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[too tall]

Guys, lets please stop with the COVID chat on here. I could see it was spiraling out of control, so cleaned up a bit. No point in flaring temperaments; especially this time of year.

I thought this thread was about news. Oh, I guess the censorship continues . I didn't feel there were any flared temperaments. Not allowed to even have a real conversation on here?
Question, where do those of us who are trying to inform our fellow citizens about dangers to their health go to talk or provide others with information that is for their benefit?
Chat rooms or websites that allow us to co-mingle is the only way any of the real information is getting out to those of us who have been lied to and are still believing it. What is it that scares you the most? Did I say anything derogatory or demeaning to or about anyone on here? Please go back and read the posts and let me know where the line is so that I don't accidentally cross it again. I'm tired of being told not to talk about this anymore. None of the info I passed on or spoke about is conspiracy theory . All of the things I spoke about were based on very hard to find facts released by different government health care systems around the world. People need to be told the truth.
Why remove the link to the Canadian covid care alliance? That website is saving lives and preventing a lot of personal injury to most who read it.
Is reality too serious to talk about here?

 

[stevebradford]

I also appreciate open discussion and debate but the problems arise when people get upset that others don’t agree with opinions and can’t accept people have different views.

 

[seapotato]

Well, trouble is at this point, for me anyways, I've already had 3 shots.

So even if I regretted getting them ( and I really don't ) it's not like I can put that genie back in the bottle.

Which means for me, there's no point in worrying about it.

I'm better off worrying that all the grinding dust and fumes I've inhaled over the past few decades, or the ocean of booze I've drank or the fact that in the tens of thousands of years of humans being around, it's only the past hundred that there's been plastics and Mcdonalds, and something on that list is probably what's going to kill me.




Also, my perspective, there was a guy at work, who quit rather than get the shot, fine, his choice etc.

He was so deep into the conspiracies, you had to be careful what you said around him, and after a year of that I was so sick of it I'm done.

Every thing he sent me ended up getting political and being more to do with people angry at a government telling them to take something, rather than what the something actually was. Couple that with the extreme political lie machines that generate outrage for ratings it all becomes too much for me.




So yeah I probably didn't respond as politely as I could have. Cuz I'm so good at being measured and polite

 

[GTSSportCoupe]

I thought this thread was about news. Oh, I guess the censorship continues . I didn't feel there were any flared temperaments. Not allowed to even have a real conversation on here?
Question, where do those of us who are trying to inform our fellow citizens about dangers to their health go to talk or provide others with information that is for their benefit?
Chat rooms or websites that allow us to co-mingle is the only way any of the real information is getting out to those of us who have been lied to and are still believing it. What is it that scares you the most? Did I say anything derogatory or demeaning to or about anyone on here? Please go back and read the posts and let me know where the line is so that I don't accidentally cross it again. I'm tired of being told not to talk about this anymore. None of the info I passed on or spoke about is conspiracy theory . All of the things I spoke about were based on very hard to find facts released by different government health care systems around the world. People need to be told the truth.
Why remove the link to the Canadian covid care alliance? That website is saving lives and preventing a lot of personal injury to most who read it.
Is reality too serious to talk about here?

PM'ed.

Basically I draw the line when it gets too disrespectful and personal. I don't point the finger at any single person, which is why I cleaned up all the posts on the topic. (even my own).

If a number of you think I'm out of line, I can put it all back how it was...

 

[seapotato]

PM'ed.

Basically I draw the line when it gets too disrespectful and personal. I don't point the finger at any single person, which is why I cleaned up all the posts on the topic. (even my own).

If a number of you think I'm out of line, I can put it all back how it was...

No, it's fine by me.

Written words always seem to come across harsher than intended.

I was probably being a dick, but then I had a wife who was kinda freaked out and dealing with a coworker who was bawling and apologetic for ruining everyone's xmas. So to hear it all get called bs, well.

s*** like that is why it gets to be a touchy subject.

Her test was negative, but the family in question all have it.

 

[seapotato]

And in less contentious news, people still can't drive in snow around here.

Ladysmith somewhere around Davis road I think?

 

[bikersmurf]

Do I count? I did a pirouette in a 9500 lb rig tonight. I was heading up someone’s driveway, slowed up slightly to determine which fork to take, and lost forward movement up the small slope. Keep in mind I was told their driveway wasn’t bad, just a couple spots that were a bit icy.

Now I was at a dead stop… or so I thought. I started to slide down the hill backwards in the dark with a vehicle that has zero view out the back. For a brief moment I thought, this will be a challenge to steer down the hill sliding… that thought quickly passed once I realized I couldn’t steer anywhere. The tail started to swing to the left, the nose to the right, and all I could do was try to steer in the vague direction I wanted to go.

Once 3/4 of the way to the bottom of the hill, I got off the sheet of snow covered black ice. I was able to drive back onto the driveway, park, and walk the rest of the way.

All said and done, I managed to keep a RWD truck mostly on a narrow driveway on black ice. Three wheels (dualies) just slid off the edge and I was easily able to get all 6 back onto the road. No vehicle or property damage occurred.

Have I mentioned I miss having the 40 on the road? It wouldn’t have had any problems, and is also short enough to slide sideways down such a driveway without the wheels getting off of it… much harder with a 21’ long rig on a +/- 8’ wide driveway (90” wheelbase vs 138”).

 

[bikersmurf]

And in less contentious news, people still can't drive in snow around here.

Ladysmith somewhere around Davis road I think?

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Needs more skinny pedal… or cow bell.

 

[seapotato]

Do I count? I did a pirouette in a 9500 lb rig tonight. I was heading up someone’s driveway, slowed up slightly to determine which fork to take, and lost forward movement up the small slope. Keep in mind I was told their driveway wasn’t bad, just a couple spots that were a bit icy.

Now I was at a dead stop… or so I thought. I started to slide down the hill backwards in the dark with a vehicle that has zero view out the back. For a brief moment I thought, this will be a challenge to steer down the hill sliding… that thought quickly passed once I realized I couldn’t steer anywhere. The tail started to swing to the left, the nose to the right, and all I could do was try to steer in the vague direction I wanted to go.

Once 3/4 of the way to the bottom of the hill, I got off the sheet of snow covered black ice. I was able to drive back onto the driveway, park, and walk the rest of the way.

All said and done, I managed to keep a RWD truck mostly on a narrow driveway on black ice. Three wheels (dualies) just slid off the edge and I was easily able to get all 6 back onto the road. No vehicle or property damage occurred.

Have I mentioned I miss having the 40 on the road? It wouldn’t have had any problems, and is also short enough to slide sideways down such a driveway without the wheels getting off of it… much harder with a 21’ long rig on a +/- 8’ wide driveway (90” wheelbase vs 138”).

Ha, reminds me of my infamous snow wheel with Jay and Cam.

Me in a stockish 42 , them SOA on 37's and locked.

At one point cam put his hand on my hood and pushed gently, and I slid 100' down a luge track ...

 

[Diesel Cruiserman]

Well, trouble is at this point, for me anyways, I've already had 3 shots.

Three shots of what whiskey, nice way to start xmass holidays IMO...

 

[Diesel Cruiserman]

Ha, reminds me of my infamous snow wheel with Jay and Cam.

Me in a stockish 42 , them SOA on 37's and locked.

At one point cam put his hand on my hood and pushed gently, and I slid 100' down a luge track ...

Me and Jay were chatting yesterday about that snow run you guys did as i was about to head out into the great white hills. He mentioned how he slid all the way back down the hill towards you and stopped just before slamming into you.

Our day turned into night and then it got real greasy, I was air down at the end to around 6 psi. As the night went on the snow started to get better, we ended up climbing a very steep hill. The Bj74 that went first hit the top then slid backwards all the way to the bottom (100 plus feet) a few feet from the edge of a 30 foot deep ravine, we did however chain her front tires up and the rest of us air right down and hit that hill with a lot of speed and all made it.

Two nights earlier I winched a full size dually diesel dodge out of the ditch, and minutes after while running my winch line in a new dodge 1500 slid down the hill into my front bumper. My trucks was okay, but the new dodge not so much. PS I need the help of a jeep to help me pull the dodge out, kept dragging me through the snow, I was going to hook my rear bumper up to a tree but I figured lets try two winches.

 

[Diesel Cruiserman]

Couple shots, dodge crashed into me is one

 

[bikersmurf]

Me and Jay were chatting yesterday about that snow run you guys did as i was about to head out into the great white hills. He mentioned how he slid all the way back down the hill towards you and stopped just before slamming into you.

Our day turned into night and then it got real greasy, I was air down at the end to around 6 psi. As the night went on the snow started to get better, we ended up climbing a very steep hill. The Bj74 that went first hit the top then slid backwards all the way to the bottom (100 plus feet) a few feet from the edge of a 30 foot deep ravine, we did however chain her front tires up and the rest of us air right down and hit that hill with a lot of speed and all made it.

Two nights earlier I winched a full size dually diesel dodge out of the ditch, and minutes after while running my winch line in a new dodge 1500 slid down the hill into my front bumper. My trucks was okay, but the new dodge not so much. PS I need the help of a jeep to help me pull the dodge out, kept dragging me through the snow, I was going to hook my rear bumper up to a tree but I figured lets try two winches.

I’d say it wasn’t the Jeep that gets credit for the help… it was Warn or Ramsey. It doesn’t matter what it was attached to, it was the second winch for the win.

 

[seapotato]

 

[bikersmurf]

Well Happy New Years

The island is still covered it white, and we’re all still here. Here’s to this year being less of a “sh!t show” than the last two each have…

 

[stevebradford]

Got so cold a bubbly exploded in my 60

 

[GTSSportCoupe]

Got so cold a bubbly exploded in my 60
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That happened to me before, but at -35c when I rented a car in Saskatoon years ago. Made stalactites that never melted for my entire week long rental! Was 7-up, so more sugar and lower freezing temps. Pretty funny.

 

[bikersmurf]

Had a bottle of Vodka freeze solid… fortunately it was only half full and on its side. Bottle didn’t break… it was in my truck wasn’t even very cold out.




We brought our small deep freeze to my son’s wedding to be sure he had enough ice. We ran the freezer off the inverter. When I got there I found the frozen Vodka. I thought it wasn’t possible… but then determined -25 wasn’t that much cooler than the -15 freezers are set too.

 

[seapotato]

Stumbling back through the woods from the neighbours on newyears someone dropped a beer in the snow, couldn't find it afterwards...

Had hoped it'd be a nice bonus road pop at some point, but maybe not.

 

[seapotato]

Well after a week of sketchy drives back and forth from Duncan to cedar, tonight's trip was hands down the most freaking terrifying.

Sheet of ice. Touch gas or brakes, you slide. Turn steering wheel, you keep going straight. I wasn't sure if I'd get up the little hills on cedar road it was that slippery. Some dude was sliding down the hill like he was on skates.

So yeah. Stay home.

Bad week to quit drinking