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So what John wants from everyone else who is getting him a present this year is gift cards to gas stations as he will need to be hitting one every quarter mile.
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Having just watched The Grand Tour E2 I can understand that requirements. Bloody noisy sod!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Nice.. what are you building?
Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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I'm actually appending to an existing build - 2012 Mustang with a carbureted 427 Windsor. 
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Jealous.. I'd quite fancy a Mustang myself, they just started putting the steering on the correct side over here recently
The standard model is pretty reasonably priced too (considering the price of other comparable cars) but running a 5L V8 in the UK is an expensive job. The 2.3L EcoBoost just isn't the same experience.. 
Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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I heard they're dropping the V6 from the lineup in 2018... When my car was a V6, I was getting 31-34mpg on the freeway if I babied it.
Now, it gets 6mpg - if I baby it.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: I was getting 31-34mpg on the freeway if I babied it.
Sounds like my motorhome
John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: 6mpg
I feel like crying.. 
Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Just out of curiosity, how much is gas where you live? Here in Italy it's about 6$ per gallon. My car makes 38 - 42 mpg depending mostly on outside temperature, but I mounted a GPL tank. It consumes about 1.5 times as much but it costs 1/3 of gasoline at about 2$ per gallon, with an average of 25 mpg.
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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$2.19 I think (I use 93 octane in the car). I don't really pay much attention to the price because, well, gas...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Our gas is usually 95 octanes, but woah if it's cheap there. Basically it costs as much as GPL here, which is the most economic fuel - but has also a poor power. I wouldn't use it for anything over 1.2L as it becomes less and less efficient the higher the compression volume of the engine.
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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A supercharger for his Mustang.
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Here's me thinking it was some quad fan cooling system for his laptop.
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Once everything is said and done, the exhaust from JSOP's Mustang will melt a laptop.
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Something to make noise with at night if you don't have a woman . . .
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It's sex.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I thought your wife was getting you underwear and clothes? 
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Honestly? I thought she was too.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Try not to be too upset that she isn't.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Only 'cause she wants to save money by drying her hair in the wind.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Friday about noon, I got a message from the wife that 2 of my 16 year old son's friends had frantically texted her that he was saying that he was going to run away and kill himself that night. (His girlfriend of over a year had ended the relationship Thursday at lunch.) I immediately contacted the school and they got him into the counselor's office.
We went from there to a local mental health facility and he was admitted. He is still there and angry with his parents. He may be released any time in the next few days. We haven't met with the officials yet to see what treatment plan they recommend.
He has been battling this for 2 years now with several semi-violent outbursts. He has hit the wall and shoved me but no punches at people so far.
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If that may help you, I had these bursts too at that age. Hormones and teenage society (apes with too many dangerous things at hand) mixed together go kaboom.
Make sure it is really an illness to be treated and not something transient or related to some very specific situation he's living in.
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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No, we found a suicide note last year so we know this is an ongoing thing. We had him go to counseling then and he is on medication.
My parenting skills or lack thereof have played a part in this as well.
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Don't start blaming yourself, I too had self-destructing and suicidal tendencies at that age and while my parents had for sure some lackings, they are good parents in the whole picture (always had them and have them at my back when serious things are going on). I'm 90% sure it's more related to the age than to psychiatrical problem (different from psychological: the psychiatric problems need meds because are physiological, psychological problems need conseuling).
Double and triple check if and to what extent medications are necessary if you can because medications have long lasting effect - psychological dependency is one of them. It ingrains the thought that a person is ill, and that hits self-esteem thus furhtering any autodestructive tendency; also it puts the idea that a medication is the solution to everything - I have a 26 years old friend grew up this way and now she takes a dozen pill every day, adding hypocondria to the problems she has and never solving hers (daddy issues, long story short her father suffered a seizure that impaired his cognition and emotional centres, he left the family and isn't properly stable. It happened when she was 4 so she grew up with a distressed mother and basically no father).
If I'm allowed I would give you one advice: don't blame yourself to the point of being subservient to every whim or there is the risk of aggravating any damage by unintentionally spoiling the boy.
I speak for direct experience and I'm baring very sensitive parts of my past, I'm not speaking just to hear the sound of my voice.
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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