JM1
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It’s way too late to start complaining about JMJ’s posts.
Leah_C
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Maybe because fat girls are constantly reminded that they are unattractive, embarrassing and here to be ridiculed.
I really enjoy this thread, and would hate to see it devolve into bickering over the hotness of curvy women. Can’t we all kiss* and make up
Yup. I got to test drive several really nice cars in the past month during my car search including Shaq O’Neal’s old Ferrari and Porsche’s 24-hour LeMans racer, the 996 GT3.
I drove 3 different Lotuses, which really let me compare them and make good, informed decisions. I’d recommend that to anyone looking to buy any unfamiliar car, actually:
Drive at least three of them so you know what is normal and what is not. Is a Ferrari 456GT supposed to rattle your bones on rough asphalt? Do all of [insert car here] make this whirring noise at 7000rpm? You can’t possibly know unless you’ve driven another of the same kind that you can compare it to, and you need at least three data points to arrive at a conclusion if there is any contention.
Also, pay a certified specialist mechanic the $300 or so to perform a pre-purchase inspection. Not the new car pre-delivery inspection, but a PPI that will tell you all sorts of things even the owner probably doesn’t know about the mechanical shape of his/her vehicle.
the Lotus:
Let me tell you, the car can be very quick, and if I had sufficient driving skill it would allow me to make any kind of agile maneuver I could ever want to make. But, because I have to share the road with people who have just as much a right to be on it as I do, I’m going to try my best not to drive like a dick. I plan to take it to the track as soon as possible so that I can sit down with instructors and relearn how to drive.
Here’s a picture of the car next to some giant human wearing strange head apparel.
It does stand out a bit, but the other cars I looked at that were not as showy cost a lot more. They also didn’t belong to a gentleman who was more concerned with actually getting it sold rather than the price he was selling it for. I got a really good deal.
That is what dickheads always say.
ElGuapo
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What a cool looking car. Those orange highlights are … interesting looking. Is that after market paint, or manufacturer? It looks like one of the fast cars in Saint’s Row. You should totally get some blue and orange outfits to wear when you are driving it.
Congratulations! Which model Exige is it?
They’re wonderful cars, as long as you know what you’re getting yourself into. The ride is incredibly stiff, no power steering, getting in and out is an acrobatics act, etc… They’re also about the most fun you can possibly have driving a car. I’m seriously considering an Exige for my next car. They’re wonderful. I rented an Elise for a few days a while back and fell in love with it. My wife… not so much.
Leah_C
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Sticking with both of the current topics, I wrote a long thing about fat phobia the other day (unrelated to JMJ and ElG’s posts, but that further illustrated the importance of writing such a thing). It was intended for an audience of about 100 people but is now out there for around 3k. The response was very unexpected and touching.
I’ve received so many emails from people thanking me for writing it and sharing their own experiences. The ones from men with overweight girlfriends/wives have been particularly heartbreaking. I know what I go through as a fat woman - almost daily sneers, jeers, head shakes, servers ordering diet coke for me without asking what I’d like (seriously, wtf?), even men driving by and rolling down their car windows just to yell at me and sometimes throw things (I’ve had full cups of drink thrown at me more than once, once when I was just sitting at a bus stop). I had no idea what some men have had to deal with though, just for seeing a woman as a person and not an unlovable object to be laughed at. It’s been an eye-opening experience. I’d post it here but I still haven’t overcome the shyness of having it available to so many people.
RepoMan
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Good on you, Leah. (JMJ/ElG/Marcus can fuck right off.)
Forking the topic:
We went camping last weekend in the mountains (Lake Easton state park, a few minutes east of the Snoqualmie summit on I-90).
Now, this sounds like no big deal, but our kids are three and five. We went camping last year and our now-three-year-old son was only two, and he kind of freaked out – having never slept anywhere but his bedroom – at being in some kind of weird cloth room with trees overhead. He cried for about two hours before finally falling (very fitfully) asleep. No one slept well and we bailed the next morning.
Well, THIS year, he bounced around like a ping-pong ball for about an hour – part of it in our other tent (which we brought just for storage, not for sleeping) – and then fell solidly asleep. That was manageable enough, so we stayed for a second night.
The second night, he laid down on me and was fast asleep in two minutes flat. Same with our daughter. Our whole family conked right out, in fact, and slept nine hours straight!!!
So now we are… wait for it… happy campers :-D Going to camp again on Whidbey Island in September, in fact!
In other interesting news, it’s my birthday next weekend and I’m taking the day off work so our family can go here :-) Even better, the deal is that once we’ve all ridden our asses off for four or five hours and the kids are tired, my wife will take them home and I get to ride the Really Fucking Big Coasters for an hour or two! JOY!!!
Heh, funny, I finally surrendered mine today. I’ve been living in Canada for over a year and half so I had already abandoned it.
This literally happened a day ago but you couldn’t just let it go, could you?
Edit: Hell, the conversation even moved on without ANY bickering except for someone saying they want to punch stupid people in the face. THANKS JERRI.
>>You see a dead horse.
>>KICK HORSE
>>You have kicked the dead horse. What now, superstar?
That’s a mighty short statue of limitations on calling out stupidity, Thread Cop.
Kong, that Lotus is pretty close to the good old Gulf racing livery. Just not close enough. Not that there’s anything wrong with the colours as such, it’s just that it looks as if they’ve tried to match the colours and failed, if you know what I mean.
2007 Exige S.
http://www.lotusofgreenwich.com/soldcars.php?cat=lotus&carid=2041
Krise, I’m sure the original owner who commissioned the car from Hunting Ridge Motors actually specified those exact colors (they’re factory paint colors) and got exactly what he wanted. If I got a 40% discount on it a few years later because the gentleman was color-blind, I cannot complain too loudly.
I saw on their gallery that this same custom shop did also create a Gulf Racing version for a different client, but like you say, the colors are still factory lotus, not the baby blue of the old Gulf livery:
http://www.lotusofgreenwich.com/cars.php?carid=1872&cat=lotus&subcat=exige
Well, if the colours had any part in you getting a good deal on this car then I guess it was worth it (and cars can always be repainted). Congrats on your new ride.
Raife
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Y por eso los grandes amores de muchos colores me gustan a mi.
Very nice. It’s got the appropriate options on it, too, which is cool. That’ll be an absolute dream on the track. You’ll love it. Congratulations again on the new toy.
But it was a full day! Do you know how many times you can refresh in a day!?
I myself had a bad day. I ordered a guitar I’ve been wanting and then found out that I’ll have to wait about 6 weeks before I can get it (mine is in process of being made by PRS right now!).
He’s not thread cop… he just feels this need to always defend ElG’s honour… perhaps he’s hoping for ElG to throw him some scraps of his table, so to speak.
Cool car, Roger.
How much did a thing like that cost?
… I don’t think I can post anything from my life in this thread again unless I sell a script (that would require I wrote one), sleep with hot twins (might be hard convincing the wife) or bought a sports car (that would require selling more than one script… unless the twins were rich).
