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I think everyone in here has probably experienced 'the Audi wanker' at some point. Study says more German cars than any others and that's definitely been a thing for a while in the UK. Used to be BMW as they were the go-to for repmobiles driving up and down the UK on sales calls and such and now that's moved more into Audi (due to lots of finance deals on them) with a nod to VW who definitely have their fair share of bellends. Mercedes in my personal experience seems to have less twats for some reason. *edit: that said, more than anything UBER drivers are consistently just loving terrible at doing the only thing they actually need to do, driving. They're not aggressive or anything, just REALLY BAD at holding lanes, driving near the speed limit or knowing where they're going despite sat nav assistance. Olympic Mathlete fucked around with this message at 19:01 on Feb 4, 2020 |
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Applebees Appetizer posted:https://www.yahoo.com/autos/men-jerks-break-traffic-laws-143600089.html So taking this a step further..: Electric or Not, Big SUVs Are Inherently Selfish https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/m7q7eb/electric-or-not-big-suvs-are-inherently-selfish It's an interesting read because of the inherent psychological aspect of the lovely cars being sold by the industry: quote:Bradsher’s book is a thorough examination of how the auto industry convinced millions of Americans to buy vehicles that were more dangerous (for themselves and other people on the road), got worse gas mileage, were worse for the environment, and got them to pay a premium for the privilege of doing so. Then later on: quote:Starting in 2004 and continuing through 2018, the most recent year for which data is available, car occupants die at more than double the rate of SUV occupants. To add to this, some of the comments on the writer's twitter thread are from some insanely delicate dudes which kinda proves Rapaille's point  https://twitter.com/A_W_Gordon/status/1224384170056699908 Olympic Mathlete fucked around with this message at 17:36 on Feb 5, 2020 |
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:the other way of looking at the car vs suv fatalities is that buying an SUV strongly decreases the odds that you and your family will be killed in an accident This leads into the research done with the self-driving cars on people's thoughts about what they should do in the event of an unavoidable crash where death is likely to occur. The amount of people who picked 'save me, kill the woman with a pushchair and toddler' was apparently quite high. It's going to be interesting in the future. Krakkles posted:But if everyone didn't have SUVs, we'd all be better off. Sooooo ... that's not a great argument. I'm hoping this leads to a renaissance of small, lowered cars being sold. A future where nobody is blinded by someone else's lights because nobody is driving anything where the headlights are 4ft off the ground, poorly aimed and as bright as the sun.
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poo poo how much money are original NSXs going for these days though? I know a dude who bought one maybe 5 years ago, high mileage for £28k and that was super cheap... I imagine you're not getting much change from double that these days.
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Feb 6, 2020 12:33
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A Small Car posted:First, my ex finally got the rest of her stuff out of my house! It's only been 3 or 4 years (I genuinely don't know how long it's been lol). Time to move my shed workshop into the now cleared spare room! That's taking the piss juuuuuuuuuuuuuust a little. The only excuse she could have for that is literally being in a loving coma.
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Feb 10, 2020 17:54
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big dong wanter posted:For 12k surely you could do a fake iroc with an ls engine and it would be far funner Yeah if you want oldschool RWD hoon fun, surely loading a relative shitter with a peppier, more modern engine is the way to do it?
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Feb 13, 2020 20:29
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I think he means 'difficult' in that the customer actually expected the guy not to loving ruin his kitchen... *tin foil hat* Actually thinking about it, do you reckon they flooded your kitchen on purpose, hoping you'd tell them to gently caress off so they could get YOU for breach because they were expecting to be able to just toss it off and make a mess of the install?
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Feb 20, 2020 16:03
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Wrar posted:Hell yeah dude. Hit up whatever museums you can, there are some great ones (if that's your thang(s)). The V&A has a specific Cars exhibition which is pretty cool. I was there last week. There's a fair whack of old Russian (1930s) concept art which is so far ahead of its time in terms of what it's portraying. It's not huge but is definitely worth a look. The video section with the Lowrider, South African girl who was on that Netflix car thing and old Japanese guy who build Dekatora trucks was really interesting. You also get to meet Graham, the human designed to withstand crashing...  https://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/cars InitialDave posted:It's a bit wet and miserable at present though. I can't remember the last time it wasn't! Olympic Mathlete fucked around with this message at 17:54 on Feb 20, 2020 |
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Feb 20, 2020 17:51
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Audacity is free so if it's noisy you can try and use the noise reduction effect on it. There's only so much you can do with a bad audio starting point but it's worth a try doing that and adjust the EQ a bit. *edit: load audio into Audacity, Select a section of noise, go to effects, noise reduction, hit 'get noise profile'. Then select the entirety of the audio track, go back to noise reduction and you can then hit the OK button. The reduction/sensitivity sliders will obviously affect things differently so go ahead and play. EQ just needs you to select what you want EQing so you can do it for the whole track or just sections. Again, you may be able to improve things. Olympic Mathlete fucked around with this message at 18:36 on Feb 20, 2020 |
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Feb 20, 2020 18:31
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toplitzin posted:Bumfuck FL had little person coleslaw/creamed corn wrestling. That 'what do you mean white people don't have any culture sweaty?' meme but with this as the background image.
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Feb 21, 2020 17:19
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cakesmith handyman posted:I thought it was sweety, but I like your version. Sweaty is the recognised Internet pisstake misspelling But really, it is.
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Feb 21, 2020 23:51
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KakerMix posted:I don't know nothin' bout no space wires, but I know that my wife got me a pretty fantastic birthday gift: How come there's no TRD badge on it or was this pre-TRD was an actual thing? When I rebuild my Supra I'm going to put those stripes somewhere.  Jacket owns.
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Feb 22, 2020 22:53
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Management obsession with sickness absence is crazy. Our office rule is if you're sick, DO NOT COME TO WORK TO INFECT EVERYONE ELSE. We can manage when you're sick, we'll do whatever you have booked in, but if you give that poo poo to everyone then we simply cannot function so please stay the gently caress away. You're not being a hero for rolling up to work infectious, you're being an utter oval office. Your job is literally not that important that you can't take a couple of days to get over it to the detriment of the others in your office.
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Feb 23, 2020 13:32
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bolind posted:I've 99% sealed a deal where I get a new job at basically the same base salary but this time with a bonus, but none of that really matters because get this: it has a 2.7km commute. Noice. My girlfriend landed a new higher paid job a couple of weeks back which drops her commute from like 90 minutes to 14 a day. To say this has made her happy is an understatement, she loving hated that place.
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Why is this thread still open? This is anarchy!
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