Well, it looks like I’m heading back into the scientific saddle. A few conversations with a Distinguished Professor of Material Science and Engineering led to an offer from the local university to run some research projects and teach a course or two. This is particularly wonderful because the Distinguished prof really is distinguished, and who better to learn a whole new field of science from? And to show what a small town this really is, it turns out the house that Spudalicious just bought here used to be the professor’s.
I guess that birthdays aren’t generic, and to prove that, today’s include the original Good Humor man; one of the people responsible for turning modern American Judaism into the joke it’s become; Perot’s running mate; the guy responsible for Jethro Tull’s biggest hit; a guy who raised being a total dick to an art form; a piece of shit grifter who should have died a long time ago for the good of our country; the best gunfighter, medical researcher, and accountant in Hollywood; one of the few Maryland governors who didn’t wear the title of “defendant”; an actress who had two great things going for her; the greatest quarterback I ever saw play (and I thought Unitas would never be topped); a piece of shit quack destined for a new career; and a guy who fucked Selina Meyer.
Let’s see what Links bring us today.
You mean everything that’s been fed us about the bullshit war is a lie? I am shocked.
Some people just can’t shut the fuck up.
Elon is clearly pissing someone off…
And someone didn’t tow the lion.
Did you hear the one about the Polish Molotov cocktail?
I just… can’t…. holy…. shit… ARMs????? NOW????????
Old Guy Music tends not to be generic. At least I hope not. I fully admit to being an obsessive fan of Lee Barber’s music. So was SP, and this was her favorite song of his.
And now Ukrainians are saying that Russians are storing dead Ukies in meat-packing plants
Sounds suspiciously like refrigerated trailers packed full of the dead in New York in the early days of COVID.
Re: Elon
People hate a traitor far more than a known enemy
Me hardest hit. ?
*nods sympathetically while handing over then next batch of secret orders*
Well, optimism by the likes of Ford and GM – and the ignorant masses who don’t understand what a terrible fucking idea this is.
???
It’s just more crony bullshit. And given the engineering cycles involved, GM and Ford have been lobbying for this for years.
I’m assuming it is because Tesla isn’t a union shop. More in the same vein as President Poopy-Pants meeting with all the unionized electric vehicle manufacturers — specifically excluding Tesla, etc. But maybe I’m just seeing it that way because it looks like California state government, where civil service / teacher’s unions control everything.
That’s certainly part of it, but the left hates him for so much more. He’s a bit like Trump in that his style of just saying what’s on his mind makes them go nuts. Plus the whole Twitter saga.
Yeah, I wasn’t clear — that’s why I think FedGov / the PPP admin is hassling him. The general Left issues are as you say.
I’m including the FedGov in my observation. They are absolutely targeting people for wrongthought.
The Twitter thing put Elon in the crosshairs of the entire establishment (the intelligence community is involved in deciding who gets suspended).
But it’s more complicated than that – Elon is effectively a military contractor because he provided a shitload of Starlinks for the Nazis in Ukraine. That’s how they were posting photo ops from the basement of the Azovstal plant while it was besieged.
Yep. The left should love Elon, but his autism makes him stray out of allowed opinion from time to time, either because he doesn’t realize it, or he doesn’t care.
Anyone signing on the dotted line at the current time for an adjustable rate mortgage should be immediately locked in a mental institution for their own protection.
Nah, it’ll be fine.
Sign up for ARM,
default after a few months,
negotiate new, low fixed rate for remainder in a year or two,
have missed payments forgiven,
because
*checks wristband*
“ARMs are racist”.
How long have you worked for Elizabeth Warren?
That’s a pretty stunning article.
Brought to you by the National Association of Realtors…
It’s downright unethical.
You say unethical, realtors say “we gotta make a living”.
Par for the course for Realtors®™©?
About par for the course for an outlet that was just touting how inflation is good for people.
Spud just bought a house near you??? That’s awesome!!! ? And mazel tov re: the new gig! A new source of Tales from the Woke? Or is there a chance there’ll be less of that infecting the academic department in question?
I suspect much wokeness, but less than infects Art History departments. I have gotten better at keeping my mouth shut.
Yup, congrats — and kudos to the local U for recognizing what they had nearby.
(Less seriously — but who will man the grill and get those breakfast burritos out to the starving liberal arts majors? Oh noes!)
Did WebDom ever make a decision on ruling the town with an iron fist (in a velvet glove, of course)? I missed it if it was mentioned….
Surprised and happy that Spud has made the leap. Congrats to you on your prestigious appointment. We can expect better living through Chemistry coming out of New York. Now you can get a professional paint job on the van and add some music.
I’m celebrating today as Fourscore and a quarter but I’ll still be the same ol’ Fourscore to my friends.
Happy Birthday! ???
Happy birthday, 17 fourths-score!
Happy Birthday!
“Prestigious” is not the word I would have chosen…
Happy birthday!
???
Happy birthday, 4×20.25!
One more trip around the sun!
Congrats.
I’m sure OMWC’s music will be of the highest fidelity.
Why did I even bother to click that…?
You know you can’t resist my links! ?
Not “Thank Heaven For Little Girls”?
Now I want to hear “Aqualung” on one of those ice cream truck music boxes.
Lol
Happy birthday!
Today is also my sister’s wedding anniversary; she and her husband have been married for 34 years.
Happy Birthday!!
Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday, you crusty old fart.
Happy birthday, fellow Gemini! (Mine was Tuesday, doing a group birthday dinner tonight)
Salutations on this notable day good sir.
Happy birthday, friend! I hope you have a great day.
Happy birthday! I hope it’s perfect!
Happy Day, Mr. 4×20+1/4!
I’m thinking it’s (4.25)x20 = 85 (ordering of math ops can be confusing).
Happy birthday! May you have many more, all of them joyful.
I am so disappointed to have missed when you were Fourscore and seven years. Happy Birthday!
Wait two more years, Chafed. I’ll try to do my part
Math is hard!
I have gotten better at keeping my mouth shut.
Low bar? Congrats on the new gig, sorry to hear about the blockbusting in Alfred.
Yes, congrats!
How much dynamite did it take to destroy his house in Idaho?
Washington Commanders defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio has been fined $100,000 by the team for his comments about protests in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd and the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Coach Ron Rivera announced the fine in a statement Friday after meeting with Del Rio earlier in the day. He said Del Rio’s statements were hurtful to members of the local community and did not reflect the views of the organization.
“We’ll never get a new stadium if you keep saying stuff like that!”
I think they must now and forever more be the Washington Commissars.
“President Trump summoned the mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame,” Vice Chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said.
Bunny Foo on Twitter said something about people caring more about inflation and gas prices than Jan6, and, wow, did the proggy froggies not like that.
This Jan6 hearing seems to be very important to them. I wonder why.
No one but the most rabid partisans give two shits about the 6th. This nonsense looks petty and stupid considering that people are having problems putting food on the table and gas in their cars.
And I’d like to think that the Soviet-era optics aren’t helping, either.
Not to anyone that can see.
And the Dispatch (but I repeat myself)….hate to say it, but NRO is a lot better without Goldberg and French these days.
Absolutely
I like to think I’m not rabid (but how would I know if I actually were, after all?) — but I do care about it. Solely because I care a lot about the extreme overreaction to it and the government gulag that sprung up as a result. That, the three letter agencies (especially intelligence) and the COVID mandates made it abundantly clear that FedGov is irredeemable for the most part and needs some serious paring down to have any chance of getting it back to serving the country — there’s a culture there of technocracy that they’re all steeped in, so no chance to trust them again regardless of elections. Defund and Divest FedGov.
You know, if they inquired AT ALL about the failures WITHIN the govt – the USCP, National Guard, etc. – they might have a couple of picograms of credibility.
It’s a show trial.
Rap Epps was on tape several times on the 5th and 6th saying “I’ve been doing this a long time”. I wonder when/where.
In other economic warfare news, Massachusetts in it’s infinite wisdom, passed a referendum in 2016 about animal welfare laws, specifically pen/cage sizes. The one for pork goes into effect in August, and after meeting with corporate and hearing what the main pork suppliers have to say, we are going to lose about a third of the varieties of what we sell for conventional pork (don’t worry, the overpriced organic shit is already compliant), and prices are expected to go up about 20-30% of what we can still bring in.
No problem. We just increase the food subsidies.
I hope the denizens of Massachusetts enjoy getting it good and hard.
I looked at this morning’s WSJ and see inflation has already pushed it off the front page.
“He understands the distinction between the events of that dark day and peaceful protests, which are a hallmark of our democracy,” Rivera said in the statement, adding that Del Rio had a constitutional right to voice his opinion. “Words have consequences and his words hurt a lot of people in our community. I want to make it clear that our organization will not tolerate any equivalency between those who demanded justice in the wake of George Floyd’s murder and the actions of those on Jan. 6 who sought to topple our government.”
Yeah okay. There are ten lights.
I’d imagine that calling people insurrectionists who weren’t insurrectionists hurt a lot of people too.
Yup. The people who ‘demanded justice’ in the wake of George Floyd’s murder were much, much worse.
He was talking about the riots you fucking r-tard.
Tell us Ron, how far did they have to shove that up your ass?
Speaking of electric vehicles, President Biden’s ambitious plan to expand their usage is being met with increased optimism.
Look how resplendent our emperor is, in his fabulous new kingly robes!
Dude. Thanks for putting the image of a naked Biden slipping up the stairs in my brain. He has poopy hanging from his butt hairs. Yeah; thanks a lot for that. And when I say thanks, I actually mean “no thanks”.
The president has been focused on an ambitious climate agenda, which has largely stalled in the Senate, but federal funding for electric vehicle infrastructure manufacturing was passed in the bipartisan infrastructure law, which the president signed in November.
Omnibus spending, FTW!
Does that mean Spud is cashing out of Boise?
No, bi-locating.
Worst. Snowbird. Ever.
LOL
whaddup doh’
Re: Florida (Ohio?) Boy
Translation: “You can go back to ignoring this homicide because it’s not of those extra-bad ones that the media are so interested in.”
In all fairness, Akron is kinda the Florida of our state.
Youngstown is more like Syria.
HEY! More like Sicily.
/Traficant
Rehabilitation
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) didn’t make any new friends in the GOP with her star turn bashing former President Trump in prime time on Thursday night. It doesn’t bother her a bit.
Cheney, a dynastic figure who sits in the House seat once held by her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, used her high perch on the Jan. 6 select committee to accuse Trump of abusing the powers of the presidency to orchestrate nothing short of an attempted coup — explosive charges that have reinforced her status as Public Enemy No. 1 in the eyes of the MAGA faithful.
The much-watched hearing has further complicated Cheney’s path to reelection in deep-red Wyoming, a Trump stronghold where her primary opponent has the energetic backing of the 45th president, who is actively stumping against the mutinous incumbent.
But as Cheney’s attacks on Trump have grown only louder, it’s increasingly clear that she’s motivated by something other than securing her future in the lower chamber. Whether that thing is a self-sacrificing desire to save the country’s democratic traditions from the former president or an egomaniacal effort to advance her own fame and political powers largely depends on the perspective of her fans and critics.
Do you redneck sheepfuckers really think Liz Cheney gives a shit about what you think? It’s not like she’s going to have to go work at Dollar General when she gets booted out of the House.
I don’t really believe in Hell but people like her make me kind of hope it really exists. The fact that the neolibs are drooling over her warmongering and corrupt ass speaks volumes.
I just got an idea about a new law concerning post-Congressional career options.
Why the hell would you inflict those people on Dollar General customers? What’d they ever do to you! 😉
Now sewage system sanitation engineer — that’s a career they’ve practiced for in DC….
“Hearing”, “two-hours hate”, same diff.
Drugs falling out of their ass. Thais giving away one million *pinky to corner of mouth * marijuana plants.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/dariosabaghi/2022/05/23/thailand-to-give-away-one-million-cannabis-plants-to-households-across-the-country/amp/
https://people.com/human-interest/disney-apologizes-to-couple-after-disneyland-employee-interrupts-marriage-proposal-in-paris/
I don’t think I’ve seen this here.
“Well, it looks like I’m heading back into the scientific saddle. A few conversations with a Distinguished Professor of Material Science and Engineering led to an offer from the local university to run some research projects and teach a course or two. This is particularly wonderful because the Distinguished prof really is distinguished, and who better to learn a whole new field of science from?”
That sounds great.
Youtube served me up a couple of videos from a channel called Big Company, like this one about Henry Ford. It’s not exactly top shelf business journalism, but compared to the hatchet job PBS did on Ford, it’s not bad.
It looks like they’re made for the high school teacher market. There’s one on Sam Walton, too.
Let’s have some more sanctimonious douchebaggery, please
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin called out China on Saturday for a series of coercive, aggressive and dangerous actions that threaten stability around Asia and vowed the United States would stand by partners to resist any pressure.
“Indo-Pacific countries shouldn’t face political intimidation, economic coercion, or harassment by maritime militias,” Austin said in a keynote speech to the Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia’s premier defense conference.
“The PRC’s moves threaten to undermine security, and stability, and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific,” Austin said, using the acronym to refer to the country by its official name, the People’s Republic of China.
He listed a series of areas where he said China is muscling its neighbors, including sending large numbers of warplanes into the skies near Taiwan, dangerously intercepting the patrol planes of US allies, and illegal fishing operations that “plunder the region’s provisions.”
Political bullying is our gig.
Congrats on the job OMWC
She said that she “exaggerated” reports of sexual crimes by Russian soldiers on Ukrainian civilians in a bid to “convince the world to provide weapons”
That $40 billion hooker plays a mean pinball.
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Not going to complain about that one, though UL is a bit of an odd duck, imho.
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I agree on UL. That’s horseshit.
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Never heard of TL before.
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Austin said earlier the Biden administration was prepared to step up to be a leader in and a guarantor of the free and open Indo-Pacific it espouses.
“Big powers carry big responsibilities,” Austin said. “And so we’ll do our part to manage these tensions responsibly, to prevent conflict, and to pursue peace and prosperity.”
Unfortunately, the World’s policeman is getting too old and fat and addicted to donuts to command much respect when he waddles around on his beat.
The world’s policeman should win a war for a change. It’s been a while.
My personal preference.
And, no, leaving somewhere a smoldering crater doesn’t count as a win.
Depends on the location of the crater.
Not likely, they kicked out all the men who are good at killing with vaccine requirements. Now it’s just a bunch of pre-op trannies who are gonna make the VA pay for their bottom surgeries.
Grumpy>Drunken Old Meninsert Ron Paul it’s happening gif here
CNN explains it
While the United States has never imported significant amounts of oil from Russia, the commodity is traded on global markets, and Europe was greatly dependent on Russian exports. The EU’s recent decision to ban oil tanker shipments from Russia as sent oil prices soaring on those global markets.
The price of a barrel of Brent crude oil, the benchmark used in global markets, is now above $124 a barrel, up from just less than $100 a month ago, And prices continued to climb in early trading Friday. Goldman Sachs predicted the average price for a barrel of Brent crude, the benchmark used for oil traded in Europe, will be $140 a barrel between July and September, up from its prior call of $125 a barrel.
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How much are drivers willing to pay before they cut back on driving? So far the number of gallons pumped at stations in the last week of May was down only about 5% from the same week a year ago, even though gas prices rose more than 50% during the same period. The number of US trips by car has slipped about 5% since early May, according to mobility research firm Inrix, although those trips are still up about 5% since the start of the year.
The concern is that consumers will cut back on other spending to keep driving the miles they want or need to drive, which could drive an economy already showing some signs of weakness into recession.
We wanted to force people out of their cars, not crash the economy. Why don’t the plebs do as we wish?
So India and China get to buy Russian oil at slightly lesser that the skyrocketing price? This is own goal shit at a comical level.
“Activist group ‘Ruth Sent Us’ tells protestors to target CHILDREN, home and church of Supreme Justice Amy Coney after Roe v Wade draft opinion was leaked”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10906233/Pro-abortion-group-Ruth-Sent-advocates-targeted-protests-against-Justice-Amy-Coney-Barrett.html
They seem nice.
Commie scum gonna do commie scum things.
“Biden’s war on smoking: Administration plans to introduce new rules slashing amount of nicotine in cigarettes to ‘nonaddictive’ levels”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10906049/Biden-plan-introduce-new-rules-slashing-nicotine-cigarettes-nonaddictive-levels.html
I’m sure they’ll go after vaping again too.
Now that weed is being legalized in more and more jurisdictions, it is imperative to create new black markets. Street dealers need to make a living.
Yo man, I’ve got gold chains and Marlboro Lights…keep a lookout for the cops…
I’m sure people won’t totally start ripping off the filters and smoking twice as much thus causing even more “public health” issues.
JFC… that might be the stupidest thing he’s done yet. Fortunately for him, he’ll be dead before the increased cancer deaths become apparent.
Four a day!
Yo, Count. Just checked the overnight thread, glad to hear your Mom is doing well.
smoking is lower class and cringe
False
Correct.
*points to avatar*
Too local news.
https://www.nj.com/bergen/2022/06/driver-slams-through-front-of-dunkin-store-in-nj-injuring-passenger.html
“From what I know, it was a newer driver who thought he was backing out of the spot but was in drive,” Pronti, a former Montclair police officer, said Friday.
Nonsense. Clearly the driver mistook the pick-up window for a drive-through window.
Looks like the “newer” driver was parked in the handicapped space too.
“An Ohio cupcake saleswoman has been arrested after running a fraud by stealing a dead infant’s identity for the last two decades.
Ava Virginia Misseldine, 49, was arrested on Thursday in Utah, where she’d moved from Ohio in the last year, according to an affidavit.
She was charged with using the dead child’s name – Brie Bourgeois – to get a job, a pilot’s license, a passport, college admission and $1.5million in COVID-19 bailout cash.
During her time in Ohio, she’d been praised for running the Koko Tea Salon & Bakery and was even featured on the Food Network’s The Best Thing I Ever Ate.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10905585/Flight-attendant-turned-baker-arrested-running-two-decade-fraud-scheme.html
$1.5M is a massive tower of tall cans.
Looking for an act I actually regard as a crime, it took a while to find one. They buried it.
This GM promotional film from 1958 is awesome on many levels.
https://youtu.be/xKOdux6Gjno
The future seemed so bright, but the Chevette was only around the corner.
Every reference to a person uses “man” and not a woman to be seen.
The styling is ridiculous. No form follows function.
The controls are ridiculous.
The analog design process.
And in typical GM fashion ideas that were actually put into production by others. It actually had a door remote.
GM really was printing money in the late 50s through the 60s.
Pretty cool. I wonder how long the gas turbine lasted.
The pneumatic-hydraulic suspension was pretty impressive at the time. The control stick seems odd.
Damn thing had a primitive “autopilot” that could follow a wire embedded in pavement.
Yes. Also the brakes were way ahead of anything of the time.
women should not drive except when their husband plans to drink
Neat-O. Love the sound of the turbine.
Ugly as sin, though.
“EXCLUSIVE: Star-studded LA high school is sued by Jewish father for its ‘racially divisive, anti-Semitic’ curriculum which branded Jews ‘oppressors’: Woke syllabus was ‘quietly ushered in’ after death of George Floyd”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10906219/Los-Angeles-high-school-sued-Jewish-parent-racially-divisive-anti-Semitic-curriculum.html
Who would pay $50K for that?
More of this, please.
You did.
I knew it!
The regulatory clampdown is not without cause: Last month, NHTSA reported traffic fatalities nationwide hit a 16-year high in 2021 after 42,915 people lost their lives last year.
Up until Biden took office, however, NHTSA took very much a standoff approach to regulating Tesla. An investigation in 2016 into its Autopilot even concluded that crash rates were reduced by 40% in those vehicles equipped with the technology. Tesla happily cited NHTSA’s findings for its own marketing purposes, until the study was later retracted as fundamentally flawed.
Under the Trump administration, regulators such as NHTSA saw their influence sink. The job of the nation’s top traffic safety official was vacant for 15 months with Heidi King nominated only in 2017, never confirmed by the Senate and in office for only about two years.
Her successor, James Owens, later took the side of Tesla investors arguing the technology saves lives rather than endangers them, with a roll-back of rules that safety experts questioned.
It was only after Biden moved into the White House that regulatory headwinds began. Last August, NHTSA opened its initial probe into 745,000 Tesla models already sold, almost its entire U.S. fleet at the time.
Tesla fans began to worry after a noted critic of Musk’s self-driving technology was hired by Buttigieg to serve as a top advisor.
Trump killed all those people. Hang him.
“Her successor, James Owens, later took the side of Tesla investors…”
I’ve got to remember that framing.
The CDC took the side of Pfizer and Moderna investors…
The American people were leery of starting WW3 in Ukraine, but the Biden administration took the side of Raytheon investors.
It’s a good thing to keep in the back pocket.
omelet, eggs, etc.
Besides, it’s not like those Congresscritters’ kids are gonna be conscripted or anything so no harm, no foul.
Fuck that ancestral sin bullshit. The sort of person who doesn’t give a shit about your kid, really doesn’t care about their own either.
You’d have to be retarded to take out an adjustable rate loan on anything substantial right now.
A year ago, we went to the bank because we needed about 10,000 to redo some wiring in the house. The loan officer gave us a choice between a home equity loan, where they loan us a fixed amount at a fixed rate, and we pay it back over 5 years. The other offer was a home equity line of credit, which she explained compared to a credit card with an adjustable rate. I saw the writing on the wall regarding interest rates and convinced my wife to go for the first option, even though the line of credit would allow us to get more money for more home improvement if needed.
at least in US you do not take loans in a different currency than your earnings. In romania many get paid in lei but take out adjustable rate loans in euro or usd or chf and they get fucked by the interest and the fact that the Leu collapses during crisis times
You can tell your wife that all your imaginary friends on this site think you went with the correct option.
The political class isn’t really lying when they say that 1/6 was as bad or worse than 9/11. During 9/11 they got to virtue signal about how bad terrorism is, defer their war making responsibility to Bush, and get kickbacks from defense contractors. During 1/6, they were caught shitting their pants over some unarmed boomers taking an unauthorized tour of the Capital.
don’t you invalidate their lived experience you monster
Making a 25 Year Old Mead!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyS_QR4I5Y8
stupid clickbait. The guy makes a mead he plans to age for 25 years. I though he was gonna make one that is already 25 years aged
teach a course or two – I hope it is about critical gender science
speaking of wine the US pinot I did not much like especially for the price was Domaine de la Côte Pure Pinot Noir – Santa Barbara
Nothing experimental about these tits.
https://archive.ph/o4hAa
Silicone Saturday.
my favorite escort got implants and I am upset about it. She went from A to C.
Were they done well?
can’t say she has this sort of protective bra on and will only take it off in a few weeks
I dislike the concept even if done very well
Don’t reject such a wonderful gift Pie. She’s clearly a very caring person.
I’m with Pie on this one. I’ve never liked the bolt-ons, and I think its very difficult/rare to do them so they are undetectable as such.
Ditto, can’t suspend my disbelief. Also what kind of damaged woman gets sliced open just to get more MALE GAZE?
The future seemed so bright, but the Chevette was only around the corner.
I’ll take the Chevette.
I’d take Honda Civic from the same time period any day.
Good morning, Old Man!
Sounds like some interesting changes headed your way. And your pal back in the same town – thoughts and prayers for both your livers.
You’ve linked Lee Barber before. That album cover is seared into my brain.
Have a great Saturday, peeps!
Like John Kerry in Cambodia? Or The Dead Kennedys?
https://youtu.be/-KTsXHXMkJA
You either have a suppurating wound on your face or you’re not nearly as kind and friendly as you claim.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/18841366/700-girls-on-street-dates/
“Find an environment where you can form real friendships with women, who share your interests.”
Alright, alternate reality it is.
approaching women on the street is creepy.
A Lithuanian friend said in his country when women smiled at you in the street it was because they wanted you to come chat them up, but when he moved to the US he found that women were standoffish in public. ymmv
You need an icebreaker. The ladies at the local ballroom dance class love me, unfortunately they’re all 10-30 years older than me.
The Firebird III linked “pneumatic-hydraulic suspension” sounds similar to BMC’s hydrolastic suspension, which was connected front-to-rear on each side. A couple of my minis had it; also came on the Austin America.
I believe the Citroen system is independent? It’s got the same sphere concept.
Plus it’s way cool.
Makes about as much sense as anything else going on in the world right now.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/aggressive-alien-reptilians-want-lead-27198088
At this point, I wouldn’t rule it out.
More and more people are using apps like Tinder and Hinge to date and meet life partners. Dating apps are increasingly a key aspect of our lives — they shouldn’t be under the control of unaccountable, for-profit companies.
https://twitter.com/jacobin/status/1535302018440450049
Fucking Commie scum.
One step closer to socialized sex?
I’d take Honda Civic from the same time period any day.
But the Chevette is rear wheel drive.
On something that small, like the Mini, I think the weight and packaging efficiencies make up for the negatives of FWD.
Yep. Definitely the Civic. Sweet little car.
Transmission and clutch was a joy to use
I had a CRX that really was one of the best vehicles I’ve ever owned. Not fast, but a joy to drive and cost damn near nothing to maintain.
When I met ex Mrs Cool, she had a 1981 Toyota Starlet. Wouldnt top out much above 80 mph, but it was a ball to drive.
Kinda like a go-cart.
My 1st car was a ‘vette. Chevette.
I started out in a Ford Escort. Would have been a hell of a drag race back in the day.
*Flag drops. Crowd goes for beer, comes back for thrilling conclusion.*
Besides, it’s not like those Congresscritters’ kids are gonna be conscripted or anything so no harm, no foul.
Have y’all seen those articles in the mainstream press saying stuff like “a limited nuclear engagement is good, actually”? How the hell does anyone in DC think they’ll survive something like that, given the Russian policy is to launch everything if a single nuke is used against them. Maybe our elites are just suicidally dumb.
GT got me thinkin’.
Something Id like to hear covered by an ice cream truck.
Maybe our elites are just suicidally dumb.
Welcome to the 21st century.
The world’s policeman should win a war for a change. It’s been a while.
Yeah, I’m done with blowing the troops (thank you for your service). This rant resonates:
Savage. Got a link for that?
Yeah, sorry, I always try to format everything properly and include links.
https://www.ustourofduty.org/blog
Speaking of Civics- Mine seems to be suffering from heat stroke. A few times lately it wouldn’t start when hot (at operating temp, after a short stop, like the grocery store). I replaced the fuel pump relay (much less of a pain in the ass than I had feared), which seemed to be the fix. Yesterday, it quit while running a couple of times. Not good. Now I’m wondering if the ecu is overheating. I believe it’s in the passenger footwell. Maybe there’s just thirty years of who-knows-what accumulated in the little holes where it lives. There might even be some sort of cooling duct which is blocked.
$85 eBay injectors strike again…
More and more people are using apps like Tinder and Hinge to date and meet life partners. Dating apps are increasingly a key aspect of our lives — they shouldn’t be under the control of unaccountable, for-profit companies.
Where is Reverend Moon when you need him?
This kind of talent kind of irritates me.
But still, incredibly beautiful.
Dark Day
Peaceful Protest
one day of peaceful protests
A true masterpiece, in the original sense (something made to submit for consideration as a master).
Err, meant for CPRM.
Of course, the actual riots, with burning and looting and everything, for Trump’s inauguration have been memory-holed. As has the dismissal of charges against the handful who were actually arrested.
Never happened.
Love the framing that
riotsviolent protests against Trump becoming President are “just a sign of how divided our country is” (good people on both sides, anyone?), but a few dozen people squabbling with police at one end of the Capitol, two of whom were killed on the spot, are an insurrection.I had the opportunity recently to point out that there were indeed two deaths at the Capitol that day – one woman beaten to death by police, who made sure by preventing anyone from giving first aid, the other shot by police. Because I am out of fucks to give, I also said “anything else is a lie”. As ever, it seems, my contribution ended the discussion on that topic. I refrained from saying that, given how events have played out since, the next group to stage such a protest won’t be unarmed like this one was.
Assuming the next group isn’t Swiss cheese astroturf. Of course, if the right people ok it, that won’t matter either.
Memory holed in this country
Top search results (leaving out irrelevant 1/6) are from foreign media for some reason.