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The Door Frame posted:Stolen from the terrible car thread There's so much wrong with that image but I just can't get over the impracticality of a grinder with threads like that 
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Mein Kampf Enthusiast posted:There's so much wrong with that image but I just can't get over the impracticality of a grinder with threads like that And the screw holes that are just going to catch the ground up weed and make it a bitch to get out. And the whole not being able to flip the bottom part over and tap it out. That would just be a terrible grinder overall without even getting to the car parts.
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Nov 23, 2017 19:26
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It also looks uncomfortable as gently caress to shift with, but jeeze that's like the worst-designed grinder of all time
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Nov 23, 2017 19:29
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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Automotive Insanity > These are the people you share a road with: jeeze that's like the worst-designed grinder of all time
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Nov 23, 2017 19:35
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Dagen H posted:The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Automotive Insanity > These are the people you share a road with: jeeze that's like the worst-designed grinder of all time I'm not Adiabatic, but I'm pretty sure that's too long.
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Nov 23, 2017 19:36
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One weird trick to get the police dogs to signal every time and generate probable cause!
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Nov 23, 2017 19:37
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Any idea on what the model of vehicles those works of art are sitting in?
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Nov 23, 2017 19:38
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canyoneer posted:One weird trick to get the police dogs to signal every time and generate probable cause! I think if the police dogs are there you're a bit past the probable cause part 
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Nov 23, 2017 19:40
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Colostomy Bag posted:Any idea on what the model of vehicles those works of art are sitting in? I'm similarly curious about the camo one.
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Nov 23, 2017 19:41
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Mein Kampf Enthusiast posted:I think if the police dogs are there you're a bit past the probable cause part Reasonable suspicion gets the dog there and walking around your car. A signal from the dog triggers probable cause and gets the cops inside your car 
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Nov 23, 2017 19:58
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Colostomy Bag posted:Any idea on what the model of vehicles those works of art are sitting in? 10th gen civic. dude has pictures of his plate and everything up, so if the OPP decided to make his life miserable, it would be suuuuuuper easy. Dagen H posted:I'm similarly curious about the camo one. scion FRS. I almost want to say it's a render. a lot of their "pictures" have super hosed up lighting and the climate control is always set to 21.0/20.5
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Nov 23, 2017 20:00
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So I was traveling in the left lane on NY I-90 near Schenectady between 65-70 when a guy in a Buick SUV in the right lane decided THIS IS MY LANE NOW and merged into me, literally colliding with my passenger side and pushing me into the center breakdown lane and taking off at around 90 mph. While he was pushing me out of the lane, I could see/hear chunks of his car getting ground off and deposited into the road by my Jeep's tires. I caught up with him, snapped a few pics of his licence plate (Michigan plates), as well as the terrified looking child in the passenger seat, and let him go on his way while I pulled over to assess my damage and call the police. After getting off the phone with 911 I get out to check my damage and find that the full extent of it was amazingly: some light scuffs that will buff out with a few washes, the fuel door popped open, and the mirror folded in. Upon seeing how little damage there was I called PD dispatch back (it had been about 30 minutes) and asked if it was worth it to wait for an officer- and they said that they think they had caught the other guy and he was claiming a knee injury, so I had to fill out a police report. After another hour a tow truck pulls up and tells me to meet the officer at the next exit, where he tells me that there's nothing worth filling out an accident report for but he would fill out an incident report in case I find damage later, and that the knee injury was from a different hit and run on that stretch of highway at the same time.
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The drunk who rammed me at speed on a stale red (also has 3 DUI convictions and 4 convictions of driving on a suspended license) has pled not guilty and is fighting the charges. Good luck with that, rear end in a top hat. Too bad all the other times his license was suspended didn't seem to deter him. Maybe next time he'll just drive off a bridge and drown.
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sleepy.eyes posted:Maybe next time he'll just drive off a bridge and drown. This just happened yesterday, but no one drowned.  https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2017/nov/22/updating-car-plunges-water-near-eureka-slough-brid/
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Heading to work yesterday during 5 PM rush-hour on IH-35. IH-35 doesn't allow trucks in the far left lane (at least around Austin...not that I don't see the occasional Semi Trailer shifting into high gear to pass a slow-rear end old lady or another Semi that actually has a working speed governor) so a lot of people will try to slam themselves into the fast lane. This is a Bad Idea during slow traffic because now you have 10x the cars in "fast" lane and it becomes slower than the other two lanes. Some idiot figured that out and realized he had a 3-4 second window to move to the middle lane which was actually moving. So what does he do? Wait until the fifth second to pull out and brake-check me. Von Fuckstick doesn't stop there: he sees the outside lane is moving even faster (for about 200 feet until the next on-ramp where it will stop again) and he does have a good 4-5 second window to move over without any problems...so he waits until the 6th second to brake-check some Ford pickup.
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Nov 24, 2017 00:37
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InitialDave posted:In fairness, they really don't ride well over them a lot of the time. Leaf sprung live axles can be especially bad. My 2000 Toy-Auto Echo was designed in Belgium. Handles speed bumps like a champ. But not as good as an old Citroen DS21 or Peugeot 504 would.
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VideoGameVet posted:My 2000 Toy-Auto Echo was designed in Belgium. Handles speed bumps like a champ. I swear my old BX had antigravity, speed bumps at 40 caused as much upset as a deep breath.
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cakesmith handyman posted:I swear my old BX had antigravity, speed bumps at 40 caused as much upset as a deep breath. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydropneumatic_suspension No longer on any Citroen models on sale due to costs 
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Nov 24, 2017 13:18
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Even on regular suspension, French stuff often rides extremely well.
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InitialDave posted:Even on regular suspension, French stuff often rides extremely well. That's more of citroen schtick, even on a conventional cars they tended to go balls out, for instance the 407 used double wishbone suspension. Renault and Peugeot tend to have harder suspensions than Citroen.
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SlowBloke posted:That's more of citroen schtick, even on a conventional cars they tended to go balls out, for instance the 407 used double wishbone suspension. Renault and Peugeot tend to have harder suspensions than Citroen.
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InitialDave posted:Even so, they're still noticeably squidgy. Yeah, after riding in a colleague Citroen Cactus my Suzuki Swift felt like driving a Defender 
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gently caress everything related to the I-17 north of Phoenix yesterday. ADOT decided to create the entire section of it from Cordes to Phoenix as a "holiday corridor" and lowered the speedlimit by 10 mph respective of each section. That's fine, whatever, I've got cruise control. But all it managed to do was cause straight up chaos. 50% of the people obeying the new limits, the other 50% not, on an already annoying stretch of freeway where people don't know how passing lanes work. And at NO POINT on either the trip up or the trip back later that evening did I see a single DPS cruiser on enforcement duty. They could have had a loving field day. Single most stressful 5 hours on that interstate ever. EVER. Sorry, mom and dad, we're celebrating thanksgiving on Friday's now. Forever.
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Maker Of Shoes posted:gently caress everything related to the I-17 north of Phoenix yesterday. ADOT decided to create the entire section of it from Cordes to Phoenix as a "holiday corridor" and lowered the speedlimit by 10 mph respective of each section. That's fine, whatever, I've got cruise control. But all it managed to do was cause straight up chaos. 50% of the people obeying the new limits, the other 50% not, on an already annoying stretch of freeway where people don't know how passing lanes work. And at NO POINT on either the trip up or the trip back later that evening did I see a single DPS cruiser on enforcement duty. They could have had a loving field day. They started doing that stupid poo poo a couple of holiday's ago, and I have no idea what the gently caress anyone was thinking this would improve. Thank god I don't have to drive it.
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Nov 25, 2017 01:38
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We're the government. We are here to help.
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The Locator posted:They started doing that stupid poo poo a couple of holiday's ago, and I have no idea what the gently caress anyone was thinking this would improve. In theory, lower speed limits can help increase the overall flow of congested highways. It's counterintuitive, but it works provided the highway is sufficiently congested and everyone actually obeys the speed limits. In practice, it's a complete poo poo show.
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The Locator posted:They started doing that stupid poo poo a couple of holiday's ago, and I have no idea what the gently caress anyone was thinking this would improve. This is what happens when you let engineers have a say in policy decisions.
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Nov 25, 2017 03:57
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Nah, this is what happens when speed limits aren't enforced because people whine endlessly about traffic tickets.
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Gorilla Salad posted:This is what happens when you let engineers have a say in policy decisions. I thought that was the Great Depression.
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Nov 25, 2017 04:02
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The Aristocrats!
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PT6A posted:In theory, lower speed limits can help increase the overall flow of congested highways. It's counterintuitive, but it works provided the highway is sufficiently congested and everyone actually obeys the speed limits. In theory, communism works.
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Lower speed limit only works if every vehicle accelerates/decelerates at the exact same rate. The accordion effect as the front car starts moving and the line stretches out means you might as well drive as fast as is safe to try and compensate.
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Bill is gone so I’m the new Pittsburgh guy I guess. On 376 this lovely Frankenstein body part Maxima or something merged without yielding(Like the signs on many Pittsburgh onramps say to) after a couple “don’t do it mother fucker”s from me. Many times I’ll even move over for people if there’s room, I guess this idiot thought I would move out of the way and cut off the guy next to me so he can merge at 20 mph, barely accelerating. gently caress
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Maker Of Shoes posted:gently caress everything related to the I-17 north of Phoenix yesterday. ADOT decided to create the entire section of it from Cordes to Phoenix as a "holiday corridor" and lowered the speedlimit by 10 mph respective of each section. That's fine, whatever, I've got cruise control. But all it managed to do was cause straight up chaos. 50% of the people obeying the new limits, the other 50% not, on an already annoying stretch of freeway where people don't know how passing lanes work. And at NO POINT on either the trip up or the trip back later that evening did I see a single DPS cruiser on enforcement duty. They could have had a loving field day. Makes me wonder if some unmarked guys were chilling out at Sunset Point with some binoculars so they could cackle and fist bump at the chaos. Whereas they could have had 1 marked car doing laps around the zone to coerce some consistent behavior out of people.
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ProjektorBoy posted:Makes me wonder if some unmarked guys were chilling out at Sunset Point with some binoculars so they could cackle and fist bump at the chaos. ProjektorBoy posted:Whereas they could have had 1 marked car doing laps around the zone to coerce some consistent behavior out of people. Nah, some signs and the honor system totally works, right?
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SAFETY CORRIDOR aka LETS-US-PULL-OVER-BROWN-PEOPLE-ANY-TIME CORRIDOR aka gently caress-U--SUPREME-COURT CORRIDOR
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Arizona law enforcement doesn't need a lower speed limit for holidays to reinforce its text book racism.
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Oh no, I'm talking about the "zero tolerance safety corridor" that went in this spring. They were explicit in news reports about how, if ANYTHING is amiss while driving in that zone (i60 in Mesa to the 17 on the 10), from 2mph over the limit to slight swerving, they can buttfuck you hard.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Oh no, I'm talking about the "zero tolerance safety corridor" that went in this spring. They were explicit in news reports about how, if ANYTHING is amiss while driving in that zone (i60 in Mesa to the 17 on the 10), from 2mph over the limit to slight swerving, they can buttfuck you hard. And yet traffic and how people drive on that stretch, which I drive both ways every day, is completely unchanged.
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Can confirm. If it was a real initiative, there'd be change. Ergo, why enact it? I mean, it could not be for racist purposes. However, if a known drug dealer says he's suddenly going to go door to door to hock magazines to help children with cancer, are you going to believe him? Especially when he doesn't manage to sell any magazines?
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