OT A March For Their Lies

[andalusian]

I know what a hemi is, I just didn't realize that anyone other than Chrysler made one.

No one other than Chrysler trademarked the name - the design has been made by many for many years. My very old Alfas have hemispherical combustion chambers. The first ones probably appeared before the Chrysler car company was even formed.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

No one other than Chrysler trademarked the name - the design has been made by many for many years. My very old Alfas have hemispherical combustion chambers. The first ones probably appeared before the Chrysler car company was even formed.

You ever read about the Coates rotary valve design? Read about it 25 years ago and it was awesome when it worked. Must not have been reliable? Don't know

 

[andalusian]

You ever read about the Coates rotary valve design? Read about it 25 years ago and it was awesome when it worked. Must not have been reliable? Don't know

A long time ago. Do not really remember it - will try to read again later. I have been on the EV band-wagon recently - with my wife's first EV lease ending and needing a replacement. I am getting old enough that I enjoy the lower maintenance of these things for utility cars.

I did get my old '69 Alfa out this Saturday and was reminded why I love it...

 

[Lanny]

A long time ago. Do not really remember it - will try to read again later. I have been on the EV band-wagon recently - with my wife's first EV lease ending and needing a replacement. I am getting old enough that I enjoy the lower maintenance of these things for utility cars.

I did get my old '69 Alfa out this Saturday and was reminded why I love it...

Aren't Alfas known for being unreliable? I believe most Italian cars are unreliable.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

A long time ago. Do not really remember it - will try to read again later. I have been on the EV band-wagon recently - with my wife's first EV lease ending and needing a replacement. I am getting old enough that I enjoy the lower maintenance of these things for utility cars.

I did get my old '69 Alfa out this Saturday and was reminded why I love it...

I'd have to look it up too. Remember a 302 Ford test mule going from something like 225 hp to 4 or 500. Something like that.

 

[andalusian]

Aren't Alfas known for being unreliable? I believe most Italian cars are unreliable.

Well, compare to what?

I moved to an Alfa from a Lotus. By this comparison - the Alfa is a paragon of reliability. I bought it in Seattle. It moved to Portland with me. When we moved to the bay area I drove it from Portland to the Bay area in one day and it did just fine. When we moved to San Diego I drove it from there here and it did fine. I also have an older Alfa that I drove from the Bay to San Diego with my daughter and as much stuff as we could fit in it - it drove down the I5 at 105 degree weather and did fine.

I did need to rebuild the engine in my '69 a bit more than a year ago - but that is an old race car with a lot of hours on that engine. FWIW - I owned old BMWs as well from the same era - and the Alfas have not been any worse than the BMWs of that era. Like all old cars, they need maintenance. Cars got a lot better in the mid-80s early 90s and we have to thank the Japanese for that - but for the era - these old Alfas are not any worse, in my opinion, than any other old car. It is harder to find parts compared to American cars, for example, but overall - You keep up on basic maintenance and treat old cars like old cars - they will be fine.

 

[CupWizier]

Well, compare to what?

I moved to an Alfa from a Lotus. By this comparison - the Alfa is a paragon of reliability. I bought it in Seattle. It moved to Portland with me. When we moved to the bay area I drove it from Portland to the Bay area in one day and it did just fine. When we moved to San Diego I drove it from there here and it did fine. I also have an older Alfa that I drove from the Bay to San Diego with my daughter and as much stuff as we could fit in it - it drove down the I5 at 105 degree weather and did fine.

I did need to rebuild the engine in my '69 a bit more than a year ago - but that is an old race car with a lot of hours on that engine. FWIW - I owned old BMWs as well from the same era - and the Alfas have not been any worse than the BMWs of that era. Like all old cars, they need maintenance. Cars got a lot better in the mid-80s early 90s and we have to thank the Japanese for that - but for the era - these old Alfas are not any worse, in my opinion, than any other old car. It is harder to find parts compared to American cars, for example, but overall - You keep up on basic maintenance and treat old cars like old cars - they will be fine.

My dad was always picking up cars to fix and resell and befoire I was able to drive he had a couple old TR3's as well as a 53 Cadillac that was like a tank. There were many more cars than that, but those we re a few of the more interesting odd ball type cars. Wish I had them today.



I would have loved to have one of these today. The car would be pretty cool as well.

 

[Lanny]

My dad was always picking up cars to fix and resell and befoire I was able to drive he had a couple old TR3's as well as a 53 Cadillac that was like a tank. There were many more cars than that, but those we re a few of the more interesting odd ball type cars. Wish I had them today.

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I would have loved to have one of these today. The car would be pretty cool as well.

Love the pinup. Was there a car somewhere?

 

[MarAzul]

Nothing like that. I spent several years studying different cultures and learning their ways of life. Some of that time was writing and researching papers with colleagues in the field of Ethnomathematics.

Cool! I had to look the word up but I like the concept.
I have been trying to think of a ways to describe pleasing artful structure arrived at mathematically. Such as creating symmetry from proportional asymmetry,
and proportional convergences, divergence, and parallel lines.

 

[barfo]

Cool! I had to look the word up but I like the concept.
I have been trying to think of a ways to describe pleasing artful structure arrived at mathematically. Such as creating symmetry from proportional asymmetry,
and proportional convergences, divergence, and parallel lines.

 

[crandc]

They are calling for every Congressperson to hold a town hall April 7.

I wonder how many of you at age 11 could get up in front of 800,000 people, on national TV, and speak with sense and eloquence about an issue you cared about?

Trump, who boasted he would take on a shooter with an AR-15 bare-handed, fled to Florida to play golf. Students with signs lined what would have been his normal route from golf course to hotel, so his limo took a longer route so the Coward in Chief would not have to face kids armed with signs.

 

[calvin natt]

Holy SH*T going through these posts was torture. Cippy...do you feel the whole world is against you like this forum is?

 

[Cippy91]

Holy SH*T going through these posts was torture. Cippy...do you feel the whole world is against you like this forum is?

No, I think once people show their true colors to me that's it, I don't care about them. I have zero time for bullshit in my life, that means these type of people that you come across every now and then. I don't feel like the forum is against me. I think a majority like me. Just a certain amount of guys in the same threads in OT who dislike me for whatever reason

 

[MARIS61]

When the Blazers do bad, you don’t blame the rookies. You blame the starters, the stars, the coach, the GM, even the owner. Millennials aren’t running the country. Baby boomers are raping and killing this country.

Hitler was an ignorant, hate-filled loudmouth, nothing more.

It was millions of eager and willing German youths like George Soros who propelled him to power and slaughtered millions upon millions of innocent people.

 

[MARIS61]

and if he was for trump you would say he was the "greatest" Beatle ever. Please explain to me why you find trump so great.

He's a Brit, and therefore not anyone whose political opinion of America matters to me.

As for The Beatles, the greatest musical group in the history of the world, they were always the sum of four equal and necessary parts.

 

[MARIS61]

So because a huge march is happening and kids are involved they wont know any of the basic issues, which is basically we need some sort of gun control so school shootings don't happen anymore. Are you saying kids are uneducated or that people marching will march for anything regardless if they know anything about it or not. If its the latter then you can say the same for ANY protest ever.

Not just kids.

From your post, you don't know the basic issues either.

Protests are just theater arranged to avoid personal responsibility.

 

[MARIS61]

Posts this ignorant make me sick to my stomach..... My mother, wife, sister and daughter were downtown for this and I have never been more proud of them expressing themselves the way they did. How can you look at something that is bringing people together like this in such a positive way as a bad thing? Thats just sad you were raised the way you were if you truly do believe what you typed. Props to our country and the citizens trying to make our country safer for future generations.

My Dad was born in North Dakota in 1927. He "grew up" during the depression working in various mining camps and lumbers camps, mostly in Montana, and finally Southern Oregon and Northern CA., fishing, hunting and running trap lines to feed the family were his "play activities".

At the age of 17 he lied to join the Army and soon he was in Europe, Sargent in Eisenhower's Honor Guard. Most of his time in Germany and Austria, was spent liberating the remnants of "survivors" from the camps, one camp at a time, day in, day out, week after week, month after month, until there were no more. Human beings, just like you and your family, frail as butterfly wings, toothless, hairless, with open wounds, burns, shattered bones, emaciated beyond belief.

I never once asked my Dad about the war, and he never once spoke about it as there was no point. I've read the history books, seen the pictures and newreels, read many personal accounts...What I know about his service I got from other sources, other relatives, and it's sparse.

Just thinking of him there surrounded by dying skeletons amidst piles of rotting people all around them, the constant stench, the cries and pleas, the hopeless limits to what can possibly be accomplished for them literally brings tears to my eyes, and it's not something I ever wanted to bring his mind back to.

Watch some documentary movies of Hitler's Youth marching, bringing people together in a positive way, citizens trying to make their country safer for future generations in the early 30's. Marches financed mostly by major American banks and corporations. They look happy and proud, obviously enjoying the spotlight and euphoria of mob rule. George Soros is in the crowd somewhere, and on CBS in the 1990's publicly bragged about it being the happiest time of his life, something he was proud of.

Saw a lot of 17 year olds in the DNC Anti-Second Amendment marches you're so proud of. Marches financed mostly by the very same major American banks and corporations. They looked happy and proud, obviously enjoying the spotlight and euphoria of mob rule.

Saw David Hogg shining with the pride of a young George Soros.

Ignorance abounds.

 

[CupWizier]

My Dad was born in North Dakota in 1927. He "grew up" during the depression working in various mining camps and lumbers camps, mostly in Montana, and finally Southern Oregon and Northern CA., fishing, hunting and running trap lines to feed the family were his "play activities".

At the age of 17 he lied to join the Army and soon he was in Europe, Sargent in Eisenhower's Honor Guard. Most of his time in Germany and Austria, was spent liberating the remnants of "survivors" from the camps, one camp at a time, day in, day out, week after week, month after month, until there were no more. Human beings, just like you and your family, frail as butterfly wings, toothless, hairless, with open wounds, burns, shattered bones, emaciated beyond belief.

I never once asked my Dad about the war, and he never once spoke about it as there was no point. I've read the history books, seen the pictures and newreels, read many personal accounts...What I know about his service I got from other sources, other relatives, and it's sparse.

Just thinking of him there surrounded by dying skeletons amidst piles of rotting people all around them, the constant stench, the cries and pleas, the hopeless limits to what can possibly be accomplished for them literally brings tears to my eyes, and it's not something I ever wanted to bring his mind back to.

Watch some documentary movies of Hitler's Youth marching, bringing people together in a positive way, citizens trying to make their country safer for future generations in the early 30's. Marches financed mostly by major American banks and corporations. They look happy and proud, obviously enjoying the spotlight and euphoria of mob rule. George Soros is in the crowd somewhere, and on CBS in the 1990's publicly bragged about it being the happiest time of his life, something he was proud of.

Saw a lot of 17 year olds in the DNC Anti-Second Amendment marches you're so proud of. Marches financed mostly by the very same major American banks and corporations. They looked happy and proud, obviously enjoying the spotlight and euphoria of mob rule.

Saw David Hogg shining with the pride of a young George Soros.

Ignorance abounds.

Yes, you are right ignorance abounds, but nobody is taking guns away and thinking so is very ignorant.

 

[MARIS61]

Sad they survived, as others will suffer from their future crimes.

To prevent evil, you have to eliminate evil-doers.

Identifying them does nothing constructive other than providing the opportunity to eliminate them.

 

[MARIS61]

Yes, you are right ignorance abounds, but nobody is taking guns away and thinking so is very ignorant.

Proof you didn't listen to the speakers, haven't even visited the web page of the mob organizers.

And yet you spout obvious fiction.

Ignorance.

 

[CupWizier]

Proof you didn't listen to the speakers, haven't even visited the web page of the mob organizers.

And yet you spout obvious fiction.

Ignorance.

NOBODY is going to take ALL guns away. Thinking so is IGNORANT.

 

[MARIS61]

How is me calling your post BS mean I'm getting upset?

Because it was not BS, and you know it.

 

[THE HCP]

My Dad was born in North Dakota in 1927. He "grew up" during the depression working in various mining camps and lumbers camps, mostly in Montana, and finally Southern Oregon and Northern CA., fishing, hunting and running trap lines to feed the family were his "play activities".

At the age of 17 he lied to join the Army and soon he was in Europe, Sargent in Eisenhower's Honor Guard. Most of his time in Germany and Austria, was spent liberating the remnants of "survivors" from the camps, one camp at a time, day in, day out, week after week, month after month, until there were no more. Human beings, just like you and your family, frail as butterfly wings, toothless, hairless, with open wounds, burns, shattered bones, emaciated beyond belief.

I never once asked my Dad about the war, and he never once spoke about it as there was no point. I've read the history books, seen the pictures and newreels, read many personal accounts...What I know about his service I got from other sources, other relatives, and it's sparse.

Just thinking of him there surrounded by dying skeletons amidst piles of rotting people all around them, the constant stench, the cries and pleas, the hopeless limits to what can possibly be accomplished for them literally brings tears to my eyes, and it's not something I ever wanted to bring his mind back to.

Watch some documentary movies of Hitler's Youth marching, bringing people together in a positive way, citizens trying to make their country safer for future generations in the early 30's. Marches financed mostly by major American banks and corporations. They look happy and proud, obviously enjoying the spotlight and euphoria of mob rule. George Soros is in the crowd somewhere, and on CBS in the 1990's publicly bragged about it being the happiest time of his life, something he was proud of.

Saw a lot of 17 year olds in the DNC Anti-Second Amendment marches you're so proud of. Marches financed mostly by the very same major American banks and corporations. They looked happy and proud, obviously enjoying the spotlight and euphoria of mob rule.

Saw David Hogg shining with the pride of a young George Soros.

Ignorance abounds.

What does this have to do with my mother, wife and daughter? On a side note, I was also born in North Dakota and joined the military at 17.

 

[BonesJones]

Because it was not BS, and you know it.

Back with the arrogance I see. "I say it's this! And just to be arrogant, I'm gonna say you know it!"

 

[noknobs]

No, I think once people show their true colors to me that's it, I don't care about them. I have zero time for bullshit in my life, that means these type of people that you come across every now and then. I don't feel like the forum is against me. I think a majority like me. Just a certain amount of guys in the same threads in OT who dislike me for whatever reason

 

[SlyPokerDog]

What does this have to do with my mother, wife and daughter? On a side note, I was also born in North Dakota and joined the military at 17.

@MARIS61 is your dad! :MARIS61:

 

[Cippy91]

Good point. I know I know, I made time for bullshit last night. I guess I am referring more so to my day to day real life. I wouldn't think of responding to some of these things in real life. I keep to myself and only deal with close friends, girlfriend. That's it.

 

[calvin natt]

My Dad was born in North Dakota in 1927. He "grew up" during the depression working in various mining camps and lumbers camps, mostly in Montana, and finally Southern Oregon and Northern CA., fishing, hunting and running trap lines to feed the family were his "play activities".

At the age of 17 he lied to join the Army and soon he was in Europe, Sargent in Eisenhower's Honor Guard. Most of his time in Germany and Austria, was spent liberating the remnants of "survivors" from the camps, one camp at a time, day in, day out, week after week, month after month, until there were no more. Human beings, just like you and your family, frail as butterfly wings, toothless, hairless, with open wounds, burns, shattered bones, emaciated beyond belief.

I never once asked my Dad about the war, and he never once spoke about it as there was no point. I've read the history books, seen the pictures and newreels, read many personal accounts...What I know about his service I got from other sources, other relatives, and it's sparse.

Just thinking of him there surrounded by dying skeletons amidst piles of rotting people all around them, the constant stench, the cries and pleas, the hopeless limits to what can possibly be accomplished for them literally brings tears to my eyes, and it's not something I ever wanted to bring his mind back to.

Watch some documentary movies of Hitler's Youth marching, bringing people together in a positive way, citizens trying to make their country safer for future generations in the early 30's. Marches financed mostly by major American banks and corporations. They look happy and proud, obviously enjoying the spotlight and euphoria of mob rule. George Soros is in the crowd somewhere, and on CBS in the 1990's publicly bragged about it being the happiest time of his life, something he was proud of.

Saw a lot of 17 year olds in the DNC Anti-Second Amendment marches you're so proud of. Marches financed mostly by the very same major American banks and corporations. They looked happy and proud, obviously enjoying the spotlight and euphoria of mob rule.

Saw David Hogg shining with the pride of a young George Soros.

Ignorance abounds.

Are you equating Hitler youth to the kids who marched last Saturday?

 

[CupWizier]

He's a Brit, and therefore not anyone whose political opinion of America matters to me.

As for The Beatles, the greatest musical group in the history of the world, they were always the sum of four equal and necessary parts.

and yet you never answered my question. Why respond if you're going to go off on your own bizarro world and ignore a question?

 

[MARIS61]

Are you equating Hitler youth to the kids who marched last Saturday?

Wow, nothing gets past you.

Carbon copies, indoctrinated by the same power holders, for the same reasons.

The Hitler Youth Party not some fringe cult of bad boys, it was an entire generation of Aryan children, openly indoctrinated and programmed through government-controlled schools and social services until they were monsters. Normal children like yours and mine and everybody else's around the world.

Or did you think an entire generation of Aryan children were born evil?