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Your Mom

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  1. Only one way to find out.
  2. The whole damn Visma squad just went down on a slick roundabout. Looks like everyone’s back up and ok but that was pretty crazy
  3. I lived next door to that place for a few years. It was a good barometer for figuring out which neighbors I might want to hang out with and which ones not to waste my time with.
  4. Pretty damn fast for a caucasian.
  5. I don't think mice have ribs that big.
  6. That exactly why you use more flaps for a short/soft field takeoff.
  7. Vernon Broughton and Jaylan Ford both got turnovers today in the Saints game. Broughton recovered a fumble deep in the red zone and Jaylan Ford picked off a pass.
  8. They should put him on a cross and if he zombies himself back 3 days later it would be a good first impression for the jury.
  9. You and I must be the only ones with teenage sons. I got that reference.
  10. I feel like he'd be a little more relatable if he'd take that engine cover off and back on just one or two more times.
  11. Funny you say that. I moved away from that area before high school but I would’ve gone to Lanier. When I was in the 4th grade, they pulled a lot of us out of our mostly white elementary school off Anderson Lane and bussed us over to East Austin because they didn’t have enough white kids over there I guess. We lived a few blocks from Anderson and Burnet. My recollection is it was a mostly white neighborhood. I think Lanier also pulled kids from up near the Rundberg area, which is probably where her assumption comes from.
  12. Lanier wasn’t quite as ghetto then as that area is now but it wasn’t nice by any means. Definitely not even close to being out in the boonies. Shit kicker was just something that was in style back then. Muscle cars and cowboy hats. The shop location was the second one from the north corner of that building. The nail salon/beauty bar look right.
  13. Cleveland to Columbus isn’t a bad drive if anyone is looking for other flight options. That’s how I did it in ‘05
  14. I took this as a Landcruiser joke with a typo at first. FJ40 all day.
  15. Saratoga/Skyline has been recommend but I haven't hit it yet. Camp Tamarancho in Fairfax has been my favorite so far. 10 mile loop, 1000ish' of climbing (every damn trail out here has 1000' minimum). Good mix of forest switchbacks, some chunk, some hilltop views, and a fun flow trail on the way back down. Mountain Bike Hall of Fame is also there but was closed the day I rode it. Need to go back. Here's Flow and Braille in the Soquel Demonstration Forest near Santa Cruz from a couple days ago. Flow is incredible. 3 and half miles down. I had to take breaks. Lots of holes in the berms but I don't rail them hard enough for it to matter too much. Braille would have been a lot more fun for me on a second or third run and on more bike than I have out there. But it's 1000' climb to get back to the top so it was one and done for me that day. I also took the B-line around about half the features on Braille. I was nearly 2 hours in and already cooked. Didn't have the energy to stop and scout everything. If it didn't look clean at first glance I skipped it. Some day I will learn exactly how much further upward I need to be pointing the camera on the chest mount. It's always looking way lower than I think it is.
  16. For the last year or so I’ve been spending a couple days a week in the Bay Area for work. I wish I had thought of it earlier, but I finally brought a bike out there in July to explore. Most weeks I can fit in 2 rides. For the birthplace of mountain biking there is a surprisingly low number of purpose-built bike trails in the area. Lots of hiking trails, most of which don’t allow bikes. The ones that do are often loose gravel, sharp turns, no berms, etc.. A lot of what I find on YT, Reddit, MTBR, etc. turns out to be fire roads. Marin County in particular is in the middle of a years-long court battle against hiking groups for trail access. But I’ve checked out trail systems from Santa Cruz to Marin, Mt Diablo, Livermore and found a few gems. Still a few more spots to check out before I zero in on the ones I like and stick to them. This week the bike was squealing like a stuck pig. I thought it was just due for a shock service but then found a crack in the rear triangle where the seat stays connect to each other. The local shop says Trek will warranty it but they haven’t asked if I’m the original owner, and I’m not. We’ll see. I didn’t bring out the GoPro until this past week so I only have footage from one ride. Video to follow once I get it uploaded. In the meantime, here are some shots of my bike leaning against stuff. Most of these are in the hills above Oakland and on the Coastal Trail in the Marin Headlands
  17. I’d choose 2026 so I can see something new. I’m not a big fan of watching movies over and over. There is probably no movie I’ve seen more than 5 times and probably less than a dozen that I’ve seen twice. I’ll catch Project Hail Mary and whatever else comes out next year while you guys reminisce.
  18. I was ordering extra crunchies in the 80's on the regular. They were absolutely awesome and disgusting. They were the reason I loved LJS as an 8 year old and also the reason I haven't been to one in over 25 years now. You couldn't pry them out of my greasy hands back then and you couldn't pay me enough to eat them today.
  19. That happened in my LX470. You can find the actuators on eBay. I did the driver side and it wasn't too bad. You have to take the interior panel off and to get to it. But the passenger side was going out too and I haven't gotten around to that one yet. It works sporadically most of the year but with the summer heat it almost never locks the passenger door. The big problem is that the alarm logic thinks the car is locked but the passenger door will open right up, which of course triggers the alarm. It's been like that for about 3 years now and my solution is to just leave the car unlocked all the time. It's my kids car now and he's got nothing but crap in it anyway.
  20. The Seiko SPB143 is just above that price range. It can be found for around $900 sometimes. Another Submariner clone, but I like it. It's a throwback to their 1965 dive watch. I dig the satin sheen dial.
  21. The post you quoted never said anything about Bill Clinton not being a complete piece of shit. He was commenting about the reaction of the right back then vs their reaction today. You then proceeded to argue about a completely different aspect of all that. He didn't diminish the abuse of power, he questioned to reaction to it. Your goalposts aren't even in the stadium anymore.
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