Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Snarf Zagyg]

I guess it should be no surprise that parasocial relationships are all over YouTube as well, but wow, the comments on the Jeremy Crawford interviews there are wild. Such fragility about even neutral videos about the new PHB.

Reading the comments on youtube for anything just makes me very sad. But then I remember ...

At least I have a justification for my evil existence!

Take that, Mama Snarf! That's right, I do have a reason to exist. And you always called me the poster child for birth control.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Oh the Cutlass is a classic!

This thing has been through hell and back, and while it looks like it, and a number of things are no longer operant (the AC is long gone and it has no working parking brake) it still runs surprisingly well.

 

[Thomas Shey]

-Snarf's junior high school teachers, repeatedly, before detention.

Only appropriate I guess since I think I'm one of the Senior Old Farts of the board these days...

 

[Thomas Shey]

I'll have to go with you

Makes me think of the meme I've seen that has a young man talking to a young woman:

Man: "Why don't you seem to date?"

Woman: "Because my parents are very strict. Why don't you date?"

Man, with a wry smile: "Because your parents are very strict."

(Though I actually always thought that one was kind of charming.)

 

[Thomas Shey]

In the 80s we had a ford aerostar and that thing broke down on a trip to Sequoia in Bakersfield. We spent a week in bakersfield while they fixed it. Rolled it out of the dealer and it overheated. Then we took a rental home. My dad went back to get it after they did the needed repairs. It broke down on his way from Bakersfield to our home in San Diego county. Ultimately they had to fix it and drive it down to us, and I think we still had one or two more significant break downs. And that is the story without Sequoia subplot of bears, drought and bubonic plague. I don't trust GM, neither do I trust Ford. I stick with Japanese cars now.

Well, keep in mind when I compliment GM I'm complimenting them 30 years ago. I could tell some stories about older Fords though (though I have to say the first car I had, which was a Ford Mustang proved they were definitely capable of producing muscle cars at one time. I surprised the hell out of a guy driving a Porsche once with that (shouldn't have, but I was young and dumb at the time)...

 

[Ryujin]

Well, keep in mind when I compliment GM I'm complimenting them 30 years ago. I could tell some stories about older Fords though (though I have to say the first car I had, which was a Ford Mustang proved they were definitely capable of producing muscle cars at one time. I surprised the hell out of a guy driving a Porsche once with that (shouldn't have, but I was young and dumb at the time)...

I once surprised the heel out of a guy on a Honda 500 Interceptor while riding a Honda Elite 250 scooter, so that might not mean a lot

 

[Thomas Shey]

I once surprised the heel out of a guy on a Honda 500 Interceptor while riding a Honda Elite 250 scooter, so that might not mean a lot

I just realized I said Mustang when I meant Maverick, and since in the case involved he was trying to out-accelerate me around a curve, I think it said a fair bit. I think he just didn't expect that Maverick to have a pretty punchy V8 engine.

 

[Ryujin]

I just realized I said Mustang when I meant Maverick, and since in the case involved he was trying to out-accelerate me around a curve, I think it said a fair bit. I think he just didn't expect that Maverick to have a pretty punchy V8 engine.

Or that an American made sports car could, you know, corner.

EDIT - Guy on the Interceptor was laughing at my choice of bike, at a stop light. Tried to out accelerate me at the light and leave me in the dust. Flubbed the clutch. Second light he was more serious about it. Blew his shift to second and hit neutral (could tell by how the rpms went through the roof). Took him three lights to do it and he wasn't laughing anymore.

The Elite 250 had a centrifugal clutch and variable ratio belt drive (no gears, so no shifting ).

 

[Thomas Shey]

Or that an American made sports car could, you know, corner.

Yeah, that thing could cling to the road like a tick.

EDIT - Guy on the Interceptor was laughing at my choice of bike, at a stop light. Tried to out accelerate me at the light and leave me in the dust. Flubbed the clutch. Second light he was more serious about it. Blew his shift to second and hit neutral (could tell by how the rpms went through the roof). Took him three lights to do it and he wasn't laughing anymore.

The Elite 250 had a centrifugal clutch and variable ratio belt drive (no gears, so no shifting ).

The funny thing was I'm betting the Porsche was manual, but the Maverick was automatic. I wouldn't know how to drive a manual if my life depended on it.

 

[Ryujin]

Yeah, that thing could cling to the road like a tick.

The funny thing was I'm betting the Porsche was manual, but the Maverick was automatic. I wouldn't know how to drive a manual if my life depended on it.

I can drive a manual car. Just. The vast majority of bikes are standard and the Elite was the only auto that I ever owned. Clutchless shifting if you want to be fast off the mark