Aerik

This looks like the best zombie movie ever! They just keep coming, and he can pwn them with his brain.... oh wait, this isn't a movie ad. /facepalm

Yep, every household now has a cow with hoses attached to both ends.

I was pretty happy with these: http://www.zappos.com/n/p/p/7474215/c/3.html They were quite comfortable, sturdy yet lightweight, and lasted quite a while given the abuse I put them through (I put off the Shadow's brake job for quite awhile). You can generally find them cheaper than this link here at a place like Dick's Sporting Goods or some such.

Yay! I get to go play with my truck again! Let's see how many idiots I can drag outta snowdrifts this time!

Step 1: Get cable. Step 2: 'Fix' the dish, by rigging it up with some kind of voltage source. We're going for 'painful and humiliating', not 'lethal and/ or actionable'. Step 3: Place fixed dish with a sign that says 'Vandals- Anyone caught messing with my satellite dish will be reported to the police!' or something to that effect. Step 4: Set up camera, wait for awesomeness (because no teenage vandal can resist a challenge like that sign). Step 5: Post results on OR, but remove all booby-traps from the dish before police and/ or angry parents arrive to investigate.

I'm anti-life! It's an awful sexually-transmitted disease with a 100% mortality rate. It should be stamped out once and for all, in a spectacular and preferably humorous fashion!

Hobie and I rescued a Honda Accord that had slid off the ramp from 270 to 70 on the West side. Took a little jostling to get it out of the furrows it had plowed, but we ended up getting him out with no damage to either vehicle. I love my truck.

Meh, the Shadow's down for a couple days for brake work-- This gives me an excuse to go drive around in my big ole redneck truck! Tow straps, jumper cables, carhart oompa-loompa suit, reflective vest, off-duty tow truck drivers, cigarettes, coffee... Check.

Why is there more text after the punchline?

I'd rock a high-chair, all the way across, on my Shadow!

http://www.chronline.com/news/article_12254ea8-0aaf-11df-8101-001cc4c03286.html Seriously.

I agree that it's not the government's job to coddle people. That said, however, I do believe we have a right to expect our government to perform functions which benefit the country as a whole. I think having some form of system in which we take people at the lowest end of our economic scale (for whatever reason) and help them in the short term while working to set them up to be productive on their own in the long term is generally a good thing. Certainly, it's not an easy thing to do right, but I think the possible benefits (and the drawbacks of having no such 'safety net') do justify the effort and expenditure required to work toward creating such a system. Being difficult or imperfect doesn't mean an idea is fundamentally worthless; it just means that there's room for further consideration, restructuring, and improvement. Making people (lacking some damned good medical excuse) work to earn that support is acceptable, I think, although we should also include some sort of job-training in the deal as well. Picking up trash on the freeway for cash short-term is fine, but it's not likely to send someone off with a highly-marketable skill afterward. Far better, I think, to make them work part of the week and attend some sort of vocational classes for the rest of the week. And give them birth control, because most people (not just those on welfare) really should quit breeding.

I'm glad the responses on here have been pretty varied... I was kind of feeling like a douchebag going through the list going, "Damn, that thing is awesome! WTF does he mean 'ugly'?!?!?!?!!!?!" or "Hey, I had one of those-- it attracted more trim than a bonzai tree back in the day!" or "Fuck, who cares about the specific color on the one in the picture-- any real biker would paint the fucking thing flat black ASAP anyway." I think the article's author is a Piaggio snob, and his opinion isn't worth anything. Also, he's a pigfeltcher. Just so you know.

This is why people shouldn't get bunched undies about a handful of 'historically black' colleges-- the majority of schools in our country have been 'historically white' for quite awhile. That has certainly been changing in recent years; however, as the image and link below show, some places are still having to 'manufacture' their diversity a little more creatively than others. http://contexts.org/socimages/2009/09/02/doctoring-diversity-race-and-photoshop/ That said, I don't really blame University of Wisconsin for this-- I've been to Wisconsin. The food's good, but the weather's crappy and the women are built like refrigerators. Of course most black folks (or sane people in general) wouldn't want to go there. Unless someone has a fetish for square women with goofy accents who can cook.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfrdAMKs-mA According to NPR, they got reprimanded after the video found its way onto YouTube, but it wasn't major.

Why not? Young people are all fucking illiterate anyway, we may as well prevent 8-year-olds from looking up dirty words in the dictionary... ...wait a minute. Has anyone even used a paper dictionary since 1995? They're kind of like phone books-- I own one, but it's generally faster to look shit up on the interwebz. What exactly do these fuckholes intend to accomplish? Half their students have probably never used a paper fucking dictionary anyway, because they can look up stuff online. http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_W_dictionary23.466f8d4.html

It may surprise people in this country to learn that the French do indeed have kids too. However, they figured it out; we, on the other hand, seem to have too much of the fucking Puritans (who were so stodgy the Brits kicked them out) dictating things. Seriously, everyone who wants my TV options to be censored just so they don't have to manage their own fucking crotchlings can go die in a fire. Odds are most kids see/hear/say nastier stuff in 4th-grade recess than the things these 'family-friendly' zombie assholes are always trying to ban.

Both funny. Oh well. I only picked it up because when I played EVE Online all my corpmates were brits.

And they're Arse Antlers in the UK.

I've been wrestling with this on my '77 for awhile now. The jets were not stock, so I bought the right ones and installed them, and I've been diddling the tuning ever since. The carbs lack the right ports for the sync tool we had available, and they use both a pilot fuel screw and an air screw for adjustment. Tuning a 4-into-2 by smell is a pain in the ass.

True, and situations like this bring out opportunists like the ice cream truck brings out fat kids.

Even though I actually responded to this thread too, I'll go ahead and say that we really should stop letting Todd provoke us. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_%28Internet%29

Come on, guys, cut Todd a little slack-- He does us all a great service, bringing us the latest trends from FreeRepublic, Stormfront, and all those chain e-mails, so we don't have to spend our whole day wondering what the putrid, boil-covered, unwashed sphincter of the American political spectrum smells like.