted:Yesssssss It's entertaining to watch the guesstometer on the incline - it drops about 1 mile of charge every 200 feet. It regains about 1 mile of charge every 500 feet on the trip back down. The road is pretty unforgiving - it's one vehicle wide with dropoffs on both sides. I don't even like driving it at night. I'm definitely going to walk it before I try driving it, lest I yodeley guy off to eternity.
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Comrade Flynn posted:Very, except for the clutch which has already been replaced. God drat its glorious. But I know super cars are hard as hell on clutches so that's a really huge bonus. What kind of g forces does that thing corner at? Solihull syndrome was avoided, no new rovers at my house. But I have been hankering for something with a small engine lately. I keep kicking around the idea of finding an early JD 140 and restoring it. BrokenKnucklez fucked around with this message at 01:05 on Feb 17, 2015 |
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Feb 17, 2015 01:02
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YEAH GONNA SLAY SOME ORCS N poo poo
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Umm excuse me, I think you mean Octoroks 
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Feb 17, 2015 01:25
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Do you mean you're going to slay the Hero of Time? Because you clearly have Dark Link's sword.
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I have an interview tomorrow at O'Reilly's Auto Parts. Any suggestions of general stuff to brush up on before I go in tomorrow morning?
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Geirskogul posted:Do you mean you're going to slay the Hero of Time? Because you clearly have Dark Link's sword. Link's a huge bitch, he's going down.
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Elmnt80 posted:I have an interview tomorrow at O'Reilly's Auto Parts. Any suggestions of general stuff to brush up on before I go in tomorrow morning? just walk in and start yelling WAT MAKE MODEL YEAR?  DOES IT HAVE AIR CONDITIONING? 4 WHEEL DRIVE?
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kastein posted:just walk in and start yelling I just want them to hire me, not make me a manager. 
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Feb 17, 2015 01:40
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SNOWPOCALYPSE 2015  
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Goober Peas posted:
Yeah, I found that was the case after I quit drinking sugar soda. Any time I accidentally have one with a meal, there are nigh immediate intestinal consequences and a hangover. 
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Geirskogul posted:Not a Countach, don't care (that's a joke, it is awesome). Bump it up to 800. My last oral surgery, doc gave me a script for Norco 5. Didn't even loving touch the pain. I just ended up eating 4 Advil every 6-8 hours. It helped.
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kastein posted:just walk in and start yelling You need a headlight? Is that manual or auto?
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CommieGIR posted:You need a headlight? Is that manual or auto? *Throws three packets of anti-seize sparkplug grease into your pile of parts on the counter without telling you* Boaz MacPhereson posted:Bump it up to 800. My last oral surgery, doc gave me a script for Norco 5. Didn't even loving touch the pain. I just ended up eating 4 Advil every 6-8 hours. It helped. I'm a 68W. Trust me, I'm hitting the ibuprofen pretty hard. FML. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21gwxLZJROA EDIT: whoa that thumbnail. Video is SFW, don't worry.
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Geirskogul posted:*Throws three packets of anti-seize sparkplug grease into your pile of parts on the counter without telling you* No thanks, I bought the big jar 
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$11 back on taxes this year, sometimes it sucks to be a single dude with no kids who doesn't own a house or go to college
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rscott posted:$11 back on taxes this year, sometimes it sucks to be a single dude with no kids who doesn't own a house or go to college We figured out why I'm getting hosed on mine. Back in 2012 I worked my bar job 6 days over a three month period before quitting for good. I never got my W2 and forgot to put it on my taxes the next year. The IRS is pissed and I'm getting a fuckload of penalties over it.
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NitroSpazzz posted:Thunder snow headed this way, should be a fun night. Hello fellow knoxgoon! I'd never seen thunder snow before tonight. Was pretty cool. I went ice sledding with my roommate and only hurt myself a little!
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rscott posted:$11 back on taxes this year, sometimes it sucks to be a single dude with no kids who doesn't own a house or go to college Owe $45 for us this year. I always try to cut it close but no kids or mortgage interest to write off means we get hosed hard every year with our income.
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I got my offer for the new job today and accepted it. Got a legit clinical title with will go a long way for me in the future and about a 10% raise to go with it. It's a pretty good birthday present other than having to tell the director at the university in the morning.
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Holdbrooks posted:I got my offer for the new job today and accepted it. Got a legit clinical title with will go a long way for me in the future and about a 10% raise to go with it. It's a pretty good birthday present other than having to tell the director at the university in the morning. Sweet, dude. Good job. I went out to get the mail in my socks (it's February, suck it norms) and found a big friendly ol' dog wandering around the area. Threw the dog in the back of the car and went around looking for upset owners hunting for their dog, didn't find any and ended up dropping the dog off at the vet to be scanned/reunited. That's the second mutt in four months I've found wandering around. He curled up in the back seat of the Impreza and went to sleep.  Also today I saw a four-door Saab 900. I don't think I've ever seen one before. It looks so.. awkward. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 04:13 on Feb 17, 2015 |
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rscott posted:$11 back on taxes this year, sometimes it sucks to be a single dude with no kids who doesn't own a house or go to college 
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Comrade Flynn posted:Since I posted about it in here I ended up buying it: Meh, it ain't a biturbo.
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Me and my wife have no house or kids and are still in school and we got $5,300 back 
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Tusen Takk posted:Me and my wife have no house or kids and are still in school and we got $5,300 back You need to adjust your withholding because giving the Feds a 5k interest free loan is nuts
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Bovril Delight posted:You need to adjust your withholding because giving the Feds a 5k interest free loan is nuts I think part of it was because paying interest on school loans and part of it was because my wife never changed her W4 from single to married. Also I don't mind giving the government an interest free loan, it's an easy way to save money every year without thinking about it and not having to stress out about potentially owing them. Also, it's not like whatever interest I would gain at Chase is much better, and unless something awful happens the government isn't going to not be able to pay back the loan anytime soon, but to each his own 
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Also today I saw a four-door Saab 900. I don't think I've ever seen one before. It looks so.. awkward. See I hadn't seen a 2dr until fairly recently. It's a big part of the reason it took me so long to realize Saabs are cool, the 4-door 900 is so off-putting it can actually make you ignore the entire company. It's sad too, because I had literally no idea about all the awesome stuff they did until after they were gone.
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Bah, pulled apart the Midget's windshield frame and the screws holding it together at the bottom were all stripped out. I had to drill them out, and there's not enough left to grab onto! Fuckers... they're in these little angled brackets which would be cheap EXCEPT they're marked not available on Moss Motors.
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http://truckyeah.jalopnik.com/the-b...dium=socialflow So being based off an S10 it would be easy to stuff a v8 in it right?
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Congrats man! It looks awesome! Have you planned where you plan to take it for maintenance? I've heard a lot of Italian owners in the area prefer Alfa of Tacoma. Are you going to DD it too? You DD'd the GTR didn't you? Comrade Flynn posted:Also if anyone is in Seattle I'm happy to take you out in it. I feel like I'd be an idiot not to impose  
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BrokenKnucklez posted:http://truckyeah.jalopnik.com/the-b...dium=socialflow Yep.  I know there's at least two floating around the internet that have been converted to drag cars already.Also RHD, so combined with the aluminum body it's got the most JDM street cred of any US-built utility vehicle.
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I don't exactly keep up on fancy supercars I'll never own, but what kind/year lambo is that? It's beautiful, btw 
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Mat_Drinks posted:Congrats man! It looks awesome! Have you planned where you plan to take it for maintenance? I've heard a lot of Italian owners in the area prefer Alfa of Tacoma. Are you going to DD it too? You DD'd the GTR didn't you? I work from home now so DDing isn't really what I do, but that's the plan. Have the lambo be "my" car.
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