05-02-2020, 08:31 PM
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Nothing in the rules forbids fight club members from miming about fight club. What about members of The Lounge?
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05-02-2020, 10:24 PM
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You think the lounge is your ally? You merely adopted the lounge. I was born in it, molded by it.
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05-02-2020, 11:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Xist
You think the lounge is your ally? You merely adopted the lounge. I was born in it, molded by it.
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05-03-2020, 11:33 AM
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Originally Posted by redpoint5
Officer Parnell didn't get a day of my good time, and for all I know, he's still in prison and I've long since left.
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Interesting perspective.
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05-03-2020, 11:58 AM
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Originally Posted by redpoint5
^See permalink #3 and #4^
The request to cease political chatter not only went unheeded, but further descended into personal attack.
I don't like thread locks and post deletions because I enjoy discussion, but even worse was the fact that people couldn't get a grip on their emotions. Name calling and assuming the intent of others doesn't fall within the category of discussion.
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I didn't know, and I am a little surprised. I stay away from the political chatter threads, and try to never unleash the alter EGO ... (offered tongue-in-cheek, only):
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05-03-2020, 12:28 PM
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I'm pretty sure ecomodding is outside the mainstream. Here's an idea: let's talk about ecomodding!
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Come on...
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05-03-2020, 01:01 PM
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I am not in the mainstream with my modified car, as friends and family often remind me, sometimes with admiration, sometimes with mockery.
I'll confess that I thought of quitting the forum a while ago (a year?) because I could see all the non-modding quasi-political topics getting proposed in the lounge and little else happening on the forum. I didn't because there is nothing on the internet like Ecomodder. We have a rare (maybe unique) and non-conformist community interest in learning, debating, and sharing research, DIY testing, DIY modding, and good ROI.
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05-05-2020, 11:04 AM
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It’s hard to disassociate politics from many of the subjects we discuss here in the forum.
Examples.
Climate change.
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05-05-2020, 11:18 AM
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Originally Posted by California98Civic
I'll confess that I thought of quitting the forum a while ago (a year?) because I could see all the non-modding quasi-political topics getting proposed in the lounge and little else happening on the forum.
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I'm glad you didn't. (But I suspect we've quietly lost a number of members for exactly that reason, and it's why Tim & I agree it's time to clamp down on the threads that tend to bring out uncivility & partisan potshots.)
I have wondered if there's a prototypical "arc" of interest/excitement/abandonment for long-time forum members.
My interest waxes & wanes with how much I drive (which is almost nil lately), but always spikes again when I get a different car (eg. my parade of winter beaters).
I still clearly remember back in the day how astonished I was to see how well pulse & glide worked; it seemed so counter-intuitive to me. |
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05-05-2020, 12:22 PM
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The rate of learning certainly slows down, as I knew hardly anything when I joined the forum. New information for me is so slow that other topics of interest occupy my time. I enjoy the members here more than other forums, so that's where I prefer to discuss things.
I'll probably slow down my participation here as I shift to other forums.
My next vehicle is probably going to be an EV, and I'll have little motivation to ecomod it. At minimum, every vehicle going forward is going to be a plug-in hybrid. The Rav4 Prime looks like a winner. I'd have little interest in modifying it.
Finally, the main vehicle I drive is a company car, so there's no modifying that in any permanent way, and they pay for the fuel.
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