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Azdeus
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I'm surprised you can't rent time on racetracks to test your cars in Sweden. You can do it on quite a few tracks in California.
You need an official racing teams resources behind you to do that, there also are some days when you can get a ticket to do some "racing" on the track, but you're not alone, it's filled with other cars, wich makes it a really bad time to do any actual testing.
There are those benches for testing engines, but they're also prohibitively expensive to use besides being rare.
One of the biggest tuners in Sweden, Maxxtuning has this on their website;
"Precis som de flesta i denna branchen började vi "mappnings" karriären på gatan."
Like most people in this buisiness, we started our careers "mapping" on the street"
The professionals choice. ;P
Hurlshot that's a bit nasty. You know very well that where Azdeus lives in Sweden there are no cars, only horse drawn carriages
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Wrong clip.
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Wait... I have to clean my home aswell? o.o
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I'd say you should give seniors one aswell, so that other drivers know not to follow the car infront of them into the ocean or down the wrong side of the highway.
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There is more to it than that, obviously. If you pop a tire, or simply lose control, you are going to make a huge mess of the roadway. Who do you think pays for those roads? Who is going to pay for the cleanup crew to come scrape your carcass off the road?
You can go test your car on racetracks if you want, but the freeway is not your personal playground.
Ironically, you actually can't test your car on racetracks. You can race it, but you can't test it - because you're never alone. Dragster teams have to test as they race unless they're well sponsored enough to buy a racetrack/small airport for a few days.
As for who pays for the roads, the same people that go skiing, waterskiing, snowboarding, dirt bike racing, drinking and other dangerous/harmful activities pay for my slip ups aswell as I pay for their slipups.
The difference is that I actually have a caused considerably less damage to myself, property and people by using empty roads than people breaking arms, legs and necks doing sports.
Well, not that I do any actual driving, I'm a mechanic without a licence yet.
Human reaction times, even basic reaction time, is quite slow. Speed equals a smaller reaction window, even before you get the speed effects Hurlshot mentioned.
I'd not be opposed on principle to some sort of 'elite' drivers license. But until that happens I take the view that there are far far more people who think they have mad skills than actually do.
I'd like to see some form of extra licence, a higher degree if you will, aswell.
Dunning Kruger effect, good stuffs!
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In my opinion speeding should only come up if there actually is any traffic in the area, if you do 200 km/h on an empty freeway, you're not endangering anyone.
And I just ate... >.<
Well, you got to see the good in everything, you've just made place for another tasty meal! Eating like the rich-romans.
By the way, Azdeus, isn't it like 4 AM now in Sweden? You eat at 4 AM?
Hehehe, I thought it was the 16'th century nobles that had the "throat feather" for the dinners, when they had 24 hour parties and you were'nt allowed to stop eating essentially?
Yeah, it was 4 am then, is'nt it the same timezone as you? I ate at 3 am since I was going to go to bed soon, don't want to go to bed on an empty stomach, it's hells to fall asleep then.
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And I just ate... >.<
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Did'nt you say you had your birthday around christmas aswell, or did I remember wrong? Edit; Was on the previous page even, yay me.
Twin?
Also; 200 euro? O.o
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This happened at work. During lunch, a kid asked me if I could cut his apple. So I did, only problem was that the top of my finger decided it wanted to part ways with me. As soon as I felt the pain, I knew what had happened and calmly walked away, covering the blood with my other hand. I then bandaged the wound after making it stop bleeding for 15 minutes. Stayed at work, went home and took some painkillers and that was that. Feels a bit better now. Doesn't constantly hurt.
Scared the crap out of the children with a completely different story.
You did better then my mate that got the "****, cut myself" reaction and flicked his hand in pain. The hosts were quite perplexed how all that blood got onto the roof.
Good to hear you're feeling better though!
Something similar happened to me two years ago, peeled a potato, slipped and chopped off the top of my left index finger down to the bone. It looked beautiful at first, the cut flesh looked like a polished ruby. The piece was pretty large and fell to the floor, it bled the whole night and in the morning my arm looked like a volcano with blood streams running from my finger down the whole arm. The scary thing however is that that the cut off piece grew back perfectly, even my fingerprint regenerated absolutely seamlessly. And I expected to get a nasty scar.
Hehe, thank you for that description, it was good enough to make me throw up a bit in my mouth and tear up a bit, remembering when I jammed a splitting knife into the bone in my index finger with a splitting knife that broke and I had to tug it loose...
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but but but... New Vegas?
I'll take an* Alpha Protocol over that game any day.
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Azdeus: My hand is numb from the pain. I not only cut myself, I chopped off a little bit at the very top of the finger.I tried using the keyboard and even if I never use my thumb to type, it hurts.
Ahh... ouch, that really sucks, my friend managed something similar with his pinkie two midsummers ago while chopping up meat for our grilling. We did not find the top part, so someone got some long pig...
What did you do?
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If we could, we men would'nt leave our bedrooms for the forseeable future...
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Don't worry, I get Terminator jokes all the time from friends and members in other forums.
I could see the Alps really well when the sun set, had to take a photo. Its a bit blurry because my camera sucks in low light conditions but here it is: (I totally need to go climbing again)
Wow... that's an awesome view! Why would you go climbing when you have a view like that? I'd stay right were I was.
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It's not a diesel actually, it's a Volvo B21, B23 or B230 from a Volvo 240/740 Turbo.
I recognize that useless exhaust manifold anywhere, here's a topdown picture of it being mounted on my fathers B230
Looks like the standard turbo, but looks can be decieving. I reckon 300 horsies though!
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Who the hell needs a Porsche?
That's some balls on that guy though, would've thought it'd topple on a couple of those moves he did.
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Hehehe, I'm not to worried about getting gassed, but I live in a wooden house, with wood floors, with cracks in them. With some maximum bad luck though, a spark from the fireplace kan get by the fireplace screen and lodge in the floorboards
What does your insurance company say to that?
The insurance company cares naugt aslong as I get a chimneysweep here atleast twice a year, as far as I know. But... there are others, more insidious powers than insurance people afoot.
"What's that you say? Change the floor? Go **** yourself, we will sue you out of all the money in your family and then some! Those floorboards are from the 1800's and they are staying! What? You want to put something OVER those boards?! NEIN! You will not change one IOTA on that house or we will END YOU! It's heritage marked and you will not change anything!
Wait... what's that?! Stairwell on the side? How long has that been there?! Since the 40's?! ... If you know what's good for you, you will remove that. What do you mean, you live on the top floor and you need to get up there? What makes you think that is MY problem!? Get a ladder! And that balcony... how long? The 1890's? ... *Glare* That was'nt there when the house was built then... you might want to see that removed too... I don't care that the front door is underneath it, use the old one. Too bad they built the toilet there then, they should've thought about that!"
Incase anyone wondered where all the Nazi's hid after the war, I'm fairly certain I can give a good guess...
The house is old enough that we're not allowed to change the look on the house at all, but it's only of minor local historical interest, wich is enough to get beaurocrazy on us.
Its amazing and scary to think of an entire country being bought to its knees by bad weather. At least you can do some gaming and people can't say to you " why don't you go outside and get some sun "
You know what's really crazy about it? It's Sweden, snow is'nt exactly rare here... And they are moving to forbid proper winter tyres aswell. Heaven forbid that they were to keep plow trains ready aswell, or hire people to properly maintain powerlines for the trains...
Can't game. Accidentally cut of a pice of my thumb.
I'll watch lots of football, Arrow, Boardwalk Empire and Samurai Champloo.
I moght play something if I can play with mouse only controls.
Why would'nt you be able to use the keyboard with a cut on your thumb? o.O
Or are we like talking half an inch here?
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I have a fireplace too but I'm too afraid to use it when asleep, if there goes something wrong my bedroom would turn into a gas chamber. I want to die a glorious death in battle while protecting my friends and loved ones from an infantry squad of evil robots with my trustiest rifle in my hands, not getting gassed to death in my sleep.
Hehehe, I'm not to worried about getting gassed, but I live in a wooden house, with wood floors, with cracks in them. With some maximum bad luck though, a spark from the fireplace kan get by the fireplace screen and lodge in the floorboards.
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Not to mention the impact his life had.
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Woodburning stoves rule. Fireplace beats them for sheer coziness, but they're nowhere near as handy.
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and awesome:
Fark. I probably should see my opthamologist again. :/
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She misspelled Draugr.
I hope she quicksaved right before that.
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Va i helvete? :S
We got about 5 inches of snow and the temp is currently in single digits and that's in fahrenheit
Edit: Walking the dog has been a real joy
I can't even describe in words how much I envy you... I don't think we've had more than one night below freezing here yet. It SUCKS!
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Russian women are great to argue with, though. Though the couple I know sure have a grimdark temperament.
Granted I don't know many, but I've met a few of those brides when working with my mother.
When I was cleaning the bookshelves at one place and told her why she looked absolutely perplexed.
"Shelves get dusty...?"
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Oldie but goldie;
What you did today
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I'd actually say the Finnish rallys are better. Talk about hang time!