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Ace-Garageguy

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  1. Table manners also seem to be among the long list of "no longer relevant" concepts.
  2. I've often thought that if I caught somebody actually in the act, I'd kinda like to nail their feet to the pavement and hit 'em in the face with a shovel. Yup, you think wanton destruction is fun? Let's teach you all about it. EDIT: Even though the car may appear to be "abandoned", the fact it's been moved would indicate otherwise. So NOW, instead of just having to deal with the age-related deterioration that was already there, somebody will need to cover the windshield area to keep water from destroying whatever's left of the interior, rotting the carpets and floors out, etc. So not only is the act of smashing the windshield a stupid, mindless, gutless attack on an inanimate object that can't fight back, it's become a personal attack on the person who owns the poor thing, reducing the value even further, and stealing time and money from whoever will have to deal with the consequences.
  3. Judge not idiocy, that ye be not flamed and canceled.
  4. That's actually the famous cow-induction hood.
  5. Grounded outlets with ground-fault-circuit-interrupter protection are good to have in kitchens and bathrooms, and are now required by most electrical codes.
  6. Yup, looking good. I'm intimately familiar with these cars in 1:1, after having specialized in maintenance, repair, and heavy resto work on them for decades. The kit has some conspicuous "issues" (quoting Bainford "a lot of what's there is not really representative of the 1:1"), but your work is progressing towards a very fine model overall.
  7. "Stressful" is what modern daily life activities are often referred to, things like having to pick up the dry cleaning and go grocery shopping...OMG OMG...BOTH ON THE SAME DAY !!!!!!!
  8. Hearing this: "Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade".
  9. I'm continually irked by "adults" who take credit for things they had nothing to do with, deflect blame for their own failures by blaming others (or just pretend problems don't exist), smile smugly while wallowing in their ignorance and outright stupidity...and all the people who turn a blind eye to their behavior.
  10. Today could be your last, so make it count for something.
  11. https://adamrehorn.wordpress.com/model-kits/out-of-box-reviews/mpc-fast-111s-evil-eye-racing-rig-oob/
  12. Americans, sadly, tend to be unaware of a lot of what's going on in the rest of the world...and how it's going to bite them in the backside HERE.
  13. Truck parts for my old ones are plentiful enough to keep 'em running for a hundred years...or until the oh-so-wise powers-that-be ban junkyards entirely.
  14. For larger circles, use a standard compass with a cutting blade instead of a pencil lead. You don't need to cut all the way through. Just "score" the circle several times and snap the center out. You can also buy dedicated circle cutters for even larger work.
  15. Mind-over-matter has been shown to have some real, documentable, repeatable validity; consider the efficacy of placebo "sugar pills" for alleviating some symptoms in some patients.
  16. Actually, none of the characters will have access to vehicles, or even have drivers' licenses, so there'll be a lot of waiting for properly masked Uber or Lyft drivers (or possibly autonomous speed-limited vehicles) to show up for the chase...should be exciting. "Can't live in the past" you know.
  17. Cues aren't the same as queues, but I've seen them referred to bizarrely as styling "Qs".
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