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Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

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InitialDave posted:

Smaller, removable steering wheel, mainly.

Luckily, while I am fat, I'm not as fat as my weight would suggest. I have a depleted uranium skeleton or something.

Volume wise fat is at least twice that of muscle for the same weight. This leads to hilarious things like tiny 5'2" women who lift weights religiously being as heavy as 6'1" beanpole dudes that do no exercise whatsoever.

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Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

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Considering we're doing food chat. Steak. And putting sauce on said steak. Personally I feel anyone who wants a steak anything over medium rare is a child. Anyone who puts sauce on a steak is a monster.

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

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I straight up don't even know what the gently caress ranch is. I mean I've heard of it obviously but I've no idea what it's made of or similar to.

*edit: wait is that what 'Cool' Doritos are?

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

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We don't get 'Cool Ranch' Doritos though, we get 'Cool Original' Doritos hence the question.

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

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Cage posted:

Thats so weird.



I never actually put 2 and 2 together when hearing 'cool ranch' until a while back.

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

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^^ The whole cook it super quick and then leave it to cook in its own juices wrapped in foil is a boss move in steak world. I need to try more variations of cooking styles but I feel leaving a nice piece of meat to dry up and harden is a waste. Rare plz.

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

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slidebite posted:

Also, before anyone shits on them, pringles are awesome and I'll cut anyone who says otherwise.

Reformed potato mush. Garbage.

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

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angryrobots posted:

Got me thinking, what was everybody's first movie you remember seeing in a movie theatre (or drive in)?

Mine:
The Adventures of Milo and Otis (1989 US release)

An American Tail, 1986. It was the film that made me fall in love with Don Bluth's animation style.

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

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I did a foot long poo poo in America thanks to the food and generously water-filled toilet bowls. It wedged in the bottom and the tip proudly poked clear of the water line.

Sadly this was before the advent of camera phones so I couldn't send it to ratemypoo.com for glory.

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

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InitialDave posted:

Also the original Taxi movie(s) for those who haven't seen them (TBH anything with Luc Besson at the helm is always a solid watch).

I've only ever seen the first one and it's great. French, hip hop soundtrack, nice harmless comedy, Marion Cotillard... *edit: poo poo I've just remembered the intro, haha. I want a moped.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLNQe-XIc1A

Cop Porn Popper posted:

http://www.speedhunters.com/2013/05/touring-evolution-the-volk-racing-te37/

Some history about one of probably the most iconic and knocked off sets of aftermarket wheels in modern history. They really are pretty.

I love these rims but they need dish otherwise they look loving gash. All wheels look better with dish.

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

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D'ya like dags?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4N7G29GWQI

That nose dive was harsh but he didn't give a poo poo.

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

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I had a 350D with a 35-105mm and a 50mm f1.8.

To be fair you can learn the basics (and get some fantastic shots) on really cheap equipment. She (like many photographers) may have all the kit but no eye for it... It happens.

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

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His wife is in the next room, she gets off on being degraded and has a voyeur fetish.

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

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Throwing a piddly flatscreen tv just doesn't have the same impact as hucking a heavy-rear end CRT into a pool.

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

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What I'm saying is you need to park a car in the pool instead.



*edit: there's a surprising amount of photos of different cars sat at the bottom of people's pools man. So much so that I'm fairly confident a lot of people really shouldn't be allowed to drive.

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Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:

in all honesty film is the best to learn with, for one specific reason - there's no room for mistakes. It forces you to think about the shot, how to compose, how to set the apature and field of focus becuase as soon as you press the button that's it and you only got 11 or up to 35 more shots availible with no edit and no erase. It really makes you learn how to use a camera properly and I really apreciate using the old Pentax SLR for that reason.


Yeah learning how to make the shot in camera is the best thing you can ever do. I hated editing digital poo poo, I really didn't enjoy it so I made sure my shot was pretty much what I wanted it to be in the first place. I'm not about making more work for myself AFTER I've clicked the shutter.

Also I feel like the editing culture that surrounds digital can also be really loving bad for photography, mainly because people that can use a camera often don't have an eye for what looks good. They'll snap a shot and then overedit the poo poo out of it making it look like trash. Just smash the contrast and edge enhancement all the way up, colours need to pop so hard they make your eyes bleed.

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

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Mountainbikes are now all huge wheeled and 1x10 geared. I miss 26" wheels

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

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InitialDave posted:

EDIT: Bike guys, do modern SRAM trigger shifters shift the "correct" way (thumb under the bar is bigger sprocket/lower gear, finger over the bar is smaller sprocket/higher gear)?

How do 1x11 drietrains cope with "more torque than some small block V8s" riders?

Isn't a 32 or 34 tooth single chainring really undergeared in a lot of situations?

Shifters don't dictate the way the mech moves, the mech does. I take it you've had a run in with Shimano's reverse rise poo poo from the past then :v: I still have that on my 2005 Orange 5 and I quite like it actually!

32/34 is only undergeared if you're riding massively fast trails or doing a spot of road riding. Generally it's bang on though and with the low gear on the cassettes now being enormous you get the full spread of gearing you previously did with a 3x9.

And chains are strong, it's a rare occasion I've seen them broken from SHEER POWER rather than idiocy shifting all the gear whilst still pedaling.

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

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Y'all not get the Suzuki Vitara then?

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

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jammyozzy posted:

Finally made it back "home" to Indy after 10 days on the road in Florida. I slept properly maybe one night in that, and that was after closing out two bars in Clearwater. I've not been this happy to sit on my arse and vegetate on the sofa in a long time.

I also flew out on my birthday, so I had a couple of presents waiting in the office from my boyfriend when I got in today. Kinda glad I didn't open them in the office...

:nws: if you're easily offended: http://i.imgur.com/QPek4mQ.jpg

Tom of Finland is brilliant, I believe there was a series of stamps put out which I wanted simply to have them. Stamps with huge muscle Marys and leather daddies are needed more in this word if only to giggle at like schoolchildren. I now need that book.

mariooncrack posted:

Wing night is never a mistake.

I think it's important to remember to measure your waist if you've been dieting and exercising. You may not have lost weight but you may be losing inches.

Weight is only one metric for health.

Scales lie and women's obsession with only weight is ridiculous and unhealthy. A measuring tape can't lie, throw away the scales they'll do nothing but make you miserable and focus on actual measurable metrics like size and indeed how much weight you can throw around at the gym/how many miles you can run.

I weigh more now than I've ever weighed (I was a skinny kid/young adult) and yet I'm far stronger and fitter than I ever was... gently caress scales forever, I feel sad that so many people obsess over those loving things.

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

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I'm in the gym that's in my garage lifting things and I can still poo poo post on this glorious forum. I bought a power cage because gently caress going to a gym and waiting for some bellend to finish and never put poo poo back.

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

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Water is the best thing to drink 4 ur body. Humans are a fair percentage water so why put other poo poo in yourself? Do you hate yourself or something? Drink more water.

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

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The Door Frame posted:

Does SA have anywhere mentally ill people congregate? I'd assume the Crackhead Clubhouse, since drug use and brain problems generally go hand in hand, but I've been there a few times and it's weird... I don't venture out of AI or LP much these days, and I don't really know where to look. Like, I appreciate the chat threads' patience with my own issues, but I don't feel like it's the most appropriate place to vent my often irrational frustrations

It's the chat thread, fucko. Post whatever you like even if it's ~feelings~ related, I don't think anyone in here is enough of a oval office to flip out at anyone else for doing so. If they are then they can get tae gently caress.

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

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InitialDave posted:

On-One Ti 45650b

Titanium is forever as long as it fits you properly... That and On-One bike angles are well sorted to UK trails.

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:

Oh I dunno. Sometimes you get to surprise them at the next set of lights and they get all embarrassed and scared and wont look at you.

Oh I love doing that and now I've brought the road bike out of hibernation it happens more often. They'll overtake you impatiently, honk or gesture and not realise traffic is barely moving faster than you are...

I moved house and my route to work changed so I have to deal with so many less dickheads these days, certainly less dangerous ones. I miss being dressed in lycra and being offered out for a fight :allears:

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

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I sincerely hope Pace have upped their quality control. I used to live in Leeds and rode with a bunch of people with Pace frames and forks, a couple were sponsored. The forks needed nigh on weekly stripping down to work as they should in a world where Fox and Rock Shox forks were just tanks. Also the 'cheap' Pace frames were honestly as shittily welded as Halfords cheapo far Eastern ones. I was honestly shocked just how crap they were...

I got to go on a factory tour due to knowing the riders and the warranty department was packed to the rafters with chimps twatting things with hammers. It's not like the company was huge at the time but that department was loving busyyyyyyyy

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

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Metal Geir Skogul posted:

I think I can double dip and work from 0800-1245 on training days, and then work my 1300-0100 shift.

A 12 hour shift is tough going man, don't know how you do it. Congrats though!

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

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I'm confused about this well water/HOA scenario here. How does that work?

I pay a water company and they supply me and let me pee and poop and take showers and wash cars to my heart's content. Is that different over there?

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

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ilkhan posted:

He's far enough out from a town that he doesn't have a water company. He has a well.

Considering some states are larger than my entire country I never actually thought about that. Thanks.

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

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Work have decided to axe our phone system for a 'softphone' software replacement. Yesterday we moved over from our old IP based phone system. It's been a loving disaster. The software itself is complete loving garbage, incoherently laid out, does bizarre things with contacts in that it deletes them when you add a new one, needs to be signed in and out of daily, doesn't save your audio settings properly...

I'm wondering if they actually tested it for more than 5 minutes because it really doesn't seem so. It's super flaky. What's worse is we already have Skype for Business linked up to everything so this offers no advantages other than call forwarding to mobile devices, but if you can see the person you're calling is out of the office you'd contact them on their mobile anyway.

It's poo poo.

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

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Kazinsal posted:

Is it an entire solution like how you have a bunch of Skype for Business Servers and they're all doing various parts of the SIP and RTP mambo, or a magic cloud solution that doesn't work and you can't fix because no one in IT has access to it?

Basically, looking at terrible VOIP poo poo is part of my job. Name and shame.

Mitel MiCollab. A company that provides really nice IP phone kit has moved into the software side of things... It's really not very intuitive or good. On the website the term is 'cloud enabled mobile workforce' which is the most terrible mess of words ever. We all have laptops and iphones provided through work, anything we could ever want to do we can already do.

I've no idea how it all works as it's not my area at all, I just know it's a bit poop as I'm being forced to use it.

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

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InitialDave posted:

Our MRP system was being quite slow to use yesterday. The explanation from IT was that "it looks like someone is on a videoconference and that may be affecting it".

I don't want to know what kind of lunacy has led to that being a thing.

We're on a 10GB fibre backbone so that's never an issue thankfully! But that's a slight oversight on IT at your joint though!!

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

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SquirrelGrip posted:

Made it to drift heaven, doing a service in the snow is a first.

MORE PHOTOS

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

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rdb posted:

Living in the present, let's see... my 15 month old son died a month ago and it still feels like I stood in front of a cannon, my employment contract expires tomorrow so I will be officially unemployed, car was in an accident and still not fixed so my wife and I only have one vehicle, and I had been riding my motorcycle but the rear tire corded and the tire changer/balancer I ordered a month ago hasn't come in.

Oddly enough I do have money but for all the wrong reasons. Retention bonuses and life insurance. Would give it all back in a second just to hug my kid :(

I'm done won't bitch again.

In the grand scheme of things you have every right to bitch as much as you want to, that's a truly heartbreaking thing to have happened man. So sorry.

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

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We just had a visit from Princess Anne, apparently the itinerary for her visit was locked down months ago. Today security turned up, demanded we open the trays to the photocopiers because of bombs and then kicked up a fuss because we're nothing to do with printing nor do we have keys for the loving paper trays. So she rolled up and was supposed to be doing A at X time, B at another time, C following etc but she didn't do any of it and just wandered around the place ignoring the stupid poo poo set up for her. I kinda like the royal family a little more now. :v:

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

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KakerMix posted:

I've got a hole blown in my exhaust right at one of the catalytic converters because I guess the sc300 has two? Anyway because of this it sounds bad at idle but under load goddamn does the 2JZ-GE sound amazing. I'll stay in second or third gear just to hear it work under high revs then embarrasingly try to hide the fact that it's just an exhaust hole when I have to stop :v:

Haha when I picked up my 7M supra it had a very hosed exhaust but sounded great. To go buy a new one I had to drop the entire thing from the manifold back and then saw it off because the bolts were chemically welded in. When I took it to the exhaust place it was running the manifold and downpipe but that was it, it ended right underneath where the driver's seat is and was the loudest thing in the world, vibrating the cabin constantly. Apparently from outside it sounded cool as poo poo (but like a car with 1/3 an exhaust system).

Straight 6s sound so good.


Go on then, how much fun are you having here?

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

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SquirrelGrip posted:

I have been very slack taking photos at ebisu so far, and have only played on the skid pans whilst we sorted the car/s. Photos don't do some of the tracks justice, touge course is proper scary

I watched this fairly recently, agree photos ain't poo poo.

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

Altitude gain on that course is pretty massive considering it's length too

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Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

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SquirrelGrip posted:

leave the misses and quit my job fun

Sweeeeeeet. Hoping to get over there in the next year or so. Probably not to do much drifting 'cos I can't but I'm definitely renting out an AE86 for some mountain driving.

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