OT: 119th Obsequious Banter Thread: April Foods Day

[Chinatown88]

You shouldn't have!

You want a John Deere Lego Skidder?

 

[Starat327]

You want a John Deere Lego Skidder?

How did you know?!?!

 

[Chinatown88]

How did you know?!?!

Cause I'm that good at giving presents.

 

[Cody Webster]

Why is "Christmas in July" a thing? Shouldn't it be in June, which is the 6 mo point from the actual date?

I always wondered this as well

 

[Starat327]

Cause I'm that good at giving presents.

Let's see how good you really are: my daughter wants a 2004 996 gt3.

 

[Chinatown88]

Let's see how good you really are: my daughter wants a 2004 996 gt3.

I have a budget

But if I ever win the lottery I'll add this to the list.

 

[JojoTheWhale]

I have a budget

But if I ever win the lottery I'll add this to the list.

You'll just bankrupt her with repair bills. I wouldn't wish that maintenance on anyone.

 

[Kermit the Prog]

You'll just bankrupt her with repair bills. I wouldn't wish that maintenance on anyone.

One of the mistakes I made when I bought a Jaguar many years ago was not accounting for the elevated service costs - and I do mean ELEVATED.

 

[Chinatown88]

You'll just bankrupt her with repair bills. I wouldn't wish that maintenance on anyone.

I am not a car guy. So I wouldn't know this lol.

 

[Starat327]

You'll just bankrupt her with repair bills. I wouldn't wish that maintenance on anyone.

Dada can fix it.

 

[PALE PWNR]

With moving country twice, changing jobs, and lots of other shitty life things...

basically did not work out properly in a year. And tbf before then was not killing myself, just doing maybe 2 5km runs and 2 2km swims a week for the previous 2 years...

My god it is incredible the amount of fitness you lose. Almost depressing level incredible ahaha.

Went from still running 5km in sub-20 minutes a year ago without "properly training" to struggling to hit 29 minutes today. (albeit it is 100f)

Supposed to be doing a sprint triathlon in around 6 weeks to motivate myself to get back to a good level of fitness... not sure if I want to now ahaha.

Im not brave enough to do real cardio like that anymore. But anytime I miss a week of lifting I come back to the gym and feel like I'm starting all over. I can't imagine a year off

 

[JojoTheWhale]

Dada can fix it.

I know the engines have a great rep, but those things eat brakes and suspension parts. Start praying now.

 

[Chinatown88]

I know the engines have a great rep, but those things eat brakes and suspension parts. Start praying now.

Is there some hobby you don't know even a little about? Oh wait that's anime NVM.

https://x.com/i/web/status/1816507397105491995

MUST RESIST NOSTALGIA

 

[Starat327]

I know the engines have a great rep, but those things eat brakes and suspension parts. Start praying now.

Fortunately, those are the easier parts!

 

[swami24]

Jaguar has been know for frequent and exorbitant repair costs for 50 yrs. How do they stay in business?

 

[Cody Webster]

Anyone interested in seeing Blink tomorrow? I got tickets for the wife and I when they went on sale, then the wife decided to invite a friend and their family to stay with us tomorrow night.

 

[Appleyard]

Jaguar has been know for frequent and exorbitant repair costs for 50 yrs. How do they stay in business?

They have a cool mascot and are a beautiful standard colour...

and they are British. Ahahaha.

50-70 year old ex-working or middle class Brits who held a Jag up as their holy grail of "making it" are the reason really. (I say that as someone whose Grandad drove a Gold Jaguar for a while ahahaha) I wonder what the correlation is between buying a Jaguar, having your first Grand-child, and divorce... I guess quite strong.

I actually used to go to JLR headquarters (Castle Bromwich) once every few weeks in an old job - hilariously to help staff their get free bicycle repairs...

I could say something about not trusting Brummies to do anything well... let alone making high-end cars... but that would be my hatred of Birmingham coming through and not based in reality as everyone seemed lovely ahahaha.

 

[Jack Straw]

Jaguar has been know for frequent and exorbitant repair costs for 50 yrs. How do they stay in business?

When you make cars that look like this people cut you some slack.

 

[Kermit the Prog]

When you make cars that look like this people cut you some slack.

I've never had sex with a car before, but I'm just saying...that E-Type on the bottom had better keep its head on a swivel.

 

[Strawberry Fields]

Drunk Santa is in the house at Hersheypark Stadium

 

[swami24]

When you make cars that look like this people cut you some slack.

Sure, the definition of slick. Fine if you have the scratch to consider it a throw away purchase.

 

[Lotusflower]

Finished Dune yesterday; the book, not the movie. One of the better things I've read in a long time. I almost never read sci-fi because the writing isn't fun and usually most of the book is dense exposition to slog through.

This wasn't that. What I appreciated the most I think is that Herbert inundates you with the details but he doesn't spend all day explaining what everything is. He drops you in the world, sets the scene and let's your imagination fill in the gaps. You can almost see how much he edited the manuscript like an architect purposely effacing something already built in order to make it more functional for the people living in it.

It's crazy to think that a white guy, an American in the late 50's early 60's no less, had such an understanding of Islam and Arabic culture and history that he was able to incorporate it so seamlessly into an esoteric world such as this. Brings up a lot of interesting social and political implications vis a vis the West's current relationship to the East and it's thought and philosophy and social structure but that's a post for another day.

Would recommend.

 

[Surrounded By Ahos]

Finished Dune yesterday; the book, not the movie. One of the better things I've read in a long time. I almost never read sci-fi because the writing isn't fun and usually most of the book is dense exposition to slog through.

This wasn't that. What I appreciated the most I think is that Herbert inundates you with the details but he doesn't spend all day explaining what everything is. He drops you in the world, sets the scene and let's your imagination fill in the gaps. You can almost see how much he edited the manuscript like an architect purposely effacing something already built in order to make it more functional for the people living in it.

It's crazy to think that a white guy, an American in the late 50's early 60's no less, had such an understanding of Islam and Arabic culture and history that he was able to incorporate it so seamlessly into an esoteric world such as this. Brings up a lot of interesting social and political implications via a vis the West's current relationship to the East and it's thought and philosophy and social structure but that's a post for another day.

Would recommend.

Now you need to read the rest of the series. The first book is just the setup for what comes later.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

Anyone interested in seeing Blink tomorrow? I got tickets for the wife and I when they went on sale, then the wife decided to invite a friend and their family to stay with us tomorrow night.

If I wasn’t already going, yes.

Tell your friend and their family that you and your wife will be back after the concert.

 

[Cody Webster]

If I wasn’t already going, yes.

Tell your friend and their family that you and your wife will be back after the concert.

I sold them on StubHub last night.

Worst part is, it isn't even my friend. I've actually never even met these people before