Well goldarnit...now I'm getting a Homer Simpson quote, after I posted in the 'learned today' thread, invoking Homer.

Cellar Cookies gots the googly eyes.

OK, Tony. Now you're just messing with me! A two-fer:

"Ya know, one _needs_ beer to work on a VW. Its enough to make you WANT to get drunk."
- Corey Renner, VW lover/hater

:lol:

Why not go to the DeLorean company since every fucking part is still made.
Everything you've stated applies to every car on the road for "some people".
The only thing you can say for sure is it does or does not fit your wants/needs.
Knowing someone who made an uninformed decision is not unusual.
So every coat that isn't your size is relegated to the impractical rack.

Wow. I'm impressed. Never heard of it. I take it back. I don't think it's impractical any more.

Absolutely. Why would I want a coat that I can't wear?

:thumb:

You should get rid of your car, it's impractical because I can't carry 3 ton of hay in it. :rolleyes:

For non-emergency calls? That's odd.

Around here, we're almost bombarded with ads on tv, radio, and billboards not to call 911 unless it's an actual emergency. They even use 'fender benders w/o injury' as an example of a non-emergency situation.

:thumb:

On today's episode of walkin' man, walkin' man sees yet another impractical vehicle. Takes a sloppy picture of it. Parked in front of the field office of the FBI.


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Damn!! How many lugnuts is that?! Not counting the ones inside the field office...

Glatt, I think that would make an excellent thread.

Good idea. I have a small backlog of photos. Nothing super interesting. Just walkin' man stuff.

:lol:

...on a very special "walkin' man" (music swells, then fades...and...we're out.

I was having lunch with sis in law and my great niece and sis in law noticed on her phone that a nearby Wifi connection was: FBI Surveillance Van. At first I was like "HERE? Why?" then my dumb self realized that the actual FBI probably doesn't have open WiFi nor would they name it as such. Too funny. It made me think about the Simpson's episode with the surveillance van disguised as "Flowers By Irene."

First of all, good to see you again manymonkey.

Second of all, I am totally stealing that idea. That is funny as hell!

Not very original, V. :headshake

2011
http://gawker.com/5832665/do-not-nam...llance-van/all
2011
http://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireles...lancevan.shtml
2011
http://features.techworld.com/person...veillance-van/
2012
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread888852/pg1
2012
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-.../2965189/posts
2013
http://www.dailypaul.com/296776/fbi-surveillance-van
2013
http://www.wbbjtv.com/news/local/Wha...219619461.html

Totally practical for running down citizens protesters. Love the Walkin' Man work btw.

New to me, funny to me. Ymmv

Yes, but be aware anyone you spring it on may look at you like you're kind of strange. But you're used to that... nevermind. :stickpoke

Mazda recall due to SPIDERS! Hey, if someone sold me a car that came equipped with spiders they'd need more than a recall. :mg:

Why Mazdas? Are other cars susceptible to spiders?

Way creepy, to me.

http://money.cnn.com/2014/04/06/auto...html?hpt=hp_t2

rDoes that news item have an April first date?

No, that's legit. And it's the second time for that type of recall for Mazda.

Yes real, but strange because tank vents should not go to atmosphere, they should go to a vapor recovery system which is a closed system spiders can't get in. :confused:

stranger than friction...

Gotta have some connection to the atmosphere, otherwise you'd never be able to get the fuel out of the tank, unless it's a bag, like those Capri Sun juice container, collapsing as it empties.

How Pot Legalization In The U.S. Hurts Mexico's Illegal Marijuana Industry

How ironic.

Next they'll have to legalize opium.

Re: Foot's link

I have issues with the numbers.

How much weed do ya hafta buy to get it for $25 per fucking kilo?

That's ~$12.50 per pound.

Around here, decent herb is going for $2000 per pound.

Granted, volume gets you a lower price per, but $12.50 a pound?

You'd have to fill the Jahre Viking to get it that cheap.

And I'd still be dubious.

Yes, but it's through a system that takes all the hydrocarbons out of the air, it can certainly take spiders out.

Consider the typical manufacturer cost to retail cost climb:

Makes widget for $1.50, sells it to broker for $3.00. Broker sells it for 6.00 to distributor. distributor turns around and sells it to wholesaler for 12.00 who sells it to supply house for 24.00 who sells it to you for 48.00.

Every time shit changes hands it gets marked up 100% at least. Sometimes more. Bike shops bid on inner tubes at the beginning of the season, (they commit to buying x number of tubes and the supplier locks in a price for the year. Generic inner tubes can be had for 30-50 cents each. You get to pay 5-6 bucks each. Bikes, on the other hand almost no markup. Maybe 40-50 dollars on a thousand dollar bike. On the other hand, a holding company usually lays out the capital so the shops $ isn't tied up in inventory. They sell the bikes to sell accessories and repairs.

Farmers don't make shit no matter what you pay for the produce.

Round here, you're looking at about £120 -150 per ounce

Apparently it can't. Should, but, ain't.

They've pulled the last Corvette outta the sinkhole. This is what the 2001 Z-06 Mallet Hammer looks like now:

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Before:

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Last Corvette pulled from museum sinkhole will need some extra TLC

Makes me wonder how Vettes perform in crash tests. I'm sure they have to meet some minimum standard, but what is that? And how do they fare compared to other sports cars?

Probably that won't buff out.

Here is a crash test video (2005 Corvette). Here are the details of that crash test, details, not results.

Go here to find a different vehicle.

Do you have an inkling what that car's been through? :cool:

The floor? :lol2:


I'm here all week...

Russians. You gotta love them.
Just in case.

Fish Eats Dildo
 

The joke possibilities are endless.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...n_5153329.html

'Big', and, 'pink' must have different meanings in Norwegia...

that looks strangely familiar...

Didja look through the antique vibrator slideshow below the story?

Oh yes. And it reminded me of the very funny movie Hysteria. I'm acquainted with a couple of them too.

Is it just me?

definitely not just you; you, me, and all the other lying bastards out there who protest otherwise.

North Korean bad hair day...
 

Weird news? Well, perhaps not strictly speaking, but definitely odd, farcical and slightly sinister.

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North Korean officials visit salon over Kim Jong-un 'bad hair' advert


And....

The Enigma that is North Korea moves in mysterious ways:

Now what, in the name of sanity, is the North Korean government doing showing 'Top Gear' to its hapless populace? Is it psychological warfare of some particularly ghastly kind?
Perhaps subjecting the hordes to the odious Jeremy Clarkson will deter them from entertaining thoughts of defecting to the bourgeois capitalist West. A bizarre choice which ever way you look at it, so to speak.

BBC's 'Doctor Who', 'Top Gear' And 'Teletubbies' Might Get Their North Korean Debut

No question, you hit it right square in the weird. :thumb:

Oxford City Council apologises after Passion Play it 'mistook for live sex show' is cancelled

All you can do is sigh a sigh of disbelief and wait for the next example of dimwittery to come along.

It won't be long.

Rule 34.

Thinking a passion play would be a sex show is pretty stupid (or wishful thinking), but he apparently thought the Crowley Road Methodist Church would put on a sex show... at 10:30 in the morning, as well. Seems to be several breaches in intelligence.

Passion of the Christ was more about Mel Gibson’s vitriolic temper. Mel Gibson is not Kim Kardasean.

The council needs counciling. Psychiatrists do word association. "Passion" .... "Sex". I think a problem is identified.

Middle-aged prisoner broke out of jail to flee constant din of rap music.
 

Cruel and unusual punishment?

Daily Telegraph.

Pony Protects Foal During Barn Fire

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Giant cauliflower weighs in at 27.5kg
 

Peter Glazebrook, who already owns four world records for the longest beetroot and parsnip and the heaviest onion and potato, smashes the heaviest cauliflower world record.

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Anyway, Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Daily Telegraph

That looks like no cauliflower I've ever seen.

It looks like cabbage.

Yes Grav, it's not the best picture is it?

A quick search reveals a somewhat better view.

Scroll down to second picture.