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The Door Frame posted:It's always weird when you find out that someone who you respect is a truther and believes that the moon landings were fake poo poo not even that far a reach but when you find out that someone you respect and believe is a good person and has lovely opinions on the way the world is. 
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Pham Nuwen posted:The problem with establishing the owners is that they're all toolbags. So much bragging about street racing. So much doing this to "prove" whatever (prove my car's the best, prove to my kids I can do this, prove to my dead buddy up in heaven, prove girls can drive too). Watching the trailer for it I decided it looked too fake to be worth watching. Turns out I was right.
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May 3, 2018 18:13
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"Oi oi, get ya tits ooooout for tha lads!"
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May 3, 2018 18:54
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Just yesterday I was wondering when the last 'big' artist/movie song was and I awake to find that. Weird.
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May 4, 2018 12:45
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InitialDave posted:Any UK guys going to Japfest on Sunday? I had intended to spend the day welding the rotbox but it seems someone bought a ticket for me  Will likely be rolling down in a friend's S2000 with the roof down like a couple of party boys.
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May 5, 2018 10:51
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InitialDave posted:Cool, I'm just nailing the Daihatsu's interior back together to take that, will be with the Kei Cars In The Park lot. I'll attempt to find it, keis are always the more interesting side of things at Japfest.
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May 5, 2018 12:46
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InitialDave posted:Cool, I'm just nailing the Daihatsu's interior back together to take that, will be with the Kei Cars In The Park lot. Change of plan, I get to stay home and weld all day. 
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May 5, 2018 17:20
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InitialDave posted:Japfest was ok. I think they charge a bit much for entry, and while there was a good number of cars, a lot seem to be a variation on the theme of "lower too far on stretched tyres, then rev it up while parked and blowing vape clouds out the window". Same as last year then! My friend sent me a video of tiny cars because I love tiny cars and she was walking along narrating excitedly and wandered right past you chatting to someone looking into your engine bay to get to a cutie pie Beat 
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May 7, 2018 20:37
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I know the guy who owns the Acty, it was furnished with incredibly period accessories like a loving Head holdall and an empty bottle of Lucozade that was a full on timewarp. Same guy owns an incredibly cool Nissan Elgrand, it has a fully custom interior and is more comfortable than your living room.
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May 7, 2018 21:38
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slidebite posted:Ronal bears Same dude actually had some, they're 4 bolt though and the big Elgrand is 5 bolt.
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May 7, 2018 22:26
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iwentdoodie posted:No, they just take up 6' of a lane and treat red lights like a suggestion. Look at this dude mad on the internet.
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May 8, 2018 08:47
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Strangely it's actually the 4th anniversary of the time a gentleman decided he could dive into a 90 degree corner in his car and outbrake/outmanouvre a bike. Turns out physics dictates that no, no you can't. After I'd ricocheted off his passenger door and picked myself up off the street he was annoyed because I had now made him late for work... Drivers are as lovely as cyclists sometimes, all humans are capable of being absolute morons at the best of times. But getting mad because a person is cycling on the road is loving stupid. My right knee clicks now, dude never even got so much as a telling off despite there being multiple witnesses. Don't be a oval office driver, listen to some chill-rear end music in your deathbox before you hurt someone. If a cyclist goes out of their way to ride a red, gently caress 'em, if they get merked then it's their own fault. Sitting in your car seething about it won't make any difference so why even bother?
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May 8, 2018 15:55
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spog posted:Then I reread and realised that you were talking about your Taekwondo pyjamas. Now I disagree with you: riding down the street in those is awesome (as long as you aren't Steven Segal fat). Bonus points for swapping the helmet for a headband. Agreed, if I saw a dude riding a bike wearing martial arts poo poo it'd make my day. InitialDave posted:Social media is fine. lovely people are cancer. Cut them out. And this all day. Avoid those who seek out drama.
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May 9, 2018 10:36
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cakesmith handyman posted:Facebook was a mistake, bring back MySpace. ...considering Myspace was the start of an incredible music adventure for me, I'm not completely against this.
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May 9, 2018 11:48
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Adiabatic posted:Roger that. Headed out tonight for salsa dancing. With her? It's a done deal then unless you've got 2 left feet...
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May 10, 2018 17:57
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Tomarse posted:I’m on a last minute solo vacation to a large city In a foreign country. I went to Paris alone years ago to see a gig. I'd scored a few tickets so put up that I had spares on the artist's facebook page, met up with a few people and ended up having a really cool night out with strangers which ended up with saving an American lady who'd managed to get herself locked in the subway system somehow... 
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May 12, 2018 13:31
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Tomarse posted:There’s a poster on the wall here for the Rock en Seine festival saying Justice, Die Antword and Carpenter Brut in that order. Man Justice and Brut would be amazing to see. Speaking of, I was in Paris to see a guy called Danger whose stuff you may dig if you like Brut. He started off really electro synth, arpeggio galore (which was boss) and slowly moved into more moody, synthy soundtrack stuff with his recent (last year) album Taiko being a glittery neon-soaked bit of greatness. This is off the album (which I waited nigh on 10 years for) and is a bit Ghost in the Shell... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrLxoVHBF9o
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May 12, 2018 22:20
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InitialDave posted:After seeing Chappie, anything that keeps Die Antwoord 400 miles away would definitely be a good thing. Is this the point where I say that Ninja got super upset with me commenting that a CGI robot was a better actor than him on instagram to the point where he scrolled back through my photos to find the single shot of me to try and make fun of me? He seemed really upset by the comment, what was funnier was that he said he was really busy and didn't have time to deal with worms and then spent like 10 minutes scrolling through gently caress knows how many photos... Dickbag. Still my favourite celebrity interaction on social media.
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May 12, 2018 22:31
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Tide posted:Why the gently caress does a refrigerator need wifi? ...so it can order things when you run out (but also sell your purchasing habit info to supermarkets and such). gently caress 'smart' products forever.
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May 14, 2018 12:04
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InitialDave posted:As silly as religious edicts generally are, it's often interesting to see the workarounds and adaptations that come into play. I believe the church stated Capybara was a fish due to missionaries in the amazon dying of hunger due to their inability to catch enough to eat. Same with beavers in North America apparently, due to both animals spending most of their time in water that was good enough reason to classify them as fish.
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May 14, 2018 16:15
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I am pretty bearded, some ladies REALLY go for it, others actively hate it. Had some rude bitch talk about beards being dirty within earshot, despite the fact mine is immaculately maintained and washed erryday. My favourite interactions with people have been guys in pubs where you've sat on the same table as them. Many times when their girlfriend/wife steps off to the loo do you get the compliments then questions about it, it's pretty funny. "...so, about your beard..." You have to get through the 3 week growth itches and you're sound after that. Fairly sure there's a photo of my face in the beard thread still. I grew it because I started greying and keeping it stubbly just looked like I hacked chunks out of it and bald in places. So now I have a full beard with grey patches in it instead which is far better looking (in my opinion but that's the only opinion that matters). Olympic Mathlete posted:A (my) beard: Hello AI.
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May 14, 2018 22:29
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It's not as awful as other Toyotas but it still looks decidedly meh.
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May 15, 2018 20:03
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May 15, 2018 22:52
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spog posted:Not quite as bad as Honda's new Type R I could sit here and pick apart this design and tell everyone why it's objectively awful. Instead I'll just say looks wise I'd rather own virtually anything else ever made, it's that bad. *edit: it gives me this sort of vibe, chavs throwing poo poo at a car simply because they can. 
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May 16, 2018 09:13
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Tide posted:Beginning of the year, I weighed 242 lbs (ballooned up after quitting smoking). This morning, I weighed 168 lbs. That's a pretty loving solid amount of weight to lose my dude, nice work. Don't cut out poo poo you like though, that's hellish, just really make sure to watch the amount of nice stuff you're putting in your facehole. I eat whatever, just not a lot of it...
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May 16, 2018 14:44
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Cage posted:Ketoers always come off so culty to me. You really watch two 1hr30min documentaries regularly? Everyone I've ever known to do a keto diet has had breath like something has died covered in poo poo in their mouth.
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May 16, 2018 15:57
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cakesmith handyman posted:Glad it's working for you but the reason most diets fail is ...people reach a target weight and then continue eating like they did prior to the diet. It's weird people don't realise it's a thing that needs to be a permanent change rather than a thing you do temporarily in order to hit a specific number or size. Tide posted:The target is exactly what I didn't set. I didn't set a weight to reach that I considered a success. It was simply "eat this don't eat that and get exercise, the rest will take care of itself". Whatever I weigh is whatever I weigh. I didn't live and die by the scales. Didn't even step on them. 
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May 16, 2018 16:32
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On BBC1 right now: Royal Wedding On BBC2 right now: Tron Legacy ...I know which I've got cranked up.
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May 19, 2018 12:14
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BraveUlysses posted:lmao annoying lady next to me at work insists that boiling chicken is the only way she knows how to cook chicken Imagine going to her house for dinner. Imagine what other creative ways she has for making food inedible... This is her life. How sad is that?
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:...also in a war of cars vs bicycles, cars usually win because cyclists are almost always assholes. You've heard of stories where a driver murders a cyclist, and as long as the driver is doe-eyed they get off with, at most, a fine. For some reason having a driver's license is pretty much also a license to kill another human with your car. It's honestly incredible the amount of contempt your average human being has for a cyclist while they're driving a car... I mean we've had perfect examples of it in here where some of our posters just decide to openly talk about 'death to all cyclists' all because one went through a red light in front of them. I'm sorry you're hurt dude and I'm also sorry your country is so loving broken that healthcare still isn't a thing for everyone. If it makes you feel any better I nearly got my life ended by a Prius on my way to work yesterday, I tootle on the cycle paths round here and hit the crossing button. Light goes red, I wait a second because drivers don't like to stop sometimes and then roll out. At the last possible second I hear an engine still spinning away, look over and manage to brake and turn enough to avoid getting my front wheel taken out from under me. ...but y'know, all cyclists are inherently evil and must be destroyed etc etc. You should totally claim for that though, gently caress the cops.
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May 22, 2018 09:01
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InitialDave posted:The problem is, people are stupid. They don't understand that cyclists are just road users, they have this idea that they're some kind of wheeled pedestrian interloper who shouldn't be on the road. Yup, I'm in agreement particularly about cyclists not thinking like drivers. Like I said I cycle to work every day and there's only maybe 30% of it I do on road as there's a park and cycle paths for the rest of it, those road sections are places I can go fast enough not to get in the way. I see cyclists on the road doing about 10mph on a 40mph road with a line of cars behind them and I myself get annoyed by it as I'm just pootling past on the designated cycle path which has been lovingly provided.
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I'm really lucky in that a fair amount of my commute is cycle pathable. I read something about Holland yesterday where this one town has banned cars from anywhere but the outskirts and I want to go there just to see what it's like. Oh and this popped up for me today too: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-devon-44200961/woman-drives-car-through-half-marathon-in-plymouth quote:A woman drove her car into the path of runners at the Plymouth Half Marathon, saying she had a workshop to get to.
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Tomarse posted:Tonight I went to my local small metal/indie gig venue where they were doing a 'gig360' night. Instead of putting the bands on the stage you close the stage curtains and have them instead play in the middle of the room. Ha, my friend's band did a thing where for a few songs they'd unload the drummer's kit from the stage to the middle of the crowd. It gets pretty loving hectic 
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Anime talk: Vast majority of it is derivative trash, reworks of stuff that went before, far too much emphasis on panty shots of teen girls and such. There's just so much crap to wade through to find something decent. Every nerd was screaming about Attack on Titan being amazing so I thought that maybe there was something worth watching and tried it myself. I got through the entire series in a few days, 25 episodes. In the end (or rather about 5 episodes in) I was disappointed, the premise was loving fantastic, a civilisation trapped behind walls fighting off human-eating giants? Cool. The actual show was your usual manga-anime translation, just so much time wasted on stereotypical characters doing gently caress all. I think the total run time for the action in all 25 episodes was something like 20 minutes. The rest was your whiny teen protagonist being a typical anime whiny teen protagonist, the overly long lovely intro song and recaps of previous episodes one of which I counted as something like 8 minutes long! Last I tried was One Punch Man which was a fun little subversion of the usual shite ...which then introduces characters which are your usual shite. Saitama = fun, pisstake of anime character traditions. Genos = boring, typical anime crap. I think I got about 10 episodes in before it started to wear a little thin on me, though I admit some of the baddies were loving brilliant, the dude that wanted to be a bosozoku car is forever in my heart despite him getting 30 seconds of screen time.  I grew up watching anime as a kid so all the tropes are just so loving tedious. I have a fondness for the early stuff because back then they weren't tropes so weren't boring. On occasion something good pops up but it's still such a lovely slog to get to it. I enjoyed the daftness that is Space Dandy as it's not afraid to take the piss out of itself or the characters but I've seen little else of note. I'm not saying don't suggest something if you want to... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M93GDg2qPQM I'm disappointed the DVD version of Akira on release came with a re-dubbed soundtrack, Leonardo from the Turtles is my Kaneda god drat it. 
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:(though Space Dandy leans a little too hard into the anime tropes) A little, though it has charm and heart which made it more enjoyable than virtually anything else I'd seen.
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May 23, 2018 18:12
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Maker Of Shoes posted:someone gave me one of those plastic pointy fingers at the end of a stick at the office and there is now literally no difference between me and an 8 year old right now. My friend uses one of those (with an LED tip) to prod at people's arch gap at car shows. He's a dick but it's pretty funny.
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May 25, 2018 21:31
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cakesmith handyman posted:We watched Thor ragnorak last night, it had my wife and I in stitches. It's the best Marvel film to date, it understands that the concept of superheroes is inherently silly and runs with it.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Nah, Infintiy War and Winter Solider beats it in goodness personally. But it is still pretty loving good/great and it seems like it's getting better regarded as time goes on - once you get past how hysterically funny it is..... it's actually a pretty solid movie that does a hell of a lot right with story, visuals etc. I've not seen Infinity War but Winter Soldier was a slog and a half with little to set it apart from any other Marvel flick. I know they need continuity but I'd struggle to tell Avengers 1, 2, Winter Soldier apart from each other. Also bikechat; Shimano is bringing back a double chainring setup for MTB in 2019 because like always they've sold you a fad with a single ring. You goobers.
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DJ Commie posted:I actually looked up the NHS dental care and it isn't bad at all. 3 Bands at £21.60, £59.10 and £256.50. based on increasing workload and severity. I don't see no $15,000 Invisalign or $5000 quintuple root canal with bonus sexual assault. Note that the £256.50 band is the top end and can cover several sessions of treatment. I needed a minor filling in one, root canal in another and obviously a crown and it was all covered under the one price. NHS ftw.
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