Last time two guys I knew had a "bit of fun" on a country road, one car ended up upside down in a field with a dead 17 year old girl in the passenger seat and a ruined life in the drivers seat (it alway seems to be the goddam driver who survives that shit). If you're screwing around with a car the only difference between Los Angeles & Six-toe, Idaho is the shit you hit when you leave the road.
There's a difference between enjoying your car and being a dangerous ****wit.
Sure, not everyone lives near a racetrack. I sure don't (Albert Park doesn't count). So? So you don't get everything you want. Welcome to planet Earth.
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Fixed.
Jeebers may have been a hippie, but he sure wasn't a meek & mild one. After all, it was his book - the much-lauded 2.0 - that introduced humanity to the glorious, loving concept of Hell and its everlasting torments. Dig that flower power jive 
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60's too much for a day's racing? Who pays for the gas in this brand new Impreza? Not you - your folks? Then stop wasting their money by burning around the road in the early hours.
Not your car? Then stop risking damaging someone else's property by hammering around public roads in the dark. Even if you do own the car it seems unlikely that you paid for it so, again, give the people who did pay for it some respect and stop treating it like a toy.
Not your car? Then stop risking damaging someone else's property by hammering around public roads in the dark. Even if you do own the car it seems unlikely that you paid for it so, again, give the people who did pay for it some respect and stop treating it like a toy.
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Got an issue with someone? Take it up with them. Anyone who's been around for the better part of a year should know you don't air your dirty laundry on the forum - that's something a n00b would do.
By the way, t3h d0rift0 aside, you're a complete noob at written communication. That post barely made any goddam sense.
IBTL
By the way, t3h d0rift0 aside, you're a complete noob at written communication. That post barely made any goddam sense.
IBTL
Just keep bumping it with :spam: and eventually a mod will get the shits and lock it 
People can & should & do talk about anything & everything in this section - just look at thread titles on the front page. The problem isn't off-topic threads, it's people not thinking before they click "post new thread" and filling the place up with pointless annoying bullshit.
If I were to want anything in the Off Topic section it'd be more aggressive moderation, but the mods seem pretty quick to pounce on anything that's offensive or just plain stupid already (such as those recent spammy, childish "why I'm pissed off" threads), so I have no complaints there :up:
If I were to want anything in the Off Topic section it'd be more aggressive moderation, but the mods seem pretty quick to pounce on anything that's offensive or just plain stupid already (such as those recent spammy, childish "why I'm pissed off" threads), so I have no complaints there :up:
Queer and it sounds like a leaf-blower with a cold.
Yet you have Caterham on the list
Hmmm...who does walk around at night on mountain roads. Well, without being specific I'd say PEOPLE WHO HAVE A REASONABLE EXPECTATION NOT TO GET HIT BY SOME KID IN A CAR but that's not the point.
Jesus
Coupla things:
(a) sucks to be you
(b) don't threaten people here, even if you do hate them with a blinding passion (which you obviously do)
(c) don't expect anyone to give two shits about what you're blubbering about unless you can articulate in freakin English
(d) toughen the **** up
(e) got a problem with 500? Bitch at them and read (c) again. Then (d), then (f).
(f) STFU n00b
(g) wait for the lock
Coupla things:
(a) sucks to be you
(b) don't threaten people here, even if you do hate them with a blinding passion (which you obviously do)
(c) don't expect anyone to give two shits about what you're blubbering about unless you can articulate in freakin English
(d) toughen the **** up
(e) got a problem with 500? Bitch at them and read (c) again. Then (d), then (f).
(f) STFU n00b
(g) wait for the lock
How you define "street racing" is going to have a big effect on how retarded that is. If you're just enjoying an empty road a little quicker than normal and taking lines that you can't when there's traffic, ok. I think we've all done that. I think a lot of us still do, but within reason. But if you're going out and trying to fang it as fast as you can and doing crazy shit that leaves you absolutely no room to compensate for errors or unexpected occurrences such as animals crossing the road at a blind corner, make sure you visit the dentist soon because that may be the only way to identify your corpse.
Enjoying your car on a nice empty road and street racing are two very different things. You'll get no applause bragging about "street racing" on this forum. That crap belongs in NFS, along with car-bling and shit physics
I just did some research. The guy in the video was beating the actual $5 metal chair that Lars used instead of a snare drum. It was signed by the band (as well as the annoying bastard wanker therapist from Some Kind of Monster and Mega-Dave Mustaine) and he sold it on ebay to some diehard for 5 grand.
I recently saw a funny video (funny to me, anyway) where a dude was bashing a metal fold-up chair with a piece of wood. I swear to Jeebers, he was getting the exact snare sound that Lars had on Stanger BONG BONG BONG BONG, effing brilliant
BONG BONG BONG BONG, effing brilliant Shit, that would have been sick. I'd still see 'em live, no worries there. I'm afraid they'd just play too much new crap
Nah, you're all wrong. Patch Y includes Starforce. That's what's screwing everything up.
No it's not. I made it all up.
No it's not. I made it all up.
Old Metallica ftw. Haven't really dug anything since The Black Album. I'm glad I saw them live in mid-'93 before they went all Load-y, because both those albums blew arse.
St Anger showed some promise though. The sound was raw and the songs were back to kick-arse thrash territory but the whole thing was just shoddy & underdone, especially production-wise. All the songs were pretty much way too long & the production values really needed to be up a step from where they were. Vocals really should have been done properly instead of that single-take half-arsed bullshit, songs needed to be trimmed down and - for god's sake - that snare drum sound was like a kid beating on a tin bucket. Did my head in. I'm all for a record with a bitey, raw sound (thinks back to GNR's Appetite For Destruction or, more recently, any album by The Black Keys) but come on, a zillion-dollar band ought to know how to pull that sound off and still sound like professionals. Somehow Metallica have never been able to consistently attract a decent engineer/producer. Everything before the awesomely-produced "Black" sounded like it was done in some dude's basement and, unfortunately, the production on the Load albums couldn't do enough to polish the turds that the guys recorded.
Love their new bass player though. Trujillo's a freakin machine!
St Anger showed some promise though. The sound was raw and the songs were back to kick-arse thrash territory but the whole thing was just shoddy & underdone, especially production-wise. All the songs were pretty much way too long & the production values really needed to be up a step from where they were. Vocals really should have been done properly instead of that single-take half-arsed bullshit, songs needed to be trimmed down and - for god's sake - that snare drum sound was like a kid beating on a tin bucket. Did my head in. I'm all for a record with a bitey, raw sound (thinks back to GNR's Appetite For Destruction or, more recently, any album by The Black Keys) but come on, a zillion-dollar band ought to know how to pull that sound off and still sound like professionals. Somehow Metallica have never been able to consistently attract a decent engineer/producer. Everything before the awesomely-produced "Black" sounded like it was done in some dude's basement and, unfortunately, the production on the Load albums couldn't do enough to polish the turds that the guys recorded.
Love their new bass player though. Trujillo's a freakin machine!
Tiny, shouty fruit-bat man. I've never seen anyone talk for so long without saying a goddam thing. Love the Limp Bizkit MI soundtrack - associating Cruise with an epic failure like Fred Durst is actually quite appropriate. I laughed so hard a little bit of thetan came out.
If Scios have declared war on psychiatry, I wanna see Cruise throw down with Dr Phil. Screw his "for-a-role" martial arts training, Philbo would break his tiny ass in two and say "what wur you thinkin'? Put yer manners back in!"
If Scios have declared war on psychiatry, I wanna see Cruise throw down with Dr Phil. Screw his "for-a-role" martial arts training, Philbo would break his tiny ass in two and say "what wur you thinkin'? Put yer manners back in!"
Bloody oath. And we Aussies are a mongrel bastard breed of all of the above, so it's no wonder we occasionally win at the rugby
In my family's case, mostly Welsh & German with some Scots & Normandy Frenchies thrown in early on. When we're not busy getting drunk & punching each other out while singing hearty rugger songs we sit around and argue with each other. Which usually involves alcohol, which leads to singing, then punching ...I kicked a guy's wing-mirror off at a red light once. Some redneck threw a large cup of coke at me from the back of this hicksville Commodore, so when I saw that he'd stopped up ahead, I built up speed and launched my right foot at his mirror. It snapped with a satisfying 1980s plasticky "CLACK" sound and I promptly turned around and went on my way on the footpath in the opposite direction. Ah, good times
Melbourne's not bad for cyclists with regard to bike lanes, bike paths and racks to lock them to in the city, it's the humans in cars that need a bit of work. The pedestrians in the city can be downright dangerous though, wandering across the street without bothering to friggin look either way, let alone both, and then abusing me as I come to a skidding, swearing halt inches away from them, but at least if I actually hit a pedestrian I'd be a lot better off than if I hit a car. At least a I have a helmet & gloves, while your average pedestrian only has an iPod and their shit taste in music to protect them from injury.
Speaking of idiots, the state government recently imposed a law banning bikes on trains between 6-9 am and 4-7 pm, apparently as some kind of "solution" to crowding on the trains (never mind that there are often cancellations due to "a lack of trains", which is a commonly-heard phrase at Flinders St Station). Naturally, with Melbourne being full of cyclists who don't always want to ride the whole way to the city to work, as is their right, this idiotic non-solution was given as much respect as it deserved and the whole experiment lasted about three weeks Perhaps if the government stopped blaming the users of public transport for the congestion that they've allowed to build up unchecked over the past decade and began investing a little more in public transport infrastructure, they wouldn't have to look for scapegoats every year or so. Last year they picked on people who hold train doors open and make them late (even though it had no discernible effect and our rail operators have absolutely no trouble making themselves late anyway), this year it was cyclists. Next year, who knows? Ladies with prams? People with skateboards?
My favourite thing ever wasn't a run of the mill fool driving across my lane or turning left without noticing I was there, it was some halfwitted spongehead who'd parked at the kerb but left her friggin door open, blocking the entire bike lane which, at 7.45am on St Kilda Rd, is chockers with cyclists (I should mention that it's on the flat, just after a big hill so everyone's still doing 30-40kph by the time they get to that spot). I don't think I've ever managed to fit that many four-letter words into such a small space of time, either before or since, even on a gutful of Sudafed.
My pet hate though (because it happens all the friggin time) is people on %(*$^ing mopeds/scooters/Vespas (and occasionally proper motorcycles) riding along in the bike lane behind me to get past traffic (and subsequently hold it up after the next green light because their 50cc putt-putts can't actually get up hills or go much faster than 54kph). When that happens, I try and ride slow enough so that I can remain upright but they either have to stop or detour to do the same Sure, they're little and narrow etc. but I'm sorry, you retro-ironic hipster wankers with your cute lil' open-face helmets, you don't get to have it both ways. You're an engined vehicle and I'm not, so suck it up and ride on the road like everyone else has to. I could also mention my annoyance at those people who ride power-assisted bicycles (same amount of noise & smell as a scooter with half the power) and are invariably slower than every other cyclist on the road even whilst going uphill & that's including me on my huge monster-truck cross-country bike, but that might just get me started, and noone wants that
Melbourne's not bad for cyclists with regard to bike lanes, bike paths and racks to lock them to in the city, it's the humans in cars that need a bit of work. The pedestrians in the city can be downright dangerous though, wandering across the street without bothering to friggin look either way, let alone both, and then abusing me as I come to a skidding, swearing halt inches away from them, but at least if I actually hit a pedestrian I'd be a lot better off than if I hit a car. At least a I have a helmet & gloves, while your average pedestrian only has an iPod and their shit taste in music to protect them from injury.
Speaking of idiots, the state government recently imposed a law banning bikes on trains between 6-9 am and 4-7 pm, apparently as some kind of "solution" to crowding on the trains (never mind that there are often cancellations due to "a lack of trains", which is a commonly-heard phrase at Flinders St Station). Naturally, with Melbourne being full of cyclists who don't always want to ride the whole way to the city to work, as is their right, this idiotic non-solution was given as much respect as it deserved and the whole experiment lasted about three weeks
Perhaps if the government stopped blaming the users of public transport for the congestion that they've allowed to build up unchecked over the past decade and began investing a little more in public transport infrastructure, they wouldn't have to look for scapegoats every year or so. Last year they picked on people who hold train doors open and make them late (even though it had no discernible effect and our rail operators have absolutely no trouble making themselves late anyway), this year it was cyclists. Next year, who knows? Ladies with prams? People with skateboards?My favourite thing ever wasn't a run of the mill fool driving across my lane or turning left without noticing I was there, it was some halfwitted spongehead who'd parked at the kerb but left her friggin door open, blocking the entire bike lane which, at 7.45am on St Kilda Rd, is chockers with cyclists (I should mention that it's on the flat, just after a big hill so everyone's still doing 30-40kph by the time they get to that spot). I don't think I've ever managed to fit that many four-letter words into such a small space of time, either before or since, even on a gutful of Sudafed.
My pet hate though (because it happens all the friggin time) is people on %(*$^ing mopeds/scooters/Vespas (and occasionally proper motorcycles) riding along in the bike lane behind me to get past traffic (and subsequently hold it up after the next green light because their 50cc putt-putts can't actually get up hills or go much faster than 54kph). When that happens, I try and ride slow enough so that I can remain upright but they either have to stop or detour to do the same
Sure, they're little and narrow etc. but I'm sorry, you retro-ironic hipster wankers with your cute lil' open-face helmets, you don't get to have it both ways. You're an engined vehicle and I'm not, so suck it up and ride on the road like everyone else has to. I could also mention my annoyance at those people who ride power-assisted bicycles (same amount of noise & smell as a scooter with half the power) and are invariably slower than every other cyclist on the road even whilst going uphill & that's including me on my huge monster-truck cross-country bike, but that might just get me started, and noone wants that FGED GREDG RDFGDR GSFDG