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The Royal We

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  1. Curious why you say this? Is it just a bad mashup of luxury and functionality? Or are there problems with the lower unit design? I ask because the ability to surf behind an I/O interests me. We live on a lake and I keep my boat in the covered slip at our dock 95% of the time, but the water is not consistently deep enough for a real deal surf boat. And I'd have to get a new cradle for the lift to accommodate the drive shaft/prop on a surf boat. It looks like these Cobalts draft ~3 ft and that would work unless the water in the lake is way down and I'd be trailering then anyway. We currently have a Hurricane deck boat with an outboard, which is great for our lake and for skiing/tubing/cruising and even wakeboarding for beginners. But I do think as my kids get older they would enjoy surfing more than anything else.
  2. It's already been said, but you could be more of a friend by telling him you're sorry he got shit on (again) and that while it would hurt like hell if he left, that's probably what he should do. Unless you have some pull with senior management to get him more money now... I had something similar happen to me at my first job out of college. I was too young for them to give me a managerial position so they gave it to someone from the outside instead. Having to train my new boss who knew nothing at all about what we did, while also knowing that they were making quite a bit more money than me was completely deflating. I bounced.
  3. Whooo boy, that was one for the ages.
  4. Is this an update to the Southeast University results mentioned in your chart? ETA - nevermind, not room temp, should have read closer.
  5. I'd probably have better luck throwing the syrup jar at the intruder.
  6. Crazier than a shit house rat.
  7. I saw that reddit TLDR thread last night and was trying to dig it back up for my post but couldn't find it. Thank you. I just want a MagLev train that can get me from NY to LA in ~20 mins. LK-99 could make it possible without the need to keep the magnets supercooled to -450F. https://www.thedrive.com/news/nyc-to-la-in-21-minutes-inside-rands-wild-1970s-proposal-for-a-14000-mph-vacuum-train
  8. I did a little digging and was surprised to see that there hadn't been any chatter about this yet on the Surl. The science behind this is well beyond my ability to fully understand, but the potential implications if this is real could change the world as we know it. The South Korean scientists who made the discovery and posted a paper about it would almost certainly win the Nobel Prize if this is confirmed to be legit. The quick and dirty: So they claim to have discovered a superconducting material that is made from readily available materials and not Unobtanium or Vibraniaum. Potential implications: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/breaking-superconductor-news Labs all over the world started working on replicating this immediately since the materials needed were easy to get their hands on. A couple of them claimed to have been successful yesterday: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/room-temperature-superconductor-new-developments A deeper dive into the science: I'm not STONKing into all the mining stocks just yet, but I'm starting to dig around a little bit into the companies that would be on the bleeding edge if this turns out to be the real deal.
  9. A lot of these same fucksticks screech about "faITh OvER fEAr" when talking about vaccines, but have so little faith that God will protect them in the gym that they feel the need to strap up. I took my daughter to breakfast yesterday and the dude at the table next to us had a poorly concealed gun under his shirt. We were in a cafe on the town square where the population is <35k. Not exactly fucking Fallujah in 2004.
  10. I’m going to hurt family members feelings trying to get them to read the indictment instead of being spoon fed the FNC take on this instead. Tell them to put a marker down now - if Meadows and Pence testify under oath that what is alleged in the indictment is what happened, then it actually did happen. And it’s bad, real bad, right? Because they are going to be gaslit to oblivion that it’s all fake.
  11. Anyone tried one of these out? It looks like the old Raspberry Pi build that you could do on your own, but it comes loaded with 50k games with the ability to download more to the memory card. I'm not sure how they get around the copyright issues. I might scoop one just so I can beat down my kids at Tecmo Super Bowl and GoldenEye. https://getgamegrid.com/products/gamegrid-2 Top 100 GameGrid 2 Games 1942 (1984) 4D Prince of Persia (1994) 4D Sports Boxing (1991) 64 in 1 (1991) 7 dní a 7 nocí (1994) Adventure (1980) Alex Kidd in Miracle World (1986) Arkanoid (1986) Baseball (1983) Battle City (1985) Blockout (1989) Bomberman (1985) Bomberman II (1991) Bubble Bobble (1986) Castlevania (1986) Castlevania: Symphony Of The Night Chip ’N Dale: Rescue Rangers (1990) Circus Charlie (1984) Contra (1987) Contra III: The Alien Wars (1992) Crash Bandicoot Trilogy Dangerous Dave (1988) Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion (1991) Dig Dug (1982) Disney’s Aladdin (1993) Donkey Kong (1981) Donkey Kong Country (1994) Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest (1995) Doom (1993) Doom 64 (1997) Doom II: Hell on Earth (1994) Double Dragon (1987) Duck Hunt (1984) Dyna Blaster (Bomberman) (1990) E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) EarthBound (1994) Excitebike (1984) Felix the Cat (1992) Final Fantasy 7 Final Fight (1990) Flicky (1984) Galaga (1981) Galaxian (1979) God of War GoldenEye 007 (1997) Grand Prix Circuit (1988) Hudson’s Adventure Island (1986) Hudson’s Adventure Island III (1992) Ice Climber (1985) Kirby Super Star (1996) Kirby’s Adventure (1993) Kung-Fu Master (Spartan X) (1984) Lion King, The (1994) Lode Runner (1983) Magic Jewelry (1990) Mappy (1983) Mario and Luigi (1994) Mega Bomberman (1993) Mega Man (1987) Mega Man 2 (1988) Mega Man X (1993) Metal Gear Solid Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! (1987) Montezuma’s Revenge (1984) Mortal Kombat (1993) Mortal Kombat 4 (1997) Mortal Kombat II (1994) Oregon Trail, The (1990) Pac-Man Collection! (2006) Pitfall! (1982) Pokemon Blue Pokemon Red Popeye (1982) Prehistorik (1991) Prehistorik 2 (1993) Prince of Persia (1989) Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow & The Flame (1993) Resident Evil 2 River Raid (1982) Road Fighter (1984) Road Rash (1991) Sid Meier’s Civilization (1991) SimCity 2000 (1993) Snow Brothers (1990) Sonic and Knuckles (1994) Sonic the Hedgehog (1991) Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (1992) Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (1992) Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (1994) Street Fighter II (1992) Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting (1992) Streets of Rage 3 (1994) Super Bomberman (1993) Super C (1990) Super Mario 2 (NES) / (GBA) Super Mario Advance 4 (GBA) Super Mario Kart Super Mario World (SNES) Super Punch-Out!! (1994) Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers (1993) Tank 1990 (1990) Tecmo Bowl (1987) Tecmo Super Bowl (1991) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989) Tekken 3 Test Drive III: The Passion (1990) Tetris (1986) Tetris (1989) Tiny Toon Adventures (1991) Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 Track & Field (1984) Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (1996) Vlak (1993) Wolfenstein 3D (1992)
  12. And loads of them testified under oath that they were participating in the Jan 6 fuckery at the direction of Donald Trump. Hell of a long game if it was a false flag; antifa must pay really well for these losers to hold the line on the framing of Dotard all the way through their own sentencing hearings.
  13. Some juicy matchups in there. I don't see anything taking out two grizzlies.
  14. What’s with the vest? It’s balls hot in Iowa too isn’t it?
  15. Now I'm running down the rabbit hole on fly lines. I've got a Loomis NRX 9' 5wt LP - which is probably 5 or 6 years old. I bought it from a friend and he gave me a Ross reel with unknown line on it as well. The line does have a sinking tip on it so I assume he had it set up for streamers and it really loads the rod up easily - maybe too much. I've got an extra spool for the reel and am thinking about setting this one up for dry flies. After a little googling for a good line match for this rod I found quite a few recommendations for SA Amplitude Smooth line: https://www.finandfire.com/collections/freshwater-fly-lines/products/scientific-anglers-amplitude-smooth-trout-fly-line?variant=31661615841335 The Rio Premier Gold has some fans too. https://www.finandfire.com/collections/freshwater-fly-lines/products/premier-rio-gold-fly-line?variant=32199034241079 I'm probably not really proficient enough to be able to tell the difference, but I need all the help I can get to make good casts. Any opinions?
  16. @tequila Yea, this too. I have annoyed a couple of guides by asking to use my own gear. By the time you meet them at the put-in spot, the good guides tend to have them all rigged up with hopper/dropper setups or whatever they think is going to work that day. I need to pay more attention to the line I'm throwing. My best gear I bought from a friend who had a tackle fetish and needed to downsize his collection. I have no clue what line is on 2 or 3 of my reels.
  17. You should be good with any decent 5 wt setup IMO. I haven't had to make too many long casts while fishing from a drift boat, just a lot of roll casting and flipping from one bank over to the other when fishing water like the Green. TFO is hard to beat for someone still pretty new to fly fishing.
  18. Same. Grew up in Bellville, TX and can still remember crawling under desks for "protection." I don't think the teachers told us explicitly what it was for, but I can remember thinking it was in case those lousy Russians tried to start some shit. And lord knows Bellville freaking Texas would have been very high up on their list of places to kick off WWIII. That chickenshit little desk was wearing me for protection from a nuke. It's not a coincidence that Rocky IV and Red Dawn were two of my favorite movies as a kid.
  19. Exactly. What the fuck did they think would happen!?
  20. They sure aren't sending their best into the Cloak Room these days now are they?
  21. We just got back from a week in St. John yesterday. You were right. I'll do a write up next week, but we really enjoyed it and I wish we were still there.
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