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NotFromHere · 08-21-2003, 06:59 PM

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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I've pulled that move on a few occasions also. Though I'm not sure which is worse - drunk driving or driving while clutch-knowledge-impaired.

I've been in the back seat of my own car, trying to instruct another drunk person how to drive a clutch. The rocking back and forth makes you feel queasy and eventually, no matter how drunk you are, and no matter how long you've been passed out, you end up having to drive. Unless, of course, you're RP.

NotFromHere · 08-21-2003, 07:02 PM

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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Alright, I don't usually admit this but I got the bowling too. Divorced parents, quality time with dad. Backgammon and how to smoke a pipe also. Weekends at dad's always ended badly when I got home to realize that everything I took over there reeked of stale pipe smoke.

Swear-to-god we lived in the same house! Dad smoked a pipe for a few years and let me take a puff when I was like 8 or something. Made me sick as a dog. Never wanted to smoke after that. But yeah, your hair, your clothes just stink of it. At least he never got into cigars.

mmm3587 · 08-21-2003, 07:05 PM

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Originally posted by leagleaze
Do I have to teach you anything in return?

I vote yes.

baltassoc · 08-21-2003, 07:06 PM

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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
One of the things that might prevent me from getting a hybrid vehicle is that I'm pretty sure that they're all automatic.

You'll be pleased to know that the Hondas both come in a manual transmission, although according to a review I read a while back, one issue is that you have to follow what the car tells you for the efficient recharge of the batteries, which means shifting at non-intuitive times, like downshifting at speed.

Did you just call me Coltrane? · 08-21-2003, 07:09 PM

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Originally posted by leagleaze
Do I have to teach you anything in return?

I also vote yes. And I vote that you are both drunk when you do.

bridge of love · 08-21-2003, 07:12 PM

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Originally posted by mmm3587
I'm guessing that the north side of Chicago just doesn't have the car theft problems that Detroit, New York, Atlanta and Los Angeles have. It's just anecdotal, but I can't even think of anyone who has actually had a car stolen in Chicago. I hear about it happening in those other cities, though.

had mine stolen in Detroit visiting a client- (GA question do you bill for the "waiting for police to show up after client meeting" time? ) cops didn't bother to show uo ever, and after 3 days of trying to get a police report my insuirance company just told me to stop trying. it'd fix the car without one.

robustpuppy · 08-21-2003, 07:15 PM

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Originally posted by leagleaze
Do I have to teach you anything in return?

:blush:

(Who called this a boring poll?)

Atticus Grinch · 08-21-2003, 07:19 PM

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Originally posted by baltassoc
You'll be pleased to know that the Hondas both come in a manual transmission, although according to a review I read a while back, one issue is that you have to follow what the car tells you for the efficient recharge of the batteries, which means shifting at non-intuitive times, like downshifting at speed.

By all accounts, the gas-electric hybrid platform is tailor-made for a CVT, and the manuals and conventional automatics will probably die out in favor of the CVT if the hybrid concept takes off.

This makes sense to me, since the point of the hybrid is to permit a computer to strike whatever balance gives the driver optimum power from all of the variables. If you wanted to tell the car exactly what to do, efficiency be damned, you wouldn't be driving a hybrid in the first place.

mmm3587 · 08-21-2003, 07:22 PM

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Originally posted by bridge of love
had mine stolen in Detroit visiting a client- (GA question do you bill for the "waiting for police to show up after client meeting" time? ) cops didn't bother to show uo ever, and after 3 days of trying to get a police report my insuirance company just told me to stop trying. it'd fix the car without one.

My impression of Detroit is based largely on the various RoboCop movies. And if a city's criminals are able to fuck up an armor-plated cyborg with massive guns and other bad-ass shit, I steer clear of it. Even more so if the airport looks like it should be in Kinshasa. Although I hear the new terminal is much nicer.

Anyway, I always love teaching people, especially women, to drive a stick. An hour or so is all it takes, and then she'll remember you for the rest of her life just because you taught her how to drive a stick. It also has a high frequency of getting you laid; there must be some coming-af-age book or movie that involves a young lass being deflowered and taught to drive a stick by the same guy. Plus, there is a lot of opportunity for doublespeak and hand-touching and the like. Golden!

notcasesensitive · 08-21-2003, 07:24 PM

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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
By all accounts, the gas-electric hybrid platform is tailor-made for a CVT, and the manuals and conventional automatics will probably die out in favor of the CVT if the hybrid concept takes off.

This makes sense to me, since the point of the hybrid is to permit a computer to strike whatever balance gives the driver optimum power from all of the variables. If you wanted to tell the car exactly what to do, efficiency be damned, you wouldn't be driving a hybrid in the first place.

Please explain this CVT concept to me. I saw reference to it on the Stalin board. Has anyone driven a car with it? Is is sluggish compared to the old automatic?

Manuals will never totally die out b/c of the band of neo-lesbian women who will fight until their dying day to have the right to drive a stick. Our leader will be Thrashers Fan.

robustpuppy · 08-21-2003, 07:25 PM

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Originally posted by mmm3587
Anyway, I always love teaching people, especially women, to drive a stick. An hour or so is all it takes, and then she'll remember you for the rest of her life just because you taught her how to drive a stick. It also has a high frequency of getting you laid; there must be some coming-af-age book or movie that involves a young lass being deflowered and taught to drive a stick by the same guy. Plus, there is a lot of opportunity for doublespeak and hand-touching and the like. Golden!

Lloyd Dobler went to law school?

notcasesensitive · 08-21-2003, 07:25 PM

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Originally posted by mmm3587
Anyway, I always love teaching people, especially women, to drive a stick. An hour or so is all it takes, and then she'll remember you for the rest of her life just because you taught her how to drive a stick. It also has a high frequency of getting you laid; there must be some coming-af-age book or movie that involves a young lass being deflowered and taught to drive a stick by the same guy. Plus, there is a lot of opportunity for doublespeak and hand-touching and the like. Golden!

The Ladies Man lives. Goofball.

Replaced_Texan · 08-21-2003, 07:28 PM

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Originally posted by mmm3587
; there must be some coming-af-age book or movie that involves a young lass being deflowered and taught to drive a stick by the same guy. Plus, there is a lot of opportunity for doublespeak and hand-touching and the like. Golden!

There is. Say Anything...

Edited to add: Scroll, THEN post. Scroll, THEN post.

LessinSF · 08-21-2003, 07:31 PM

posted the link to the Office Space game - "Fuck you."

My favorite day so far is February 6th. He writes "My desk is 60 quarters wide."

mmm3587 · 08-21-2003, 07:31 PM

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
Lloyd Dobler went to law school?

I'm so embarassed that I had to google this. Mmmmm, Ione.