Not sure who started the Canuk-"iztan" reference but it doesn't seem very politically correct and could be very hurtful to people's feelings, so would you mind apologizing to DEEP please and thank you.
I think the beaver is Canada's official animal or mascot or whatever.
Not sure who started the Canuk-"iztan" reference but it doesn't seem very politically correct and could be very hurtful to people's feelings, so would you mind apologizing to DEEP please and thank you.
I think the beaver is Canada's official animal or mascot or whatever.
Other than the spelling, I'm the one who bought that up.
I seem to remember it coming from the infamous Sarah Palin days. Some kind of joke I think.
Not sure who started the Canuk-"iztan" reference but it doesn't seem very politically correct and could be very hurtful to people's feelings, so would you mind apologizing to DEEP please and thank you.
I think the beaver is Canada's official animal or mascot or whatever.
Other than the spelling, I'm the one who bought that up.
I seem to remember it coming from the infamous Sarah Palin days. Some kind of joke I think.
Always seemed funny to me.
Deep, apologize to yourself for starting that, it could be hurtful to yourself and fellow Canadians. I have to do the same thing when I refer to the US as "Texas and its 49 bitches." People outside of Texas just don't see the humor in it.
Not sure who started the Canuk-"iztan" reference but it doesn't seem very politically correct and could be very hurtful to people's feelings, so would you mind apologizing to DEEP please and thank you.
I think the beaver is Canada's official animal or mascot or whatever.
Other than the spelling, I'm the one who bought that up.
I seem to remember it coming from the infamous Sarah Palin days. Some kind of joke I think.
Always seemed funny to me.
Deep, apologize to yourself for starting that, it could be hurtful to yourself and fellow Canadians. I have to do the same thing when I refer to the US as "Texas and its 49 bitches." People outside of Texas just don't see the humor in it.
I have seen a lot of bird shit in my day, and this is pink and long and squiggly and gross. There's a penis joke in there somewhere... Hubby did his job and washed out the birdbath massacre scene. Last week there was half a bluejay in there. Half. *shudder* Snake sex on the porch, weekly massacres in the birdbath...wtf.
@ Jones how bad did the antacid powder thingy taste and how quick did it dissolve?
I have seen a lot of bird shit in my day, and this is pink and long and squiggly and gross. There's a penis joke in there somewhere... Hubby did his job and washed out the birdbath massacre scene. Last week there was half a bluejay in there. Half. *shudder* Snake sex on the porch, weekly massacres in the birdbath...wtf.
@ Jones how bad did the antacid powder thingy taste and how quick did it dissolve?
Eh, about the same as always, just harder to stage.
Ah good to see sanity is still a stranger to this thread,
In other news my car had it's new Catalytic converter fitted today, cost me €400 to buy the CC and €40 to get it fitted, so the cost of the thing was a bit of a shock, but can't complain about the fitting, my local guys are always good to me. Took it to a local commercial vehicle test center and they ran the emission test for me to make sure all would be good tomorrow when the car goes for it's retest. Passed with flying colours, clean as a whistle was the report. So that's all the work done and all being well I should be the happy owner of a shiny new NCT certificate tomorrow.
Just spent the last three hours testing Nascars for my favorite Sim, a strange kind of racing, but once you get a handle on drafting it does become interesting. Very different to my usual kind of racing, different tactics, different driving style and of course your only turning left...and on other tracks right. I know one thing, sod trying it with 70 cars on the track for real.
Ah what would I know, the record field is 136 cars, but really I have idea about the real sport, thought that was the number mentioned by another tester but numbers have never been my strong point...So...Sod doing it in real life with 40+ cars :)
Well, I suppose being online they can do whatever they want. 70 cars on a track sounds quite ambitious and a bit crowded. Damage on? hehe...
Dude I was talking to used to be part of a Nascar team back in the day, so he was referring to real life. If the record field was over 130 cars I guess maybe he comes from a time of larger fields, or I misremember the number...Either way the guys doing this for real sure live life on the edge, bump drafting with two cars is not so hard, but soon as you add more the grip becomes more than a little compromised. The whole idea of teaming up with the people your competing with is weird but makes sense in oval racing, running solo you just fall off the pace and need to find someone to draft, then of course you get people slingshot past and timing a dive in behind to get towed past the car you were just teamed up with...Like I say it is a very different kind of racing. Easy enough, sort of, when there is only half a dozen or so on track, but those big fields...another kettle of fish altogether.
Yeah, if you go back far enough, the regulations were, let's say fluid. And drafting is a blast, and I totally agree, once you get involved with more than say 4 cars, it's really nerve wracking, especially if it's two separate groups ( 3, 4 anyone? )
These days they talk about making the cut when there are too many at the track. It may well come down to the track itself as far as I know. I've seen smaller races with so many cars they stretched all the way down the back straight two wide before the flag. There's a reason for the full cages and fenders.
I used to do small dirt track racing and it was a blast, but never more than maybe 20 cars on the track. Drafting wasn't really a factor. Bumping on the other hand...
Yes we had a great time yesterday, time flew by. I found being in front was okay, being the second in a pair was sound once I got the hang of it, being at the back of a group fine, but being piggy in the middle, my god!
Ha ha, sometimes a title update reflects a new post, and sometimes just a comment on latest content. It's kind of lost some of it's purpose sadly as we are banned from the trending list, still think that is sad as we are kinda now part of the furniture and obviously a popular entertainment.
Anyhoo, in other news
A pox on Ford and stupid design. My boot lock has become unresponsive to the button on the key, stuck in a new battery but still fails to open it. Well you would think that like the door, it would have a keyhole especially given the spare key has no buttons..No. Okay there must be a lever somewhere...No. So if the boot lock switch (Trunk lock for my American friends) has stopped reacting, or you lose the main key and have only the spare, you cannot open the boot! Now there are other stupid ideas in the same vane with Ford, like for example in the Ka, to change an offside headlight bulb you have to remove a wheel, the fuse for the central locking in mine is behind, not in the fuse box so to get to it you need to be a contortionist...Do they think up this stuff for a laugh?
Starting to feel like a zombie. Fortunately I should only have a couple more weeks of nights...and a day off (finally) coming up this Saturday night. 13 on, 1 off, 10.5 hour shifts for the past month. Money is nice, but I'm ready for it to be over. I've got cars to play with.
This is why I left the automotive repair business many many moons ago, to the chagrin of my father. Cars used to be built to be serviceable, now merely designed to be assembled, maintenance be damned.
So, now I work in a manufacturing industry and I am in constant opposition with engineering to keep ease of manufacture while also fighting to keep our stuff serviceable in the field if necessary.
No mask and cowl, just global certification in Quality. A cool car would be nice though...
Not surprised you jumped ship mate, we live in a world of built in obsolescence, cars used to be fixable by the roadside with a basic toolkit, these days that wont even change a bulb. Even something as simple as changing a spark plug has becomes a major operation, I now have four plug spanners, each one bought to fit the car I had because older ones did not fit. For decades one was enough. The amount of specialist tools need by a small general garage workshop must be frightening.
Yes, and to my dad's credit, more than a few he actually made himself when possible.
I find it inconceivable that there isn't a release for that trunk somewhere? Most US models have a release between the drivers seat and the door on the floorboard for the gas tank access and the trunk, side by side.
Well folks, it's been a bit of a couple of days...I won't bore you with the details and it all worked out fine so that's all that matters.
In other news, I amd going with my group to do swordy stuff in the UK in October, always nice to do gigs in other countries, but the sweet thing about this is it's not far from a racing buddy who really has become somthing of a friend over the years, I speak of Church Pro the sites most prolific poster. So it looks like we are going to meet up and discuss one or two racing incedents while I'm holding a sword...What could go wrong LOL
If you think my front is hairy, you should see my beaver backside. :P
Don't they have beavers up in Canuk-iztan?
Not sure who started the Canuk-"iztan" reference but it doesn't seem very politically correct and could be very hurtful to people's feelings, so would you mind apologizing to DEEP please and thank you.
I think the beaver is Canada's official animal or mascot or whatever.
I seem to remember it coming from the infamous Sarah Palin days. Some kind of joke I think.
Always seemed funny to me.
I hear the donkeys are bigger in Texas too...
I have seen a lot of bird shit in my day, and this is pink and long and squiggly and gross. There's a penis joke in there somewhere... Hubby did his job and washed out the birdbath massacre scene. Last week there was half a bluejay in there. Half. *shudder* Snake sex on the porch, weekly massacres in the birdbath...wtf.
@ Jones how bad did the antacid powder thingy taste and how quick did it dissolve?
Ah good to see sanity is still a stranger to this thread,
In other news my car had it's new Catalytic converter fitted today, cost me €400 to buy the CC and €40 to get it fitted, so the cost of the thing was a bit of a shock, but can't complain about the fitting, my local guys are always good to me. Took it to a local commercial vehicle test center and they ran the emission test for me to make sure all would be good tomorrow when the car goes for it's retest. Passed with flying colours, clean as a whistle was the report. So that's all the work done and all being well I should be the happy owner of a shiny new NCT certificate tomorrow.
Just spent the last three hours testing Nascars for my favorite Sim, a strange kind of racing, but once you get a handle on drafting it does become interesting. Very different to my usual kind of racing, different tactics, different driving style and of course your only turning left...and on other tracks right. I know one thing, sod trying it with 70 cars on the track for real.
Umm, usually the limits 43. But hey, go for it.
Ah what would I know, the record field is 136 cars, but really I have idea about the real sport, thought that was the number mentioned by another tester but numbers have never been my strong point...So...Sod doing it in real life with 40+ cars :)
Well, I suppose being online they can do whatever they want. 70 cars on a track sounds quite ambitious and a bit crowded. Damage on? hehe...
Dude I was talking to used to be part of a Nascar team back in the day, so he was referring to real life. If the record field was over 130 cars I guess maybe he comes from a time of larger fields, or I misremember the number...Either way the guys doing this for real sure live life on the edge, bump drafting with two cars is not so hard, but soon as you add more the grip becomes more than a little compromised. The whole idea of teaming up with the people your competing with is weird but makes sense in oval racing, running solo you just fall off the pace and need to find someone to draft, then of course you get people slingshot past and timing a dive in behind to get towed past the car you were just teamed up with...Like I say it is a very different kind of racing. Easy enough, sort of, when there is only half a dozen or so on track, but those big fields...another kettle of fish altogether.
Nothing like watching a pelican lay a juicy one on your car right?
Yeah, if you go back far enough, the regulations were, let's say fluid. And drafting is a blast, and I totally agree, once you get involved with more than say 4 cars, it's really nerve wracking, especially if it's two separate groups ( 3, 4 anyone?
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These days they talk about making the cut when there are too many at the track. It may well come down to the track itself as far as I know. I've seen smaller races with so many cars they stretched all the way down the back straight two wide before the flag. There's a reason for the full cages and fenders.
I used to do small dirt track racing and it was a blast, but never more than maybe 20 cars on the track. Drafting wasn't really a factor. Bumping on the other hand...
Yes we had a great time yesterday, time flew by. I found being in front was okay, being the second in a pair was sound once I got the hang of it, being at the back of a group fine, but being piggy in the middle, my god!
Okay Knight, an update and no new post?
Kinda tight aren't we?
Ha ha, sometimes a title update reflects a new post, and sometimes just a comment on latest content. It's kind of lost some of it's purpose sadly as we are banned from the trending list, still think that is sad as we are kinda now part of the furniture and obviously a popular entertainment.
Anyhoo, in other news
A pox on Ford and stupid design. My boot lock has become unresponsive to the button on the key, stuck in a new battery but still fails to open it. Well you would think that like the door, it would have a keyhole especially given the spare key has no buttons..No. Okay there must be a lever somewhere...No. So if the boot lock switch (Trunk lock for my American friends) has stopped reacting, or you lose the main key and have only the spare, you cannot open the boot! Now there are other stupid ideas in the same vane with Ford, like for example in the Ka, to change an offside headlight bulb you have to remove a wheel, the fuse for the central locking in mine is behind, not in the fuse box so to get to it you need to be a contortionist...Do they think up this stuff for a laugh?
Starting to feel like a zombie. Fortunately I should only have a couple more weeks of nights...and a day off (finally) coming up this Saturday night. 13 on, 1 off, 10.5 hour shifts for the past month. Money is nice, but I'm ready for it to be over. I've got cars to play with.
Sounds like the vehicles are designed so dealer mechs can charge hours of labor to change a simple part.
This is why I left the automotive repair business many many moons ago, to the chagrin of my father. Cars used to be built to be serviceable, now merely designed to be assembled, maintenance be damned.
So, now I work in a manufacturing industry and I am in constant opposition with engineering to keep ease of manufacture while also fighting to keep our stuff serviceable in the field if necessary.
No mask and cowl, just global certification in Quality. A cool car would be nice though...
Not surprised you jumped ship mate, we live in a world of built in obsolescence, cars used to be fixable by the roadside with a basic toolkit, these days that wont even change a bulb. Even something as simple as changing a spark plug has becomes a major operation, I now have four plug spanners, each one bought to fit the car I had because older ones did not fit. For decades one was enough. The amount of specialist tools need by a small general garage workshop must be frightening.
Yes, and to my dad's credit, more than a few he actually made himself when possible.
I find it inconceivable that there isn't a release for that trunk somewhere? Most US models have a release between the drivers seat and the door on the floorboard for the gas tank access and the trunk, side by side.
Fair play to your dad...Yup inconceivable it may be, but there you go, it's true. At least it's a job I am happy to take on myself.
Happy Friday only two more work hours to run the clock out on!
Had a Day and daughter girl scout outing today and the local girl scout camp. Hiking, canoeing, archery, and rock climbing. Was a blast!!!
I can see the great outdoors through my office window that looks through another window to the outside.....
Well folks, it's been a bit of a couple of days...I won't bore you with the details and it all worked out fine so that's all that matters.
In other news, I amd going with my group to do swordy stuff in the UK in October, always nice to do gigs in other countries, but the sweet thing about this is it's not far from a racing buddy who really has become somthing of a friend over the years, I speak of Church Pro the sites most prolific poster. So it looks like we are going to meet up and discuss one or two racing incedents while I'm holding a sword...What could go wrong LOL