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  1. 3 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

    Yeah, I'm pro EV, we've even talked about getting one as our next car.  But it sure won't be the vehicle I take fishing and hunting.  I go enough places where gas stations are few and far between, I'm not going to run out of battery somewhere in the sticks.  That's just a basic limitation on EVs -- they're plenty useful in urban environments, not so much in the sticks.

    That should be pretty readily fixable so long as there's any sort of electric utility line nearby. Even the loneliest stretches of highway often have a power line alongside. Just a matter of hanging chargers off the poles.

     

    Get your kids into being electricians.

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  2. On 2/18/2024 at 7:09 AM, slorch said:

    Well 'Slorch'd' just means you dared reply to the cabal with a dissenting opinion, while the cabal insists it does not exist within its own self-anointed objectivity.  Hell, here lately, it just means you might have replied at all in their playground, even with a post that most of them agree with.  Abortion thread, I'm looking at you.  I call out an idiot politician for being wildly inconsistent and most of the posters get it.  The illiterate one just saw my name and did their usual seizure though.

    don't sell yourself short, you're more than capable of slorching up non-political threads. 

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  3. 19 hours ago, longhornmatt said:

    "Kids today are so soft!  Not like in my day 20+ years ago when we listened to metal music like ... Linkin Park and other emo bands."

    in my defense, i won the tickets off of KLBJ and it was a stadium rock tour with the deftones, linkin park, limp bizkit (whose music also sucks but whose show kicked ass), and metallica.

  4. 1 hour ago, ChickenSandwich said:

    Besides F1, has another car/driver won 20 straight races in any professional series?

    Google is no help. 
     

    Watching old F1 videos on dominating cars/teams and no one came close, consecutive or not. 
     

    Really hope we don’t get a repeat of last season. 

    nailed it on the first guess:
     

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    In the 2002 outdoor championship, Carmichael won an unprecedented 24 of 24 motos to take his third consecutive 250 outdoor title.

    In 2004, Carmichael was injured for the Supercross season, he had a knee injury (torn ligaments/meniscus) but came back for the Motocross season to record his second perfect season; winning 24 of the 24 motos he raced and all 12 overalls on his Honda CRF 450; his first effort on a 4-stroke bike.

     

     

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  5. linkin park was the worst show i've ever seen live.  pretty sure their CD was playing on the engineer's stand and they just stood up on the stage and did fuck all.

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  6. 9 hours ago, Surly Bevo said:

    The paper plate is just a function of long ago twin baby (with an older sister) induced laziness we never snapped out of.  When you are washing all the bottles, changing diapers, giving baths to two at once and not getting good night's sleep ain't nobody got time for dishes with breakfast.  Paper plates it was. They are 17 now and the older one is 20 and off at Texas.... we probably should snap out of it.  

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  7. 5 hours ago, BeardIP said:

    I find it interesting that India gets a pass from our collective (ethnocentrism/American) mindshare to their duplicity and cut-throatedness. In this case it's buying Russia's oil (and thus funding Putin directly to kill Ukrainians) while everyone else is trying to figure out how to make sacrifices to help Ukraine. It's a spit in the face to the West, really.

    I don't know if it's because American Indians are so successful and increasingly powerful (title/status/wealth) or if it's because of old insidious racist stereotypes (docile as a Hindu cow, model minority, etc.) but they have grown exponentially in power and strength pretty much unabated. 

    It's an understanding that India's primary foreign policy concern is keeping China somewhat in check and that doesn't happen if Dehli abandons Moscow entirely. India is abandoning Russian arms.

    https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-pivots-away-russian-arms-will-retain-strong-ties-2024-01-28/

     

    And keep in mind we also don't want Russia to become (even more of) a mining colony for China

  8. 7 hour layover is plenty of time to take the train into Amsterdam central, hit a cheese shop, get fries at manequin piss, and maybe even have some space cake. Alternatively you could make a quick run through van Gogh museum or rijksmuseum. 

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  9. i love when people who definitely don't read CR know exactly what goes on in there.

     

     

    and most on this board say it's gone to shit recently because it's no longer a conservative circle jerk like it was on shaggy.

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  10. On 2/14/2024 at 2:43 PM, Guadaloopy said:

    When the fuck did people stop enunciating the letter "T" in their speech.

    I want to go Loudermilk on these people about a half dozen times a day. 

    Motherfucker, it's pronounced "but-ton", not "buh-un".

    Rage GIF

    most americans don't pronounce a T between vowels.  we use a tap or a flap. which is basically a D.  and yes, she spends a lot of time talking about D and pronouncing 'daddy'.

     

      

    On 2/15/2024 at 8:20 AM, PvilleStang said:

    One of the anchors on Fox7 does this crap and drives me bonkers.  Along with "I axed them..."

    (speaking of the english language) you got a problem with chaucer?

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    On 2/15/2024 at 9:24 AM, conVINCEd said:

    Anything in the house that unnecessarily makes noise.  The parents have a grandfather clock and a cuckoo clock that compete with each other for your attention every hour.  They have a landline phone that robotically announces the name of the caller when the phone rings in an annoying robotic voice.  This is making me surly today because I was at their house yesterday to install their Ring doorbell so they can have something else to make noise, and we had a perfect symphony of Westminster chimes, cuckoos, WIRELESS CALLER, and the ring doorbell while I was making sure it worked.

    parents have a grandfather clock, wall clock, and table top clock, and each does the westminster chimes, and they aren't particularly synchronized.  watching movies late at night is a chore.  have to pause for two or three minutes and just wait it out.

     

     

    On 2/12/2024 at 9:44 AM, Macanudo said:

    Trucks shouldn't be allowed in the left lane at all.  2 lane, 3 lane, 4 lane.   Enough of that shit.   I spent a considerable amount of time on I-10 Saturday between El Paso and Houston driving behind semis in the left lane doing 65-70 in a 80 MPH zone.  

    nominating macanudo for president and dictator for life.

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  11. The way I’m reading this is that McCaul has a lot of contempt for the Putin wing

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    The GOP chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee was bullish Friday on the chamber delivering U.S. military assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, despite the “brainwashing” of some within his caucus who oppose foreign spending because of the crisis at the southern border.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4473343-mccaul-johnson-ukraine-aid-floor-vote/

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