Re: A Question for the Relationship Geniuses of the FB
 

2. Best advice yet.

I always keep a few of these types on my guest list. Livens things up.

Re: This Is Why You Are Fat
 

When it comes to the way Irish guys from New Jersey used to cruise through their lives, borne on the gentle tide of alcohol, subsidized suburban living and unionized public employment (holidays! pensions!), I become more nostalgic for my Lost America than Glen Beck ever will be for his.

Re: This Is Why You Are Fat
 

I heard he is going blind.

Re: This Is Why You Are Fat
 

Aren't you happy that you've been freed from the soft bigotry of low expectations? You've made something of your self, man.

Unfortunately, that something is a poncy wannabe euro, pushing stacks of paper in the big city, but it beats hell out of a steady paycheck and 22 annual holidays and 4 weeks paid vacay and a pension your grandkids kids will still be overtaxed to subsidize, because you. own. it.

Re: A Question for the Relationship Geniuses of the FB
 

Best advice would be to solicit her for a three-way.

Re: A Question for the Relationship Geniuses of the FB
 

dtb said that she wasn't hot. I actually think a double titty twister is apropos.

Tuesday is Friday
 

The ownership society is, of course, its own reward.

And poncy wannabe euro? What? You and me out back by the dumpster, one hour.

Re: This Is Why You Are Fat
 

So that whole thing is true, then?

Re: A Question for the Relationship Geniuses of the FB
 

Merde! WP, P.

Re: A Question for the Relationship Geniuses of the FB
 

I'd take one marginal hit if it was part of a hat trick score.

Re: Tuesday is Friday
 

Sorry. Poncy wannbe euro *toff*.

Aren't you in NYC? Don't you mean out *front* by the dumpster?

Re: This Is Why You Are Fat
 

You have me confused with someone whose got class. I'm prole all the way, baby!

Re: This Is Why You Are Fat
 

Silly silly 3G. the Bugles are the ski hats for the little sledders made of Vienna sausages!

Re: This Is Why You Are Fat
 

If you make this, I need to see a photo.

New Car
 

My 20-year old Prelude has died, partially due to my neglect, but that is not the point.

I am considering a Mini for several reasons, not the least of which is parking in San Francisco. Does anyone have one? Thoughts? In particular, I am curious about reliability.

Re: New Car
 

I would have gotten one (a Mini, that is) but then realized exactly how close to the rear gate the backseat passengers are. If you ever have passengers in the backseat, I would recommend against. Getting rearended at high speed by some jackass is something that happens, nothing you can do will ever avoid it, and the people in the back seat of a Mini are toast. (NHTSA doesn't test rear impacts because only 5% of crash deaths happen this way. IIHS does test, and gives the Mini good ratings, but their methodology is to crash a sled of the same weight as the test car going 20 mph at impact. At 2,500 lb, that's about one-sixth less than a lot of other coupes (barring go karts like a Lotus or Tesla), and don't get me started about what an SUV weighs. Add some mph (which gets squared in the force calculation) and it might not pass.) Anyway, I wanted one badly but couldn't get past this. I'd feel sick taking the kids to school, and that saps a lot of fun out of driving.

Re: New Car
 

A friend has one and LOVES it, but it does spend a lot of time in the shop. She has replaced the brakes and the clutch in the 3 years she has had it.

Re: New Car
 

Well, SF is pretty easy on the clutch and brakes.

I think TM is looking to unload his Clubman-check with him.

Re: This Is Why You Are Fat
 

Pork rinds have no carbs? Huh. Go figure.

The trading floor no-carb-snack-food of choice was Beef Jerky. FYI.

Re: Tuesday is Friday
 

Cletus...

You are ON FIRE, man.

Re: New Car
 

My sister (the one that lives here) has a '05 Mini S. I recommend against the drive flat tires but otherwise it's been a good car for her. Of course, right now it's not running due to a battery, but I am assuming driver error than any fault of the car.

That said, a friend of mine hates the Mini people with the fire of a thousand blazing suns. I believe that's due to customer service issues at the local dealership more than the car, but it's had difficulties running.

Re: New Car
 

That sounds like a driver issue, not a reliability issue.

Re: This Is Why You Are Fat
 

Beef jerky time!

http://www.movieactors.com/freezefra...ngPlaces59.jpg

Re: This Is Why You Are Fat
 

if you'd answered semen you'd be able to retire already.

Re: This Is Why You Are Fat
 

flower's culinary training is limited to the 7 year sushi-making training. I'm not sure if he did it online or if he moved to Kyoto for the time.

Anyhoo, the japanese are really limited in using dairy and corn so he probably is swimming when you throw bugles at him. otoh, pork rinds or shrimp chips or rice cakes he'll arrange like the itamae he is.

Re: This Is Why You Are Fat
 

This was going so well until "nebwers." Buzz. Kill.

Re: This Is Why You Are Fat
 

Sometimes, I find Hank's "I know more about Japan than the Japanese" schtick to be a bit tiresome. But mostly, I am just happy to have someone else here who can appreciate Melt Banana, in at least some small way.

Re: New Car
 

A friend in SF used to have one and liked it, but traded it in after watching backseat passengers struggle to get in/out of it.

Honda Insight? Nowhere as peppy as the Mini, but smaller than a Prius, with the Honda reliability.

Re: New Car
 

You had a Honda and could only kill it after 20 years.

Anything BMW-relaated will flat line much more easily and quickly than that. My suggestion: Civic all the way.

Re: Tuesday is Friday
 

Just trying to help a man in need. I feel the pain of work one doesn't want to do.

More Advice
 

Is a 9 year old old enough to go to a concert?

We're thinking about taking the whole family to Santana. Too many clouds of smoke to explain?

We'd be on the lawn.

Re: New Car
 

I am getting one this week to replace my 10-year-old Audi. So I can't speak to reliability, but all my friends who have them LOVE them. I am very impatient for the car with my name on it to get from the ship in Oxnard to the dealership.

Re: More Advice
 

Probably depends on your feelings about clouds of smoke around the nine year old. Santana shows that I've been to tend to be pretty mellow, not too loud, not too crazy. And if it's outside, the smoke isn't going to be as pervasive as it would be indoors. You can always move to another part of the hill if the hippies reliving the Santana set at Woodstock get too high. They tend to be a fairly harmless bunch, though. I can't imagine that you'll need them up on the hill, but you might want to bring along a set of earplugs in case it gets too loud for the little ones.

Re: More Advice
 

My dad took me to see Harry Chapin perform at The Mall (not the mall) in Albany when I was 8-10. I was fairly oblivious to any sort of adult-type shenanigans going on around me. So much so that the bass player's comment that The Egg (not an egg) looked like a giant clam coming out of the Hudson River did not strike me as something that would only be said by someone who was incredibly high.* I had a wonderful time.


*I fully recognize that this story is a bit inside baseball, but it is GGG who is asking for advice, after all. Upstate represent!

Re: More Advice
 

Is it a cross of Bluegrass, Kentucky Bluegrass, Featherbed Bent, and Northern California Sensimilla?

Re: New Car
 

Manual or automatic?

Re: New Car
 

Manual. Apparently Mini has the highest % of manuals of any new car sold in the US. 35%-ish.

Re: More Advice
 

Wow. You mean The Egg is not a giant clam coming out of the Hudson?

http://oldblogs.rediff.com/scripts/g...pe=image/pjpeg


It may be that the 9 year old will be sufficiently oblivious and I should worry more about the older ones. But I'm just glad they want to go to a concert with their dad.

Hot Tuna at the egg next weekend.

help me burger
 

the chinaski family Mac theory is now that you should never update your existing product just before, or after, mac introduces a new model. our old iphone are fucked. my phone works but internet is locked on book marks and i can't move it off. the wife's is screwed up to, but in some other way. burger what should i do


also, can someone find me the link to last week when Thurgreed posted the seinfeld outtakes with actual george s?

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

Have you done any of the iPhone reset techniques?