seedsbelize2

We got the Jehovah's witnesses once. I told them I was a Buddhist, and was happy to talk with them about it. Never came back.

seedsbelize2

I really don't get the race car thing. Me and Velo Vol

big john

We get them here from time to time but it's mostly people trying to sell something for the homeowner.I tell them I rent and that usually makes them leave but sometimes they want the owner's number. Ballsy.
The ones that come to ask for donations while I am eating can go pound sand.

BillyD

I suppose. Whatever. If *I* were the jokee I'm pretty sure I'd laugh along with him, because at its root it's funny. But that's just me.

Mojo31

Back in my yute, I had some sort of missionaries (white shirts, skinny black tie types) stop by the house one Saturday morning. I had thrown a St. Patrick's day party the night before and had the remains of a keg of green beer to finish off. I told them they could come in and preach, but they had to help me finish off the keg.

They left.

Bah Humbug

If I knew they were coming I'd draw a pentagram on my chest in ketchup and open the praising my dark lord for sending me a new sacrifice.

datlas 

What about the Mormons??

Mojo31

I'm a big fan of certain types of racing, particularly F1 and IMSA sports car classes.

I'm a bigger fan of driving on the track. Once you get a taste of driving flat out without law enforcement concerns or getting sued for hitting someone, it is addicting. It is very challenging to stay on the racing line on a track lap after lap. It's fun.

Even more fun if you don't have to pay for it.

big john

Bah Humbug

So that's a fairly cheap brand.

Tomatoes and pineapples are separate kinds of challenging. Tomatoes require a sharp but toothy edge to cut the skin without crushing the flesh but also not skid along the skin. Pineapples, by contrast, have very tough skin that chews up sharp edges pretty quickly. That'll take frequent sharpening to handle both well.

datlas 

Eric F 

That'll buff out.

big john

They can look good on the outside but underneath...

Mojo31

Patina, baby. It's all the rage these days.

t2p

I recall the Vega

a neighbor owned a large service station / body shop - worked there a number of years (on and off) teen age years

Vega rusted quickly - and they burned oil (also quickly lol)

terrible car ... it was a dead heat between the Vega ... Pinto ... and later the Aspen/Volare for the worst car of the decade ... (or all time)

but one guy back in the day - from datlas neck-of-the-woods (Malvern PA) put the Vega on the map in a different way ... pic attached

genejockey 

In vintage watch collecting, "patina" is one of those things that collectors of Swiss watches seem to go for. "Look at that lovely patina!" they'll coo about a dial anyone else would say is shot.

Collectors of American watches prefer readable dials, and in fact BITD, having your dial redone when your watch was in for service was a big enough business that there were a number of businesses that did that, with the proper dies for the printing. I think one of them only recently closed, after many decades in business. Better than that, though, are NOS dials, which appear on Ebay every so often. I've replaced a couple with those, and it makes the watch look great. But even a careful washing of the dial is usually a big improvement. But, for collectors of Omegas, Rolexes (Roleces?) etc. that's streng verboten.

t2p

at one time we would attend one or two open wheel ('Indy') car races a year - and one year / late 80's I saw my one-and-only F1 race ... awesome .... (the circuit/track not so much - but still great) ... so I got to see Ayrton Senna race and in person

genejockey 

My sister had '71 Pinto. It was really damn basic, but it got you from place to place, though not very quickly. She lived in Southern PA and then Northern Virginia, so I don't think it dissolved as quickly as they might have in more Northern climes.

Mojo31

RCAOTD

genejockey 

Porsche-Adjacent AOTD?

Mojo31

Kissing cousins.

bampilot06

Today the heat wore me out. Started super strong and out of no where I started failing. Average power the first 80 miles was 210, after that it dropped pretty dramatically til 168. Also couldn’t seem to get comfortable.

At a stop light I unclipped and my leg went into an instant cramp mode, the whole leg from by buttock to my ankle.

Mojo31

Crazy crashiness in the girls' race today.

bampilot06

I picked a random one to follow. She didn’t crash.

seedsbelize2

I see them in the streets very rarely. One or two 17 year old elders