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MrOnBicycle posted:Maybe it's because I'm not from the US, but to me much of the veteran stuff like above is super cringe and over the top to the point of being almost a caricature. I'd like to think that it's just a minority, but still. We fetishize the military in the same way we fetishize cops (and to a lesser extent all first responders.) Not that these people don't deserve respect for standing in harm's way, above and beyond and all that, but it often goes beyond that to can do no wrong territory. And yet, at the same time, we pay a lot of them poo poo, and provide them no resources or assistance after their service. Sometimes during. It's pretty much right up there with the typical Right "hopes and prayers (but no money, or a finger lifted.)" edit: Krakkles posted:GI Joe predates that, too - 1963, I think? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Joe Yeah, 1963.
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Uthor posted:I was gonna say it's a post-9/11 thing, but then remembered the 90's Desert Storm trading cards I had as a kid. I had the complete set! I stole them all from the lovely card shop we frequented as youth. Even as a teenager I knew they were deeply, ironically hilarious.
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MrOnBicycle posted:Maybe it's because I'm not from the US, but to me much of the veteran stuff like above is super cringe and over the top to the point of being almost a caricature. I'd like to think that it's just a minority, but still. I'm a vet and i hate that stuff. it's all fake lipservice. Those folks don't give a gently caress. And the consumers they target just want to pay themselves on the back and pretend that they did something that matters. Trash for trash people. bird cooch fucked around with this message at 23:26 on Dec 15, 2020 |
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Hayashi Racing the wheel company has this tiny little thing which seems to be a Ford Falcon but small?? It's apparently a 1.2l bike engine and the car is for a single make race series. And of course it's wearing a set of Hayashi Street wheels. Not for sale but they say they'll make one for you if you want!  https://twitter.com/hayashiracing1/status/1338750234764054535?s=20 Also have the story of the Lotus Elise prototype: https://media.lotuscars.com/en/blog/%E2%80%98the-alternative-christmas-story%E2%80%99-from-lotus-the-birth-of-the-elise-proto-one.html  quote:Over the following weeks, the Project M111 team worked long hours to build the car and get it running by Christmas Eve. At 6pm, when everyone should have been at home with their families, there were still about 50 items that needed to be done to do to get the car running. It seemed like an impossible task, but the question was posed amongst the team – was there anything that couldn’t be completed by midnight? There wasn’t, so the team pushed on. Olympic Mathlete fucked around with this message at 00:08 on Dec 16, 2020 |
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bird cooch posted:I'm a vet and i hate that stuff. it's all fake lipservice. Those folks don't give a gently caress. And the consumers they target just want to pay themselves on the back and pretend that they did something that matters. Trash for trash people. Basically nothing we do should be venerated. Even in a "just" war, people die. Stop thanking me. Start asking what you could've done to stop people from dying everyday.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Hayashi Racing the wheel company has this tiny little thing which seems to be a Ford Falcon but small?? It's apparently a 1.2l bike engine and the car is for a single make race series. And of course it's wearing a set of Hayashi Street wheels. It's from an actual racing series called Aussie Legends/Aussie Racing Cars. https://www.aussieracingcars.com.au/ These things are a godawful amount of fun to drive and to watch buzzing a racetrack - they are really, really REALLY goddamn fast Nidhg00670000 posted:I mean... Good god thats some racist bullshit right there to say the least
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Hayashi Racing the wheel company has this tiny little thing which seems to be a Ford Falcon but small?? It's apparently a 1.2l bike engine and the car is for a single make race series. And of course it's wearing a set of Hayashi Street wheels. It reminds me of the Aussie Racing Cars they get doing support for the V8 Supercars. Powered by a 1300cc yamaha motorbike engine apparently they'll do north of 230km/h and look like great fun. Yours for only 65k. 
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:It's from an actual racing series called Aussie Legends/Aussie Racing Cars. We have something similar in the US, but using dwarf replicas of 30s-40s NASCAR Modifieds: https://www.uslegendcars.com/start-racing/cars/legend-car/ 125 HP, 1250 lbs.
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Uthor posted:The Black Rifle Coffee sponsorship immediately ruined my enjoyment.
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donut posted:Ugh, I hadn't heard of them, but I could smell some poo poo from the emphasis of the cop escort in the intro and the prominent stars-and-stripes iconography. I thought it was fine when I googled "travis pastrana blue lives matter" and didn't find anything, so thanks for the heads up. if there's one thing the internet has taught us, it's that people who pretend to be into something are way better customers than the people who actually do it. Edit for content. When you are wheel shopping and the display car is dreamy 
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Nidhg00670000 posted:I mean... Well that’s hosed up, we know exactly who they are pandering to. I don’t think it’s right when any company vows to hire from any one specific group for any reason, but that is incredibly poor taste. I still liked the video, though. Can’t wait to see how much of the car gets hung out over a cliff in the next one. 
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Krakkles posted:And, to be clear, I'm glad that a company is seeking to hire veterans. I'm not super into their promotion of the idea that (esp. brown) refugees are terrorists. You should swing through GIP and see how those vets like BRC. gently caress BRC Anyway, Starbucks actually promised to hire 10,000 veterans first, then actually hired over 20k.
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Godholio posted:You should swing through GIP and see how those vets like BRC. gently caress BRC Anyway, Starbucks actually promised to hire 10,000 veterans first, then actually hired over 20k. Elmnt80 posted:It would be nice if they had hired nearly that many. (They didn't.) Plus, I'd go to GIP but y'all got too many drat TLAs and ETLAs. There's no way it's not on purpose.
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I had to google those, which is supremely funny. You're not wrong though.
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Modus Man posted:I still liked the video, though. Can’t wait to see how much of the car gets hung out over a cliff in the next one. I've done that once. I stress once because my god I never ever want to do that again. Feeling even for a second the back wheels dangling off an edge is just an awful feeling and anyone that tries to do it deliberately I'll willingly concede is braver/got balls made from denser material than I will ever be.
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I just found out the that 1) the lexus LFA existed, 2) it was ugly as poo poo, and 3) it was the most bad-rear end sounding engine on the planet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4OAAyMNWJQ&t=74s e: 9000 rpm redline v10. my mere 8400 rpm v8 redline sounds like poo poo now. e2: I watched the hoonigan video. Black Rifle coffee co is absolutely maga chud-ey, but the video was sweet. pastrana visited the white house in 2019, so I assume he is Bad. gvibes fucked around with this message at 06:39 on Dec 16, 2020 |
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Toyota even engaged frequent collaborator Yamaha to tune the engine - acoustically. https://youtu.be/dKzPD0AEB8I
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Nidhg00670000 posted:I mean... CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Good god thats some racist bullshit right there to say the least Furthermore they never had any plans of employing anywhere near that number of people. 
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gvibes posted:I just found out the that 1) the lexus LFA existed, 2) it was ugly as poo poo, and 3) it was the most bad-rear end sounding engine on the planet. You're welcome - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrLocZavR6g
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:It's from an actual racing series called Aussie Legends/Aussie Racing Cars. Yeah I saw the word Aussie in the badly translated text but didn't know it was an actual thing. Awesome!
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LFAs are also one of the highest appreciating cars in recent memory as well.
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People calling the LFA terrible need their profile linked in the terrible thread.
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The LFA is one of those cars that looks far, far better in person than it does in photos.
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Re: Black Rifle Coffee Go read through the comments on any of their FB posts. The Ultra Chuds have turned on them and are very, very anti BRC now. That doesn't make them a GOOD company by any stretch but the constant moving blob of hate has now turned on them. So that's fun to watch
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Flyinglemur posted:Re: Black Rifle Coffee There's so much of that going on right now, it's really enjoyable to watch conservatives attacking each other.
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MrOnBicycle posted:the US is super cringe and over the top, almost a caricature.
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I agree with that edit. Good to hear actual vets (which I expected) not siding with the above mentioned cringe. Also, the LFA really is the best sounding car every. I say this despite my extreme love for the Busso V6.
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Weirdly, you can still buy one from a dealer. Which is mental because I’ve seen used cars at overs! “Yes, according to autoblog.com — which has made something of a study of LFA sales over the years — there are still a few absolutely pristine, zero mile, fire-breathing Lexi still up for grabs. Yes, never been registered, still in dealer hands and looking for owners LFAs. When the news first broke in 2017, there were some 12 LFAs still left on lots — okay, probably in some hermetically-sealed, securely-guarded vaults — still waiting to be sold. Since then, seven more have been sold — 2019 was a banner year with three LFAs reported on Lexus’s annual sales report — but there are, says autoblog, still five left trying to find new homes. And again, these are not demos or low-mile trailer queens, but completely new, zero-mile new cars.” Does anyone know any dealers locally with them in??? Would be cool to see how they’re specced!
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Reminds me when the ELRs were still for sale new like 3 years after release for nearly the price of the Volt that it was identical to underneath.  I still like the LFA even though it had a stupid long development cycle and was seemingly outdated before it even released.
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They are drat cool. Quite bespoke cars on how they are outfitted. The suspension is something else.
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Last year I posted a bunch about the dakar rally in CA and this year I am going to do the same thing. Only I will share this joy with you too because you too are deserving of good things. I will try to include more not-bike stuff so that you don't get overwhelmed But I will still mostly focus on bikes because, uh...  With that... Soon it will be the most wonderful time of the year. Only 20 more days to wait and I'm starting to see things for it so you're going to start too. Just so you have plenty of time to get in the mood. Baja Hail is like a warmup. Not many of the fast bike folks are in it. Except Adrien van Beveren. https://fb.watch/2qr1wy30YY/ "Who's AVB, I need a refresher" you say?  Not to be confused with fellow french rider and factory yamaha teammate, xavier de soultrait. https://www.instagram.com/p/CIBlXvJK9yi/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Who also loves wheelies when the helicopter comes around.  But remember, this isn't just about bikes. There is also that most noble of vehicles. The truck.  If there's one thing to know about the trucks, it's this: loving kamaz. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NP41lLs9ZQ&t=190s
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gvibes posted:I just found out the that 1) the lexus LFA existed, 2) it was ugly as poo poo, and 3) it was the most bad-rear end sounding engine on the planet. I've only seen 2 in person, 1 parked at RK Motors as part of the owner's private collection along with an F40, F50 etc. The owner Robert Kauffman is a hedge fund millionaire involved in racing and owned a Toyota-affiliated NASCAR team. He has a Nürburgring edition. The other was out and about - it sounded like an F1 car when the driver got on the throttle. It was probably a NASCAR driver given this was in NC and I know some of the other Toyota-affiliated drivers either borrowed or owned them. Kyle Busch got in trouble for driving 130 mph in one. It is kind of funny to me that since then I've lived in very affluent parts of FL and CA and have seen almost every kind of exotic imaginable but have not seen another LF-A. Hell I saw a guy with a new Ford GT at my gym the other day.
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I've seen two Carrera GTs out and about in person but still haven't come across an LFA
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heated game moment posted:It is kind of funny to me that since then I've lived in very affluent parts of FL and CA and have seen almost every kind of exotic imaginable but have not seen another LF-A. Hell I saw a guy with a new Ford GT at my gym the other day. My neighbor's kid has a seemingly never-ending stream of friends come over with often really nice cars, including at least twice, an LF-A. (I think it was the same one, but  )
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I remember seeing an LFA delivery truck in Austin many years ago and hearing about one or two others spotted. I want to say I spotted an LFA at one of the F1 races at COTA, but I'm not certain about that. What is fair to say is that I've seen more Bugatti Veyrons than I've seen LFAs.
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I never realised they were that scarce, I see one every couple of weeks (I work for Toyota though)
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builds character posted:Last year I posted a bunch about the dakar rally in CA and this year I am going to do the same thing. Only I will share this joy with you too because you too are deserving of good things. I will try to include more not-bike stuff so that you don't get overwhelmed Please post all the Dakar 
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heated game moment posted:I've only seen 2 in person, 1 parked at RK Motors as part of the owner's private collection along with an F40, F50 etc. The owner Robert Kauffman is a hedge fund millionaire involved in racing and owned a Toyota-affiliated NASCAR team. He has a Nürburgring edition. The other was out and about - it sounded like an F1 car when the driver got on the throttle. It was probably a NASCAR driver given this was in NC and I know some of the other Toyota-affiliated drivers either borrowed or owned them. Kyle Busch got in trouble for driving 130 mph in one. I’ve seen more Enzos than I’ve seen LFAs.
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