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Maker Of Shoes posted:Friend of a friend of a friend posted a video on YouTube showing someone crashing into his father's house I'm guessing by the camera placement, that this isn't the first time this has happened? Was she drunk or texting or just an idiot? Does the Fiesta/Focus not come with hill hold?
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Jeherrin posted:What? I can go to any cookware shop in the UK and buy a pointy kitchen knife. You say that, but try it wearing some Adidas track pants and a hoodie.
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Ozz81 posted:Agree 100% on this - I passed my driver's test the first time, mainly because it was all simple stuff I could memorize since the books rarely change year to year. Back where I'm from in Manitoba, if you were under 18 and wanted your license, you had to do drivers ed. It was honestly pretty useless for me (farm kid, I've driven things since I was like 5), but a lot of people there had never been behind the wheel. Ever. It was loving terrifying. My future children will all have some sort of driving education starting as young as possible, so by the time they get to drive - a) its not as big of a deal and b) they actually loving know how lovely drivers are terrible car stuff.
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Siochain posted:Back where I'm from in Manitoba, if you were under 18 and wanted your license, you had to do drivers ed. It was honestly pretty useless for me (farm kid, I've driven things since I was like 5), but a lot of people there had never been behind the wheel. Ever. It was loving terrifying. My future children will all have some sort of driving education starting as young as possible, so by the time they get to drive - a) its not as big of a deal and b) they actually loving know how This is how it was in Texas when I got my license. I didn't even have to take a road test to get my license at 16. Personally, I think we should enact a 3 strikes rule. If you manage to run into another car 3 times, no more driving for you.
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I'm pretty sure that IL you need driver's ed if you are under 18. And you need a certain amount of experience driving around with a parent (or getting them to sign the paper saying that you did!), though I'm not certain getting training from a parent is the best way to go.* *In my motorcycle class, they had a stat showing that people who were taught to ride by a friend were much more likely to have an accident than those that taught themselves because the friend would teach bad habits.
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Uthor posted:I'm pretty sure that IL you need driver's ed if you are under 18. And you need a certain amount of experience driving around with a parent (or getting them to sign the paper saying that you did!), though I'm not certain getting training from a parent is the best way to go.* The friend who taught me how to ride learned from his Dad, who was an MSF instructor. He stuck very close to the MSF course. Definitely an anomaly, though. And I didn't pick up his habit of pulling wheelies!
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Bucephalus posted:Let me tell you about our motorcycle licensing. In California, you don't even have to take a practical test to get a motorcycle learner's permit. You can show up, read the pamphlet in 20 minutes, take a written exam, and then go buy a Hayabusa. I have, no lie, seen a crashed 'busa on Craigslist for part-out with four miles on the clock.
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In WA, if you are under 18, you have to take a paid Driver Training course, average cost $500. Then the licensing test is run by the same company for another $50. I have paid this twice now for 2 kids. If they waited until 18, then no course required, but everyone kid I know that did not take the test drives like poo poo. Plus there is an insurance discount if you take the course which almost pays for itself.
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Speaking of terrible and or mediocre cars. What is going to look worse, a base coat/clear coat red or flat black garage paint job. I'm guessing the flat black is going to give me the least amount of headaches.
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Alarbus posted:The friend who taught me how to ride learned from his Dad, who was an MSF instructor. He stuck very close to the MSF course. For a second there I was wondering what Doctors Without Borders has to do with motorcycles. I've been out of the motorcycle game for too long...
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veedubfreak posted:Speaking of terrible and or mediocre cars. What is going to look worse, a base coat/clear coat red or flat black garage paint job. I'm guessing the flat black is going to give me the least amount of headaches. It's all in the prep. if you're just halfassing it to get it our of primer or whatever go with the single stage. doesn't even have to be black, you could feasibly to just a coat of single stage red and just polish it good.
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Enourmo posted:It's all in the prep. if you're just halfassing it to get it our of primer or whatever go with the single stage. doesn't even have to be black, you could feasibly to just a coat of single stage red and just polish it good. That crossed my mind too. My biggest worry isn't the prep, its being able to get the multiple coats down without tons of crap getting in it.
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dpack_1 posted:The terrible car stuff is that in America you can get a license in an automatic and then just go out and buy a manual car. I'll have you know that I had to learn how to drive stick in a literal snow storm with 5 minutes of coaching from my dad and I turned out fine...  But yeah, I would've loved a bit more training, learning stuff like starting from a full stop on a rather aggressive, icy incline was pants shittingly terrifying when I had to do do it with a new BMW way too close behind me. Over here you're not required to be specifically licensed for a manual car, but most driver's ed schools offer mt-specific content either for the same cost or a few dollars more (if it involves you doing more hours). Driver's ed is also compulsory, so in theory we could be churning out mostly mt-qualified drivers, but of course almost no one does it because  .
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Jo3sh posted:In California, you don't even have to take a practical test to get a motorcycle learner's permit. You can show up, read the pamphlet in 20 minutes, take a written exam, and then go buy a Hayabusa. I have, no lie, seen a crashed 'busa on Craigslist for part-out with four miles on the clock. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlQQfAz0fbM unzipped jacket and no helmet, too
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To be fair, Grohl is a really drat entertaining drummer.
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I don't know if it's still the same, but in California you were able to get a learners permit when you were 15.5. You had to do 25 hours of classroom time plus another 6 hours of driving time with a certified instructor. Then once you got your permit you were only able to drive when someone in the car with you was 25 years or older and had to basically be a parent or guardian. You couldn't drive alone at any time. You had to have this all done before you could take your driving test at the age of 16 and even then you had a provisional license. The provisional stated that, during the first year of obtaining your license, you couldn't transport anyone under the age of 20 and I may be wrong but I think there were certain hours you weren't allowed to drive during. Although once you turned 18 none of this applied and you could apply for an unrestricted license.
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xzzy posted:To be fair, Grohl is a really drat entertaining drummer. lol okay
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Sagebrush posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlQQfAz0fbM I wonder just how jaded cycle dealerships must be about that kind of thing. Sorry, man, paperwork is all signed, talk to your insurance company. And maybe a doctor. Thanks for your business.
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Ugh... Terrible gas station things. Here in Jersey as you might be aware, we are required to have attendants pump our gas. Today I got a real winner who decided that he was going to pump till he hit an exact dollar amount despite the cutoff on the pump clicking over repeatedly. Sure enough I start smelling spilled fuel and there's a puddle of guzzoline forming under the car. I shouted, he was still going. I honked the car, still going. I had to get out of the car and take the nozzle away from the oblivious fuckstick who was watering the pavement in flammable liquids that I'm still paying for.
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GopherFlats posted:I don't know if it's still the same, but in California you were able to get a learners permit when you were 15.5. You had to do 25 hours of classroom time plus another 6 hours of driving time with a certified instructor. Then once you got your permit you were only able to drive when someone in the car with you was 25 years or older and had to basically be a parent or guardian. You couldn't drive alone at any time. It's basically the same, except now the provisional license lasts until you're 20 or 21 (I can't remember) and you can't apply to have it removed any more, or you can just wait until you're 18 and instantly get a full license with no extra rules.
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The ultimate anti-tailgating device
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You Am I posted:The ultimate anti-tailgating device My first thought was 1 7/8", 2" and 2 5/16" on a front mounted hitch for moving stuff around a yard, but now I think that it's a rear bumper and the stippled stuff is a step into a van or wagon. What function, other than causing people to smash their shins in a parking lot or tearing chassis mounting points and letting your trailer pull the side of the road to have a rest independent of the car, does this serve? Or is it just terrible owner stuff? IPCRESS fucked around with this message at 00:59 on Mar 2, 2016 |
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You Am I posted:The ultimate anti-parking device FTFY
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Siochain posted:Back where I'm from in Manitoba, if you were under 18 and wanted your license, you had to do drivers ed. It was honestly pretty useless for me (farm kid, I've driven things since I was like 5), but a lot of people there had never been behind the wheel. Ever. It was loving terrifying. My future children will all have some sort of driving education starting as young as possible, so by the time they get to drive - a) its not as big of a deal and b) they actually loving know how I think Texas changed the laws awhile back to where you can't get a license under 25 without drivers ed. Makes it really hard for a lot of college students to get a license. veedubfreak posted:This is how it was in Texas when I got my license. I didn't even have to take a road test to get my license at 16. Same, just the written test. But I went through drivers ed. The only catch was I had to prove I was either enrolled in school or had completed a GED program. I think now everyone has to take the driving test though, regardless of age or if they went through drivers ed. QuiteEasilyDone posted:I had to get out of the car and take the nozzle away from the oblivious fuckstick who was watering the pavement in flammable liquids that I'm still paying for. Not to mention filling the EVAP charcoal canister with gasoline (and ruining it), if it's the style that's mounted next to the tank.
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Shrapnig posted:I loving hate these people. I loving DESTROYED my shin on this thing in a dark restaurant parking lot walking inside a few years ago. Blood, swelling, brusing, the whole deal 
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Sticking out that far should require a safety flag if you ask me.
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The other day I saw a truck with a huge hitch extension, almost took a pic for this thread.
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jamal posted:The other day I saw a truck with a huge hitch extension, almost took a pic for this thread. There's a guy tooling around here with an interior decoration company and a truck lifted so far he had two 45-degree hitch extensions installed. I was gonna take a picture but the dude was eating at the same burrito joint and looked upset when I loudly mocked it to my coworker. If you have to get out graph paper and a trig textbook to figure out your tongue weight you're too retarded to be towing.
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I saw this in NYC this weekend. Please tell me this is normal and safe.   
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Assuming that the feet are integral and not just random box section steel found in a skip on-site, that should be safe. I don't normally see that many courses of packing, though.
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That's just a crane up on cribbing, as long as all the supports are up on cribbing like pic #2 I'd say it's pretty stable.
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it looks sketchy at first but wood's pretty strong in compression so it's probably fine
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Enourmo posted:it looks sketchy at first but wood's pretty strong in compression so it's probably fine What they've got there is basically a pile of railroad ties, so if it can support a train, I'm pretty sure it can handle a big truck.
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My concern is that from the photos the only contact with the ground looks to be those two feet. How is that thing stable? Is it just not showing additional feet off the front and rear?
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A MEGA EXPLODING posted:lol okay I mean it's true even though everything Grohl does Bonham did first and better. 
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Previa_fun posted:I mean it's true even though everything Grohl does Ringo did first and better.
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