It was a run down BYOB in a shitty part of Columbus and called the Candy Store. We weren't old enough to drink so we had pop. My group of friends were the only ones in it and were sitting around the stage bleeding singles and not buying dances. One of the ladies chose U2's Sunday Bloody Sunday as her music and my friend and I got into a heated discussion about Irish Independence, free-staters and possibly Julia Roberts' attempt at an Irish accent of indeterminant region.
As the argument grew more far ranging and loud enough to be heard over the music, the young lady on stage was a bit annoyed we weren't paying enough attention to her bouncy bits. She then challenged me to do her job and pulled me up on stage. Two others came out and removed most of my clothing, wrapped my belt around my neck like reigns and rode me around the stage while stuffing the accumulated singles laying about into my underwear. There were chants of "O10!" (my joking career ambition to be the next person to be promoted to Fleet Admiral) from my buddies and it was all great fun.
At the end I think assumption from the regular performers was that we would stay, continue to give them money and have a great time. When I pulled the money out of my pants and did a quick estimation, I saw it was well over $150. My clothes went back on and informed my friends that I was done for the evening.
At a bachelor party that was in no way my bachelor party a person who was in no way me was dragged up on stage, and had my, err his, belt removed so strippers could beat him with it. First though, they removed the guy’s shirt and when he protested they stuck a mike in his face and said “you believe in equal opportunity don’t you?” I believe the response was “yeah, for white guys” and the place (Big Al’s in Peoria) went nuts for the answer.
At the finest establishment in Flint MI for a friends Batchelor party I was at the main stage shopping for a lap dancer for the Batchelor.
The girl on the main stage had finished her dance and was making her way around the stage working for some last minute tips by allowing the patrons to motorboat her. When she got to me and realized getting motor boated by a 4 eye'd nerd would be even less enjoyable than the regular Truck and Bus plant worker she grabbed my glasses folded them closed, and ran them through her, uhhh...lips then put them back on my face.
I quickly removed them, and was promptly escorted back to the rest of the group by the security guards. The Batchelor quickly negotiated at least a lap dance from her, and I went the rest of the night squinting sans glasses.
This is why we pay to part of the ACF community … life is is usually played at low monotonous volume except for those few times when the dial is turned up to the max…
With a body and face like that, King-Slutzky will never be able to “enjoy” spring break the way the topless girl from U of M and I did in that foam pit and later on the water trampoline in Negril in 2003.
Her name is Joannah and we wonder why youngins are confused about gender. Also, if a lady wants to fornicate she can usually find away, if she lowers her standards. She might not get a stud like you but guys are dogs, especially college guys.
Sam's book is doing fantastic on Amazon at the moment. Saw his reel on it yesterday, read Colin Comer's FB post on it this morning and now yours! So I'll buy one!
I have a lot more grace for 19-20 year olds getting swept up in things they don’t fully understand the consequences of, because I’ve been there. As, I suppose, a lot of us have. Whatever the specific circumstances were.
A mid 30s perpetual student/adolescent is not the same. Even if they don’t, they *ought* to know better.
We had one shot that may have worked (for a decade or three) and blew it: replace our prior strongman with a new strongman and keep everything else in place.
CIA wanted “go in, break things, win, hand power to interim leader with elections in 180 days, here you go Iraqis, a free country/fresh start in the Arab world, history is watching, don’t blow it, get out”
Colin Powell/State Dept bizarrely applied China shop morality “you broke it, you bought it” to a police action and sold that nation-building could work. GWB chose poorly.
I read this from a prominent lefty voice and I was like WTF. Comparing the Iraq war and our involvement with Gaza/Israel conflict is just brain dead to me.
There were a LOT of people involved in these totally-organic-definitely-in-no-way-financed-from-above protests in their 30s and 40s and there's even some 60-year-old lady whose nickname is something stupid like "Professor Protest" or whatever.
Definitely in no way financed by enemies of the United States intent on sowing discord. I don't know why it is so easy for some people to believe the CIA is omnipotent when interfering with other countries and the Russians only help Trump and the Chinese don't interfere with us all. They definitely don't flood us with fentanyl, or counterfeit currency, or meth before that, or AKs before that, and they certainly aren't manipulating Tik Tok algorithms now.
It's very comforting to believe that your own country is the source of all the evil in the world. Because you have a voice, however small, in what happens here. Putin can no more be reasoned with or intimidated than could the "San-Ti" from 3-Body Problem.
I about crapped when I saw online that Binder aka Jean-Pierre something like 49 years old. From her tv appearances I had her pegged as maybe as old as 23....
I remember some point where Jane Fonda apologized for her actions back in the 60's, blaming it on being young and immature. Bitch! You were in your 30's, not some kid. And the apology was simply to appease some veterans protesting her making a movie or something, not some heartfelt admission of wrong. The damn shame of it is that she has just out-aged most of the Vietnam vets, depriving them of the opportunity to go piss on her grave.
You know, in that dimwit youtuber's defense, at least he was driving the car. It was on the road moving, which is more than you can say for a lot of the museum pieces some former cars have become.
The only people who will be able to afford them will have so much money invested in them that the only way to make sure that investment pays off will be to keep them in hermetically sealed garages. No one will ever enjoy them again.
Bring A Trailer was originally called that because it was for project cars that wouldn't move under their own power. Now it's called that because it's for cars that are money laundering tokens and driving them would reduce their value.
If I had my multi-millions I'd make a hobby out of trolling BaT sellers by arranging fly-and-drives after winning their auction, showing up in a NASCAR shirt and lighting up a cig in the interior of the car as soon as I took possession, asking them whether there was an ash-tray or if I'd have to make a quick stop at Walmart for one of those cupholder ones.
Jeff R. “Money laundering” knew it had to be something because last week a 1975 Eldorado Convertible sold for $101,000 now that is about what you would pay for TWO no miles 1976 Bi- Centennial Convertibles which were part of the last 200 made. So $101,000 for one 1975 is got to be money laundering.
A damn 75 with full smog controls for 101k. My brother had one. Triple black convertable paid 5k and it was in decent condition. Nice cars but not that nice.
If you want money laundering, look at the fine art industry. Cars have titles and registrations with government agencies. Though come to think of it, with corrupt appraisals and counterfeits, the are some similarities with the high end car auction world.
Yeah, but as usual, the truth is somewhere in the middle.
You're not supposed to let a car rot to death as a museum exhibit, but neither is it supposed to suffer a negligent homicide at the hands of some barely-postpubescent, YouTube-Voiced attention whore the internet generously saved from his rightful fate as a retail clerk stocking the canned-goods aisle at Kroger.
Make no mistake, I think youtube dimwits should only be stocking shelves at Kroger under supervision. At least until they can be trusted to make sure everything is faced properly.
I haven’t done donuts in forever… but I would make damn sure that if I was going to do some in front of cameras or on a public street, that my drifting skills were on point.
We used to do donuts in the snow in our subcompact economy cars in the high school parking lot by putting them in reverse and nailing the gas. It was good fun.
Sears parking lot me me, never any other cars in it. Got busted one and told the cops we were practicing our emergency driving skills. We were told to fuck off.
I spent literally months scouting locations before I did them in my Mustang. With the rental in Florida I was a little more cavalier, although admittedly that was partly down to the differing law-enforcement postures in the respective locales.
I love the fact that the first time I watched this, immediately below was an advert for Monday.com with a slogan saying something along the lines of "Doesn't it just feel great when you get things on your list done!" Yeah, maybe... Next time I watched, it was replaced by one saying "from brake pads to wiper blades, find thousands of parts that fit your car on eBay." Who says AI doesn't have a sense of humour?
Clearly the curriculum at Columbia isn't rigorous enough if these kids have all this time on their hands to protest. Between drinking, chasing women, intramural sports, fraternal obligations, and studying I'm not sure where I would have been able to fit in protesting during college. (written is order of priority)
The curricuum no doubt eats a bag of dicks but what's lacking here is the WILL of the administration to hand out legitimate punishments like Halloween candy.
The academic world is heavily focused on prestige. I'm old enough to remember when many, if not most, directional state schools, and urban based schools still called themselves colleges, not universities. So now we have a bunch of midwits who get to call themselves "university professors" instead of "college instructors".
Also, if I'm not mistaken, students still get accepted into the various colleges that make up modern universities. Don't you get admitted to Harvard's College of This or That, not Harvard University?
I know that when I applied to go to Michigan it was to the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.
The admission thing depends. Some institutions do just admit to the institution and then you declare a major which is in a particular college. Believe it or not, unlike UofM, some schools just let freshmen declare any major they want rather than having to go through another competitive process to get into a particular college / major.
It has been Columbia University (in the City of New York) since the 19th century; it is absolutely a University, not a College, and has been so for a long, long time.
yes, barnard still exists. the dorms are on a separate campus but you take courses on both campuses. the other columbia undergraduate schools on the main campus are co-ed and considered more prestigious.
Some of us boomers actually remember when getting a liberal arts degree genuinely meant achieving competence in broad general knowledge. As I mentioned, Michigan's liberal arts degree is granted by the College of Literature, Science and the Arts. 50 years ago, the distribution requirements of a LSA degree gave students that broad knowledge.
I think society may have been better off when the only people who went to college were those capable and interested in doing actual academic level work or getting genuine professional training (no, not sure a MSW is really professional training, but then most of the therapeutic industry is bullshit), plus a few women (and a small number of men, like my former father-in-law) going to teachers' colleges.
I see little evidence that the tantrum throwers on campus today are getting anything close to what a liberal arts education meant in, let's say, 1965.
I am definitely not a boomer, but I do enjoy ribbing the typical BA recipient. Even the ones that are smarter and more successful than me. My sister, as an example, with a BA in English with a MBA from a very non-prestigious college just recently accepted a VP role, and that doesn't stop me one bit from reminding her how poor her math skills are.
It is not serious, it is just fun, people can have fun.
A school which is called a “University,” but should not be, because it is not.
The law school sucks, and its existence as a mediocre TTT devalues my undergraduate degree. Of course, I could take the opposing point of view and say that I WANT my alma mater to fade into obscurity, the better to highlight my own achievements.
It takes a lot of courage to do that, however! Americans take college VERY seriously; everyone has an opinion on the Ivy League, particularly those with no connection whatsoever to any of those schools who are worried about the kids being too woke these days!
My understanding of college vs university is both size and offering graduate degrees. Dartmouth doesn’t have many master programs and remains small. Tufts, while small, has multiple masters programs and a med school.
You could have always gone to Lynchburg or Roanoke 😂😂😂
I was taught that a college is a single school focused on an area of study, and a university is a collection of colleges. My Alma mater had a college of business, college of engineering, college of liberal arts and sciences, college of nursing, and a law school IIRC.
I remember college in the early 2000s (I graduated in '05) and wondering just how some of the pudding-brains made it to even their second year. Maybe going to a directional state school limited the brainpower of the applicants, but what I found easy a LOT of my classmates found nearly impossible.
Perhaps related: I'm taking classes with the State Tax Commission right now, and each unit is capped with a 50-question test you are given an hour for. I have finished every test in half that time. Everyone else seems to sit there scratching their heads until the final minute. Is reading comprehension really so difficult? Or has grade inflation merely let every dimwit get through school without having to strain their pudding-brains too hard?
I didn't go to an Ivy but a school only one tier down, at most. Graduated in 2013. I wish I could have gotten some grade inflation. First year, it sure seemed like they'd be happy to run me right out of the school. I became a more successful student, but even in junior year, I got a B- in one class when i was expecting at least an A-. It's not universal.
Agreed. The only places that I heard of the inflation happening was certain Ivies, particularly ones beginning with the letter Y (and I heard the claim directly from my peers, who attended said universities, and claimed to benefit 😂) At my somewhat elite research univ there wasn't anything even remotely resembling grade inflation
They probably wanted to run you out and replace you with a foreign student paying the full ride tuition. That was my experience at the University of Washington my first 2 years in the late 80’s.
That might come up when it's time to actually kick someone out, but I don't think individual professors care about that.
I did have a recent conversation with a friend from school who remarked that he's not sure how he was accepted, that he didn't do that well in high school and didn't even get into the honors colleges at schools like Penn State. I reminded him that he was able to pay the full tuition for five years. He responded, "You think that's why I got in?"
5 working motorcycles?? I'm embarrassed as out of my 7, 2 (mostly new ones) run. Well, 2.5. The RZ350 runs but poorly and spits two stroke oil out all over both legs in protest. But it does "run." I need to do better but neck surgery screwed me up the past month.
These rules reminded me of a neighborhood establishment we raided one time. Let's call it a combination liquor store/bar/gambling house/title loan/strip club in a private residence. Smack in the middle of a residential street that didn't seem to mind until that had no way to get home every night. Once we politely entered, secured the men and had the women dress somewhat appropriately, the search was on for whatever illegal substances might be found. I wandered around checking out the setup in case I decided to open a business one day. Eventually, I entered the women's dressing room, a former bedroom stocked with lockers and racks of clothing. Displayed prominently on the wall was a poster with the ONE set of rules for the dancers:
NO DANCING ON YOUR PERIOD
* IT SMELLS
* IT'S NASTY
* AND NO ONE WANTS TO CLEAN IT UP
I have, to this day, always regretted not taking that poster and mounting it in my garage.
I've blissfully reduced my fleet down to two motorcycles and just two cars and have never felt so sane. The Kawasaki Voyager is running like a top and even has working cruise control now. The '78 XS1100 is on round 4 or 5 of jetting changes trying to get it "just right" and not just "okay." Simple enough to clean out and set carbs up on a stock bike if you know what you're doing. Trickier with aftermarket exhaust and carburetors from a slightly different model year.
At the start of the year one of my goals was "wrench less, ride more." I've been executing decently on the first half of that (and finding more time and energy for neglected house projects and fitness). Aside from my current XS11 carb woes and a few regressions like messing around with that Crackpipe-Virago 1100 and getting your Midnight Special back on the road, I've been staying true. To the "ride more" side of things, I'm realizing just how little opportunity I even have to do so much as 2-3 decent day/weekend rides per *year,* and a bit of moto-commuting. Said moto commuting isn't even that fun a lot of the time when I get stuck in suburban 30mph traffic. So two bikes is more than plenty, though as I've mentioned to you, as inconceivable as it may sound, I'd consider cutting the troublesome '78 XS11 loose and swap it for something else, maybe a booming v-twin of some sort (either a sporty VTR1000 Superhawk or SV1000N, or a harley), maybe another Bandit 1200 or fuel injected 1250. The 4k mile local '07 for $4200 that I sent you sold btw, and thank goodness for that. On the car side of things, I have literally woken up a few times and my first thought has been "thank goodness I don't have that laundry list of crap to fix on the Chevy any more," so no regrets there. I'm gonna run the rest of 2024 out with the fleet as it stands, my boy says I should "get a sports car," something "with four mufflers" or a Camaro.
As my son gets more and more comfortable on his pedal bike, I may turn my attention to my neglected hardtail mountain bike and maybe even pick up a BMX bike to tool around the neighborhood on. An activity that's much more accessible and even more importantly, something I can enjoy together with my son.
I have more than a few competing hobbies (competing against each other for my time, that is) and an unhealthy compulsion to buy more and more accessories for each hobby. I actually have a storage unit for my fishing gear, as one example. I recently decided to set hard limits - no more buying accessories until I actually participate in the actual hobby. So instead of wrench less, ride more, it's buy less, ride (shoot, fish, hunt, camp) more. As long as I stick to it, life seems a bit more sane.
This is my problem as well. I'll daydream about all the fun riding I could do, if only I had motorcycle X,y,Z in the garage. Every time I'm tempted, I have to remind myself that I don't/can't ride even the two that I currently own as much as I'd like. But I totally get that daydreaming, research, hunting for deals, etc are a non-trivial part of the hobby for people who are hard up for time. When my son was really little and my wife worked weekends, the wrenching made sense as I had chunks of time on the weekend to myself where I couldn't leave the house. Now I've got more time with the whole family together on the weekends, which I'm very thankful for. But it's reduced both wrenching AND riding time. I think also part of burying myself in my hobby was avoiding/ignoring some less fun stuff that needed done (home maintenance stuff).
A restroom at the Cummins Technical Center had pictograms about how to use toilets, given their H-1B dependence.
Imagine the consequences of sitting in residue of hydraulic fluid and metal shavings from the shoes of someone likes to squat and won't have it any other way.
A friend of my brother-in-law bought a building leased to some strip club in So Cal. Everyone clutched their pearls and thought him mad, but they turned out to be great tenants who were NEVER late with the rent. I think it must have something to do not fighting on multiple fronts, a lesson Mr Hitler had to learn the hard way.
Is this still a serious thing? Are we not having FP meetups out of a lack of a location?
If so that is horseshit. I can easily find one in VA that would be driving distance from NC, VA, DC, MD, DE, NJ, WV, and most PA cities, with NY and SC and others a long haul. it would not be the cool rich guy garage from Detroit but would be nice enough.
What's keeping us from having the Spring FP meeting is mostly near-exhaustion on my end from working two jobs, trying to hold my race season together, and dealing with a 110-octane barrel of personal/health drama.
30 days from now I'll return to the topic and we'll figure it out.
I am so thoroughly SICK of college students protesting...whatever, doesn't matter. I'll just say it. You're supposed to go to college to get an education, not wave a sign around while you shout about problems that can't be fixed and don't affect you anyway.
These protestors should be jailed and stripped of their academic credentials. You assholes are supposed to be in class, not standing in the quad mindlessly repeating some idiotic chant.
By the way, where do these idiotic protest chants come from? Somebody's obviously taken the time to sit down and write them. Probably the same place those professionally-printed signs come from, www.rent-a-mob.com, your one-stop revolutionary supplier!
These 22-year-old "influencers" who try to stunt million-dollar exotics despite a total lack of ability should all be sentenced to Monday Night Rehabilitation. Seriously, fuck those guys and their Fast & Furious attitude to high-dollar cars.
I hate protests and in general the people protesting come across as brainless morons. There's some PJ O'Rourke quote out there somewhere about the small minds big causes tend to attract.
In the story I wrote, the island nation I made up outlaws protests. One of the main characters leaves the island for America for college and is called a fascist because of this particular law (among other things).
You know, it would renew my faith in America if those terrorists who block roads were each charged with one count of kidnapping for each person they held up and one count of manslaughter for everybody who died in an ambulance because they couldn't get to the hospital.
AND, just to make it intredasting, an offer to drop the charges if the accused scumbag renounces their US citizenship and goes elsewhere in the world permanently.
Keep in mind its only some college kids protesting, as arrests are showing that at least half are outside agitators. This is going on all across the country. BLM had peaceful protests until outside agitators and Antifa got involved.
The people have the right to peaceably assemble. Much as I dislike trustafarians and Boomer hippies before them in many cases the violence, like the Police Riot at the Democratic Convention in 1968 seems to be instigated by the police.
This lot glues their hands to factory floors, throws soup on paintings, camps on college lawns, blocks traffic and generally goes out of its way to prove that one purpose of the legal system is to prevent acts of vigilante violence against people who clearly deserve it.
Joe Rogan pointed this out on his podcast: We have to eventually care because these students will be entering the workforce. Yes, child trafficing, fentanyl overdoses, illegal immigration and a whole host of other problems directly impact the Untied States. We as concerned citizens along with the federal government can do more than one thing at a time.
heh, anyone who glues themselves to the floor, etc should be left there for at least two weeks; let them see how they like living without any food, water, etc.
I actually don't have a problem with peaceful and civil protests. However, blocking roads, encampments, and impeding others in any way is not a peaceful protest.
There’s also a matter of protesting at people who have no ability to effect any change. If you want to go protest in front of a government building or a corporate HQ that is engaged in behavior you find objectionable, have at it. But protesting by blocking down a highway in support of Palestine? What exactly is TC Mits supposed to do about it? How does that affect change? Are you doing the notable Most Worthless Thing Ever and just trying to Raise Awareness (TM)? Because no one gives a shit and now we’re all fantasizing about seeing you as a dark lumpy stain on the asphalt.
I disagree. Protesting the government is one thing. It's not about "going too far". It's about violating the rights of others. Ultimately, protesting has gone from protesting the government (or say a business) to protesting that violates the rights of the citizenry.
the kentucky sonic girl is attractive in a way that instagram models arent
contrast that with king-slut who looks like her name as she has a face made for a paper bag
more importantly noted onomatopoeia enthusiast sam smith has a physical book that i am very much looking forward to purchasing and reading and speaking of nice things that senna did nothing wrong to deserve that kind of abuse at the hands of a broccoli haired dork with veneers
the hoedown in the middle east makes for mildly interesting news i suppose
It’s a wide range of outcomes; she could be the fertile tradwife bride of the scion of the local ______ dealership, or she could be dead of a fentanyl overdose.
I'll always click the little heart when someone takes a shot at the young dudes out there getting perms to pull off a hairstyle, but take it easy on the IG models. Plenty of girl next door types out there profiting off of their looks instead of participating in idiotic protests!
I'll point you in the direction my personal top-five or so, starting with the obligatory ACF 0:
0. Grace Boor
1. Sofia Bevarly
2. Glory (on the Gram) Cilicia
4. Hannah C. Palmer
4a. Madeline Hope (Hadelinemope), Penny Lane (is the name), Allie Dunn
I'd argue the disproportionate tig-ole-bitties and cringe names disqualify them as "girl next door types" but I'm just speaking my opinion, not trying to yuck any ones yum.
Again, I can see that, but there's a lot of top-heavy girls out there, and they have to live next door to someone. Of the ones listed, Allie is the only one where I question if its all original equipment, but she's probably also the cutest and most "next-doorzy" in the face, so it's a tough call.
All of them simply exude natural beauty and lack the tattoos, lip-fillers, and other garbage that defines the modern "internet skank," which makes them feel like someone you could have gone to school with or meet at the grocery store. Chalk up the names to marketing and a limited number of IG handles.
My Navy vet barber has both a (small) Ukraine and an Israel flag on his shop door. We have a Republican congresswoman in Indiana, Victoria Spartz, who ran on an "America First" platform then promptly flew right over to Ukraine when things kicked off in February 2022. Most recently she voted against the Ukraine/Israel/etc funding bill, not for a change of heart but for some political maneuvering against a strong primary challenger who was calling out her "anything-but-America-First" behavior (she knew the bill would pass anyways).
My only take on *all* of these heated conflicts on foreign soil is that it's NOT OUR PROBLEM. Anyone flying any sort of foreign flag here in the US, certainly within the halls of Congress, is fundamentally un-American IMO.
I wish we would not give a single red cent to *any* foreign government, certainly not while we have a massive security problem on our own border and inflation has beaten down most of the population.
My barber is a great guy to shoot the crap with, and is an excellent barber, first and foremost. But yeah, his political stances are basically precisely copy-pasted from whatever was being said on Fox News earlier that week. Nothing interesting, no nuance.
Oh man, a moonbase. If we were ever going to get a moonbase or a Mars mission I would try so hard to get my kids to go for it since I'm too old and out of shape.
Hey, look at it this way: We know the technology works and the engineering's been worked out. All we need is somebody with enough money and more regard for mankind's future than for some silly, ill-conceived test ban treaty and we're back in business.
You just build your launch site in some worthless, Godforsaken hellhole like Antarctica or northwestern Canada. As long as you're at least 250 miles from anything electronic you care about, everything's kosher.
Once you're out of the atmosphere, radiation becomes an academic concern.
Besides, they had a design for a thermonuclear shaped-charge that would've directed the entire force of the blast into the ship's pusher plate instead of in all directions.
Think about the advantages. Tough spaceships made of steel plate instead of aluminum foil. Twenty-thousand-ton payloads in one launch. A propulsion system limited by neither heat nor pressure. Saturn in one year.
We're the Humongous' biker gang compared to our ancestors.
I would have settled for just continuing to develop the Saturn V launch vehicle. With the solid rocket booster they were planning to put under the whole stack, Mars would have been our bitch already.
Fear not. Once again I have to point out that the vast majority of the "aid" goes right to the executives and shareholders of KBR, Northrop, and General Dynamics as it is all earmarked for the purchase of American weapons. If only those scumbags would make a bridge or library on American soil with US born workers.
I was watching a video about the Ford aricraft carrier and they had two Ukranian flags on that thing. I get your neighbor hanging a Ukranian flag, but the latest carrier?
If he goes to Ferrari and short-ropes Sir Lewis to an eighth championship, I'm going to block the IP of the F1TV app in my home router until the day I die.
“I would encourage those of you who believe in a just God/Allah/et al to join with me in prayer to end this murderous and hateful conflict that spares neither women nor children and which is creating yet another generation of broken young people who will spend their lives trying to re-adjudicate this conflict by other means.”
May I suggest a robust application of bacon and other pork products to the region, in a sort of Berlin Airlift fashion, as a potential route to alleviating the tension? I’d be uptight too if I was forbidden from eating such delightful fare.
This claim is unsubstantiated - it comes from a Boomer who admires Rachel Maddow so much that he emulates her haircut - but I heard last week that the Pro Gaza / Anti Zionist protesters at Emory were in line to receive as much as $7,800 for their services (duration of contract unknown), with resident Emorrhoids earning up to $2,800 for their participation.
A person who overheard said “Up to $7,800!?! For that much money, all of the Jews at Emory will be lined up to protest!”
If you watch any conservative doomer news, it's Qatar. If you watch Karlyn Borysenko, it's some big, rich socialist organization which has no sense of irony.
There's a big clue in the fact that the first anti-Israeli protest in the USA I read about was Oct 9 - only two days after Hamas attacked, and the Israeli blood wasn't dry yet. They were protesting Israel's response before Israel responded. Which to me means either
A) they had foreknowledge of the attacks and were ready to go, or
B) their protest network is so well-funded and organized that it could be mobilized in 48 hours' time
Wouldn't surprise me one bit to find out they're the same people from the BLM protests 4 years ago. But it seems the local authorities aren't going to tolerate CHAZ zones and broken downtown windows this time, thank God.
If the same people who funded and coordinated the 10/7 attacks - an act of war - are funding and coordinating the disruptive and not-so-peaceful protests at American universities, that's a huge deal. That's not a "so what."
Objectively speaking, 9/11 didn't do as much to damage this country and our ability to move forward as a healthy group of people as the "Summer of 2020" did.
I don’t know about that. Patriot Act, DHS, TSA, and a major turn towards the US as a surveilled security state. Not that 2020 wasn’t also another fault line.
It sounds so ridiculous, and yet - at the same time - wouldn't surprise me.
The american right wing is going to have a similar protest against the left, once the right wing funders work out the amortization schedules with protest leaders. They're thinking a very generous seven dollars per day, no food, and a stick of gum.
Are they still lauding the Atlanta “Cop City” protesters as heroes outside of Georgia or has someone in the Cathedral offered an explanation of how “that’s different” with regard to the propriety of the response?
I only heard of Sam recently when he started the It's Not The Car podcast with Ross Bentley and Jeff Braun. The podcast is fantastic so far, highly recommend to the ACF readership; it'll be right up most of your alleys.
You really think so? I listened to the beginning of the first episode, and Sam’s lip smacking during his monologue was like nails on a chalkboard for me. I don’t ask for much in terms of sound quality, but I can’t deal with that.
So I fast forwarded into the meat of the first episode and then sampled a few others; they are basically re-telling stories that have already been relayed in authoritative and comprehensive fashion.
Better sound quality is appreciated because it makes it easier to listen to something while doing another task. The patio / event TST podcasts are weak because Matt is usually “off” his game a bit at an event, and the degraded sound quality makes it a harder listen.
I am rapidly getting to the point of not watching any YouTube. The content is almost invariably terrible, insipid, and stretched out to 20-40 minutes to put more ads into it.
I absolutely pay for YT Premium, primarily because I listen to white noise while reading. I churned out of Spotify when they left the App Store last summer.
I don’t really listen to music at this point; I have already heard all of the music I need or want to hear. On the off chance I want to hear a specific song, I can listen to it on YouTube.
I mostly listen to podcasts while commuting or walking the dog. But I also am happy to listen to “Hypnotize” or “Smells Like Teen Spirit” or “Evenflow” or “Still Fly” for the 9,000th time. My musical tastes are wide but shallow, and mostly stuck in 1996-2004 (my HS/college years).
This new podcast of Sam's is improved from the insurance company but after a few I stopped listening. He's a much better writer than broadcaster; at least in print he can edit his ticks although he is getting better, right?
I'm really enjoying "It's Not the Car" as well. Each episode is about the right length for a couple whiskeys and cigars... Yeah, I know most of the stories, but Smith, Bentley and Braun bring a lot of nuance and detail (each from a different point of view, which is really interesting).
Something Jack crystallized relatively recently (at least for me):
The big stories have been told. The 250 GTO; 917; Ford GT40; Moss at the Mille Miglia; etc. There is a definitive, exhaustive, authoritative account of every single one of those stories out there (and they ARE great, stirring stories). What is the point of creating a derivative version of that story?
I haven't heard a bunch of these stories, so they're a great introduction for me. The episodes that are the best though are the ones with Ross and/or Jeff talking about things they experienced first hand. The recent episode about the Ferrari 333, which they both raced, was great. Jeff's story about how he and his brother won a trip to the US GP at Watkins in the late 60s by selling the most AAR fan club memberships and meeting Dan Gurney is awesome.
mclaren is the only supercar i'd have; i've never paid for sex and i had a couple offers. but then i'm so old very little of this is applicable.
I once left a strip club with more money than I went in with. Closest I'll come to being paid for sex.
bro how
wait did you mug and/or trick somebody
I was young, dumb and nerdy.
It was a run down BYOB in a shitty part of Columbus and called the Candy Store. We weren't old enough to drink so we had pop. My group of friends were the only ones in it and were sitting around the stage bleeding singles and not buying dances. One of the ladies chose U2's Sunday Bloody Sunday as her music and my friend and I got into a heated discussion about Irish Independence, free-staters and possibly Julia Roberts' attempt at an Irish accent of indeterminant region.
As the argument grew more far ranging and loud enough to be heard over the music, the young lady on stage was a bit annoyed we weren't paying enough attention to her bouncy bits. She then challenged me to do her job and pulled me up on stage. Two others came out and removed most of my clothing, wrapped my belt around my neck like reigns and rode me around the stage while stuffing the accumulated singles laying about into my underwear. There were chants of "O10!" (my joking career ambition to be the next person to be promoted to Fleet Admiral) from my buddies and it was all great fun.
At the end I think assumption from the regular performers was that we would stay, continue to give them money and have a great time. When I pulled the money out of my pants and did a quick estimation, I saw it was well over $150. My clothes went back on and informed my friends that I was done for the evening.
im just glad you felt comfortable enough here to share that story because what the hell
At a bachelor party that was in no way my bachelor party a person who was in no way me was dragged up on stage, and had my, err his, belt removed so strippers could beat him with it. First though, they removed the guy’s shirt and when he protested they stuck a mike in his face and said “you believe in equal opportunity don’t you?” I believe the response was “yeah, for white guys” and the place (Big Al’s in Peoria) went nuts for the answer.
Don't wear glasses to a strip club.
At the finest establishment in Flint MI for a friends Batchelor party I was at the main stage shopping for a lap dancer for the Batchelor.
The girl on the main stage had finished her dance and was making her way around the stage working for some last minute tips by allowing the patrons to motorboat her. When she got to me and realized getting motor boated by a 4 eye'd nerd would be even less enjoyable than the regular Truck and Bus plant worker she grabbed my glasses folded them closed, and ran them through her, uhhh...lips then put them back on my face.
I quickly removed them, and was promptly escorted back to the rest of the group by the security guards. The Batchelor quickly negotiated at least a lap dance from her, and I went the rest of the night squinting sans glasses.
This is why we pay to part of the ACF community … life is is usually played at low monotonous volume except for those few times when the dial is turned up to the max…
I think back on these moments and am glad that I used to be an interesting person!
With a body and face like that, King-Slutzky will never be able to “enjoy” spring break the way the topless girl from U of M and I did in that foam pit and later on the water trampoline in Negril in 2003.
Some wag somewhere noted that if you play all those girls gone wild videos backwards, they turn into stories of redemption.
https://www.theonion.com/girls-gone-wild-released-back-into-civilization-1819568385
Has an actual topless shot in it! The girls weren't the ONLY thing wild about the Web back then.
Yep. The Wild Wild Web.
Her name is Joannah and we wonder why youngins are confused about gender. Also, if a lady wants to fornicate she can usually find away, if she lowers her standards. She might not get a stud like you but guys are dogs, especially college guys.
Joanna is a perfectly respectable girl's name, although, like "Megan", each each superfluous "H" is a warning sign and she has TWO.
Looks like her faculty page has been taken down:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230923164607/https://english.columbia.edu/content/johannah-king-slutzky
I read it as Jonah not as Jo-anna but she probably does have two!
Reading that and my first thought is SOME PEOPLE ARE ONLY VALUABLE AS WATER FOR THE TRIBE
Amen.
Sam's book is doing fantastic on Amazon at the moment. Saw his reel on it yesterday, read Colin Comer's FB post on it this morning and now yours! So I'll buy one!
Apparently the revolution this time around will be both televised....and catered.
But definitely NOT civilized.
Or even particularly erudite, really.
Whaddaya want, the moon?
Fight the pizza... er, power!
King-Slutzky is I believe 34 years old.
I have a lot more grace for 19-20 year olds getting swept up in things they don’t fully understand the consequences of, because I’ve been there. As, I suppose, a lot of us have. Whatever the specific circumstances were.
A mid 30s perpetual student/adolescent is not the same. Even if they don’t, they *ought* to know better.
https://x.com/PaulSkallas/status/1785383233426743802
They were accidentally right. Like a flipped coin.
Still, I was deliberately wrong, and that shames me.
I was right like Cassandra. Like an alternate reality that is reality where Charlie refuses to listen to Raymond.
We had one shot that may have worked (for a decade or three) and blew it: replace our prior strongman with a new strongman and keep everything else in place.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Chalabi
CIA wanted “go in, break things, win, hand power to interim leader with elections in 180 days, here you go Iraqis, a free country/fresh start in the Arab world, history is watching, don’t blow it, get out”
Colin Powell/State Dept bizarrely applied China shop morality “you broke it, you bought it” to a police action and sold that nation-building could work. GWB chose poorly.
I read this from a prominent lefty voice and I was like WTF. Comparing the Iraq war and our involvement with Gaza/Israel conflict is just brain dead to me.
There were a LOT of people involved in these totally-organic-definitely-in-no-way-financed-from-above protests in their 30s and 40s and there's even some 60-year-old lady whose nickname is something stupid like "Professor Protest" or whatever.
You gotta have a hobby.
Everybody needs one!
What else would Geoge Soros do?! 🙄🤬
"totally-organic-definitely-in-no-way-financed-from-above"
Definitely in no way financed by enemies of the United States intent on sowing discord. I don't know why it is so easy for some people to believe the CIA is omnipotent when interfering with other countries and the Russians only help Trump and the Chinese don't interfere with us all. They definitely don't flood us with fentanyl, or counterfeit currency, or meth before that, or AKs before that, and they certainly aren't manipulating Tik Tok algorithms now.
It's very comforting to believe that your own country is the source of all the evil in the world. Because you have a voice, however small, in what happens here. Putin can no more be reasoned with or intimidated than could the "San-Ti" from 3-Body Problem.
Kind of like the infamous “summer of love”. Who the hell paid for all that?
I about crapped when I saw online that Binder aka Jean-Pierre something like 49 years old. From her tv appearances I had her pegged as maybe as old as 23....
I remember some point where Jane Fonda apologized for her actions back in the 60's, blaming it on being young and immature. Bitch! You were in your 30's, not some kid. And the apology was simply to appease some veterans protesting her making a movie or something, not some heartfelt admission of wrong. The damn shame of it is that she has just out-aged most of the Vietnam vets, depriving them of the opportunity to go piss on her grave.
You know, in that dimwit youtuber's defense, at least he was driving the car. It was on the road moving, which is more than you can say for a lot of the museum pieces some former cars have become.
but those remain undamaged and can be enjoyed in the future
The only people who will be able to afford them will have so much money invested in them that the only way to make sure that investment pays off will be to keep them in hermetically sealed garages. No one will ever enjoy them again.
i mean there are those that can derive some enjoyment from simply looking at the cars
take the concourse de elegance for example
but i do get your point
Bring A Trailer was originally called that because it was for project cars that wouldn't move under their own power. Now it's called that because it's for cars that are money laundering tokens and driving them would reduce their value.
I wonder what a seller would think if a buyer wanted to fly in and drive his new car home...
If I had my multi-millions I'd make a hobby out of trolling BaT sellers by arranging fly-and-drives after winning their auction, showing up in a NASCAR shirt and lighting up a cig in the interior of the car as soon as I took possession, asking them whether there was an ash-tray or if I'd have to make a quick stop at Walmart for one of those cupholder ones.
I used to think that if I had multi-millions I'd live a quiet life in a modest A-frame in the woods, but that is brilliant.
Jeff R. “Money laundering” knew it had to be something because last week a 1975 Eldorado Convertible sold for $101,000 now that is about what you would pay for TWO no miles 1976 Bi- Centennial Convertibles which were part of the last 200 made. So $101,000 for one 1975 is got to be money laundering.
A damn 75 with full smog controls for 101k. My brother had one. Triple black convertable paid 5k and it was in decent condition. Nice cars but not that nice.
Whatever they're smoking, it's top shelf.
"So $101,000 for one 1975 is got to be money laundering."
Or it's being sold with a full tank of gas.
In California, yeah!
If you want money laundering, look at the fine art industry. Cars have titles and registrations with government agencies. Though come to think of it, with corrupt appraisals and counterfeits, the are some similarities with the high end car auction world.
There’s even some “investment opportunities” in SHARES of fine art being advertised on the radio! WTF! 😲
I did want to bring the proverbial trailer for this POS.
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1973-jaguar-xke-22-20-2/
I'm married, but made running and vaguely reliable would be the perfect First Date machine.
Cars are meant to be driven and broken but drifting a dual clutch should get his license restricted to a 84 Escort.
And not an Escort GT with the hi-flow head, either!
Definitely not a RWD Euro Mk1 or 2 either because those things have no back end, even the baby ones!
Yeah, but as usual, the truth is somewhere in the middle.
You're not supposed to let a car rot to death as a museum exhibit, but neither is it supposed to suffer a negligent homicide at the hands of some barely-postpubescent, YouTube-Voiced attention whore the internet generously saved from his rightful fate as a retail clerk stocking the canned-goods aisle at Kroger.
Make no mistake, I think youtube dimwits should only be stocking shelves at Kroger under supervision. At least until they can be trusted to make sure everything is faced properly.
Apparently he is 37!
That's even WORSE.
bro there is no way
I haven’t done donuts in forever… but I would make damn sure that if I was going to do some in front of cameras or on a public street, that my drifting skills were on point.
We used to do donuts in the snow in our subcompact economy cars in the high school parking lot by putting them in reverse and nailing the gas. It was good fun.
Yessss! We totally did that too.
I have heard of people putting plastic lunch trays under undriven rear wheels in the snow and doing donuts that manner in icy parking lots.
Sears parking lot me me, never any other cars in it. Got busted one and told the cops we were practicing our emergency driving skills. We were told to fuck off.
he has more than enough money to afford to get anyone to teach him how to drive and yet he doesnt
Because the mindset that gets you to the point that you can BUY such a car is diametrically opposed to the one that lets you DRIVE it properly:
"I am not good enough to do this correctly yet."
I spent literally months scouting locations before I did them in my Mustang. With the rental in Florida I was a little more cavalier, although admittedly that was partly down to the differing law-enforcement postures in the respective locales.
Just for the record, I still do some pretty stupid things at 41.
Same here, at...
52? That can't be right.
58 and still stupid, but at least I own the consequences. Which is mostly a hangover and a pissed off wife.
I love the fact that the first time I watched this, immediately below was an advert for Monday.com with a slogan saying something along the lines of "Doesn't it just feel great when you get things on your list done!" Yeah, maybe... Next time I watched, it was replaced by one saying "from brake pads to wiper blades, find thousands of parts that fit your car on eBay." Who says AI doesn't have a sense of humour?
Not Sarah Connor, that's for sure!
I wouldn’t consider what he was doing as “driving” I pulled similar moves in my go kart in my parent’s dirt driveway when I was 9.
Well that's not nearly the same thing, is it? For one, you were probably doing a better job of it.
Clearly the curriculum at Columbia isn't rigorous enough if these kids have all this time on their hands to protest. Between drinking, chasing women, intramural sports, fraternal obligations, and studying I'm not sure where I would have been able to fit in protesting during college. (written is order of priority)
I wonder what percentage of the protesters are actually a) enrolled students at the college or b) college students somewhere. My guess would be low.
No professional rabble-rousers here, we swear!
Not very many:
https://www.abc6onyourside.com/newsletter-daily/bulk-of-people-arrested-on-osu-campus-not-affiliated-with-school#
These are paid agitators. Professional communists.
The curricuum no doubt eats a bag of dicks but what's lacking here is the WILL of the administration to hand out legitimate punishments like Halloween candy.
It's a liberal arts college. The curriculum is always easy.
It is comforting to know at least one other person shares this opinion with me.
It’s a university, not a liberal arts college.
Sherman, it’s a University in name because it has its hand out for Federal largest in the form of “research grants”.
The academic world is heavily focused on prestige. I'm old enough to remember when many, if not most, directional state schools, and urban based schools still called themselves colleges, not universities. So now we have a bunch of midwits who get to call themselves "university professors" instead of "college instructors".
Also, if I'm not mistaken, students still get accepted into the various colleges that make up modern universities. Don't you get admitted to Harvard's College of This or That, not Harvard University?
I know that when I applied to go to Michigan it was to the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.
The admission thing depends. Some institutions do just admit to the institution and then you declare a major which is in a particular college. Believe it or not, unlike UofM, some schools just let freshmen declare any major they want rather than having to go through another competitive process to get into a particular college / major.
yes, you are admitted to a specific college at columbia university. the biggest are columbia college and columbia engineering.
It has been Columbia University (in the City of New York) since the 19th century; it is absolutely a University, not a College, and has been so for a long, long time.
Isn't the girls' school still called Barnard College?
There are several colleges in the university. Modeled after Oxford and Cambridge. Fun fact, Trinity College is the only college at Dublin University.
yes, barnard still exists. the dorms are on a separate campus but you take courses on both campuses. the other columbia undergraduate schools on the main campus are co-ed and considered more prestigious.
It's called Barnyard, 'cause that where they keep all the cows, Hey-yo!
seriously? it may be full of libtards but it's a real university with world class science, engineering, medicine and math.
Liberal Arts University. Same thing.
Multiple engineering majors at Columbia were excellent and top-rated, at least in the early 2000s. Not sure what you're getting at here
If they're engaging in this kind of nonsense, then they're not that good, are they?
Did you get into Columbia?
If you look at photos of the protests, it didn't look like it was the typical engineering school cohorts doing the walking out ;)
Just some typical boomer whining.
Lib’rul arts = bad; bad = lib’rul arts
Some of us boomers actually remember when getting a liberal arts degree genuinely meant achieving competence in broad general knowledge. As I mentioned, Michigan's liberal arts degree is granted by the College of Literature, Science and the Arts. 50 years ago, the distribution requirements of a LSA degree gave students that broad knowledge.
I think society may have been better off when the only people who went to college were those capable and interested in doing actual academic level work or getting genuine professional training (no, not sure a MSW is really professional training, but then most of the therapeutic industry is bullshit), plus a few women (and a small number of men, like my former father-in-law) going to teachers' colleges.
I see little evidence that the tantrum throwers on campus today are getting anything close to what a liberal arts education meant in, let's say, 1965.
I am definitely not a boomer, but I do enjoy ribbing the typical BA recipient. Even the ones that are smarter and more successful than me. My sister, as an example, with a BA in English with a MBA from a very non-prestigious college just recently accepted a VP role, and that doesn't stop me one bit from reminding her how poor her math skills are.
It is not serious, it is just fun, people can have fun.
Only a handful will get that distinction Mr W&L
A school which is called a “University,” but should not be, because it is not.
The law school sucks, and its existence as a mediocre TTT devalues my undergraduate degree. Of course, I could take the opposing point of view and say that I WANT my alma mater to fade into obscurity, the better to highlight my own achievements.
It takes a lot of courage to do that, however! Americans take college VERY seriously; everyone has an opinion on the Ivy League, particularly those with no connection whatsoever to any of those schools who are worried about the kids being too woke these days!
My understanding of college vs university is both size and offering graduate degrees. Dartmouth doesn’t have many master programs and remains small. Tufts, while small, has multiple masters programs and a med school.
You could have always gone to Lynchburg or Roanoke 😂😂😂
Dartmouth College dwarfs my alma mater on both counts.
Talk about two terribly depressing towns!
I was taught that a college is a single school focused on an area of study, and a university is a collection of colleges. My Alma mater had a college of business, college of engineering, college of liberal arts and sciences, college of nursing, and a law school IIRC.
It's a university: https://www.engineering.columbia.edu/
In the olden days at least the curriculum was hard.
But pre-2008 America was a different country. At Yale and others the grade inflation is so out of control as to be a known quantity.
grade inflation is a fun topic
I’ve stated before that 2008, the dawn of the Bereft Insane Osama Reign Of Error, was the beginning of the end.
i mean if you track it from the start there was a massive increase in average gpa right around the late 60s ostensibly due to the draft
I remember college in the early 2000s (I graduated in '05) and wondering just how some of the pudding-brains made it to even their second year. Maybe going to a directional state school limited the brainpower of the applicants, but what I found easy a LOT of my classmates found nearly impossible.
Perhaps related: I'm taking classes with the State Tax Commission right now, and each unit is capped with a 50-question test you are given an hour for. I have finished every test in half that time. Everyone else seems to sit there scratching their heads until the final minute. Is reading comprehension really so difficult? Or has grade inflation merely let every dimwit get through school without having to strain their pudding-brains too hard?
yes and yes
I didn't go to an Ivy but a school only one tier down, at most. Graduated in 2013. I wish I could have gotten some grade inflation. First year, it sure seemed like they'd be happy to run me right out of the school. I became a more successful student, but even in junior year, I got a B- in one class when i was expecting at least an A-. It's not universal.
Agreed. The only places that I heard of the inflation happening was certain Ivies, particularly ones beginning with the letter Y (and I heard the claim directly from my peers, who attended said universities, and claimed to benefit 😂) At my somewhat elite research univ there wasn't anything even remotely resembling grade inflation
They probably wanted to run you out and replace you with a foreign student paying the full ride tuition. That was my experience at the University of Washington my first 2 years in the late 80’s.
That might come up when it's time to actually kick someone out, but I don't think individual professors care about that.
I did have a recent conversation with a friend from school who remarked that he's not sure how he was accepted, that he didn't do that well in high school and didn't even get into the honors colleges at schools like Penn State. I reminded him that he was able to pay the full tuition for five years. He responded, "You think that's why I got in?"
Random thoughts:
5 working motorcycles?? I'm embarrassed as out of my 7, 2 (mostly new ones) run. Well, 2.5. The RZ350 runs but poorly and spits two stroke oil out all over both legs in protest. But it does "run." I need to do better but neck surgery screwed me up the past month.
These rules reminded me of a neighborhood establishment we raided one time. Let's call it a combination liquor store/bar/gambling house/title loan/strip club in a private residence. Smack in the middle of a residential street that didn't seem to mind until that had no way to get home every night. Once we politely entered, secured the men and had the women dress somewhat appropriately, the search was on for whatever illegal substances might be found. I wandered around checking out the setup in case I decided to open a business one day. Eventually, I entered the women's dressing room, a former bedroom stocked with lockers and racks of clothing. Displayed prominently on the wall was a poster with the ONE set of rules for the dancers:
NO DANCING ON YOUR PERIOD
* IT SMELLS
* IT'S NASTY
* AND NO ONE WANTS TO CLEAN IT UP
I have, to this day, always regretted not taking that poster and mounting it in my garage.
I've blissfully reduced my fleet down to two motorcycles and just two cars and have never felt so sane. The Kawasaki Voyager is running like a top and even has working cruise control now. The '78 XS1100 is on round 4 or 5 of jetting changes trying to get it "just right" and not just "okay." Simple enough to clean out and set carbs up on a stock bike if you know what you're doing. Trickier with aftermarket exhaust and carburetors from a slightly different model year.
"I've blissfully reduced my fleet down to two motorcycles and just two cars and have never felt so sane."
Keep lying to yourself, Vladimir, if that is in fact your real name*
* it is not his real name
At the start of the year one of my goals was "wrench less, ride more." I've been executing decently on the first half of that (and finding more time and energy for neglected house projects and fitness). Aside from my current XS11 carb woes and a few regressions like messing around with that Crackpipe-Virago 1100 and getting your Midnight Special back on the road, I've been staying true. To the "ride more" side of things, I'm realizing just how little opportunity I even have to do so much as 2-3 decent day/weekend rides per *year,* and a bit of moto-commuting. Said moto commuting isn't even that fun a lot of the time when I get stuck in suburban 30mph traffic. So two bikes is more than plenty, though as I've mentioned to you, as inconceivable as it may sound, I'd consider cutting the troublesome '78 XS11 loose and swap it for something else, maybe a booming v-twin of some sort (either a sporty VTR1000 Superhawk or SV1000N, or a harley), maybe another Bandit 1200 or fuel injected 1250. The 4k mile local '07 for $4200 that I sent you sold btw, and thank goodness for that. On the car side of things, I have literally woken up a few times and my first thought has been "thank goodness I don't have that laundry list of crap to fix on the Chevy any more," so no regrets there. I'm gonna run the rest of 2024 out with the fleet as it stands, my boy says I should "get a sports car," something "with four mufflers" or a Camaro.
As my son gets more and more comfortable on his pedal bike, I may turn my attention to my neglected hardtail mountain bike and maybe even pick up a BMX bike to tool around the neighborhood on. An activity that's much more accessible and even more importantly, something I can enjoy together with my son.
I have more than a few competing hobbies (competing against each other for my time, that is) and an unhealthy compulsion to buy more and more accessories for each hobby. I actually have a storage unit for my fishing gear, as one example. I recently decided to set hard limits - no more buying accessories until I actually participate in the actual hobby. So instead of wrench less, ride more, it's buy less, ride (shoot, fish, hunt, camp) more. As long as I stick to it, life seems a bit more sane.
This is my problem as well. I'll daydream about all the fun riding I could do, if only I had motorcycle X,y,Z in the garage. Every time I'm tempted, I have to remind myself that I don't/can't ride even the two that I currently own as much as I'd like. But I totally get that daydreaming, research, hunting for deals, etc are a non-trivial part of the hobby for people who are hard up for time. When my son was really little and my wife worked weekends, the wrenching made sense as I had chunks of time on the weekend to myself where I couldn't leave the house. Now I've got more time with the whole family together on the weekends, which I'm very thankful for. But it's reduced both wrenching AND riding time. I think also part of burying myself in my hobby was avoiding/ignoring some less fun stuff that needed done (home maintenance stuff).
"This place has a sign over the urinal that says, 'Don't Eat The Big White Mint.'"
No bullshit, at work they have signs taped to the stall doors in the bathroom that admonish people not to flush SHOES down the toilet.
A restroom at the Cummins Technical Center had pictograms about how to use toilets, given their H-1B dependence.
Imagine the consequences of sitting in residue of hydraulic fluid and metal shavings from the shoes of someone likes to squat and won't have it any other way.
literally that exact scenario played out at a place i used to work
squatting on toilet seats with shoes full of skydrol and shavings
horrible
~diversity~ DISPLACEMENT* is our greatest strength!
*worker and demographic, not engine
the people who facilitated this will never see the consequences of their actions and i imagine this was by design
Good God, it’s probably a wonder that a few didn’t lose their balance and crack their heads open! 💩🧻
"a combination liquor store/bar/gambling house/title loan/strip club in a private residence"
ADDRESS, PLEASE ...
Think THAT lease was legit?
A friend of my brother-in-law bought a building leased to some strip club in So Cal. Everyone clutched their pearls and thought him mad, but they turned out to be great tenants who were NEVER late with the rent. I think it must have something to do not fighting on multiple fronts, a lesson Mr Hitler had to learn the hard way.
Yeah, I'll bet.
As soon as you literally launder that money.
Ewwww!
I mean not all of it. Sniff it first to see what is still clean enough.
next fp meet location found
(Pointing to pitbull with leather muzzle in corner) "Her name's Pancake. She's a sweetheart."
pibbles just wants to lick you
Pit bulls are indicative of a society descending into barbarism (and not the good kind).
https://www.usmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Quick-History-Duchess-Kate-and-Prince-William-Adorable-Dog-Lupo-PROMO.jpg
total shitbull death now
hate those inbred creatures
Is this still a serious thing? Are we not having FP meetups out of a lack of a location?
If so that is horseshit. I can easily find one in VA that would be driving distance from NC, VA, DC, MD, DE, NJ, WV, and most PA cities, with NY and SC and others a long haul. it would not be the cool rich guy garage from Detroit but would be nice enough.
Jack - do you require.... assistance?
What's keeping us from having the Spring FP meeting is mostly near-exhaustion on my end from working two jobs, trying to hold my race season together, and dealing with a 110-octane barrel of personal/health drama.
30 days from now I'll return to the topic and we'll figure it out.
Praying for you boss.
Oh, I'll be fine. What doesn't kill me makes me stronger, I said, idiotically.
Can we at least get the city?
Alas, the house party in "Superbad" conspicuously did NOT follow those rules!
I am so thoroughly SICK of college students protesting...whatever, doesn't matter. I'll just say it. You're supposed to go to college to get an education, not wave a sign around while you shout about problems that can't be fixed and don't affect you anyway.
These protestors should be jailed and stripped of their academic credentials. You assholes are supposed to be in class, not standing in the quad mindlessly repeating some idiotic chant.
By the way, where do these idiotic protest chants come from? Somebody's obviously taken the time to sit down and write them. Probably the same place those professionally-printed signs come from, www.rent-a-mob.com, your one-stop revolutionary supplier!
These 22-year-old "influencers" who try to stunt million-dollar exotics despite a total lack of ability should all be sentenced to Monday Night Rehabilitation. Seriously, fuck those guys and their Fast & Furious attitude to high-dollar cars.
I hate protests and in general the people protesting come across as brainless morons. There's some PJ O'Rourke quote out there somewhere about the small minds big causes tend to attract.
In the story I wrote, the island nation I made up outlaws protests. One of the main characters leaves the island for America for college and is called a fascist because of this particular law (among other things).
You know, it would renew my faith in America if those terrorists who block roads were each charged with one count of kidnapping for each person they held up and one count of manslaughter for everybody who died in an ambulance because they couldn't get to the hospital.
AND, just to make it intredasting, an offer to drop the charges if the accused scumbag renounces their US citizenship and goes elsewhere in the world permanently.
I’d like to see BUNCHES of lefties GTFO this country if they hate it so much!
Deportation could be the go-to punishment for just about every crime!
Keep in mind its only some college kids protesting, as arrests are showing that at least half are outside agitators. This is going on all across the country. BLM had peaceful protests until outside agitators and Antifa got involved.
Fine. Arrest ANYBODY who's out "protesting."
The people have the right to peaceably assemble. Much as I dislike trustafarians and Boomer hippies before them in many cases the violence, like the Police Riot at the Democratic Convention in 1968 seems to be instigated by the police.
Peaceably assemble is fine.
This lot glues their hands to factory floors, throws soup on paintings, camps on college lawns, blocks traffic and generally goes out of its way to prove that one purpose of the legal system is to prevent acts of vigilante violence against people who clearly deserve it.
I could not disagree more.
1) what factory?
2) who gives a shit about paintings when 250,000 people have died from fentanyl overdoses since 2018?
3) why would I care about someone camping on a college lawn?
I'm of course referring to roused rabble, people who sow chaos and undermine social stability.
All of them.
Joe Rogan pointed this out on his podcast: We have to eventually care because these students will be entering the workforce. Yes, child trafficing, fentanyl overdoses, illegal immigration and a whole host of other problems directly impact the Untied States. We as concerned citizens along with the federal government can do more than one thing at a time.
heh, anyone who glues themselves to the floor, etc should be left there for at least two weeks; let them see how they like living without any food, water, etc.
I actually don't have a problem with peaceful and civil protests. However, blocking roads, encampments, and impeding others in any way is not a peaceful protest.
It’s a shame that we can’t use idiots like that as speedbumps with no consequences!
Agreed. I understand that protests "need" to be inconvenient in order to be effective, but there's such a thing as going too far.
There’s also a matter of protesting at people who have no ability to effect any change. If you want to go protest in front of a government building or a corporate HQ that is engaged in behavior you find objectionable, have at it. But protesting by blocking down a highway in support of Palestine? What exactly is TC Mits supposed to do about it? How does that affect change? Are you doing the notable Most Worthless Thing Ever and just trying to Raise Awareness (TM)? Because no one gives a shit and now we’re all fantasizing about seeing you as a dark lumpy stain on the asphalt.
I disagree. Protesting the government is one thing. It's not about "going too far". It's about violating the rights of others. Ultimately, protesting has gone from protesting the government (or say a business) to protesting that violates the rights of the citizenry.
I don’t even know to what locations “from the river to the sea” refers. I presume the Jordan River to the Red Sea.
You have a better handle on it than the vast majority of the protesters do.
It has to be the Dead Sea, doesn't it? Or maybe the Med?
the kentucky sonic girl is attractive in a way that instagram models arent
contrast that with king-slut who looks like her name as she has a face made for a paper bag
more importantly noted onomatopoeia enthusiast sam smith has a physical book that i am very much looking forward to purchasing and reading and speaking of nice things that senna did nothing wrong to deserve that kind of abuse at the hands of a broccoli haired dork with veneers
the hoedown in the middle east makes for mildly interesting news i suppose
Girl Next Door for the win.
its not even that she just looks like she doesnt have an onlyfans and has never been paid by some creepy sheik to go to dubai
https://movie-sounds.org/gangster-movie-sound-clips/quotes-with-sound-clips-from-scarface-1983/i-can-t-even-have-a-kid-with-her-her-womb-is-so-polluted-i-can-t-even-have-a-fucking-little-baby-with-her
The number of times I have said that in public...
That pic is six years old based on Jack’s remark.
A lot could have happened to her in that time. She could have six kids.
She might be old enough to drink or all methed up.
It’s a wide range of outcomes; she could be the fertile tradwife bride of the scion of the local ______ dealership, or she could be dead of a fentanyl overdose.
really hope its the former
Or the tradwife of the son of the local Scion dealership. Then she'll need the onlyfans page.
Always.
"So what do you like about her?"
"Uh, top end of The Attainable Scale?"
The best kind ^
“I'll tell you what I'd do, man, two chicks at the same time, man.”
‘That's it? If you had a million dollars, you'd do two chicks at the same time?’
“Damn straight. I always wanted to do that, man. And I think if I had a million dollars I could hook that up, cause chicks dig a dude with money.”
‘Well, not all chicks.’
“Well the kind of chicks that'd double up on a dude like me do.”
I'll always click the little heart when someone takes a shot at the young dudes out there getting perms to pull off a hairstyle, but take it easy on the IG models. Plenty of girl next door types out there profiting off of their looks instead of participating in idiotic protests!
I'll point you in the direction my personal top-five or so, starting with the obligatory ACF 0:
0. Grace Boor
1. Sofia Bevarly
2. Glory (on the Gram) Cilicia
4. Hannah C. Palmer
4a. Madeline Hope (Hadelinemope), Penny Lane (is the name), Allie Dunn
that hairstyle is godawful regardless
anyway i hate online whores regardless of physical attractiveness
also why did your list skip 3
same reason post Soviet Russia got rid of the fourth grade and added an eleventh to what used to be 1-10
I can respect that and to answer your question: I ended up working toward the middle from the ends and I guess they never met.
I'd argue the disproportionate tig-ole-bitties and cringe names disqualify them as "girl next door types" but I'm just speaking my opinion, not trying to yuck any ones yum.
Again, I can see that, but there's a lot of top-heavy girls out there, and they have to live next door to someone. Of the ones listed, Allie is the only one where I question if its all original equipment, but she's probably also the cutest and most "next-doorzy" in the face, so it's a tough call.
All of them simply exude natural beauty and lack the tattoos, lip-fillers, and other garbage that defines the modern "internet skank," which makes them feel like someone you could have gone to school with or meet at the grocery store. Chalk up the names to marketing and a limited number of IG handles.
My Navy vet barber has both a (small) Ukraine and an Israel flag on his shop door. We have a Republican congresswoman in Indiana, Victoria Spartz, who ran on an "America First" platform then promptly flew right over to Ukraine when things kicked off in February 2022. Most recently she voted against the Ukraine/Israel/etc funding bill, not for a change of heart but for some political maneuvering against a strong primary challenger who was calling out her "anything-but-America-First" behavior (she knew the bill would pass anyways).
My only take on *all* of these heated conflicts on foreign soil is that it's NOT OUR PROBLEM. Anyone flying any sort of foreign flag here in the US, certainly within the halls of Congress, is fundamentally un-American IMO.
I wish we would not give a single red cent to *any* foreign government, certainly not while we have a massive security problem on our own border and inflation has beaten down most of the population.
My barber is a great guy to shoot the crap with, and is an excellent barber, first and foremost. But yeah, his political stances are basically precisely copy-pasted from whatever was being said on Fox News earlier that week. Nothing interesting, no nuance.
don't be so holier-than-thou, please.
everybody should vote. straw/camel's back etc.
imagine how much money could be saved if we didnt throw so much of it overseas
that is not the worst possible outcome for canada
Surprisingly, many videos out there on how to break up Canada to create new smaller countries and/or new US states.
Yeah, we could fix all our infrastructure AND get that moonbase online.
Oh man, a moonbase. If we were ever going to get a moonbase or a Mars mission I would try so hard to get my kids to go for it since I'm too old and out of shape.
Read about the Orion Drive. Absolutely heartbreaking. We could've had practical interplanetary travel and colonies throughout the solar system by now.
I'm already depressed. I don't need ANOTHER reason to wallow in these feelings!
Hey, look at it this way: We know the technology works and the engineering's been worked out. All we need is somebody with enough money and more regard for mankind's future than for some silly, ill-conceived test ban treaty and we're back in business.
Better to err on the side of awesome.
Ya know, I’m not entirely sure that detonation a bunch of nuclear bombs in the atmosphere woulda been worth that particular trade off.
You just build your launch site in some worthless, Godforsaken hellhole like Antarctica or northwestern Canada. As long as you're at least 250 miles from anything electronic you care about, everything's kosher.
Once you're out of the atmosphere, radiation becomes an academic concern.
Besides, they had a design for a thermonuclear shaped-charge that would've directed the entire force of the blast into the ship's pusher plate instead of in all directions.
Think about the advantages. Tough spaceships made of steel plate instead of aluminum foil. Twenty-thousand-ton payloads in one launch. A propulsion system limited by neither heat nor pressure. Saturn in one year.
We're the Humongous' biker gang compared to our ancestors.
you dont understand we need to spend billions in africa/isreal/ukraine/the middle east/everywhere else for reasons
Yeah, we can't let NASA have that cash to build some redneck warp engine when Democratic politicians need it to buy the votes of welfare recipients.
I would have settled for just continuing to develop the Saturn V launch vehicle. With the solid rocket booster they were planning to put under the whole stack, Mars would have been our bitch already.
https://www.rocketryforum.com/threads/nasa-study-summary-modified-launch-vehicle-saturn-v-improvement-study.20766/
Even THAT would've been better than what we actually did.
I literally CANNOT IMAGINE IT!
Fear not. Once again I have to point out that the vast majority of the "aid" goes right to the executives and shareholders of KBR, Northrop, and General Dynamics as it is all earmarked for the purchase of American weapons. If only those scumbags would make a bridge or library on American soil with US born workers.
I was watching a video about the Ford aricraft carrier and they had two Ukranian flags on that thing. I get your neighbor hanging a Ukranian flag, but the latest carrier?
I think it's totally reasonable: their orders are to defend Ukraine's borders, not the US, so why fly the US flag?
Yeah, I can absolutely guarantee you that boat will never do a single God-damned thing to protect OUR borders.
I first read that as a Navy Veterinary Barber. I had never imagined that MOS before.
Reality these days is ALWAYS weirder than we can imagine.
In the Army, it is part of MOS 31K:
https://www.operationmilitarykids.org/army-military-working-dog-handler-mos-31k/
"The handler will take complete care of the dog from grooming, cleaning the kennel, and feeding to conditioning."
Just think, instead of sending money overseas we could spend it on a week or two of federal debt service!
You could quintuple all foreign aid and it would be a drop in the bucket for a budget that primarily exists to make entitlement and interest payments.
Adrian Newey's exit from Red Bull was made official this morning. https://www.redbullracing.com/int-en/adrian-newey-to-leave-red-bull-in-2025
which will make that season more interesting if max doesnt tap into some alternate state of being and win everything again
not that i would mind that
If he goes to Ferrari and short-ropes Sir Lewis to an eighth championship, I'm going to block the IP of the F1TV app in my home router until the day I die.
Lewis would have to beat Charles, the fellow they call “Il Predestinato” first.
“I would encourage those of you who believe in a just God/Allah/et al to join with me in prayer to end this murderous and hateful conflict that spares neither women nor children and which is creating yet another generation of broken young people who will spend their lives trying to re-adjudicate this conflict by other means.”
May I suggest a robust application of bacon and other pork products to the region, in a sort of Berlin Airlift fashion, as a potential route to alleviating the tension? I’d be uptight too if I was forbidden from eating such delightful fare.
This claim is unsubstantiated - it comes from a Boomer who admires Rachel Maddow so much that he emulates her haircut - but I heard last week that the Pro Gaza / Anti Zionist protesters at Emory were in line to receive as much as $7,800 for their services (duration of contract unknown), with resident Emorrhoids earning up to $2,800 for their participation.
A person who overheard said “Up to $7,800!?! For that much money, all of the Jews at Emory will be lined up to protest!”
Whoever is funding these professional communists is at least as great a threat to us as OBL was, and should be dealt with accordingly.
If you watch any conservative doomer news, it's Qatar. If you watch Karlyn Borysenko, it's some big, rich socialist organization which has no sense of irony.
There's a big clue in the fact that the first anti-Israeli protest in the USA I read about was Oct 9 - only two days after Hamas attacked, and the Israeli blood wasn't dry yet. They were protesting Israel's response before Israel responded. Which to me means either
A) they had foreknowledge of the attacks and were ready to go, or
B) their protest network is so well-funded and organized that it could be mobilized in 48 hours' time
Wouldn't surprise me one bit to find out they're the same people from the BLM protests 4 years ago. But it seems the local authorities aren't going to tolerate CHAZ zones and broken downtown windows this time, thank God.
I don’t see a smoking gun with either.
A) Obviously some people had foreknowledge; so what if they had a relationship with protesters?
B) Again … so what?
If the same people who funded and coordinated the 10/7 attacks - an act of war - are funding and coordinating the disruptive and not-so-peaceful protests at American universities, that's a huge deal. That's not a "so what."
Do you feel the same way about the people who are funding and coordinating the attacks against the Gaza Strip?
Oil sheiks a paying for it.
sorry, what is "OBL"?
OBL = Osama bin Laden. And yes, I truly feel the coordinators of these protests are as dangerous to America as the 9/11 plotters.
Objectively speaking, 9/11 didn't do as much to damage this country and our ability to move forward as a healthy group of people as the "Summer of 2020" did.
I don’t know about that. Patriot Act, DHS, TSA, and a major turn towards the US as a surveilled security state. Not that 2020 wasn’t also another fault line.
I'm not talking about all the insane shit the government did to its own citizens after the fact; I just mean the actual planes into the tower.
Tim Osman.
7800 to protest for a few days and ill drive down there myself
Yeah, I'm in the wrong business.
I have encouraged my unemployed frenemy “Harelip” to investigate.
Would beat the hell out of selling plasma, etc. to fund his twin passions - expensive first dates (emphasis on first) and cheap cigars.
He likes to think of himself as a Lothario.
He absolutely LOVES going on first dates. I bet he spent $10K / year on that pursuit before he got fired.
I think he occasionally has “success,” but his focus is on lining up additional first dates.
He’s also worried about gold diggers; he has a negative net worth.
All the protesters got to burn down the east side of Kenosha was lawn tickets for a kingfish game. Or a .223 to the face
Thanks for the lolz.
It sounds so ridiculous, and yet - at the same time - wouldn't surprise me.
The american right wing is going to have a similar protest against the left, once the right wing funders work out the amortization schedules with protest leaders. They're thinking a very generous seven dollars per day, no food, and a stick of gum.
They'll go straight to hiring immigrants, just like every Republican corporate donor. Everybody there is gonna be named Hector.
gonna be impossible to build a deck in some places
I never realized I cared so deeply about these issues until RIGHT NOW!
Are they still lauding the Atlanta “Cop City” protesters as heroes outside of Georgia or has someone in the Cathedral offered an explanation of how “that’s different” with regard to the propriety of the response?
Is that still going on?
I only heard of Sam recently when he started the It's Not The Car podcast with Ross Bentley and Jeff Braun. The podcast is fantastic so far, highly recommend to the ACF readership; it'll be right up most of your alleys.
You really think so? I listened to the beginning of the first episode, and Sam’s lip smacking during his monologue was like nails on a chalkboard for me. I don’t ask for much in terms of sound quality, but I can’t deal with that.
So I fast forwarded into the meat of the first episode and then sampled a few others; they are basically re-telling stories that have already been relayed in authoritative and comprehensive fashion.
I'm guessing you're not a fan of the recent TST patio edition either. The table smacking got to me quickly.
Better sound quality is appreciated because it makes it easier to listen to something while doing another task. The patio / event TST podcasts are weak because Matt is usually “off” his game a bit at an event, and the degraded sound quality makes it a harder listen.
same reason i cant stand the bikes and beards youtube channel
drives me to homicide with his smacking
I am rapidly getting to the point of not watching any YouTube. The content is almost invariably terrible, insipid, and stretched out to 20-40 minutes to put more ads into it.
i haven't watched anything on youtube--1 hour total at most. too much else to do in my life; there's neato stuff on it i admit!
Surely a man of your means can spring for YT Premium? After Spotify Premium it is the subscription I treasure the most.
I absolutely pay for YT Premium, primarily because I listen to white noise while reading. I churned out of Spotify when they left the App Store last summer.
I don’t really listen to music at this point; I have already heard all of the music I need or want to hear. On the off chance I want to hear a specific song, I can listen to it on YouTube.
I mostly listen to podcasts while commuting or walking the dog. But I also am happy to listen to “Hypnotize” or “Smells Like Teen Spirit” or “Evenflow” or “Still Fly” for the 9,000th time. My musical tastes are wide but shallow, and mostly stuck in 1996-2004 (my HS/college years).
This new podcast of Sam's is improved from the insurance company but after a few I stopped listening. He's a much better writer than broadcaster; at least in print he can edit his ticks although he is getting better, right?
Well said
I'm really enjoying "It's Not the Car" as well. Each episode is about the right length for a couple whiskeys and cigars... Yeah, I know most of the stories, but Smith, Bentley and Braun bring a lot of nuance and detail (each from a different point of view, which is really interesting).
Something Jack crystallized relatively recently (at least for me):
The big stories have been told. The 250 GTO; 917; Ford GT40; Moss at the Mille Miglia; etc. There is a definitive, exhaustive, authoritative account of every single one of those stories out there (and they ARE great, stirring stories). What is the point of creating a derivative version of that story?
Hearing what the stories *mean* to a former driver, an engineer, and a super curious weirdo is worth it to me.
I recommend Bring Back V10s if you like the V10 era of F1.
Very little.
I haven't heard a bunch of these stories, so they're a great introduction for me. The episodes that are the best though are the ones with Ross and/or Jeff talking about things they experienced first hand. The recent episode about the Ferrari 333, which they both raced, was great. Jeff's story about how he and his brother won a trip to the US GP at Watkins in the late 60s by selling the most AAR fan club memberships and meeting Dan Gurney is awesome.