Topic: This thread is non-euclidean, for it has no point (Read 592545 times)

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #3852 on:** 23 Jan 2015, 17:58 »

Apparently I'm going to have a new Atago avatar every week.

Pan paka pan!

explicit · « **Reply #3853 on:** 23 Jan 2015, 21:49 »

IT'S TOO HAPPY

Method of Madness · « **Reply #3854 on:** 23 Jan 2015, 21:59 »

IT'S EXACTLY HAPPY ENOUGH

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #3855 on:** 23 Jan 2015, 22:11 »

Well you're gonna need some happy after this. Strap in fuckers, we're going on a feels trip.

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #3856 on:** 24 Jan 2015, 02:36 »

Lighter but kinda NSFW fare: (she has bare shoulders! The horror! also some blood)

(click to show/hide)

osaka · « **Reply #3857 on:** 24 Jan 2015, 06:36 »

Cliffs Notes on how to handle your vampire waifu?

Because I would watch the shit out of that.

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #3858 on:** 24 Jan 2015, 07:58 »

Sorflakne · « **Reply #3859 on:** 24 Jan 2015, 09:33 »

Meanwhile in America....

cesium133 · « **Reply #3860 on:** 24 Jan 2015, 11:34 »

Ah, Jim Inhofe... just so y'all know, I didn't vote for him.

SubaruStephen · « **Reply #3861 on:** 24 Jan 2015, 14:09 »

osaka · « **Reply #3862 on:** 24 Jan 2015, 15:10 »

Race car is the reason to even more absurd things. Back when the Turbos first entered the F1, BMW designed an engine that broke their test bench. It was built to stand 1250bhp.

Then there's Nobuhiro Tajima's twin-engined Suzuki Escudo to climb the Pikes Peak. You read that right. He put two 911 engines on a tubular frame with a fiberglass body that slightly resembled a Suzuki Escudo and called it a climb. He's done that to other suzukis, ofc.

Then there's Loeb's 885bhp "Peugeot 208", also for the peak. And some dude raced a 1000+bhp Tacoma some 20 years ago.

And of course, the legend itself. The MG Metro 8r4 rallycross. Someone was crazy enough to put a 4l V8 into a vehicle the size of a Mini. The old one.

Because Race Car.

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #3863 on:** 24 Jan 2015, 15:16 »

Going and watching the hill cimb in person is always fun

osaka · « **Reply #3864 on:** 24 Jan 2015, 15:17 »

I'd actually like to participate, but I'm pretty sure it'd take a crapton of money.

Also, I don't think I'd be able to fit an engine big enough on my 1.2l Chevrolet Aveo.

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #3865 on:** 24 Jan 2015, 15:45 »

Well you certainly can't participate with THAT kind of cowardly dross.

hedgie · « **Reply #3866 on:** 24 Jan 2015, 16:01 »

Well, there's also the whole matter of replacing the transmission and reinforcing the chassis. Used to work with a guy who (with some friends) decided to stick a Jaguar V12 into a Ford Fiesta and the motor nearly tore the car apart.

osaka · « **Reply #3867 on:** 24 Jan 2015, 16:27 »

Quote from: GarandMarine on 24 Jan 2015, 15:45

Well you certainly can't participate with THAT kind of cowardly dross.

Don't underestimate the little cars. Mini has 4 consecutive overall victories in the Montecarlo Rally back in the 60s.

And obviously I wouldn't go in the competition without doing some tuning. Although I probably wouldn't enter the Aveo and still have it street legal regardless. It's FWD. Ew.

Life would be much easier if my 1992 Legacy hadn't given up on life

SubaruStephen · « **Reply #3868 on:** 24 Jan 2015, 16:32 »

Quote from: osaka on 24 Jan 2015, 15:17

I'd actually like to participate, but I'm pretty sure it'd take a crapton of money.

Also, I don't think I'd be able to fit an engine big enough on my 1.2l Chevrolet Aveo.

Don't give up hope just yet:
http://jalopnik.com/how-volvo-will-crank-450-hp-out-of-just-four-cylinders-1643311981
That'll fit in your engine bay

osaka · « **Reply #3869 on:** 24 Jan 2015, 16:37 »

That's literally a 2 stage turbo. As in, a turbo fed to other turbo. Sweden, man.

Reminds me how the dude in charge of Lancia didn't believe in turbos. They won the first Group B world rally championship with a supercharged engine. And then he had to give in and put a turbo on the Delta S4 - which was too big, so he put a supercharger for low revs.

Let's be fair, we've been force-feeding air to our engines since the late 70s. We're just going crazy with it now.

LeeC · « **Reply #3870 on:** 24 Jan 2015, 17:42 »

Kugai · « **Reply #3871 on:** 24 Jan 2015, 19:51 »

And as for Superman and Batman meeting, I prefer this version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F90nxOlsm1s

Jimor · « **Reply #3872 on:** 24 Jan 2015, 22:18 »

The only card trick thing I ever tried was a couple of weeks of trying to do a "perfect shuffle". I couldn't reliably riffle off 26 cards, but after a while I could tell exactly how many I riffled just from feel. I never got below the 2-4 range on doubled cards on the shuffle, however, and then just moved on.

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #3873 on:** 25 Jan 2015, 01:44 »

How conspiracies and a lot of government actually work in a single video.

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #3874 on:** 25 Jan 2015, 05:13 »

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #3875 on:** 25 Jan 2015, 10:04 »

Happy Australia Day to our loud and upside down members.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #3876 on:** 25 Jan 2015, 10:26 »

Maybe we are the upside down ones!

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #3877 on:** 25 Jan 2015, 10:46 »

No, Bruce, we're not.

LTK · « **Reply #3878 on:** 25 Jan 2015, 10:47 »

We've had it wrong all along!

Method of Madness · « **Reply #3879 on:** 25 Jan 2015, 10:58 »

I love south on top maps. I call them sotties! Since...just right now!

explicit · « **Reply #3880 on:** 25 Jan 2015, 13:02 »

Australia looks like the Wu-Tang symbol

Kugai · « **Reply #3881 on:** 25 Jan 2015, 13:47 »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH1bZ0F3zVU

explicit · « **Reply #3882 on:** 25 Jan 2015, 14:01 »

Obligatory XKCD

LTK · « **Reply #3883 on:** 25 Jan 2015, 14:19 »

Wait, this comic doesn't appear in the 'In popular culture' section of the wikipedia article of the Gall-Peters projection? I'm fixing that right now.

Edit: Oh. Apparently Wikipedia doesn't like it when people do that.

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #3884 on:** 25 Jan 2015, 18:51 »

There's been friction between the two.

Kugai · « **Reply #3885 on:** 25 Jan 2015, 19:55 »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOPOpSjVLYY

explicit · « **Reply #3886 on:** 25 Jan 2015, 21:15 »

LeeC · « **Reply #3887 on:** 25 Jan 2015, 21:30 »

I actually like axe. It doesn't smell bad at all. At least the phoenix one I wear doesn't.

explicit · « **Reply #3888 on:** 25 Jan 2015, 21:41 »

They're more just stereotypes, I wasn't making a point. I don't really like Axe that much, but I mean, all deodorant basically does the same thing. Having said that, I pretty much only use Old Spice, I don't know why. I also don't what Bearglove is supposed to smell like, but that's the type I have currently.

Stryc9Fuego · « **Reply #3889 on:** 26 Jan 2015, 03:43 »

The issue I have with Axe is how the people in the commercials coat themselves in it when they put it on. That leads idiots to think that's how you're supposed to apply it.

I also don't like the inherent sexism in their ads, but that's pretty broad across the board for a lot of ads.