Re: Random Discussion Thread

by Griff88 Fri Sep 26, 2014 12:24 am

Alta wrote:So witnessed a 4 car accident today. Everyone got out okay thankfully.

Were you in the wreck? Those things happen quite unexpectedly.

@vbooy57, I updated my signature. It's all there and set to go. Thanks for the advice Smile

by Alta Fri Sep 26, 2014 12:55 am

Griff88 wrote:
Alta wrote:So witnessed a 4 car accident today. Everyone got out okay thankfully.

Were you in the wreck? Those things happen quite unexpectedly.

@vbooy57, I updated my signature. It's all there and set to go. Thanks for the advice

Nah was just walking to lunch and saw it happen

by SpeedDemon37 Fri Sep 26, 2014 10:37 pm

Happy birthday, JMac!

by JMac525 Fri Sep 26, 2014 11:22 pm

SpeedDemon37 wrote:Happy birthday, JMac!

Thank you, sir. It was a pretty nice one.

by navycook75 Fri Sep 26, 2014 11:51 pm

JMac525 wrote:
SpeedDemon37 wrote:Happy birthday, JMac!
Thank you, sir. It was a pretty nice one.

Quit being old.

by bsoyuz Tue Sep 30, 2014 9:41 am

Since school here is on its final two months,I'm trying to focus everything on it. What means that I'm only going to pop-up here and on the GOMA TS on Saturdays and Sundays.

by navycook75 Wed Oct 01, 2014 1:30 am

bsoyuz wrote:Since school here is on its final two months,I'm trying to focus everything on it. What means that I'm only going to pop-up here and on the GOMA TS on Saturdays and Sundays.

Good, the less BR the better.

Seriously though, it's best to keep your focus on real life, and remember, the answer to number 4 is always D.

by Cardinals5 Fri Oct 03, 2014 2:01 pm

I'm going to be on here sporadically for the next few weeks. I'm moving halfway across the country at the end of October

by **crl** Mon Oct 06, 2014 9:13 pm

Here's today's dumbass:

http://flavorwire.com/480990/pete-pete-was-all-white-people-slimed-author-mathew-klickstein-on-why-ren-and-stimpy-was-better-than-clarissa-and-nickelodeons-diversity-problem

by Alpineopossum Sun Oct 12, 2014 8:44 pm

I assume there's probably a lot of Top Gear fans on this forum, and I was wondering what your thoughts are on the recent controversy. Top Gear was filming in Argentina and one of their cars had the license plate "H982 FKL". This seemingly represents the 1982 Falklands War. For those who don't know, the Falklands War was between Argentina and Britain. The Argentine Army (which was running the country in the early 80s) took over the Falkland Islands, a colony of Britain, expecting to be able to annex them. PM Margaret Thatcher ordered a "task force" to the Falklands which ran the Argentines out.

Anyway there's a lot of talk that the license plate was intentional and that Jeremy Clarkson will loose his job over this. Both Clarkson and the series producers deny that it was on purpose. Do you believe them?

by Milan655 Mon Oct 13, 2014 3:48 pm

Alpineopossum wrote:I assume there's probably a lot of Top Gear fans on this forum, and I was wondering what your thoughts are on the recent controversy. Top Gear was filming in Argentina and one of their cars had the license plate "H982 FKL". This seemingly represents the 1982 Falklands War. For those who don't know, the Falklands War was between Argentina and Britain. The Argentine Army (which was running the country in the early 80s) took over the Falkland Islands, a colony of Britain, expecting to be able to annex them. PM Margaret Thatcher ordered a "task force" to the Falklands which ran the Argentines out.

Anyway there's a lot of talk that the license plate was intentional and that Jeremy Clarkson will loose his job over this. Both Clarkson and the series producers deny that it was on purpose. Do you believe them?

Hammond appeared on BBC Radio 2 assuring that it was entirely coincidental and they had only noticed it after Clarkson received a tweet a good portion into their travels.

In other news, the most incredible man continues to leave me speechless: http://www.espn.co.uk/f1/motorsport/story/179809.html

by SpeedDemon37 Tue Oct 14, 2014 8:43 pm

Happy birthdays to both day500champ1 and Alta, who are now 24 and 91, respectively! Smile

Although I could've sworn that Alta turned 100 last year...

by **crl** Tue Oct 14, 2014 9:37 pm

SpeedDemon37 wrote:Happy birthdays to both day500champ1 and Alta, who are now 24 and 91, respectively!

Although I could've sworn that Alta turned 100 last year...

He's the real-life Benjamin Button.

by Alta Tue Oct 14, 2014 10:13 pm

SpeedDemon37 wrote:
Although I could've sworn that Alta turned 100 last year...

I'm the time lord. Twisted Evil

by Backmarker Thu Oct 16, 2014 7:13 pm

Nevermind taking the plates off the cars... How fast could a driver really go at Daytona?

http://what-if.xkcd.com/116/

by **Syzygy** Mon Oct 20, 2014 1:55 pm

As some of you may know by now, I am currently in Vancouver! I'm attending the annual GSA (Geological Society of America) conference and will be giving a talk tomorrow on the research that I did over the summer detailing some new discoveries in trilobite taphonomy and anatomy discovered with some new techniques basically never used before.

by Lucstar88 Mon Oct 20, 2014 2:02 pm

BurningThunder wrote:As some of you may know by now, I am currently in Vancouver! I'm attending the annual GSA (Geological Society of America) conference and will be giving a talk tomorrow on the research that I did over the summer detailing some new discoveries in trilobite taphonomy and anatomy discovered with some new techniques basically never used before.

Enjoy Vancouver! Better there than Quebec!!

by BWard Mon Oct 20, 2014 2:03 pm

BurningThunder wrote:As some of you may know by now, I am currently in Vancouver! I'm attending the annual GSA (Geological Society of America) conference and will be giving a talk tomorrow on the research that I did over the summer detailing some new discoveries in trilobite taphonomy and anatomy discovered with some new techniques basically never used before.

Best of luck Rutana!

by SpeedDemon37 Mon Oct 20, 2014 6:25 pm

BurningThunder wrote:As some of you may know by now, I am currently in Vancouver! I'm attending the annual GSA (Geological Society of America) conference and will be giving a talk tomorrow on the research that I did over the summer detailing some new discoveries in trilobite taphonomy and anatomy discovered with some new techniques basically never used before.

Very interesting! Enjoy the conference!

by Liam O'Brian Mon Oct 20, 2014 7:13 pm

So the NR2003 reddit page gave a good response to the SRD/NR2003E drama: http://www.reddit.com/r/Nr2003/comments/2jo46d/holy_shit_what_is_wrong_with_this_community/

by RealRacingRoots Tue Oct 21, 2014 5:52 pm

After winning a contest on Twitter (@RealRacingRoots), my Amlin Aguri T-Shirt has finally arrived! Although the real prize is a signed Katherine Legge postcard. Cool

Liam O'Brian wrote:So the NR2003 reddit page gave a good response to the SRD/NR2003E drama: http://www.reddit.com/r/Nr2003/comments/2jo46d/holy_shit_what_is_wrong_with_this_community/

Not as bad as the general drama at GTPlanet. At least the NR community like their namesake game.

by bsoyuz Tue Oct 21, 2014 6:15 pm

RealRacingRoots wrote:After winning a contest on Twitter (@RealRacingRoots), my Amlin Aguri T-Shirt has finally arrived! Although the real prize is a signed Katherine Legge postcard.

hate u forever now. Seriously, congratulations. Very Happy

by SpeedDemon37 Wed Oct 22, 2014 9:26 pm

Happy birthday, Rykia!

by Cardinals5 Fri Oct 24, 2014 5:19 pm

And I finally have internet after a 12-hour drive and a full day of setting up my place

by Rykia Fri Oct 24, 2014 5:53 pm

SpeedDemon37 wrote:Happy birthday, Rykia!

Thanks!

by RealRacingRoots Tue Oct 28, 2014 7:32 pm

I'm hosting a One Hour Endurance race in GT6 after the US GP. If any of you want to join you are more than welcome to.

Race Details are here. http://www.f1rejects.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=7200&p=322901#p321998

by Cardinals5 Tue Oct 28, 2014 10:42 pm

BlueThunderfan wrote:Has anybody seen the crap that's going on with Youtube's comment sections? and I thought it couldn't get any worse...

I used a Chrome extension to replace YouTube comments with Reddit ones. They're marginally better. The racism isn't as overt

by Sparkz47 Wed Oct 29, 2014 6:38 am

Cardinals5 wrote:
BlueThunderfan wrote:Has anybody seen the crap that's going on with Youtube's comment sections? and I thought it couldn't get any worse...

I used a Chrome extension to replace YouTube comments with Reddit ones. They're marginally better. The racism isn't as overt

AlienTube fo' life, yo.

by BWard Fri Oct 31, 2014 11:21 am

I've noticed something wrong. Since last Saturday when the clocks went backwards 1 hour, the time for me on EFR is 12 hours behind my home country, England. Anyone know why?

by bsoyuz Fri Oct 31, 2014 11:50 am

BWardboy88 wrote:I've noticed something wrong. Since last Saturday when the clocks went backwards 1 hour, the time for me on EFR is 12 hours behind my home country, England. Anyone know why?

Check your preferences, forumotion might have changed it automatically, like it happened to me here in BRLand, as now we are on daylight saving time, my timezone changed from São Paulo to Thunder Bay alone.

by Mother of Invention Fri Oct 31, 2014 1:07 pm

New spooky Avatar! Also the truck is Spooky too!

here's the pic

Random Discussion Thread - Page 10 UlTiY7j

by Nascar9fan Fri Oct 31, 2014 11:31 pm

bsoyuz wrote:
BWardboy88 wrote:I've noticed something wrong. Since last Saturday when the clocks went backwards 1 hour, the time for me on EFR is 12 hours behind my home country, England. Anyone know why?

Check your preferences, forumotion might have changed it automatically, like it happened to me here in BRLand, as now we are on daylight saving time, my timezone changed from São Paulo to Thunder Bay alone.

Mine got changed to Istanbul time. Was there a specific reason for this happening (apart from Daylight Savings Time changes)?

by **Ceej** Sat Nov 01, 2014 9:46 am

So this is a thing that I helped out with. Without naming names, I can think of at least one other person here who might enjoy it.

Lengthy and Stuffy Backstory: The Japanese game series Touhou Project, in which girls in frilly dresses shoot at each other with intricate laser patterns, is the latest of my obsessions. Earlier this year, I discovered some Touhou-based animations made with the comic generator Create.swf, commonly nicknamed "Walfas" after the blog that it is hosted on (think of it as being similar to those Bitstrips comics that flood your Facebook feed). I made a few of my own cartoons with it, and then I found that a number of the people who make these animations belonged to a group called the Walfas Station Wagon, a community dedicated to making Create.swf comics and videos.

I joined WSW and jumped on the opportunity to contribute to their Halloween special, which is made up of sketches submitted by various WSW members. I ended up animating 6 sketches; 3 of them being my own ideas, and 3 for people who pitched ideas but didn't have the knowledge or means to make videos out of them. I enjoyed the experience; it was refreshing to get back into animating on a more frequent basis and start relationships with people outside of sim racing.

by bsoyuz Sat Nov 01, 2014 10:14 am

^Now I can't wait for the Christmas one

by **crl** Mon Nov 10, 2014 4:17 pm

Will Buxton is giving up GP2/GP3 commentary after this season to focus on F1 more.

http://willthef1journo.wordpress.com/2014/11/10/a-very-warm-goodbye/

by navycook75 Tue Nov 11, 2014 7:31 am

Happy Veterans Day!

by Kornography Sat Nov 15, 2014 6:58 pm

So Ceej, BurningThunder, and two other friends of mine did a podcast. (WARNING: EXTREMELY NSFW)

http://www.mixcloud.com/TheSociallyDerangedPC/the-socially-deranged-ep0-pilot-fan-fiction-catastrophe/

by Milan655 Mon Nov 17, 2014 4:47 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HFvgc9ahgc

Is this a serious advert? Laughing

Spoiler:

And then a little more lighthearted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jex0GzviWm8

by **crl** Tue Nov 18, 2014 2:04 am

by BWard Wed Nov 26, 2014 6:38 pm

So anyway, I'm bored. Is anyone else bored too? This will help. Laughing

Random Discussion Thread - Page 10 Michael-waltrip-s-ass-fixed-o

by **crl** Wed Nov 26, 2014 10:58 pm

Oh, Beeeeeeeeeennnnnnnnnnnnnn (assuming you haven't already watched this for 10 hours straight with puppy dog eyes):

http://www.dailydot.com/geek/game-of-thrones-teaser-arya-stark-braavos/?fb=dd

by Nascar9fan Thu Nov 27, 2014 1:01 am

25 year old Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes tragically passed away after sustaining a head injury from a bouncer on Tuesday afternoon. The whole of Cricket Australia is deeply shocked & saddened by this exteremly rare tragedy. R.I.P Phillip Hughes

http://www.skynews.com.au/news/top-stories/2014/11/27/cricketer-phillip-hughes-has-died.html

by navycook75 Thu Nov 27, 2014 1:12 am

crl wrote:Oh, Beeeeeeeeeennnnnnnnnnnnnn (assuming you haven't already watched this for 10 hours straight with puppy dog eyes):

http://www.dailydot.com/geek/game-of-thrones-teaser-arya-stark-braavos/?fb=dd

0/10

by BWard Sat Dec 06, 2014 11:36 am

So, yeah this has become a thing.

by BWard Mon Dec 08, 2014 5:17 pm

https://efr1.forumotion.com/t2045-f-w-webb-200#36789

My good god. Surprised

I looked like such an idiot with these posts I made on here 2 years ago.

by Mother of Invention Tue Dec 09, 2014 6:58 pm

TIL: Avatars don't automatically resize

by BWard Tue Dec 16, 2014 4:36 pm

Just thought of a little debate here, not that it matters that much though, but is there anyone else here along with me that enjoys watching IndyCar more than NASCAR these days?

by Alta Tue Dec 16, 2014 6:16 pm

BWardboy88 wrote:Just thought of a little debate here, not that it matters that much though, but is there anyone else here along with me that enjoys watching IndyCar more than NASCAR these days?

Been this way since like 2006 for me.

Although Indycar is better racing wise, I think Nascar just beats it on emotional investment.

by **Ben Atkins** Fri Dec 19, 2014 9:15 pm

100k posts on efr overall

no regrets

by day500champ1 Fri Dec 19, 2014 9:50 pm

What's better then 100K posts?

100,001 having the one whose number is a symmetrical.

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