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  1. Just now, conVINCEd said:

    Your hand rests on the shifter if your first car had a manual transmission.

    Incorrect.  My 71 VW barely had a transmission, never mind anything automatic. I spent a month only parking on "hills" because I was too lazy to go buy a new battery.

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  2. 18 minutes ago, nnm said:

    I know the gearshift on my F150 only activates switches. It does not need to be in the middle of the console or shaped like it is. But the driving experience is enhanced by the physical acts of shifting it to drive, reverse, park, etc., and the feeling of resting your hand on it while driving.  I also like that it folds down if I need the space. 

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    My wife’s car has a stupid series of buttons on the dash. I hate that setup. I’m continually hitting the wrong button. And no gearshift knob to rest my hand on. 
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    I get the ergonomics and the fold down stick is a decent idea, but it's just wasted build expense, complexity, and real-estate in my opinion.  Chances are that 60% of that transmission tunnel is just molded plastic covering up air. (Also a pet peeve).  As my dermatologist can attest, I usually drive with my right hand on the wheel and my left arm on the window sill.  My tundra has a "gated" shifter.  Next time I'm driving around I'll try to see if my hand rests there at all.  I don't think I do that though.

    If I want to shift my truck, I'll just take the old mechanical analog FJ out and that'll get old after about an hour.

    I am intrigued how you're accidentally hitting the buttons, but it's hard to visualize where that is on the dash.  Do you ever turn on the passenger's seat heater on a road trip...  because if you haven't that can be mildly entertaining.

     

     

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  3. On 4/11/2023 at 6:02 PM, 52-80 said:

    Nobody can convince me theres a logical reason these gear shifts have to be zig-zagged like this

     

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    I can out grumpy you on that...  There isn't a reason to even have a shift lever.  99% of the new cars that just lever just activates electronic switches anyways. Just put the buttons on the dash and give me like 12 more cupholders to clean out.  

    I mean we had this solved 50yrs ago...

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  4. 40 minutes ago, statsman said:

    Sure, but one think the leaked docs showed- we can intercept communications like nobody’s business, even if we can’t keep them secret. If China sells arms to Russia, we’ll know. 

    You think they'll care if "we" the US government finds out?  I could only imagine they are saying these things because they extracted some value from saying them...  Perhaps Macron's recent statements?  Perhaps keeping their powder dry for SE Asia/ South China Sea/ Philippines/Taiwan?

    They are smart enough to see Putin drain his forces to their west and western forces expending $$ and armaments.  I think they want Russia's folly to last a long long time and destabilize western resolve/unity.  War weariness in the west will weaken Taiwan.   But make no mistake, if Russia begins to falter I think you'll see them prop Putin up at the bar and order another round of tanks and arty.

     

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  5. On 4/2/2023 at 11:38 PM, 4th and 5 said:

    Get in your car and turn this up to 11

    Jimmy and JPJ just kill it

    My car doesn't get youtube, and if it did my volume goes to 100

  6. 14 hours ago, Ghost of LL said:

    The remarkable thing about it, however, is the continuity.  The Roman roads often followed roads that had existed from the Neolithic Age.  Watling Street was a thoroughfare hundreds or thousands of years before Caesar stepped foot in Kent.  And even today the lines of farms still track a lot of the lines laid out by Neolithic farmers and adopted by the Romans, the Anglo-Saxons, and then the Normans.  Counties and districts are often centered on Iron Age hill forts.  And many aspects of English culture would be familiar to a pre-Roman Briton (eels, anyone?).  There was genetic and cultural mixing, but the preexisting people and culture was never wiped out.  And perhaps that's the most remarkable thing about the people we now regard as "English"--despite all of the "invasions" by various peoples, the amount of genetic and cultural continuity is really quite remarkable.

     

  7. On 3/31/2023 at 6:14 PM, Chopper said:

    I'll confess that I'm highly unlikely to make it out to Easter Island to see the statues in person so having one in the UK seems pretty convenient. Also the site of the originals is at extreme risk due to fires and global warming so perhaps it's a good thing that 1 of the thousand originals is ensconced at the British Museum.

    It's also unlikely I'll ever be able to see historical treasures or art in many other parts of the world, including Iran, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan (whatever remains that wasn't destroyed by the taliban), Russia and its satellites, and most of Africa. And I don't even think I'll ever be back in China or HK at this rate. By that measure what I can see at the Brit or perhaps a few other museums is about the only opportunity.

    England was a province of the Roman empire, and before that (BC) its trading partner, and in ancient times there was an actual land bridge between it and the Continent. What is now Greece belonged to the Romans at one point, at the very same time the Romans also inhabited England. English history is European history and the reverse is also true.

    If you're in northern England, perhaps near Carlisle or Newcastle, it's easy to see the the northern frontier of what was the Roman empire, demarcated by Hadrian's Wall. It was an 80 mile long wall meant to protect the Roman empire, and today the footings are almost entirely intact, a surprising amount of other structures remain, and in fact the entire structure is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

    I mentioned the Sutton Hoo rooms at the British Museum above and perhaps nobody gives a fuck, and that's fair, but it's one of the world's greatest ever archeological finds (in Suffolk, discovered just before WWII) and it provided much illumination about the Anglo Saxons and the so-called Dark Ages. It's the 1400 year old burial chamber of a king, and his 80 foot long ship, which was buried along with him and many assorted, priceless treasures.

    The discovery and the dig are the subject matter of the film The Dig on Netflix.

     

    Imagine how convenient it would be for the "British" Crown Jewels to be displayed in NY, DC, Tokyo, or GASP New Delhi...  so many more people would get to enjoy them!

    Is that a round about argument for having ~1/2 the Parthenon statues?  If so Bra-fucking-vo!  I mean that's quite the leap

    A question I think about occasionally, after 1066 is anything really English?  What's left?  I mean the French/Norman knights fucking wrecked shop and completely transformed the Island in terms of genetic history, aristocracy, and culture.   You know those "English" castles?  Built by Normans (in the French tradition) to subjugate/dominate what was left of the English.  The Doomsday book details how the country was gutted in a way it would not recover from for hundreds of years.  Is England a former French Colony?  (Also this is a good way to troll blokes at the pub)

  8. It's probably not true, but I hope it is...

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    A Russian volunteer ordered $25,000 worth of sex toys instead of drones for Russian troops — InformNapalm. Ukrainian hackers from "Kyberopor" managed to hack the AliExpress account of Mykhailo Luchin and adjust the order for the funds collected by the volunteer. He is not able to cancel.

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  9. 1 hour ago, slorch said:

    Could not disagree more. My gun will NEVER be a risk to you unless you provoke the response- i.e. guns don't just shoot themselves. I've shared many times on here I have had guns around and accessible for most of my life. It's a tool just like anything else around the house.  I carry a scissor jack in the vehicle, it's not going to spontaneously start lifting up the truck.  Neither will a ( properly stowed) gun just start shooting.

    Responsible ownership of guns means having that sense about you that it is a last resort.  Just like you seem to not understand that or be well within your rights to disagree; I don't see the threat to anyone else by my ownership of guns.  There are very few reasons to take them from me, that are not rooted in control and manipulation.  That is why the notion meets such resistance.

    Now I just want to know if you carry a Scissor Jack around with you even if you're pretty sure you'll never need to use it...  you know, because they are equivalents. 

  10. 2 hours ago, Neonmoon said:

    Another 147,000 we’re just announced to be called up to the meat grinder. 
     

    Putins sole strategy is to outlast Europe’s money with continuous manpower 

    "Quantity has a quality all it's own"

     

    But Ukraine has, or rather had, a population north of 40 million.  So, if they're willing to fight to the end we will see if Russia has the will/ability to burry them under a pile of bodies.

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