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[MaverickSawyer]

Well, that was almost what I heard from the senior classmate that was trying to start ol' Smokey. "Why's it making so much smoke, and why isn't N1 rising like it's supposed to?"
Teammate: quietly reaches over and toggles the ignition circuit switch.
FOOOMPHeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
"Oh."

 

[Fabri91]

I know that feeling, somebody here is driving an old Oldsmobile 98 or similar. Feels really surreal among all those new tiny cars, even a big SUV looks small next to it.

In the car park where I often park for work stands an rather old car (~late 90s) that could look really beautiful, if the owner would not let it rot away there. It has never moved since I park there. But I fail to identify even the manufacturer of it, it is looking really worn. It looks somewhat French to me, like a modern brother of the Citroen SM. I should really take a picture of it.

Something similar happened to me: some time ago, for about two-three years I'd see this unidentified classic car (late 1960s mid-size sedan) more or less everyday while driving to the station. Finally one summer I took a walk to its location, thinking it to be an American car that I'd never heard of, but in the end it turned out to be...a Soviet Volga M24:

Album (3 pictures)

Wikipedia article

 

[Loru]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Volga

 

[Urwumpe]

The new season of Homeland, that was produced in Berlin, got some really sneaking criticism into it without the film crew really noticing it. They wanted to build a lebanese refugee camp and tasked some local Arabian graffiti artists to decorate them with Arabian graffiti...

Now, you can enjoy real Arabian graffiti in TV:

"Homeland is fake"
"Homeland is a joke and we are not laughing"
"Homeland is no serial"
"We have not defended ourselves, so we got conquered by somebody riding a donkey" (Means: Don't be surprised, if you are not fighting back.)
"Homeland is racist"
"Freedom. Now in 3D"
"There is no homeland"
"#blacklivesmatter"

I can really understand it... Homeland paints the darkest 1980s-republican version of the Arabians, which is extremely far from truth. (But the political implications of homeland would be even too harsh for the basement)

Source: http://www.bento.de/tv/homeland-hacker-graffiti-in-arabisch-kritisiert-serie-53222/

 

[Fabri91]

I should add, the car was for sale at the time.

 

[ISProgram]

Computer is acting very suspicious now, it inexplicably will close every application that might be up while it's in sleep mode. It's doing this very inconsistently, first time I was under the impression it was my fault, not so sure now.

Certainly wasn't doing this a week ago, and it's starting to become VERY disruptive.

 

[Andy44]

Computer is acting very suspicious now, it inexplicably will close every application that might be up while it's in sleep mode. It's doing this very inconsistently, first time I was under the impression it was my fault, not so sure now.

Certainly wasn't doing this a week ago, and it's starting to become VERY disruptive.

A while back I had a nasty computer virus. Searching led me to this site:

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/

Go there, get on the forum, and post your problem. Follow their instructions. Those guys saved my bacon big time.

 

[Urwumpe]

Finally managed to identify the car that is rusting away there:

The chassis is a Smart Roadster Coupe (explains the French look).

What made the identification a bit hard is that the only place on the car where smart mentioned is a small text on the license plate. Contrary to this wikipedia image, it only had a "RS" on the rear and a small text "powerline" in the right lower corner of its astern. There is a dedicated car tuner called "RS-parts" in Germany, which could explain this version.

Also it is a pretty exotic car today, despite 43,000 cars being build, only few are still driving because of massive quality problems. Explains why this car is no longer moving.

 

[TMac3000]

1) They have the exact same body type in the exact same outfit (comes from being the same class)

2) I've always preferred long hair

3) I like a pair of modest glasses on a chick--they add something classy to her face

So why in the hell is it that Choukai (the long-haired one, for those who don't know Kancolle) just doesn't quite do it for me like Maya does?

 

[Andy44]

So why in the hell is it that Choukai (the long-haired one, for those who don't know Kancolle) just doesn't quite do it for me like Maya does?

She's a cartoon with exaggerated, oversexualized, human features?

 

[TMac3000]

She's a cartoon with exaggerated, oversexualized, human features?

On the contrary--I find their figures, while pretty curvy, to be considerably more realistic than the more oversexualized anime girls. It's one of the first things I noticed about Maya Seriously, have you seen some of those MMD videos? Obscene, I tell you:dry:

But believe me, there are a fair number of women who look like that. I'll grant you, most of them are famous, and the list features quite a few Playboy models, but I remember this girl in my high school who had an unbelievable figure. She was a stuck up b, but she turned a lot of heads, and had very similar proportions to Maya.

In any case, I already did say that the two were pretty much identical below the neck

I think it's the eyes. Maya has amazing eyes, and her facial expressions just scream sex appeal. Choukai throws a blush or a coy grin every now and then, but for the most part she just looks kind of blank.

 

[mojoey]

What...what have I walked into?

 

[Cosmic Penguin]

What...what have I walked into?

http://kancolle.wikia.com/

(and yes, TMac3000's last post on this back in August was the final straw that kicked me into the game in late August. Still playing it right now. :rofl

 

[Urwumpe]

What...what have I walked into?

Noch ein Bier?

 

[Cosmic Penguin]

Noch ein Bier?

You might want to know that the game also has German ships in it as girls too - Bismarck, Prinz Eugen, 2 destroyers and a U-boat (that went to Japan). Just saying. :rofl:

 

[Urwumpe]

You might want to know that the game also has German ships in it as girls too - Bismarck, Prinz Eugen, 2 destroyers and a U-boat (that went to Japan). Just saying. :rofl:

Ah..... yes.... :blink:

:blink:

Noch ein Bier!

 

[RisingFury]

What...what have I walked into?

TMac jacking off.

Best to just leave and not ask anything.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Random Comments indeed :blink:

Anyhoo....

Interesting news - Entergy is shutting down Pilgrim nuclear power station in 2017, citing operating costs. With the shutdown of the coal-fired Mt Tom plant last year, there will be no coal or nuclear generation in Massachusetts after Pilgrim shuts down.

We're building gas-fired combined cycle plants all over, and we're buying all the hydro we can from NY and Canada. Gas is fine while it is cheap, but it's now over 70% of our energy portfolio. If gas prices spike we're going to be hurting.

I hope offshore wind can get established. The DOE and Massachusetts wants 2 GW of offshore wind by 2020. I think the nuts that killed Cape Wind a few years back are going to be told to sit down and shut up this time around.

 

[Athena]

What...what have I walked into?

It's probably best not to find out. :hide:

 

[Linguofreak]

It would be interesting to see statistics on what percentage of car accidents in Russia end up on YouTube.