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I've literally never considered going that fast on a public road and I never will but just knowing that my car is limited is kinda fucking lame. What's the point spending money on an engine I'll never make use of if I can't even brag about it at the pub?
While you sit in the traffic, Chad bought Y rated tires and put an eBay turbo kit on his Camaro and drives 175 in the shoulder.
He has never gotten a speeding ticket and has cucked CarMax into honoring his bumper-to-bumper warranty for 6 replacements when he blows the engine every 3 months.
I know this guy, let's call him Thomas (because that's his real name), who I've had to deal with for like 2-3 years as I've been an instructor/TA for a couple classes with him, and he brags to me constantly about how he drives whatever shitbox he currently has as fast as possible on the highway.
None of the cars he has ever driven are impressive in any respect, I'm talking like mid 90's buicks, early 00's nissan altima (I think?). But the guy brings up whenever he can how he just drove like 109mph on the freeway and he's so goddamn excited about it. I'm fairly sure he blew his trans on his buick out doing this.
He's like the embodiment of the 'gotta go fast' sonic the hedgehog meme because he's also a 'competitive speed inline skater', and when he's had too much sugar he's been known to try to challenge you to a sprint.
He's also intensely 'on the spectrum' (though his parents literally deny it and won't agree to get him evaluated), is very awkward, has poor hygiene, and basically just lives to bother people all day.
It's not like people act mean to him either, but he's just so weird to try to do anything with. Like if you're going to lunch with some colleagues and you let him tag along, there's a 99% chance he wont eat anything where you're going because his diet consists of pizza, fast food, and literally candy. When he tags along now he picks up pizza or fast food before getting to a restaurant and eats it there.
Ever wonder what happens when someone with a diet like that is forced to sort of 'rough it' and camp and hike for 3 weeks? It's was a shitshow
I hope one day I get to witness this true autist blast by me going 145 in his supercharged Buick he got for $900 fully decked out like Ryan Gosling in "Drive"
Sure. I'll try to keep it brief and leave out as much geology jargon as I can but if I slip up, apologies. Some things might not make a lot of sense but you'll just have to take me at my word unless you want a longer explanation to answer some of the 'why?' questions you might experience. Geology is a weird field, full of weirdos, with weird rituals, customs, requirements and so forth.
Practically every geoscientist, in pursuit of their undergrad degree (BA/BSc), must take a 'capstone' class in their junior or senior year. This usually takes the form of "Field Camp", a 5/6-unit, 5/6 week early summer course where aspiring geoscientists learn how to take all that they've learned in their classes and apply it 'out in the field', in addition to learning how to construct geologic maps given only a blank topographic map. For my part, being a grad student, I help teach this class each summer. I love doing it, it's extremely rewarding on a personal level for me, and you really can't beat getting paid to camp for 3-6 weeks, despite the work that goes into putting this show on.
Anyway. This guy was somewhat notorious and well known to the head instructor and myself beforehand for being a bad student, very awkward, failed multiple classes etc. What we didn't know was not only what his diet consisted of, but also what his diet didn't consist of. We are extremely accommodating of diets for this course, almost to a fault. We buy all our shit at Costco, and if you're a vegan (the instructor is, with the exception of during this course, he will eat ethical/high quality fish), a vegetarian, a carnivore, muslim, observant jew, whatever, we'll make it work and make sure you get more than enough quality nutrition; I don't eat better than those weeks most of the year. This isn't just to be nice, but also because many of the students we get are poorly-conditioned sheltered suburban kids who have lived their whole lives near sea-level and aren't avid recreational hikers accustomed to hiking off-trail 8-10 hours a day with a 10-30lb pack while performing a mentally demanding task at 6000-9000 feet asl, potentially in the heat, cold, rain, hail, etc.
The first project is a little less than a week from arrival in New Mexico to turning in the maps, and he seems to get through that, physically, ok. We are concerned that he seems to not want to eat any of the cooked foods during breakfast/dinner time in camp, and that his lunch is mostly like fruit gummies and doritos or some garbage which usually is a comfort snack or supplement to lunch.
What we find out is that during the fist costco run, where we enlist the students to help us buy it all quick, someone bought a costco-sized box of fucking candy bars and chocolate and shit. It's obvious he's been eating essentially just that for every meal, probably in his tent or somewhere. We take that box out of the trailer and hide it, because you can't well hike for very long on nothing but processed sugar and corn syrup, and still perform mentally and not make dumb mistakes when you crash your blood sugar and get dehydrated.
So the second project is out in the middle of nowhere, its usually very hot and sunny there, there's no running water or toilets etc, and since you're basically offroading to get into the site, the quickest way to drive out is about 1.5 hrs or a medical airlift. We are concerned, medically, for him. Once the absence of his junk food is noticed, he begins to deteriorate rapidly. Angry outbursts, flushed face, super low energy and can't comprehend or do the tasks at hand. One of the instructors basically has to watch him in the field constantly and we can't give him a partner because he's such a burden. We call his parents because we are so concerned about his health and ability to complete the course. They're fucking astounding people. They brush it all of with shit like "oh, he's always been a picky eater" "he's always been difficult to deal with, talk to etc".
One evening we're cooking food and he's just fucking glaring at the food and at us, clearly visibly upset. We offer him some food; I cook steak/meat most evenings ('cause students can't cook steak for SHIT), the head instructor might cook up a spicy or galic-y fish thing, and the rest of the students cook some sort of pasta/vegetable/rice type carb thing. He just kinda loses it and yells some incoherent shit (did I mention he has a speech impediment that is also undiagnosed? Sounds like he's talking with marbles in his mouth; fuck his parents), and storms off into the desert around the campsite at evening/dusk, kicking rocks and throwing shit. We're pretty shocked but we have to finish cooking also don't want to set him off more so we give him some time and then send someone to go look for him. He's found so that's good and he's calmed down a bit. I eventually go find him when there's little light left and try to get him to come back to camp and explain that he's being a stubborn retard (tactfully) and that he simply must eat some actual real food if he's going to continue the class or else we'll call his parents to arrange pickup and dismiss him from the course for his own safety.
He ends up eating a couple pieces of steak to my surprise and a couple bites of something else and some snacks or something. Better than nothing. We force him to make a sandwich or take something substantial with him for lunch the next day, and to drink more water. His mood generally improves and I think he realizes that he can stomach more foods than he thought he could even if he doesn't particularly like them, and throughout the rest of the course he eats more of my steaks/meat and a couple other things. We still had to keep a close eye on him the rest of the course and couldn't give him a partner because it just wasn't fair to another person who was actually trying. He still gets a technically-passing-but-shit grade that if an employer sees it will probably preclude him from being hired for a good position.
Honestly this entire year's camp was kind of a shitshow, up there with worst classes in our instructors near 40-years of teaching this course. The first day a student got to the managed camp site and got acute altitude sickness coupled with some undisclosed (to us) inner ear/circulatory issue and fainted right into a fucking bench and busted his head open and had to drop that class that day and go to the hospital. The end of the first project this older lady taking the course fucking exploded at me in camp after I refused to drive a university vehicle to a gas station to let her buy wine at near sundown, after I'd had 2 beers and it was explained very clearly, any adult beverages must have been bought by the time we left costco on the first day. One former Army Ranger was difficult to deal with because he had super ADHD and became frustrated easily, and did poorly on the first half of the course (he became by far the best student by the end and I still talk to him). He basically refused to talk to another TA, and his partner for the last assignment almost got into a fight with him and walked off on his own (very dangerous) after some minor disagreement or misunderstanding (about the assignment, not personally). It started hailing and pouring intensely in the last mapping area, the 12 passenger van got stuck, so I piled ~14 people into one Ford Expedition and slid that sonbitch all over the road/fields to get back to the highway. That was actually hilarious and very fun but some students thought they were going to die and made a big stink of it.
I had an S60R back when they first came out. That was a pretty fun car. Got up to 160mph on Highway 75 in North Dallas once in college. I'm sure this speed limiter will be easily overridden with an ECU flash.
Only way Volvo will ever each it's safety target is banning buyers with demerits. Sadly the Volvo faithful see 4 figure speeding tickets as how to recapture lost youth.
I mean most cars have governor's in them already. I bought a fucking mustang and it stops revving at 120ish, just goes to an idle until it slows to like 105. My piece of shit 1994 Buick LeSabre could hit 130 after 10 minutes, it was scary as fuck, the car shook and the suspension felt like it was slammed down, but I could do it. Course the Moose Tongue can get there in like 20-30 seconds, and that's with an automatic, without the shakes.
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1 -Steve_French- 2019-03-04
It sure is going to be hard to kill or seriously injure myself now that I can't drive at 113 mph
1 automatic_cluck 2019-03-04
smh
1 tyuijvhvhcfcjf 2019-03-04
EAT
AMERICAN
DICK
1 automatic_cluck 2019-03-04
neovagina?
1 grep_var_log 2019-03-04
Miles are English, bonglord.
1 tyuijvhvhcfcjf 2019-03-04
EVERYTHING
GOOD
IS
AMERICAN
1 error404brain 2019-03-04
Proof if need be that miles are not american.
1 -Steve_French- 2019-03-04
There's America and then there's garbage, no in between
1 automatic_cluck 2019-03-04
Then American is trashier than trash?
1 -Steve_French- 2019-03-04
Europoor cope
1 automatic_cluck 2019-03-04
smh
1 -Steve_French- 2019-03-04
Are you trying to say that you're from somewhere worse than Europe? 😂😂😂
1 Alkerio 2019-03-04
What did he mean by these? 🤔
1 automatic_cluck 2019-03-04
😂😂😂
Still better than the US
😂😂😂
1 -Steve_French- 2019-03-04
Cope harder lmao
1 automatic_cluck 2019-03-04
no u lmao 😂😂😂
1 -Steve_French- 2019-03-04
Truly pathetic cope from 3rd worldcel
1 automatic_cluck 2019-03-04
😂😂😂
1 Rivea_ 2019-03-04
I've literally never considered going that fast on a public road and I never will but just knowing that my car is limited is kinda fucking lame. What's the point spending money on an engine I'll never make use of if I can't even brag about it at the pub?
1 artbaselinthebezel 2019-03-04
The engine is mostly for acceleration. Going at 112 mph anywhere that isn't like a racetrack (expensive af btw) or a salt flat is retarded.
1 The_Pandemonium 2019-03-04
Cope.
1 NazbolWhiteSharia 2019-03-04
Most normal cars are electronically limited to 130 due to tire ratings. If you went much faster, your tires would burst.
Who even brags about top speed unless they have a supercar? Acceleration is where it’s at.
1 Rivea_ 2019-03-04
Imagine Jim being able to say his £500 1995 90bhp hatchback can go faster than your 2020 400bhp volvo XC90
1 Alkerio 2019-03-04
I remember that episode.
1 minority360 2019-03-04
What about the $10k twin turbo Supra that smokes supercars?
1 plurpnslurp 2019-03-04
Hopefully you’re not talking about 4th gen cause you ain’t gonna find one of those for 10k
1 besttypeofsweater 2019-03-04
My econobox can go 130 😎😎😎
1 detroitvelvetslim 2019-03-04
While you sit in the traffic, Chad bought Y rated tires and put an eBay turbo kit on his Camaro and drives 175 in the shoulder.
He has never gotten a speeding ticket and has cucked CarMax into honoring his bumper-to-bumper warranty for 6 replacements when he blows the engine every 3 months.
1 EternallyMiffed 2019-03-04
Fuck yeah Camaro
1 duckraul2 2019-03-04
I know this guy, let's call him Thomas (because that's his real name), who I've had to deal with for like 2-3 years as I've been an instructor/TA for a couple classes with him, and he brags to me constantly about how he drives whatever shitbox he currently has as fast as possible on the highway.
None of the cars he has ever driven are impressive in any respect, I'm talking like mid 90's buicks, early 00's nissan altima (I think?). But the guy brings up whenever he can how he just drove like 109mph on the freeway and he's so goddamn excited about it. I'm fairly sure he blew his trans on his buick out doing this.
He's like the embodiment of the 'gotta go fast' sonic the hedgehog meme because he's also a 'competitive speed inline skater', and when he's had too much sugar he's been known to try to challenge you to a sprint.
why are people
1 VioletBroregarde 2019-03-04
he sounds fun if you're in the right mood for it tbqh
1 duckraul2 2019-03-04
He's also intensely 'on the spectrum' (though his parents literally deny it and won't agree to get him evaluated), is very awkward, has poor hygiene, and basically just lives to bother people all day.
It's not like people act mean to him either, but he's just so weird to try to do anything with. Like if you're going to lunch with some colleagues and you let him tag along, there's a 99% chance he wont eat anything where you're going because his diet consists of pizza, fast food, and literally candy. When he tags along now he picks up pizza or fast food before getting to a restaurant and eats it there.
Ever wonder what happens when someone with a diet like that is forced to sort of 'rough it' and camp and hike for 3 weeks? It's was a shitshow
1 CthuIhuhoop 2019-03-04
A fellow /r/drama user!
1 detroitvelvetslim 2019-03-04
I hope one day I get to witness this true autist blast by me going 145 in his supercharged Buick he got for $900 fully decked out like Ryan Gosling in "Drive"
1 dramaac 2019-03-04
Can you tell the camping story? That sounds really interesting.
1 duckraul2 2019-03-04
Sure. I'll try to keep it brief and leave out as much geology jargon as I can but if I slip up, apologies. Some things might not make a lot of sense but you'll just have to take me at my word unless you want a longer explanation to answer some of the 'why?' questions you might experience. Geology is a weird field, full of weirdos, with weird rituals, customs, requirements and so forth.
Practically every geoscientist, in pursuit of their undergrad degree (BA/BSc), must take a 'capstone' class in their junior or senior year. This usually takes the form of "Field Camp", a 5/6-unit, 5/6 week early summer course where aspiring geoscientists learn how to take all that they've learned in their classes and apply it 'out in the field', in addition to learning how to construct geologic maps given only a blank topographic map. For my part, being a grad student, I help teach this class each summer. I love doing it, it's extremely rewarding on a personal level for me, and you really can't beat getting paid to camp for 3-6 weeks, despite the work that goes into putting this show on.
Anyway. This guy was somewhat notorious and well known to the head instructor and myself beforehand for being a bad student, very awkward, failed multiple classes etc. What we didn't know was not only what his diet consisted of, but also what his diet didn't consist of. We are extremely accommodating of diets for this course, almost to a fault. We buy all our shit at Costco, and if you're a vegan (the instructor is, with the exception of during this course, he will eat ethical/high quality fish), a vegetarian, a carnivore, muslim, observant jew, whatever, we'll make it work and make sure you get more than enough quality nutrition; I don't eat better than those weeks most of the year. This isn't just to be nice, but also because many of the students we get are poorly-conditioned sheltered suburban kids who have lived their whole lives near sea-level and aren't avid recreational hikers accustomed to hiking off-trail 8-10 hours a day with a 10-30lb pack while performing a mentally demanding task at 6000-9000 feet asl, potentially in the heat, cold, rain, hail, etc.
The first project is a little less than a week from arrival in New Mexico to turning in the maps, and he seems to get through that, physically, ok. We are concerned that he seems to not want to eat any of the cooked foods during breakfast/dinner time in camp, and that his lunch is mostly like fruit gummies and doritos or some garbage which usually is a comfort snack or supplement to lunch.
What we find out is that during the fist costco run, where we enlist the students to help us buy it all quick, someone bought a costco-sized box of fucking candy bars and chocolate and shit. It's obvious he's been eating essentially just that for every meal, probably in his tent or somewhere. We take that box out of the trailer and hide it, because you can't well hike for very long on nothing but processed sugar and corn syrup, and still perform mentally and not make dumb mistakes when you crash your blood sugar and get dehydrated.
So the second project is out in the middle of nowhere, its usually very hot and sunny there, there's no running water or toilets etc, and since you're basically offroading to get into the site, the quickest way to drive out is about 1.5 hrs or a medical airlift. We are concerned, medically, for him. Once the absence of his junk food is noticed, he begins to deteriorate rapidly. Angry outbursts, flushed face, super low energy and can't comprehend or do the tasks at hand. One of the instructors basically has to watch him in the field constantly and we can't give him a partner because he's such a burden. We call his parents because we are so concerned about his health and ability to complete the course. They're fucking astounding people. They brush it all of with shit like "oh, he's always been a picky eater" "he's always been difficult to deal with, talk to etc".
One evening we're cooking food and he's just fucking glaring at the food and at us, clearly visibly upset. We offer him some food; I cook steak/meat most evenings ('cause students can't cook steak for SHIT), the head instructor might cook up a spicy or galic-y fish thing, and the rest of the students cook some sort of pasta/vegetable/rice type carb thing. He just kinda loses it and yells some incoherent shit (did I mention he has a speech impediment that is also undiagnosed? Sounds like he's talking with marbles in his mouth; fuck his parents), and storms off into the desert around the campsite at evening/dusk, kicking rocks and throwing shit. We're pretty shocked but we have to finish cooking also don't want to set him off more so we give him some time and then send someone to go look for him. He's found so that's good and he's calmed down a bit. I eventually go find him when there's little light left and try to get him to come back to camp and explain that he's being a stubborn retard (tactfully) and that he simply must eat some actual real food if he's going to continue the class or else we'll call his parents to arrange pickup and dismiss him from the course for his own safety.
He ends up eating a couple pieces of steak to my surprise and a couple bites of something else and some snacks or something. Better than nothing. We force him to make a sandwich or take something substantial with him for lunch the next day, and to drink more water. His mood generally improves and I think he realizes that he can stomach more foods than he thought he could even if he doesn't particularly like them, and throughout the rest of the course he eats more of my steaks/meat and a couple other things. We still had to keep a close eye on him the rest of the course and couldn't give him a partner because it just wasn't fair to another person who was actually trying. He still gets a technically-passing-but-shit grade that if an employer sees it will probably preclude him from being hired for a good position.
Honestly this entire year's camp was kind of a shitshow, up there with worst classes in our instructors near 40-years of teaching this course. The first day a student got to the managed camp site and got acute altitude sickness coupled with some undisclosed (to us) inner ear/circulatory issue and fainted right into a fucking bench and busted his head open and had to drop that class that day and go to the hospital. The end of the first project this older lady taking the course fucking exploded at me in camp after I refused to drive a university vehicle to a gas station to let her buy wine at near sundown, after I'd had 2 beers and it was explained very clearly, any adult beverages must have been bought by the time we left costco on the first day. One former Army Ranger was difficult to deal with because he had super ADHD and became frustrated easily, and did poorly on the first half of the course (he became by far the best student by the end and I still talk to him). He basically refused to talk to another TA, and his partner for the last assignment almost got into a fight with him and walked off on his own (very dangerous) after some minor disagreement or misunderstanding (about the assignment, not personally). It started hailing and pouring intensely in the last mapping area, the 12 passenger van got stuck, so I piled ~14 people into one Ford Expedition and slid that sonbitch all over the road/fields to get back to the highway. That was actually hilarious and very fun but some students thought they were going to die and made a big stink of it.
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1 dramaac 2019-03-04
Wow thank you for all that. Great story! Lol sounds like he was a pain.
1 EternallyMiffed 2019-03-04
I knew a tard like that once. The concept of "going fast" was so exciting to him he'd offer to "race you" to the end of the block. For, reasons.
1 Futhermucker 2019-03-04
take a spin in west texas sometime
1 Ranilen 2019-03-04
no
1 Futhermucker 2019-03-04
whatever cuck
1 NazbolWhiteSharia 2019-03-04
Or rural northwestern Iowa.
1 IronCraftMan 2019-03-04
Guess I’ll just buy from the other Swedish car manufacturer.
1 mohkohnsepicgun 2019-03-04
This is what happens when you allow communists to buy your car industry.
1 Cat_Waffles 2019-03-04
cuck cars
1 Nebor 2019-03-04
I had an S60R back when they first came out. That was a pretty fun car. Got up to 160mph on Highway 75 in North Dallas once in college. I'm sure this speed limiter will be easily overridden with an ECU flash.
1 jailbot3 2019-03-04
It's a swedish car, so it probably automatically unlocks the doors and starts the engine whenever a Somalian is nearby, so they can steal it easier.
1 I-Feel-Love 2019-03-04
I doubt they consider it theft
1 Anaseb 2019-03-04
Only way Volvo will ever each it's safety target is banning buyers with demerits. Sadly the Volvo faithful see 4 figure speeding tickets as how to recapture lost youth.
1 syfyguy64 2019-03-04
I mean most cars have governor's in them already. I bought a fucking mustang and it stops revving at 120ish, just goes to an idle until it slows to like 105. My piece of shit 1994 Buick LeSabre could hit 130 after 10 minutes, it was scary as fuck, the car shook and the suspension felt like it was slammed down, but I could do it. Course the Moose Tongue can get there in like 20-30 seconds, and that's with an automatic, without the shakes.
1 BussyShillBot 2019-03-04
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