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Bateshorn

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  1. There was play early in the game where Chris Jones had a free run at Burrow (who was trapped with the ball) after beating the guard and just bear hugged him for like 2 seconds until the ref blew the whistle. Even 10 years ago he would have blown him up.
  2. I don’t love what happened to Ossai, and honestly, it was a bang bang play and it wasn’t an unreasonable call, but as a Saints fan, watching ya’ll realize the NFL may not be on the up and up:
  3. This. The Su-25 is no slouch in the ground support department and they’ve been rendered practically useless above a hard ceiling of about 100 feet.
  4. Lol, the Swiss must have finished stealing and hiding whatever Russian assets got trapped and are now ready to move forward.
  5. I can't believe I'm saying this.....but take it to CR. Or maybe the football board. Both are equally full of sewage.
  6. Spending that kind of money on a depreciating asset doesn’t float or fuck is beyond me.
  7. All I know is I hate people parking next to me and will park in the most remote corner of any lot so it doesn’t happen…..and yet that’s the one day you fatasses decide you need some exercise and park your Canyonero next to me.
  8. The Paris Effect. Go to Paris, eat rich, high caloric food. Drink tons of delicious cheap wine. Come home 3-5 lb lighter because you were walking between 4-8 miles a day.
  9. This. The Arabian Gulf states are unique in not at least wearing a fig leaf (Dynastic Kingdoms gonna Kingdom). Although MBS is in the process of turning Saudi Arabia from a Dynastic Kingdom into just a straight strongman autocracy.
  10. I’ve spent years telling people you have to separate the art from the artist, but holy shit this is putting that to the test. Fucking gross.
  11. Yeah, Jim Banks is running for Senate in Indiana, is a hard core GOP member, and I'm sure will be quick to note the opportunities available in Lima from a potential Tank deal.
  12. Sadly, most of us us live in urban areas.
  13. If it's a mostly weapons purchasing package, meaning defense manufacturers are putting people to work, as opposed to cash transfusions or pulling stuff out of storage, you may be able to talk enough GOP members in the house into supporting something with the Dems that McCarthy will put it on the floor.
  14. It's incredibly un-nerving. You are turning and the car just....doesn't turn. It plows forward even though the front wheels are literally pointing to the right or left. The solution is to loosen/lighten your grip on the wheel, let it spin back towards center and straighten the tires, re-establish grip, then re engage your turn.
  15. I don't think anyone is questioning your ownership of a truck. It's the guy that's never put anything in the back of the thing other than a suit case that is the target.
  16. At the Porsche driving experience, they have two completely different skid pads to simulate over and understeer. I mastered the oversteer pretty quickly: my Mom's car that I learned to drive on was an 80s caprice that would lose the rear everytime you braked in wet weather so I was pretty used to it. The Understeer was harder to understand and master, even though all my cars are FWD. The instructor said it's because it's harder to put a passenger car into understeer under normal driving conditions. You have to really push the car to edge of it's performance envelope to make it happen. It's part of the reason it's standard on almost all cars: better grip and normal driving handling characteristics.
  17. I just see FREEDOM!!!
  18. A As a manlet, every time I see one of you lumbering giants try to fold yourself into a tight space, I have to fight the urge to say "How's that being tall working out for you now?"
  19. Almost all AWD these days, except maybe Subaru, is FWD until the system detects slippage, then it transfer power. If you've ever had a AWD and the car seems to slip for a half a beat, grab and straighten out, you've felt the differential transfering torque in real time.
  20. More importantly: We need to require a special license to drive one, along with Mustangs and Camaros. Almost no American's learn to drive RWD cars these days. They handle very differently under load than a FWD car. You take your foot off the gas under hard acceleration, particularily on shitty/cold tires, and the back end will break lose. Most of us, parents, and grand parents learned to drive on a rear wheel drive. Millenials and younger did not.
  21. I guess Biden is going all in, cost wise. It'll be interesting to see if we are sending our Abrams or transferring them via a third party nation. It makes a difference from a Pentagon book keeping perspective.
  22. Yeah, the curb weight on that 240 was approximately 3000 pounds, giver or take the same as my 2012 VW Gti.
  23. I realize you and I are having a different conversation than the rest of the “Muh FREEDOMS!” going n here. But look at this 1990 Volvo 240 DL for sale: https://www.smartmotorguide.com/L49458048 That was likely one of, if not the safest car available at the time. It’s a death trap compared to modern vehicles, but that’s mostly due to braking/traction control, occupant safety improvements. All that stuff is heavy and necessitates using Aluminum instead of steel to offset the weight. Look at how thin the A/B/C pillars are. Look at all that trunk room! That car probably has the same structural rigidity (if not more without crumple zones) than a modern car. And that’s because it’s primarily steel. Modern trucks are growing because it’s impossible to keep them safe and modern for the occupants given Newton’s laws, without using enormous amounts of Aluminum. And that has very profound effects on the world those trucks interact with. Especially pedestrians.
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