OT: 109th Obsequious Banter Thread: In the Driver's Seat

[Chicken N Raffls]

Went with the OG Batmobile because it probably has ejector seats and all kinds of other sweet gadgets like a TV communication device that came in crystal clear in the 50's. Plus, the candle flame afterburner is some legendary special effect.

DeLorean sighted at a local distributor awhile back. I've also seen a couple Jurassic Park jeeps. The real beauty is a local car, but I don't have a pic. I know where it lives though, so maybe tomorrow.

 

[GapToothedWonder]

Haven't we seen this one already?

 

[Embiid]

So my cat now regularly wipes her ass on my wood floors after dropping a deuce....fun cleaning up skid marks.

 

[landsbergfan]

 

[Rebels57]

Imagine just thinking you can just ride your bike directly into a cow, let alone a bull. What the hell is wrong with people?

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

Imagine just thinking you can just ride your bike directly into a cow, let alone a bull. What the hell is wrong with people?

Well I see fairly often that bikers think that they can ride their bike directly into a car so...

 

[Rebels57]

Well I see fairly often that bikers think that they can ride their bike directly into a car so...

When I was 20 or so and doing Fire Alarm installation with my brother in law, we were parked on a smaller Center City street. It was a red light so all of the cars on the street were stopped. A bike courier tried to zip through traffic inbetween the parked cars and stopped cars. My brother in law opened the door to the work truck at the exact moment he was passing us. He hit the door and went flying over the handlebars to the right and slid down the hood of the stopped car next to us face first. It was f***ing histerical. His rim was destroyed. He then called the cops and tried to get the cop to force us to take blame and pay for his damages. The cop asked him if traffic was stopped. He said yes, so the cop told him that he should have been obeying the traffic rules and stopped as well. Good memory overall.

 

[ajgoal]

Well I see fairly often that bikers think that they can ride their bike directly into a car so...

When I was 20 or so and doing Fire Alarm installation with my brother in law, we were parked on a smaller Center City street. It was a red light so all of the cars on the street were stopped. A bike courier tried to zip through traffic inbetween the parked cars and stopped cars. My brother in law opened the door to the work truck at the exact moment he was passing us. He hit the door and went flying over the handlebars to the right and slid down the hood of the stopped car next to us face first. It was f***ing histerical. His rim was destroyed. He then called the cops and tried to get the cop to force us to take blame and pay for his damages. The cop asked him if traffic was stopped. He said yes, so the cop told him that he should have been obeying the traffic rules and stopped as well. Good memory overall.

Denis Leary:

"Hey, that was my space!"
"No, it's the space for the door to open, *******!"

 

[Young Sandwich]

When I was 20 or so and doing Fire Alarm installation with my brother in law, we were parked on a smaller Center City street. It was a red light so all of the cars on the street were stopped. A bike courier tried to zip through traffic inbetween the parked cars and stopped cars. My brother in law opened the door to the work truck at the exact moment he was passing us. He hit the door and went flying over the handlebars to the right and slid down the hood of the stopped car next to us face first. It was f***ing histerical. His rim was destroyed. He then called the cops and tried to get the cop to force us to take blame and pay for his damages. The cop asked him if traffic was stopped. He said yes, so the cop told him that he should have been obeying the traffic rules and stopped as well. Good memory overall.

This happened to me when I was dropping off my now-wife at work in Center City during college. Same exact scenario except the guy broke his collarbone and tried to sue but got nothing whatsoever. I was super chill about it and even drove the guy to the hospital so he didn't have to pay for an ambulance.

 

[Rebels57]

This happened to me when I was dropping off my now-wife at work in Center City during college. Same exact scenario except the guy broke his collarbone and tried to sue but got nothing whatsoever. I was super chill about it and even drove the guy to the hospital so he didn't have to pay for an ambulance.

Biker riders in downtown areas are a f***ing menace.

 

[Young Sandwich]

Biker riders in downtown areas are a f***ing menace.

Luckily the City is finally starting to step up to the multimodal transportation plate and are implementing more and more bike lanes and other facilities for bikes and pedestrians. The one issue I see with it is some of that stuff can seriously confuse even smart drivers, so the percentage of extremely dumb people on the road at any point in time is a bit concerning especially since most of these facilities have never been seen before in our part of the world. It's certainly worth the risk in the long run for the safety of bikes and peds (and even motorists to a degree), but there will be a learning curve.

/end engineering rant

 

[Jack Straw]

Biker riders in downtown areas are a f***ing menace.

Speaking as an avid cyclist who used to live in downtown DC, I would say not nearly so much as asshats driving cars. Just my opinion of course.

And I did get "doored" once. Riding in Georgetown on M Street there was a line of cars stopped at a light (like there always is in Georgetown). Nobody in his/her right mind is going to sit there on a bike for 10 minutes while traffic crawls along to get through the intersection. So I rode slowly between the line of cars and the curb, and a woman in the passenger seat of a car decides to get out just as I go past. Fortunately I wasn't seriously hurt and my bike wasn't damaged but my shin did go into the handlebar and I had to ride almost 10 miles home with a golfball sized bruise on my leg. The woman was very nice and apologetic and I wasn't angry, just something that unfortunately happens sometime. That said, getting out of a car *in traffic*, as opposed to pulling over, is a bad idea.

 

[Rebels57]

Speaking as an avid cyclist who used to live in downtown DC, I would say not nearly so much as asshats driving cars. Just my opinion of course.

And I did get "doored" once. Riding in Georgetown on M Street there was a line of cars stopped at a light (like there always is in Georgetown). Nobody in his/her right mind is going to sit there on a bike for 10 minutes while traffic crawls along to get through the intersection. So I rode slowly between the line of cars and the curb, and a woman in the passenger seat of a car decides to get out just as I go past. Fortunately I wasn't seriously hurt and my bike wasn't damaged but my shin did go into the handlebar and I had to ride almost 10 miles home with a golfball sized bruise on my leg. The woman was very nice and apologetic and I wasn't angry, just something that unfortunately happens sometime. That said, getting out of a car *in traffic*, as opposed to pulling over, is a bad idea.

Since that car wasn't parked, your both at fault rather than just you lol

 

[trostol]

ROY KENT ROY KENT, HE'S HERE, HE'S THERE, HE'S EVERY-f***ING-WHERE!!!!

 

[Beef Invictus]

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

So my cat now regularly wipes her ass on my wood floors after dropping a deuce....fun cleaning up skid marks.

Our cat does it on the rug.

 

[Rebels57]

ROY KENT ROY KENT, HE'S HERE, HE'S THERE, HE'S EVERY-f***ING-WHERE!!!!

Best character on Ted Lasso

 

[Embiid]

Our cat does it on the rug.

She has been scootin her poopin' a bit more than usual....I have a runner in the hallway but had to put a clear plastic runner on top. I take it off when guests come but keeps the rug clean in the meantime...including protecting it from her scratching. Little bugger...but love her still despite the inconveniences.

 

[Embiid]

Shit is fascinating...makes sense....we have a back up "file".

Old mice grow young again in study. Can people do the same? | CNN

All mammals hold a backup copy of cellular youth, a new study says. All we have to do is trigger the switch to turn back the clock, researchers say.

www.cnn.com

Our bodies hold a backup copy of our youth that can be triggered to regenerate, said Sinclair, the senior author of a new paper showcasing the work of his lab and international scientists.

The combined experiments, published for the first time Thursday in the journal Cell, challenge the scientific belief aging is the result of genetic mutations that undermine our DNA, creating a junkyard of damaged cellular tissue that can lead to deterioration, disease and death.

“It’s not junk, it’s not damage that causes us to get old,” said Sinclair, who described the work last year at Life Itself, a health and wellness event presented in partnership with CNN.

“We believe it’s a loss of information — a loss in the cell’s ability to read its original DNA so it forgets how to function — in much the same way an old computer may develop corrupted software. I call it the information theory of aging.”

 

[Chicken N Raffls]

I'm not a big car guy, but always thought this thing was gorgeous

Since board games were brought up in the other thread

My brother's and I loved this. Ogre FTW. We also played a lot of Hero Quest when we were young. Maybe about 15 years ago we got together as adults and played a few games. Still fun.

 

[Beef Invictus]

 

[Beef Invictus]

"Sad Man Eating Dog Food" turned out happier than expected

 

[Beef Invictus]

 

[trostol]

I miss playing both Dark Castle and Talisman

 

[Superman33]

Shit is fascinating...makes sense....we have a back up "file".

Old mice grow young again in study. Can people do the same? | CNN

All mammals hold a backup copy of cellular youth, a new study says. All we have to do is trigger the switch to turn back the clock, researchers say.

www.cnn.com

Our bodies hold a backup copy of our youth that can be triggered to regenerate, said Sinclair, the senior author of a new paper showcasing the work of his lab and international scientists.

The combined experiments, published for the first time Thursday in the journal Cell, challenge the scientific belief aging is the result of genetic mutations that undermine our DNA, creating a junkyard of damaged cellular tissue that can lead to deterioration, disease and death.

“It’s not junk, it’s not damage that causes us to get old,” said Sinclair, who described the work last year at Life Itself, a health and wellness event presented in partnership with CNN.

“We believe it’s a loss of information — a loss in the cell’s ability to read its original DNA so it forgets how to function — in much the same way an old computer may develop corrupted software. I call it the information theory of aging.”

Out of all the potential human living conditions presented in far future SciFi movies and such, I didn't think In Time (2011) was going to be the one that got it right.

Love that movie, but I thought we'd end up in a world like Altered Carbon. Probably because think I'd prefer "life disks" of our memories and consciousness that can be saved (and copied) and inserted into some sort of humanoid type figure over being the same age forever, but still possibly die.