Chat in January 2019 - I resolve to go racing more this year

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You Am I: May 20, 2001; Me @ your poasting

New Project Binky and LGR Thrift videos on Youtube. A good way to start 2019

# ¿ Jan 1, 2019 00:25

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# ¿ May 22, 2024 06:30

You Am I: May 20, 2001; Me @ your poasting

Went for a walk after work around some forest trails near my place and came across this lad:

It was happily munching on ants, and didn't care I was there. But then again you don't want to mess with an echidna

# ¿ Jan 10, 2019 09:16

You Am I: May 20, 2001; Me @ your poasting

I want to buy a Mitsubishi Sigma and turn it into a drift/burnouts pig

# ¿ Jan 12, 2019 09:14

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Humphreys posted:

Well dammit, now I do to!

They are cheap compared to the Coronas which seem to be popular with the drifting crowd these days.

CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm9oLzLwwDs

Dont think they would make good drift cars but burnout pig? Absolutly!

There is so much room in the engine bay of a Sigma, I've been watching a series of videos where a dude is playing around with a GH, and it is cavernous

# ¿ Jan 13, 2019 02:42

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keykey posted:

Is there any actual percentage of how BMW the new Supra is?

Very high, all the drive train is BMW, including motor. Not sure on interior parts.

# ¿ Jan 14, 2019 23:17

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InitialDave posted:

I'm not sure that's a bad thing, the BMW turbo 6s have a lot of tuning potential in them, I'm not sure Toyota have anything on hand that would be more appropriate for a new Supra.

BMW's lovely cooling systems mean at least in Australia you see plenty of them on the side of the road with the bonnet up during summer.

I guess one advantage is that there are far more Toyota dealerships than BMW.

CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:

Good luck UK goons. Looks like it's gonna be full train wreck Brexit

Britannia

# ¿ Jan 15, 2019 23:14

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Yeah, the second Wick wasn't anywhere near as good as the first, but I think it was due to the first movie being so surprisingly awesome, rather than anything letting down the second one.

# ¿ Jan 17, 2019 23:16

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Rhyno posted:

My father and I discussed this recentlym while I'd rather he love another 30 years we did need to hash some stuff out and I found out he'd forgotten to take his ex out of his will so I'm glad we found that out now. I'm sure my brother who made an rear end of himself at my wedding will demand a cut of anything dad leaves despite publicly stating how much he hates our father and wishing I'll upon him.

It's good to see you are able to sit down and discuss stuff like that with your dad. My dad would refuse to talk about this with me, now he's pretty much a shadow of himself in a nursing home where his dementia is that bad he doesn't recognise anything since his days on his family's farm.

# ¿ Jan 19, 2019 00:15

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That's a horrible family situation there QC. Sadly it looks like your sister wasn't going to slow down, god only knows what therapy could have done to save her situation.

I have just got news today that one of my aunts has passed away at the age of 91.

# ¿ Jan 20, 2019 02:34

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Wrar posted:

Sucks. Were you close at all? 91 is a pretty good run, though.

Not hugely close. She was well known for having an acid tongue, but never used it against me as she appreciated what I did for my dad when his Alzheimer's got bad. Her husband is still alive - 94 - so people are a bit worried about how he'll handle things.

# ¿ Jan 20, 2019 22:52

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Grakkus posted:

Phones too. It feels like a purely anti-consumer move.

I remember being baffled by my friend's mac in the mid-2000s and how if it froze, he had to wait until the batteries died because there was no way to pull the battery. Now everything is headed in that direction..

Mid-2000s MacBooks/PowerBooks still had removable batteries. It was the second gen unibody Macs that's where things changed, and they came out around 2010.

# ¿ Jan 21, 2019 22:56

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Seat Safety Switch posted:

Commodore signed crazy deals with all kinds of CRT manufacturers because I think their Japanese/European sales guys got bored and had no oversight whatsoever. JVC made the 1701/1702 (maybe a holdover from some work on the VIC-20), and I think Philips made the 1084.

It is sort of funny how many corners they cut on the actual computer, but the high-margin peripherals are primo.

I love my 1702 but it needs some work, maybe even a recap.

Daewoo made some 1084s, usually given the model of 1084D

# ¿ Jan 23, 2019 23:38