The Powers That Be at Hooniverse Galactic Central Command have now received this request quite a few times from commenters from, uh, other sites. While we have never been known for our tendency to cave to peer pressure, we also can’t just be stubborn for the sake of being stubborn. Even if it is our specialty.
Apparently we need a dedicated off-topic thread. Little-known fact, back shortly after the Big Bang that created the Hooniverse, we set up Last Call specifically for that purpose. We wanted to have a place for everyone to gather at the end of the day and shoot the sh– uh, breeze. Unfortunately, Rob has done such an awesome job with Shutdown every night that the content started generating on-topic discussion. What the hell is that?
So, here you go. Ask, and ye shall receive… eventually. This is the Official Off-Topic Thread. Bookmark it, remember it, join in and chat. If you’re going to get drunk and make out with each other, take it to another thread. Or… something. Actually, just… don’t make out with each other. That would get weird.
First topic of discussion: The Prince of Darkness — Anyone feel bad for Joe Lucas the man, whose legacy was tainted by the company he left behind?
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They call it a racing magneto because you have to race home before your battery dies. If you make it there, you can enjoy a warm beer from your Lucas refrigerator.
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Honestly, some people are so goddamn needy. 😉
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Dammit…why did we put a lucas racing magneto as the post picture? This post is going to break down now…
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Don't be ridiculous, just because it's got Lucas in it doesn't mean it's automatically going to br%++-+—-!!%+++++++++++++++++++-
NO CARRIER-
Obligatory post.
<img src="http://www.capecodbritishcarclub.org/Lucas%20Smoke.JPG" width=400>-
<img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/comment/12/2011/02/6ec8fc8f79928d66b5acef3e889fe295/original.jpg">
Funny I sent this gawker service part off to NYNY just yesterday. Seems they must not have gotten it yet from the looks of it. That or whoever should be brushing-up a resume over there right now dropped it.
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Goddammit, Hoonibbles, stop wrecking my jokes.
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HOONIBBLES!!!! <shakes fist>
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We call him Hoonibbles, but his real name is Lucas…
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It is now…
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IntenseDebate must be running on Lucas parts – it just ate another comment. Can't we switch to Japanese hardware?
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Then we would have to deal with our comments being recalled.
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Did you drive to OP this morning? I haven't ventured out yet.
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Then I won't be able to stop typinggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg
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I once said, "why change what is working…" I think we have passed into this damn thing is now more annoying than worth it.
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My mini is a weird place in Lucasdom, all the fuses I have replaced were the original lucas ones from 34 years ago (they didn't blow, but I didn't trust them). When the alternator packed it in, it was the original one from '76 as well. and the coil original and works just fine. But there is a gremlin or two, the lights for the switches went dead one day, the inline fuse wasn't blown though and sometimes I need to put the highbeams on for a few seconds to make the normal lights come on.
From what I've discerned from other british car owners is that its either fine (like my last car) or its terrible.
I was thinking about this today when the turn signals died, I'm hoping its the flasher unit, I do not want a short…….
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Hey, at least your turn signals are all the way dead, so diagnosis should be fairly straightforward. Think of how much more difficult it would be to trace down the problem if they only lit intermittently: on-off-on-off-on-off…
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No there has been a development, it was the flasher, but the new one only works when it isn't being held in by its bracket….so its taped to the washer bottle…..
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Getting it as close as possible to a water source sounds like an excellent idea to me!
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My ex-wife had an '80 Toyota that had a horn that only worked when it rained. Fortunately, it was Southern B.C., so it worked most of the time.
Water makes an excellent conductor, so why not, right?
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Best looking sedans of all time*: MkI Mazda 6, MkII Dodge/Chrysler Intrepid, Aston Martin Rapide, BMW E38 7-series.
I own one of these. Probably the worst one, looking at it objectively.
*That I can think of right now. This is mostly just a setup for discussion.
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Great list. I would add new 5 series sedan, esp. carbon black with M pack and right wheels.
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E34 5 series. The DS. 55-56 Imperial.
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I'm sort of more partial to the first-gen Intrepid. I might be biased because I owned one though. Although the Eagle Vision might be better looking than that. It's marginally reassuring when the transmission craps itself and you've got no resale.
I'd also add the Series III XJ6.-
Yeah, I think the Vision was probably the best looking of the first generation LHs. I would have loved to see the second generation.
It's a matter of taste on the Intrepids, some people think the second generation is too half-sucked-hard-candy looking, but I love it.-
I believe the 300M is more or less the 2nd generation, thanks to the discontinuation of Eagle. An Eagle version of that certainly would've been a good looking car.
I do like the 2nd generation Intrepid also, although it's a little heavier and more bloated looking.
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1966-1967 Lincoln. 1980-1991 Mercedes W126 S-Class. 1964-1967 Rolls/Bentley Flying Spur.
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Current Maserati Quattroporte
Ford Granada (Europe) Mk2-
This boxy thing? Not unattractive, but best looking ever?
<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/9/9c/20071004171236!Ford_granada_ghia_x.jpg" width=400>-
I honestly think it's one of the most balanced, elegant machines Ford ever came up with, certainly for a '1977 launch….
I agree though, maybe a bit too much of a personal choice. I'm just doing my "Ford Tempo Fanatic" bit for Hooniverse-
Fine, then, Volvo 144/244 (flathood).
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3457/4562959442_7cd1050b59_z.jpg">
I'm only half-joking – I really do think they're well-proportioned. (Arguably more so than the MkII Intrepid, but that might just be me.)
Similarly, the standard Opel Omega/Vauxhall Carlton look a bit dire, but with the rear wheelarches rounded off and a simple body kit…
<img src="http://www.carrobonito.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/lotus-omega.jpg">
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Balanced, yes. Elegant is maybe your imagination. I do like it though.
Secondarily; to North Americans, those are clearly F250 wheels:
<img src="http://gandcrepaircenter.com/images/329893506_1128780785_0.jpg">
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The series 1 Quattroporte is also a handsome car.
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Gardner Sport Sedan
Duesenberg SJ Beverly
Tatra 77a
1949 Mercury
1953 Buick Riviera
Jaguar Mk II
Alfa Giulia TI
RR Silver Shadow
Iso Fidia
E34
Pontiac G8
So it's a snow day today, and I'm actually sort of disappointed I don't have to go in to school. Partially because it's before 7am and I'm awake (with nothing to do, that feels unjustified), and partially because I loaded the Hooncast on my mp3 player for the drive in.
Then again, even if the roads aren't that bad, the drivers absolutely are.
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I came in. I wasn't going to, but there was a bunch of crap I had to get rolling that I couldn't do from home. Trouble is, now that I'm here I can't really leave at 10 with the bad weather excuse. And there weren't that many drivers out, bad or good.
I do have to say that living in TO has left me mildly embarrassed lately to call myself Canadian. Much of the world would consider us a cold country, wouldn't they? So how come a bit of inclement weather always becomes a lead news item? Do they vet news anchors to make sure they can whine adequately about how cold it is? City TV started their news an hour early at 5am today because of this horrific storm we're getting which, while it must be worse in other areas, left a grand total of 5 cm in my driveway so far this morning.
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It ain't just Canada – we've all become pussies. One quick blizzard in KC and the city shuts down. Even at it's height, the storm was no worse than I've seen dozens of times as a skier, and that doesn't stop anyone from doing anything in the mountains.
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Yeah, Hard to disagree with that. When they were shutting the world down on Monday, I felt they were over reacting a tad. I've been in worse, drove in worse, and will survive worse.
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>poof!<
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Dang-nab-it Lucas! If you got an email with the post, could you copy paste it here. Thanks.
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Tell me about it. I stayed up last night to finish up what was supposed to be due today at 8:30am and…yeah. Dammit! There's barely any snow outside! Even the TTC is (supposedly) working (relatively) properly, but campus is closed for the entire day; they say "ongoing weather related challenges that continue to compromise safe travel across the Greater Toronto Area". Yeah, right. Drove out to get breakfast; it's not that bad at all, nothing like the big blizzard of the year I was
hopingimagining it would be. They did a good job plowing and visibility was great. -
I'm up on Lake Simcoe, and I think we're up to 10-15cm, but I couldn't really be bothered to dig out the ruler. Of course, it all just annoys me instead of terrifies me, but annoyance doesn't make for the sort of news that panic does.
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The last sentence made me laugh my ass off, because that pretty much describes my opinion of most of the responses I've seen to the little skiff of snow that fell.
Sure, for those people in one of the areas that got over 3 feet of snow, you can panic. Other than that, it hasn't been much.-
The sad thing is, as long as you're dressed for it, it really only takes the right attitude. Mine is the same as it was when I was 6: SNOW DAY! BRING IT ON!
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In Central Texas this morning, the electric company is doing "rolling power outages" because of power demands. On my way to work, I pulled up to a red light at a busy intersection along with about a dozen other folks. The light went dark and everyone punched it. It was insanely frightening.
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What power demands? Where the hell does someone in North America need an air conditioner today?
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>poof< F you Lucas the Retarded Hamster
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Taadaa!
To quote a friend: "it's like everyone could turn off one light and prevent the rolling blackouts, but in Texas they'd rather have rolling blackouts than less freedom"
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Rolling effing blackouts.. first I had to get the damn garage door open in the dark, and when I got to work we had enough power to brew a pot of coffee before the power went out there. Then EVERYONE called me because their computers weren't working and after I got that mess sorted out… the second wave of outages came! FML!
FYI, this sh*t will continue until Friday, expect 3 hour waves in between the outages. I fully expect the folks in Dallas to reciprocate in the summer. When we're melting here in 103F heat, they can endure rolling blackouts in their cool and comfortable 98F climate.-
That is no good, and I feel your pain.
We have not had a loss of power at work, so I am single-handedly holding the electric torch for Texas, by having all my lights on, and blaring my music for my cube-mates.
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Our fine City, in an effort to get even Greener, a couple of years ago decide to change all the stop-lights to LED Bulbs from the old incandescents,and this was brilliant until the first Winter. A lot of times the snow would rather just go sideways rather than fall to the ground where we could push it out of the way, and so the stop-lights in the wind-ward direction would get covered in snow, and the LED lights lacked the heat of the incandescents to melt the snow off.
So this is how it would go down, time and time again , all over town:
A car is traveling with the blowing snow, and comes up to a light that is completely obscured. He stops, observes an oncoming car stopped as well (Who sees the Red Light perfectly), and the first driver remembers the rule that if the the light is out, treat it as a four-way stop sign, so he looks at cross-traffic and assumes they can't see the light either and are going to stop, and he goes. Problem is the cross-traffic sees Green quite clearly, and there's a massive lock-up and honking and flipping of fingers (if not worse). Sometimes I would just park my snow-plow in the middle of the intersection just to slow everyone down until the sorry-fuckers in the Bucket-Trucks that had to clean the stop-lights by hand got there. -
THey did those when I lived in CA. So power goes out at work, everyone heads home, and the traffic lights don't work. Not too smart.
Best daily driver for weekend track assault: GO
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1/2 ton truck.
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SCCA does have an off road class… I wonder the likelihood of flipping the TJ…
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A lifted Wrangler is probably pretty dicey, but a Grand Cherokee probably has a shot: http://www.speedsportlife.com/2009/06/11/racer-bo…
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Well that gives fuel to the bad ideas… And I am stock height and plan on staying that low, stabil and cheaper tires.
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Realistically, I would say M3, but being as broke-ass broke as I is, I would just take my F-150. It is neither a good daily driver, or a race car.
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Sort of depends on your climate, doesn't it? My first thought was a 600cc crotch rocket, but that's not really feasible today. So, the other easy answer is Miata.
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It depends on what kind of money you've got and how important being fast at the track is.
Lotus or Caterham are obvious track-champs, but a tough choice unless your commute is particularly short and sunny.
Big list of candidates:
Any BMW 3-series of any generation, save something crappy like a 318.
Miata
MR2
WRX
Evo
Mustang (given some chassis work)
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e46 M3 (not because I drive one or anything.)
And with the weather on the east coast, I can say for fact that with snow tires I would have no problem getting groceries in anything less than 7 inches. I did it just fine last year. My daily driver for all time (I hope/wish) -
I will simultaneously anger the car-gods and hurt my NC's feelings by suggesting the S2000.
<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/HondaS2000-004.jpg/800px-HondaS2000-004.jpg" width="500'/">
(I'm sorry, my mistress. I promise to spin your tires a little tomorrow to make up for it.)
I liek pinball.
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You lick what?
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I herd u liek mudkips
Having owned an old E30 BMW, I'm pretty sure Robert Bosch and Joe Lucas are very close cousins. The wipers would randomly turn on when the car was off and the keys were out. It also had a mystery battery draining issue that I finally solved by just putting a disconnect switch on the battery.
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You have angered the gods….
One of the weirdest electrical gremlins I can recall was in a friend's 1975 Dodge Colt (the re-badged Mitsubishi). For some odd reason, when you pulled out the driver's inertia-reel seatbelt all the way out to the stop, the interior dome light would come on. We called it his "sudden deceleration warning light".
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Maybe because if you were big enough to need to pull it out all the way, the shadow you cast was enough for smaller people to think that night had fallen?
Oh great…
An "off topic" post that starts off with the ONE topic that consumes my entire anorak life.
The one time I WANT to be on topic I end up OFF topic for being ON topic.
Phukerz.
Okay Hoons, I need some ideas from the lot of you.
I'm trying to figure out how I can motivate some of the people who contacted me and said they wanted to write for AtomicToasters to the point where they actually… you know… write. I've got like 18 people who wanted to write for us, and only three people who really are.
So what can I do to motivate them? Thus far the Molotov Cocktails (I even ordered them as doubles!) and horse-head-in-the-bed tricks haven't work, and I'm fresh out of ideas. Suggestions? How do I get some more content for you guys?
And hell, that applies to Hooniverse too; we can't just rely on Jim for everything!
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Set up an input page that's easy to use, including adding in graphics. I'll bet you get some easy articles that way.
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3 of 18, that sounds about right and I don't think that's a bad start at all.
Give it some time. Have Engineerd promote it. I didn't really know what it was all about (I'm not the most diligent web reader), until I read this and checked over there.
That being said, I agree with Tonyola. An input page that's easy to use. I wouldn't have the first clue how to go about posting something. I'd probably make a nice Word document, and email it to you and ask if you thought it was right for the site.-
And for a non-writer, that's exactly the best thing to do. 😉 I'm just talking about the people who have signed up to write, and who I've created accounts for.
I totally get that people are busy, and there's a healthy dose of sarcasm in my bitching there, I'm just trying to think of ways to motivate people to actually be interested in cranking out an article for Hoonie or Toasters.
The WordPress Engine is pretty simple to crank out an article. It's just a simple word processor, with a button to insert an image, to add a Jump, whatever. And then a "Schedule" button or a "Publish" button. Click, click, hooray!
What would make both sites more fun for commenters and writers alike? Because I think when the site is a lot of fun, and an interactive, engaging community, writers will want to write, and commenters will want to comment.
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We're absolutely going to have commenters on the call from time to time. Problem is that we've had something like 40 people contact us asking to be on the call, and who do we choose? So we're going to try and refine it a little to make it a bit more manageable.
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That reminds me. Someone page Skaycog and her clan; they're among the ones who have been asking for an off-topic forum of their own over here. Not sure if they still care, but they're among the people who have either emailed me or Facebroked me.
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Rename it "iTomic Toasters, the Unofficial Apple Fan Page". You'll have more writers than you can handle.
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I wanted to thumbs-up the comment itself, but I hate the consequences of doing that.
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I am afraid of commitment.
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I generate content at a glacial pace.
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How about if I'm ever in your part of The Great White North, my family can crash at your place?
Maybe it's been mentioned before, but I'm kinda slow and didn't find it.
The star ratings on the Hooniverse articles…… are we to rate the article, or how we like what's pictured? This is very different, because sometimes I HATE what is there (the Caprice/Nomad thing) but LOVE that you brought it to me to hate.
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Yes.
Seriously, there's no real formula for it. Right now, it's just for a bit of feedback for us. Once we've had it running for a few months, we'll be able to ramp it up to generate better recommendations, and add a sidebar showing off some of our best feature articles, or whatever. For the time being, it's just to allow a bit of feedback, like the thumbs-up, thumbs-down buttons on comments.-
When I'm at work I pretty much thumbs-up every comment I read, never noticed those stars before. Now I have more to click!
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I want more things to click, but I don't see any stars, thumbs, gears, hearts, shot glasses, or even ponies for the story!
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I've been avoiding those ratings entirely. Awarding a yellow star for excellence is a bit too reminiscent of a system I encountered on some other car-related site somewhere.
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OH GOD. I never thought of that. Would it help if I switched to a thumbs-up like we use for comments?
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Do that and you might just get a heart-click.
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That made me feel dirty, but I changed it anyhow. You should be able to see it now.
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Maybe you could also begin "disconsonanting" errant posts, or start wielding a "plaid hanbammer".
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My Banhammer is covered in Plaid Flannel! Or some other Canadian stereotype, I haven't thought this through yet.
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I guess it's the post itself. As in, if you want more posts like this, rate-up.
I think it's funny, b/c it really ought to be a binary thing (like the thumbs-ups), as most people either root for something or against it, not on some arbitrary sliding scale.-
Done and done!
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sounds good, thanks!
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Agreed. Only people who are not paying any attention (read: jerks) will rate articles at 3 stars.
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There are circumstances where a comment disappears, and replying is supposed to make it magically re-appear.
Not that I understand how you reply to a lost comment.
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Hi Skitter!
It's me, Vavon, from the Nibbles-place.
I have a small question: how do you become a commenter here?
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It's an off-topic thread. You can't really get off-topic more. 😉
Bold-ified so that maybe people will see it:
HOW TO BECOME A COMMENTER!
The best way: Go to IntenseDebate and sign up for an account there. Worry not, my young Padawan, there will be no further repercussions. They do not sell your info or spam you. They're good people. (Oh, and neither do we.)
Bring that account info, once it's all set up, back here, and click the blue IntenseDebate Login button below the comment boxes. This will allow you to sign in, track comments, rate people up and down, be rated up and down, and collect points which can be redeemed for fabulous prizes!*
*Points cannot actually be redeemed for fabulous prizes.-
Thank you Master Yoda!
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YAY!!! It works!
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While IntenseDebate has been relatively trouble free for me, (XP Pro, Firefox 3.6), it often makes me type in my username and email when submitting a comment. It generally links these comments correctly and immediately to my account.
And with little provocation, Mad_Science or another admin would probably give a wild-eyed contradiction of my experience.
Edit: Good to see you, by the way.
Edit 2: And you can edit any comment thatwarrants an insanity pleahas no reply.
And we have the usual HTML tools: image embedding, italics i bold b underline u and strikethroughstrike
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What generally works for me is to post a second reply to the comment to which I had just replied. I then immediately delete this second attempt (which is usually just a tap of the space bar anyway). Voilà! As long as nobody notices and posts their own reply to my blank comment in the few seconds it takes to post and delete it, it's a seamless recovery.
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Which works, except that many times if you delete the second response, the original reply will re-vanish.
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I've seen that mentioned but it hasn't yet happened to me. I wonder whether at least some of those instances might be from attempts to re-post an identically-worded response, followed by deleting the original attempt when both suddenly appear adjacent to one another, which then takes the second attempt with it.
Or perhaps it's all just an arbitrary maelstrom of chaos and despair.-
Blame Lucas Hoonibbles. Or Jeff Glucker. Whenever anything goes wrong around here, I blame Jeff.
Nine times out of ten, I'm actually right.
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If you reply to the same comment as you were originally replying to when the comment vanished, it will usually make the lost comment reappear. "Poof" is just a way of saying "Look! It's magic! The invisible comment will — ABRACADABRA! — reappear! Ta-da!"
I've also seen "Hoonibbles Rescue Attempt", and various amusing variations. I vote for getting more creative, but I never have said creativity myself.
I'm going to talk to a landlord tonight in a feel-you-out-but-not-up fashion about moving into the one bedroom apartment my friend will soon be leaving. Not that big, not that nice, but it has a garaged parking space, right next to another garaged parking space that no one uses. I liek gaarge praking.
If I can't move a project car in there eventually (tbd, but this is what she wants to discuss, I fear), and since my car is still under warranty and doesn't need any actual work, what games can I play in the garage to Pretend I'm Doing Something Useful?
So far, I'm thinking: wash car/clay car/polish car/wax car, oil changes, fluid checks, ye olde tire rotations, engine bay detailing, drinking, and drinking.
Soon enough I can play suspension bit switcharoos and other slight modifications, but I'm trying to keep it in my pants for now. Any other garage games you all can suggest?
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I'd say move a very small air compressor and an air-powered impact wrench in there. Not to do anything particular, but just to make everyone nervous. Turn it into a place to hang out and have a drink and a cigar, but keep spinning the impact wrench so that people outside can wonder what you're working on.
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I've got the impact wrench already from using it in the garage at school, but the personal air compressor doesn't exist yet. I may need to wait a bit, as I'm afraid "noisy tools" may be the things I'll be claiming not to use tonight, but yes, this game, I like it very much.
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depending on your climate…. mini-fridge and a radio is a must. Everything will happen from there.
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Good points. It's warm enough here in San Francisco that the garage can definitely hold a fridge and anything else.
My other friend was thinking of moving his family into this same place to save some money, and just turning the garage into his living room, lulz.
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I like the low key, normal upkeep approach. My last place had a line in the lease about not "overhauling" cars on the property; I took it to mean major engine work, frame-offs, etc. and went ahead with normal maintenance and most repairs for the cars, and whatever I felt like doing on the motorcycle.
In my current place I have gotten a reputation of being "that guy who's always in his garage" from some of my neighbors, but I've never had a noise complaint toward me or anything. Fargo has a noise ordinance so I try to be done by the hour it takes effect, and also my current garage is short enough (only 228" inside) that I have to limit car jobs to tasks that can be done that day (usually if I'm working on a car, the tail is hanging out the door a little bit… I like more elbow room.)-
That's probably what I'll be doing too, but once I establish myself a bit, I'd like to buy a beater that needs a refreshening, refreshen it, then sell it at a minimal loss. Maybe even make enough to buy a twenty piece mcnugget on every third car or so.
But really, I need to stabilize my debt and other things first, so that's a bit down the road. Good to know that the unofficial apartment manager works on his 83 Ranger all the time, so I don't think it will be any problem. Feels good, man.
The garage is nice too. Good light, a little skinny, but the bay next door is always empty, hose and nice drainage, space for toolbox/fridge/piss bucket…
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Did somebody say free booze? Pink roses and chocolates would be nice too.
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Typical Skaycog. Offer free booze, and she's in there like a dirty shirt. 😉
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Have you missed me, my dear?
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I guess that says it all. I'll probably cry myself to sleep tonight now. That's terrible!!
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Sweet! My best to Mrs. Howser, and thank you very much!
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Hiya!
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Hiya back atcha!!!! 😉
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Good morning!
Let's try posting a picture today! http://www.forum-auto.com/uploads/200311/domdom_1…
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Thanks, I just saw your comment!
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How about a video then…[youtube RdvYJW1pN6g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdvYJW1pN6g youtube]
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That's a great French video! I've seen the commercial before, but the first part in French is real neat!
I'll see if I can still post pics here.
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Once you get the "coding" for imbedding pictures right… then what I do is to just save it as a Notebook (.txt) file, and then cut and paste from there.
While I'm not the brightest, I do OK with getting around my shortcomings!
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I just saw ptschett's comment about adding the "width=500", which is new to me, but he knows more about. I'm going to post this pic the way he said.
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It worked, and I see the importance not to have GIANT images posted.
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<img src="http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/peugeot_908hdifap_valencia_2007.jpg width=" 500'=">
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<img src="http://img2.netcarshow.com/Peugeot-107_2005_1024x768_wallpaper_10.jpg" width="500">
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Good job! Now you're in business!
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New places always take time getting used to. But I think I'm starting to like this. It's not perfect either,but it's way better then 5.0!
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Oh please!
You really want me to upload the Youtube clip?
Hahaha 😉
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I'm drinking a vodka mixed with crushed black peppers right now, but that's cause my tummy is upset. Tends to cure it or bring on the inevitable unenviable sooner at least.
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No. No. It is most certainly not awesome…
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I know, thanks. I was milking for more humor, didn't work 😉
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How about a glass of pink Zinfandel instead?
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You talking to me?
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Evidently!
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Fancy seeing you here. Have you joined? Be sure you sign up for the email notification.
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Friends!!!!!!!!
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Hey! I know you!! We do get around, don't we?
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Hello!!!! Good to see you!!!
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I was trying to post this on our picture thread "over there", but it hasn't worked.
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So much doesn't work!
And Ray's comments didn't help either…
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Sigh. Was Maurice getting a bit heavy in the mouth again? What happened now?
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They changed the format, everything's fucked up. It sucks. I think I'm done. No fun anymore.
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That's pretty much exactly how Hooniverse got started. "That's it, we're outta here."
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Well thanks for having us. That new format is the nail in the coffin.
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Welcome!
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I know, right! I'm all giddy and light headed!
Yes, yes, I have joined. I'm vavon205 again! As Vavon was already taken…
If you go to your IntenseDebate profile, and click on "Edit Profile", you can actually change your display name, regardless of what your IntenseDebate account name is. 🙂
Yes, thanks for this! And I admit, I thought of changing my name to Dearthair just to be a wanker. Sorry in advance.
Play nice now, or I'll start administering beatings!
No, not really, I was just channeling Maurice for a sec there.
Bon jour, mon ami.
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Bonjour a toi aussi!
I'm just commenting here because I was unable to see your pink Zinfandel in Latest Activity just moments ago.
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When I replied, it showed-up in the list. Lucas you pest!
Daaaaamn. With where it got hit I'd be worried it tweaked the rear suspension.
Serious, non-sarcastic question… Asking price for the car or offered insurance settlement for the damage?
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Gotcha. I clicked through. Not sure what universe he lives in but in mine becoming an "antique next year" does not increase its value.
Would it be possible to put the Off-Topic Thread someplace permanent, like next to the About page?
I mean, its pretty easy to get here, but it could be simpler.
Just curious.
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I'll look into that… assuming Tim doesn't have a shit-fit at the idea. 😉
For anyone afraid of losing comments in this giant maelstrom of activity, at the top of the comments, you can sort them by "Last Activity". That usually brings the newest comments up to the top and makes it a bit easier to not lose new stuff. Maybe it'll help?
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Wow, "last activity" sort is AWESOME. I'm way too excited about that.
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Crap it does not work right though. When I clicked on that "Last Activity" link I could no longer see the comment thread started by Vavon which begins:
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Hm. It's showing up just fine for me. You're sure you didn't click "Rating"? IntenseDebate will give preference to comments made with IntenseDebate accounts, regardless of the "score" rating on the side, unless the "anonymous" account has a much, much higher score.
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That seems logical, I am usually to blame after all. Thanks.
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Oh no, it's usually just Lucas' fault. Or Jeff Glucker. But I can't re-create the symptoms, so I can't diagnose the problem.
As such, I'll just say it's probably your carburetor, and it'll need a re-build. Cost ya about $500.
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Thanks again.
So here's a question for the masses here: Shall we just keep this one going, or do a new off-topic thread weekly?
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No offense to Gawker, but aside from Lucas Hoonibbles' affection for om-nomming random comments, our commenting engine should actually be MORE robust than Gawker's, because we're just trying to let you comment, not track your entire history of discussion in fifteen different places, with networked links between a dozen different sites. It's nowhere near as pretty as Gawker's, but it's a whole lot simpler, which means there are less things to break.
Having said that, it is powered by Lucas Electrics, so it could go up in a puff of Magic Smoke at any moment. But that's half the fun!
We've had quite a few heavily-commented articles already, a few with over 200 comments, and the system held up with no difficulties, so I'm guessing we'll be fine. But there's only one way to find out! -
Given the timidity with which it stands up to regular-density commenting, I would posit 'not well'.
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That HCOTY post became unloadable on my computer at home when it hit a certain number of comments. Just a blank page and busy computer, maybe a bit after a hundred comments. This one worked last night still on that same computer.
Maybe there is a way to automate making a new one in the wee hours of the morning? Also to add a link to the top of the previous one to the new one and close commenting on the last one. But then you'd lose the nice topic for the off topic and well we won't be able to blow ZomBee Racer's mind. I also don't like clicking all the 'N replies' to see everything. I'm already thumbs-up-ing almost everything. Maybe a new one every Friday or something with a link at the top to make it easy to find would be good? Oh and thanks for creating this offtopic place. It was a great idea!
I feel strange posting here, but I may as well start somewhere. At least the threads kinda make sense. Welcome fellow former partners in crime, greetings new associates.
So what have I missed this last week?
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Wagon Wednesdays! Get right on it.
Hey guys, First time posting here.
Jalopnik guys should know me well.
I talk to BZR a lot, does that count?
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Nope, doesn't count.
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Yeah, people with 3 letter nicknames don't ever count for much. Seriously now, glad to see you and everyone else new here opti!
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Question for all of you…
Would you like to see an actual forum? (a long the lines of a small scale version of VW Vortex)
Would some of you be interested in becoming moderators of that forum to help police spam, junk, anything crossing that arbitrary line, etc?
email me at Jeff@Hooniverse.com if you are interested
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http://becauseracecar.com/index.php?topic=12.15
Somebody tried something like this already for jalop. I don't think it worked out so great, plus something like these offtopic posts if they keep-up will be great. I don't like how in forums you can only see a title without clikcing to read all the comments.-
I tend to agree. I'd prefer to keep everyone here in Hooniverse, rather than sending them somewhere else, just hosted by Hooniverse. We don't wanna kill the conversation on any other articles!
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I don't know what the overall volume of posts this place gets is, but a very small forum might work.
I don't know that the issue is needing a new space to talk as much as needing a comment system that can keep a long thread from getting cluttered. I liked this system fine before this off topic thread, only because I can't even find a previous convo I was following without lots of searching and it seems comments are being eaten by the hour.
One thing I have not seen in many places… Comments and forums integrated. Please see the example below:
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/2011/02/03/co…
This is an article. You can sign in and comment. However, if you click the "Discuss in forums" link you are taken to the forums. Where the SAME conversation exists. The comments *are* forum posts. Seamless.
They have a huge amount of additional forums, but the key here is the hybrid. You can follow the comments on an article, but if an off-topic or very lively on-topic discussion comes up you can transfer to the forums where it will be easier to follow along with the conversation after many days.
This might give you the chance to let comments flesh themselves out, and maintain a small but dedicated forum structure for all the other things we might want to bring up.-
That's super, lets do that. (giddiness tempered by 'that looks like it's tricky to implement')
The thing about blog structure is that comments will quickly die off once the article gets off the main page, it's a disinclination to continue discussion. With forum structure, the most recently active thread is on top, so discussion will die off naturally, regardless of the thread's age.
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But how does this compare with, say, a new BMW, which I can equally afford?
I think we'd all love something like that, but unfortunately most systems like that cost… uh… what's that stuff called again? Right… "money". Something we all haven't seen in so long we've forgotten what it looks like. In seriousness, this is a totally voluntary operation, and the only person making money off this is Jeff, and that's all being siphoned to his Swiss bank accounts where it can't be tracked, until he runs away with his new yacht and his new friends. (None of that is true, nobody's making money off this, we're just trying to cover our hosting fees.) We don't really have the resources to implement a custom commenting system, unless you know someone who can steal that site's system for us when they're not looking.-
I understand all that. I was just bringing up a conceptual option. The mention of a forum means that the possibility of change, and BitTech is a site I have always held as ideal when it came to comment integration.
They are running a vBulletin forum in the background, which is probably the most common and depending on scope can be pretty inexpensive. I don't know what links the comments and forums (for all I know it could be anything from custom to a built in vBulletin option no one ever uses.)-
Oh I'm not saying "no", I'm saying "We'd love to… but probably not tomorrow. Or the next day. Or anytime soon." 🙂 It's an excellent idea, but will take a lot of investigation on our part. On the other hand, if you wanna DO the investigation for us, and tell us how it's set up, we'll be all over that!!
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I feel like VWVortex/The Car Lounge does the general car forum extremely well; why reinvent it? I love TCL with all my heart.
My 256th comment, did it work? Yes, I was worried with my last one being 0xff and thought Hoonibbles Lucas may have been as thrifty with bits as Joe Lucas was with fuses.
Just curious. How many of the Hoons play poker?
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I like to play, but I'm not good at it at all. Used to play Texas Hold 'Em on the Blackberry a lot.
But….. is this still the "official" off-topic place, or did we all go elsewhere, or did it just fizzle out?
429 or new Coyote ? I have a 68 Galaxie and I am in the middle of doing a heart transplant on it , do I re and re the 429 out of a 69 Mercury Marauder ( About $5500 ) or crate Coyote ( About $6100 ) ?
Has anybody been experiencing problems with this "Off topic" thread on their iPhone ? Mine isn't showing all the comments
The comment thread for this ol' article has turned into a classifieds page for kit cars: http://hooniverse.info/2010/02/05/yamon-jamaican-i…
Interesting.
So, guys, I finally got my 100p. I like the way the extra digit feels… It feels…. nice.
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CONGRATS!!!!!
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