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mrodgers
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While you guys are all shooting cars, sports, and hot chicks licking fire, I was chillin and relaxin out on the beach. Sorry mine don't compare to those above......

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

Sunrise over the water



My daughter chillin out on the beach with a book



Some beach scenery



Hunting for shark teeth



Beach model







The new Myrtle Beach boardwalk



Aligator



More reading out on the balcony. Little stinker gets stupid little 3 word sentence books she has to read for homework in school while she reads chapter books on her own .





My oldest



Finished off vacation with some RC Airshow the following day of coming home.











mrodgers
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While 99.999% of the LFS users are sleeping during the peak US time zone, you can't expect a million servers full of many racers when only 5 in the US are using LFS......
mrodgers
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Until they make an LCD that you can watch fast paced sports on, I'll stick to my 1996 old tube television.

Even the 120 Hz, you can't watch hockey on unless you like the slideshow effect. HD looks beautiful between plays when everyone is just standing waiting for the faceoff though.
mrodgers
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Quote from Jakg :The UK has one of the cheapest phone markets in the world. I pay £35pm for an iPhone 4 (which was £40 upfront) with 1200 mins / unlimited texts / 750MB data for 18 months.

I'm guessing a similar plan in the US would be ~$70+ and even then it would have lower limits.

Yup, I'm talking more than one phone. For me, I need a phone for myself, wifey, and oldest daughter. Wifey and I would like iPhones. I have only 2 services available, cheapest is $99 Family plan for 700 minutes and unlimited text. Add 3rd phone for $10. The first 2 phones are iPhones, so there is $30 each for data. $170.
mrodgers
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Prepaid!

We have 3 phones, $20/month. I don't know how people with multiple phones, especially when everyone has a smartphones, can afford it. 3 smart phones for us would run $180/month!
mrodgers
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Quote from illegal :Old one for sale, less old one rolled in yesterday.


What's the dildo coming out of your hood (oops, bonnet) for?
mrodgers
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Quote from thisnameistaken :But generally, piano requires more force to sound the notes, so it's a slower activity than playing the guitar.

My fingers only perform slow soulful sustaining bends and vibrato, so any piano player performs a far faster activity than my guitar playing
mrodgers
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Quote from P5YcHoM4N :I am a big manual fan, but really auto is king these days, manual if you plan on hitting up a track, but then the BMW semiauto is quite sweet and lets you pretend you're in a touring car....

Breaking it up....

For driving on the roads,

Manual all the way. Driving along in your auto, hill coming up, press throttle and car continues to slow down. Press throttle some more, car continues to slow down. Press some more, continues to slow down until it shifts down a gear and you find yourself at 3/4 throttle so you go racing up the hill. Let off throttle, shifts back up, and you're slowing down again to repeat the process.

in town,

Short running of throttle from stop to stop. throttle, shifts to 2nd, throttle then let off and go for brakes for the next stop. Between getting off the throttle and getting over to the brakes, car shifts up to 3rd and surges forward, something that you don't want to happen because you are heading for the brakes to slow down for another stop.

on the motorway,

Really? Charging around an onramp to the motorway, it's sometimes the only time to have some fun on the roads.

you want an auto, manual is just too much hassle.

You missed traffic, another argument everyone puts out for auto. Everywhere around me, people are stomp the throttle, accelerate, stomp the brake, stop, rinse and repeat. Me, I leave it in 1st with the clutch out. Just idle along at a constant pace. Traffic a little faster than that? Slip it into 2nd and idle along. So much less hassle than constantly going throttle, brake, throttle, brake.

Three years I was stuck with an auto. I couldn't drive it for crap. The car did everything opposite of what I wanted it to do. Surging when I wanted to slow. Shifting up when I wanted to stay in gear or shift down. Lag on upshifting when I wanted it to upshift.

Toss in all the rest of the auto crap in my wife's vehicle and things really got bad for winter driving. Mirror auto dimmed. Driving up and down hills, the car behind entered my mirror blinding me. By the time the mirror auto dimmed, the car was gone and mirror when back. Then car appeared on the next hill again blinding me.

Auto 4WD. It senses when the front slips and applies power to the rear. Hmm, if it senses slip, that tells me I'VE ALREADY SLIPPED! IT'S TOO LATE! I want to prevent slip by putting it in 4WD, not sense it after the fact and try to correct. Nearly caused me to crash once. Pulling out onto a busy road, have to give some acceleration. Front tires slip pushing the front end towards the opposite traffic lane. At that point, the computer senses it slamming power to the rear which also spins putting the car sideways and sliding the rear end over into the opposite lane. Stupid idea sensing slip then doing something about it rather than having the operator see the road conditions and putting it into 4WD being proactive instead of reactive.

Auto crap is for girls.
mrodgers
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I completely missed all the tree blooms this year. Peach, cherry, plum, and a lot of apple I have out in the yard and missed them all. The blossoms didn't seem to hang out on the trees very long this year though.

I can't even remember the last time I turned my camera on. I've so far out grown it that I've lost all interest without having a decent camera.

I'll be heading to the beach in 14 days though, so I'll do some shooting then.
mrodgers
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Quote from Sueycide_FD :Standing for 8ish minutes in the heat around a hundred people....

When we went to Disneyworld in Florida, the recommendation was to get to the parks before they opened and have free reign of the park before the crowds get there. First day that is what we did.

F' that! We were at the mercy of the Disney buses and ended up standing shoulder to shoulder amongst hundreds of people for 45 minutes. At 8:30 am in the morning it was already reaching about mid 90's. Everyone looked like they just stepped out of the shower with their clothes on soaking wet sweating.

Told my wife from then on, we will try to catch the bus 15 minutes before park opens and end up there either 5 or 10 minutes after the park opens. Still missed the huge crowd that comes rolling in at 10:30 and still walked right in to a near empty amusement park.
mrodgers
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Quote from PMD9409 :Only been in -11F, wasn't too bad. Here it only gets to about 20F each winter. That's barely enough for me to wear a hoody and shorts. I don't even own a pair of pants for winter.



You'll see me there. Winter time is the best time to go, no lines! :banana:

Ah, +20F. That's swimming pool weather

Lowest I can recall here in Pennsylvania is -23F back in 1992 I think it was.
mrodgers
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Quote from PMD9409 :Yesterday it was 102 degrees...

Is it really that hot down there again? Last year in the beginning of June, the Fam and I were in Disneyworld. The coolest day was 103. It was insane. I stopped for gas (driving from Pittsburgh PA) in Columbia, SC and nearly choked when I got out of the car. Last time I had filled up in West Virginia I think it was low 70's. I got out in Columbia and the heat hit me like a brick wall. It was 101. It was freakin only noon.

We left in Pennsylvania at 3 am to Savannah, Georgia. It was in the 50's when we left, hehehe.

I vowed never to visit Florida again except in the dead of winter, LOL.
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mrodgers
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Quote from S14 DRIFT :Are they stretched tyres on the back? Looks crap.

And no wing = no likey.

Yeah, don't do the "my wheels are too wide for my little tires" thing. Just looks horrible as well as looks unstable as all.
mrodgers
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Quote from hrtburnout :Does riding home from work count? If so, here's mine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-1o8lT4KSs

HOLY CRAP! You are a menace out there! I saw you overtake 7 other bikes at once, and there was a parked car there! What if someone was inside that car and decided to open the door?

2:37, car that drove over into the bike lane. That must have been Jakg

Seriously, what was with the noise? You ride a tricycle to work?
mrodgers
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Quote from Franky.S :K.Hunt

This would be nothing because it would be "Kay" Hunt, which is not what you were trying to do there....
mrodgers
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Marriage creates two things of which one depends on if you believe in something or not.

First, marriage is the commitment to someone in front of your God. That is the one where you have to believe in something. If you are not religious, then this means nothing to you.

The second, I don't know how it works over there, but marriage is just simply something to give you legal status for tax purposes. Nothing more.

Divorce is such an easy thing to do. Thus, marriage can not be a binding commitment. You can get married today saying you are committed with your everlasting love to a woman, and tomorrow wake up and file for divorce. If you marry for the religious reasons, then it says something about how religious you are if you choose to divorce for anything but extreme reasons (think abuse.) Thus, divorce is merely a legal aspect, of which is so easy to do and done so often that it makes that "commitment" of marriage a joke. You can wake up the following day and have a fight with the one you marry and work it out with your "commitment" or you can wake up the next day and think, "Hmm, she wore socks while we shagged, that's weird, I'm outta here..."

There is no legal commitment with divorce being so easy to do. You can do the same whether you did the legal marriage thing or just shacked up with each other. The only difference is, you either just wake up and take all your stuff and leave, or you wake up and take half your stuff because she is going to legally get half your stuff when you leave.
mrodgers
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Mike Hunt
Mike Hawk
Ben Dover
mrodgers
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Quote from PMD9409 :She's into the kitchen that fast? Sir, you have got yourself a keeper!

Got myself a keeper too. I get home from work at 3:30 and she is cooking dinner in the kitchen. She leaves for work at 4:30 and doesn't even get to eat the dinner

Today since it is the weekend, she goes to work earlier. She made lunch for me (and the kids) and left for work. Life is good!
mrodgers
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Quote from Inouva :The cockpit view in RBR is not the same as the one in lfs

RBR have the camera Over the well and over the dasboar, Put your chin over the wheel of your car and you will understand

Is the same cockpit view as Toca 3

Exactly real. Why? Because you do not have 2 wheels in the car. The monitor is your windshield, the space between your monitor and wheel is the dash area, and the wheel you are using is the wheel. It gives the most real interpretation of driving a car from the driver's seat rather than driving from the back seat like default LFS.
mrodgers
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Remember 2 rules of relationships.

First rule women will never budge on. "What's yours is mine and what's mine is mine!" They will live forever with you by that rule at all times.

Second, every man meets the woman of his dream and hitches up with her wanting her never to change. She will change. Every woman meets the man of her dreams and hitches up with him with the intent to change him. He will change, like putty in her hands molded to what she wants.

These are set in stone. They happen every time.
mrodgers
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Quote from jrd.racer :Man standing on a corner with hands in his pockets, not feeling crazy, ...feeling nuts!

Man with hand in pocket, feel cocky all day.

Baseball wrong. Man with 4 balls can not walk.

Foolish man give wife grand piano, wise man give wife upright organ.

Man who walk through airport turnstile sideways, going to Bangkok.

Is good for lady to meet man in park, but better for man to park meat in lady.

Panties not best thing on earth, but next to it.

It take many nails to build crib, but one screw to fill it.

Crowded elevator smells different to midget.
mrodgers
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Quote from DeadWolfBones :Epic vegan response

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeZlih4DDNg

I can't believe you are an adult and just used the term "epic".....:doh:
mrodgers
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Quote from simulation :not americans....those guy's live right down the street from me here in montreal.....canada.

Aren't they using the wrong bacon then?
mrodgers
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Quote from Jakg :**** selling it to end users... imagine integrating it *into* your TV.

Unfortunately, the TV distributors would then use it as an excuse to say the TV is now selling for $400 more.
mrodgers
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Have to ask since I've seen it several times now....

What is GLOF?

Internet says it is a "glacial lake outburst flood."
FGED GREDG RDFGDR GSFDG