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Fermented Tinal: Aug 25, 2005; by Pragmatica

Truth: I was in a marching band.

In Florida.

# ? Dec 23, 2016 06:17

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# ? May 10, 2024 09:08

Fender Anarchist: May 20, 2009; Fender Anarchist

Fermented Tinal posted:

Truth: I was in a marching band.

In Florida.

same

# ? Dec 23, 2016 06:23

FBS: Apr 27, 2015; The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.

Enourmo posted:

same

our HS band did a parade at Disney World does that count

# ? Dec 23, 2016 06:53

Fermented Tinal: Aug 25, 2005; by Pragmatica

FBS posted:

our HS band did a parade at Disney World does that count

Mine was in the christmas parade at disney.

You have marched where I have marched, good enough for me.

# ? Dec 23, 2016 07:01

Applebees Appetizer: Jan 23, 2006

Seat Safety Switch posted:

14 INCH and the WAR BRIDE rolled to a stop in a backwoods town of Polk County,

You do not want to do this, trust me.

# ? Dec 23, 2016 07:13

Alighieri: Dec 10, 2005

this is a good thread

# ? Dec 23, 2016 07:19

Elmnt80: Dec 30, 2012

You do if you want to sell meth to toothless tweeker chicks.

I'm more impressed SSS got that close to orlando with his florida counties. Unless sims actually lives there, in which case, sorry bout yer life buddy. :v:

# ? Dec 23, 2016 07:20

MrKatharsis: Nov 29, 2003; feel the bern

Seat Safety Switch posted:

14 INCH and the WAR BRIDE rolled to a stop in a backwoods town of Polk County, the SBC beneath the hood rattling off a frustrated huff of exhaust on throttle lift.

He had done it. Wiping the sweat from his brow and stretching across what was left of the bench seat in a futile attempt to rid himself of the steering-shake tremors that had dogged him all the way to the coast, he took a moment's reverie.

That was when the marching band fired up.

Polk County would be an amazing end to this journey.

# ? Dec 23, 2016 07:37

Leperflesh: May 17, 2007

14 has already proven capable of adapting to new environments. He'd be fine.

e. Actually, I'd be more worried about the new environment, although I assume that due to humidity, Florida is slightly harder to catch on fire. But enough panther piss would fix that.

# ? Dec 23, 2016 07:42

Liquid Communism: Mar 9, 2004; Out here, everything hurts.

Gentlemen, we cannot be a part of introducing 14" into the South Florida ecosystem freely.

Nature, red in tooth and claw, will ensure that he becomes the new Florida Man.

# ? Dec 23, 2016 07:44

Queen_Combat: Jan 15, 2011

Also Rosie

# ? Dec 23, 2016 07:46

Elmnt80: Dec 30, 2012

Leperflesh posted:

14 has already proven capable of adapting to new environments. He'd be fine.

e. Actually, I'd be more worried about the new environment, although I assume that due to humidity, Florida is slightly harder to catch on fire. But enough panther piss would fix that.

Given I've had 2 trucks catch on fire in my driveway, I can say with certainty stuff in florida is perfectly capable of catching on fire.

# ? Dec 23, 2016 07:48

Leperflesh: May 17, 2007

Cop Porn Popper posted:

Given I've had 2 trucks catch on fire in my driveway, I can say with certainty stuff in florida is perfectly capable of catching on fire.

Totally understandable that you missed it, but I was making a subtle distinction. Not catching "stuff in florida" on fire, but catching florida itself on fire.

# ? Dec 23, 2016 08:11

INCHI DICKARI: Aug 23, 2006; by FactsAreUseless

I'd just like to take a moment and say while I appreciate everyone saying look at me go, let's take a moment to give full appreciation where it's due. Without sims putting the pieces in place, I wouldnt be here.

But most importantly, Danno, who put me up sight unseen for as long as this took no questions asked. Provided me with shelter, with extra hands, with a god drat vehicle first with the Jimmy and then with his own personal truck while he spends a week with his wife. Dan is a true god drat hero and he deserves just as much of the glory as any of us, and to the people who have repeatedly donated and sent gifts and packages.

I am merely the hands that assemble this story. You all are the source and the fuel to my fire.

# ? Dec 23, 2016 08:19

MrKatharsis: Nov 29, 2003; feel the bern

F yeah. Merry Christmas!

# ? Dec 23, 2016 08:33

Fender Anarchist: May 20, 2009; Fender Anarchist

Leperflesh posted:

Totally understandable that you missed it, but I was making a subtle distinction. Not catching "stuff in florida" on fire, but catching florida itself on fire.

I pray for this, every waking moment of my existence, and also most of my dreaming hours

# ? Dec 23, 2016 09:29

randomidiot: May 12, 2006; by Fluffdaddy
(and can't post for 11 years!)

To be fair, you wouldn't be considering suicide by pissicle (alternatively, split rim incident) if Sims hadn't bought this truck. :haw:

(stay warm, damnit.. and uh, maybe put some new plugs on both the extension cord and generator, ONE FIRE IS ENOUGH)

# ? Dec 23, 2016 11:37

mekilljoydammit: Jan 28, 2016; Me have motors that scream to 10,000rpm. Me have more cars than Pick and Pull

FBS posted:

our HS band did a parade at Disney World does that count

Same.

... it's clear what needs to be done.

# ? Dec 23, 2016 12:36

Siochain: May 24, 2005; "can they get rid of any humans who are fans of shitheads like Kanye West, 50 Cent, or any other piece of crap "artist" who thinks they're all that?

And also get rid of anyone who has posted retarded shit on the internet."

14 BAR RIFF posted:

I'd just like to take a moment and say while I appreciate everyone saying look at me go, let's take a moment to give full appreciation where it's due. Without sims putting the pieces in place, I wouldnt be here.

But most importantly, Danno, who put me up sight unseen for as long as this took no questions asked. Provided me with shelter, with extra hands, with a god drat vehicle first with the Jimmy and then with his own personal truck while he spends a week with his wife. Dan is a true god drat hero and he deserves just as much of the glory as any of us, and to the people who have repeatedly donated and sent gifts and packages.

I am merely the hands that assemble this story. You all are the source and the fuel to my fire.

And its been probably the best thing I've read all loving year my man. Danno's amazing, sims had a dream, and you are like Jack-loving-14inchington, Mayor of Nightmareville, come to deliver a fiery steed birthed of blood and sweat.

ps Merry loving Christmas you bunch of fucks. AI rules, and this thread proves it.

# ? Dec 23, 2016 12:55

Seat Safety Switch: May 27, 2008; MY RELIGION IS THE SMALL BLOCK V8 AND COMMANDMENTS ONE THROUGH TEN ARE NEVER LIFT.; Pillbug

Liquid Communism posted:

Gentlemen, we cannot be a part of introducing 14" into the South Florida ecosystem freely.

Nature, red in tooth and claw, will ensure that he becomes the new Florida Man.

As the years went on, sociologists and writers flocked to Florida, now renamed Inchistan, in the desperate hope that someone, anyone, would be able to tell them what had happened that cold winter morning that He came to town.

Heavily guarded checkpoints, barring the only gates in 18-foot-tall concertina fence strung between four-foot-thick ramproof concrete pylons sunken into the ground, surrounded the NATO Exclusion Zone. Most were turned away at the first sign of opposition, unwilling to go up against the Army or, worse, the Irregulars for the sake of a Snapshouted Buzzfeed listicle about the hottest fashions in necklaces strung with severed ears.

Any remaining Army loyalists were sure to be jumpy, what with the whole succession crisis of the Presidency. Nobody had seen the President, the Vice President, or the Cabinet for months now, and even the White House was abandoned. I used to be in the Gallery, so I ended up with the assignment of investigating. They didn't even lock the front door, and a family of raccoons lived in what remained of the Oval Office, subsisting on leftover buffet snacks and discarded Macbook chargers. When I filed my final report on the mystery, my copy editor changed the entire body of the article to an ASCII smiley of a man shrugging. It got zero hits. America, it seemed, had simply thrown its hands up and decided it had better things to worry about. I was in one of those things right now, I thought with a bit of a jolt.

I was one of a small group that morning in 2019 who could not simply leave, not when they were so close to reconciling the difference in our minds between what we thought He was and what we saw He was. We stood next to a burning barrel, warming our hands as a cold, wet wind blew through the encampment outside the border to the Zone. Another journo, a real go-getter type named (I think?) Tom, showed me on his smartphone the choppy muzzle-camera video of a Predator drone's last sortie into the area before it was captured and parted out.

Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 16:11 on Dec 23, 2016

# ? Dec 23, 2016 15:39

Deteriorata: Feb 6, 2005

Enourmo posted:

I pray for this, every waking moment of my existence, and also most of my dreaming hours

# ? Dec 23, 2016 15:55

Ormy: Apr 5, 2005

14 BAR RIFF posted:

I'd just like to take a moment and say while I appreciate everyone saying look at me go, let's take a moment to give full appreciation where it's due. Without sims putting the pieces in place, I wouldnt be here.

But most importantly, Danno, who put me up sight unseen for as long as this took no questions asked. Provided me with shelter, with extra hands, with a god drat vehicle first with the Jimmy and then with his own personal truck while he spends a week with his wife. Dan is a true god drat hero and he deserves just as much of the glory as any of us, and to the people who have repeatedly donated and sent gifts and packages.

I am merely the hands that assemble this story. You all are the source and the fuel to my fire.

i love you

# ? Dec 23, 2016 17:36

Darchangel: Feb 12, 2009; Tell him about the blower!

Dead Reckoning posted:

PT6A. It'll probably fit under the hood

GMC Twin-Six, obviously.

Those videos, though. Apparently a Tire Rodeo is more like 8 hours than 8 seconds.
Part of the problem has got to be the stiff as gently caress ancient heavy-duty tires.

My dad's '70 Chevy 3/4-ton Longhorn had split rims. He had to explain to me why they looked so weird. Glad I never had to deal with them, even though I assume they were not quite as cunty as these big-truck bastards.

14 BAR RIFF posted:

BTW lol to everyone who said i was gonna die since Seattle

Reverse psychology, son. Obviously, it worked.

Leperflesh posted:

I love the idea of a recirculating ball steering box.

All those fun little balls just sliding around in there, like those steel ball track toys we used to have when we were kids!

That took me forever to wrap my head around, years ago. It's easy now, with CGI animations and such on Youtube. Trying to figure it out from the description in the Service Manual was not obvious, at least for me.

# ? Dec 23, 2016 17:55

Darchangel: Feb 12, 2009; Tell him about the blower!

Seat Safety Switch posted:

As the years went on, sociologists and writers flocked to Florida, now renamed Inchistan, in the desperate hope that someone, anyone, would be able to tell them what had happened that cold winter morning that He came to town.

Heavily guarded checkpoints, barring the only gates in 18-foot-tall concertina fence strung between four-foot-thick ramproof concrete pylons sunken into the ground, surrounded the NATO Exclusion Zone. Most were turned away at the first sign of opposition, unwilling to go up against the Army or, worse, the Irregulars for the sake of a Snapshouted Buzzfeed listicle about the hottest fashions in necklaces strung with severed ears.

Any remaining Army loyalists were sure to be jumpy, what with the whole succession crisis of the Presidency. Nobody had seen the President, the Vice President, or the Cabinet for months now, and even the White House was abandoned. I used to be in the Gallery, so I ended up with the assignment of investigating. They didn't even lock the front door, and a family of raccoons lived in what remained of the Oval Office, subsisting on leftover buffet snacks and discarded Macbook chargers. When I filed my final report on the mystery, my copy editor changed the entire body of the article to an ASCII smiley of a man shrugging. It got zero hits. America, it seemed, had simply thrown its hands up and decided it had better things to worry about. I was in one of those things right now, I thought with a bit of a jolt.

I was one of a small group that morning in 2019 who could not simply leave, not when they were so close to reconciling the difference in our minds between what we thought He was and what we saw He was. We stood next to a burning barrel, warming our hands as a cold, wet wind blew through the encampment outside the border to the Zone. Another journo, a real go-getter type named (I think?) Tom, showed me on his smartphone the choppy muzzle-camera video of a Predator drone's last sortie into the area before it was captured and parted out.

I'm not going to ask where you come up with this poo poo, because I know that's an unanswerable question for true artists such as yourself, and I'm just going to thank you for posting.

# ? Dec 23, 2016 17:56

Adiabatic: Nov 18, 2007; What have you assholes done now?

Someone should take this thread's story and make it into the Mad Max Christmas Special

# ? Dec 23, 2016 18:14

Jealous Cow: Apr 4, 2002; by Fluffdaddy

Someone should take this thread and write a screenplay in the style of The Revenant. His story begins in the PNW when some rich benefactor on the east coast pays him to secure some treasure in the midwest.

Not sure what large animal we can have ~~rape~~ maul 14 though

# ? Dec 23, 2016 18:35

Midjack: Dec 24, 2007

Jealous Cow posted:

Someone should take this thread and write a screenplay in the style of The Revenant. His story begins in the PNW when some rich benefactor on the east coast pays him to secure some treasure in the midwest.

Not sure what large animal we can have ~~rape~~ maul 14 though

civic

# ? Dec 23, 2016 18:46

angryrobots: Mar 31, 2005

Jealous Cow posted:

Not sure what large animal we can have ~~rape~~ maul 14 though

The journey isn't over yet

# ? Dec 23, 2016 18:57

Jealous Cow: Apr 4, 2002; by Fluffdaddy

There has to be some "she could have been called thick 200lbs ago" sloppy unshaven Midwest poon around there somewhere.

# ? Dec 23, 2016 19:09

TheShazbot: Feb 20, 2011

Jealous Cow posted:

There has to be some "she could have been called thick 200lbs ago" sloppy unshaven Midwest poon around there somewhere.

sign me up

# ? Dec 23, 2016 20:17

INCHI DICKARI: Aug 23, 2006; by FactsAreUseless

# ? Dec 23, 2016 21:00

meatpimp: May 15, 2004; Psst -- Wanna buy

EVERYWHERE
some high-quality thread's DESTROYED!

That'll chooch.

# ? Dec 23, 2016 21:04

INCHI DICKARI: Aug 23, 2006; by FactsAreUseless

Jealous Cow posted:

There has to be some "she could have been called thick 200lbs ago" sloppy unshaven Midwest poon around there somewhere.

I prefer punching well above my weight class by using a little technique called dazzle camo, where they're throwing so many different flags of so many different colors the refs simply don't even notice my own and I slip past the front lines

INCHI DICKARI fucked around with this message at 21:19 on Dec 23, 2016

# ? Dec 23, 2016 21:17

INCHI DICKARI: Aug 23, 2006; by FactsAreUseless

poo poo lookin like a pride parade on Omaha Beach

# ? Dec 23, 2016 21:17

INCHI DICKARI: Aug 23, 2006; by FactsAreUseless

Just got wheel 4 apart in 15 minutes using the power of blind rage

# ? Dec 23, 2016 21:53

Queen_Combat: Jan 15, 2011

14 BAR RIFF posted:

Just got wheel 4 apart in 15 minutes using the power of blind rage

# ? Dec 23, 2016 22:00

Memento: Aug 25, 2009; Bleak Gremlin

14 BAR RIFF posted:

Just got wheel 4 apart in 15 minutes using the power of blind rage

It's something that a lot of people refuse to recognise in themselves - that little voice in the back of your head when something's going wrong.

"I can see that's not working... I guess you've tried almost everything.

Wait - have you tried violence?"

# ? Dec 23, 2016 22:10

INCHI DICKARI: Aug 23, 2006; by FactsAreUseless

Wheel 4 about to be ready toair up

# ? Dec 23, 2016 22:12

INCHI DICKARI: Aug 23, 2006; by FactsAreUseless

FOR THOSE WHO SMOKE THE COCK

WE SALUTE YOU

# ? Dec 23, 2016 22:41

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INCHI DICKARI: Aug 23, 2006; by FactsAreUseless

ALL 4 DONE

# ? Dec 23, 2016 22:43

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