What is something from your youth

[subtle_Dom]

You should learn to laugh at the circus arsewipe.

I laugh at little cowardly shits (that would be you).


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playground bullying.. oh wait...

 

[Rightguide]

Special forces in country typically seem to grow them. Navy guys too sometimes. Makes him look tougher.

They don't grow them to look tougher, they grow to them because they either are expected to interact with local males, train and lead them in battle, etc. Many Middle Eastern Male tribesmen judge another male by his beard growth.

 

[Rightguide]

Having Trump assassinated would just make him a Republican and alt-right martyr. Best if he struggles for four years, contributes to Democrats regaining Congress and the Senate and then fades into obscurity as a failed one term president.

A disgruntled alt-right supporter killing him would serve to do a lot of damage to the alt-right cause. But best if he goes out with a whimper not a bang.

Except that it would probably be a leftist like all of the other people who have either done so or attempted to do so in the modern era.

 

[Hard_Rom]

They don't grow them to look tougher, they grow to them because they either are expected to interact with local males, train and lead them in battle, etc. Many Middle Eastern Male tribesmen judge another male by his beard growth.

British figured that out when they went into India. Also saves time and water. More important things to do when sitting atop a mountain in the Hindu Kush waiting to ambush a Taliban convoy or something.

 

[Rightguide]

British figured that out when they went into India. Also saves time and water. More important things to do when sitting atop a mountain in the Hindu Kush waiting to ambush a Taliban convoy or something.

There ya go.

 

[Hard_Rom]

having to actually play outside WITH OTHER PEOPLE because there were only 7 tv channels and no social media.

Seven channels! Right spoilt as a kid! We had 5. One was French language CBC. A friend had a tall tower antennae with a motorized direction control. If conditions were just right we could get a snowy Detroit channel to watch Japanese monster movies on Saturday morning.

 

[oggbashan]

Seven channels! Right spoilt as a kid! We had 5. One was French language CBC. A friend had a tall tower antennae with a motorized direction control. If conditions were just right we could get a snowy Detroit channel to watch Japanese monster movies on Saturday morning.

We had BBC. That was it until ITV came along. To get ITV we had to plug a box into the back of the television and remove it to get BBC again.

When we had BBC we had the only television in the whole street. My aunt bought a television in 1938. It was useless when TV returned after WW2 so she bought a new one. Thirty people crammed into the living room to watch the 1953 Coronation on a 9 inch screen.

The 1938 television had cost more than a small car. The post war one was about two-thirds the cost of a car.

 

[trysail]

And we can only hope that some of today's littlies will have Trump's assassination as one of their earliest memories.

Fuck you. You are a sniveling, pathetic, cowardly piece of shit.





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[Rightguide]

His magicalmoments were finally realized when they built the Shire in NZ.

 

[Pookie]

For me it would be AOL.

 

[Christobal]

Easy snowflake, you'll pop a vein

Oh no!!! An internet tough guy, We should be really, really impressed.

 

[trysail]

Oh no!!! An internet tough guy, We should be really, really impressed.

Keeeeeriiiiiiiiiiiiiiist.

Another fucking keyboard warrior full of internet courage.

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[Christobal]

Keeeeeriiiiiiiiiiiiiiist.

Another fucking keyboard warrior full of internet courage.

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That's what I was thinking. You are a silly person.

 

[Comshaw]

Seven channels! Right spoilt as a kid! We had 5. One was French language CBC. A friend had a tall tower antennae with a motorized direction control. If conditions were just right we could get a snowy Detroit channel to watch Japanese monster movies on Saturday morning.

5? Well at least you had your own countries stations. We had three: 2 Canadian and one U.S. that, for all intents a purposes was Canadian. Until I was in high school I thought hockey and curling were major U.S. sports.

A couple of things I don't think my grand children would believe or understand:
A logging truck with a single log load.....
http://i.imgur.com/Hq74Mvn.jpg
Even in my youth they were getting rare, one out of every 50 trucks or so.

A river so full of Salmon it looks like you could walk across on their backs.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/d3/17/74/d31774052c5cf901b964c719e42880b9.jpg

Comshaw

 

[OldJourno]

Mom had a drum major's whistle. We played outside but had to stay in range of the whistle (up to about age 6 or 7), and when it sounded we had to be home pronto.
No way my 6-year-old grandson gets that kind of freedom.

 

[Mr Noone]

...2nd would be a Manual transmission. I still remember the ones on the column. That was a trip to drive one of them. I do not think they even make them anymore?

My 2015 Fiat has a five speed, but it's a floor shifter. I don't think anyone makes manual column shifters now. I had a three-on-the-tree in my 1966 Ford Custom (full-sized sedan) in the early '00s. But I guess that doesn't count.

Three on the tree. The Saab 95 and 96's had four on the tree.

A guy in high school drove his family's Citroën DS wagon; it had a four speed on the column. I guess that doesn't count either, it was the early '70s.

 

[Christobal]

Four in the center column. That's how I had to pass my driving test.

 

[oggbashan]

Four in the center column. That's how I had to pass my driving test.

The first car I drove had three gears but no synchromesh. I had to double declutch to down shift.

 

[Christobal]

The first car I drove had three gears but no synchromesh. I had to double declutch to down shift.

I have no idea what a synchromesh is.

 

[oggbashan]

I have no idea what a synchromesh is.

It's the system that matches the engine speed to the gear you are selecting.

Most autos built since 1930 have it.

Wthout synchromesh the gears make expensive grinding and crashing sounds - unless you match the engine speed yourself.

 

[Hard_Rom]

I have no idea what a synchromesh is.

You notice the lack of it in old movies were big trucks grind gears.

Motorcycles don't have it. For rapid downshifts you have to blip the throttle else back end might momentarily sort of lock up or get excessive nose diving under braking. Once I mastered that I could brake much later going into corners.

 

[Hard_Rom]

How about no catalytic converters on motorcycles and carbureted engines.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Was tempted to give a guy in his twenties at work a clip across the back of his head for not knowing Another Brick in the Wall.

 

[doowdniw]

I have no idea what a synchromesh is.

You would if you didn't have them.

 

[Tigersman]

Drive-in movies, sleeping with the windows open and the attic fan going. Sitting down at the table having a root beer float with the whole family. Gathering fresh eggs, churning butter and milking cows.