RC K9

Interesting.

I know, right? I used to be one of the few that would actually agree with Geeto on some of his statements/perspectives, but that statement was ridiculous.

I'll remember that. The next time someone is passive aggressive to me, I'll break their car windows and say Geeto told me this was just standard escalation. Just following protocol ole bloke.

RUN.

 

And, they are ungodly uncomfortable. Even our big ol R60 is brutal on trips.

 

Id NEVER again buy a N14. I dont even trust our N18 to go anywhere.

 

Maybe a non-S, but whats the point in that?

Uncomfortable from an interior standpoint, or from a ride quality standpoint?

What issues did you have with your N14?

Anybody have experience with these? I'm looking into getting a smaller, preferably turbo, preferably manual car to DD to work and back instead of driving my big ole 2011 Screw F150.

Mini Cooper S came on the radar. R56 is what I've been looking into. 2007-2008 looks to be close to the budget area.

Most I see in that area are around 125k.

I know some of the issues common with these N14 engines is:

Timing chain guides crack/break and tensioners fail

Thermostat housings leak (made of plastic; POS)

Front Lower Control Arm bushings go out around 75k, so even of they have been replaced at that point, we are only 25k or so from needing them again.

Side mirror and antenna base gaskets tend to rot out and are very expensive to replace.

Am I missing anything. Also, I am 6' 2", but haven't sat in one yet. Am I going to have anticipated fitment issues? I do about 250mi/wk so i'd prefer something that is somewhat comfortable.

While this was going on and they were chattering among themselves as to what was going on, and one of the guys referenced the same thing happening when they were partying next door a couple years ago, the non-cackly-woo-girl said, "I get it, it's late." To which Mrs. Cackles responded, "Fuck them, they can call the cops." And then continued to get louder. Her friend tried to bring reason into it. The rest said fk me. OK. You have made your intentions clear despite your friend trying to get you to be reasonable.

Yes, I understand there my be retaliation. That is the way of things these days. Be an inconsiderate entitled butthole, someone does something about it, and somehow they are the "bad guy" and warrant being retaliated against. I understand this is the world we live in.

I wouldn't call it an eye for an eye per se, i'd call it me bringing a gun to a knife fight. I wound up getting the results I wanted with the previous neighbors, and am hoping for the same thing this time around.

The drunk excuse for prey much anything carries no weight with me. Yup, most of us have done foolish things to one extent or another while consuming alcohol, including myself. And I have always operated with the understanding that whatever repercussions there were as a result were deserved and on me. Period. Nobody old them to get drunk and act like asshats. If you want to do that, fine, but don't complain about the repercussions.

Fortunately, all was quiet last night.

Get a drone , fly above them, drop these https://www.amazon.com/FART-BOMB-BAGS-Display-included/dp/B003DQDVAO

:lolguy:

what terrifies me is that you think this is a better solution than just knocking on the door and saying "hey, can you keep it down? we are trying to sleep". ok, it doesn't really terrify me, but still it's the obvious solution to the problem - you confront the issue face to face and give them the opportunity to resolve it above board.

 

You can't run Psy-ops and expect a rational response.

Or I could not have to get dressed and drive to the next neighborhood at midnight when I could just walk outside and turn a speaker on. :marc:

Obvious solution? Obvious solution is one that works, which could be multiple solutions, and in my case, did work as usual.

Came here to post this.

Man, you have some shitty neighbors

 

If you live in a neighborhood, and it's a Tuesday night, have some common decency and don't make a lot of noise after 10pm. Is that too much to ask? People are so fucking stupid

College kids on spring break. What terrifies me is that I essentially did exactly what they were doing, and that somehow in their mind justified them breaking my property. This is the future of America right here. People that think this way.

I love reading these stories, however, why don't you call the cops? its fucking midnight. let the cops try and sort it out, if they don't then put them on blast

Cuz I ain't a snitch! Ha ha. I usually try to resolve issues myself before getting LEO's involved. Being that it was a noise complaint and not a murder, my guess is it would have taken the LEO's about as long to finally get there as it did for me to solve the issue. That, and I don't know if the LEO's would have heard the music from the street out front as the way the houses/neighborhood is designed, the sound can be pretty loud from the back, and barely audible from the front.

Last night, it's about 915-930 and the wife and I are getting ready to hit the hay because, well, we have adult things to do in the morning, like job, manage kids, etc. While finishing up our show (Re-watching Breaking Bad, not that it adds anything to the story) we hear loud voices. At first we thought one of the kids was crying from the other end of the house, but upon inspection, it was not them. It was the people behind us (not the original a-hole neighbors, but the people beside them as our back yard basically backs up to two different back yards). Upon discovery of the voices, we also heard loud music with heavy bass. The wife is already pissed. I'm more of an "it's not 10pm yet, Fort Worth noise ordinances don't kick in until 10pm, so lets just go to bed and hopefully they will quiet down" kind of guy. I turn our white noise maker on to try to drown it out and we go to bed.

Well, the music and the voices are just enough to keep you from falling asleep. Right where as you'd start to doze off, the one cackly b*tch with the shrill voice in the group would "woo-girl" scream about something, and pull you right back to consciousness. Finally around midnight, the music is louder, the bass hits harder, and that b*tche's voice is too much. I tried for a few hours to avoid this, but this is where we are now.

I get my trusty Photive weatherproof bluetooth speaker, walk out back, set it on a 5gal bucket in the yard facing their property, get on my phone and opent the frequency generator app, set it to 8700-8800mhz, and start turning the volume up.

After a couple min and me working the volume up to high, the high pitched sound is just cutting through the music like a hot knife through butter. I hear them start asking each other, "do you hear that?" "WTF is that?" "Is that the speakers?" And they would turn the volume down, and as they would, I would turn the volume on my speaker down accordingly. Up and down we went for a few min. Then the voice of one of the guys starts talking about how I did something like that to them while they were at their neighbors in the past. Cackly bish yells out loud, "fk em, they can call the cops!"

Nah bish. I ain't a snitch. You picked the game, lets play.

One of them says they can hear it coming from two different places. Lulz. They start peaking through the cracks in the fence. One of the guys says he see wires running along the fence. "I can get some wire cutters and reach over and cut them." he says to other cackly bish. (They weren't wires. They were 1/4" irrigation hoses I had previously used to run air from an air pump to air stones in my hydroponic lettuce growing setup). I hear their back patio door open then close. A couple min later it opens again. I hear some shuffling along the fence then the sound of the lines being cut. Jokes on them. Those lines need to go in the trash anyway. Noise continues.

While this is going on, cackly bish exclaims, "I can't stand this sound!." Big smile across my face. After the "wire" cutting failed, and the sound continued, they finally turned the music way down to an acceptable level, then a little while later, turned off their patio lights and went to inside. It was a little after 1am at this point.

I feel like ass today running on only a few hours of sleep. But I do have a little smile that this little speaker and this free app worked their magic again.

I am pissed at the audacity of the individuals who feel it's appropriate to destroy property in other people's yard for doing exactly what they were doing. I play your game, you get pissed because you don't like the way I play your game, so you break my stuff. OK you entitled asshat. It was too dark to get any kind of video unfortunately.

I get it, they were college kids, (I know because I heard cackly bish talk about college), and it's spring break, but the adults here have responsibilities. Go be loud elsewhere.

My wife and I were weighing Texas as a place to move at some point. Heck, we still are. She has family down there, and I had never been so we visited for me to get a feel. My main observation aside from the heat was the horrible condition of the roads. Like actually scary. The George Bush turnpike or whatever it’s called was a mess of basically concrete mini ramps and it’s pretty common to catch air for a second at freeway speeds. I was actually pretty terrified driving places.

Yeah, the roads here suck.

Was going to make a thread about the Corona Beer virus and where this could eventually end up if the $hit hits the fan......hopefully it stays contained.

It's not going to stay contained. It will get widespread here in the US.

Sorry late to chime in, but I'm in San Antonio now. Lived here in 2011 and 2015 and loved it. However do to some poor leadership this place is falling apart. Roads are garbage and the highways are expanding at about a third of the rate of housing development. It was a big city with small town feel before, now it's just a big city where everyone thinks they're the most important person, when clearly I'm the most important.

My commute use to be 35 minutes, now it's an hour and a half. Same distance.

All my cars have windshield cracks from the rocks and trash on the roads.

We live in one of the good parts of town and the school was built for about 450 kids and it's pushing 900. Everything's overcrowded.

Certain policies , or maybe just the policymakers, are destroying commerce and the schools around here,

Fun town to visit, but we'll be moving back to Ohio as soon as I get my air Force separation approved.

^This

Thoughts? Me likey.

Don't have much to add as my experience is very limited but I had to do all 4 corners recently on my 2011 FX4 Screw (original shocks/struts at 160k) and did monroe in the fromnt and bilstein in the back. (Monroe came as an assembly and was available right then, had KYB assemblies been available then, I would have done KYB in the front).

Either way, i'm happy with the ride and a least on my platform, the bilsteins for the rear really weren't that expensive.

Got my shocks/struts off amazon for cheaper than my buddy who works at a dealership could get them even with their discount.

Such fighting. Many Cursing. Much anger. Wow.

Lettuce get back to hunting?

Man...that is some wide open spaces out in TX.

 

Poor Goose. Looks like those bunnies put up a hell of a fight!

That was up in the pandhandle. Amarillo, Lubbock, etc. There are other places, like DFW where I live, that are not like that. Texas is so big it has basically 5 distinct geographical regions that are all different from one another.

That vid is pretty cool...and we have 2 housebroken bunnies as pets.

 

Neat how the falcon and Dachshund work together to bag that bun. Even without talking, that falcon knew when to leave it up to the dog and when to pounce.

 

Thanks for sharing.

First hunts together back at the beginning of the season, the hawk wanted to eat the puppy. So I took them both to the panhandle where I knew I could get the puppy in a position to flush rabbits and the hawk would have good visibility to see the rabbits and that the dog flushed them. After the first 2-3 slips, the hawk put it together that the puppy wasn't food, the puppy helped find food and they have been best friends ever since.

We didn't get a bunny in the bag on this hunt, but it was the first one Goose (the puppy) had been able to grab. 2 bunnies were there, the hawk takes off after one and Goose grabbed the other. Both got away.

backed off my "its brown its down" this year, and waited out a big one. several studs on camera, passed a mid 130s buck multiple times. finally got an 11pt 6 years old/230 lbs on hoof that scored 156 3/4" i doubt I'll top that for a long time.

 

this is "dude(left) and eyebrows(right) pretty sure the neighbor shot dude on 10/27 havent seen him since. Eyebrows is the 13x" deer i passed on multiple times.

 

http://www.columbusracing.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=1018&pictureid=9507

 

http://www.columbusracing.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=1018&pictureid=9505

Nice deer!

Me and the kids got enough squirrels to have a few batches of squirrel dumplings. I shot an 8 during bow season but the rest of deer season was pretty bare. I didn't see a single deer during youth (with the kids), gun, bonus gun, or muzzy. I've never had that happen in 35 years I've been hunting.

I haven't eaten squirrel in probably 20yrs, (I save the one's I shoot in my front yard for the hawks), but i've been thinking about trying them in some recipes again. I'd like o try braising it like I do with cottontails which takes away any gamey flavor and the meat literally falls off the bone.

Jesus, that's cool.

 

My hunting season went ok (deer is over in Ohio). Shot a fatass doe. Always seemed to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and kept missing my target bucks.

 

Traps are dyed and waxed and I'm getting ready to start taking a dent out of the coyote population behind my house.

 

Turkey is just around the corner. I'm not a big turkey hunter, but usually try to make it out at least a few days.

I haven't deer hunted in over a decade, but man, some venison sounds so good. I miss it.