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Micheal Dietrich
Kings Gambit Black
2042
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Posted - 2013.08.14 18:07:00 -
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Khergit Deserters wrote: Drivers of BMWs and other high-status cars (including Prius hybrids) were also more likely to cheat at four-way-stop intersections, according to the research.
I read this yesterday. The part that I underlined made me laugh because around here we call them Pius drivers because they act like they're all high and mighty. Out of Pod is getting In the Pod - Join in game channel IG OOPE |

Micheal Dietrich
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Posted - 2013.08.14 18:25:00 -
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Jonah Gravenstein wrote:Lol glad to see I'm not the only one that calls Prius driver Pious drivers, the most amusing thing is that I get the same if not better MPG from my car than they do.
I don't. I drive a Disco. She's big, she's bulky, and she's a pig with a whopping 11 mpg. I also think that she's got her own gravitaty field because every time I park here at work it gets surrounded by Pius's and Smartcars. Out of Pod is getting In the Pod - Join in game channel IG OOPE |

Micheal Dietrich
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Posted - 2013.08.14 18:52:00 -
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Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:When I die, I want to come back as a parking curb or one of those yellow cement things in front of all the parking spaces, just so I can destroy BMW front bumper covers all day long.
How about coming back as a bunch of car-boots and just locking them all down ?? Boots are useless. BMW drivers simply pay the fine and theyre off.... Now, Drive a BMW onto a curb..and back off.... it rips the cover off, destroys the cover and clips and all the plastic brackets holding it on, not to mention the undershields.... instant 1400 USD minimum repair bill. Oh yes...Im reincarnating as something...It is either a curb/parking whatchamacallit....or Jessica Alba's thong. I would be fine with either.
I think she's disgusted with thongs. I had a chance to meet her once and mentioned I was willing to work as a thong for her and her response was "ew gross you sick freak". How was I to know. Out of Pod is getting In the Pod - Join in game channel IG OOPE |

Micheal Dietrich
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Posted - 2013.08.14 18:57:00 -
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Jonah Gravenstein wrote:Khergit Deserters wrote:There was some car acronyms joke list, but the only one I can remember is BMW=Born Moderately Wealthy.
Yeah, I can imagine BMW drivers complaining about Audi ones. Around here (NYC suburbs) the Audi drivers tend to race around at high speed from stop light to stop light and in the parking lots. They're all playing Transporter I guess.
Priuses are kind of uncommon. People want more flash for their buck. Not much snob appeal in being green around NYC. It's all about being deluxe.
But the BMWs and Benzes are the rudest, with Lexis drivers right behind them. Masters of Me-Firstism.
BMW - Beat My Wife / Break My Window Fiat - Fix It Again Tony / Firkin Italian After Thought Ford - Found On Roadside Dumped / Fix Or Repair Daily Chrysler - Company Has Recommended You Start Learning Engine Repair Chevrolet - Can Hear Every Valve Rattle On Long Extended Trips Lotus - Lots Of Trouble Usually Serious GMC - Generally Moribund Crap
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Micheal Dietrich
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Posted - 2013.08.14 19:04:00 -
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Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:Micheal Dietrich wrote:
I think she's disgusted with thongs. I had a chance to meet her once and mentioned I was willing to work as a thong for her and her response was "ew gross you sick freak". How was I to know.
I bet that was a bunkworthy experience 
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Micheal Dietrich
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Posted - 2013.08.14 19:43:00 -
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voetius wrote: sounds reasonable though I'd tend to be suspicious of anything that comes from the Daily Hate ... I mean Mail.
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Micheal Dietrich
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Posted - 2013.08.14 20:48:00 -
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Kirjava wrote:Meh, I want a Ford Focus. Not a car guy (but then I wasn't a watch guy until recently....) so would just be looking at a cheap commuter. Friend swears by his Volkswagen Golf though. If I had the money, I'd want a Jaguar F type or a Lamborghini Revent+Śn for Lottery winnings 
I've never been a car guy and I doubt I ever will be. It will always be SUV or pickup and they are always be all wheel drive. Out of Pod is getting In the Pod - Join in game channel IG OOPE |

Micheal Dietrich
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Posted - 2013.08.14 21:10:00 -
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baltec1 wrote:Micheal Dietrich wrote:Kirjava wrote:Meh, I want a Ford Focus. Not a car guy (but then I wasn't a watch guy until recently....) so would just be looking at a cheap commuter. Friend swears by his Volkswagen Golf though. If I had the money, I'd want a Jaguar F type or a Lamborghini Revent+Śn for Lottery winnings  I've never been a car guy and I doubt I ever will be. It will always be SUV or pickup and they are always be all wheel drive. I drive a new model C3 and I love it when I pass stuck/abandoned SUVs in the winter.
Yeah yeah I hear the battle all the time.
Car Drivers: SUV drivers are silly. They think they are all that with all wheel drive but I see them in the median every where when it snows.
SUV drivers: Car drivers are silly. They claim that they can do the same thing as a SUV but every year I see them in the median when it snows.
The truth of the matter is that its the idiots who end up in the median, not a certain make or model of a vehicle.
ps. I don't pass up stuck cars in the median, I stop and pull them out. Can your car do that? Out of Pod is getting In the Pod - Join in game channel IG OOPE |

Micheal Dietrich
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Posted - 2013.08.14 22:44:00 -
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baltec1 wrote:Micheal Dietrich wrote:
ps. I don't pass up stuck cars in the median, I stop and pull them out. Can your car do that?
Pulled a small HGV out of a goods yard before. Granted he only needed a little help to get traction on the ice but I felt like superman. Problem is SUVs mostly are just big cars with bad 4x4 driven by people who have no idea how to drive in snow. A BMW or Porsche 4x4 are damn near useless off road and are simply school run mum cars. That's the pointless SUV we hate, not the range rovers and land rovers.
Er, my SUV is a Land Rover.....
I would also like to point out that driving a 4x4 on snow is not the issue. The driving is never the issue. It's the stopping that people don't understand. I'm just as capable driving a vehicle in 2 wheel drive as I am in 4 wheel drive. One should figure that to be true for many people considering that not every make or model SUV even has 4 wheel drive capabilities, which is something that people never take into consideration when they do the winter median boast.
So I'll say it again, it has nothing to do with the vehicle make or model, it has to do with the driver. If you want to keep making boisterous claims be my guest, but I find it all pointless and redundant. Out of Pod is getting In the Pod - Join in game channel IG OOPE |

Micheal Dietrich
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Posted - 2013.08.14 23:22:00 -
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By the by, heres an average snow day for me. 4 wheel drive or not, you ain't getting out if you can't even clear the coverage. Out of Pod is getting In the Pod - Join in game channel IG OOPE |
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Micheal Dietrich
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Posted - 2013.08.14 23:46:00 -
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Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:Micheal Dietrich wrote:By the by, heres an average snow day for me. 4 wheel drive or not, you ain't getting out if you can't even clear the coverage. Average ?  What's the general location ?
The Rockies.
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Micheal Dietrich
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Posted - 2013.08.14 23:54:00 -
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jason hill wrote:Micheal Dietrich wrote:By the by, heres an average snow day for me. 4 wheel drive or not, you ain't getting out if you can't even clear the coverage. oi mick ..... I think ya need to get ya self one of THOSE mate 
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Micheal Dietrich
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Posted - 2013.08.15 15:52:00 -
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Ishtanchuk Fazmarai wrote:Buhhdust Princess wrote:Btw to anyone who does drive a prius :
Just so you know, to produce that car, it is DOUBLE the carbon footprint of any other car being produced. That means it would take an extra 6 years to actually be EQUAL to the amount of emissions a normal petrol car gives out.
GF Prius. The actual numbers show that over a life span of 160,000 miles, the hybrid vehicle will more than compensate its higher production cost.
I thought that it had to do with the 600 lb battery full of heavy metals that eventually lead to its higher foot print. Out of Pod is getting In the Pod - Join in game channel IG OOPE |

Micheal Dietrich
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Posted - 2013.08.15 17:04:00 -
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Ryuske Shihari wrote:I drive both an Audi and a BMW... does that make me a mega jerk? 
If you're rich too that just may make you a kame-hame-ha jerk. Your power level would be over 9000 Out of Pod is getting In the Pod - Join in game channel IG OOPE |

Micheal Dietrich
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Posted - 2013.08.16 13:57:00 -
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Micheal Dietrich
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Posted - 2013.08.26 15:10:00 -
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Khergit Deserters wrote:My next car is going to be a retired cop cruiser. With the push bar still installed on the front. Here's a 2005 one for US $5,900, but minus the push bar. Then the next time some aggressive BMW/Benz driver does the "I'm coming out the parking lot into your lane, you have to either either hit your brakes or hit me," I won't hit the brakes. BMW/Benz light steel, plastic, and components, meet basic heavy steel. And his insurance will have to fix any damage to my push bar, because I was the driver with the right of way. I'll do it, I swear.
It's funny that you bring that up because I just installed a 5mm steel off road bumper with winch placement. That's 5mm of love wrapped around the front of my truck. Out of Pod is getting In the Pod - Join in game channel IG OOPE |

Micheal Dietrich
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Posted - 2013.08.26 18:48:00 -
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Khergit Deserters wrote:Micheal Dietrich wrote:Khergit Deserters wrote:My next car is going to be a retired cop cruiser. With the push bar still installed on the front. Here's a 2005 one for US $5,900, but minus the push bar. Then the next time some aggressive BMW/Benz driver does the "I'm coming out the parking lot into your lane, you have to either either hit your brakes or hit me," I won't hit the brakes. BMW/Benz light steel, plastic, and components, meet basic heavy steel. And his insurance will have to fix any damage to my push bar, because I was the driver with the right of way. I'll do it, I swear. It's funny that you bring that up because I just installed a 5mm steel off road bumper with winch placement. That's 5mm of love wrapped around the front of my truck. Cool Michael, you got your reinforced ram behavior modification implement.
I thought I had uploaded some pictures but I guess I changed my mind. Was going to write a big ole post talking about how the Disco was down for most most of the summer because it had no bumper, having ripped the old one off and then finding out the new one doesn't sit right. Then discussing how I had to put up with an entire summer of beautiful 90-100 degree weather without a single cloud in sight while I drove the jeep with the top down and the doors off. Then finish with how I got tired of waiting for replacements so I just bought back the factory defect at half price and just modified the truck to fit the bumper.
Next step is either the winch itself or the rear bumper to match the front.
Funny story: I was at a autoparts shop last week because a hose broke on me. I fixed the issue and was refilling the radiator when a guy walked by giving my truck a weird look because he saw a bottle of coke sitting in the bumper. He asked what it was for and I told him for the time being it's for holding drinks, tools, and cats. Out of Pod is getting In the Pod - Join in game channel IG OOPE |

Micheal Dietrich
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Posted - 2013.08.27 04:07:00 -
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Graygor wrote:What was his response to that? 
Just laughed at it. Guess he understood the cats mentality that is if it can fit in it, it will sit in it.
Heres a couple of shots.
Careful removal of the plastic bumper A shot of the actual bumper Trying to fit it the first time. Had to remove a few things. Refit 3 months later after I removed a few things (with a grinder) Because of cats. Out of Pod is getting In the Pod - Join in game channel IG OOPE |

Micheal Dietrich
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Posted - 2013.08.27 14:43:00 -
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Jonah Gravenstein wrote:@ Micheal Dietrich, V8 Disco? (I saw the fuel consumption figure and I know the smaller petrol and diesel engines do better, but not much). If it is the V8, it was originally a Buick 215 engine and has been kicking around the UK in various sizes, 3.5,3.9,4.0 and 4.2 Litre since the 60's, we finally stopped using it in 2006 but not before sticking it in some silly cars like TVRs.
Yes she's the V8 and yes she is a pig. I average about 11mpg and since she requires only the finest my fill up usually peaks around $90 every few weeks, which is about what I paid for on the V10's 40 gallon tank ten years ago. Out of Pod is getting In the Pod - Join in game channel IG OOPE |

Micheal Dietrich
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Posted - 2013.09.13 15:28:00 -
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baltec1 wrote:Micheal Dietrich wrote:I wish we had autobahn rules in the US  After driving on them I can safely say its the most arseclenching driving I have ever done. You go to overtake a waggon, look in you mirror, see nothing, pull out and suddenly a 130 mph angry german in an audi is behind you.
Replace Angry German with 300lb Angry trailer trash lady + 7 kids without seatbelts on and Audi with Junkyard quality 80's Camaro and I pretty much have the same thing, except they're breaking the speed limit. I guess I can understand one part of it seeing how much of our highways are still 2 lane after all these years, but at the same time we end up with straight away's that literally go on for as far as the eye can see. Take Nevada for example. If you drive on 93 South, there are parts of it where all you see is desert and the road you are on going off into the horizon. With the exception of a town (by town I mean one road and 5 buildings), the scenery literally doesn't change for like an hours worth of driving. Out of Pod is getting In the Pod - Join in game channel IG OOPE |
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Micheal Dietrich
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Posted - 2013.09.13 17:14:00 -
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As long as we're discussing roads now, the other one I would like to mention is taking 55 up to McCall. It's like the polar opposite of the flat turf and just as bad. The whole trip up there you have the Payette on one side, often times with no guard rail, and a mountain on the other and it's just turn after turn after turn after turn, and after 2 hours of that **** it's like what Krixtal mention, you start getting that tunnel vision with the dots and whatnot. When we went up to Moscow I spent most of my time trying to focus on the 5th wheels left brake light. Looking at the water made you want to gravitate towards it. Once you get to 95 North though its not as bad and there's a little bit more scenery to look at. Out of Pod is getting In the Pod - Join in game channel IG OOPE |

Micheal Dietrich
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Posted - 2013.09.13 19:29:00 -
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baltec1 wrote:Seems they put corners in those roads only so you have something to do. Some are so long they have to account for curvature of the Earth...
Honestly I would just fly and rent than go through that kind of hell.
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Posted - 2013.09.13 22:05:00 -
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Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:Khergit Deserters wrote:Well the lyrics apply to you, Krixtal. Don't bogart that stuff, the party's at your house!.  meh What is available in Floriderp is honestly really bad....sub-par. secret networks for medical grade and everything. Everyone here is still too rightfully paranoid to even mention it. The law here brooks no quarter at all. It's like being in absolutely another country compared to Cali.
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Posted - 2013.09.13 22:06:00 -
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Khergit Deserters wrote:Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:Khergit Deserters wrote:Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:Micheal Dietrich wrote:
True, but driving doesn't require you to be molested by a stranger before going anywhere.
Strange, that didn't happen to me when I flew from SFO to Floriderp last year. Not even when my medical grade herbage fell out onto the conveyor belt (true !). They literally just chuckled and moved me onward. Medical grade herbage, eh? Ever hear the song "Don't Bogart that *****" by Country Joe and the Fish?  Oh yes. I had heard it off and on for years, and had no idea it was in "Easy Rider" until I saw the film. Well the lyrics apply to you, Krixtal. Don't bogart that stuff, the party's at your house!. 
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