Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

[Secondistic]

Would that be a 1963 Pontiac Tempest with Posi-traction and metallic mint green paint?

Did it happen to have Michelin Model XGV tires, size 75-R-14?

 

[Marinevet1]

Not mine, but will pass it on........

THIS IS WORTH READING AND DEEPLY PONDERED
Beautifully written - author unknown


"Men, like nations, think they're eternal. What man in his 20s or 30s doesn't believe, at least subconsciously, that he'll live forever? In the springtime of youth, an endless summer beckons. As you pass 70, it's harder to hide from reality.... as you lose friends and relatives.

Nations also have seasons: Imagine a Roman of the 2nd century contemplating an empire that stretched from Britain to the Near East, thinking: This will endure forever.... Forever was about 500 years, give or take.... not bad but gone!!

France was pivotal in the 17th and 18th centuries; now the land of Charles Martel is on its way to becoming part of the Muslim ummah.

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the sun never set on the British empire; now Albion exists in perpetual twilight. Its 96-year-old sovereign is a fitting symbol for a nation in terminal decline.

In the 1980s, Japan seemed poised to buy the world. Business schools taught Japanese management techniques. Today, its birth rate is so low and its population aging so rapidly that an industry has sprung up to remove the remains of elderly Japanese who die alone.

I was born in 1945, almost at the midpoint of the 20th century - the American century. America's prestige and influence were never greater. Thanks to the 'Greatest Generation,' we won a World War fought throughout most of Europe, Asia, and the Pacific. We reduced Germany to rubble and put the rising sun to bed It set the stage for almost half a century of unprecedented prosperity.

We stopped the spread of communism in Europe and Asia and fought international terrorism. We rebuilt our enemies and lavished foreign aid on much of the world. We built skyscrapers and rockets to the moon. We conquered Polio and now COVID. We explored the mysteries of the Universe and the wonders of DNA..the blueprint of life.

But where is the glory that once was Rome? America has moved from a relatively free economy to socialism - which has worked so well NOWHERE in the world.

We've gone from a republican government guided by a constitution to a regime of revolving elites. We have less freedom with each passing year. Like a signpost to the coming reign of terror, the cancel culture is everywhere. We've traded the American Revolution for the Cultural Revolution.

The pathetic creature in the White House is an empty vessel filled by his handlers. At the G-7 Summit, 'Dr. Jill' had to lead him like a child. In 1961, when we were young and vigorous, our leader was too. Now a feeble nation is technically led by the oldest man to ever serve in the presidency.

We can't defend our borders, our history (including monuments to past greatness) or our streets. Our cities have become anarchist playgrounds. We are a nation of dependents, mendicants, and misplaced charity. Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.

The president of the United States can't even quote the beginning of the Declaration of Independence ('You know - The Thing') correctly. Ivy League graduates routinely fail history tests that 5th graders could pass a generation ago. Crime rates soar and we blame the 2nd. Amendment and slash police budgets.

Our culture is certifiably insane. Men who think they're women. People who fight racism by seeking to convince members of one race that they're inherently evil, and others that they are perpetual victims. A psychiatrist lecturing at Yale said she fantasizes about 'unloading a revolver into the head of any white person.'

We slaughter the unborn in the name of freedom, while our birth rate dips lower year by year. Our national debt is so high that we can no longer even pretend that we will repay it one day. It's a $30-trillion monument to our improvidence and refusal to confront reality. Our 'entertainment' is sadistic, nihilistic, and as enduring as a candy bar wrapper thrown in the trash. Our music is noise that spans the spectrum from annoying to repulsive.

Patriotism is called an insurrection, treason celebrated, and perversion sanctified. A man in blue gets less respect than a man in a dress. We're asking soldiers to fight for a nation our leaders no longer believe in.

How meekly most of us submitted to Fauci-ism (the regime of face masks, lockdowns, and hand sanitizers) shows the impending death of the American spirit.

In America, every one of these symptoms is pronounced, indicating an advanced stage of the disease. Even if the cause seems hopeless, do we not have an obligation to those who sacrificed so much to give us what we had? I'm surrounded by ghosts urging me on: the Union soldiers who held Cemetery Ridge at Gettysburg, the battered bastards of Bastogne, those who served in the cold hell of Korea, the guys who went to the jungles of Southeast Asia and came home to be reviled or neglected.

This is the nation that took in my immigrant grandparents, whose uniform my father and most of my uncles wore in the Second World War. I don't want to imagine a world without America, even though it becomes increasing likely.

During Britain's darkest hour, when its professional army was trapped at Dunkirk and a German invasion seemed imminent, Churchill reminded his countrymen, 'Nations that go down fighting rise again, and those that surrender tamely are finished.'

The same might be said of causes. If we let America slip through our fingers, if we lose without a fight, what will posterity say of us?

While the prognosis is far from good. Only God knows if America's day in the sun is over."

Read it and weep, forward or erase it! I read it and am now forwarding it to you, believing that we in America are at the moment in time to stand up, or let it fall! We now may soon be at the next step in our country's future. I believe that it might be closer than we think.

 

[SpookM14]

Wtf is this

Looks like a clingy desperate ex-girlfriend to me....

 

[kl3309]

Cuttlefish, maybe?

Looks like. Didn't know they buried themselves upside-down in the sand though.

 

[Mendy300wm]

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180 samurai and 3 seals on overwatch

 

[TXAZ]

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2 Seals & 15 Soviets vs ~ 3000 seems fair

 

[ACK]

Looks like. Didn't know they buried themselves upside-down in the sand though.

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[Boatninja]

How did the Boatninja not know this?

I have always considered myself a mere Boat Ninja. I have been told for years by many of my former deckhands and mates that I was the Boat Sensei, but there never seemed to be anyone of higher rank to tell me so.
Also the Ninja thing worked out well for my T-shirts after the other word beginning with N became very uncool.

 

[Boatninja]

How did the Boatninja not know thi

Shows you don’t know much about top fuel engines. They have run as high as 11,000hp peak and start around 7000.

heres a random almost 10 year old dyno run from Schumacher

View attachment 8294492it’s for a dragster, but still top fuel and possible.

I don't really know much about top fuel engines, but being able to utilize that much HP in a 16 foot 700 lb hydroplane even going in a straight line, I don't care how far gives me doubt. And that is about all I have to say the whole damn thing, because my give-a-shitter is gave out about whatever it is you have to say.

 

[Boatninja]

Doing SAR cases we called those guys job security

I can't even imagine, just from the stories I've heard from CG vet's in my family and those that have worked for me....

 

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[168BTHPM]

These people have tolio.

 

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[Threadcutter308]

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I remember those ads. Seven bucks was a King's ransome to a little kid like me back then.

Hell, I felt flush if I had a quarter in my pocket. If I had 4 or 5 quarters in my pocket, it was because I was headed to Pay n Save to buy a B17 model and a tube of glue.

 

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[Threadcutter308]

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[Fx51LP308]

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HEY! TEETH OFF THAT TRIGGER!

 

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[TripleBull]

 

[91Eunozs]

No stone to throw…. Catch myself doing that with books and magazines all the time! LoL

Rules:

Motivational to me…. Well, motivation to sleep in the guest room on the other side of the house anyway! They got most of the construction debris cleared away from the side of Garage Mahal. Stucco going up later today. They can’t do the rock facing(s) until the doors are in though. Maybe in another week or so?

We won’t remove/move that fence and gates until right before the concrete to extend the parking pad to the new garage is ready to be poured.

Then the septic tie-in, paint and tile work, finish work and plumbing, landscaping, etc.

Fucking never-ending saga. At least they fixed the fucked up framing work before hiding it all with drywall. LoL

 

[Beefmanne]

These people have tolio.

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Thanks cousin Dad.

 

[MarshallDodge]

 

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[supercorndogs]

I pay extra for teeth

"Extra teeth" meaning closer to a normal amount of teeth, or you after women with like three rows of teeth and shit now?

 

[supercorndogs]

Some of you may have seen this, some of it may be rubbish, and I know it’s old. In any case I don’t have the experience to know, but even if part of it’s correct it’s impressive.

Enjoy:

* One Top Fuel dragster 500 cubic-inch Hemi engine makes more horsepower than the first 4 rows at the Daytona 500.

* Under full throttle, a dragster engine consumes 11.2 gallons of nitro methane per second; a fully loaded 747 consumes jet fuel at the same rate with 25% less energy being produced.

* A stock Dodge Hemi V8 engine cannot produce enough power to merely drive the dragster’s supercharger.

* With 3000 CFM of air being rammed in by the supercharger on overdrive, the fuel mixture is compressed into a near-solid form before ignition. Cylinders run on the verge of hydraulic lock at full throttle.

* At the stoichiometric 1.7:1 air/fuel mixture for nitro methane the flame front temperature measures 7050 degrees F.

* Nitro methane burns yellow. The spectacular white flame seen above the stacks at night is raw burning hydrogen, dissociated from atmospheric water vapor by the searing exhaust gases.

* Dual magnetos supply 44 amps to each spark plug. This is the output of an arc welder in each cylinder.

* Spark plug electrodes are totally consumed during a pass. After 1/2 way, the engine is dieseling from compression plus the glow of exhaust valves at 1400 degrees F. The engine can only be shut down by cutting the fuel flow.

* If spark momentarily fails early in the run, unburned nitro builds up in the affected cylinders and then explodes with sufficient force to blow cylinder heads off the block in pieces or split the block in half.

* Dragsters reach over 300 MPH before you have completed reading this sentence.

* In order to exceed 300 MPH in 4.5 seconds, dragsters must accelerate an average of over 4 G’s. In order to reach 200 MPH well before half-track, the launch acceleration approaches 8 G’s.

* Top Fuel engines turn approximately 540 revolutions from light to light!

* Including the burnout, the engine must only survive 900 revolutions under load.

* The redline is actually quite high at 9500 RPM.

* THE BOTTOM LINE: Assuming all the equipment is paid off, the crew worked for free, & for once, NOTHING BLOWS UP, each run costs an estimated $1,000 per second.

The current Top Fuel dragster elapsed time record is 4.441 seconds for the quarter-mile (10/05/03, Tony Schumacher). The top speed record is 333.00 MPH (533 km/h) as measured over the last 66′ of the run (09/28/03, Doug Kalitta).

Putting this all into perspective:

Lets say the you are driving the average $140,000 Lingenfelter twin-turbo powered Corvette Z06.

Over a mile up the road, a Top Fuel dragster is staged & ready to launch down a quarter-mile strip as you pass by it. You have the advantage of a flying start. You run the ‘Vette hard up through the gears and blast across the starting line & pass the dragster at an honest 200 MPH. Just as you pass the Top Fuel Dragster the ‘tree’ goes green for both of you.

The dragster launches & starts after you. You keep your foot down hard, but you hear an incredibly brutal whine that sears your eardrums & within 3 seconds the dragster catches & passes you. He beats you to the finish line, a quarter-mile away from where you just passed him. Think about it – from a standing start, the dragster had spotted you 200 MPH & not only caught, but nearly blasted you off the road when he passed you within a mere 1320 foot long race!

Crazy how things change. Nobody is going to be happy in the high 4s anymore. We watched the first sub 4 second runs for funny car and top fuel at Bandimere around 2012. That a mile or so above sea level.

 

[supercorndogs]

lol, I love watching people getting kicked for doing dumb shit around horses

My grandpa probably would have went and kicked the guy after the horse did. He didn't have any sympathy or regard for people who trained horses like that. Want a flinchy jumpy scared horse that doesn't trust people. Thats how you make one.

 

[DFOOSKING]

Crazy how things change. Nobody is going to be happy in the high 4s anymore. We watched the first sub 4 second runs for funny car and top fuel at Bandimere around 2012. That a mile or so above sea level.

I read this all and think....

Look at the level of dedication involved by every person who puts that car down the track. The work....the money....the time.

Imagine that level of effort put towards something like curing cancer or going to Mars.

Not saying racing for records/titles is a poor substitute. But if that level of effort clearly exists (elsewhere)....why the fuck haven't we already succeeded on those fronts.

 

[MadDuner]

I read this all and think....

Look at the level of dedication involved by every person who puts that car down the track. The work....the money....the time.

Imagine that level of effort put towards something like curing cancer or going to Mars.

Not saying racing for records/titles is a poor substitute. But if that level of effort clearly exists (elsewhere)....why the fuck haven't we already succeeded on those fronts.

Big Pharma does not want cancer cured any more than they want the common cold cured.

 

[Threadcutter308]

@Dirty D

Merry Christmas Snookums

 

[supercorndogs]

I read this all and think....

Look at the level of dedication involved by every person who puts that car down the track. The work....the money....the time.

Imagine that level of effort put towards something like curing cancer or going to Mars.

Not saying racing for records/titles is a poor substitute. But if that level of effort clearly exists (elsewhere)....why the fuck haven't we already succeeded on those fronts.

Thats a level of dedication you can only get when people are free to do what they love.

 

[akmike47]

I don't really know much about top fuel engines, but being able to utilize that much HP in a 16 foot 700 lb hydroplane even going in a straight line, I don't care how far gives me doubt. And that is about all I have to say the whole damn thing, because my give-a-shitter is gave out about whatever it is you have to say.

Well, you still argue your side and get a little butt hurt over someone telling you your thoughts are wrong….definitely shows you care, if not you would just move on. Also, it’s pretty funny you can’t be told you’re wrong in without you getting an attitude about it.

this is why so many people are stupid. You try to teach them and they refuse to change their beliefs even though they are undeniably and able to be proved wrong.

Stay ignorant

 

[supercorndogs]

Go to h1 unlimited boat racing. Those boats make around 5000hp. The boat in question proabaly wasn't even 1000.

 

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So, the guy in the back seat is sitting back drinking a beer while awaiting rescue and the guy in the front is opening another beer, while the woman uses her drink cup in a futile attempt to bail and the third guy is worried because he didn’t make sure that there were enough life preservers onboard before departure…

 

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Did Ralphie find those in the parking lot of a Walmart?