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Grrrr.... I had to replace the battery in my 02 PT Cruiser this morning. THe cold temps finally did it in. I knew it was getting weak, it made itself known as it got colder, but today, the 20 degree temp did it. And the windchill really helped do it in. Felt like 10 degrees out, if that.0
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Tell me about it. If this cold spell keeps on, I'll have to turn the heat on before the weekend is over :eek:
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Mosquitoes. Ha. Mosquitoes. This is ALABAMA. ALABAMA is an alternate spelling for MOSQUITO. One of my hats says "Pilot". We have mosquitos with "N" numbers. One time I was sitting in an old warbird on the taxiway stopped just short of runway 6 in Birmingham, and the controller cleared me for takeoff... and added "Caution- Wake turbulence-- Departing mosquito."
I've seen mosquitoes that had to file instrument flight plans. I have actually seen bugs chip windshields here, no joke.
Another one of my hats says "Contractor". Today I was up a 10' ladder in the wind putting up light fixtures. I came home to pinstripe a friend's Hudson in the driveway, and the paint was freezing in the brush.
During the summer, it's hot. And it's not a dam dry heat. In Birmingham we have what's called the "Bermuda High", which occurs in mid July and lasts through the first of September. A high pressure area comes in and parks itself over the valley that is Birmingham, and stays there on suction. It blocks all rain. It blocks all wind. It just sits there... 100 degrees... 90% humidity... and you can't breathe.
My other home is in Western North Carolina, and while the summers are a beautiful 85, the snow is a hassle. Being that we have the tallest mountains in the eastern US, we get enough snow to matter. The problem is, it's not enough snow to be truly prepared for it, like those of you in Pittsburgh or Chicago.0 -
I am sick and tired of people saying that Southern Cal sucks because we don't have seasons here. It's just not true! We have at least two, Fire Season and Construction Season!
I went to a cruise night last night but was late because it was so cold. I had to roll up two of the windows. (It was that or put on a long sleeve shirt and I wasn't going to do that because I think it looks stupid wearing long sleeve shirts with shorts.
The windows hadn't been rolled up since last April and were so dirty I had to wash them. Took me nearly an hour! By then I was sweatin' so much I just rolled them back down and went cruzin'.
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52 kahuna wrote:I am sick and tired of people saying that Southern Cal sucks because we don't have seasons here. It's just not true! We have at least two, Fire Season and Construction Season!
I went to a cruise night last night but was late because it was so cold. I had to roll up two of the windows. (It was that or put on a long sleeve shirt and I wasn't going to do that because I think it looks stupid wearing long sleeve shirts with shorts.
The windows hadn't been rolled up since last April and were so dirty I had to wash them. Took me nearly an hour! By then I was sweatin' so much I just rolled them back down and went cruzin'.
Terry:mad:
TYPICAL WINTER DAY IN SEATTLE - DON'T BELIEVE ALL THE HYPE ABOUT THE NICE WEATHER...ITS LIKE THIS YEAR ROUND
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rambos_ride wrote::mad:
TYPICAL WINTER DAY IN SEATTLE - DON'T BELIEVE ALL THE HYPE ABOUT THE NICE WEATHER...ITS LIKE THIS YEAR ROUND
Yea, but now you got that nice shop to hang out with Rambo in!0 -
How True!...But I still have to move in the snow/ice/sleet/hail/rain first!
Here's the stages of moving...I have no idea where I am at!
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You can HAVE California, Florida, Texas and all them other hotter'n'hell places. I am a SNOWMOBILER and I can't run my '73 Rupp Nitro 440 or my '04 Arctic Cat Pantera in the sun belt. You've probably seen us before; we're the guys with the $#!+faced grin every time there's a blizzard. I'll take northern Wisconsin (or Minnesota or da U.P. of Michigan) any day. We have a lake just about every mile to play in all summer long, thousands of miles of snowmobile trails in the winter, and all kinds of car shows in just about every town. So if you're like me and into antique outboard motors and boats, vintage snowmobiles, and, of course, classic orphan cars, well I can't think of a finer place to be than Up North.
Jay (and Aaron D.), we have bikini car washes here all the time during the summer; guess you have to get away from the Left Coast and into the smaller Midwestern cities and towns where people don't give a crap about being "politically correct," just about being themselves. Heck, I even ran across a bikini car wash when I was in Madison (Wis.) this summer; that's like America's Commietown! Buncha college kids doing it for some fundraiser; I guess if they get in their scanties and get all wet for some lefty cause THEN it's OK with the libs.0 -
What a load of codswallop!0
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Martin200 wrote:You can HAVE California, Florida, Texas and all them other hotter'n'hell places. I am a SNOWMOBILER and I can't run my '73 Rupp Nitro 440 or my '04 Arctic Cat Pantera in the sun belt. You've probably seen us before; we're the guys with the $#!+faced grin every time there's a blizzard. I'll take northern Wisconsin (or Minnesota or da U.P. of Michigan) any day. We have a lake just about every mile to play in all summer long, thousands of miles of snowmobile trails in the winter, and all kinds of car shows in just about every town. So if you're like me and into antique outboard motors and boats, vintage snowmobiles, and, of course, classic orphan cars, well I can't think of a finer place to be than Up North.
Jay (and Aaron D.), we have bikini car washes here all the time during the summer; guess you have to get away from the Left Coast and into the smaller Midwestern cities and towns where people don't give a crap about being "politically correct," just about being themselves. Heck, I even ran across a bikini car wash when I was in Madison (Wis.) this summer; that's like America's Commietown! Buncha college kids doing it for some fundraiser; I guess if they get in their scanties and get all wet for some lefty cause THEN it's OK with the libs.
Couple of things wrong with this post...
FIRST... I beleive you are wrongfully accusing the "libs" for taking away the bikini car washes, quite contrary, it's the republicans that want to put you into a puritanical lifestyle, not the democrats. Perhaps you should reconsider your view as to what the republicans want to clamp down on. I mean come on... Reagan was accused of sleeping in the Oval Office, Clinton could have filmed a porno there....
SECOND... maybe you have great summers up there in the sticks, but hey, isn't summer the three weeks the temperature climbs to 65 degrees during the year?
THIRD... what's political correctness have anything to do with a bikini car wash? I don't think any group out there is lobbying to shut these down, and who cares? Why would they be considered non PC anyway? What it amounts to is should we drive the entire country's political climate to cater to what a couple of "small town" locals think? maybe the majority should dictate what's good for everyone. Just because someone feels their small town values are better than the big cities doesn't necessarily make those values more or less correct.0 -
Martin200 wrote:You can HAVE California, Florida, Texas and all them other hotter'n'hell places. I am a SNOWMOBILER and I can't run my '73 Rupp Nitro 440 or my '04 Arctic Cat Pantera in the sun belt. You've probably seen us before; we're the guys with the $#!+faced grin every time there's a blizzard. I'll take northern Wisconsin (or Minnesota or da U.P. of Michigan) any day. We have a lake just about every mile to play in all summer long, thousands of miles of snowmobile trails in the winter, and all kinds of car shows in just about every town. So if you're like me and into antique outboard motors and boats, vintage snowmobiles, and, of course, classic orphan cars, well I can't think of a finer place to be than Up North.
Jay (and Aaron D.), we have bikini car washes here all the time during the summer; guess you have to get away from the Left Coast and into the smaller Midwestern cities and towns where people don't give a crap about being "politically correct," just about being themselves. Heck, I even ran across a bikini car wash when I was in Madison (Wis.) this summer; that's like America's Commietown! Buncha college kids doing it for some fundraiser; I guess if they get in their scanties and get all wet for some lefty cause THEN it's OK with the libs.
YEAAAAAAAA, my kinda guy . . .0 -
Amen, Martin, you are dead on the money! What do "kids" know, anyway!:D Always remember where the term "political correctness" came from - it originated with Trotsky after the Russian Revolution, then adopted by Mao in 1949 in Red China. Socialists/Communists invented the term, and the Left thrives on forcing it down our throats! And THAT is the truth, gang!:p
Political rant off.:D
Weather here is great, 60 degrees and another day of fun in the shop on the Terraplane and the '67 Dodge truck. Getting parts ready to ship, too. Fun day!:cool:0 -
Geoff C., N.Z. wrote:What a load of codswallop!
Amen Geoff!0 -
66patrick66 wrote:Amen, Martin, you are dead on the money! What do "kids" know, anyway!:D Always remember where the term "political correctness" came from - it originated with Trotsky after the Russian Revolution, then adopted by Mao in 1949 in Red China. Socialists/Communists invented the term, and the Left thrives on forcing it down our throats! And THAT is the truth, gang!:p
Political rant off.
Weather here is great, 60 degrees and another day of fun in the shop on the Terraplane and the '67 Dodge truck. Getting parts ready to ship, too. Fun day!:cool:
well, Patrick, I see that your facts are incorrect. Let me correct you...
The term "political correctness" did not originate from Trotsky, it actually originated right here in the good ole US of A.... here...
"The often quoted "earliest cited usage of the term" comes from the U.S. Supreme Court decision Chisholm v. Georgia (1793), where it clearly means that the statement it refers to is not literally correct, owing to the political status of the United States as it was understood at that time:
The states, rather than the People, for whose sakes the States exist, are frequently the objects which attract and arrest our principal attention [...]. Sentiments and expressions of this inaccurate kind prevail in our common, even in our convivial, language. Is a toast asked? 'The United States,' instead of the 'People of the United States,' is the toast given. This is not politically correct."
Further, what it really amounts to, today, but most of the flock, like yourself, are too afraid to see is this...
"the term "political correctness" was fabricated by United States conservatives around 1980 and defined as a way to reframe the political arguments in the United States. Such commentators say that there never was a "Political Correctness movement" in the United States, and that many who use the term are attempting to distract attention from substantive debates over discrimination and unequal treatment based on race, class, and gender ."
More...
"Political correctness is one of the brilliant tools that the American Right developed in the mid-1980s as part of its demolition of American liberalism....What the sharpest thinkers on the American Right saw quickly was that by declaring war on the cultural manifestations of liberalism - by levelling the charge of political correctness against its exponents - they could discredit the whole political project."
THe final word on the matter is....
Most educated people will tell you that the phrase is an empty rightwing smear designed only to elevate its user.
Hope none of these words were too big for you.
besides, what do "kids" know.... :cool:0 -
Final word, huh? Pretty impressive quotes you have there, but no sources? Look up your Russian and Chinese history. bucko. Learn and listen. Out.
http://arcofcc.freeservers.com/Documents/pc.html
http://www.academia.org/lectures/lind1.html
http://members.aol.com/williefank/pc-essay.htm
among others...Lots of reading there, kid, hope you can handle the big words.0 -
"TURN THAT DISRESPECTFUL NOISE OFF!!!!" "RESPECT THE CLASSICS MAAAN!!!!" -- Sarge vs. Filmore CARS 2006.0
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hudsonkid wrote:Couple of things wrong with this post...
FIRST... I beleive you are wrongfully accusing the "libs" for taking away the bikini car washes, quite contrary, it's the republicans that want to put you into a puritanical lifestyle, not the democrats. Perhaps you should reconsider your view as to what the republicans want to clamp down on. I mean come on... Reagan was accused of sleeping in the Oval Office, Clinton could have filmed a porno there....
SECOND... maybe you have great summers up there in the sticks, but hey, isn't summer the three weeks the temperature climbs to 65 degrees during the year?
THIRD... what's political correctness have anything to do with a bikini car wash? I don't think any group out there is lobbying to shut these down, and who cares? Why would they be considered non PC anyway? What it amounts to is should we drive the entire country's political climate to cater to what a couple of "small town" locals think? maybe the majority should dictate what's good for everyone. Just because someone feels their small town values are better than the big cities doesn't necessarily make those values more or less correct.
Hudson Kid, you are 100% wrong. Feminists have labeled this stuff as sexist and they pushed out the vast majority of these activities. You have never heard of Gloria Allred? Here is a fact and it was and is still rampant: I attended the University of Southern California and graduated in 1980. One of the sororities was going to have a pirate "slave auction" where they were going to auction off some of us fraternity guys to the girls as a fund raiser. A girl could bid on a guy who would take you to dinner or make him wash your dishes, etc. The femi-nazi's forced the University to shut it down. This not a one time exception. This PC philosophy still continues on everywhere. To deny it would simply be nieve.
The good news is that people are finally getting sick of these radicals.
As a final note, if anything, it is the big city PC lobbies that force their views and laws on the small towns. Niels0 -
How did we get from weather to politics.....0
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Hudsonkid said that "political correctness" was an invented term for something that doesn't exist, created solely to discredit - the thing that doesn't exist.
If it doesn't exist, how can it be discredited?
Go get some more kool-aid, kid.0 -
You know, we wouldn't be having this discussion if I was dictator of the world! You're all wrong and ONLY I AM RIGHT!
Jay "the righteous" :-)0 -
My degree says "History" on it, and I'm not going to debate the origins of "political correctness" because it is possible for a term to be coined in more than one part of the globe simultaneously.
My only comment on politics is don't let those with more extreme views stereotype the rest of us with a given view or who belong to a particular political party. You can't say that a few out-theres who have something against bikini car washes, while the participants are willing, embody the views of "liberals" as a whole any more than you can suggest that the ultra-conservative viewpoint of Jerry Falwell embodies the ideals of "Conservatives". There are extreme ends of every spectrum.
That being said, it's still cold here.0 -
51hornetA wrote:How did we get from weather to politics.....
I was simply trying to refute nhp1127's claim that the bikini car washes were killed by the leftist feminist and liberals. What happens in one area of the country doesn't always hold true for another area of the country. It may be a matter of change in the regional tastes of the public. (Read the thread histories.) Hudsonkid, guess you got your wish... a new feud has started.
BTW, Hudsonkid, when the heck have you ever been to Wisconsin to judge what our summers are like? We have excellent summers; the temp climbs to above 75 right around Memorial Day and stays well above there till sometime after Labor Day. Don't knock it till you've tried it. Plenty of hotties in bikinis at all those thousands of lakes, too when it gets above 90 and muggy the whole month of July! I oughta know; as an avid vintage outboarder, I've seen plenty! Ya Hey.
But thanks, nhp1127 and 66patrick66 for defending my views far more eloquently than I can. You libs that own antique/vintage cars, how much longer do you feel the enviro-marxist movement is going to tolerate us? What kind of political force do WE have to counteract them? Already our activities have been severely limited in Commiefornia and other states with yearly mileage caps and other garbage; never mind that our tiny handful of collector cars makes a negligible, if any, dent in the environment and there is little or no leaded gas out there to burn in our cars anyway. I can't figure out why any self-respecting vintage car owner would want to support the left because it has been overwhelmingly clear to me by watching their actions and hearing their proposals that they are NOT friends of this hobby anymore than they are friends of the snowmobiling hobby or the outboarding hobby or hunting or even fishing for that matter. You think this is stupid, then where do PETA and the Sierra Club and other similar groups get their money?? Who bankrolls them?? And then try to figure out who's going to bankroll us when our rights are on the line. It's just a matter of time.0 -
Weather and politics are forever on mixed together...heard about the "global warming" nonsense? Climate has been changing for what, five billion years now? And it is the Lefty envirowhackos, not the Right environmental stewards, that wants to put us back to the Stone Age so we don't "kill the planet" or some such crap.
Weather and politics are married these days.
And it's a beautiful 60-degree December day - guess I should feel guilty because it's "unseasonal"!!!:D0 -
hudsonkid wrote:... it's the republicans that want to put you into a puritanical lifestyle, not the democrats.
I have no idea what you're talking about. Nevada is a big time Republican state. We have 24 hour gaming, 24 hour drinking (no last call in the bars), and in the rural counties, 24 hour ***** Houses. (I forgot about the language checker, let's rephrase that "Chicken Ranches") It's the transplanted California libs that keep trying to take that stuff away, not the Republicans that are making the big bucks off the 24 hr gambling, booze, and ho's.
Forget car washes...in Nevada, scantily clad women have more important things to do!0 -
royer wrote:I have no idea what you're talking about. Nevada is a big time Republican state. We have 24 hour gaming, 24 hour drinking (no last call in the bars), and in the rural counties, 24 hour ***** Houses. (I forgot about the language checker, let's rephrase that "Chicken Ranches") It's the transplanted California libs that keep trying to take that stuff away, not the Republicans that are making the big bucks off the 24 hr gambling, booze, and ho's.
Forget car washes...in Nevada, scantily clad women have more important things to do!
Don't Let the word out ! Then more will want to move here !0 -
Geoff C., N.Z. wrote:What a load of codswallop!
what in Gods name is "codswallop" ? ? ?0 -
davidh wrote:what in Gods name is "codswallop" ? ? ?
Maybe when you "Wallop a Cod"=Fish ? LOL0 -
jamcoats wrote:My only comment on politics is don't let those with more extreme views stereotype the rest of us with a given view or who belong to a particular political party. You can't say that a few out-theres who have something against bikini car washes, while the participants are willing, embody the views of "liberals" as a whole any more than you can suggest that the ultra-conservative viewpoint of Jerry Falwell embodies the ideals of "Conservatives". There are extreme ends of every spectrum.
Very well said, James; and thank you. The problem is that it is those extremes that seem to get the notoriety in the "drive-by media" and they often have, or can get, the monetary and political clout they need to further their agenda.0 -
I agree that our cars are not the problem with polution these days. Buy my question is, what is?, and who lets it continue to happen? In another 15-20 years, Phoenix is going to be like living in L.A.'s smog.
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David - Codswallop is a British expression for nonsense or BS. Also used in NZ and AUS and generally most of the former British Empire...
And this forum.0
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