• SaraTonin@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    There’s an episode of Top Gear where Jeremy Clarkson goes round the Nuerberg Ring in a fast car and boasts about his time. Sabine Schmitz who was a frequent collaborator and Neurberg Ring specialist said it was pathetic and that she could beat it in a van. So they set that up in a future episode - her in a shitty box Transit trying to beat his time.

    She came very very close, although she was off by a fraction of a second.

    The point is that perhaps Anni’s skill was demonstrated because he only drove shit…

  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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    11 hours ago

    The misconception in the future is the force was a mystical entity with a light and dark side. On earth we knew that was just duct tape and spray foam.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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      10 hours ago

      I always kept duct tape and a few wire coat hangers in my old beaters, because you can fix anything with duct tape and wire coat hangers. They saved me, and occasionally friends, many times.

  • BeeegScaaawyCripple@lemmy.world
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    i mean, i was the unnofficial (fuck it i have a cold) IT guy at this one accounting firm. i was running XP because our work softwware ran better on XP. As everyone’s boxes breoke, they got vista (fuck vista) and then 7. I was still running XP. finally i just asked my boss for a 7 box because i was running it at home. he said i was still running xp because i had kept it going so long and they all had a bet to see how long i could do it. kind of like a death pool. since i’d outlasted it by an operating system (they were expecting sometime during vista) i could get myself the fanciest rig i wanted. i asked him if he’d buy me an extra monitor for here and home, and since i’d saved him so much money on hardware upgrades he said yes. i fucking loved that job.

    but yeah, that’s why it makes sense to me.

  • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    Its like car racing today- sometimes being the best isn’t being technically perfect, but just knowing how close you can push your machine to the brink of failure without actually disabling it.

  • otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    I mean, when the rest of every wing/squadron/etc. you’ve been a part of is essentially ablative armor for your plotline… 🫣🤷🏼‍♂️