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calm's avatar

Thx for linking to Craighead’s book. Thought it was permanently blocked from publication by the UK Ministry of Defence. Glad it’s finally coming out. Thank you for the heads up!

Jack Baruth's avatar

I'm not sure it will be available in the UK; I sure hope it is.

calm's avatar

The UK is actively persecuting the SAS and SBS and their feeder units the paras and Royal marine commandos. Literally their best men, the gold standard for the world’s special operations forces. I don’t think the UK wants these men around to stop the muslim takeover

Steve Ward's avatar

western civilization is doomed

Speed's avatar

we can pull out of the tailspin but a shitload of people gotta die for it to work

calm's avatar

Great thing is they deserve to die. See UK Rape Gang Inquiry Report for more details.

-Nate's avatar

If she actually said that I expect no one to take her seriously, that's silly .

-Nate

Gianni's avatar

You have not met my niece that went to Berkeley and was repeatedly told she was the smartest person in the room.

Todd Zuercher's avatar

More to read on Wes - when I’m not on the company clock. Golden. I’m still breathlessly waiting on your story about my Baja horseback riding companion that you told us you would share a few weeks ago…..

Drksd4848's avatar

Jeeze Jack. You wasted a lot of text on that guy. I didn’t even know who he was until you wrote about him. I mean, I guess it’s good because now I know he’s a giant boob. That’s the upside, the downside is now I know who he is. I even looked him up and unfortunately now I can’t un-see him. Are you sure it was right to waste an entire sub-stack on this clown nose? Just saying that this, in someways, gives him the thing that he craves whether or not it’s good or bad: attention.

(truth be told, I didn’t read this entire article. I just couldn’t get past the stupidity part.)

Rick T.'s avatar

We supply the bread. Jack provides the circus. That’s the way this works.

Ataraxis's avatar

And then you pick the circus acts you want to watch.

Chuck S's avatar

not my circus, not my monkey. I'm just the head clown

G Jetson's avatar

This is a valid criticism. We all only have so much time each day to tilt against windmills. How to pick the best ones? So many dipshits, so little time.

I don't like the guy railing against Subarus, and I don't really like Subarus. I could hate em both, but I don't care enough to bother with any of it.

-Nate's avatar

No one forced anyone else to read this nor think about Subarus .

-Nate

G Jetson's avatar

I was waiting for someone to call me out. Glad it was you. Yes, I did care. ;-)

-Nate's avatar

Caring is never a bad thing no matter how much it scares the alt-righties .

In fact it's up there with it always being a good idea to buy a Motocycle .

-Nate

(who likely will never again buy a Motocycle)

Gianni's avatar

Here’s a video of Wes interacting with a bear on a kayak trip.

https://youtu.be/4_RAq5ybC68?is=jZNsQQ-oE2vUxENn

Scott A's avatar

Odds of this being gay porn? 50/50

S2kChris's avatar

Fingers crossed!

Speed's avatar

in either case its not about the hunting

Harry's avatar

Do you need assistance??

sgeffe's avatar

That just pissed the bear off!

If it’s not AI, not their best Kodiak moment! 📸

Flashman's avatar

“Kodiak moment”. 👍

Nick H's avatar

What would he think about taking an Aero Panther to Moab?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHvXi_HejnI

Gianni's avatar

Hayseed Dixie!

MD Streeter's avatar

"You don’t need to read it; I’ll cover the Top Five Stupidities below."

Thank you for that. For a brief moment I was as afraid of having to click on that as Wes is of Subie tow hooks.

I live in the Subaru capital of Michigan. You know what I haven't seen? Massive piles of dead Subie drivers killed by mistaking their tow points for recovery points on their Outbacks, Crosstreks, Foresters, and Ascents. Instead, they pull out in front of you and drive 5 under the speed limit, making you wish the piles of dead Subie drivers was a reality.

Has he ever driven a Subaru in snow? My 93 Impreza was great in it, even on cheap-ass Walmart all-seasons. My 04 Outback was even better.

Gianni's avatar

It’s funny how Subaru has two group of customers that are totally opposite of each other. The liberal, crunchy boomers with the Coexist stickers and the vaping, flat brimmers with Rally Armor mudflaps.

Henry C.'s avatar

And zero of them are anywhere near as attractive as the blonde in that AI video.

The old folks love, love, love their fridge white and ice blue Foresters, for the hip angle I suppose.

Ataraxis's avatar

A neighbor took his new Crosstrek, the butch one with the EXTRA lift and plastic cladding, to the boat ramp to launch his small fishing boat, but forgot to put his car in Park.

He learned that the extra lift made no difference, and that Subarus don’t float. It was totaled.

Ataraxis's avatar

Funny part is he is a car guy with a Plum Crazy purple Challenger. He just brain cramped like we all do.

sgeffe's avatar

Wyatt, THAT’ll hit you right in the feelz!

g-k's avatar
Jun 29Edited

I remember watching someone total a brand-new bright-yellow 2006 Ford F-250 Super Duty launching a boat that same way, when I was a kid. It was an eye-opening experience.

Gianni's avatar

I love the B but they kinda wiffed the joke using legacy wagons instead of aForester given Subaru’s WRC heritage. My son and I competed in a Rallycross last month in his free 1996 legacy wagon. There were quite a few old Subaru’s being beaten on and quite a few guys with beards (no not those) and flat brimmed hats.

sgeffe's avatar

So the lesbian stereotype Subie owner thing is on the wane?

JasonS's avatar

I'm actually looking at a new outback. If I buy one I'm neither of those things.

James Burns's avatar

Research their reliability

JasonS's avatar

The real issue is I want the smallest non luxury SUV with decent engine that's not a barge. Our CX5 is just a tad too small but I don't want a Highlander. Outback or Sorento might be the right size

New User Name's avatar

If you want to get away from the turbo four pots, honda passport? They keep fixing their weaknesses and they'll get you to the trailhead well.

Chuck S's avatar

are you sure you are talking about Subaru? I ask because you did not mention is most fervently loyal customers: lesbians.

Ataraxis's avatar

I liked his line “But, Subaru provides its owners no safe way to get its vehicles unstuck….”

This would logically mean that there would be Subarus in roadside ditches across the USA because, of course, no tow truck driver would be willing to tow them, since it’s unsafe.

I’m really tired of stupid people with opinions.

Chuck S's avatar

then you probably ought to stop spending time online. stupid people with opinions are the fuel that keeps the internet going.

Ataraxis's avatar

Agreed. I am not online much these days. ACF is the exception.

-Nate's avatar

I'm well pleased you make an exception for me here guys =8-) .

-Nate

S2kChris's avatar

I also hate Subarus, but it’s mostly related to how terrible and intrusive their driver nannies are and how incessantly they beep at you when you’re driving. Wes probably loves it.

anatoly arutunoff's avatar

svx drivers were never like that!

Chuck S's avatar

that was a weird car even by the standards of Subaru. I kinda love them, though I know nothing about them

Jeff Zahorowski's avatar

I remember and admire the SVX! I never got a chance to drive one, but I'm glad we live in a world where they existed.

Ataraxis's avatar

Wes is into safetyism.

Speed's avatar

his safe word is osha compliant

Harry's avatar

I just let my wife know that is my new safeword. Way better than Aristophanes.

Chuck S's avatar

I've learned that "mephistopheles" is not a good choice either...

SBO-very online guy's avatar

whats that honey? all i heard was mmmfmf mmm mfff mfmfmftt youre going to have to annunciate

Chuck S's avatar

I genuinely laughed at this

-Nate's avatar

I'm going to remember and use "OSHA COMPLIANT" .

-Nate

Tom from WNY's avatar

OSHA is not strict enough...

Hex168's avatar

I think you can get OSHA-compliant black leather boots.

sgeffe's avatar

I just wonder how the EyeSight camera-based adaptive cruise control works versus a system that primarily uses millimeter-wave radar that is augmented by a camera.

My guess is that if you’re driving east or west during the morning or evening commutes during specific times of the year, you’re not going to have it, or any of the other ADAS stuff, because the camera is going to be blown out by the sun!

Hmm..Seattle is our biggest market in the U.S…it’s cloudy there 330 days out of the year..we can save money by a visual-only ADAS setup! 💁‍♂️

Henry C.'s avatar

What those tow hooks will do is screw up the bumper of anyone unfortunate to be next to one of those idiots when they parallel park by feel.

Edit: He was making a Dick Cheney joke, right?

Jeff Zekas's avatar

Laughing my ass off, Jack, you are a national treasure

Scott A's avatar

It's like a real life reddit post

Charlie's avatar

Everyone clapped.

Louis Nevell's avatar

Jack, you are, it is easy to determine, a very bright guy and incisive observer. Don't you have better things to do then spend at least some time composing a piece on someone who appears to be relatively harmless and as far as this unassuming male is concerned, relatively unknown as well?

Henry C.'s avatar

You must be new here.

Louis Nevell's avatar

Au contraire, amigo, au contraire!!

S2kChris's avatar

I quite literally pay him to do this. So no.

Andrew White's avatar

ayyyyy lmao, as we used to say.

Rick T.'s avatar

Insert Flame emoji here.

KoR's avatar

Yeah Jack v Auto Journalists is always fun.

Louis Nevell's avatar

No, you don't, amigo, you pay for the privilege of reading what he writes.

Scott A's avatar

Id say i pay 60% for the comment section 40% for what jack writes. No diss on jack, id probably still pay but the comments make it an easy choice

Jack Baruth's avatar

GOD BLESS US ALL, EVERY (COMMENTING) ONE

Drunkonunleaded's avatar

ACF: Come for the writing, stay for the comments.

Scott A's avatar

Definitely here for the wireing

SBO-very online guy's avatar

*incredibly loud incorrect buzzer*

Jack Baruth's avatar

"as far as this unassuming male is concerned, relatively unknown as well?"

This speaks well of you, but Siler is far better known than I am. He was briefly a candidate for Montana State Senate!

Scott A's avatar

Every time you write an article about this dweeb, I click his Instagram account, wonder if his man jawed wife is actually a man and how the hell do 24k people follow him.

Slowtege's avatar

It's post-2020, and many of those "are they a...?" cats are out of the bag, so this is a fair question, and one I had as well, but after while, I'm tired of trying to figure out if their wife is really their handler or not. I hope it's at least a good relationship--plenty out there that aren't.

Scott A's avatar

In our last Wes Siler sighting he was talking about taking damaged trans kids into the desert otherwise I probably never would have thought about it

John Van Stry's avatar

Chinese bots are cheap. It's an old trick and a lot of losers do it so they look like they're important.

Scott A's avatar

I kinda figured. He is exactly the type to buy followers

Rick T.'s avatar

Always fair to punch upward.

Louis Nevell's avatar

OK, I get it but my wife's cousin was the Mayor of Santa Monica, CA which makes her (the cousin, not my wife) probably as well know, maybe even better known, than someone who was briefly a candidate for the Montana State Senate. Besides, does this person write for the Washington Examiner as you do, a publication I would deem significantly greater in import than Outside Magazine? No, not a word. What I am saying here, amigo, is that it would seem you would have bigger fish to fry.

Jack Baruth's avatar

Perhaps, but there's no harm in occasionally coal-raking folks like this. You would be surprised how effective their grift can be -- I had to personally intervene twice to keep my former employer from making Casey Putsch a multi millionaire.

sgeffe's avatar

Good God Almighty!

Frank's avatar

That was the question that came to my mind: if that one was the one who tried to become Senator, or if that was another Count Cuckola (think Bierhallenputsch).

Also Wes Zoolander venturing to recover Peterman from the mall, only to have to be bailed out by Mommy (Elaine) would make for a cracking episode.

Jack Baruth's avatar

So... I looked this up. He DROPPED OUT of the Senate race rather than file a financial disclosure.

So much for "I'LL FIGHT FOR MONTANA ON THE BEACHES"

Jack Baruth's avatar

He realized that Jon Alain Guzik would publicly clown him for the next 20 years for being a complete jobless pimple on his wife's ass.

Frank's avatar

Wow, that shit show keeps getting worse the longer you watch. They're all “frenemies” of Fat Brad?

Chuck S's avatar

wait, what? seriously?

Acd's avatar

This is one of the things Jack does best, read it and enjoy.

Scott A's avatar

If wes wants the beatings to stop, he can subscribe to the trackday club.

SBO-very online guy's avatar

no. viscously and publicly beating noteworthy offenders with a proverbial crowbar is absolutely necessary to teach people manners. it had already blown up on teh interwebz so he wasnt magnifying some obscure hot take.

Jeff H's avatar

Replace "Subaru" with "Republican" and "Wes Siler" with "mainstream media" and you have the same hysterical narrative-shaping agenda that, unfortunately, captures millions and millions of people. Ironically I suspect many own Subarus.

Ronnie Schreiber's avatar

"He is the outdoors equivalent of that kid from Indianapolis who moves to Brooklyn at the age of 27 and two years later is griping about gentrification in Bed-Stuy."

The DSA commies getting nominated in NY state are not NY natives, and neither are their voters.

EDIT: I'm a native Detroiter and I probably have stronger ties to NYC than most of those folks. My father was from Brooklyn (though he was apparently born in a Manhattan hospital) and we travelled to NY frequently to see his cousins as well as a cousin on my mother's side. My older sister has lived in NYC since she was married and my younger sister lived in suburban New Jersey for years. My mother would joke that my dad would come home from work and say, "Pauline, get the kids ready, we're going to New York." It's been rare that I haven't been in NYC in any 12 month period in my life. The opening of Interstate 80 was an occasion of great celebration in my home as it took a few hours off of driving through Canada. The downside was that we didn't get to see Niagara Falls as often. How many of Mamdani's voters can say they've been to Cooperstown?

Gianni's avatar

Much like Seattle’s commie mayor.

Christo's avatar

A forty something married woman, who is still getting support checks from her parents on the regular.

Forget all of her commie rants; how could any sane voter look at that and think to themselves "there's someone I want to have in charge of the public fisc of the tenth largest city in the USA!"

Gianni's avatar

Back in the 80’s when Charlie Royer was mayor, Seattle was held up as a model of good municipal governance. Charlie must be rolling in his grave.

Scott A's avatar

A dorky guy who doesn't work and is obsessed with ALPHA MALES. Sounds familiar.

Speed's avatar

wait a sec

someone draw a parallel between monster trucks subarus and the legal definition of an off road vehicles

Jay's avatar

lmao. Best read of the month.

Gene's avatar
Jun 25Edited

But honestly after Dick Cheney who among us is man enough to stand firm when a Vice President, or potential Vice President, is nearby and hot for gamebirds. That rooster knew what was up and his access to media must be severely limited.

Jack Baruth's avatar

I would agree with you except for one important thing: I'm not sure Wes knows who Dick Cheney is. That's ancient history, like 4WD Subaru XT Turbos!

Henry C.'s avatar

And everyone knows Canadian Policewomen are the ones to really avoid.

Speed's avatar

why was a rabbi walking out of a pornhub office anyway

regardless the moral of the story is women dont make good cops

Ataraxis's avatar

They have also invaded hockey as announcers and their combination of squeaky high pitched voices and then trying to impersonate Marv Albert is the worst thing to happen in hockey.

redlineblue's avatar

Listening to my mom* spit spears about ‘these stupid women nosing around when I'm trying to watch a game’ is one of the best things about modern sports television. I’d even watch the World Cup, if I lived closer to her commentary on it.

*Surely the greatest hockey fan Jamaica’s yet produced

Ataraxis's avatar

After the recent Stanley Cup on ice celebration by Carolina, the chick on the ice was asking paragraph-long questions to ecstatic guys who just wanted to celebrate. It was just ridiculous.

I’m not a fan of Bill Burr, but he has a bit where a guy could build a 10,000 square foot house for his wife and give himself a 200 square foot man cave, and the wife will still show up in the small man cave and say “Whatcha doing?”

Steve Ward's avatar

Bring back Don Cherry

Ataraxis's avatar

Unfortunately he had health problems.

The networks don’t want characters anymore, they want robots.

The worst is the trivia announcers. The broadcast stats team is always feeding announcers useless statistics, and the dumb announcers just repeat them instead of calling or analyzing the game.

Stupid shit like “The Oilers are favored to win when they score the 2nd and 4th goals of the game” or “When it’s below zero in Toronto, the visiting team scores more goals.”

The trivia announcers are everywhere, and they’re horrible.

Jeff Winks's avatar

Subaru’s high point was the SVX

CJinSD's avatar

Among the SVX's flaws was a propensity for catastrophic automatic transmission failure. That's the one that sent most of them to the junk yard. Ironically, the only thing Subaru did well after the OHV engines were cancelled was make planetary automatic transmissions. The exception being the one in the SVX.

Chuck S's avatar

is it possible to rip out the engine and trans and drop in an LS? I mean, isn't that the answer to everything?

Speed's avatar

or just put in a subaru 6 speed and call it a day

jmcq747's avatar

Agreed! My father drove all sorts of Subarus for over twenty five years, probably late seventies to end of nineties or thereabouts. They were hugely popular in Switzerland! In the end, he had four (!!) SVXs (one after another of course, as his company cars - they were exchanged after the lease was up). All Subarus were excellent on reliability.

Gianni's avatar

The 22B would like a word.

Speed's avatar

or any of the hotted up s201 and onwards cars