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I finally managed to get a haircut, 6 months after I really needed one.  Got chatting to the stylist about cars somehow and he showed me a picture of his garage. His & His matching pop-up headlight NSX's. He was saying one is tuned to ~450hp the other is 650hp.  If thats not AI I don't know what is.
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bird with big dick posted:Had the Mach-e reservation to replace my Accord Hybrid and now need something to replace my F-150 so... I'm not getting an electric car until they make me. Honestly I'm kind of excited to see what Honda and GM are going to make together. https://media.gm.com/media/us/en/gm/home.detail.html/content/Pages/news/us/en/2020/sep/0903-mou.html
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slothrop posted:His & His matching pop-up headlight NSX's. He was saying one is tuned to ~450hp the other is 650hp. Daaaaaaaamn. That is phenomenal. Think they want to join AI? [Whole lot of fine looking dudes in AI btw  ]
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Oct 5, 2020 00:32
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First night back after 9 days off and I was unsuccessful in rebooting my sleep schedule back to 3rd shift. So here we go, 8 hour shift on 90 minutes of sleep!
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slothrop posted:I finally managed to get a haircut, 6 months after I really needed one. Two things, you look great. Second, where can I get one of these NSXs?
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Oct 5, 2020 04:19
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Rich is getting in on the Mini train. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZdQoi95MMg
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Rhyno posted:First night back after 9 days off and I was unsuccessful in rebooting my sleep schedule back to 3rd shift. So here we go, 8 hour shift on 90 minutes of sleep! I did 4 on/4 off for a while and the sleep transitions killed me. Two 4am-4pm shifts followed by two 4pm-4am shifts then 4 days off. StormDrain posted:Two things, you look great. Second, where can I get one of these NSXs? The land Down Under! I will definitely be getting my hair cut there more regularly in the hopes of getting a ride 
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Oct 5, 2020 04:50
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Rhyno posted:You know, if Trump wins in a month, every single person who said "I VOTED 3RD PARTY IT'S NOT A WASTE OF MY VOTE" or something similar should get the ever living gently caress kicked out of them. Depends on your state, I've always voted 3rd party for president in CA and it's obviously never mattered in terms of the final outcome. Sucking it up to vote for the worst candidates the Democrats have to offer is how we ended up with 2016 and one of the few people who could have lost to Trump.
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Oct 5, 2020 05:14
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Applebees Appetizer posted:Jim Carey as Joe Biden is amazing yeah, very much looking forward to 4 years of Jim Carrey as president.
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Oct 5, 2020 05:28
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I'm trying to get a jump start on AI:Secret Santa 2020. This year has been tough for everyone and I'd like to help try make it a little more joyful. I have just posted (and had my dumb rear end banned for using the wrong tag) a thread where I'm looking for feedback on how to improve the way AI:SS runs. Please jump over and let me know what you think. Are you a lapsed participant? How can I encourage you to participate again? https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3942903
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Humphreys posted:Rich is getting in on the Mini train. It's impossible not to love driving a classic Mini, when he said "how can you not smile?" that's exactly the feeling you get when you're in one and why they're one of the best cars ever built. The thing about them though is the smile is contagious, everyone who sees a Mini smiles. Having taken a road trip in a friend's one there's little else that inspires glances and waves like a Mini except a convoy of Minis... Another friend has a worked 1275 with a straight cut gearbox and it's even more fun. Spinning up the tiny wheels from traffic lights just because you can is never not fun and the nagging feeling you're possibly going to die driving it just adds to it all... There are definitely worse cars to die in though.
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Oct 5, 2020 10:10
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That's the magic of a properly good small car. It's fun, cute, nimble and joyful. I have never had more fun driving than in small cars with eager engines and a wheel at each corner.
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Oct 5, 2020 10:29
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So in last months thread I was kinda bitching about the factory screen clock not being correct after swapping out to the Aerpro HVAC controller and Kenwood Headunit. Flicked Aerpro an email about it and well poo poo... RTFM There's literally a page on it in the manual. I'm an idiot.
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Oct 5, 2020 10:39
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slothrop posted:I'm trying to get a jump start on AI:Secret Santa 2020. This year has been tough for everyone and I'd like to help try make it a little more joyful. I love this every year, I already picked up a couple of items at the start of the year
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slothrop posted:I finally managed to get a haircut, 6 months after I really needed one. I like the way you went full chaos mode for the before picture. I slept all day today, uncontrollably. I went to a private lake with a buddy of mine yesterday and he did some fishing while I got hammered. I think I shocked my body, because I quit drinking on 4th of July. I spent most of the last couple years drinking alone and I packed on the weight and got super depressed and un-motivated. Stopping drinking has led to improvement in both areas, so now I'm 100% committed to only drinking socially, which I did yesterday. But now it's 2:30AM and even studying the driver's manual isn't making me tired. Speaking of which, when moving to Oregon they make you take the 'written' driver's test again. Should be interesting, although I trained my daughter within the last 2 years so I have an advantage. I did just learn in Oregon it's illegal to exceed the speed limit, ever, including when passing on a 2 lane road. It's legal to temporarily speed when passing in Colorado, and I just did some quick googling and it varies by state. Interesting to note, if asked I would have failed that question.
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yeah definitely take a look through that handbook, state level regs are pretty variant. i got caught out on some stuff that i didn't think was legal in NC because it wasn't legal in Mass
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Driving reg chat: at least in oregon the proper spacing when you're stopped at a light/sign is to be far enough back that you can see the bottom of the rear tires of the person in front of you.
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64bit_Dophins posted:I'm not getting an electric car until they make me. I'm excited for 3.5 0-60 in a daily driver that effectively gets 100 mpg
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Oct 5, 2020 14:16
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I think my favorite weird question in the mass driving test is "when is it allowed to take a left turn on a red light?" And the follow-on question "what is the exception to this law?" Because we actually have both of these problems in many Mass towns and cities due to... An extreme lack of early road planning.
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Oct 5, 2020 14:23
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LloydDobler posted:I like the way you went full chaos mode for the before picture. slolthrop looks pretty good in chaos mode.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:slolthrop looks pretty good in chaos mode. I was thinking the same
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bird with big dick posted:Driving reg chat: at least in oregon the proper spacing when you're stopped at a light/sign is to be far enough back that you can see the bottom of the rear tires of the person in front of you. That's what I was taught in driving school in Texas, some 25 years ago. I (generally) still follow that today. I do miss having a manual though. It was always fun rolling back when the light turned green, when someone was RIGHT ON MY rear end and watching them go OHSHIT. Sorta related, I've had a few cars where I literally could not see the hood at all from the driver's seat; I can see hood for miles with Brokeback. Not 80s GM hood, but I can at least see the drat thing. Makes parking so much easier. slothrop posted:I finally managed to get a haircut, 6 months after I really needed one. I kinda prefer the before, speaking as a gay dude. (but not bad at all either way)I'm looking pretty loving rough these days. I think I've shaved 3 or 4 times this year (I'll take clippers to my face every couple of weeks and buzz it off, but it's been close to 3 weeks now). Had two haircuts this year. Just gonna grow it out again, except because my hair is so wavy, I typically do an undercut. It's beyond time for that (... and some dye).  (tired AF STR) McTinkerson posted:[Whole lot of fine looking dudes in AI btw Yuuuuuuuuuup. Then you have the old farts club that I belong to.
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McTinkerson posted:[Whole lot of fine looking dudes in AI btw STR posted:Yuuuuuuuuuup. Then you have the old farts club that I belong to. Definitely not posting a selfie, don't think my ego could handle finding out which group I'm in.
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STR posted:Probably both. Anderson Cooper, then?
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LloydDobler posted:Speaking of which, when moving to Oregon they make you take the 'written' driver's test again. Should be interesting, although I trained my daughter within the last 2 years so I have an advantage. I did just learn in Oregon it's illegal to exceed the speed limit, ever, including when passing on a 2 lane road. It's legal to temporarily speed when passing in Colorado, and I just did some quick googling and it varies by state. Interesting to note, if asked I would have failed that question. I would've gotten that wrong the other way, one of the things my dad hammered home with me was that it's always illegal to speed even if necessary to complete a safe pass on a two lane road. He'd usually remind me of this while doing 30 over during one of these passes.
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I finally cut my beard over the weekend. Was about a foot long. Just got tired of it being in the way, and a little worried about it getting snatched in a grinder or something. Hair is still going, though. I look like a 50-year-old Jesus. We had some neat stuff show up at our monthly RX-7 meet on Saturday. For once, mine wasn't the only AE86:  GTS! Mine has an interior, though. This one was neat. And '80 with a Holley-carbed 13B, and GALS-SE suspension (and wheels):    (The paint is an effect the owner wanted.) This one is an '84-5, but probably not really a GSL-SE, since it has a 12A and the 13" wheels:    Huh. I didn't get an engine pic of that one. Basically looks like the '80, but it's a 12A. Both of those cars had RX-8 seats, which are nice. A really well-done FC:   Most interesting, though, was this thing:  It sounded so wrong pulling up, but so right:   If you guessed that the two first gens and the B2000 were Puerto Ricans, you know your RX-7 fans. Guys were cool, and loved talking about the cars even through a mild language barrier. There were more cars there - an extremely clean, very stock FD, a couple more FCs, etc. I was super miserly with my photos. I should have gotten pictures of the the very clean 280ZX and the early 300Z, though. They were neat. The Z31 is in the pic with the AE86, but it's not really visible. It's supposed to be a "rotary" meet, but there's typically so few of us, and so few casual meets for older imports that we're happy to have them.
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Love that the gay community has hijacked #ProudBoys on twitter it's awesome
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Isn’t it, though? The Boys claim they don’t understand why, since they’re fine with gay folks.
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Get your "Trump Defeats COVID" commemorative coin before they're gone! https://www.whitehousegiftshop.com/product-p/trump-defeats-covid.htm
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 6+ months no haircut it’s even longer in the back
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Ranzear posted:Washington has it too, when onto a one-way street, but I don't know what the exception would be. It's from a one-way onto a one-way, as far as I know. I may be wrong. The exception is "unless there's a sign saying not to." I can think of several intersections only a block or two apart in Worcester where you could run into each of these situations in turn. Interesting that it's in Washington too, I guess it'll feel like home.
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Luckily in all 50 states you only need 300/20 vision and to correctly answer 55% of the questions correct to get a license and the other 39 questions on the test are ridiculously obvious poo poo. "You're driving down the road when your hood flies up and obstructs your vision, do you:" 1) Slow down and pull over to the side of the road 2) Speed up and swerve while honking to get other drivers attention 3) Bail out of the car
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Just realized that it’s October and no one has posted Dragula yet...
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64bit_Dophins posted:Just realized that it’s October and no one has posted Dragula yet...
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Halloween was 3 months ago. We're clearly celebrating Christmas according to retail.
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I'm having to resist the urge to buy the $12ft tall skelly boi at home depot. I'd leave that poo poo up year round.
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Elmnt80 posted:I'm having to resist the urge to buy the $12ft tall skelly boi at home depot. I'd leave that poo poo up year round. Out of stock for me in the entire goddamned state.
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