Cojawfee posted:

I like how the engine burns clean right at the end before exploding.

Proteus Jones posted:

The rolling coal people are grade A morons

Nocheez posted:

This. When I ride around in my wife's Prius I notice that big trucks will purposefully get in front of her and do this bullshit. It makes me extremely angry because there's no need for it, and many times my toddler is riding in the back and doesn't deserve to breathe that poo poo in.

All this just because she drives a more eco-friendly car. I'm getting mad just thinking about it.

Scratch Monkey posted:

Where do you live? I live in a big coastal city and I've never seen someone rolling coal.

Scratch Monkey posted:

Where do you live? I live in a big coastal city and I've never seen someone rolling coal.

Scratch Monkey posted:

Where do you live? I live in a big coastal city and I've never seen someone rolling coal.

Nocheez posted:

This. When I ride around in my wife's Prius I notice that big trucks will purposefully get in front of her and do this bullshit. It makes me extremely angry because there's no need for it, and many times my toddler is riding in the back and doesn't deserve to breathe that poo poo in.

All this just because she drives a more eco-friendly car. I'm getting mad just thinking about it.

Cojawfee posted:

Keep a milkshake in the car and then throw it at them.

Cojawfee posted:

That's why you also keep every other rung on the escalation ladder in your car.

Shut up Meg posted:

Well, he is the leader of the master race.

TVs Ian posted:

Sometimes it seems like a badly maintained truck that just spews it out, but other times it's definitely somebody doing it to a small car behind them when the light turns green, because they only do it for a moment to make a huge cloud before they start moving.

solarNativity posted:

You may be underestimating the average pickup owner's capacity for neglect.

Kith posted:

               N-NANI!?
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eggyolk posted:

Just gotta pop that hood and wrestle with the engine to tame it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG1MnXkHhlM&t=72s

Craptacular posted:

"I was still a bit bored, playing with the magnets. It’s the same logic as clipping pegs to your ears – I clipped them to my earlobes and then clipped them to my nostril and things went downhill pretty quickly when I clipped the magnets to my other nostril.”

No, the subject of the article is not a kindergartener, he's a 27-year old astrophysicist.

Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:

I've watched enough lathe videos (two, I think) to know that that giant flywheel or whatever there is nothing but trouble.

Craptacular posted:

"I was still a bit bored, playing with the magnets. It’s the same logic as clipping pegs to your ears – I clipped them to my earlobes and then clipped them to my nostril and things went downhill pretty quickly when I clipped the magnets to my other nostril.”

No, the subject of the article is not a kindergartener, he's a 27-year old astrophysicist.

BMan posted:

You will enjoy "Big Wheel"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHT9P0-qoxo

My Spirit Otter posted:

what the poo poo is this?

BMan posted:

Dude was a loving psycho

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Burden

pentyne posted:

"Hey Chris, what's up with this letter demanding to know what you did with a $25k Arts and Humanities grant?"

"poo poo! Grab a rifle and follow me!"

chitoryu12 posted:

This sounds like a Hunter S. Thompson quote.

BMan posted:

Dude was a loving psycho

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Burden

quote:

Works:
Do You Believe in Television (1976), in which he sent an audience to the third floor of a building — where television monitors showed them the ground floor — and then lit a fire on the ground floor

quote:

Burden began to work in performance art in the early 1970s. He made a series of controversial performances in which the idea of personal danger as artistic expression was central.

[…]

His 1973 work 747 involved the artist firing several pistol shots directly at a Boeing 747 passenger jet plane while it took off from Los Angeles International Airport.

Memento posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etYed15hjiM

There's an awful lot of OSHA related content in this video

quote:

In 1985, a multi-millionaire called Floyd Watkins moved to Woody Creek, in Aspen, Colorado. He bought Beaver Run Ranch, just a few miles from Owl Creek—which just happened to be the ranch of one Hunter S. Thompson. It wasn’t long before the two men were at each other’s throats. Watkins, who’d made millions running a debt-collecting firm, immediately began surrounding his property with concrete walls and chain link fences, pouring tonnes of concrete, redirecting streams to create artificial trout farms (to the annoyance of his neighbors downstream), and demanding that the county’s dirt roads be paved with concrete just so that dust wouldn’t find its way into his home. When his requests for the roads to be paved were denied, he boasted that he was rich and powerful enough to have every member of the county board fired and replaced if they didn’t do what he said. As if to prove just how powerful he was, Watkins even imported Bengal tigers to deter trespassers.

Watkins’ supervillain-esque levels of control freakery didn’t endear him to the residents of Woody Creek. He was almost immediately bombarded with threatening phone-calls, vandalism, and unflattering graffiti (ranging from foul language to a sign declaring his house “Fat Loyd’s Trout Farm”). How much of this was the work of Thompson we’ll never know, but Watkins did blame Hunter for at least one of the incidents—the mysterious poisoning of his expensive trout.

Things came to a head when Watkins chased down a resident of Woody Creek, warning them that he intended to hire professional gunmen to patrol his property and that if anyone messed with him he could get rid of them without ever being implicated. Thompson must have heard about this and taken exception, because that night, as a heavily armed Watkins camped out in his car, his gaudy mansion was lit up by gunfire. Someone fired scores of bullets from a shotgun, automatic rifle, and finally a pistol in the direction of Beaver Run Ranch, pausing only to reload or switch weapons.

According to Wilson, he chased the perpetrator in his car at high speed and when they pulled over it was Thompson, completely unapologetic about the shooting—it had been a warning against further ecologically destructive development. Later, Thompson’s excuse for the shooting was that he had been attacked by a rabid porcupine and had fired at it (with pistol, shotgun, and automatic rifle) in self-defense. When Thompson was ordered to present his automatic rifle to the police it had been destroyed in such a way as to make ballistic tests useless. No charges were brought.

NoneMoreNegative posted:

also; what could possibly go wrong?

wolrah posted:

Older diesels with mechanically controlled fuel injection will often smoke a bit to a moderate amount under load, especially if they've been tuned for performance, just because of the limited adjustability of their controls.

That covers GM and Ford up to the early '90s and Dodge up to the late '90s.

Anything modern with computer controlled fuel injection should rarely ever smoke under normal conditions. Maybe a bit when cold, but black smoke from a diesel is unburned fuel going right out the exhaust pipe. The big clouds don't happen unless you're using way too much fuel, and on a modern truck the only excuse for that is a full dyno queen tune that's only useful to make a number.

Anyone driving a diesel pickup truck less than 20 years old that smokes noticeably under normal conditions is almost certainly doing it intentionally.

NoneMoreNegative posted:

Craptacular posted:

"I was still a bit bored, playing with the magnets. It’s the same logic as clipping pegs to your ears – I clipped them to my earlobes and then clipped them to my nostril and things went downhill pretty quickly when I clipped the magnets to my other nostril.”

No, the subject of the article is not a kindergartener, he's a 27-year old astrophysicist.

quote:

“My partner took me to the hospital that she works in because she wanted all her colleagues to laugh at me.”