Peter Vieira
Wow, you're reading this? Thanks! If you're into RC cars and I seem vaguely familiar, it's because I spent over 25 years writing and editing RC car news, reviews, and tech articles in print and online. What else, what else ... I have a degree in Film Studies (useless), most of a degree in Graphic Design (useful), and I'm married to a wonderful woman with horrible taste in men. Thanks to her, we have a terrific daughter who just earned her Journalism degree and is way, waaay more together that I was at her age. Or right now.
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For a second there, I thought this was The Morning Dump.
So many questions, but I’m not sure I want to ask them.
> But if I may leave you with a digestif
Well done.
Someone with Slack admin rights needs to change Torch’s job title in slack to Poop Lord and see how long it takes him to notice
Yep, someone tried to put fuel into my Vanagon oil fill location. If I remember correctly, I caught them very shortly after they tried, so some gas got in there, so I immediately did an oil change. Yes it happens.
Were those results for the last day or week?
If it’s a month, I’m shocked at the small number (still kinda sad if it’s a week).
You want some good poop ???? stories find someone who tried to lose weight by using Olestra, which can be used with Polestar but anyone who did has a I pooped my pants story. Hell it makes anal leakage a win.
Surprised you didn’t go simple with a picture of Jason maybe in old fashioned livery of a gas station with a word bubble saying “I’m pooped”
To be fair, diesel, poop, what’s the difference?
Don’t kill me Mercedes.
No bangers, all mash.
Peter, the 710 cap is a very, very old sexist blonde joke about oil changes (of course, there’s no reason why the blonde couldn’t be a dude). I’m sure you can imagine how it went. I used to have a blipshift shirt with an upside down oil cap in reference to that gag.
I heard that joke a loooong time ago but I don’t remember it specifically being a blonde joke, just a dumb person joke.
That’s basically what a blonde joke is. It’s a joke so old that whatever your long time ago was, double it. It goes back to the days when casual racism was ok and career choices for women were nurse, secretary, or pregnant.
Fair. Anything you’d hear from Archie Bunker.
Also here’s where you can buy one.
https://kalecoauto.com/product/710-cap/
Thank you. Rabbit wormhole engaged.
Did you know that a gal is a blonde, a guy is a blond?
Wait, is that not how Vanagon is pronounced?
This also confused me. How else would someone pronounce it?
V-an-a-gon? Va-nag-on? Van-a-gon seems the only natural and intended way?
I’m guessing it’s the heavy emphasis on the GON part rather than “van-again”
I always thought again but since it ties in and rhymes with dragon I could be convinced. Maybe a nice custom Van Dragon?
Surely the accent is on the first syllable, just as it is for hexagon and octagon.
Gone vs gun – Van-a-gone, van-a-gun. Gun sounds like good, not uh.
Yeah, also confused. I’ve only ever heard it pronounced one way.
My vote is poop cubes.
I bet Torch has some epic poop stories.
Lavishly epic!
Good to see you! (I’m not really here, non gratis, non-member) I was expecting a comment from you on the aero-article.
Was too busy at work that day to comment much, but I will say that anyone trying to apply the findings to a passenger car is greatly overstating that effect, and the effect is only found in a very narrow speed range. Further, animals like whales and birds have some form of this effect to reduce drag.
Yep, yep, and yep. A really narrow parameter lab experiment with novel mag-lev support on an aero-optimized slug that the media sensationalized into “revolutionary”. But! might have actual real benefit in plenum surfacing.
Epic stories about poop? Or regular stories about epic poop?
I can’t speak for Torch, but I have plenty of both.
Epic stories about irregular poop.
Well now we all want to see this!
Probably a regularly available one like Frunk and White, the AP (Automotive Products) style guide or the (Chrysler) New York(er) Times style guide.
I saw what you did there.
A comprehensive style good that contains many a doo-doo.
What’s #2 on that list?
Well, poop!