Remember when they locked elizabeth holmes up for the same shit? I'll give her them this, they're selling, dreams, deception, and fraud but they are not selling time
"A Corvette with the top down sounds cool. The only cooler thing is a 4th-generation LS1 Trans Am with the top down, which is like a Miami speedboat for people who have sex exclusively with GED recipients."
In high school we would go to the nearby ghetto liquor store to buy Mad Dog and Thunderbird. While wearing our high school jackets.
This was one of those liquor stores where the front counter and all the liquor was behind thick bullet proof plexiglass, and the cashier would give you your bottle via a little plexiglass turnstile. Good times!
Can't fit friends on a motorcycle. Didn't they bring friends to stop them from doing something like getting on a motorcycle? Where do they put their purse?
Even in your new lightened state, don’t you outweigh the average skinny about 2:1? And they can’t fight? Somalis scare me about like wasps scare me, annoying but really NBD.
Problem is, if they stomp JB, nothing will be done. If JB knocks a few of them around in the process of making his escape, every traffic camera in the city will be reviewed to find the FASCIST in his BRO-DOZER. Unwinnable fight.
A Minneapolis jury found Noor guilty of 3rd degree murder and 2nd degree manslaughter, but Minnesota Supreme Court overturned the verdict and set him free.
Noor shot Diamond while sitting in the passenger seat of his police car, firing across his partner when Diamond approached the driver’s side of the cruiser. She had called 911 about a disturbance in the alley near her house.
Noor was lauded as the first Somali officer and was part of a fast track training program. Prior to killing Diamond, he had 3 formal complaints against him. One was 2 months before the shooting, where Noor allegedly pointed a gun at the head of a driver he had pulled over for a minor traffic violation.
The purpose of Somalia is for India to have a country to look down on.
(The purpose of Canada, the US, and the UK is to accept as much mass migration from Somalia and India as rapidly as possible; this process is called "enrichment.")
“Fortunately, no casualties were reported in the incident. BYD clarified that the parking area contained only “test and scrapped vehicles,” meaning no customer cars were affected, and that production continued without disruption. Despite the fire, authorities and the Chinese automaker sought to ease public concerns over EV safety, maintaining that the incident was isolated.”
Move along. Nothing to see here. Cows turn themselves inside-out all the time.
In his dotage, Jack is beginning to exhibit signs of PMS: Porsche Madness Syndrome.
Because the GT car engines are the ONLY Porsches that sound good, and they sound better than ANY new Ferrari or McLaren stock-for-stock (modern Ferrari V12 too quiet).
3-I can see why Jack needed the “security blanket” of the Monster Truck to stand up to those Quality Learing Center layabouts.
Vfr 800 huh. Had the last of the vfr 750s or was it an 800, the one before vetc, back when, it was the gear driven cams that got me. Still it was one of those bikes that didnt know what it wanted to be, sportsbike or just bike and fell between two stools.
My former 1971 911S Targa (2.2 with Weber 40IDA carb conversion) begs to differ. The problem with modern flat sixes is they don't have any good intake noise to compliment the exhaust note. The Weber conversions had K&N rain hats on them...the intake noise was almost as loud as the exhaust which IIRC was an ANSA/Abarth knockoff.
Ripping around Angeles Crest Highway up to 7300RPM with the Targa top off sounded glorious.
This may be just nostalgia and ignorance, but the 997 is the only water-cooled generation worth owning. Proportions are right and they’re new enough to not feel dated in that used car way.
Not to be cynical, but I'm thinking Jacks Porsche issues are more for effect than real beliefs. I've literally never heard anyone think a flat 6 at 8000 rpm drones. It doesn't.
'I've literally never heard anyone think a flat 6 at 8000 rpm drones. It doesn't.'
They sound awful when I'm passing them in a Radical SR8 that turns 10,750 with eight cylinders, but maybe that's the significant Doppler effect! :)
Something I noticed when I was in the car magazine business is that Porsches become invisible traffic when Ferraris appear. This wasn't a problem when the 911 cost half as much as a Ferrari. They each had their own niche and served it well.
Anyone who buys a 911GT-anything instead of a 296GTB should be 5150ed for a month, because it's possible they have MORE bad decisions to make.
I've never owned either, but based on what the internet people say, Porsches are pretty reliable through the warranty period and can generally trusted to function as well as an Audi. When things break, it will be expensive but with available parts, and the dealership is in Nashua, 10 minutes up the highway. The nearest Ferrari dealer is near Boston, and Ferrari still treats people the same way Enzo treated Feruccio, as if they are above concerns like design flaws and build quality. Unless you live at the track with trained mechanics on payroll service and reliability has to count for something.
Imo one of the benefits of porche is theyre ubiquitous enough to be invisible. I also don't share your love for how modern Ferraris drive, not least because while a new GT3 may last 10-20 years and hybrid ferrai is by all accounts a 5 year car. The finaces of a modern ferrai are such very few ever will track them, whereas i see plenty of porche at the track.
Now if ferrai were to return to building a NA 355 sized car maybe even with a manual option, we;d be talking. hell if they just offered a 296 without all the ev complexity and weight, well that coudl be the second coming of the 288/f40. But they wont because thats not who their customer is. they say porche customers buy rolex and ferrari customers by patek. Is it really that different.
Agree on all your points. I’ve driven 3 997s, and early regular which was ok. A 997gt3 RS which was one of the most intuitive cars I’ve ever driven and a later gts which felt really fast and good on road. I’d say 997gt3 is peak porche. But if you wnats car to track a 997 is an older car expensive ish to run and getting torn up. I have seen a fully worked 996gt3 breaking 2 mins easily at the Glenn. That driver is also putting far more into it tha. Ina more modern gt3 and certainly way more than a zr1.
For modern roads/traffic and driving enjoyment the 997 is hard to beat. Expressive these days .
Amazing there is no modern that fits that space size performance precision etc.
I was going 79mph going west on 290 and a lovely sound flew by me in the triple. Some sort of ferrari. Then another lovely sound flew by me. A C6 or a C7, than a broken lawnmower flew by me. That was the porsche. "imagine buying that one"
This place really wants me to get a 4th gen trans am. I'l need the name of Jacks london tailor to custom fit me for a track suit.
I really should have bought a trans am while I was rocking the mullet. The amount of white trash gals I could've pulled with a mullet, a trans am, and a street triple would have been.... about the same as I was pulling at that time in my life which was > 0
I couldve gone 25-35 minutes west and had it. Heck, i had two extra parking spaces at the last house but the wife wanted more room “for the kids” i couldve bought a trans am every 6 months with what id have saved on the mortgage! But what is really stopping me these days is time
... but I live in town and can park 7 cars (at present) in heated and cooled spaces on the property, 9 if I cleared out some shelving from the business shop, 10 if I bought another lift (I have 3 currently).
This is not counting the 10'x30' ministorage space I rent for (wait for it) $120/mo.
Years ago on Dennis Mller’s radio show a caller asked “I think I saw you filling up your car at a gas station in Malibu. Was that you in a bathrobe filling up a Mercedes?”
(The representative from Flyover, stands up, dusts off, and speaks)
A track suit is the only acceptable attire (well, camo and a Carhartt works too) when sporting a mullet. Double bonus for gold chains with the track suit top zipped down.
Where i was on 290 was 3 lanes of mostly open roads and fairly far out of city but i wouldnt say it’s normal for three cars to do it in a row. They weren’t really racing or anything. Just a bit of dick measuring
I remember the very first race I ever attended live. 6h race of the WEC series at the Nürburgring in 2016, back when the GTEs were running. All sounded awesome, then comes the 911 RSR and is so loud that even we freaks had to cover our ears. Did it sound good? No, I remember us talking about the sound of a chainsaw...
The Allbirds thing is an elaborate joke, right? RIGHT?
Gave myself some hell today as I changed the ATV’s starter solenoid today in a sleet and windstorm when I realized it may just have been a janky connection at the battery negative terminal; but incompetence is so benign compared to ravening greed
I hope it is. I just discovered them and had high hopes of keeping to my promise never to wear gym shoes - are they still called that? - with jeans as an old man. My wife has a similar promise to herself never to wear sweat shirts with pictures on them.
Flat six Porches sound like crap? You don't say! In December I bought a mid-engined Porch with a 4.0 (and a manual) and named it Chitty: because it sounds shitty and make sounds like Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang.
I keep looking at Aldens but they just look kind of ...chunky? Very Maine. Still mostly buy Allen Edmonds, got enough that I'm mostly in the recruiting era.
Yesterday, while talking to my son on the phone, he handed it to my grandson. I asked him how he was. He replied, "I'm well," so I told him, "And somebody taught you English, too."
Just a bunch of nerds trying to out nerd each other. This even applies to money. Imagine making a billion dollars and wanting more to beat the other nerd who makes a billion dollars.
My favorite billionaire fail is the never ending dick swinging to have the biggest yacht, only to realize they’re so long the yachts can no longer dock where the beautiful bikini girls like to be seen, they can only fit in the dirty industrial docks where the cargo freighters are.
It’s like guys taking steroids for big muscles but then their dicks shrink.
Amazing how many guys in the mid 2000s manosphere either completely flamed out into loserdom or have 4 kids now. Cernovich started danger and play when he was 33 years old. And you know what he's done since? Owned his own outcome.
Am I wrong to assume that watch has some kind of complication that moves the dice roller's hands, or change the dice? Is there a video of that watch in action?
I don't care if it's based on a work of a grand master, it's rather ugly. I wonder what he would have done with Bruegel's Wedding Dance.
When the DIA had Wedding Dance conserved/restored in 1941, they uncovered codpieces that had been painted over to censor the painting in the years since Bruegel. Some patrons of the museum were unhappy about that.
I read that when it was released. It's a nice wrapup for people who have zero idea about the hobby, the same way all those "Automotive Guide" books of the 90s were for the 911 or Viper or whatever.
PG is an odd dude, kind of the ultimate Redditor/midwit.
He must think the design of his website is a funny troll, but it actually matches his dull writing perfectly. And I am afraid the link to Mastodon is not a troll...
" Now Patek is policing buyers to maintain an asset bubble."
Now considder Porche who are most certainly not policing buyers at all, or dealers.
Their only form of control seems to be to severely undersupply in order to maintain someone else's asset bubble. yes it all ends in tears. Their brand is linked to the 911 shape. As more get built to become status symbols the market becomes one of its age and times out. Wats kept it going so long is the product is actually still quite good, its backed by function. As BMW discvered with the 2002 if real enthusiasts like it, eventually the others cotton on to it being a better or "authentic" product.
the whole showy thing, I get it for brands, but alas what really should count is taste which apparently an anathema to a brand although top brads pretend to sell exactly that.
Never understood the carbuncle on your wrist idea.
I wear a thin citizen eco drive, as thin as a golden era patek for $200. Also have a nice 36 mm jaeger ultra thin, it just sits beautifully on the wrist, the back of the case is art in look and feel. It also confuses all those god roex watch wearer like they missing something and they know not what.
the advent of the whole 85 in your face brands perhaos describes why by the 90s ferrai design took a hit, and despite the 458 (an anomaly) their cars have become increasingly gauche.
Imo a great designed car, a ferrai in particular can carry a nice grey color well, that way its for you to admire and enjoy, and it wont pull the eye of random strangers (and cabinieri) as you actually really drive and use it.
Something about these things being there for your pleasure. I guess for most then the pleasure is derived from what others see in it or notice, the fampous line mercedes surveys try to hit, " i like it because of what it says about me" sheep?.
All of which makes G3s and for other reasons vettes my sorta favorite cars, ubiquitous enough not to really be noticed, but great to drive(gt3) fun to drive (vette). Honorable mention should also be given to a honda CTr great to drive and its a honda. Once upon a time same coudl be said for a grey R8, you coudl just tell peopel you drove an audi and theyd pay you no more notice. I guess the exception in car world to branding is the GMD T33, most nobody knows wat it is or has heard of it, yet it is in many ways unquestionably peak sportscar.
Patek is privately held; Porsche is not, and has been part of a publicly traded entity for quite some time.
Essentially all of the watches that do not depreciate are owned by privately held watchmaking firms. The ones that are owned by public companies and conglomerates send half the purchase price to heaven after the buyer exits the boutique.
The issue with porche is that theyre not protecting themselves as patek does, not serving clients. they have fallen prey to porche NA which is being run for the short termism benefit of dealers. Far better to sell 1 GT3RS with a 1000k markup than 4 at msrp. Meanwhile eiter way all porche gets is msrp, but flippers/dealers make bank.
This both alienates the potential customer pool and limits sales of the parent company,
Comaore that to corvette sales which are pretty much just USA and still double 911. What would be better for the parent company and actual customers.
Porsche has jumped the shark gradually and then suddenly. As with many things.
I have said for a few years now - initially tongue in cheek but it’s becoming more sincere over time:
“GT3s are consolation prizes for guys who can’t have a Singer”
Jack identified it early on (perhaps a decade ago), but imagine how galling it is to be PAG and to know that a different company makes the most coveted, bespoke version of YOUR brand identity.
He is definitely heterodox to many conventional historians. That may or may not be a bad thing.
I haven't listened to the Rogan/Carlson episodes that appear to make up much of the Wikipedia page entry for him. I have listened to the series he did with Jocko on the Palestine/Israel conflict. I can see why Israelis might have it out for him, although I don't think he said anything unfair.
One thing that stuck with me is how he discussed the expanding scope of his research on the topic. He said after reading one book, he thought he knew something. After five books, he thought he knew something different. After 80 books, he realized this is just way too complex for any sound bite takes or simplistic solutions.
I thought that was really insightful and applicable to many cases. How many times does someone read one book and think he's now an expert on something?
Just remember, outside all of the propaganda, your lived experience with every government authority lying about almost everything your entire life, watching politicians lie to you in real time, they would never, and i mean never lie about ww2 or the moon landing. They went to church that week.
In a just world, Nick Shirley and James O'Keefe would win all the Pulitzers and be considered reporting gods. Instead we have Woodward and Bernstein who got spoon fed all of their reporting by someone who had an agenda.
If the phrase “too good to check out” ever applied…and as a follow on effect changed journalism from a cynical blue-collar job into a profession for Columbia graduates and similar.
I mean WTF is a journalism degrees. The five W’s and that’s about it. Father Guido Sarducci should have offered that as one of his $20 degrees. No one could have told the difference.
Remember when they locked elizabeth holmes up for the same shit? I'll give her them this, they're selling, dreams, deception, and fraud but they are not selling time
She DID commit fraud.
They have raised money to attempt to do something. If they fail, it’s not necessarily fraud. In fact, it’s probably NOT fraud.
She attempted to defy the laws of physics. If that's not aspirational, I don't know what is.
A man would’ve gotten away with the deception 😉
She could've married a nerd and left with half a billion dollars. As ROissy used to say, women would rather go to jail than sleep with beta males.
heh.
The thread from that Roissyism to the existence of 'mugshawtys' is an unbroken one.
https://www.instagram.com/mugshawtys/?hl=en
Half these chicks would get a 30 year old me in so much trouble.
women in male dominated fields>>>>>
"A Corvette with the top down sounds cool. The only cooler thing is a 4th-generation LS1 Trans Am with the top down, which is like a Miami speedboat for people who have sex exclusively with GED recipients."
Perfection. This is why I subscribe.
Thank you, as the old men on the porch used to say, for your support!
For the young’uns:
https://youtu.be/dRYbF296964
Hard to believe we used to drink stuff like this. Boones Farm. Annie Green Springs…. 🤢
Wine coolers I get. Zima on the other hand...
I am told that wine coolers were made with wine until they figured they could up the sweetness and replace $$$ wine with $ malt alcohol
or just antifreeze
Mad Dog!
Thunderbird!
https://www.thrillist.com/drink/nation/bum-wine-comparing-wild-irish-rose-thunderbird-cisco-wine-and-others
In high school we would go to the nearby ghetto liquor store to buy Mad Dog and Thunderbird. While wearing our high school jackets.
This was one of those liquor stores where the front counter and all the liquor was behind thick bullet proof plexiglass, and the cashier would give you your bottle via a little plexiglass turnstile. Good times!
I understood that reference.
I tried wine coolers, the preservatives gave me wicked headaches .
-Nate
Bartles & Jaymes.
I swear I’ve still seen that in the stores occasionally.
It really is a perfect paragraph that I will probably remember for years.
who do guys with actual miami speedboats have sex with other than "whoever they want"
Presumably their cell mates after making an incompetent departure from Haulover Inlet and being sued into oblivion
Boats are like motorcycles. Each type has a different type of groupie. Speed boat groupies have barbed wire around their arms tattoos
There are no women in the water. You still need to sell them on your boat on land.
It’s like a motorcycle in that the sale is pretty easy. “Want to go out a boat? Do you want to bring some friends”
Can't fit friends on a motorcycle. Didn't they bring friends to stop them from doing something like getting on a motorcycle? Where do they put their purse?
Thats what her friend is for.
100
what if the women i have sex with never even attempted to get their GED? what then, wise guy?
Yup!
As the owner of a 4th Generation Trans Am convertible LS1 6-speed, I concur ….
Even in your new lightened state, don’t you outweigh the average skinny about 2:1? And they can’t fight? Somalis scare me about like wasps scare me, annoying but really NBD.
Quantity has a quality all its own
Problem is, if they stomp JB, nothing will be done. If JB knocks a few of them around in the process of making his escape, every traffic camera in the city will be reviewed to find the FASCIST in his BRO-DOZER. Unwinnable fight.
The problem is when you kill one and get tried by a white woman in front of an all Somali jury.
Meh you lay one or two out and just walk away. Not like they’re going to call the cops.
Why wouldn't they call the cops? The cops work for THEM. They called the cops on Nick Shirley MULTIPLE times. And it got Nick arrested.
I mean, a Somali cop flat out MURKED a white woman a few years ago and they handled it administratively.
gonna have to get covert ops with it
i gotchu
In case you forgot about Officer Mohamed Noor killing Justine Diamond
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Justine_Damond
A Minneapolis jury found Noor guilty of 3rd degree murder and 2nd degree manslaughter, but Minnesota Supreme Court overturned the verdict and set him free.
Noor shot Diamond while sitting in the passenger seat of his police car, firing across his partner when Diamond approached the driver’s side of the cruiser. She had called 911 about a disturbance in the alley near her house.
Noor was lauded as the first Somali officer and was part of a fast track training program. Prior to killing Diamond, he had 3 formal complaints against him. One was 2 months before the shooting, where Noor allegedly pointed a gun at the head of a driver he had pulled over for a minor traffic violation.
another dei success story
The purpose of Somalia is for India to have a country to look down on.
(The purpose of Canada, the US, and the UK is to accept as much mass migration from Somalia and India as rapidly as possible; this process is called "enrichment.")
Where I come from the darkies don’t call the cops. Maybe it’s different there?
Somalis are protected by the state. They straight up don’t care about regular dudes in the hood.
These aren’t black Americans, they’re Africans
Many of the cops are also Somali
somehow that became my peers through enough word twisting
The right answer to MDG’s alternate car question from the other day: C6 427. Right price. Right sound. Right style.
Yeah it's been on my mind and prices aren't awful.
And one of your readers has one for you to test drive! IN EUROPE!
get thee to an airportery
(See last thread for the ACFfer in question)
https://www.autotrader.com/cars-for-sale/vehicle/770188395?listingType=USED&makeCode=CHEV&marketExtension=include&modelCode=CORV&numRecords=25&sortBy=relevance&trimCode=CORV%7C427&zip=91909&clickType=supplemental
That looks worth every penny
I love C4 ZR-1s, but I'd take that over one in a heartbeat, especially if we're talking first-year Zs.
That was what I suggested too
On form today, Jack. And that from a poor English boy who struggles with some of the references.
“Fortunately, no casualties were reported in the incident. BYD clarified that the parking area contained only “test and scrapped vehicles,” meaning no customer cars were affected, and that production continued without disruption. Despite the fire, authorities and the Chinese automaker sought to ease public concerns over EV safety, maintaining that the incident was isolated.”
Move along. Nothing to see here. Cows turn themselves inside-out all the time.
1-“[T]he Modern American Dream, where you just “make deals” and wait for a bigger fool to bail you out of what you’ve done.”
As opposed to … whining that no one will reward you with the JERB to which you are OBVIOUSLY entitled?
2-“Porsche GT3 sound bad.”
Everything Porsche unambiguously bad, always. Obviously.
In his dotage, Jack is beginning to exhibit signs of PMS: Porsche Madness Syndrome.
Because the GT car engines are the ONLY Porsches that sound good, and they sound better than ANY new Ferrari or McLaren stock-for-stock (modern Ferrari V12 too quiet).
3-I can see why Jack needed the “security blanket” of the Monster Truck to stand up to those Quality Learing Center layabouts.
Burning Straw Men is the lowest form of sarcasm.
Unlike you I've run a GT2RS to redline multiple times a lap over and over again.I would rather listen to a G35 with the resonator pulled.
1-Non sequitur, one of your favorite rhetorical flourishes.
2-The GT2 RS (both of ‘em) sound bad, because turbo Porsches always sound bad.
The flat six is not a great sounding configuration. Not even in a Tucker.
Oh yeah it’s ALWAYS and UNAMBIGUOUSLY AWFUL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ8riM4qNwE&t=752s
That sounds like a gay version of my VFR800 at low revs.
If I cared about what YOU thought might be GAY … I’d probably still be stuck as a time seller.
Vfr 800 huh. Had the last of the vfr 750s or was it an 800, the one before vetc, back when, it was the gear driven cams that got me. Still it was one of those bikes that didnt know what it wanted to be, sportsbike or just bike and fell between two stools.
My former 1971 911S Targa (2.2 with Weber 40IDA carb conversion) begs to differ. The problem with modern flat sixes is they don't have any good intake noise to compliment the exhaust note. The Weber conversions had K&N rain hats on them...the intake noise was almost as loud as the exhaust which IIRC was an ANSA/Abarth knockoff.
Ripping around Angeles Crest Highway up to 7300RPM with the Targa top off sounded glorious.
But they are smooth, or at least used to be, cant coment on the 4.0 and most cars today sound like shit.
This may be just nostalgia and ignorance, but the 997 is the only water-cooled generation worth owning. Proportions are right and they’re new enough to not feel dated in that used car way.
Try a nicely sorted 987.
Not to be cynical, but I'm thinking Jacks Porsche issues are more for effect than real beliefs. I've literally never heard anyone think a flat 6 at 8000 rpm drones. It doesn't.
Isn’t the 997.1 subject to bore scoring?
The vendors who want to sell you $30,000 rebuilds say so, the shops I know not so much.
But what do I know, I think they sound pretty good and match my Timex expedition nicely.
My son’s did, definitely. But kids, do they listen?
'I've literally never heard anyone think a flat 6 at 8000 rpm drones. It doesn't.'
They sound awful when I'm passing them in a Radical SR8 that turns 10,750 with eight cylinders, but maybe that's the significant Doppler effect! :)
Something I noticed when I was in the car magazine business is that Porsches become invisible traffic when Ferraris appear. This wasn't a problem when the 911 cost half as much as a Ferrari. They each had their own niche and served it well.
Anyone who buys a 911GT-anything instead of a 296GTB should be 5150ed for a month, because it's possible they have MORE bad decisions to make.
You're right, we are all too stupid to share your planet.
Financially, a Porsche GT is a far saner proposition than a 296GTB (which massively depreciate). For those w/o deep deep pockets, it’s a factor.
I've never owned either, but based on what the internet people say, Porsches are pretty reliable through the warranty period and can generally trusted to function as well as an Audi. When things break, it will be expensive but with available parts, and the dealership is in Nashua, 10 minutes up the highway. The nearest Ferrari dealer is near Boston, and Ferrari still treats people the same way Enzo treated Feruccio, as if they are above concerns like design flaws and build quality. Unless you live at the track with trained mechanics on payroll service and reliability has to count for something.
Imo one of the benefits of porche is theyre ubiquitous enough to be invisible. I also don't share your love for how modern Ferraris drive, not least because while a new GT3 may last 10-20 years and hybrid ferrai is by all accounts a 5 year car. The finaces of a modern ferrai are such very few ever will track them, whereas i see plenty of porche at the track.
Now if ferrai were to return to building a NA 355 sized car maybe even with a manual option, we;d be talking. hell if they just offered a 296 without all the ev complexity and weight, well that coudl be the second coming of the 288/f40. But they wont because thats not who their customer is. they say porche customers buy rolex and ferrari customers by patek. Is it really that different.
Agree on all your points. I’ve driven 3 997s, and early regular which was ok. A 997gt3 RS which was one of the most intuitive cars I’ve ever driven and a later gts which felt really fast and good on road. I’d say 997gt3 is peak porche. But if you wnats car to track a 997 is an older car expensive ish to run and getting torn up. I have seen a fully worked 996gt3 breaking 2 mins easily at the Glenn. That driver is also putting far more into it tha. Ina more modern gt3 and certainly way more than a zr1.
For modern roads/traffic and driving enjoyment the 997 is hard to beat. Expressive these days .
Amazing there is no modern that fits that space size performance precision etc.
' I have seen a fully worked 996gt3 breaking 2 mins easily at the Glenn. '
I ran a 2:08 in a Honda Accord, so how hard could it be?
In your race version?
And how fast was The Commander in the street version?
Exceptional time in an accord, although Im assuming that was a fully prepped track car. As you know hp is not evreyting.
As at lrp there is vast difference between 1.00 and .58 and its not hp.
There are crap drivers, there are fast drivers there are fast good drivers(maybe me) and then there are artists behind the wheel(Jack).
The difference between a fast good driver and an artist is 4-5 secs at say the glenn which is an eternity.
Worth owning until they need $40k in work.
I like mine but I'm a plebe.
AND WHAT WOULD BE WRONG WITH THAT, I ASK??
the vq35 on stock manifolds
Listen here, Miata boy! You would cut off your mother's left arm to put a VQ35HR in a NB Miata. And you could finally smoke the S2000 drivers.
1. lmao fuck no the standard engine is fine and more than capable of doing what i want it to do
2. if i cared about smoking s2ks id buy a turbo kit and start looking at them in my rearview mirror
anyway vqs sound great with headers and a full exhaust
I didn't think I was going to get away with that comment!
" Flat-six engines generally sound awful"
I was going 79mph going west on 290 and a lovely sound flew by me in the triple. Some sort of ferrari. Then another lovely sound flew by me. A C6 or a C7, than a broken lawnmower flew by me. That was the porsche. "imagine buying that one"
This place really wants me to get a 4th gen trans am. I'l need the name of Jacks london tailor to custom fit me for a track suit.
I don’t think track suits work with a mullet but I am missing the fashion gene.
I really should have bought a trans am while I was rocking the mullet. The amount of white trash gals I could've pulled with a mullet, a trans am, and a street triple would have been.... about the same as I was pulling at that time in my life which was > 0
"I HEAR THAT YOU ARE INTERESTED IN TRANS WOMEN. EXCELLENT CHOICE" -- Some Clanker
We shall henceforth call this Scott A’s “I have a dream” speech.
I have a dream my garage grows by three sizes
See you should have bought farm property down Stan’s way.
I couldve gone 25-35 minutes west and had it. Heck, i had two extra parking spaces at the last house but the wife wanted more room “for the kids” i couldve bought a trans am every 6 months with what id have saved on the mortgage! But what is really stopping me these days is time
I'm by no means a wealthy man by SoCal standards
... but I live in town and can park 7 cars (at present) in heated and cooled spaces on the property, 9 if I cleared out some shelving from the business shop, 10 if I bought another lift (I have 3 currently).
This is not counting the 10'x30' ministorage space I rent for (wait for it) $120/mo.
I still feel kinda' pinched down.
Anything goes!
Years ago on Dennis Mller’s radio show a caller asked “I think I saw you filling up your car at a gas station in Malibu. Was that you in a bathrobe filling up a Mercedes?”
Miller: “yup, that was me!”
(The representative from Flyover, stands up, dusts off, and speaks)
A track suit is the only acceptable attire (well, camo and a Carhartt works too) when sporting a mullet. Double bonus for gold chains with the track suit top zipped down.
So this phenomenon of various conveyances ripping by normal traffic in triple digits is a normal thing in the Windy City?
How has someone on a sport bike not been cheese-grated by a sewer drain with a cover configured similarly?
Where i was on 290 was 3 lanes of mostly open roads and fairly far out of city but i wouldnt say it’s normal for three cars to do it in a row. They weren’t really racing or anything. Just a bit of dick measuring
Chicago traffic does not generally travel at triple digit speed, unless those digits have a decimal point in front of them.
I remember the very first race I ever attended live. 6h race of the WEC series at the Nürburgring in 2016, back when the GTEs were running. All sounded awesome, then comes the 911 RSR and is so loud that even we freaks had to cover our ears. Did it sound good? No, I remember us talking about the sound of a chainsaw...
I think a two stroke single “on pipe” sounds fantastic. A large bore chainsaw sounds pretty magical to me.
YMMV.
Or a two-stroke triple!
4th gen f-bodies are text book don't meet your hero cars, good engine and looks, but everything else is pretty shit.
I'm very much a don't meet your heroes in action when it comes to old cars and bikes. But I'm still going to think about it.
The Allbirds thing is an elaborate joke, right? RIGHT?
Gave myself some hell today as I changed the ATV’s starter solenoid today in a sleet and windstorm when I realized it may just have been a janky connection at the battery negative terminal; but incompetence is so benign compared to ravening greed
I hope it is. I just discovered them and had high hopes of keeping to my promise never to wear gym shoes - are they still called that? - with jeans as an old man. My wife has a similar promise to herself never to wear sweat shirts with pictures on them.
Just change that to "no socks with sandals" and you'll be fine.
Never worn sandals. Even I don’t want to look at my feet.
I’d live in them if I could.
I just got a pair and now my heart gets broken!
Good on her. You see more adults wearing t shirts with cartoon characters on them than children.
Good rule on the sweatshirt/picture thing. "Gym shoes and jeans" have been a staple of my wardrobe since 1970 or so.
I did as well when I was younger….quit when I was maybe 55.
That whole thing doesn’t make any sense!
Flat six Porches sound like crap? You don't say! In December I bought a mid-engined Porch with a 4.0 (and a manual) and named it Chitty: because it sounds shitty and make sounds like Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang.
Authentic LOL.
"Chitty chitty bang bang chitty chitty bang bang we love you!"
Picturing Ace Ventura 2 when he goes down the steps in the old 60s Land Rover lol.
So, who's the American shoe manufacturer of choice now?
The amish will make you a nice wooden one
Isn’t that the Dutch?
They'll make you wooden shoes and split the check
Alden and New Balance.
I keep looking at Aldens but they just look kind of ...chunky? Very Maine. Still mostly buy Allen Edmonds, got enough that I'm mostly in the recruiting era.
Yeah Aldens are clunky. I have small feet (10.5) so it doesn't come off too badly for me
The Aldens an AFC'er gave me (size 12) don't look chunky to me .
-Nate
Alden is clunky. That’s part of it, for better or worse.
New Balance for athletics. Allen Edmonds for dress/boots. Origin and Red Wing for boots. Although, not all Red Wings are American.
Aldens might be great but they are expensive and less available than AE.
I see why you call him a clone.
Call whom a clone?
John Jr
Your son. From the angle of the shot the resemblance is striking. Oh, and if you were truly ugly, he wouldn't be here.
Yesterday, while talking to my son on the phone, he handed it to my grandson. I asked him how he was. He replied, "I'm well," so I told him, "And somebody taught you English, too."
That Venice Man Watch looks like something Gypsies would sell to Chinese tourists at an EU flea market.
Exactly. At the very apex of any hobby taste doesn't exist
Just a bunch of nerds trying to out nerd each other. This even applies to money. Imagine making a billion dollars and wanting more to beat the other nerd who makes a billion dollars.
My favorite billionaire fail is the never ending dick swinging to have the biggest yacht, only to realize they’re so long the yachts can no longer dock where the beautiful bikini girls like to be seen, they can only fit in the dirty industrial docks where the cargo freighters are.
It’s like guys taking steroids for big muscles but then their dicks shrink.
God is everywhere, and he’s got a sense of humor!
Your dick stays the same size. Your balls shrink!
I stand corrected. I never looked down in a gym locker room.
If I was a trans women in the girls locker room, I would have.
well you could cosplay a trans woman .......
Some people pick up size on the juice, apparently.
Reading Cernovich's stuff on how he tried to restore his testicles after juicing was absolutely surreal at the time.
Amazing how many guys in the mid 2000s manosphere either completely flamed out into loserdom or have 4 kids now. Cernovich started danger and play when he was 33 years old. And you know what he's done since? Owned his own outcome.
they can always invite the Meghan Markles to head over to the docks
SIR, let's keep our waterways clean.
Given Meghan Markle a break. Every millennial woman fantasized about turning pretty woman real but she actually accomplished it.
She did - while staying woke and compassionate! SUSSEX 2028
Scott, you need to frame this and put it on your wall. https://xcancel.com/greg16676935420/status/2044428987779498093#m
I promise you, only the easiest of returns could the government do
It’s all at the nadir. God bless the tasteless so that we can mock them.
Am I wrong to assume that watch has some kind of complication that moves the dice roller's hands, or change the dice? Is there a video of that watch in action?
I don't care if it's based on a work of a grand master, it's rather ugly. I wonder what he would have done with Bruegel's Wedding Dance.
When the DIA had Wedding Dance conserved/restored in 1941, they uncovered codpieces that had been painted over to censor the painting in the years since Bruegel. Some patrons of the museum were unhappy about that.
That’s pretty profound. You are very quotable this week!
I create quotes the way Sherman "creates value", which is to say women hate it.
Nice
Read this and incorporate into the forthcoming watch piece:
https://www.paulgraham.com/brandage.html
From Paul Graham.
looks like ill be reading more from him
I read that when it was released. It's a nice wrapup for people who have zero idea about the hobby, the same way all those "Automotive Guide" books of the 90s were for the 911 or Viper or whatever.
PG is an odd dude, kind of the ultimate Redditor/midwit.
I am beginning to understand things now.
Anyone who has achieved greater success than you is a midwit and you are OBVIOUSLY in the far right tail distribution.
The latter assertion is correct, the former is obviously false.
He must think the design of his website is a funny troll, but it actually matches his dull writing perfectly. And I am afraid the link to Mastodon is not a troll...
Thank you, that was a good read.
Great article.
" Now Patek is policing buyers to maintain an asset bubble."
Now considder Porche who are most certainly not policing buyers at all, or dealers.
Their only form of control seems to be to severely undersupply in order to maintain someone else's asset bubble. yes it all ends in tears. Their brand is linked to the 911 shape. As more get built to become status symbols the market becomes one of its age and times out. Wats kept it going so long is the product is actually still quite good, its backed by function. As BMW discvered with the 2002 if real enthusiasts like it, eventually the others cotton on to it being a better or "authentic" product.
the whole showy thing, I get it for brands, but alas what really should count is taste which apparently an anathema to a brand although top brads pretend to sell exactly that.
Never understood the carbuncle on your wrist idea.
I wear a thin citizen eco drive, as thin as a golden era patek for $200. Also have a nice 36 mm jaeger ultra thin, it just sits beautifully on the wrist, the back of the case is art in look and feel. It also confuses all those god roex watch wearer like they missing something and they know not what.
the advent of the whole 85 in your face brands perhaos describes why by the 90s ferrai design took a hit, and despite the 458 (an anomaly) their cars have become increasingly gauche.
Imo a great designed car, a ferrai in particular can carry a nice grey color well, that way its for you to admire and enjoy, and it wont pull the eye of random strangers (and cabinieri) as you actually really drive and use it.
Something about these things being there for your pleasure. I guess for most then the pleasure is derived from what others see in it or notice, the fampous line mercedes surveys try to hit, " i like it because of what it says about me" sheep?.
All of which makes G3s and for other reasons vettes my sorta favorite cars, ubiquitous enough not to really be noticed, but great to drive(gt3) fun to drive (vette). Honorable mention should also be given to a honda CTr great to drive and its a honda. Once upon a time same coudl be said for a grey R8, you coudl just tell peopel you drove an audi and theyd pay you no more notice. I guess the exception in car world to branding is the GMD T33, most nobody knows wat it is or has heard of it, yet it is in many ways unquestionably peak sportscar.
Patek is privately held; Porsche is not, and has been part of a publicly traded entity for quite some time.
Essentially all of the watches that do not depreciate are owned by privately held watchmaking firms. The ones that are owned by public companies and conglomerates send half the purchase price to heaven after the buyer exits the boutique.
Sure I get that.
The issue with porche is that theyre not protecting themselves as patek does, not serving clients. they have fallen prey to porche NA which is being run for the short termism benefit of dealers. Far better to sell 1 GT3RS with a 1000k markup than 4 at msrp. Meanwhile eiter way all porche gets is msrp, but flippers/dealers make bank.
This both alienates the potential customer pool and limits sales of the parent company,
Comaore that to corvette sales which are pretty much just USA and still double 911. What would be better for the parent company and actual customers.
Porsche has jumped the shark gradually and then suddenly. As with many things.
I have said for a few years now - initially tongue in cheek but it’s becoming more sincere over time:
“GT3s are consolation prizes for guys who can’t have a Singer”
Jack identified it early on (perhaps a decade ago), but imagine how galling it is to be PAG and to know that a different company makes the most coveted, bespoke version of YOUR brand identity.
God, what an awful read. Thick, plodding, devoid of any original insight.
Remember that the author, Paul Graham, is among the most accomplished men that has yet and in all likelihood will ever have lived.
Just wish his writing were somewhat engaging.
Speaking of My Lai, Darryl Cooper’s podcast recounting the event should be a required listen!
All of his podcasts should be.
100%
Thanks for the recco but dammit now it looks like I’m gonna need a longer commute.
His new WW2, the German perspective, podcast is great and you’ll need an even longer commute.
The Martyr Made guy? Didn't he do a bunch of press being a nazi/Hitler apologist?
He is definitely heterodox to many conventional historians. That may or may not be a bad thing.
I haven't listened to the Rogan/Carlson episodes that appear to make up much of the Wikipedia page entry for him. I have listened to the series he did with Jocko on the Palestine/Israel conflict. I can see why Israelis might have it out for him, although I don't think he said anything unfair.
One thing that stuck with me is how he discussed the expanding scope of his research on the topic. He said after reading one book, he thought he knew something. After five books, he thought he knew something different. After 80 books, he realized this is just way too complex for any sound bite takes or simplistic solutions.
I thought that was really insightful and applicable to many cases. How many times does someone read one book and think he's now an expert on something?
Just remember, outside all of the propaganda, your lived experience with every government authority lying about almost everything your entire life, watching politicians lie to you in real time, they would never, and i mean never lie about ww2 or the moon landing. They went to church that week.
Yeah, the news and the government used to tell the truth! What's gone wrong with this world?
Im not a ww2 buff or a moon landing guy so i really dont care about them too much but those being the boomer sacred cows, slightly fun to shit on.
"Samuel Johnson, in his Lives of the Poets, writes this of William Congreve:"
That was brutal.
And Congreve gave us “hell has no fury…”, for which I can forgive him a lot; it seems strange indeed to have so little regard for his own talent.
In a just world, Nick Shirley and James O'Keefe would win all the Pulitzers and be considered reporting gods. Instead we have Woodward and Bernstein who got spoon fed all of their reporting by someone who had an agenda.
Not enough is said about that latter point. They really were useful idiots.
If the phrase “too good to check out” ever applied…and as a follow on effect changed journalism from a cynical blue-collar job into a profession for Columbia graduates and similar.
I mean WTF is a journalism degrees. The five W’s and that’s about it. Father Guido Sarducci should have offered that as one of his $20 degrees. No one could have told the difference.
I gotta go watch the good Father’s educational clip again.
His 5 minute business degree was worth every penny!
Oh for the days of epic SNL!
When they said there was possibly an American in the running for Pope I was pulling for Father Sarducci.
Foiled again.
In retrospect he would have been a better choice.
Too bad Jesus started this College of Cardinals thing. One of his few missteps, along with Papal Infallibility.
Agree
And they are both still idiots today, but give Woodward credit he has been milking that 15 minutes of fame for 50 years.
All that buffoon does is go on the lefty shows foaming at the mouth insisting that something, anything, is “worse than Watergate!” Loser.
Got that right
They’d never be famous had Forrest Gump not gotten shot.