Meme Thread... no politics

if it's too off color I'll delete. 

barefootskater said:

 

if it's too off color I'll delete. 

You're making the meme thread great again.

Toyman01 said:

Edit: I'm starting to think this one is a little too subtle. I could be wrong. 

You goddamned sonovabitch.

maschinenbau said:

In reply to NickD :

I mean, it HAS a muffler...but not much of one

This is why I'm terrified to touch the exhaust on the G35. Right now it's pleasantly growly. I could see that changing for the worse rather quickly. 

Toyman01 said:

maschinenbau said:

In reply to NickD :

I mean, it HAS a muffler...but not much of one

This is why I'm terrified to touch the exhaust on the G35. Right now it's pleasantly growly. I could see that changing for the worse rather quickly. 

No meme, no apologies, just 8000rpm of open header and a 23 year old level of DGAF

(rare photo of my '80 RX-7, aka the one that started it all)

In reply to Knurled. :

When I put the Racing Beat header on my first gen, I thought it would be a wonderful idea to take it down the road with no exhaust. I mean a couple of 8k rpm pulls through second gear can't be that loud can they?

My ears rang for two days. 

Toyman01 said:

In reply to Knurled. :

When I put the Racing Beat header on my first gen, I thought it would be a wonderful idea to take it down the road with no exhaust. I mean a couple of 8k rpm pulls through second gear can't be that loud can they?

My ears rang for two days. 

In reply to Knurled. :

A real racing driver would have torn the mirror off. What's a behind you does not a matter.

In reply to bearmtnmartin :

It's not a race car, though, at that time it saw about 20k miles per year on the street.  Also you need to mirror to verify if the GoPro is on or not.

I was looking for the one that was like "Every GoPro video starts with 5 seconds of someone staring at the camera" but couldn't find it.

In reply to 914Driver :

That's because they didn't have to deal with all that OSHA bullE36 M3. 

In reply to RealMiniNoMore :

...and a worker deaths during construction were considered "acceptable losses"... 

In reply to Ian F :

Yeah.. you don't want to do it?  Fine, go home and don't come back, there's three guys just came in off the boat who will do it, and for less money too.  And if they die, well, there's more where that came from.

Those silly regulations happened because they were needed.  Kind of like when you're looking through a ruleset and see some weird-ass rule... someone made that rule necessary.

In reply to Knurled. :

I don’t object to safety. 43 years in construction, and I have never had a missed work incident on any of my jobs.  Ever.

I object to over-regulation.  My company will face a six figure fine if a worker chooses to not wear safety glasses and I haven’t documented he was told to wear them.  Verbal doesn’t count (even though I do it 20 times per day).

There are 10.7 million workers in the construction industry in the US. In 2018, there were 1003 construction related deaths. That’s too much, but it’s 0.001%. 

The cost of the regulation is is about 14.5% of construction costs. That means for every single construction related project in the entire country, every single customer pays 14.5% more to minimize a 0.001% risk. On a $50,000 job, it costs us $7000. Construction is a $1.2 trillion dollar industry.  That’s $174 billion in regulation.

OSHA is not in the business of safety. They are in the business of control, and revenue.  The safest thing we do on a construction site is watch each other’s back. Nobody wants to die, and I don’t do widow calls.