The Off Topic Topic

[lustindarkness]

Yi, I can understand that feeling.

BTW, what car do you drive? And is it a manual transmission?

Automatic Ford Fusion.

Those are good little cars.

BTW, I could park (partially) my automatic transmission FJ on front of your car, and I would feel like a total badass if I did.

[Iormlund]

If you want a car actually built around driving it you get one of these:



And yes, it has manual transmission.

[crazy canuck]

Why? You could probably not operate the clutch and manual gear shift fast enough to max out the acceleration of the car otherwise. A human is just not fast enough.

The driver isnt ever going to be able to max out the acceleration in most circumstances anyway.  Sports cars are about the joy of driving them.  With an automatic transmission many lesser cars will do.

The average owner of a Bugatti has forty other cars, so I am sure they'll have one with a manual transmission somewhere in their garage.

No doubt.  Which is why one wonders they would ever pick this one.

[Zanza]

Why? You could probably not operate the clutch and manual gear shift fast enough to max out the acceleration of the car otherwise. A human is just not fast enough.

The driver isnt ever going to be able to max out the acceleration in most circumstances anyway.  Sports cars are about the joy of driving them.  With an automatic transmission many lesser cars will do.

The average owner of a Bugatti has forty other cars, so I am sure they'll have one with a manual transmission somewhere in their garage.

No doubt.  Which is why one wonders they would ever pick this one.

Probably mainly to show off at the yacht club or at the airfiled where your Gulfstream waits for you.

[Zanza]

I recently drove Mercedes' newest nine speed automatic. It's so smooth that you barely feel it shift. Basically only when you do a kickdown on the Autobahn. I must say that manual transmissions become more and more pointless to me. And I say that as someone who learned to drive manual.

I guess it all becomes moot soon anyway with the further electrification of the powertrain.

[Josquius]

In an hour it will finally be March. Hopefully this spells the end of ski season.

[alfred russel]

In an hour it will finally be March. Hopefully this spells the end of ski season.

a) It doesn't.

b) What do you have against ski season? Have you been skiing? It is fun.

[Barrister]

In an hour it will finally be March. Hopefully this spells the end of ski season.

No wonder you're always so sad and depressed - no one has ever taken you skiing before.

[Josquius]

I tried skiing once in japan. Didn't see the appeal. Setup costs are too large and the appeal too small to try out snowboarding.
In ski season however
1: the train to and from work is always full. Harder to get a seat. Sometimes I get particularly unlucky and there's a school group there.
2: the weekends are very boring.  More so than usual. So many people go skiing so they don't do anything I might enjoy or even just hang out.

[Barrister]

I tried skiing once in japan. Didn't see the appeal. Setup costs are too large and the appeal too small to try out snowboarding.
In ski season however
1: the train to and from work is always full. Harder to get a seat. Sometimes I get particularly unlucky and there's a school group there.
2: the weekends are very boring.  More so than usual. So many people go skiing so they don't do anything I might enjoy or even just hang out.

Set up costs?  You can rent everything you need.

[celedhring]

Eerie Oscar photo.

[Capetan Mihali]

I tried skiing once in japan. Didn't see the appeal. Setup costs are too large and the appeal too small to try out snowboarding.
In ski season however
1: the train to and from work is always full. Harder to get a seat. Sometimes I get particularly unlucky and there's a school group there.
2: the weekends are very boring.  More so than usual. So many people go skiing so they don't do anything I might enjoy or even just hang out.

Set up costs?  You can rent everything you need.

Tyr, my overall outlook on life is about as rosy as yours and CDM's blended then strained through a pulped copy of Being And Time.  That said, I try to keep up the good cheer here on Languish. 

But skiing?  Skiing is a goddamned racket.  And I say this as a man who has lived in the Alps of the US east of the Mississippi.  Rent some overpriced jalopy equipment, pay an unbelievable sum of money for a weird sticker that wraps around a big paper clip attached to your coat, wait on line strapped into your goofy apparatus freezing your balls off until it's finally your turn to sit on a carousel ride being dangled in the air.  Then you're at the top of the "Black Diamond" or whatever, and you careen your way down, hoping desperately you don't become one of the many many many winter-sports enthusiasts upon whom certain orthopedists depend, what with a torn ACL here, a broken tibula there, a dislocated shoulder here, even a sprained thumb over there.

[Eddie Teach]

Tyr, my overall outlook on life is about as rosy as yours and CDM's blended then strained through a pulped copy of Being And Time.  That said, I try to keep up the good cheer here on Languish. 

I thought you had pills that made you happy? 

[Capetan Mihali]

I thought you had pills that made you happy? 

I have a lot of pills that make garbon happy.  But I won't deny that certain tablets and capsules of contentment have passed my lips over the years.

[Admiral Yi]

That explains why Grab On is always so grumpy.  Give him his pills back.