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Non-political things that make you say...WTF?!?! (Welcome To Florida!) **NOT CV RELATED** NO TALKY!

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  1. Oct 30, 2019 at 8:07 PM
    MolonLabeTaco

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    Id be willing to bet $100 he already is.
     
  2. Oct 30, 2019 at 8:10 PM
    wilcam47

    wilcam47 Keep on keeping on!

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    I know they know this...but Id be checking current and old GF's, family where he was taken from. Id assume it was GA, then check TX...cuz everyone goes to TX;). Im sure he'll get into some kind of trouble soon..
     
  3. Oct 30, 2019 at 8:13 PM
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    I’d imagine it was already all set up and ready to go. I didn’t read the story, though.
     
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    Yeah, I have been in some big boom lifts. I think the biggest one (that I attempted) was like 240'. As we started getting up there by extending the boom, the sway starts to magnify. I made it about 2/3 of the way or a little more on the way to fully extended. FUCK OFF!!!!!

    I like to think of myself as ballsy, and dont get scared of much.....but something about being way the fuck up there and you look down at the little tiny thing anchoring you to the ground...NOPE!

    Whats worse is I KNOW these things are seriously engineered and are capable of operating with in their parameters, but when you move that thing (as slow as possible) a tiny fraction and that basket sways a couple feet.....you shit yourself.

    I'm with you.
     
  6. Oct 31, 2019 at 6:25 AM
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    If they rebooted the movie Twins with those two it would be golden.
     
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    GOD DAMNIT!!!!! Why has this not been thought of already!?????!!!

    BRILLIANT!!!
     
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    Seeing the third gen section forced me to get a Ford...
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    Rebooting and replacing Ahnold and Danny would be sacrilegious, like remaking The Princess Bride.

    It'd have to be a whole new story, and would be funnier if it happened in the original Twins universe and had Ahnold and Danny in it.

    The 4 of them together cutting up - Dwayne messing with Ahnold and Kevin messing with Danny - could be golden.





    And remember boys and girls - it could also SUCK.
     
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    Rated -R then.
     
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    CaptAmerica Asphalt Avenger! TTC#13

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    If the Almighty truly loves us, yes.
     
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    Yeah we had couple in the hangers for aircraft...they'd go up into the ceilings to replace lights...and thats not even close to the height of those. We had one way overloaded and this idiot driving is making it sway and laughing it up. Im like dude you better knock it the F' off, get these harness reels hooked up and let me the F' down!
     
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    Can't really say that's been the case with any of the women I've dated...

    :rofl::rofl::rofl:
     
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    Soldiers returning from 'Nam would tell stories of encountering bugs that would make a Spartan howl!!
     
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    You lost me at “remaking the Princess Bride”. That’s the WTF of this page.
     
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    So does the unreliability add or multiply?

    Jeep, Ram, Citroen, and Peugeot unite to become 4th-largest automaker

    On Thursday it became official: Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and PSA Group are merging to become the world's fourth-largest automaker. Alfa Romeo, Citroën, Chrysler, Dodge, DS, Fiat, Maserati, Opel, Peugeot, Ram, and Vauxhall will all now share a single corporate parent and merge operations. In a press release, Fiat Chrysler and PSA said that the 50:50 merger should save more than $4 billion (€3.7 billion) a year from "run-rate synergies without any plant closures."

    Merging with another large automaker has been FCA's plan for a while. Before his untimely death, Sergio Marchionne had conducted talks with many potential suitors, and earlier this year FCA was in active discussions with Renault. But those talks ultimately went nowhere, and now FCA will join up with France's other big automaker, PSA Group.

    On the face of it, the merger makes a lot of sense. FCA has strong sales in the Americas and a decent portfolio of luxury brands and SUVs and trucks. PSA is strong in Europe, and its brands are better mainstream cars built using more modern architectures. PSA Group is also well ahead of FCA in terms of electrification.

    The new company, which has yet to be named, will be registered in the Netherlands, although it will "continue to maintain significant presences in the current operating head-office locations in France, Italy, and the US." PSA Group boss Carlos Tavares will be CEO of the 11-person board, with FCA's John Elkann as chair.

    Based on 2018's results, the new company would have 8.7 million sales, combined revenues of $190 billion (€170 billion), and $12.3 billion in profit. However, from next year those profits are at risk from massive European Union fines that await any OEM unable to get its fleet-wide emissions below 95g CO2/km. Earlier this year, we learned that FCA had entered into an agreement with Tesla, where it would pay the US automaker "hundreds of millions" of dollars in order to count the American EVs as part of its European fleet.

    But the new merged automaker will have a much larger pool of vehicles to take into account, as well as access to in-house BEVs that could be badge-engineered and sold at a profit. Perhaps the biggest loser in this merger could be Tesla, where a profitable quarter still depends on emissions credits, not selling cars.

    As for US car buyers, it's probably a little too soon to know what this will mean in terms of the cars we might be able to buy. PSA Group has wanted to return to the US market for a while, and in February news broke that Peugeot would lead that charge. But currently the company's sole US presence is a car-sharing service called Free2Move that operates in Washington, DC. I'd like to think modern American car buyers will take to quirky French crossovers with more enthusiasm than that which greeted a resurgent Alfa Romeo.
     
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