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Mach 1

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  1. As a born and raised Texan living in California the last 20 years @Incredulity take on CA lawlessness and horrible quality of life makes me laugh. So dumb, yet not surprising. 

    I love it here and find it amusing that someone is scanning the internet to say SQUIRREL! when they find something to tell me or someone else why the shouldn’t. Look in the mirror.

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  2. Michigan fans were awesome at the Rose Bowl. Talked friendly shit and congratulated me and drunk friends after the win. They were in awe of VY.

    Yeah may have to make that trip. I’ve been to Ann Arbor on business but I’d like to experience that stadium. I was surprised it wasn’t vertical but mostly below ground. Must be a crazy environment. 

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  3. 6 hours ago, longhornmatt said:

    Divorcing your wife and mother of your children, paying the biggest settlement in history, only to then start dating a 53 year old who has multiple kids with multiple exes is a really weak sauce midlife crisis for the (former) richest man in the world.  I award Bezos’s midlife crisis no points, and may God have mercy on his soul.

    Oh shit, and apparently they’re engaged now, too.  Dude.  Congrats to Tony Gonzalez’s kid on the pending increase in his inheritance, I guess.

    I’ve met her a couple times IRL. She’s a well camouflaged pro. Bezos strikes me as a guy that never had the early life experiences to suss that out.

    Mercy on his soul indeed.

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  4. @Goredho  there was a passage in The Road that left a similar impression on me as the one in Blood Meridian:

    The marchers appeared four abreast.  Dressed in clothing of every description, all wearing red scarves at their necks.  Red or orange, as close to red as they could find ... an Army in tennis shoes, tramping.   Carrying three foot lengths of pipe with leather wrappings.  Lanyards at the wrist.  Some of the pipes were threaded through with lengths of chain fitted at their ends with every manner of bludgeon.   They clanked past, marching with a swaying gait like wind up toys.  Bearded, their breath smoking through their masks.  Shh, he said, Shh.  The phalanx following carried spears or lances tassled with ribbons, the long blades hammered out of truck springs in some crude forgery upcountry.  The boy lay with his face in his arms, terrified.  They passed two hundred feet away, the ground shuddering lightly.  Tramping.  Behind them came wagons drawn by slaves in harness and piled with goods of war and after that women, perhaps a dozen, some of them pregnant, and lastly a supplementary consort of catamites, ill-clothed aginst the cold and fitted with dog collars and yoked to each other.

     

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  5. 1 hour ago, Goredho said:

    Whenever I think of Blood Meridian, I always remember the following passage sentence.

    A legion of horribles, hundreds in number, half naked or clad in costumes attic or biblical or wardrobed out of a fevered dream with the skins of animals and silk finery and pieces of uniform still tracked with the blood of prior owners, coats of slain dragoons, frogged and braided cavalry jackets, one in a stovepipe hat and one with an umbrella and one in white stockings and a bloodstained wedding veil and some in headgear or cranefeathers or rawhide helmets that bore the horns of bull or buffalo and one in a pigeontailed coat worn backwards and otherwise naked and one in the armor of a Spanish conquistador, the breastplate and pauldrons deeply dented with old blows of mace or sabre done in another country by men whose very bones were dust and many with their braids spliced up with the hair of other beasts until they trailed upon the ground and their horses' ears and tails worked with bits of brightly colored cloth and one whose horse's whole head was painted crimson red and all the horsemen's faces gaudy and grotesque with daubings like a company of mounted clowns, death hilarious, all howling in a barbarous tongue and riding down upon them like a horde from a hell more horrible yet than the brimstone land of Christian reckoning, screeching and yammering and clothed in smoke like those vaporous beings in regions beyond right knowing where the eye wanders and the lip jerks and drools.

     

     

    IIRC immediately following that incredible sentence was this reaction from the Army officer in charge:

    My God

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  6. 3 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

    I've never bagged on his decision.  The problem I have with him is his insistence on how impossible it is for fat people to lose weight.  He's just simply wrong.  It's hard but not impossible.  He seems to be realizing now that this is a grind.  No shit.

    I openly admit how hard it was for him.  He sure as motherfuck needs to admit how hard it was for "people like me."  If he weren't so sensitive about it, he'd realize people "like me" are here to help him.  We want him to succeed.  

    I hear you. Unfortunately he doesn’t as he apparently has you on ignore. 

    Listen I agree I’d never do that fucking surgery. I like working out and being the master of my domain re: my food intake. But people are different, so do whatever works to stop being fat. I’ve always assumed people that do the surgery want a kick start to get the heavy shit off quick then transition into a more exercise/diet friendly lifestyle. Who knows.

    I haven’t gone over all the back and forth but your messaging was probably meant well but delivered poorly. Get in line with the rest of us assholes that do the same.

     

  7. 3 hours ago, Aqua Buddha said:

     

    Nope.  Been there, done that.  Dropped the weight 10 years ago.  It's all diet and exercise.  I look back and some of the pictures from that time period and I wish someone had told me I was fat.

    These surgeries are even about diet.  They're cutting it in half.  Wulaw seems to be moving more now so that's good.  I really do hope it works for him.  But yeah, it's hard.  No shit.    

    These surgeries aren't without risk, either.  Guy I used to work with had one done and lost about 100lbs.  He openly admitted he ate way too much but I digress.  He's in the hospital right now because of a bowel obstruction, which is evidently common with these.  They had to fly him to a second hospital because his weight loss doctor had to be part of the surgery for some reason.  Said he's basically a patient for life.

    I’m mostly in your camp on this, deal with it via diet and exercise. But if someone chooses a different path to fix an urgent need, no need to second guess them.  Do whatever works for your personal situation.

  8. On 5/27/2023 at 8:51 PM, Wulaw Horn said:

    Think I’m going to take the boy scuba diving. That will be different. 
    Wife just took a picture of me and youngest and I was shocked. So weird to eat 4 shrimp, 2 Oz of salmon and 3 OZ of steak. 
     

     

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    I saw those rough RV photos; you look like a new, much healthier, person. Good for you, keep it up. 

  9. Really enjoying this show. Re: people leaving the Silo and dying. I don’t buy it. It seems too simple and straightforward for a show that isn’t.

    Also, why would a Rashida Jones actress sign on for one off episode? I know it happens all the time, but my spidey sense says we see her again.

  10. 2 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    I gotta give the MAGA contingent credit, they really tried to create an impression that Paxton had more support in the House than he actually did.

    What does Paxton have to say?

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    JFC. I need another descriptor for politicians like Paxton, Trump et al. The absolute lying nonsense to keep power while breaking laws and inflicting damage on the state and country is infuriating to a point where ‘vile asshole’ doesn’t really cover it.  

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  11. Apparently time really can be a flat circle.

    My preferred regional bank/construction lender was seized by the FDIC in 2009, then sold to PacWest.   Without prior notice, they promptly sued me to enforce a 7 figure construction loan guarantee.

    So ... fuck 'em.

    However after some feisty litigation, they were reasonable during settlement negotiations.  So ... fuck 'em, but use lube.

  12. On 4/19/2023 at 1:11 PM, tbone_ said:

     


    Thanks for the heads up. GF ordered her Y a few days ago and they were righteous enough to drop her price to match without her having to ask, or cancel and reorder.

     

    Yeah I have a strange reaction to this price drop; I don’t give a shit.  I bought the Y in 11/22 after a year wait list. I drive a lot for business and gave the price drop a shrug. I love the fucker. It’s just comforting to drive, with the added benefit of ridiculously strong torque whenever needed.

    It’s odd since I’m an avid gas guzzler owner. But I have no allegiance to it like I do my combustion cars; it’s a disposable thing that serves a current purpose.

    tl;dr don’t buy it as an asset

  13. On 4/22/2023 at 6:53 PM, Chad Fuck said:

    A couple of updates pics.

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    Lots of cool cars packed in for the weekend.

    Not usually a red car fan but that burgundy looks badass. Need photos in the sun when you get it on the road, I bet it really pops.

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  14. Thread has taken a turn into the tiny euro convertible lane -  I'll join with an update on the TR6.

    My son and I upgraded the suspension, brakes and steering, so we moved on to the wiring harness.

    Engine bay was straightforward, despite the PO making a mess

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    Inside dash also pretty easy, just need to label everything

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    This is what awaits us under the dash this weekend - not great Bob

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    Plan is to ship it off for paint after full removal.  Wife wants British Racing Green.  OK, we like British Racing Green.

    Once it's back we get to open this box.

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    I'm afraid to look ... however it's reportedly a brand new modern wiring harness. Removal of said harness is one thing, installation quite another.

    I'll use the interim painting period to ponder under the tree of woe, and ask the universe why I've chosen that task.

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