@Old-Busted-Hotness
Well that was a really easy third guess. Not just only one word choice, but only one way you could arrange the letters.
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@Stef-Schrader I do actually... though as noted, I'm not entirely sure I will do this one. Depends on what happens with my job search.

@Krusty-Walnut There are things I love there but I hate here.

Had leg day in the AM so no booze. May have a beer tonight though!

Congrats on the impending house! So uh... After the Honda sells what's the next bike on the realistic dream list?

@The3DTuner they were sold in the US for a brief period in the late '00s, the motorcycle shop I bought my used Honda CM450 from was a Bajaj dealer who was promoting them pretty heavily - had a pickup on display in the showroom, and lots of posters and brochures around for the taxi version. I believe it ended up taking him several years to sell the one he had, ended up going to the grounds crew of a local university

@DealkillerPoweredByFocus I went with the Pacifica because it has fold flat middle seats. The current model has been in production since 2017 so I think they have worked the bugs out and as time went on made a number of good updates like the acoustic windshield being available or standard on most models and last year or two they modified the door seals for extra NVH reduction. It also has an active noise cancelling with something like 4 or 6 microphons. Even totally empty with all seats folded it is a pretty quiet comfortable ride.

My wife and I use ours to tour around the country with our pup and everything we own including two mountain bikes easily fit inside. That being said I will probably sell once our trip is over in probably a year or two which is before the warranty runs out.

@Britishvillaininatl That Nissan Safari is epic. Hopefully I can catch that one IRL at some point.

@TheJWT Wow! That's amazing!

@atfsgeoff That XSE is beautiful in blue. Great pick!

@LimitedTimeOnly that must be a new one. I was there last year and there were two in front of A15, but that wasn't one of them.

@ST80MND I guess we're breaking them out again...thanks Putin!

My daughter had a baby in September, she loves her RAV 4 hybrid. Dunno if that helps 🤷🏻

@Boxer_4 i bought hybrid theory and one other album (i can't recall) back in 2002 and completely burned through them as my only 2 cds on a 20 day school experience in Colorado. To this day i still cannot listen to Linkin park.

This was the sound of my 3rd grade.
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@MM54
I debated because I love flame top bursts too…but this thing was calling to me, and the neck is perfect for my meat hooks.

@WBizarre Okay...so I may have made a Brabus Renault 5 with that...Screenshot 2023-03-26 110216.png

When we sold our house the realtor staged it, so all our shit got piled up in the garage. It was a mess to say the least but no one looked at the garage anyway, the demographic didn’t care.

I’d rate our photos okayish, good enough that the house sold.

@MasterMario my wife spent several years as a medical code; putting codes next to procedures then it gets sent to billing. So when billing denies codes it’sa standard thing, and then you go back to the doctor who writes the letter to insurance that the rhinoplasty wasn’t elective, but necessary from the car wreck to reconstruct, then it gets approved. That’s the process unfortunately. Proof it’s necessary or it’s kicked out of their automated list of electives.

Got the tailpipe on, tightened everything up and went for a drive. She's got an exhaust note now. More of a murmur than a rumble, still quiet, but quiet and deep. Most noticeable on acceleration, but even then it's pretty subdued. Just about perfect. A suggestion of power (which if I'm honest is what it's got), without shouting "look at me" and setting off car alarms.

@RallyWrench Crap, that reminds me, my daughters both need shoes too. I guarantee the car spotting won't be as good for me.

@The-Car-Motorist Thanks 🙂

@ItalianJobR53 Oof. Made a metal tumbler.

Modern NOPI NATIONALS?
brings me back. We entered my dad's s2000 and my crx with a swap back in 04 or 05

@nickhasanexocet I have a similar story. Back in the early 00's my family got a new PC that was decently good for the time and I started getting into playing PC games (this would have been around 5th grade). One of the games I got was Jane's USAF. I had been interested in ships and aircraft since even earlier, but between Janes USAF and Descent: Freespace, I gained a massive love for machines and I credit those games among the major early influences for wanting to become a mechanical engineer.

Fast forward to 20 years later and I had just started a job at an autonomous vehicle company as a mechanical engineer. Walking through the offices, I notice one of my coworkers had a bunch of the Jane's combat flight sim games on his shelf. I asked if he was a fan and played them too, he replies "I helped make them." Turns out he was heavily involved in a number of those games. That was pretty cool.

@Bloody-the-resident-LandRover-apologist tailing off for us as we head into autumn/winter

@Just-Jeepin not gaming on Windows kinda sucks. My boyfriend is an Apple only guy and even he has a PC gaming rig.

@duurtlang Oh the 340 is very much a '70s car, but I figured the facelift brought it kicking and screaming into the '80s well enough to slot alongside the others since it lived such a long life as you mention.

It's interesting that Volvo really kind of allowed the Dutch division to run somewhat independently for those few years as the 400 Series was still quite DAF despite moving to a more conventional FF layout. Volvo seemingly treated the Dutch division as their version of Autobianchi in terms of testing the waters of transverse packaging. Even the NedCar S40 was a fairly Dutch project, and I wonder how much of that Benelux legacy lived on with the Ghent-built P1 cars and now the CMA XC40s even though the NedCar plant itself is no longer Volvo affiliated.

@pip-bip just makes me think.....beep beep!

its not even got anything to do with the picture...other than beatles having a distinctive little horn.....my brain works in mysterious ways....when it works at all

@pip-bip

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@pip-bip
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@pip-bip I've never seen one of those. Lately I've only seen the big sedan and the huge SUV.

@Bloody-the-resident-LandRover-apologist doesn’t look like the New Jersey I saw. I was only shown the hell’s ape of interstate and suburb/city living.

Looks mainly like upstate New York or my own backyard for that matter. Could do the same for a lot cheaper elsewhere 😉

@A-Former-User
Roy with an E….damn son.

@Mr-Ontop

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You mean something like this?

I never thought about it, but I suppose you could. You could theoretically take a four-valve B-flat trumpet, hold down the fourth valve, and then have what is essentially an F trumpet (I think). The only problem with that is that when we read trumpet in F we are reading up from the printed note. That means if you held down the fourth valve you'd have to be playing an octave higher than what it would sound. It might work, but I'm getting a headache trying to figure out how. Having that fourth valve down might also really screw with the intonation of the horn. There is a reason we don't use these horns with any sort of regularity, which really means never.

However, that is essentially what the trigger on a trombone does. By engaging the trigger you are dropping the down a fourth (I think) which then gives you a different set of slide positions. You would then have two different positions for the same note, and you could decide which one to use to make the passage easier or more in tune.

@JunkleMKVII

Glad you guys were able to make it out this morning. I was at the soccer fields, in the fog. Little dude got a hat trick! 😁

@Scary Only way to do it. We have an option of heated recliners too!

@facw My friend, congestion charges are a regressive tax that have shockingly little effect on environmental impact (in studies funded by people who were asked to quantify how much by advocates for congestion charges, it was as much as 12%... for that small area — a drop in the proverbial bucket). To anyone with half a brain, they're about as palatable as poop on a stick.

As for busses being more efficient, well, yes - in terms of energy. Certainly a net-loss in terms of time. Mass transit is also, quite frankly, gross. I found it really funny what lengths people took to make sure no one published good data on how much worse spreading COVID on mass transit was vs private transportation.

We need more carrots not sticks. If you want to build a 15-minute city, great. Come up with a transit system that is 1) clean 2) a delight to use and 3) more efficient than a car in both time and energy. Thing is though, most urbanists and city planners don't know their ass from their elbow. They think you can take a system like a bus or a train and force people into using them. They don't think broadly about the problem or consider user experience. This is the same group of people, decades removed, who gave us very efficient housing systems: the projects. They didn't get it then and they don't get it now. Your 85 year old grandmother is not going to take a bike to the pharmacy.

@SilentbutnotreallyDeadly oh

@orneryduck Well I had my covid job for a bit before going back to my real job, and shows have not come back as crazy as it was so I might not be paying much.

@Alfalfa How dumb was Toyota not making the FJ Cruiser like a Wrangler with a removable top.

@john-norris I've done LA twice but I won't travel unless it's something pretty amazing. I have a pelican case with wheels, no carrying for me!

@frinesi2 Someone in my neighborhood has an Isuzu MU. No, not an Amigo, an actual RHD MU.

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Seen here before the Colorado Oppo-meet in 2021.

@pip-bip just over 300 as of today.

@flatisflat This turned out to be pretty much what I expected. I think I mentioned in another thread that it looked like a Moto3 race.

Hope Pol heals up quick. Could’ve been even worse if his bike followed him to the wall.

@RallyDarkstrike
It doesn't even have to be that far back, just a few years ago there was much more colour.
Granted some bring out something from time to time.
Some of the current colours available now.
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@RallyDarkstrike This reminds me of how fortunate my family's Tundra is considering how infamously rust prone those are. The paint just sort of falls off of it in places but there's no rust.

Maybe you should buy a spare Accent down south and road trip it up to Canada? You could do a shell swap.amd create the ultimate Accent.

@HotWheelsAndFriedChicken Thank you!

@Throwaway the carbon is silly, but there are "paintable" offerings. It's thin enough that side skirts probably wouldn't be needed but if I were to get the XKR-S aero I'd need to go all in.

@Green-Truck That two-tone looks great! I've heard that FI Tech EFI can be troublesome. I ended up replacing the computer controlled carb with a late 70s Qjet three years ago and have been really happy with it.

@Miss-Mercedes said in Facebook marketplace is a dumpster fire:

Classy guy! He later went on a tirade about Jewish people...

That is super shitty but in a way at least he led with the crazy, rather than you having to find out when you got to the meeting point. 🙁

@onlytwowheels Mentioned in an earlier reply that I'd been in contact with the guy from the first link, who seemed to have disappeared. May be worth trying again though, it's been a few years. The second link doesn't mention the 16.25" blades - but that's a new site to me, thanks 🙂

My Pixel 4 XL torpedoed itself during a security update. Turned out it was a known issue and Google repaired the phone at no charge (and by repair, it meant replacing almost every internal component).

Insurance was going to let me upgrade to a Pixel 7 XL for $200, but I decided it wasn't worth it. Between the lackluster upgrade in features and the risk of it also bricking after 4 years wasn't worth the hassle for me. I also could have traded it in for a free Galaxy 10S or whatever their flagship was, but I really liked my Pixel up til it died. After the repair, my 4 XL has not had any issues, but it does kinda sit in the back of my mind.

@Snakesm13 37400

@duurtlang I only share the start and finish in advance. The pins on the map are potential checkpoints, but some of them won't survive the culling and the ones that do are no help to competitors because there are multiple routes and they won't know which one they want to take until they see what the specific items are and how many points each is worth. At the start of the day there's an hour period before teams can leave the line where they can plan their routes.

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@Highlander The Basque History of the World by Kurlansky is a good read if anyone is interested in the topic.

@ClassicDatsunDebate Big sad 😞