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CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher
What idiot lives in such a backwards shithole that it's not September?

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CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

leica posted:

Not yet jerks :colbert:

Yes it is. :boonie:

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

meatpimp posted:

Hi, September thread. Nice title, Adiabatic. (you're still a cheater)

If it ticks over 12am 1st anywhere in the world, a new thread is fair game.

Either that or start creating effort OP's and earn the thread.

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

I guess years of having a 10Kg feral cat has changed what I think of as a cat needing to diet.

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

Coredump posted:

I'd like Moog a lot more if he'd gain 10 or 20 pounds.

WTF is this poo poo? He's a perfectly healthy human.

The Mini reveal.... holy poo poo that was from absolutly nowhere. And the dickheads all got riled up - sure it's not supercool but a MkIII Classic Mini is simply amazing and if you know Moog, perfect choice.

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

Coredump posted:

I was waiting for someone to bite, might as well been you. Okay Cat I know this is going to the most American thing you hear all day but ever since I started watching MCM Moog's face just seems "off" to me. Then I finally figured out what bothered me about him. He's got high cheekbones and his cheeks sink in on the side of his face. When he talks his lips pull back from his teeth a lot. Couple this with somewhat sunken eyes annddd... Yeah Moog looks like dead.

Yeah yeah I know, "fat American doesn't know what a healthy person looks like, blah blah." I get it, and you're probably right. But from seeing too many gore videos and pictures linked on these forums thru the years Moog looks like some of the people I've seen near death from starvation or some who just recently passed. I dunno if anyone else sees it but go watch some MCM videos and tell me if Moog's face doesn't look slightly sunken in while he's talking.

I hang out with Triathletes and cyclists. He's frankly fat compared to some of them - there is absolutly nothing wrong with him at all. GG he's just a fit man who watches what he eats.

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

CommieGIR posted:

I know, it just keeps making me hate our species more and more...

And people seriously ask me why I am so cynical. The vast stupidity of war should be explanation enough.

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

You Am I posted:

I'm really enjoying the Daredevil Netflix show. Really well done so far

By far the best Marvel thing so far - Also really surprised at the level of violence and how good the action is. With The Punisher in series 2, it's going to be a glorious bloodbath.

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

DrakeriderCa posted:

I've noticed AI tends to not like Nissan 350z/370z's. Why is that?

I think they're neat :ohdear:

Fat turds mainly with better options easily available.

Apart from the 240Z, that pretty much sums up the Z-Car's entire existance.

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3740618

Follow an AI Goon at the WRC this weekend

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

88h88 posted:

Watched John Wick with the sound way up. He drove about in an old Mustang and played with it a bit on an airfield. Sounded so good. Also Keanu Reeves playing a part really well? What's going on here?? Greatly enjoyed that film.

John Wick is one the best action movies, full stop. The touches like Wick actually runs out of bullets / reloads, double tap etc.... just rolls into one amazingly well executed movie. Keanu's lack of expression changes also sells Wick as this unstoppable force of nature. It's much like Arnold playing the original Terminator - the lack of emotional range sells the concept rather than detracts.

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

iwentdoodie posted:

I want to watch that movie so bad,because I hear nothing but good.

But the dog dies, and I'm a giant loving baby, so I still haven't.

It's worth to see exactly what Wick does to take revenge.

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

iwentdoodie posted:

I can't watch Road Warrior as an adult and Jurassic Bark turns me into an infant. Not as bad as those?


Yes, but about 5 minutes later you're cheering for the hellish shitfest Wick rains down and it doesnt matter anymore. TBH it's the basest of audience manipulation and normally that's stupid. Not in this case - in John Wick it's simple and it puts you square in Wicks corner in lusting for bullet flying revenge.

There's simple and then there's well executed. Wick is one of the truly rare examples of when both happen.

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

mariooncrack posted:

He's talking about Jurassic Bark, an episode of Futurama:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_Bark

Yeaaaaah I can understand why someone would become a blubbering mess watching that one.

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

InitialDave posted:

Dogs are better than people.

Honestly cant aargue with that and I'm a cat person

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

88h88 posted:


Any more films like that? I'm already well aware of the two Raid films, Dredd and indeed a whole stack of classic Hong Kong action films but I need more.

Kingsmen. Great simple action and also hilarious. The church brawl has to be seen to be believed

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

2012. Goddamn he called that one well.

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

Rhyno posted:

That's the lead singer of Jane's Addiction.

Still dont get it

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

Powershift posted:

perry farrell

perryfarrell

peripheral

Oh gawd that's awful

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

Powershift posted:

I'm gonna laugh when it turns out to be some bored 8 year old who got a rifle for his birthday and wasn't explained the consequences of shooting at stuff.

I kinda thought that would be obvious enough for even a retarded 8 year old to understand without explaination

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

IOwnCalculus posted:

This, unironically. :sigh:


How the hell are they able to breathe if they are that stupid?

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

Powershift posted:

Nomally, it's through a cigarette.

:golfclap:

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher
124 posts of..... WTF?


Tomarse posted:


You missed the point. We don't have 'soccer'. 'soccer' is a stupid american word that we don't use. Its 'football'.

I suspect that there are just as many dumb and inbred american football fans in the US as dumb and inbred football fans over here. Probably more since you have 4x the population!


It's soccer. Football is either Rugby League or AFL.

As for dumb soccer fans..... actually it seesm the USA's fanbase is pretty good. The Australian fanbase on the other hand..... yeah we got a few retards in there.

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

leica posted:

If anyone wants a glimpse into the world of English soccer fans just read Among The Thugs by Bill Buford.

Truly the shittiest sports fan base on the entire planet.

Nooope, my guess would be Indian cricket fans.

Altho the South American soccer fans are hardcore. Team lose? Shoot them.

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

CommieGIR posted:

*shrugs* I don't get the V8 love. I mean, I get why people like them due to easy access to parts and power, but I'd rather do more with less.

:shrug: I'm weird.

Something about big boofy bellow monsters that tear tarmac with utter ease. Sometimes more is best.

And besides, when you want to get all you can out of it...... magic happens. Plus you know, 300Kw out of 6 litres, piss of piss. 300Kw out of a 2Litre..... kinda starts to become an issue.

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher
That said I'm capacity agnostic. 1 litre Minis are hysterical fun, 7 litre Commodres are scary as gently caress. Both rock

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

Ferremit posted:

It means that ANYONE in Australia can stagger into an ER or a hospital and be treated, for however long and for whatever disease or illness, without cost to themselves. Thats worth everyone putting in a little bit.


And that is why I have zero problems with the levy. It is awesome.

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher
Whomever said politicans should be burned - too good for them. Especially politicans that suck on Murdoch cock. Send the lot to ISIS so they can have fun with them, they are doing more damage to democracythn any terrorist ever could.


Mat_Drinks posted:

For some reason I find it really interesting/weird that the universal healthcare in Australia is called Medicare. Looks like it was changed to that in '84 and came after the US Medicare, which is our coverage for old people (and some disabled/exceptions).


It goes back a bit further. The Whitlam govt in the early 70's was without a doubt true socialist and bought in a huge swath of public programs (free education, free hospitals etc) - the medical one was called Medibank. In 1976 the Fraser Govt (Right wing cunts) spun off a private health cover company called Medibank Private and then in 1981 closed the public scheme.

The less socialist and more market based Hawke Govt very quickly returned a public scheme but this time called Medicare in 1984, but also continued to run an own Medibank Private to help keep the private insurers in line. Medicare doesnt cover a few things like dental and queue jumping for elective surgery in private hospitals but if you have a horrible accident you basically get cared without charge. Pretty much in general tho, you need health services, free with your Medicare card. We now also have rolling out a National Disability Insurance Scheme where disabled persons are now completely covered for literally any service that traditional health cover public or private will not cover.

The other thing that can be a issue is emergency transport. This isnt covered well by either private or public - A helicopter ride to ER for instance could give you a nasty bill shock. I think this was always a deliberate hole in coverage by the Hawke Govt to give some value to private health cover, that and dental.

Thence it's not perfect (no system is) but it's still quite good, especially the emerging NDIS and the PBS (Pharmasudical Benefits Scheme, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmaceutical_Benefits_Scheme ). So good that much like Canada, if a right wing oval office tried to gently caress with it the voters WILL come after them with cricket bats. We know what the USA has and gently caress that.

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

Wall-E and Brave New World are both documentaries about Mankind's fall.

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

Tusen Takk posted:

test

edit: I think that might be too big. hrmph

What the hell is that horror of a avatar supposed to be.

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher
Hooooly poo poo Tony Abbott's been rolled. I have a priaprism that can be seen from space

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

Tusen Takk posted:

Dont post in FYAD

Why in the name all things holy would anyone post in that shithole?

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

Nodoze posted:

I have bad news for you

??? Since when are Subarus hard to work on?

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

keykey posted:

A friend of mine is sitting through an A+ cert class right now since his work paid for him to do it since they want all their techs A+ certified. He has been writing nuggets of wisdom all week that the instructor is giving the class. I'm pretty sure his instructor wrote the screenplay for hackers. Enjoy: https://twitter.com/aplusblowhard


Sooo much stupid right there. However gotta ask why the fax machine one is there - fax machines used to in the majority and still do use thermal paper in some models.

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

quote:

I've not seen a fax machine use thermal paper since the late 90's. They're all laser/inkjet printed now.

meatpimp posted:

Old ones use thermal, most recent use plain paper.

Correction. MOST use plain paper, some are still on sale that use thermal. I know, I installed one a week ago and we have others that use thermal. In a lovely manufacturing enviroment that eats ink and most laser printers alive, thermal and impact still rules.

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

some texas redneck posted:


Please find the model # for a fax machine made in the past 15-20 years that uses thermal paper.



Brother Fax 515 is available for you right now.

And yes you most certainly can get bigger and more industrial ones, usually from China and India - if you walk into a factory or workshop or even a lawyer's office, they are most certainly still about and still on sale... and even still desireable over the poo poo that passes for fax machines that will get gunked up and stop working fast in dirty and hostile environments. There's not much out there anymore that are built indestructible like a HP 4L printer is or some of our Canon faxes that are basically now black after years of poo poo flying everywhere close to it.

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

meatpimp posted:

Not available in the US. Doesn't count.

Point still stands.

quote:

Thank you. It's a 16 year old model on top of that.

You asked for one on sale today. I've also said exactly where they are best used.

If you people are going to insist they don't exist when clearly they do and still relavent.... I dunno. Then again I might be pissed off by the below.....

RIP Paul Walker posted:

I love riding bicycles, but this is why I hate bicyclists
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILpDx9MZ6Tg

Gee, I wonder why comments are disabled... People like that jackass all over Portland. Just not paying attention or riding defensively. At all.

You and I are about to have harsh words you are not going to like one bit.

How the ever living gently caress is this in any way this cyclists fault, where if he hadn't been paying attention he would have been under a bloody huge oval office of a semi? He obeyed every single loving road rule and you still call him a jackass? Just what the ever living gently caress is wrong with you? Not a single one of those drivers were the ones paying attention and you go off about CYCLISTS?!?!?!?! gently caress YOU and the horse you rode in on

This is the kind of poo poo that pisses me rightly off, blame the loving cyclist who is doing nothing wrong is all too common and utterly pathetic.

CAT INTERCEPTOR fucked around with this message at 02:05 on Sep 17, 2015

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

RIP Paul Walker posted:

I specifically said it wasn't his *fault*, but that he didn't seem to be paying much attention, just hauling rear end... Which is utterly dumb when there are all those moron drivers on the road! Cyclists seem to have far too much faith that cagers aren't out to get them, and that bugs me as both a (lovely, slow) cyclist and a driver. I hope you understand what I'm saying here.

Yes I do and that's why I am calling you a loving moron because quite clearly he WAS paying attention - If he wasn't paying attention he would have been under a big rear end truck or on his rear end with the imprint of a Corolla's door handle in his rear end. You are straight up victim blaming. He didnt do a single bloody thing wrong and yet you just drop stupidity about "not paying attention" and "jackasses"

I'm a 80km a day kind of cyclist and frankly if I had a Go-Pro I'd have plenty of footage like this. Like yesterday a Vespa rider without indicating cut straight across a bike path without indicating and wondered why I'm having a screaming fit after I juuuust manage to dodge her stupid rear end. Mate, you do not survive as a cyclist without paying attention and most cyclists who get hit simply put are doing their best to avoid said accident. Cars move much faster than you can so if some iPhone wearing idiot swerves into your lane, you better hope the Lord is looking after you.

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher
1250kms on the bike in just 20 days. I'm going to see a massage therapist. I am not looking forward to this at all it is gonna hurt

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CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

Great Beer posted:

When did 10 year old 150k+ mile econoboxes get so expensive? I swear everyone around here is trying to get 5k or more for their 01 corolla/cobalt/neon/whatever.



They still work really well and are in some cases better than new cars to drive?

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