Meme Thread... no politics

David Elfering said:

Heard a story of a guy who tried this, ended up peeing on his face

Dusterbd13-michael said:

Tactical leafblower while working course.

Stampie said:

In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :

That's not the southern way.  We drive CEL like we stole it.  Meme required sir!

Reposting this one. It's just too perfect for this.

In reply to RevRico :

And when that belt yeets it's way to Tennessee,  the oil change jockey will be the one responsible for Twizzler'd valves.

Appleseed said:

In reply to RevRico :

And when that belt yeets it's way to Tennessee,  the oil change jockey will be the one responsible for Twizzler'd valves.

Eight valve VWs are all non interference, by my recollection.

And the belt costs like seven bucks and can be done in under an hour if you don't mess with the water pump, which can be done without touching the timing belt..

In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :

Maybe in the US.
We had a 96 Polo 1600 and I still have the receipts to prove it's an interference engine. Belt broke at 90k km's but it turned out the odometer had been tweaked before it left Japan. Oh, and the water pump was driven by the cam belt and had a life expectancy about the same as the belt. They were reasonably straightforward to change, an hour would have been possible with a lift but it took me closer to 2 without.

Amusing (maybe) side story - one Anzac Day, which is probably roughly equivalent to your Veterans Day, went to memorial service in the morning and in the afternoon went out and signed up a German car for my wife and a Japanese car for the mother in law.

In reply to RichardNZ :

Sounds like a different engine from the old 8 valves, the ones that dated back to the mid 1970s.  Those had a separate water pump housing, I would say just like a Chrysler 2.2/2.5 except VW did it first.

My Grandfather served the US Navy in the Pacific (and I'd really like to find his service record to know where he had been sailing around, all I know is that he was on a destroyer), and later worked for a local truck factory (Euclid) before he retired with health issues.  He always drove American cars, all of his daughters drove American cars, until one day his youngest bought a Renault.  She was also technically the first to buy a Japanese car, a Geo Metro (rebadged Suzuki Swift), and I was the second (Subaru GL). I have not owned an American car since and neither has she, it has all been German and Japanese and Swedish.  Come to think of it, she also has only owned Japanese cars since then.  My Mom has also owned nothing but Japanese and Swedish cars since her fourth GM product went away...

Time moves on.  I heard tell that they allow Canadians into the country after the unpleasantness in the early 1800s   And Euclid was closed shortly after he retired when Mecedes bought it.

In reply to RichardNZ :

The same mall (Cermak Plaza) that had the stack of cars in Wayne's World did a Pinto.

Beer Baron said:

ProDarwin said:

Do I understand what 5/4 time means?  No.  Feel free to elaborate, but also I know how to Google it :) 

Time signatures are - how many beats per measure, and how long of a note counts as a beat.

The overwhelming majority of western popular music is 4/4 time - 4 quarter notes per measure. 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 * 2 - 2 - 3 - 4 - For an easy example, look at "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star".

3/4 time is a basic waltz rhythm. 3 quarter notes per measure 1 - 2 - 3 * 2 - 2 - 3 -

5/4 is five quarter notes per measure. 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 * 2 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 -. It's much less intuitive and fairly uncommon. People like counting in 2's and 3's. However, it has a natural swing to it. It's complex enough to trip you up at first blush, but simple enough to fall into a groove.

6/8 is 6 eighth notes per measure. Oddly, this is probably about as common as 3/4 time in western music. Super common is blues rock. First blush would make you think it should sound like 3/4 but it really doesn't. The stresses are different. Instead, it feels like a really swung 2/2 - it makes you want to sway slowly but then there's an extra rhythmic texture underneath.

Then you look get really weird E36 M3 when you get into prog rock. Rush does some crazy stuff. Tool is just absurb.

In high school many many moons ago (fall of 1993) we marched to excerpts of Carmina Burana by Karl Orff. Sections were written in 6/4, 6/4, 9/4, 4/4 then back to 6/4. We marched that and had to at the end. do a stutter/stop step. It was wild and hard as hell. Luckily I only had to conduct it.

required meme:

In reply to RichardNZ :

With enough RMP they are all interference engines.