The old Jawa was different from a Western (or Japanese) 350 twin because they didn't have the technology to do cool stuff, it had points ignition and a generator, drum brakes. It became great because the Jawa factory team won races with it, and it was a genuine, 100% domestic product the Czech(oslovakians) could be proud of.
Not sure what this new one is supposed to accomplish.
There's supposedly a new Jensen Interceptor coming too. Hopefully it goes better than the TVR Griffith revival.
I mean that bike being a single is logical enough based on the original gold star being a "thumper." I just have learned to loathe parallel twins, modern ones in particular. It's rooted in cost savings and meeting euro-weenie emission standards. The Kawasaki Z650RS being a parallel twin while trying to harken back to the giant-killer 70s KZ650 (classic air cooled I4) is a crime. Suzuki has a new neat looking GSX-8TT that oh so badly needs a proper I4 in it.... womp womp another snoozefest Ptwin.
Totally agree. Even with the cooler firing order to make them sound like Vs, they are super lame. I really wanted to buy something cooler than a ptwin which is why I wound up with a Guzzi. I tried for a long time to talk Honda into building a mid size shaft drive adv bike with the shadow 750 drivetrain, but nah.
Yes, but any nostalgia bike successfully launched in recent years has depended on race pedigree, styling of performance models not plain janes, and colorways that reflect all that- in addition to a performance that delivers better than the original.
No sir. Because I believe that Cadillac doesn't need an F1 team. Cadillac needs to build Cadillacs. Good ones. The disappeared CT6 should be their smallest car. It should be their Seville. They should have a Phantom sized sedan and a Cullinan SUV that isn't so obviously a Tahoe with a maypop engine.
I take Cadillac ultra-seriously. I would have loved nothing more than to have been a consistent CvD/Fleetwood Coupe customer for the last twenty-five years.
Ah from that angle it makes total sense. I commented a few months ago that their website doesn't even tie in their F1 team to their performance sedans.
We had two Cadillac dealers in the Asheville area...with plenty of retirees around here (and maybe some 50ish age enthusiasts) to support them. When Cadillac made the decision to go full electric, they gave their dealers an ultimatum in 2023...equip for EVs or give up your franchise. Result...both shuttered...I have to go the Greenville SC an hour away to be serviced. Cadillac shot itself in the foot. I hope they can turn things around because IMHO they have the ability to make excellent products.
When Cadillac made the decision to go full electric, they gave their dealers an ultimatum in 2023...equip for EVs or give up your franchise. Result...both shuttered
Part of me thinks this was cadillacs plan to shrink their dealer network for much cheaper.
What is most funny is hearing GM make an attempt at throwing shade at Ford for their branding with Red Bull.
Like, isn't the Cadillac car just a marketing exercise with just the Andrettis operating things in the background for the motorsport operation? I could be wrong, but that's how I've always perceived it.
The boys at the tire store who spied my take off Mickey Thompson tires sneered at my idea they were done. I’m sure they’re on a truck or something now. I bet he had a spicy ride in the snow.
I imagine in some places the businesses which sell them could also be one of those flags. But in Nashville the several I have seen are a reminder of pre-boom Nashville amidst significant newer growth.
Now that they are virtually all made in china, aren't *all* brakes discount brakes?
I mean for non-supercar, non-CCB, non-"my rotor hat is machined alu and totally separate from the iron surface of the brake disc" type of brakes where the disc itself is one-piece?
Last time I filled in running my friend's auto shop, a manufacturer who people think makes good cars had taken to putting ill-fitting Chinesium rotors that require machining to fit the cars' hubs in their high-priced OEM boxes. I used to joke that the manufacturer distributed bogus dimensions to the aftermarket to protect their OEM parts business, since aftermarket rotors never fit their cars. Now, their OEM parts don't fit either and have the Made in China badges of quality.
I don't believe ANYONE is casting brake discs in the USA now. But there can be a wide variety in QC. I ran some early Hawk "performance rotors" in 2019 and they arrived with DIFFERENT PATTERNS STAMPED INTO THE BRAKING SURFACE.
i ran into a yellow 2010 camaro at the college once. it caught my eye becuase he was wearing mt rubber with snow on the ground. asked the driver if he was going to be alright getting home and he told me hed be fine and then left without making any errors
For me, it was a lesson learned twice. Once by driving a Mustang GT home in a blizzard on summer tires. Managed to only get stuck in the mouth of my parent’s driveway.
Some months later, that same Mustang on those same tires met its demise against a guard rail when I was going into work during a 40 degree rain.
I have never missed a car more. Only one I routinely think about. Love and loss and so on.
Put my 15’ Z/28 into an embankment and up on top of the guardrail a year and a half ago. Running the (a new set mind you) Trefeo Rs in 22* on a dry April morning wasn’t the brightest idea I had. Merging on to the highway from the on ramp, came in at 65-70 under power and lifted abruptly (track instructor told me 100 times to stop that I’ll lift off oversteer into the wall) and it just spun like I drove on to a ln ice skating rink. I refused the guaranteed pay out from Jack’s favorite insurance company and made them fix it. $58k and 9 months later it was as good as new, not really but close enough and now I’m not afraid to modify and send it on track.
A high mileage one, yes. I could’ve walked away with $70k guaranteed replacement from Hagerty but mine had 7k miles on it at the time and there where only 327 made in white that year and 427 white 5th Gen Z/28 tota across both years. I hated the idea of it getting scrapped and losing a rare car. Air bags all blew because when I went up on the guardrail the car tilted at just enough of an angle it triggered the roll over sensor. So about $30k of that $58k was air bags, $8k for 4 new wheels and tires. Body damage was actually minimal if you can believe it. I was astounded when they wanted to totally it.
Thanks. $30k was all in with labor too. All the airbags including side curtain ones went off. Legally (state of CT) the shop said they have to replace all the airbags and sensors. So it adds up quick! That’s why most cars today are totaled, not because of frame or structural issues, it’s airbags.
Please allow me this brief record scratch - replacing airbags costs 30k? Or replacing airbags, what they come out of, and the damage they do to the car, taken in toto, costs 30K? That is INSANE money
was driving home from the in-laws (about a 3-hour drive) in the wee hours when a rear bearing failed. I pulled over safely, and about 5 minutes later a motorist pulled up. You ok, need a ride to town, etc. (This was long before cell phones.) I took the ride. Thanked the guy and off he went. I found a pay phone, called a tow, returned to the car to find...
someone had smashed the rear quarter window and taken everything of value out of the car. pretty sure it was the same guy who'd given me the ride to town.
With the rest of his life. And you don't put him in charge of real shit until he's proved himself. The OT and other ancient history is full of examples of "slaves" that were extremely accomplished and in positions of considerable power.
I mean none of these systems are perfect, but I much prefer this one to locking men in boxes and letting them get masterclasses in criminology.
Hell the one year old Cooper Discovery AT3-4S (4s stands for four seasons, for the extra siping cut into the tread blocks supposedly) absolutely *SUCK* in the snow/slick on my Xterra. You absolutely *have* to be in 4WD to have a hope of not kicking the back end out, but with the part time nature of the system, with 4WD on, in tight turns slip is automatically induced due to the binding inherent to a setup without a center differential. I swapped on the fresh Blizzak DMV2s that came on a seperate set of OE alloys on last weekend (have just been too lazy to bother, I try to keep the Xterra out of the salt, but my minivan needed a window regulator replaced), but have yet to actually try them out.
Fascinating to me that in some jurisdictions, unless I am mistaken, a car fails inspection not just for emissions issues but also for bald tires, as measured by tire gauge.
In a Free America with a Free Citizenry thing going on, I would prefer no inspections barring emissions in cities, but with the population we are forced to tolerate, it's likely that any state with an inspections program should enforce usable tread and 5/6 years from date code / no dry rot. Easy way to save 1000 lives annually, honestly
Enforcing 5/6 years from date code would probably diminish safety, because most people would then buy the cheapest Chinese garbage tires on the market. I started putting Generals on my retired parents' cars, because their Michelins and Continentals were aging out with most of their tread and General makes a number of very solid tires. People who don't know tires are going to go with Double Happiness Cometitionionos, starting at four for $99.
every time you change some law in America, you also have to change at least one other law to avoid unintended consequences.
6 years from date code, plus: banning chinese tires, nationalizing one "net 0.5% profit" tire manufacturer offering decent tires in many sizes at cost plus whatever minimum percent... and for good measure let's refund people the money stolen from them by the fed and fiat-dollar-inflation theft. Then we'll all roll michelins. SOLVED
I put my very liberal neighbor’s address in and found out we only have a 62% rating. Some of it is because of some Section 8 within 3 miles (but crucially outside our school district) and some of it because we have 5 liquor stores, one being a Binnys which is like the Best Buy of liquors (hardly a slummy place) and one is my excellent vintage and European wine shop where I pick up my two obscure reds a month as part of my wine club membership there. I’m not going to hold that one against myself.
I have 3 liquor stores within 3 miles and it used to be 4. One being binnys, one was malloys (smaller binnys), one a fancy wine place, and one is your typical arab owned piece of shit. To be fair to the current arabs, they have updated the store since they bought it from the last guy. My neighborhood is an 89.
The website says we have 7 so I must not be thinking of a few. If you go a block north it's a 93. One block north had 1 pawn shop. the 89 looks like it's from 1 section 8.
I guess this is more prevalent than one might otherwise expect.
Also, Baltimore was a LOL - it's not quite so bad as the website would have you believe, but it's also not good if you don't like package theft, vagrants, and a bit of the old youth-enjoyed Ultraviolence
Anyone over the age of 20 and NOT raised anywhere near the west coast knows how to profile. Whether they admit it or not. Just drive around the perspective area for a couple hours. If the cops start following you, that's a hint. Gunfire that may be or not be directed at you, hint. Folks hangin at any corner in the presence of a 55 gallon drum fire, a hint Flags on display of foriegn nations, especially African or South American. Confirmation. Live somewhere else. If further education is required the Cliffs Notes version is...... 24 hours in metro Detroit. Be in no doubt that everything you see or experience there will scream "RUN". If not then you're too naive to be of use to yourself or anyone else. Sala.
How much time do you spend in Detroit? Just last night I drove to the Post Office on W. Fort Street about a mile west of downtown, then to the Eastern Market to shoot photos of the RoboCop statue for an article I wrote, and then 7 miles up Mack to the Cadieaux Cafe for some music. It was about 10 PM and the route I took was through some of the worst parts of Detroit. Never saw a cop, nobody was hanging out by a 55 gallon drum fire, and no foreign flags (my route didn't go through Hamtramck, where women wear burkas), heard no gunfire. There were a couple of beggars on a couple of street corners.
I'm not going to minimize Detroit's problems but what you described isn't what I see when I'm in the city and I'm usually in the city a couple of times a week.
One sign you didn't mention that one does see in the D are street corner BBQs set up in abandoned gas stations.
I walk my dog in Corktown. Cass corridor still blows. Homeless people were in my corporate apartments lobby and they shit on the floor (again). I wouldn’t coin it a fucking renaissance but I don’t need an AR15 to take photos inside of an old Fisher Body factory in Medbury Park. The 5 rich fucks are picking and choosing where the development is. It’s nice to see but I’d rather be home than living here (I am very biased and miss my house / yard / routine). Also the cocktail bar Kiesling used to be a residence I ran to when my friend and I were about to get robbed of our cameras. Absolutely insane to see the difference from 15 years ago.
Next time you’re in Chicago and feel like taking a drive on the South Side….current article as it mentions Trump thinking Chicago needs taking over.
“Carter, 44, has spent his whole life in the 6400 block of South Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. The block is home to the Parkway Gardens low-income apartment complex, commonly known as O Block, a name that has become synonymous with street violence in Chicago….
“But since 2010, more people have been shot there than any other block in the city. O Block was named for 20-year-old Odee Perry, a gang member gunned down just around the corner in the summer of 2011.”
I know an 82 year old black woman who left California for *much* cheaper Las Vegas ~ I cautioned her to drive any prospective neighborhood after 10 PM, she began calling me telling how many would see her and say "granny, you DO NOT belong here !" .
Calling her a "professional delivery driver" is like nonironically calling a Subway employee a "sandwich artist".
Her employer should have trained her. Alternately, her employer should be screening for this knowledge. Instead, what we have is the worst of all worlds -- stuffing people who don't understand their job into dangerous equipment.
Is she delivering shit to get paid for it? Are we going to argue on what a dictionary is, let alone what is written in it?
Also you had parenting and she arguably had less or none. While we're getting things straight. It isn't privilege for you as much as it is nobody giving a shit about poor Crimson.
Your second point fails the relativistic test. If I got "X" parenting and she got "X-50" parenting, then it is *equally* privilege for me as it is no one giving a shit about her. That's like saying, "She's not going 50mph slower than you... you're going 50mph faster than she is!"
I didn't know we're talking about some arbitrary tests.
If you have children is it considered too much to have to 'raise' them?
My actual point was that she was failed far more devastatingly by her own flesh and blood far before you can bitch about her employer... You're complaining about the zit and ignoring the 50 lb tumor in the body. Howz that for relativistic bullcrap?
"My actual point was that she was failed far more devastatingly by her own flesh and blood far before you can bitch about her employer... You're complaining about the zit and ignoring the 50 lb tumor in the body. Howz that for relativistic bullcrap?"
I was trying to make that point as well, by the way.
My wife doesn't have to worry about tires because I take care of it for her. Before I was around, her dad took care of it for her. I will do the same for my daughters. What I won't be around to do is make sure her employer is giving her proper equipment. Do you check the RAM specs on your computer at work, the HHD usuable space, defrag it weekly (do people still do that), make sure the adobe software licenses are up to date. As an employee, you expect the tools your given to be properly cared for.
I promise you women from Well to do familes with fathers who care about them still aren't checking their oil, tire pressure, or tread depth.
You're talking about being conscientious or caring for someone else..which clearly this lady has been failed a decade before she ended up stuck in Jack's driveway.
You missed my point. I was saying people who should have cared for her literally left her to die. You doing that for your wife is the opposite of what she got.
I do care for my equipment at work. Just replaced a failed component in my work laptop last week, because I'm better faster and cheaper than the bureaucracy I'd have to deal with otherwise. My boss who isn't a moron prefers it too.
I would say she's a rookie delivery driver. She's just learning the job and yeah, they should be given better equipment and training. Cops should be pulling them over and ticketing the companies for their failures.
I'm torn on E-verify. Look, the government couldn't even keep fingerprints and PII safe for those with government clearance. Why should we trust the government with something like E-verify?
Even E-verify isn't updated all that quickly and employers don't check E-verify on any basis where someone was legally allowed to work and then down the road the Visa or status expires.
For sure -- but all of this information is already in the aether and even the most timid steps towards national e-Verify would make a significant dent in the problem.
I'm *sure* needing government permission to work would only be used to curb illegal immigration. We need raids on employers; as noted before on ACF, Smithfield would do nicely.
My libertarian side is with you here, but it would be a step in the right direction, and let's be honest; the government already has all the personal data on citizens or qualified residents of this country that an effective E-Verify system would need.
Is it possible for an officer of the Law to pull over a motorist, and then say "no, you're ok, I'm ticketing your company, not you." Like is that possible? I have seen fix-it-tickets for tint, does this work like that?
I delivered paint (Residential and commercial paint store) for a living in an Econoline van early on and then in an F150. I had zero training. I once lost 50 gallons of paint (not my fault) all over a four lane divided highway and watched idiot drivers driving on it even though I coned and flared it off.
In Florida, driveways are put in last on new slab construction 25 years ago. I was 17 driving this Econoline van with questionable tires and 160 gallons of primer and paint onto this new construction site.
My original plan was to haul the paint from the street and set it in the garage, but the contractor urged me just to drive up to the house on what was essentially beach sand and weeds. I got there just fine, unloaded the paint from the van and when I left, tried to pull away and ended up with the van stuck all the way down to the rear axel.
Ended up diggyaround the tires and threw some wood and drywall into the holes by the wheels and rocked it out.
After this 2 hour long fiasco, the store still refused to put new tires on it.
Eh. There were two standard f150s sitting pretty close in the same sand. One actually helped nudge me out. They had tread on their tires. I almost had the same issue once in a late 90s F150 on wet Alabama clay. I.had good traction loaded down with 100 gallons of paint but once it was off the truck I got pretty close to getting stuck. The rear tires were down to 2/32. That manager replaced them after I told him the incident. I had more experience a this point in driving with paint in the back of a truck.
Yeah I guess if more weight on the rear axle helped, it wouldn't have been deep sand, as the point in deep sand is to reduce ground pressure, not increase it for more traction. I've taken a number of trips down to the Outer Banks in several different SUVs with different tire setups (my 4Runner on regular all seasons vs the same 4runner on fresh General Grabber AT2s) and it was pretty eye opening. "Best" setup hands down was the 4Runner on all pliable seasons, aired down.
I am glad you didn't berate her for getting stuck. You did the right thing, you showed her the condition of her delivery van tires and helped her out.
How to get her delivery van outfitted properly with working lights, windshield wipers, tires and brakes? That is a tough one since every business in the US loves to sub-contract.
My bride buys from an online grocery that is "carbon free" — but depending on I don't know what — uses various delivery services for their shipping: Fed Ex Ground (franchises that are independently owned), Laser Ship (individuals are contractors who deliver in their own vehicles) and a new entity called Veho (which describes themselves as "Last-Mile Delivery Logistics for E-commerce) but which I suspect is Uber for packages.
I cannot wait until employment law catches up and puts all these companies out of business. These employee/independent contractor debates gets resolved every ten years.
First, OH MY FUCKING GOD, I NEED THAT APP!!! I'm finally buying a house this year and need the straight answers the Fair Housing Act won't let realtors give me.
Second, the GNX worked in its menacing, malevolent way because it was angular and looked hewn from a solid block of black steel. Curves, like dogs and the Irish, need not apply. All the concepts and attempted revivals over the years failed because they were too curvaceous.
The opposite way to do this is to triangulate businesses like European car dealers, Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, etc.
House buying always needs to start at the county level, if possible, because of taxation and for judicial reasons. Only then can you drill down to towns and neighborhoods.
Yeah, I was thinking even if The Enlightened shut this site down, I have the criteria I need to do a manual search. Always DID, I suppose, but never put two and two together.
I had a tough time getting home the day that went down. I had to backtrack several miles to get on the freeway. The apartment complex where it ended is between where I work and where I live.
That’s why I used my neighbor’s address in this tool and not mine. I guarantee you even looking at that web page is considered “racist” by the righteously indignant.
I continue to wish you well in your journey and continue to advise simply speaking with the neighbors. That is the #1 step. You'll also be able to see if you're moving to a loserville filled with busybodies or some place with people who you might become friends with
The ultimate life hack is to live as close as possible to people you are friends or family with, or could be friends and family with. This more than anything else is why TPTB wanted real property deed covenants BANNED, america Hart-Cellered, and the Civil Rights Act passed -- too many strong families and strong neighborhoods creates power-rivalries for the nepo-pederasty clans at the top
Go and knock as many doors as you can if you're going to buy (and want to stay for a while). It will save you huge amounts of heartache and also make your life way way better
Imagine being on a block where you can do business with your neighbors! Amazing!
"Well, friends, I’m pleased to report that Buick kicked off Black History Month by doing exactly
that."
They changed their name to Pontiac?
Your average male Olympic figure skater has had more girlfriends than Lewis Hamilton. Heck, Sherman has. It's insulting they're using Kim Kardashian instead of paying some hot trashy art ho 10k a month to keep up appearances
Crimson shouldn't have to look at the tread tires on her car. You think your UPS drive is checking every morning? You think your local constable is? After overtime, those guys make 100k, crimson make 13 bucks an hour. You should absolutely bill that DSP for your time to get her out. With a very vivid description of the tire damage and the effort you put in that might come up in discovery when they finally do wreck a truck or two. You probably won't get any more amazon deliveries.
Yeah, as a gay man LH never pinged my gaydar because I've never known a black gay guy (much less one with money) who would commit such hairstyling atrocities.
The 25 year old I dated when I was 30 age gap was slightly annoying then. I can't imagine how annoying it would be now. Now, if i was just in a "run through these hos" phase, sure. I'm out of the "Run through these hos" part of my life at least until the bitter divorce.
Having been there and done that, the 'old soul' 25 year old was indeed bouncy and energetic but I need someone to talk to not just dip my wick .
Most of the better partners I've had were all 40 + women with children ~ they knew *exactly* what they wanted, not afraid to ask for it or teach me if necessary and none expected me to take care of them .
When I worked at UPS, albeit 30 years ago, they were meticulous about maintenance, and even washed the brown delivery trucks EVERY DAY (they had their own drive through car wash). Yes, they had to "walk the truck" each day before leaving. FedEx used to always have clean white trucks, but lately I've seen some piss poor dirty beaters tooling around from them, so they might be regressing to the mean on this sort of thing.
I have this idea for a Porsche car that I've been writing in car magazine's comment sections, instead of trying to compete with the BRZ, do a rear-engined naturally aspirated 2-door (or 4-door, the last Renault Twingo proved it's possible) entry-level, 4-cylinder car, price it to compete with the BMW 1-Series or Audi A3
Call it, of course, Porsche 356. Bingo, you have a winner.
Modest proposal re "entry-level" Porsche: it would be cheaper and no doubt more lucrative to simply make Porsche a trim level on Audis. Might as well given the recent Teutonic )and non-master race luxo brand) trend of cheapening their performance-oriented sub-brands (S/RS, M, AMG etc.).
While they're at it, make Audi a trim level on VWs. And [Lambo/Bentley] a trim level on [2-door/4-door] Porsches, and Bugatti a trim level on Lambos/Bentleys.
There is no fixing Porsche, just as there is no fixing General Motors
They both have bureaucracies and their heads up their own bottoms. Not one of their executives would know a good car if it drove past them.
General Motors problems start with their powertrains. They change them way too often. They have 6 different generations of the 3.6Litre V6. They develop the Ls1 and release in 1997. It runs until 2004 then the LS2 shows up from 2005-2007. Then the LS3 does duty from 2008 in the Corvette until 2015 in the Camaro. Then a complete change to direct injection and shutting off cylinder with Active Fuel Management. That lasts until 2019 when Dynamic Fuel Management comes on that can shut off all the cylinders. And I haven't talked about Quite Contrary Mary killing off cars and going full bore into 9,000 lb EV's that no one wants.
I realized real estate agents were just about useless when I asked one whether a neighborhood in which I was looking at a house was safe. "Safe" is code for a lot of things, I understand, but the realtor hemmed and hawed around too much while answering, which my mind seized upon and has not let go since.
Realtors can't answer questions like this, it turns out. It's not a question about whether a neighborhood has people of color in it, in my opinion -- it's about things I can't know or see. I'd be enthusiastic about questioning a realtor if they said anything about race, in fact. Whether an area is "good" or "bad" depends on many things. Realtors being unable to volunteer their opinion on the topic, when they are likely very aware of it just makes them, as I said, just about useless. (Yes, I do have an axe to grind about realtors.)
peaceandquiet.io is clearly what is needed. It's one bit of info on which to base a decision. Home buyers will do what they want anyway if the deal is right, but you might as well be informed about your decision.
That bullet-point list above is very astute, but one additional item to consider about an area is plasma donation sites. This has more to do with financial status than race, seems like, but certainly contributes to useful info about a neighborhood. Proximity to interstate highways, homes / apartment building ratio, etc. are all additional items.
A good realtor is kinda like a good <s>accountant</s> lawyer. The guy who has been around 10 years is going to get a real answer and the legal answer, the guy with a one hour consult is going to get the legal answer.
I have asked Perplexity AI “what side is the good side of town” for places I was visiting on vacation last year and it gave me answers with the reasoning behind them and with the links to crime map and stats websites.
This week I asked ChatGPT to list all the years since 600 when there were Muslims involved in conflicts in Europe and it about shit itself. Like 2,000 words later I still didn’t have an answer.
While I love the added safety, I think the Halo device ruins the lines of the cars.
That Envista ad is the worst abuse of a legacy halo car since the Mach-E.
The social implications of that website are fascinating. As for race relations, bring back the death penalty for most felonies, and enforce it, rigidly.
I think Porsche would be one of the first makers to drop EVs completely, if they could. But they are a German company, and the nation is still throwing itself over whatever cliffs they can find. I also think they have zero interest in anything below $75k, so the very neat 951 idea is simply DOA.
Regarding the safety issue, the best idea I can come up with is informing the relevant authorities about the tires and other possible deferred maintenance that can be spotted. Not just the .gov; I would think whoever is insuring this DSP would be fascinated by shots of those tires and the story behind them.
We'd have less drug possession and Iphone thefts! Or maybe we could be realistic about what are actually felonies again. I'm convinced the bar gets lowered and lowered to limit gun ownership. My friend is a felon because he sold some molly in college. Lifelong felon for a drug plenty of us have done. He was an idiot but maybe some of this shit should sunset after not doing anything wrong for 20 years.
Depends on how you parse the constitutional language, but it's only disallowed if it is BOTH cruel AND unusual.
Seriously, one way around that might be to give the convicted criminal a choice, "It's either a year in prison or we beat you with this cane for 10 minutes, and then waterboard you so you don't forget."
My moron friend is in a never ending loop of fines he can't afford because he drove without car insurance he couldn't afford, then couldn't afford the fees and got arrested again because he didn't pay them to start the cycle all over again. They should've just beat his ass one time. He isn't a real criminal, he's just an idiot.
There are so many felons that the Marxists running Virginia into the ground are prioritizing restoring their voting rights. If they didn't have voters with a proven track record of making bad decisions, then they wouldn't have any American citizens voting for them at all.
The website works precisely because we are collectively tired of the social implications for stating the obvious.
And this website does not need to be viewed through a racial lens. The crime in my county is mostly from dumb white rednecks.
It turns out that all we had to do as country to lower the murder rate 20% in one year was to deport a small fraction of the illegals here. Very thin coverage on this story because the obvious reason for the drop can’t be said out loud due to the usual TDS and cognitive dissonance.
As always, the dog that’s not barking is ALWAYS where the real news is.
"And this website does not need to be viewed through a racial lens. The crime in my county is mostly from dumb white rednecks." That is a far point.
The racist part of it is the names list. Ava, Alicia, and Maya aren't even "black-coded" names in my opinion. Neither is Marcus for that matter. Jack even pointed out Tamara is usually a class-associated name more than race-associated. Besides all that, if that site didn't collect or use first names I'd agree more with it being a useful tool instead of a racist one. For the record, I did look up my zip to see how poorly it reflects my neighborhood, but the map isn't working and all I get is a blank black screen, even on cell data. It says there's 3 popeye's around but there's actually just one and I wish it was reliable. There's a Chic fil A across the intersection to balance things out, too. We also have a Lucid office nearby, Bell Tire's HQ, and an Eaton facility. They should make an inverse of this site for "Things White People Like" to pull a quote from Cards Against Humanity. It'd only be fair I think.
I agree with you 100% on the names. That is a dog whistle and it’s unnecessary and dumb. I don’t think that name list is accurate, either, as I entered different counties across states with very different economic levels that I am directly familiar with and the same names keep showing up, which is just not believable.
The other filters of businesses or government programs apply to my county which is predominantly white. But their presence doesn’t necessarily indicate a bad neighborhood over here, as even our public housing, which are really nice well maintained duplexes is not unsafe at all. I walk by them almost everyday.
Call it the “intolerance” rule. Even almost all criminals deemed insane by the courts know enough to run away from the scene of their crimes, proving their sanity and knowledge of right and wrong.
The crime stats on repeat offenders are horrific. My methodology to clean up a crime ridden blue city would be as follows.
Announce that you are going to hire 1000 additional policemen and that you intend to jail 10,000 criminals and especially repeat offenders.
Then, if the crime rate doesn’t drop appreciably, you are going to hire another 1000 policemen and jail another 10,000 criminals.
And so on and so on.
I guarantee with 100% certainty that this would eliminate almost all crime, even in the worst city.
You don't even need to try that hard. The number of people who commit substantially all the violent crimes is tiny and basically without exception already known to the cops.
I was often sent to navigate the treacherous Highway 69 (no sniggering in the back) to Sudbury in winter. It was a five-hour drive north from home, I was usually piloting a 74 (green) or 77 (red) Austin Marina. My father had a fleet of orphan makes. I do not remember ever having snow tires or even new tires.
In their UK home, the Marina had a poor reputation for handling. I had many a white-knuckle drive and few near-death experiences. I will save those stories for another time.
Two personal preferences came from those advance on Moscow like journeys.
1. Always run snow tires in winter.
2. 71-78 E-body Eldorados and Toronados are the best winter cars. One particularly bad snowstorm, where most drivers were below 30 mph, I saw a rooster tail of snow fast approaching in the rear-view mirror. A driver in a blue 76 Eldorado passed by at 60 plus, not a care in the world, plowing the road in front of him.
The only negative about those E-Bodies is that they are just about as biodegradable as any other GM car of the 70s. Especially in areas with liberal road salt usage.
Btw, I still hanker for an early 70s Eldorado. Preferably a convertible, still equipped with fender skirts. My dad almost bought a 1971 and a 1973 Eldorado. When I was a kid. They both seemed truly special. He got Electra Limiteds instead.
In retrospect I have asked myself the same question! My sibling might have been the favourite. As the Smothers Brothers said, “mom always liked you best.”
I don’t know. A neighborhood with a large variety of Challengers, and a local Popeyes, seems like a great place to live. The family and I drove 6 hours return once down to Maine for proper Yankee KFC. You guys don’t wanna know how vile the Canadian version is.
Everyone needs to go to the original KFC, but only once. It’s better than any other location. There’s some “great” flea markets in the immediate area that sell everything from guns to dogs to tanning beds.
Then you go to Claudia Sander’s Dinner House, which is what KFC was before The Colonel sold it.
I don’t have the hillbilly bonafides of Sherman, but my family lived in the Corbin area dating back to the late 1700s. My great grandparents were the first ones to get out of the holler when they moved to Detroit in the 50s.
I'm not getting the chicken sandwhich at popeyes. I'm getting a bucket. Althoug lately, i've been doing korean fried chicken over American. Stuff is phenomenal
Try the fried chicken from Jewel (local grocery for those not here). Seriously. The meal deal on Mondays(?) is pretty good, bucket of chicken, sides, pack of rolls for some small amount of $$.
Here in Florida the fried chicken from Publix is excellent (and not fried in peanut oil, which would be a problem for my wife). There’s one local Popeyes, and while their chicken is good the service is atrocious (really slow, and a 90% chance they made at least one mistake with your order).
It is being reported over on ADVRider that Jawa is making a comeback as a Czech made product.
While based on the Chinese Jedi twin, it's allegedly good fun. That's pretty cool. Jawa is a neat brand who used to make some crazy cool stuff.
https://www.advrider.com/got-cash-for-this-czech/
Cool news, but that bike is ooogly
Nice that they kept its signature headlamp enclosure design
The old Jawa was different from a Western (or Japanese) 350 twin because they didn't have the technology to do cool stuff, it had points ignition and a generator, drum brakes. It became great because the Jawa factory team won races with it, and it was a genuine, 100% domestic product the Czech(oslovakians) could be proud of.
Not sure what this new one is supposed to accomplish.
There's supposedly a new Jensen Interceptor coming too. Hopefully it goes better than the TVR Griffith revival.
Or the 2014 Interceptor revival.
Oh great another generic modern parallel twin *yawn*
At least they didn’t give it a one lunger like the new BSA Gold Star. That’s even more lamer.
I mean that bike being a single is logical enough based on the original gold star being a "thumper." I just have learned to loathe parallel twins, modern ones in particular. It's rooted in cost savings and meeting euro-weenie emission standards. The Kawasaki Z650RS being a parallel twin while trying to harken back to the giant-killer 70s KZ650 (classic air cooled I4) is a crime. Suzuki has a new neat looking GSX-8TT that oh so badly needs a proper I4 in it.... womp womp another snoozefest Ptwin.
Totally agree. Even with the cooler firing order to make them sound like Vs, they are super lame. I really wanted to buy something cooler than a ptwin which is why I wound up with a Guzzi. I tried for a long time to talk Honda into building a mid size shaft drive adv bike with the shadow 750 drivetrain, but nah.
Didn't Jawa advertise single-cylinder, rear-brake-only speedway bikes for low prices in the back of various magazines forty-five years ago??
Yes, but any nostalgia bike successfully launched in recent years has depended on race pedigree, styling of performance models not plain janes, and colorways that reflect all that- in addition to a performance that delivers better than the original.
Did you mean 10 of the 11 teams?
NO SIR, because I do not admit the existence of "Cadillac".
*spits on ground*
Woolerton!,
Why, because of its rebranding an existing car? Don't a lot of major brands farm out their F1 engineering too?
No sir. Because I believe that Cadillac doesn't need an F1 team. Cadillac needs to build Cadillacs. Good ones. The disappeared CT6 should be their smallest car. It should be their Seville. They should have a Phantom sized sedan and a Cullinan SUV that isn't so obviously a Tahoe with a maypop engine.
I take Cadillac ultra-seriously. I would have loved nothing more than to have been a consistent CvD/Fleetwood Coupe customer for the last twenty-five years.
The notoriously thin skinned executive would rather have a vanity project to walk around the f1 paddock than make cars that don't suck
They need a V16 car, a big sedan. An American Maybach.
Best I can do is a crashed Corvette and the celesdick
The 6000SUX.
Amen!
I don't have any ink but if I had to have a tattoo it would be Antoine de la Mothe, Sieur de Cadillac’s coat of arms.
But look how my devotion has been paid back since the eighties*.
I would make a sacrifice at Clark Avenue to the automotive gods, but they knocked it down.
*(Sure, there have been a couple of bright spots in the darkness).
Ah from that angle it makes total sense. I commented a few months ago that their website doesn't even tie in their F1 team to their performance sedans.
We had two Cadillac dealers in the Asheville area...with plenty of retirees around here (and maybe some 50ish age enthusiasts) to support them. When Cadillac made the decision to go full electric, they gave their dealers an ultimatum in 2023...equip for EVs or give up your franchise. Result...both shuttered...I have to go the Greenville SC an hour away to be serviced. Cadillac shot itself in the foot. I hope they can turn things around because IMHO they have the ability to make excellent products.
When Cadillac made the decision to go full electric, they gave their dealers an ultimatum in 2023...equip for EVs or give up your franchise. Result...both shuttered
Part of me thinks this was cadillacs plan to shrink their dealer network for much cheaper.
What is most funny is hearing GM make an attempt at throwing shade at Ford for their branding with Red Bull.
Like, isn't the Cadillac car just a marketing exercise with just the Andrettis operating things in the background for the motorsport operation? I could be wrong, but that's how I've always perceived it.
Is Cadillac F1 actually Cadillac F1, or is it Andretti with a corporate alliance that obviates the F1 paddock's hatred of Michael Andretti?
I don't pretend to know much about how the team is set up. They are clearly out of their depth and will be so for YEARS.
Feel free to roast me about this later if I'm wrong but: This Cadillac misadventure will cause everyone to re-evaluate Gene Haas.
Some commentators are saying that Gene Haas has been replaced by Toyota's GR management.
I would cheer the existence of more American excellence, alas, Cadillac is kicking the extinguished torch around in a ditch.
We’ll find out in a month if they’re a real team. When the green flag drops, the bs stops.
The boys at the tire store who spied my take off Mickey Thompson tires sneered at my idea they were done. I’m sure they’re on a truck or something now. I bet he had a spicy ride in the snow.
Tires are important.
Poor kid.
"Tires are important"
Fount this one out spinning around and facing the wrong way on the highway and they weren't as bad as these tires.
They are, and very few people GAS about them until something bad happens
The only phrase that gives me greater heebie-jeebies than “discount tires” is “discount brakes.”
"Used tires."
Back to the mud with thee, peasants.
Fair point.
I imagine in some places the businesses which sell them could also be one of those flags. But in Nashville the several I have seen are a reminder of pre-boom Nashville amidst significant newer growth.
Now that they are virtually all made in china, aren't *all* brakes discount brakes?
I mean for non-supercar, non-CCB, non-"my rotor hat is machined alu and totally separate from the iron surface of the brake disc" type of brakes where the disc itself is one-piece?
i mean you can find oem style brakes made by a real manufacturer for your car probably
Last time I filled in running my friend's auto shop, a manufacturer who people think makes good cars had taken to putting ill-fitting Chinesium rotors that require machining to fit the cars' hubs in their high-priced OEM boxes. I used to joke that the manufacturer distributed bogus dimensions to the aftermarket to protect their OEM parts business, since aftermarket rotors never fit their cars. Now, their OEM parts don't fit either and have the Made in China badges of quality.
...
You can't just drop this on us and expect us not to answer the mfg name.
Is it a brand that begs you to Bring More Wallet? or a german way of saying "Ouchie"?
The car industry is flying off the rails and here we are shitposting
I don't believe ANYONE is casting brake discs in the USA now. But there can be a wide variety in QC. I ran some early Hawk "performance rotors" in 2019 and they arrived with DIFFERENT PATTERNS STAMPED INTO THE BRAKING SURFACE.
A handful of OEMs still source US-cast rotors for lower-volume vehicles. Source: make those rotors.
100% of aftermarket rotors are from China and India and have been for years. Quality varies significantly.
what about the higher quality aftermarket companies like pfc?
i ran into a yellow 2010 camaro at the college once. it caught my eye becuase he was wearing mt rubber with snow on the ground. asked the driver if he was going to be alright getting home and he told me hed be fine and then left without making any errors
was pretty boss ngl
That’ll teach car control like nothing else.
Probably overheated the ABS module doing so, if said Mustang had ABS used for “Traction-Lok!”
A lesson so many young people learn by tragedy.
For me, it was a lesson learned twice. Once by driving a Mustang GT home in a blizzard on summer tires. Managed to only get stuck in the mouth of my parent’s driveway.
Some months later, that same Mustang on those same tires met its demise against a guard rail when I was going into work during a 40 degree rain.
I have never missed a car more. Only one I routinely think about. Love and loss and so on.
It's a lot easier remembering how important tires are now that paying for 4 of them doesn't ruin my quarterly finances.
YUP
I bought new wheels and tires on that Mustang with, if I recall, $1100 when I had a total of like $2k to me my name.
I was 20 though and had a loud and fast car, so it made perfect sense at the time.
At 20, you made the right call.
Wild to think of this.
In early 20-teens, a set of nice Continental ExtremeContactSports (Dry Wet NO snow) was like $700 I want to say. It was possible to ball on a budget.
These days... a lot less so
Put my 15’ Z/28 into an embankment and up on top of the guardrail a year and a half ago. Running the (a new set mind you) Trefeo Rs in 22* on a dry April morning wasn’t the brightest idea I had. Merging on to the highway from the on ramp, came in at 65-70 under power and lifted abruptly (track instructor told me 100 times to stop that I’ll lift off oversteer into the wall) and it just spun like I drove on to a ln ice skating rink. I refused the guaranteed pay out from Jack’s favorite insurance company and made them fix it. $58k and 9 months later it was as good as new, not really but close enough and now I’m not afraid to modify and send it on track.
58k to fix it? couldnt you buy a new one with that kind of money?
A high mileage one, yes. I could’ve walked away with $70k guaranteed replacement from Hagerty but mine had 7k miles on it at the time and there where only 327 made in white that year and 427 white 5th Gen Z/28 tota across both years. I hated the idea of it getting scrapped and losing a rare car. Air bags all blew because when I went up on the guardrail the car tilted at just enough of an angle it triggered the roll over sensor. So about $30k of that $58k was air bags, $8k for 4 new wheels and tires. Body damage was actually minimal if you can believe it. I was astounded when they wanted to totally it.
i think i get where youre coming from but man 30k for airbags is nuts
i had no idea you could drop that kind of coin on them even though theres a lot
props for saving the car though
Thanks. $30k was all in with labor too. All the airbags including side curtain ones went off. Legally (state of CT) the shop said they have to replace all the airbags and sensors. So it adds up quick! That’s why most cars today are totaled, not because of frame or structural issues, it’s airbags.
Please allow me this brief record scratch - replacing airbags costs 30k? Or replacing airbags, what they come out of, and the damage they do to the car, taken in toto, costs 30K? That is INSANE money
Finally, the bagel company does someone right!!!
I'd hate to lose any of those Z/28s.
A white Z28 is prime spec.
how I learned that wheel bearings will fail...
was driving home from the in-laws (about a 3-hour drive) in the wee hours when a rear bearing failed. I pulled over safely, and about 5 minutes later a motorist pulled up. You ok, need a ride to town, etc. (This was long before cell phones.) I took the ride. Thanked the guy and off he went. I found a pay phone, called a tow, returned to the car to find...
someone had smashed the rear quarter window and taken everything of value out of the car. pretty sure it was the same guy who'd given me the ride to town.
Expensive lesson learned.
That’s fucking shitty.
Perhaps the Muslims are right to punish thieves by cutting one of their hands off.
While I understand the appeal; I prefer the Judaic approach of restitution. https://torah.org/torah-portion/ravhirsch-5770-mishpatim/
I've often mused on this topic.
First, how do you trust the results of an indentured criminal who resents having been caught?
Second, what if the son of a bitch stole a million-dollar prototype or a priceless heirloom? How's he gonna pay THOSE back?
With the rest of his life. And you don't put him in charge of real shit until he's proved himself. The OT and other ancient history is full of examples of "slaves" that were extremely accomplished and in positions of considerable power.
I mean none of these systems are perfect, but I much prefer this one to locking men in boxes and letting them get masterclasses in criminology.
"“six” enslaves; “seven” sets free"
6 7 is in the fuckin torah i cannot escape this
Of course it was a Jewish plot to subvert our children
(I swear if ronnie takes this seriously...)
Hell the one year old Cooper Discovery AT3-4S (4s stands for four seasons, for the extra siping cut into the tread blocks supposedly) absolutely *SUCK* in the snow/slick on my Xterra. You absolutely *have* to be in 4WD to have a hope of not kicking the back end out, but with the part time nature of the system, with 4WD on, in tight turns slip is automatically induced due to the binding inherent to a setup without a center differential. I swapped on the fresh Blizzak DMV2s that came on a seperate set of OE alloys on last weekend (have just been too lazy to bother, I try to keep the Xterra out of the salt, but my minivan needed a window regulator replaced), but have yet to actually try them out.
Fascinating to me that in some jurisdictions, unless I am mistaken, a car fails inspection not just for emissions issues but also for bald tires, as measured by tire gauge.
In a Free America with a Free Citizenry thing going on, I would prefer no inspections barring emissions in cities, but with the population we are forced to tolerate, it's likely that any state with an inspections program should enforce usable tread and 5/6 years from date code / no dry rot. Easy way to save 1000 lives annually, honestly
a lot of the rules seem entirely superfluous if youre not a retard or evil
Enforcing 5/6 years from date code would probably diminish safety, because most people would then buy the cheapest Chinese garbage tires on the market. I started putting Generals on my retired parents' cars, because their Michelins and Continentals were aging out with most of their tread and General makes a number of very solid tires. People who don't know tires are going to go with Double Happiness Cometitionionos, starting at four for $99.
Quite possibly true.
To my point in a different thread;
every time you change some law in America, you also have to change at least one other law to avoid unintended consequences.
6 years from date code, plus: banning chinese tires, nationalizing one "net 0.5% profit" tire manufacturer offering decent tires in many sizes at cost plus whatever minimum percent... and for good measure let's refund people the money stolen from them by the fed and fiat-dollar-inflation theft. Then we'll all roll michelins. SOLVED
I'm sure those Michelin's will still begin loosing air via sidewalls cracks in 6 ~ 7 years .
This drives me crazy but the tires are so damn good......
-Nate
I put my very liberal neighbor’s address in and found out we only have a 62% rating. Some of it is because of some Section 8 within 3 miles (but crucially outside our school district) and some of it because we have 5 liquor stores, one being a Binnys which is like the Best Buy of liquors (hardly a slummy place) and one is my excellent vintage and European wine shop where I pick up my two obscure reds a month as part of my wine club membership there. I’m not going to hold that one against myself.
Five liquor stores is too much but one good one is useful.
I have 3 liquor stores within 3 miles and it used to be 4. One being binnys, one was malloys (smaller binnys), one a fancy wine place, and one is your typical arab owned piece of shit. To be fair to the current arabs, they have updated the store since they bought it from the last guy. My neighborhood is an 89.
We’re a 93 with one liquor store. Heaven.
The website says we have 7 so I must not be thinking of a few. If you go a block north it's a 93. One block north had 1 pawn shop. the 89 looks like it's from 1 section 8.
89 is pretty good considering!
Milwaukee is weird because it’s all purple with little green islands.
I guess this is more prevalent than one might otherwise expect.
Also, Baltimore was a LOL - it's not quite so bad as the website would have you believe, but it's also not good if you don't like package theft, vagrants, and a bit of the old youth-enjoyed Ultraviolence
My address has no data. Score!
Anyone over the age of 20 and NOT raised anywhere near the west coast knows how to profile. Whether they admit it or not. Just drive around the perspective area for a couple hours. If the cops start following you, that's a hint. Gunfire that may be or not be directed at you, hint. Folks hangin at any corner in the presence of a 55 gallon drum fire, a hint Flags on display of foriegn nations, especially African or South American. Confirmation. Live somewhere else. If further education is required the Cliffs Notes version is...... 24 hours in metro Detroit. Be in no doubt that everything you see or experience there will scream "RUN". If not then you're too naive to be of use to yourself or anyone else. Sala.
How much time do you spend in Detroit? Just last night I drove to the Post Office on W. Fort Street about a mile west of downtown, then to the Eastern Market to shoot photos of the RoboCop statue for an article I wrote, and then 7 miles up Mack to the Cadieaux Cafe for some music. It was about 10 PM and the route I took was through some of the worst parts of Detroit. Never saw a cop, nobody was hanging out by a 55 gallon drum fire, and no foreign flags (my route didn't go through Hamtramck, where women wear burkas), heard no gunfire. There were a couple of beggars on a couple of street corners.
I'm not going to minimize Detroit's problems but what you described isn't what I see when I'm in the city and I'm usually in the city a couple of times a week.
One sign you didn't mention that one does see in the D are street corner BBQs set up in abandoned gas stations.
Glad you made it. Sorry for the mischaracterization. Memphis beat you. But with the National Guard there now I'm sure you'll be back to the top soon.
Yeah, the D now doesn't match the stereotype image.
Don't forget : those pop up BBQ places tend to be *very* tasty =8-) .
-Nate
I walk my dog in Corktown. Cass corridor still blows. Homeless people were in my corporate apartments lobby and they shit on the floor (again). I wouldn’t coin it a fucking renaissance but I don’t need an AR15 to take photos inside of an old Fisher Body factory in Medbury Park. The 5 rich fucks are picking and choosing where the development is. It’s nice to see but I’d rather be home than living here (I am very biased and miss my house / yard / routine). Also the cocktail bar Kiesling used to be a residence I ran to when my friend and I were about to get robbed of our cameras. Absolutely insane to see the difference from 15 years ago.
Absolutely insane to see the change , it’s gotten better ? That’s great
First rule is stay off any roadway with MLK in the name.
only traverse down there if youre in an mrap with adequate air support
"Gun store, gun store, liquor store, gun store--'WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU TAKING ME!?'"
Truth brother, truth.
I drive down MLK and Rosa Parks Ave in Detroit daily with a loaded KR and a cute fluffy dog looking out the window. This take is outdated af.
Next time you’re in Chicago and feel like taking a drive on the South Side….current article as it mentions Trump thinking Chicago needs taking over.
“Carter, 44, has spent his whole life in the 6400 block of South Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. The block is home to the Parkway Gardens low-income apartment complex, commonly known as O Block, a name that has become synonymous with street violence in Chicago….
“But since 2010, more people have been shot there than any other block in the city. O Block was named for 20-year-old Odee Perry, a gang member gunned down just around the corner in the summer of 2011.”
https://edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dynamic_article_popover.aspx?artguid=fcdad5fc-d828-4935-a0ef-9564e4ea1edd&appcode=CSTUAT&eguid=1db01f0d-e469-41f7-a9f5-256840fc3873&pnum=2
Chicago / Detroit. Apples / Oranges. I mistook the MLK comment to Detroit.
And I took yours to mean all MLK in general. So we’re square. Ha.
There’s a video of cute white college grad girls using a PortaJohn on MLK in Anacostia in DC when an Anacostia resident knocks it over.
I have driven that road many a time and all I can say is I hve 0 understanding of how these women came to be on this part of this block of MLK.
It sounds like victim blame, I don’t mean it that way
The sad thing is that when I was a kid, going to downtown Detroit was no big deal.
It's not a big deal now, either Steve. There was a period in between where it was a big deal for sure, but I don't think twice about it these days.
That’s good to hear.
Demography is destiny.
Rick makes a good point .
I know an 82 year old black woman who left California for *much* cheaper Las Vegas ~ I cautioned her to drive any prospective neighborhood after 10 PM, she began calling me telling how many would see her and say "granny, you DO NOT belong here !" .
-Nate
So Crimson should have more responsibility despite being a professional delivery driver and not knowing what a tire is or how tread works.
Calling her a "professional delivery driver" is like nonironically calling a Subway employee a "sandwich artist".
Her employer should have trained her. Alternately, her employer should be screening for this knowledge. Instead, what we have is the worst of all worlds -- stuffing people who don't understand their job into dangerous equipment.
Is she delivering shit to get paid for it? Are we going to argue on what a dictionary is, let alone what is written in it?
Also you had parenting and she arguably had less or none. While we're getting things straight. It isn't privilege for you as much as it is nobody giving a shit about poor Crimson.
Your first point is based in logic.
Your second point fails the relativistic test. If I got "X" parenting and she got "X-50" parenting, then it is *equally* privilege for me as it is no one giving a shit about her. That's like saying, "She's not going 50mph slower than you... you're going 50mph faster than she is!"
I didn't know we're talking about some arbitrary tests.
If you have children is it considered too much to have to 'raise' them?
My actual point was that she was failed far more devastatingly by her own flesh and blood far before you can bitch about her employer... You're complaining about the zit and ignoring the 50 lb tumor in the body. Howz that for relativistic bullcrap?
"My actual point was that she was failed far more devastatingly by her own flesh and blood far before you can bitch about her employer... You're complaining about the zit and ignoring the 50 lb tumor in the body. Howz that for relativistic bullcrap?"
I was trying to make that point as well, by the way.
I didn't realize she was employed by her parents. Sorry.
My wife doesn't have to worry about tires because I take care of it for her. Before I was around, her dad took care of it for her. I will do the same for my daughters. What I won't be around to do is make sure her employer is giving her proper equipment. Do you check the RAM specs on your computer at work, the HHD usuable space, defrag it weekly (do people still do that), make sure the adobe software licenses are up to date. As an employee, you expect the tools your given to be properly cared for.
I promise you women from Well to do familes with fathers who care about them still aren't checking their oil, tire pressure, or tread depth.
You're talking about being conscientious or caring for someone else..which clearly this lady has been failed a decade before she ended up stuck in Jack's driveway.
You missed my point. I was saying people who should have cared for her literally left her to die. You doing that for your wife is the opposite of what she got.
I do care for my equipment at work. Just replaced a failed component in my work laptop last week, because I'm better faster and cheaper than the bureaucracy I'd have to deal with otherwise. My boss who isn't a moron prefers it too.
"As an employee, you expect the tools your given to be properly cared for."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Fathers who care will show them how!
It shocks me how many drivers are scared of putting air in tires. This is an ongoing issue with my mom and mother in law.
I would say she's a rookie delivery driver. She's just learning the job and yeah, they should be given better equipment and training. Cops should be pulling them over and ticketing the companies for their failures.
This is similar to the e-Verify situation: there is always magically a bipartisan consensus about not requiring it, or giving it any teeth.
I'm torn on E-verify. Look, the government couldn't even keep fingerprints and PII safe for those with government clearance. Why should we trust the government with something like E-verify?
Even E-verify isn't updated all that quickly and employers don't check E-verify on any basis where someone was legally allowed to work and then down the road the Visa or status expires.
For sure -- but all of this information is already in the aether and even the most timid steps towards national e-Verify would make a significant dent in the problem.
10/10.
100% support.
I'm *sure* needing government permission to work would only be used to curb illegal immigration. We need raids on employers; as noted before on ACF, Smithfield would do nicely.
10/10.
100% support.
My libertarian side is with you here, but it would be a step in the right direction, and let's be honest; the government already has all the personal data on citizens or qualified residents of this country that an effective E-Verify system would need.
Is it possible for an officer of the Law to pull over a motorist, and then say "no, you're ok, I'm ticketing your company, not you." Like is that possible? I have seen fix-it-tickets for tint, does this work like that?
If you’re driving a company vehicle and it’s not safe, the ticket doesn’t go to the driver. At least, that’s how it used to be. Maybe it’s changed?
I delivered paint (Residential and commercial paint store) for a living in an Econoline van early on and then in an F150. I had zero training. I once lost 50 gallons of paint (not my fault) all over a four lane divided highway and watched idiot drivers driving on it even though I coned and flared it off.
In Florida, driveways are put in last on new slab construction 25 years ago. I was 17 driving this Econoline van with questionable tires and 160 gallons of primer and paint onto this new construction site.
My original plan was to haul the paint from the street and set it in the garage, but the contractor urged me just to drive up to the house on what was essentially beach sand and weeds. I got there just fine, unloaded the paint from the van and when I left, tried to pull away and ended up with the van stuck all the way down to the rear axel.
Ended up diggyaround the tires and threw some wood and drywall into the holes by the wheels and rocked it out.
After this 2 hour long fiasco, the store still refused to put new tires on it.
Those must have been truly garbage tires. Those old Econolines could really get the job done.
TBH deep tread wouldn't help much in sand. What you would likely need to do is air down the tires.
Eh. There were two standard f150s sitting pretty close in the same sand. One actually helped nudge me out. They had tread on their tires. I almost had the same issue once in a late 90s F150 on wet Alabama clay. I.had good traction loaded down with 100 gallons of paint but once it was off the truck I got pretty close to getting stuck. The rear tires were down to 2/32. That manager replaced them after I told him the incident. I had more experience a this point in driving with paint in the back of a truck.
Yeah I guess if more weight on the rear axle helped, it wouldn't have been deep sand, as the point in deep sand is to reduce ground pressure, not increase it for more traction. I've taken a number of trips down to the Outer Banks in several different SUVs with different tire setups (my 4Runner on regular all seasons vs the same 4runner on fresh General Grabber AT2s) and it was pretty eye opening. "Best" setup hands down was the 4Runner on all pliable seasons, aired down.
I am glad you didn't berate her for getting stuck. You did the right thing, you showed her the condition of her delivery van tires and helped her out.
How to get her delivery van outfitted properly with working lights, windshield wipers, tires and brakes? That is a tough one since every business in the US loves to sub-contract.
Welcome back, Boom.
Surprised Memphis isn’t all purple!
if you hover over the state with your cursor a text box pops up that says "bro you already know"
Ha
Does it have a radioactive sign over much of Alabama?
My bride buys from an online grocery that is "carbon free" — but depending on I don't know what — uses various delivery services for their shipping: Fed Ex Ground (franchises that are independently owned), Laser Ship (individuals are contractors who deliver in their own vehicles) and a new entity called Veho (which describes themselves as "Last-Mile Delivery Logistics for E-commerce) but which I suspect is Uber for packages.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vehotechnologies.Driver&hl=en-US&pli=1
It's uber for packages
I cannot wait until employment law catches up and puts all these companies out of business. These employee/independent contractor debates gets resolved every ten years.
First, OH MY FUCKING GOD, I NEED THAT APP!!! I'm finally buying a house this year and need the straight answers the Fair Housing Act won't let realtors give me.
Second, the GNX worked in its menacing, malevolent way because it was angular and looked hewn from a solid block of black steel. Curves, like dogs and the Irish, need not apply. All the concepts and attempted revivals over the years failed because they were too curvaceous.
The GNX isn't a rapier, it's a war hammer.
It was the clouds of malaise parting.
its like a blue collar amg almost
The opposite way to do this is to triangulate businesses like European car dealers, Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, etc.
House buying always needs to start at the county level, if possible, because of taxation and for judicial reasons. Only then can you drill down to towns and neighborhoods.
Yeah, I was thinking even if The Enlightened shut this site down, I have the criteria I need to do a manual search. Always DID, I suppose, but never put two and two together.
This is a pretty good data location site. https://datausa.io/
Hey, thanks!
Meanwhile, back in Elyria OH, close to the Waffle House I’m guessing: https://x.com/Thefactsdude/status/2016555724684328961
Their Peace & Quiet score just went down!
Looks like winter will last another six weeks.
But not for him.
I had a tough time getting home the day that went down. I had to backtrack several miles to get on the freeway. The apartment complex where it ended is between where I work and where I live.
I lived there many years ago. It was decent then.
Now I suggest you don’t go there unarmed.
I hope that cop gets free donuts for a month at the very least .
-Nate
Circling back to Scott Adams, isn't this what he was essentially saying here and everyone lost their minds?
I bet no one on this blog lost their mind.
No, not here. Just speaking generally at how media/social Media treated Adam Scott on him basically saying something perceived as "racist".
That’s why I used my neighbor’s address in this tool and not mine. I guarantee you even looking at that web page is considered “racist” by the righteously indignant.
i gotta be on several lists by now
Ignorance is bliss, eh fellas?
Move to alberta before we annex it
I continue to wish you well in your journey and continue to advise simply speaking with the neighbors. That is the #1 step. You'll also be able to see if you're moving to a loserville filled with busybodies or some place with people who you might become friends with
One more thing:
The ultimate life hack is to live as close as possible to people you are friends or family with, or could be friends and family with. This more than anything else is why TPTB wanted real property deed covenants BANNED, america Hart-Cellered, and the Civil Rights Act passed -- too many strong families and strong neighborhoods creates power-rivalries for the nepo-pederasty clans at the top
Go and knock as many doors as you can if you're going to buy (and want to stay for a while). It will save you huge amounts of heartache and also make your life way way better
Imagine being on a block where you can do business with your neighbors! Amazing!
"Well, friends, I’m pleased to report that Buick kicked off Black History Month by doing exactly
that."
They changed their name to Pontiac?
Your average male Olympic figure skater has had more girlfriends than Lewis Hamilton. Heck, Sherman has. It's insulting they're using Kim Kardashian instead of paying some hot trashy art ho 10k a month to keep up appearances
Crimson shouldn't have to look at the tread tires on her car. You think your UPS drive is checking every morning? You think your local constable is? After overtime, those guys make 100k, crimson make 13 bucks an hour. You should absolutely bill that DSP for your time to get her out. With a very vivid description of the tire damage and the effort you put in that might come up in discovery when they finally do wreck a truck or two. You probably won't get any more amazon deliveries.
I'll say it again - Lewis Hamilton cultivates an appearance that makes him look like the main suspect in an Atlanta titty-bar shooting.
Yeah, as a gay man LH never pinged my gaydar because I've never known a black gay guy (much less one with money) who would commit such hairstyling atrocities.
well hes been trying for a hairline harder than a 5th wdc so its not that difficult to believe
Gay guys (at least ones as vain as Hamilton) attempt to cover receding hairlines with backwards baseball caps.
With that kind of money, you'd think he'd fix it.
Gasly fixed his last year, but I'm still not used to it.
He MIGHT just be an incel but he's certainly not getting laid.
I mean, he can't not be an obnoxious jerk at freaking press conferences and meet-and-greets, so imagine how he must be on dates!
The man is an F1 driver for Ferrari, he could accidentally trip and fall into hotter pussy than he's allegedly gotten
You can buy pussy, but you can't buy love.
And then he could actually touch the sides.
I always figured he was asexual, rather than gay.
His father beat him to within an inch of his life; that might have had something to do with it.
He couldn't find a swedish super model to hit him with a golf club?
I've read that Joss wasn't gentle with Max, at least in terms of words.
Lewis Hamilton?
Scott... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Now that you mention it, he's pinging mine so hard I have to call Putin and reassure him it's just a flock of geese.
Or a murderer of male Atlanta teenagers.
"and then verstappen came over the radio and said this was maga county and punted me off the track at cota"
-jussie smollemilton
"They changed their name to Pontiac?"
lmao
If your local pd is worth a shit, I hope he's doing a walk around at the beginning of his shift.
My shift partner or II do a check that includes fluids and tires on each vehicle on every fire/ambulance shift.
Are you the driver?
In general terms we alternate throughout the day.
This is slightly reassuring.
Less age gap than Shakira! They are dialing it in.
Although Kim K vs Shakira...
If i was a 41 year old f1 driver id date. 32 year old super model. Too young is kinda annoying. I would not date a 45 year old whore
"i'd date a bevy of 30-something-year-old supermodels, rotating them out every few weeks"
Fixed it for ya!
You say this but if you were you and could get a 25 yo? a 23 year old "old soul" who didnt have that annoying zoomeritis (god help the male zoomers)?
Folks say these things, Im not so sure
The 25 year old I dated when I was 30 age gap was slightly annoying then. I can't imagine how annoying it would be now. Now, if i was just in a "run through these hos" phase, sure. I'm out of the "Run through these hos" part of my life at least until the bitter divorce.
Having been there and done that, the 'old soul' 25 year old was indeed bouncy and energetic but I need someone to talk to not just dip my wick .
Most of the better partners I've had were all 40 + women with children ~ they knew *exactly* what they wanted, not afraid to ask for it or teach me if necessary and none expected me to take care of them .
-Nate
When I worked at UPS, albeit 30 years ago, they were meticulous about maintenance, and even washed the brown delivery trucks EVERY DAY (they had their own drive through car wash). Yes, they had to "walk the truck" each day before leaving. FedEx used to always have clean white trucks, but lately I've seen some piss poor dirty beaters tooling around from them, so they might be regressing to the mean on this sort of thing.
I have this idea for a Porsche car that I've been writing in car magazine's comment sections, instead of trying to compete with the BRZ, do a rear-engined naturally aspirated 2-door (or 4-door, the last Renault Twingo proved it's possible) entry-level, 4-cylinder car, price it to compete with the BMW 1-Series or Audi A3
Call it, of course, Porsche 356. Bingo, you have a winner.
We'll get an A3/S3 with a clock on the dash called the 968.
Modest proposal re "entry-level" Porsche: it would be cheaper and no doubt more lucrative to simply make Porsche a trim level on Audis. Might as well given the recent Teutonic )and non-master race luxo brand) trend of cheapening their performance-oriented sub-brands (S/RS, M, AMG etc.).
While they're at it, make Audi a trim level on VWs. And [Lambo/Bentley] a trim level on [2-door/4-door] Porsches, and Bugatti a trim level on Lambos/Bentleys.
I *do* think that the Macan should merely be a trim level on the Tiguan or whatever.
There is no fixing Porsche, just as there is no fixing General Motors
They both have bureaucracies and their heads up their own bottoms. Not one of their executives would know a good car if it drove past them.
General Motors problems start with their powertrains. They change them way too often. They have 6 different generations of the 3.6Litre V6. They develop the Ls1 and release in 1997. It runs until 2004 then the LS2 shows up from 2005-2007. Then the LS3 does duty from 2008 in the Corvette until 2015 in the Camaro. Then a complete change to direct injection and shutting off cylinder with Active Fuel Management. That lasts until 2019 when Dynamic Fuel Management comes on that can shut off all the cylinders. And I haven't talked about Quite Contrary Mary killing off cars and going full bore into 9,000 lb EV's that no one wants.
'Crimson' is not on the app's list of names. Go figure.
I suspect that her hair color matched her name, and WASN’T natural!
I realized real estate agents were just about useless when I asked one whether a neighborhood in which I was looking at a house was safe. "Safe" is code for a lot of things, I understand, but the realtor hemmed and hawed around too much while answering, which my mind seized upon and has not let go since.
Realtors can't answer questions like this, it turns out. It's not a question about whether a neighborhood has people of color in it, in my opinion -- it's about things I can't know or see. I'd be enthusiastic about questioning a realtor if they said anything about race, in fact. Whether an area is "good" or "bad" depends on many things. Realtors being unable to volunteer their opinion on the topic, when they are likely very aware of it just makes them, as I said, just about useless. (Yes, I do have an axe to grind about realtors.)
peaceandquiet.io is clearly what is needed. It's one bit of info on which to base a decision. Home buyers will do what they want anyway if the deal is right, but you might as well be informed about your decision.
That bullet-point list above is very astute, but one additional item to consider about an area is plasma donation sites. This has more to do with financial status than race, seems like, but certainly contributes to useful info about a neighborhood. Proximity to interstate highways, homes / apartment building ratio, etc. are all additional items.
https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/
gives detailed reports by neighborhood, but it is paid in a carfax model.
A good realtor is kinda like a good <s>accountant</s> lawyer. The guy who has been around 10 years is going to get a real answer and the legal answer, the guy with a one hour consult is going to get the legal answer.
Well if you're going to be so picky you might as well include official safe Injection sites. Sheesh.
I have asked Perplexity AI “what side is the good side of town” for places I was visiting on vacation last year and it gave me answers with the reasoning behind them and with the links to crime map and stats websites.
This week I asked ChatGPT to list all the years since 600 when there were Muslims involved in conflicts in Europe and it about shit itself. Like 2,000 words later I still didn’t have an answer.
Gotta try the inverse of that question. Will be a short answer I'll wager.
Had a realtor once tell me “don’t live there it’s too Jewish.” Didn’t begrudge her that commission.
While I love the added safety, I think the Halo device ruins the lines of the cars.
That Envista ad is the worst abuse of a legacy halo car since the Mach-E.
The social implications of that website are fascinating. As for race relations, bring back the death penalty for most felonies, and enforce it, rigidly.
I think Porsche would be one of the first makers to drop EVs completely, if they could. But they are a German company, and the nation is still throwing itself over whatever cliffs they can find. I also think they have zero interest in anything below $75k, so the very neat 951 idea is simply DOA.
Regarding the safety issue, the best idea I can come up with is informing the relevant authorities about the tires and other possible deferred maintenance that can be spotted. Not just the .gov; I would think whoever is insuring this DSP would be fascinated by shots of those tires and the story behind them.
Do you realize how many crimes are felonies? No one is executing millions of people a year for minor drug possession or shoplifting an IPhone.
but if they did wed have a lot less of both
Martha Stewart would be rolling in her grave right now.
Reckless drivers present a bigger threat to public safety, let's execute them too. Stalinist mindset.
great point
we can meet in the middle and only execute the ones with 30 or greater felonies
I still think that people with neck, head and face tattoos should have to register with the local PD.
I know it’s a pre-crime thing, but the mugshots don’t lie.
But then you get all the people that stole a wallet snd used the credit cards on a shopping spree. Bit of a conundrum.
if someone stole a wallet and credit cards 30 times im not gonna complain if they get put in front of a firing squad
Youre the defense attorney right? Everyone should get a second chance. Heck, maybe a third, possibley a fourth. After that? Well…
We'd have less drug possession and Iphone thefts! Or maybe we could be realistic about what are actually felonies again. I'm convinced the bar gets lowered and lowered to limit gun ownership. My friend is a felon because he sold some molly in college. Lifelong felon for a drug plenty of us have done. He was an idiot but maybe some of this shit should sunset after not doing anything wrong for 20 years.
I'd go for bringing back corporal punishment rather than incarceration for some crimes. Locked up in the stocks or a flogging might do wonders
Singapore is apparently the safest City-State on the planet.
Singapore is delightful, and it's entirely due to the people and culture because climactically it is literal hell on earth.
Is it diverse or all ha chinese law and order?
Depends on how you parse the constitutional language, but it's only disallowed if it is BOTH cruel AND unusual.
Seriously, one way around that might be to give the convicted criminal a choice, "It's either a year in prison or we beat you with this cane for 10 minutes, and then waterboard you so you don't forget."
My moron friend is in a never ending loop of fines he can't afford because he drove without car insurance he couldn't afford, then couldn't afford the fees and got arrested again because he didn't pay them to start the cycle all over again. They should've just beat his ass one time. He isn't a real criminal, he's just an idiot.
There are so many felons that the Marxists running Virginia into the ground are prioritizing restoring their voting rights. If they didn't have voters with a proven track record of making bad decisions, then they wouldn't have any American citizens voting for them at all.
The website works precisely because we are collectively tired of the social implications for stating the obvious.
And this website does not need to be viewed through a racial lens. The crime in my county is mostly from dumb white rednecks.
It turns out that all we had to do as country to lower the murder rate 20% in one year was to deport a small fraction of the illegals here. Very thin coverage on this story because the obvious reason for the drop can’t be said out loud due to the usual TDS and cognitive dissonance.
As always, the dog that’s not barking is ALWAYS where the real news is.
"And this website does not need to be viewed through a racial lens. The crime in my county is mostly from dumb white rednecks." That is a far point.
The racist part of it is the names list. Ava, Alicia, and Maya aren't even "black-coded" names in my opinion. Neither is Marcus for that matter. Jack even pointed out Tamara is usually a class-associated name more than race-associated. Besides all that, if that site didn't collect or use first names I'd agree more with it being a useful tool instead of a racist one. For the record, I did look up my zip to see how poorly it reflects my neighborhood, but the map isn't working and all I get is a blank black screen, even on cell data. It says there's 3 popeye's around but there's actually just one and I wish it was reliable. There's a Chic fil A across the intersection to balance things out, too. We also have a Lucid office nearby, Bell Tire's HQ, and an Eaton facility. They should make an inverse of this site for "Things White People Like" to pull a quote from Cards Against Humanity. It'd only be fair I think.
I agree with you 100% on the names. That is a dog whistle and it’s unnecessary and dumb. I don’t think that name list is accurate, either, as I entered different counties across states with very different economic levels that I am directly familiar with and the same names keep showing up, which is just not believable.
The other filters of businesses or government programs apply to my county which is predominantly white. But their presence doesn’t necessarily indicate a bad neighborhood over here, as even our public housing, which are really nice well maintained duplexes is not unsafe at all. I walk by them almost everyday.
I can give you a list or white trash names you don't want to live next to.
Take any normal white person name and spell it like an asshole. There's a rich person way to do this too.
There used to be a website stuffwhitepeoplelike.com
Things like: Mountain climbing, swimming, turnball and assar shirts
Change that to 'death penalty for third *violent* felony and enforce it rigidly' it would probably do the job.
Call it the “intolerance” rule. Even almost all criminals deemed insane by the courts know enough to run away from the scene of their crimes, proving their sanity and knowledge of right and wrong.
The crime stats on repeat offenders are horrific. My methodology to clean up a crime ridden blue city would be as follows.
Announce that you are going to hire 1000 additional policemen and that you intend to jail 10,000 criminals and especially repeat offenders.
Then, if the crime rate doesn’t drop appreciably, you are going to hire another 1000 policemen and jail another 10,000 criminals.
And so on and so on.
I guarantee with 100% certainty that this would eliminate almost all crime, even in the worst city.
All crime is solvable if the will is there.
You don't even need to try that hard. The number of people who commit substantially all the violent crimes is tiny and basically without exception already known to the cops.
I was often sent to navigate the treacherous Highway 69 (no sniggering in the back) to Sudbury in winter. It was a five-hour drive north from home, I was usually piloting a 74 (green) or 77 (red) Austin Marina. My father had a fleet of orphan makes. I do not remember ever having snow tires or even new tires.
In their UK home, the Marina had a poor reputation for handling. I had many a white-knuckle drive and few near-death experiences. I will save those stories for another time.
Two personal preferences came from those advance on Moscow like journeys.
1. Always run snow tires in winter.
2. 71-78 E-body Eldorados and Toronados are the best winter cars. One particularly bad snowstorm, where most drivers were below 30 mph, I saw a rooster tail of snow fast approaching in the rear-view mirror. A driver in a blue 76 Eldorado passed by at 60 plus, not a care in the world, plowing the road in front of him.
The only negative about those E-Bodies is that they are just about as biodegradable as any other GM car of the 70s. Especially in areas with liberal road salt usage.
Btw, I still hanker for an early 70s Eldorado. Preferably a convertible, still equipped with fender skirts. My dad almost bought a 1971 and a 1973 Eldorado. When I was a kid. They both seemed truly special. He got Electra Limiteds instead.
I ran a 78 Toronado XS for five winters but kept it mostly solid with twice yearly oil spray applications. Not pretty but a handsome car.
Just hope to Almighty God that the rear window never needs replacement!
Unfortunately, I no longer have the XS. But I did save a rear window from one that was headed to the crusher.
The 71 Eldorado is a personal design favourite. The 73 especially in convertible form is solidly sexy.
Here’s a great interview with Chief Designer Wayne Kady. He also appears on other videos on this site. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vC9PjGoawFc
I’m a big fan of his!
The Eldo/Toro/Riv videos are the best!
Adam Wade’s channel?
Talk about a car person’s Rolodex that he must have!
He has quite a desirable car collection.
Absolutely!
Would be neat to have an ACF meetup sometime to see some of his collection. 👍
how on earth did you survive this long
half sounds like your dad wanted to kill you
In retrospect I have asked myself the same question! My sibling might have been the favourite. As the Smothers Brothers said, “mom always liked you best.”
I dont care what anyone says, we all have a favorite child. My poor middle sister.
I'd wager that it usually leans towards the oldest child.
Pretty much yes .
-Nate
She said sniggering on a blog about buicks!
I don’t know. A neighborhood with a large variety of Challengers, and a local Popeyes, seems like a great place to live. The family and I drove 6 hours return once down to Maine for proper Yankee KFC. You guys don’t wanna know how vile the Canadian version is.
i had a double down sandwich some years ago and after eating it my chest burned like i was being punished for a sin
You were. Gluttony
shit youre right
good thing i never went back
Those were good but not that good to justify it
Everyone needs to go to the original KFC, but only once. It’s better than any other location. There’s some “great” flea markets in the immediate area that sell everything from guns to dogs to tanning beds.
Then you go to Claudia Sander’s Dinner House, which is what KFC was before The Colonel sold it.
I don’t have the hillbilly bonafides of Sherman, but my family lived in the Corbin area dating back to the late 1700s. My great grandparents were the first ones to get out of the holler when they moved to Detroit in the 50s.
One day your father will own 14 boats and you too can be a hillbilly
Real KFC exists in Japan, of all places...
There's something funny about the fact that my 300C 6.4 doesn't trip the bell, too.
Well, I just went to a KFC, twice, and a Popeyes in the past 3 weeks. I wonder if people like me also get flagged for doing that.
Not when your name is charles. Popeyes is excellent. Kfc is passable. But you need to go just out of town to get it
I’ll take Chick Fil A loving crafted by attractive white teenagers over a Popeyes sandwich indifferently thrown at me by a minority 10x/10.
I'm not getting the chicken sandwhich at popeyes. I'm getting a bucket. Althoug lately, i've been doing korean fried chicken over American. Stuff is phenomenal
Try the fried chicken from Jewel (local grocery for those not here). Seriously. The meal deal on Mondays(?) is pretty good, bucket of chicken, sides, pack of rolls for some small amount of $$.
Yeah, we get that a decent amount during tax season. Jewel is on my way home. We'D been doing korean fried chicken for Bears games. This place is good
https://www.cmchickenschaumburg.com/
so is this one
https://bbqchicken.com/
Here in Florida the fried chicken from Publix is excellent (and not fried in peanut oil, which would be a problem for my wife). There’s one local Popeyes, and while their chicken is good the service is atrocious (really slow, and a 90% chance they made at least one mistake with your order).
Popeyes service is terrible everywhere. I don't think I've ever been to a popeyes anywhere where the service wasn't awful.