Yes. I checked Defender and it’s not a local policy.
I’m sure there’s a way to whitelist, but I can’t really go to the guy responsible and say “Hey I need you to whitelist this underwater basket weaving forum so I can talk with others about how you live in a failed country and how stupid you were to outsource this function to India.”
I just saw a great Dilbert cartoon where he asks the IT Dept. for a new “kybard” because his is broken, and IT replies that they don’t know what a “kybard” is.
On vodka tonic #3. So, '86 Corniche, '86 Corniche and '86 Corniche. Love those! If you can't picture David Niven driving one unironically, don't buy it.
I have been fantasy shopping old Corniches for my fantasy American road trip for about five years. Alas, neither is getting any closer… but for me it has to be the old one.
The Franc is at $1.26 today, making the average retail of the Hamilton Aija was asking about over $2500.
I think he's saying that this seems high. The prices being in Francs makes them seem even more out of whack, but maybe my value-meter is just calibrated in 2000-era dollars.
I don’t “get” the Cartier watch. I think it’s ugly.
If I had the money, I think I’d buy one of the giant IWC Portugueser (?) perpetual calendar watches with the double moonphase display. I can’t think of the official name or model.
As far as NASCAR goes, your analysis seems spot-on to me. And funny.
All I would suggest is to cut the number of races by 40%, and lose the stages in the races.
I’ve got a Baume-Mercier tank watch that looks like a way nicer version of a Cartier tank watch. It was my 25th anniversary watch from where I worked. It’s just a classic dress watch. I have narrow wrists so it fits me much better than a giant chronograph. I don’t like the exposed screws on that Cartier watch, but I don’t hate it.
I have a Baume-Mercier that has sentimental value in the priceless category to me. They make beautiful time pieces. Happy you enjoy yours, I’m sure it’s a lovely timepiece.
Yes Camargue, not enough cars named after French swamps. I love the early ones. Smitten by a black over ox blood interior model. A UK attempt at an Eldorado or Mark IV, this is sincere flattery on my part.
With an area of over 930 km2 (360 sq mi), the Camargue is one of western Europe's largest river deltas.[8] It is a vast plain comprising large brine lagoons or étangs, cut off from the sea by sandbars and encircled by reed-covered marshes. These are in turn surrounded by a large cultivated area.
D'où viens-tu Johnny ? ("Where Are You from, Johnny?") is a 1963 French film starring Johnny Halliday and is set in the Camargue region. Paris scenes are in black and white and the Camargue shoot in colour.
I would also take the 2001 Corniche because I’ve always liked the Bentley Azure. In fact, I had to look up the Corniche because I thought the photo was that of an Azure. AI is telling me that that Corniche is the first Rolls to be derived from a Bentley platform instead of vice-versa. I do not know if that’s true.
AI can be great for looking up car stuff. I always ask it to compare two cars, say, their dimensions and engine specs, then put it in a spreadsheet. I find it to be a great tool as a search engine.
When I first moved to Charlotte, I rented a house to avoid buying in the wrong area. The house I rented was in a neighborhood attached to public golf course, so I figured how bad could it be? Well long story short, 3/4s of the neighborhood was either Gang banger Moms raising grand kids or stash houses. I had multiple neighbors with dead W12 Continentals in the driveway.
One night I came home rather late and my next door neighbors were cramming a late model E class as deep into their garage as it would go. For the rest of the time I lived there it never moved, and you couldn't tell it was there because they had it covered in storage boxes.
Despite all that everyone was nice in that neighborhood, as long as you kept quite and avoided matching colors other than red.
Real estate sites really need a "not in the hood" filter.
I found out realtors aren't allowed to give you a straight answer about how "real" a neighborhood is. It's actually illegal under the Fair Housing Act - it's called "steering," as in "steering you away from the bad part of town."
You gotta go SEAL and case a house you wanna buy in the middle of the night to find out what the area's really like.
I've been looking to buy a house but in the city I'm in, "okay" and "hood" depend on what street you're on. Which means the whole place is hood.
An ex's father had a nice early Silver Shadow with chrome bumpers. He lived in Farmville, Virginia. When the brakes failed, the nearest expert was in Maryland. The car wound up sitting in the driveway looking pretty until it was dissolved by central-Virginia humidity.
If the Rolls is for Bryce, recall that I told him 6 months ago to buy an Azure (or similar) and move to Charleston to find a wife. I stand by that statement so 01 it is.
My wife of of 62 years, not her age, is from West Virginia. I'm still happy!!
Coincidentally, I also bought a dog there. No, I didn't "buy" my wife. Chloe was a beagle. She also made me happy (but not for 62 years).
Long before cell phones my dad, using a local line, mentioned the poor quality of the reception to a local shop keeper. The response was, "It's wash day and all those hillwomen hang their laundry on the lines."
"NASCAR has relentlessly attempted to chisel its own partners out of money while also running the quality of the sporting product directly into the ground at Talladega-esque speeds. This is unlikely to change"
the france family was the best and worst thing to happen to the sport. very odd that this news came as i was halfway through watching days of thunder
"It’s a spec series using silhouettes that vaguely look like all the cars no college educated person has bought in at least twenty years"
nascar stock cars are in the unenviable position of being too new for the old fans (efi and irs and 18in centrelock wheels) and too old for the new guys (pushrod v8s and rwd) so nobody really loves them
"The teams are so desperate for cash they can’t even consider the idea of having a distinguishable livery"
which is horrible when you think of all the iconic liveries over the years (and there have been a LOT)
"The drivers are also indistinguishable from each other and there are far, far too many of them"
how could they differentiate? i thought all the good drivers went elsewhere and the current crop were groomed from birth to be an inoffensive brand shiller
"Which would you pick?"
the 86 corniche hands down. i know its mechanically worse than the other two but to this lower class guy it looks so indifferent to things like fuel economy and aerodynamics that i cant help but like it for that. its also very british which is nice
"I think I’ll have a Lange someday, but I couldn’t tell you how I’ll manage it."
very slick way to suggest to your son that he can get you one as a 75th birthday gift
The one NASCAR thing I loved was their 24 hours of LeMans appearance a couple of years ago. Every other car on track sounded like a souped-up vacuum cleaner, and then that Camaro thundered by. It was awesome, and I don't even like Camaros. Too bad about the series itself.
OT: amateur footage of the 2026 Racing Bull shakedown at Imola.
https://youtu.be/DGwkpp5SMwQ?si=gZqbJv2klaJL6_mA
I LIKE IT!
Are those test specific tires or the new intermediates?
Planet F1 implies that they arre demo/film day specific tires.
https://www.planetf1.com/news/first-images-racing-bulls-2026-car-team-conducts-imola-test
Their new driver spun it into the gravel at Villeneuve during a demo run.
Attorneys, or people with UniCourt accounts: Can anyone pull down the most recent court document in Dachner v. Landers et Al linked here: https://unicourt.com/case/ca-riv2-casebb4146236207ef-203468
It really, really does.
It’s gotten better, but it still sucks.
I miss using it on desktop, but Microsoft has ACF on the naughty list.
Still? I've done everything but agree to visit Bill Gates at Epstein Island.
Yes. I checked Defender and it’s not a local policy.
I’m sure there’s a way to whitelist, but I can’t really go to the guy responsible and say “Hey I need you to whitelist this underwater basket weaving forum so I can talk with others about how you live in a failed country and how stupid you were to outsource this function to India.”
I just saw a great Dilbert cartoon where he asks the IT Dept. for a new “kybard” because his is broken, and IT replies that they don’t know what a “kybard” is.
Can’t say I blame them. You can only put up with so much.
Give me their phone number and I'll do it!
As if all ACFers didn't already know, you are a really funny guy!!!
I deleted the app. PC master race baby.
I've already picked mine:
https://www.alange-soehne.com/us-en/timepieces/lange-1/lange-1-time-zone/lange-1-time-zone-in-750-white-gold-136-029
Price upon request?
I requested, when i visited their NYC boutique and tried it on. About fifty-two grand.
Did you make the whole thing green?? I can’t see the forest for the trees!!
Are you viewing on an iPhone? I had the same thing and had to start again to get it legible.
Wow that was weird. I thought Jack did it to accent the green watch.
It’s not the first time; I have had to switch to the computer a few times lately.
How do I know if I made it into the first batch of hardcovers? I put my order in on 1/11.
You're in. Everyone who is in batch 2 has been specifically told they're in batch 2.
Can’t wait!
On vodka tonic #3. So, '86 Corniche, '86 Corniche and '86 Corniche. Love those! If you can't picture David Niven driving one unironically, don't buy it.
Smithers, another lime rickey!
I have been fantasy shopping old Corniches for my fantasy American road trip for about five years. Alas, neither is getting any closer… but for me it has to be the old one.
It’s a really really long flat bed ride away from a Rolls mechanic anywhere in America.
This right here, because Auto Zone stocks parts, right?…
No. But that's why you buy more than one!
How is Hamilton showing an average retail level of 1,998?
Most of those retail prices look off.
They're list price in Swiss francs, not transactions
The Franc is at $1.26 today, making the average retail of the Hamilton Aija was asking about over $2500.
I think he's saying that this seems high. The prices being in Francs makes them seem even more out of whack, but maybe my value-meter is just calibrated in 2000-era dollars.
I don’t “get” the Cartier watch. I think it’s ugly.
If I had the money, I think I’d buy one of the giant IWC Portugueser (?) perpetual calendar watches with the double moonphase display. I can’t think of the official name or model.
As far as NASCAR goes, your analysis seems spot-on to me. And funny.
All I would suggest is to cut the number of races by 40%, and lose the stages in the races.
I’ve got a Baume-Mercier tank watch that looks like a way nicer version of a Cartier tank watch. It was my 25th anniversary watch from where I worked. It’s just a classic dress watch. I have narrow wrists so it fits me much better than a giant chronograph. I don’t like the exposed screws on that Cartier watch, but I don’t hate it.
I have a Baume-Mercier that has sentimental value in the priceless category to me. They make beautiful time pieces. Happy you enjoy yours, I’m sure it’s a lovely timepiece.
That’s the best, a watch with sentimental value. Fantastic!
You buried the lede. 25 years with one employer? Impressive!
No imagination on my part!
It kind of worked for me, but I would not advise.
Get a Camargue.
NASCAR might as well get sponsored by Brawndo.
F Dachner.
Yes Camargue, not enough cars named after French swamps. I love the early ones. Smitten by a black over ox blood interior model. A UK attempt at an Eldorado or Mark IV, this is sincere flattery on my part.
Nice! I'd get mine in Larkspur blue over blue or champagne. Early wheels, blackwalls, lhd.
There's a swamp in France???
With an area of over 930 km2 (360 sq mi), the Camargue is one of western Europe's largest river deltas.[8] It is a vast plain comprising large brine lagoons or étangs, cut off from the sea by sandbars and encircled by reed-covered marshes. These are in turn surrounded by a large cultivated area.
Thankyou. Once again my ignorance is noted and corrected.
D'où viens-tu Johnny ? ("Where Are You from, Johnny?") is a 1963 French film starring Johnny Halliday and is set in the Camargue region. Paris scenes are in black and white and the Camargue shoot in colour.
Trailer here: https://youtu.be/58AadkAR57k?si=hgynSCW8n5tIqQZ2
Got it and thanks. You are most erudite.
That part of France is quite nice (excluding Marseille of course).
I would also take the 2001 Corniche because I’ve always liked the Bentley Azure. In fact, I had to look up the Corniche because I thought the photo was that of an Azure. AI is telling me that that Corniche is the first Rolls to be derived from a Bentley platform instead of vice-versa. I do not know if that’s true.
Wikipedia agrees with your AI: based on the pre-BMW Azure. I think I'd rather have the Azure. Bond drove a Bentley in the books.
AI can be great for looking up car stuff. I always ask it to compare two cars, say, their dimensions and engine specs, then put it in a spreadsheet. I find it to be a great tool as a search engine.
It's definitely not ready to turn us all into human batteries plugged into a Matrix yet, but I like it as a research assistant.
I was writing software on an at91 atmel processor with a freeBSD OS about 15 years ago. Ended up switching to eCoS which is all but dead too.
86 Roller all day, simply because you could work on it yourself.
pro: you can work on it yourself
con: you will work on it yourself
Touché
In my case, it would be the first Corniche up on cement blocks in a front yard in North Carolina.
Oh, I would not bet on that.
Yeah, just drive through Charlotte.
I go to Charlotte to visit family, and cannot wait to leave after being there an hour.
You know, the Google AI will give you a legit tactical analysis if you enter, "a honey badger vs. the realest motherfuckers in Charlotte."
When I first moved to Charlotte, I rented a house to avoid buying in the wrong area. The house I rented was in a neighborhood attached to public golf course, so I figured how bad could it be? Well long story short, 3/4s of the neighborhood was either Gang banger Moms raising grand kids or stash houses. I had multiple neighbors with dead W12 Continentals in the driveway.
One night I came home rather late and my next door neighbors were cramming a late model E class as deep into their garage as it would go. For the rest of the time I lived there it never moved, and you couldn't tell it was there because they had it covered in storage boxes.
Despite all that everyone was nice in that neighborhood, as long as you kept quite and avoided matching colors other than red.
Real estate sites really need a "not in the hood" filter.
I found out realtors aren't allowed to give you a straight answer about how "real" a neighborhood is. It's actually illegal under the Fair Housing Act - it's called "steering," as in "steering you away from the bad part of town."
You gotta go SEAL and case a house you wanna buy in the middle of the night to find out what the area's really like.
I've been looking to buy a house but in the city I'm in, "okay" and "hood" depend on what street you're on. Which means the whole place is hood.
Probably North America!!!
It has a vintage feel to it, feature, not bug…
The braking system is a car-killing nightmare.
Daily routine of checking underneath for mineral oil puddles
An ex's father had a nice early Silver Shadow with chrome bumpers. He lived in Farmville, Virginia. When the brakes failed, the nearest expert was in Maryland. The car wound up sitting in the driveway looking pretty until it was dissolved by central-Virginia humidity.
Tragic.
Of course,
“There, but for the grace of AAA, go I”
If the Rolls is for Bryce, recall that I told him 6 months ago to buy an Azure (or similar) and move to Charleston to find a wife. I stand by that statement so 01 it is.
Charleston WV or SC?
SC for sure. The mountains of WV are beautiful, but that’s not where I’d go for women.
My wife of of 62 years, not her age, is from West Virginia. I'm still happy!!
Coincidentally, I also bought a dog there. No, I didn't "buy" my wife. Chloe was a beagle. She also made me happy (but not for 62 years).
Long before cell phones my dad, using a local line, mentioned the poor quality of the reception to a local shop keeper. The response was, "It's wash day and all those hillwomen hang their laundry on the lines."
"a Euro Jeep"
a real g wagen then?
"NASCAR has relentlessly attempted to chisel its own partners out of money while also running the quality of the sporting product directly into the ground at Talladega-esque speeds. This is unlikely to change"
the france family was the best and worst thing to happen to the sport. very odd that this news came as i was halfway through watching days of thunder
"It’s a spec series using silhouettes that vaguely look like all the cars no college educated person has bought in at least twenty years"
nascar stock cars are in the unenviable position of being too new for the old fans (efi and irs and 18in centrelock wheels) and too old for the new guys (pushrod v8s and rwd) so nobody really loves them
"The teams are so desperate for cash they can’t even consider the idea of having a distinguishable livery"
which is horrible when you think of all the iconic liveries over the years (and there have been a LOT)
"The drivers are also indistinguishable from each other and there are far, far too many of them"
how could they differentiate? i thought all the good drivers went elsewhere and the current crop were groomed from birth to be an inoffensive brand shiller
"Which would you pick?"
the 86 corniche hands down. i know its mechanically worse than the other two but to this lower class guy it looks so indifferent to things like fuel economy and aerodynamics that i cant help but like it for that. its also very british which is nice
"I think I’ll have a Lange someday, but I couldn’t tell you how I’ll manage it."
very slick way to suggest to your son that he can get you one as a 75th birthday gift
"euro Jeep" - wait and see, dude, wait and see!
Hopefully its not some foo-foo French thing.
The one NASCAR thing I loved was their 24 hours of LeMans appearance a couple of years ago. Every other car on track sounded like a souped-up vacuum cleaner, and then that Camaro thundered by. It was awesome, and I don't even like Camaros. Too bad about the series itself.
yeah it was pretty awesome
wish they had kept it basically as stock as it raced in nascar instead of modifying it for the race (aside from the lights and whatnot)
I think the closest we'll get to that is iRaching or Gran Turismo.
"....this lower class guy..." Do you mean one of the billions who couldn't nor wouldn't pay $341,000 for a wrist watch?