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Peter Gabriel has such an awesome voice. I never knew Genesis with him as the singer. I got to experience that on youtube. But his solo career I knew quite well back in the day. He was a staple on Montreal radio. Liked him then. Like him even more today with youtube. Cool version indeed!!!
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Its been 30 years man. I still dont know what it is you cant touch. Could somebody PLEASE tell me what you cant touch. The beat? He stole that from Rick James so OBVIOUSLY its a beat you CAN touch. Either way. Its a phoquing cool song to dancer to. Sometimes though, I prefer to get SUPER FREAKY if you know what I mean!!! Ive pumped up the jam many a time in 1990!
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Those that pray and sacrifice babies at the altar of Tesla Motors inc. . Baby llamas all the way to baby humans. As an example: -
Im bald on top. So you beat me there with the hair. I shave my face every damned day. Working in the restaurant industry just makes it that more cleaner for the customers, health inspectors and when the bosses (my partner and I) lead by example and we both are clean shaven everyday, it makes it that much more easier to (not demand) by politely suggest that we prefer that our employees are clean shaven too. We cant force employees to be clean shaven, but we have to enforce a mandatory beard net as that is the law. But we much prefer that employees are clean shaven. Its a cleaner look. But all that is for nothing as we wear medical masks now... Not mandatory, but we prefer to do it that way for our customers. (and for ourselves, I guess) And it gets hot in the phoquing face. And hence why I had to vent yesterday. Nothing really happened. I just got overwhelmed with this whole Covid thing. The masks fogging up my glasses. The heat and sweat on my face while wearing the mask in the kitchen. The constant repeating of ourselves, both the employees to me and me to my employees because we cant hear ourselves communicate to each other due to the muzzling of our voices due to said masks on top of the regular restaurant kitchen noises... It finally blew over and I hd to vent. I vented in my car screaming with every little thing that has bugged me over the last month or two. LOL. Plus I vented with a post on here due to something that has bugged me on here, but then I edited it and posted that I vented and now Im happy. But I bet I got more chest hair than you. Im more macho than you in THAT way at least.
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I have no idea. What my mom told me that day has stayed with me ever since. Sometimes there is wisdom to be learned from old tales that our parents, grand parents, great grandparents, great great grandparents have passed on to us. I love fresh figs. I dont really care for the dry figs. Ill eat them, but I do much prefer the fresh figs. I love birds too, but like your dad, if I had a fig tree or two and birds ate my figs, Id have a conniption or two.
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What it is with these millennials and hipsters? You are killing the razor industry. (What category do you identify with? Hipster or millennial?) (oops, here I am doing this stereotyping thing again) (bad bad on me) (rhetorical question...and me trying to be funny...dont answer) (trying to be funny are the keywords here) (Dont @ me) (I dont even know what "dont @ me" even means) Anyway...cute dogs. @Robert Hall You got cute dogs too. @balthazar I got a similar story to share. When I was about 4 or 5 years old. I found a wounded baby sparrow in the alleyway next to where we were living. I took it with me inside my home and I remember crying to my mom that it was injured. My mom told me that she was afraid its mommy wont accept it anymore because we touched it. We nursed it together for about 3-4 weeks until it was well and we released it. But I never got to see it again.
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It feels good venting. Im glad I got that off my chest. I could be happy again.
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Depending on what answers you want to seek and believe in. Consistency in logic is the reason for the many questions.
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I criticize Cadillac for that. YOU dont critize Mercedes for that. Or BMW for that matter. "Engineered Like No Other" and "The Ultimate Driving Machine" in 2020 seems like a farce and a lie, dont it? You just give me excusatory replies and deflections... Id like to see you write that Mercedes SUCKS for producing the GLA, CLA and A Class. Go ahead...WRITE IT IN BOLD LETTERING WITH SIZE 18 FONT AS IF YOU ARE SCREAMING IT ON TOP OF THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING SO ALL OF US COULD SEE AND HEAR IT!!!
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I see a 4rth gen black Firebird or Trans Am there 4 cars in. If I lived in a more warm than cold months USA, ID pick that up and do a project with. If the car is not too far gone, that is. Same with that Fiero 2 cars in. The 3rd gen Camaro 3 cars in also intrigues me.
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FWD with AWD optional and M-B DEFINITELY tries to pass this turd as something fancy. Bullshyte 4Matic trim making AWD standard making it seem this turd is fancy FWD with AWD optional and M-B DEFINITELY tries to pass this turd as something fancy. Bullshyte 4Matic trim making AWD standard making it seem this turd is fancy And bottom of the barrel turd. FWD with AWD optional and BOTH Mercedes and BMW are hiding the fact that they both wants to sell to former buyers of Chevrolet Cavaliers, Pontiac Vibes (Toyota Matrix) and Saturn Ions.
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Maybe you need to fancy some humour? I dunno. You had a rough day? Or are you an insufferable, bitchy white male yourself? You know... PHOQUE YOU!!! White females being Karens is a phoquing meme... It exists on the phoquing internet...as a phoquing joke... https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/karen/ For a guy that wants to shame me for internet stereotypes...you sure represent a male version of Karen... Way to go to quell THAT stereotype... Go talk to my manager. His number is 1-800-eat-shyt Now go and petition so I could lose my job. Get canceled from my internet persona forum...
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Buick is barely alive. SAAB is dead. Porsche is creating CUVs to chase volume, and peddling those CUVs to the world's LEAST interested in any kind of enthusiast criteria and while their turbo 911 is one of the world's most capable and fun cars around, it means little when Porsche's image now is all about cup holder ergonomics and rich bitch, entitled whiny white female -Karens- (as opposed to their lesser priced VW and Audi counterparts that cater to entitled whiny white bitch female -Karens-) So...not too well as it may.
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Who is talking about SUVs being fun to drive? Acura still sells sedans and the NSX. And are righting the ship that Porsche failed to see. Porsche builds CUVs now too... And all of them are NOT fun to drive.... Their sedan is a bloated, heavy, ugly thing. Not fun to drive either. Its sad when Porsche has to remind folk at the Super Bowl that they build fast exciting supercars with a fake "exciting" heist advert/movie thing... Pathetic Acura/Honda does well enough. Honda also makes motorcycles. Speedbikes. Cruisers. They got the NSX. They got the new TLX. The Civic Si. They got their bases covered. Again, Porsche or Ferrari dont have ANYTHING this Honda does... They dont perform like a sports car. They are impressive. But they dont perform like a PURE sports car. And to be honest, its all that electronic wizz bang technology that makes these SUVs perform which at the same time, is EXACTLY the problem... 1. SUVs are heavy. High center of gravity. #1 and #2 reasons why that kills fun to drive. 2. SUVs have electronic nannies helping speed and performance and preventing bone headed maneuvers. #3 and #4 reasons why that kills fun to drive. 3. Those SUVs also have further electronic nannies helping said top heavy SUVs from rolling over. #5 reason that kills fun to drive... 4. And those SUVs are marketed to and sold to folk that are in the VERY LEAST....car enthusiasts... #6 reason why this has killed REAL fun to drive cars to exist... HONDA is trying very hard to COUNTER that. Not with SUPER BOWL commercials. But with actual product... But you are all over the place... What is it? Does Chevrolet build SUVs like they have for the last 100 years to make profit, or do they make super sports cars and drop everything else? Does Honda STOP producing motorcycles because...they need to focus on outdoing Lamborghinis? Honda has the enthusiast covered in many ways. Ford has the enthusiast covered in many ways. (An off roading Bronco is JUST about to enter service) Like I said...Ford has them covered...
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Maybe you should apply for a CEO job at Cadillac?
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THAT is NOT what the NSX is all about. Its about TECHNOLOGY. Its about fun to drive. It aint about high horsepower. The NSX is a MARVEL to throw around curves and just drive fast or to cruise around in. Not meant to be a barn burner. The original NSX wasnt a barn burner either. The NSX's mission (original and now) was to showcase technology and to focus on driving characteristics rather than brute force. (With reliability at the forefront). The NSX of today succeeds in that regard. People just dont remember the past too good. People, much like yourself, just have one specific idea stuck in their minds and cant understand the whole story. Or choose not too. And perhaps is the reason why the new NSX is failing in the marketplace. Maybe it was a mistake for Honda to go that route rather than a Hellcat kinda way...I dunno know Alls I know, is I dont fault the NSX for what it is. I like it. If Id want brute force, the Hellcat is always there for me...
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You read that wrong...or being very disingenuous on why the Black-Wing V8 program was cut. Slow sales of sedans due to market shift to CUVs. Program would have lost tons of money because the Omega NEEDS BOTH SEDANS AND CUVs to be BUILT to be PROFITABLE. GM is in the business to MAKE money. Money cant be bleeding because OTHER programs like the C8 Corvette and the BOF trucks and SUVs needed to be advanced. (The bankruptcy DID have an effect of those programs and the lack of R&D funds BECAUSE of the bankruptcy tends to AFFECT some other iffy money making projects...such as the Omega.) The Escalade makes TONS of cash for Cadillac. Cadillac NEEDS the Escalade to fund the iffy Omega project. The iffy Omega project CAN make money if ALL the stars are aligned properly. A shift in the market meant that the Omega sedans wouldnt be selling enough units to equally balance the CUV engineering of Omega to push forward iffy Black-wing V8 offerings. THAT and EVs were ALWAYS on the table for Cadillac EVEN WHEN Johan was there. So...it was either making the Escalade the BEST it could be, or cheapening IT out to subsidize an even more cheapening of Omega models and risk flubbing EVs in the process...and...goiing back to square one and ALWAYS doing things shytty JUST to pursue sales or... Scuttling Omega, scuttling the Blackwing V8 and cutting/limiting your losses and doing a PROPER Escalade with PROPER R&D money for the EVs... The article stated that the CT4 and CT5 had Johan's fingerprints all over them. And it shows. Where the CT6 was debuted with a not so standard of the world interior, the CT4 and CT5 are EXACTLY on par with Audi in that the interiors of the CT4 and CT5 are now WORTHY of the moniker "standard of the world". The Escalade WILL BE Cadillac worthy... AND THAT IS WHAT YOU SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN BY THAT ARTICLE... Besides,iIsnt that what you constantly bitch about Cadillac? That its interiors are sub-par. Here, you have a correction made by Cadillac management to do the right thing and you STILL bitch about it..
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Nope. Chevy sponsors its racing program. Corvette engineers work closely with the Racing Team that builds and races the Corvette Racer and the Corvette Racing program DIRECTLY influences the factory Corvette which in turn DIRECTLY influences what Chevrolet and the tuner/hot rod market offers in the aftermarket... Boutique sports car maker for close to 100 years. Chevrolet. Full line vehicles. Honda. Is probably the MOST diverse. Motorcycles. Automobiles. Lawnmowers. Generators. Robotics. Jets. Marine engines. Ferrari is a one trick pony. Not a bad thing. Its just what they do. Sports cars. Chevy, Ford, Honda. Are diverse. Not a bad thing. Its just what they do. Ford Raptor. You know...NOTHING that Ferrari, Porsche or Lamborghini do, can do what a Ford Raptor does. There is NOTHING in their arsenal that competes with a Ford Raptor... Can a Porsche 911 AWD straight from the factory crawl rocks or super speed through rough terrain? NOPE!
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And? Corvette's dont live and die on the Nurburgring. Porsche's do... The Z51 is NOT a track focused sportscar. Its actually a GT car. Corvettes are not exactly targeted, marketed and engineered to compete DIRECTLY with Porsche 911s model for model and Porsche 911s are NOT exactly targeted, marketed and engineered to compete DIRECTLY with Corvettes model for model... Each car has a target market in their HOME market and sell to THAT criteria. The C4 Corvette had 1 trim. Then in 1989 gained another. Then in the mid 1990s had 3. Base, (Z51 option) Grand Sport and ZR1 and then the ZR1 was ended leaving the C4 with 2 models. The C5 only had 2. The BASE (Z51 option)and the Z06. The C6 had 4. The C7 had 4 and the C8 will have 4. The Porsche 911 since the 1990s has had COUNTLESS of models doing countless of jobs. In the 1980s, it had 3 or 4. Problem with YOUR thinking is that Porsche is a BOUTIQUE SPORTS CAR maker. Chevrolet is a FULL LINE automobile and truck maker. It will be an all-in effort. With ALL the big bang, wizz wang tech of the day. BUT...it WILL have compromises. Yes to a price. An AMG-ONE costs 2 point something million to buy. A Vette is NOT an AMG-One or Ford GT. A Vette is a...Vette. You want a multi-million dollar Vette? Customize it, hot rod it, tune it...ON YOUR OWN!!! But it wont be anything related to speed, performance and technology. Dont expect it to have exotic leathers in it. Or extra special paint jobs... Maybe on the Zora, it might have personalized touches built to a personalized specific car.
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Dont know. Dont really car either. Chevrolet, not only offers a WIDE variety of crate motors, 20-25 different versions of their V8 that one could buy JUST by visiting a Chevrolet dealership, or even better, order online but Chevrolet ALLOWS tuners like Lingenfelter and Callaway and engine builders like Edelbrock to further enhance their V8 and allows them to sell it. Chevrolet FULLY licenses and backs this up IMMENSELY. Chevrolet allows suspension modders and computer chip modders to do their thing on their V8s and licenses others to produce classic body shells of their classic cars and Chevrolet licenses these cars to be modernized. All those restomodded 1970 Chevelles and 1969 Camaros and C2/C3 and C5/C6/C7 Corvettes with crate motor LS engines tuned by Lingenfelter ot re-built by Edelbrock with modern suspension set-ups that outperform Ferraris on the dragstrip and track and the like are IN ESSENCE...ALL CHEVROLET SUPERCARS AND HYPERCARS... Chevrolet beats up on the competition STRAIGHT from the factory or GRASS ROOTS...and it dont matter to Chevy or Chevy owners how the Corvette beats up on the competition... But you just dont get it...and never will Im afraid.
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Corvettes ARE just about the fastest things around... When a new Vette comes out, it sets the bar and the others meat and and beat it. The Stingray C8 does that. The Stingray is fastest in its SEGMENT. Not the 911 Turbo, but the base 911. Base for base. The Z06 and Grand Sport targets the 911 Turbo. You have a habit of comparing BASE Corvettes with mind numbing performing, top of the line versions of the Vette's competitors. And when others show you what top of the line Corvettes do...you dismiss and say stuff like How much faster do you want? The BASE C8 does 0-60 in 2.8-2.9 seconds... 1/4 mile in 11.2 seconds @ 122MPH A TICK shy of 200MPH. (195) That is on a BASE Corvette A 911 Turbo S 2019 because 2020 911 Turbo S aint out yet just as the Z06 aint out yet... GRAND SPORT, ZR1 and ZORA to come... 0-60 2.6 seconds 1/4 mile in 10.5 seconds and a tick north of 200MPH (205) You want a hypercar from General Motors? OK...fair enough. The ZORA And the ZORA will be sell in low low numbers. NOT MUCH DIFFERENT THAN HYPERCARS FROM FERRARI, LAMBORGHINI, AMG-ONE... (275 units for a one-time shot...) You act like hypercars from other makers are a dime a dozen and being re-made into new generations every year... The 918 from Porsche was a 2year run. NO REPLACEMENT The LaFerrari was a 3 year run. The FXX-K is RELATED to the LaFERRARI. Only 40 built and that only latest 2 years.Now, there is a NEW one, well, new name...the FXX-K EVO since 2017. In total, 8 years on the SAME platform, just improved DIFFERENT names... Yeah...kinda like Porsche. But hey! THAT is a smart move for Porsche, a BOUTIQUE SPORTS CAR MAKER but a negative move for Chevrolet. A FULL LINE automobile and TRUCK maker for OVER 100 years... PS: You DO you know that CHEVROLET backs and engineers, licenses, ENCOURAGES that HOT RODDING and AFTERMARKET PERFORMANCES of THEIR SPORTS CARS, right? IN ESSENCE, MAKING ALL THOSE HOMEMADE FAST CORVETTES and CAMAROS AND BEL AIRS/IMPALAS and CHEVELLES on the track, dragstrip, car shows, GM AND CHEVROLET HYPERCARS!!!
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Yeah...now the GT2 does that. The ZL1 1LE embarassed Porsche so Porsche engineered another to beat the Camaro. In any case, Chevrolet has no business (according to you) to produce highly specialized and fast track cars... especially being faster than German and European sports cars. And yet, Chevrolet and America did just that. Yup... I wonder why literally nobody swaps German V8s into their dream cars...especially AMG V8s into Mercedes products? and...
