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I like the original chrome wheels better. BTW, they're wheels, not rimzzzzzzzzzzz.

Exactly what I wear with a nice Polo, here at Nationwide. I guess I'm an uncool dad, though

Damn dude, that's a badass boat.. nice!

My gun has to sit on the table when I eat my wings at BW3s... never know when someone might come in shooting.

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I remember reading a huge thread about this old dealership that was basically locked up and abandoned. There are good and bad things about cars that have been sitting for years and years. The good is that the overall condition of the interior and exterior is likely flawless over that period of time. On the other hand, you'd have your work cut out for you dealing with the motor and any parts that used to have fluids or whatever fluids remain in them. Very cool to see, regardless.

Your buddy likely has a neck/waist ratio that's proportional and fits the scale. This guy starting the petition either has an ungodly skinny neck, or a larger waist than acceptable, or both. I already understand that.

My understanding of the current BF measurement is that they do a neck and waist measurement and figure a ratio, currect? Do they factor height and weight in at all?

What do you believe that would change in my mindset? He's got a hard job that I can respect serving the country. The point I'm getting at, is the laziness he's showing.

http://www.militarytimes.com/article/20130619/BENEFITS06/306190024/Marine-petitions-White-House-revise-tape-test? This strikes a cord with me for some reason and I can't believe someone has the audacity to petition something like this. This is what's wrong with the American mindset. Instead of blaming yourself and taking responsibility for gaining weight and working to put it back off, you blame something else for being un-fair or inaccurate. Laziness at it's finest, IMO. I'm 5'10 and 165lbs on a good fucking day, after eating like a pig and working out for the past 3-4 years now, and I couldn't imagine being 211lbs... that is simply OVERWEIGHT. "Marathon runner"... riiiiiight. I would love it if they agreed to the petition and used an accurate method for measurement and he still didn't make it lol.

Poster of the video is simply a little bitch. I would have loved for the officer to rip his ass out of the car for any reason at all. It's one thing if an officer reacts in a manner that isn't acceptable, but if someone is basically harrassing or encouraging the frustration of an officer, deserves whatever they have coming.

These motors are notorious for catalytic deterioration which lead to particles being sucked into the combustion chambers and causing extreme amounts of wear on the cylinder walls and rings. It's most notably common with the MR-S which shares the same motor, however, it's due to the ULEV system they put in place for emissions. It's possible you may not have problems, but I suggest keeping a close eye on it. Some cases were found as early as 50k miles.

Uhmm... have you checked for excessive burning oil at all?

Socks. I fucking hateeeeeeeee buying socks.

POR-15

No, it's like.. You have to run to that end of the track AND you have to hurdle these dumb things. Same goes for drifting... You have to get to that end of the track first AND you'll be judged on how you do it. Watch some drifting and figure it out.

No, because you're not demonstrating the skill that proves you're better than I am. Such is the same in hurdling... You can win the race after knocking over multiple hurdles, but you're likely to get your run disqualified.

You know, like Speed and control(which has the most weight), with other minor things such as meeting the "clipping point", angle, etc.... it's all taken into consideration in the whole perspective of the race. If we ran identical runs exactly as you metioned, where both cars had both solid and clean runs, except I was obviously slower.. In technicality, I should never, ever win. But, unfortunately just like an sports or competition, they are filled with people that play favorites, cheat, or lie.

Unless a judge was giving me outrageous scores in other areas because he's playing favorites, I should never get the win. In which case, there would be a lot of very un-happy people in the stands because the judging is obviously rigged or unfair.

If we ran identicle clean runs and you were still slightly faster, that would likely be evident during the runs, and you'd get the win.

To have a lowest aggregate time before disqualification wouldn't make sense in any sport aside from say, a qualification round to make a specific class. Unfortunately drifting doesn't have classes- Only the quickest and best make it to the final rounds. If you're slow as a driver it's pretty evident both leading and following. You're either increasing the gap between your competitor or you're on their door the entire time, or passing them. Going back to running, you wouldn't tell the average person in a race, to run sub world-record times, otherwise they're disqualified from running every event. They run times, and THEN you get divided up in your appropriate class. Formula D, you either qualify for your "license" as a top driver by being the fastest and best, or you go home. There isn't a novice, intermediate, pro national ranking. You either make it or you don't. When you take all the extra shit out and look at the basics, that's all it is. Contest of speed, skill and you're disqualified for not performing. In no way am I saying Drifting is the most difficult motorsport out there, or it takes the most skill, but the aspect of a race is still there, underlying the rest of what is involved.

You always want to be the fastest.. they even run radar to indicate speeds entering corners and how much speed they carry exiting corners. And what's really ruining the scene is the fact that horsepower is obviously the biggest handicap in drifting. All the big HP cars, which are now LSX turbo swaps and crazy stuff like that, are far more capable of carrying faster speeds through corners with incredibly wide tires, while the underdog cars simply can't hang because it takes power to keep angle and speed. It's funny to explain, that in order to be fast and keep a lot of angle in drifting you have to have an incredibly grippy car to put that power down. Power + Grip = Fast + More Angle. Trust me, these guys aren't slow, or novice drivers by any means. Some of them are GT and LM driver's in past careers, some are grassroots drivers, but I assure you, all of them still drive around an apex much faster than you'd ever want to with entries in some corners over 100 miles an hour. You look at different nationalities that have drifting and there's an incredibly different interpretation among them. Aussies and New Zealanders are hands down, the fastest and most wild drifters out there. Americans would be a fart in the wind to those guys. The Japanese have their own interpretation that is less focused on speed and much more on technicality, which Americans still can't hold their own in that aspect. Here in America, with Formula D rules as our basis, we're focused on speed and being overly competitive.. so much so that the sport itself is practically being ruined by the guy with the most money, and biggest HP engine. In any perspective, drifting is about having fun, and out-driving your competitor in a race to the finish. It's not ONLY a race, but there are other objectives mixed in to make it much more interesting as a sport, not only to watch for the wrecks, but for the driver as well. No slow competitor wins, you have to be fast and the best at what you do between the start and finish line. and again, like I said... F1 is still the most impressive.

Positive they'd simply kick the person out lol.

You can certainly pass back and redeem yourself as the leader, but the likelihood of that happening in drifting is very slim since the tracks are short and very, very competitive. Like Drag racing, how often do you see multiple passes at such a competitive level? You guys need to think of Drifting in motorsports kind of like running Hurdles in track & field events. By your thought process: A person running Hurdles isn't a "runner" because they have to jump over hurdles instead of just running a clear path? Because they're given the extra challenge of hurdles, they actually aren't runners because they're not as fast as they could potentially be?

YES. You get passed = you're losing.