Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

[Zorrosdens]

 

[SpookM14]

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Just need one more refreshing night cap before I turn in for the evening.....

 

[Darayavaus]

 

[PinesAndProjectiles]

What a pile of fucking garbage.

 

[fpgt72]

Unless my worth equals what I want to pay, I won't buy.

That is YOUR worth....and that is the thing.

Say for example your "thing" is old snake guns for the sake of argument. You will gladly pay $3000 for that perfect example in a perfect box with all the paperwork, that example that is the most hard to find (whatever that is I am not a snake gun guy) and walk away thinking you got yourself one hell of a good deal. You could also not care one single lick about old military rifles, and think that if someone pays $3000 for a Lee Navy that has a SN# matching it to the Maine, well that is just flat stupid to pay that kind of money for something that you could not even shoot....it is just a wall hanger.

I am not sure what colt snake guns go for but do know what the last example of a lee navy that was tied to the Maine went for.

You can't say well I will buy it and resell it and laugh all the way to the bank, that does not work. You are selling it to a person that puts more....whatever...into a given item.

For the record I could care less for Lego's, just not my thing, but I have been known to spend well over $1000 for a toy airplane that I fly around with radio waves. Some see that as a stupid expensive toy, and you know what it is....I also have a 1967 Triumph GT6 that is a bit bigger toy, and even it got me to work today a Honda Africa Twin that is a toy halfway between the two.

They are all toys, and they are all worth something to some, and worthless to others....some can see them as toys others can't....they will defend them as "classic cars" or "model aircraft"....ok but they are still toys at the end of the day.

How is that for a good ramble.

 

[Barneybdb]

 

[22Hshots]

Got hit with a piece of karma.

 

[Barneybdb]

 

[Barneybdb]

 

[GUN NUT in IA]

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This photo needs more black out marker - a whole bunch more black out marker.

 

[Barneybdb]

 

[roostercogburn98]

Can’t cure stupid, but this looks promising as a treatment if used on a regular basis

 

[Barneybdb]

 

[Dirty D]

This is from your neck of the woods and still some of the best videos on You Tube.

I remember that fondly and still giggle like the 12 year old that I am EVERY time I watch it.

 

[oneshot86]

I remember that fondly and still giggle like the 12 year old that I am EVERY time I watch it.

That's awesome, right in the peepee

 

[Blue Sky Country]

 

[Zorrosdens]

 

[Zorrosdens]

 

[Zorrosdens]

 

[--BLACKOUT--]

 

[Zorrosdens]

 

[Zorrosdens]

 

[Uncivil Engineer]

The last time I went to the vet... they snipped my nuts

 

[Blue Sky Country]

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"What are you doing in this section of the palace? Do you wish for me to catch a scandal?"

 

[Expert684]

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She reminds me of the gal from Mythbusters, Kari Byron?

 

[theLBC]

 

[Steel head]

 

[Uncivil Engineer]

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Those are the SdKfz 222s. Here are the PzKfw VIIIs:

 

[Expert684]

Did ANTIFA make a 'bulk" purchase? Was it cheaper by the pound? Looks like offensive linemen in drag!

 

[Blue Sky Country]

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Dear ANTIFA,

We welcome you to our homelands,

Henry Bowman
President: Bowman Livestock Feed Co.
1776 Irwin Mann Drive
Solothurn, MO, 63443

 

[MRiles]

 

[GBMaryland]

When the reservists show up

If I was standing on my front porch and someone did that.... Sorry but I’m not OK with that... thats how people start going after the police.

 

[wh20crazy]

If I was standing on my front porch and someone did that.... Sorry but I’m not OK with that... thats how people start going after the police.

Yeah, that's not a good idea on the part of the hoodlums in the street. Most folks don't own non-lethal munitions.

 

[Penguins]

This is GOLD!!!

 

[BullGear]

A discussion of Black Lives Matter and the Black on Black crimes. This discussion took place in 2015 and I see no difference in 2020.

Should Black Lives Matter Focus on 'Black-on-Black' Murders?

Critics who charge that prioritizing police killings over other, more prevalent forms of violence misunderstand the purpose and methods of the movement.

www.theatlantic.com

John McWhorter

: The reason Black Lives Matter has a lot of eyes rolling is not because people don't care about black people and don't understand the problem with police. The problem is that the typical black man in a particular kind of community is at much, much more risk of being killed by another black man. And you can't argue it away. There are all these sophisticated feints such as saying that there's a difference between the state murdering and citizens murdering. But none of it goes through.

This high indignation about one white cop doing a terrible thing looks incongruous given that in these same communities, hundreds of black men are killing each other every summer. And so I think, in short, Black Lives Matter is very important. It could make a very important difference in modern black history. But for it to be a movement that resonates historically, it has to add a new wing where it firmly says and stands behind the idea that black lives matter when black people take them too.

There has to be a second wing that goes into black communities and works in a real way on the black-on-black murders. That would make Black Lives Matter complete. As it is now, it's incomplete and it looks shrill. And the idea that Black Lives Matter when white people try to take them looks recreational, it looks childish, it looks peevish, and it's just wrong, it's incomplete.

That's my take on Black Lives Matter.

Glenn Loury: I don't personally disagree with the sentiment that you just expressed. But here's what the rebuttal would be, I think. First people would say, “Yes, there's violence in black communities in low-income urban black enclaves. Homicide rates are very high. But this is a consequence of the structural racism that has played out over history and continues to play out today: that confines people to racially segregated neighborhoods; that denies people an opportunity to develop their talents and to live decently with legitimate jobs and so forth; drug trafficking is flourishing; people are concentrated in public housing; gangs are proliferating; young men are idle, so there's a structure that accounts for the behavior, and it's unfair to ask a movement demanding justice from the police to be responsible for patterns of behavior that are deeply embedded in a system over which black people don't exercise any control.” Another rebuttal would be, “These are two different subjects all together. Why are you changing the subject? We came here to talk about police brutalization of black people. And you tell me about something else: that young black people brutalize themselves. I can agree with you and stipulate that the latter is a problem, but it's not the subject I'm trying to talk about. Why are you trying to change the subject?” Those are two possible rebuttals to the position that you just stated.

McWhorter: And they fail utterly. I am never more struck than I am lately about how certain sentences that you here often enough are accepted as truth until they become almost a kind of music. You take a group of people who are all the same color and you put them together in neighborhoods where job opportunities are not great. And the inevitable result is that the men are going to start killing each other over trivia?

That is an equation that I don't think any historian or any anthropologist would think of as applicable to homo sapiens that we know.

A group of people who are poor, all put together in one place, without a whole lot of opportunity will start killing one another. No. If you think about it, it would be considered racist if a white person said that 75 years ago.

But today we're somehow encouraged to think about that as an “enlightened” or “humane” take on what goes on in black America. And as far as changing the subject, all you have to do is think about the mother who just lost her second son. Now go up to her with a pad and tell her, “Well, this is really sad, but we're really more interested in things that the state does. We're really more interested in things that people who are responsible for the public order do. Now the fact that this was done by somebody who was from three blocks over, well, we're sorry, that's regrettable, but we're not concerned with that. We're doing this now.” It seems almost inhumane yet we're supposed to accept that as wisdom.

Loury: You don't believe it's necessarily the case that because people are poor and concentrated in this way that they have to be violent––that in a way, it diminishes the humanity of people to say that they're just gonna be violent because of some environmental circumstance. They have the volition and moral will to eschew violence despite their deprivation.

But a person might say, “Look, the state has a monopoly on the legitimate use of force. Agents of the state who abuse that awesome responsibility constitute a real threat to democratic values. There's a great deal more at stake here than the personal safety of an individual. This is about an abuse of power. And the lack of accountability for agents of the state who abuse power in this way creates a circumstance in which people are basically terrorized. They may fear victimization by their neighbor, and the fear may be quite real. That's one thing. But victimization by the people whose salaries you pay with your tax money and who are supposedly there to serve and protect you, agents of the state, the fear of victimization by them is quite another thing altogether. It's a different order of violation. And it's appropriate to prioritize the response to these things in the way that Black Lives Matter has done.”

McWhorter: I reject that. I think that argument is hopeless. That is a wordy, beautifully put argument designed to give people an excuse to focus on racism as the problem as opposed to the more complex issue of looking at a Rube-Goldberg sequence of socio-historical events that have led us to an unfortunate situation where racism from whites may not always be the problem that we need to face. And it's not that the black men shooting each other are evil. I understand their humanity too.

But the idea that democracy is threatened by the white cop whereas if the kid from three blocks over does it, well he's just an ordinary person? No!

And I am confident that A. Philip Randolph, that Martin Luther King, would not agree with that fancy way of putting it. The situation that we're in now is as if—think about Selma. Think about watching people coming over that bridge with the terrible things that happened, and meanwhile over on the other side of the bridge, black teenagers were killing each other by the dozens every summer. And the idea was, “No, we're not really going to think about that, because they kinda can't help it, and that's not important because they're the keepers of public order.” Imagine what Selma would've looked like if that's what the situation was. That's where we are now. And no amount of fancy Latinate words can disguise that simple fact from me or most of America watching.

 

[Sieg]

Want to talk vision, tactics, focus, and commitment?

 

[300Norma1959]

Want to talk vision, tactics, focus, and commitment?

That's some serious skill. I can't imagine the amount of injuries it takes to master that. Anyone know what bikes they use?

 

[Jefe's Dope]

That's some serious skill. I can't imagine the amount of injuries it takes to master that. Anyone know what bikes they use?

Dude is insane. That climb up the boulder field left me in awe.

Montesa Cota/Honda.

Montesa Cota 4RT 260R - Trials Bike - Honda

Want to reach the top rung of the trials ladder? The Montesa Cota 4RT 260R is an excellent choice for a trials bike because it gets the smallest details right.

powersports.honda.com

 

[300Norma1959]

Dude is insane. That climb up the boulder field left me in awe.

Montesa Cota/Honda.

Montesa Cota 4RT 260R - Trials Bike - Honda

Want to reach the top rung of the trials ladder? The Montesa Cota 4RT 260R is an excellent choice for a trials bike because it gets the smallest details right.

powersports.honda.com

I would think that sport would be a candidate for an electric bike given their instant torque

 

[Jefe's Dope]

I would think that sport would be a candidate for an electric bike given their instant torque

The little one where he crashes down the hill w/o a helmet is an electric 'child's' version. They're slowly coming.

 

[Sieg]

That's some serious skill. I can't imagine the amount of injuries it takes to master that. Anyone know what bikes they use?

It's an older Montessa 4RT (4-stroke) trials bike, guessing 2017-2018. Current trends appear to be favoring the 2-stroke power of the past. The world level trials riders talent levels are off the charts IMO. The bikes have explosive power and grip which can leave you suspended in mid-air watching the bike fly away from you..... the landings can be quite awkward and hard.

I've had this '06 Beta Rev3 since 2007, haven't ridden in a few years and I've ridden the past two days practicing timing, energy transfer, clutch and brake modulation, wheelies and stoppies, etc. and they are a fricken workout! Especially now that I'm 62 years old.

They work every muscle in your body.

 

[EddieNFL]

It's an older Montessa 4RT (4-stroke) trials bike, guessing 2017-2018. Current trends appear to be favoring the 2-stroke power of the past. The world level trials riders talent levels are off the charts IMO. The bikes have explosive power and grip which can leave you suspended in mid-air watching the bike fly away from you..... the landings can be quite awkward and hard.

I've had this '06 Beta Rev3 since 2007, haven't ridden in a few years and I've ridden the past two days practicing timing, energy transfer, clutch and brake modulation, wheelies and stoppies, etc. and they are a fricken workout! Especially now that I'm 62 years old.

They work every muscle in your body.

I remember my first time on a motocross track. I completed one lap (~3/4 mile). Stopped my bike and laid on the ground until I had the strength to get up.

 

[Uncivil Engineer]

Taken today outside a gym in Van Nuys. The coach gun may be overkill. Note the neon sign in the upper right-hand corner.

 

[300Norma1959]

What's special about the neon sign?

 

[Longshot231]

 

[Uncivil Engineer]

What's special about the neon sign?

Guys who bench press Honda Civics for a hobby who also practice BJJ and boxing.

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EDIT #2: I hadn't noticed the guy's sweatshirt until just now.

 

[Longshot231]

 

[LeftyJason]

Want to talk vision, tactics, focus, and commitment?

Thats cool but what I used to like to watch was some of the extreme unicycling stuff. First found it ten years or so ago. Harder to find these days.

 

[Supersubes]

It's an older Montessa 4RT (4-stroke) trials bike, guessing 2017-2018. Current trends appear to be favoring the 2-stroke power of the past. The world level trials riders talent levels are off the charts IMO. The bikes have explosive power and grip which can leave you suspended in mid-air watching the bike fly away from you..... the landings can be quite awkward and hard.

I've had this '06 Beta Rev3 since 2007, haven't ridden in a few years and I've ridden the past two days practicing timing, energy transfer, clutch and brake modulation, wheelies and stoppies, etc. and they are a fricken workout! Especially now that I'm 62 years old.

They work every muscle in your body.

I use to watch a lot of indoor trials riding, way before Bou was on the scene. Everyone rode 2-strokes. I always thought Toni was kind of special in that he’s a 4-stroke guy amongst a bunch of two stroke competition.

 

[Supersubes]

Thats cool but what I used to like to watch was some of the extreme unicycling stuff. First found it ten years or so ago. Harder to find these days.

I don’t doubt the skill, but man does it look terrible. I can’t think of any extreme sport that’s less graceful. Just cringy and unwatchable.