I know nothing of Pokemon. I've never seen even a minute of the cartoon.Squint wrote:It's a Pokemon, so it was abandoned to the wild to be discovered in tall grass by a random stranger. So yeah, broken family.AHTOXA wrote:Did it have a father gear, too, or was it a broken family?
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Well then, disregard my reference and carry on. I played the original Blue Pokemon game on Gameboy back in the day and have seen random episodes of the show, but never actively searched out the show to watch it.AHTOXA wrote:I know nothing of Pokemon. I've never seen even a minute of the cartoon.Squint wrote:It's a Pokemon, so it was abandoned to the wild to be discovered in tall grass by a random stranger. So yeah, broken family.
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My wife learned maybe enough to get me to the hospital with a broken leg and still doesn't understand how I know when to shift even with music cranked. Mostly feel no looking at the tach really.ClutchDisc wrote:I've never had a tach... I learned by feel and sound. I don't really ever want a tach either.
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That's me. It's also greatly to do with muscle memory. It becomes a mechanical movement too.monkeyhunk wrote:My wife learned maybe enough to get me to the hospital with a broken leg and still doesn't understand how I know when to shift even with music cranked. Mostly feel no looking at the tach really.ClutchDisc wrote:I've never had a tach... I learned by feel and sound. I don't really ever want a tach either.
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Stickshift Wizard
Ever since I was a young boy,
I've played the standard shift.
From Shelby down to Bricklin
I must have played them all.
But I ain't seen nothing like him
It makes me kinda miffed...
That deaf dumb and blind kid
Sure plays a mean stick shift !
He sits like a statue,
Becomes part of the machine.
Feeling all the synchros
Always shifting clean.
He plays by intuition,
Don’t give him short shrift.
That deaf dumb and blind kid
Sure plays a mean stick shift !
He's a stick shift wizard
There has got to be a twist.
A stick shift wizard,
S'got such a supple wrist.
'How do you think he does it? I don't know!
What makes him so good?'
He ain't got no distractions
Can't hear those rpms swell,
Don't see the tach needle wavin'
Plays by sense of smell.
Always makes a revmatch,
'n' never clashes – got a gift!
That deaf dumb and blind kid
Sure plays a mean stick shift.
I thought I was
The baddest double clutcher.
But I just handed
My stick shift knob to him.
Even on my favorite tranny
He outshifts my best.
His disciples lead him in
And he just does the rest.
He's got crazy shift knob fingers
He does it all so swift...
That deaf dumb and blind kind
Sure plays a mean stick shift.!!!!!
Ever since I was a young boy,
I've played the standard shift.
From Shelby down to Bricklin
I must have played them all.
But I ain't seen nothing like him
It makes me kinda miffed...
That deaf dumb and blind kid
Sure plays a mean stick shift !
He sits like a statue,
Becomes part of the machine.
Feeling all the synchros
Always shifting clean.
He plays by intuition,
Don’t give him short shrift.
That deaf dumb and blind kid
Sure plays a mean stick shift !
He's a stick shift wizard
There has got to be a twist.
A stick shift wizard,
S'got such a supple wrist.
'How do you think he does it? I don't know!
What makes him so good?'
He ain't got no distractions
Can't hear those rpms swell,
Don't see the tach needle wavin'
Plays by sense of smell.
Always makes a revmatch,
'n' never clashes – got a gift!
That deaf dumb and blind kid
Sure plays a mean stick shift.
I thought I was
The baddest double clutcher.
But I just handed
My stick shift knob to him.
Even on my favorite tranny
He outshifts my best.
His disciples lead him in
And he just does the rest.
He's got crazy shift knob fingers
He does it all so swift...
That deaf dumb and blind kind
Sure plays a mean stick shift.!!!!!
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I'm pretty sure that's how most people drive, once they get past a few months or a few thousand miles of noob experience.tankinbeans wrote:That's me. It's also greatly to do with muscle memory. It becomes a mechanical movement too.monkeyhunk wrote:My wife learned maybe enough to get me to the hospital with a broken leg and still doesn't understand how I know when to shift even with music cranked. Mostly feel no looking at the tach really.ClutchDisc wrote:I've never had a tach... I learned by feel and sound. I don't really ever want a tach either.
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That was the point. She's about as noob as you get.AHTOXA wrote:
I'm pretty sure that's how most people drive, once they get past a few months or a few thousand miles of noob experience.
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Once I tried to teach a a then-girlfriend to drive stick. Didn't go over well. I was calm, but she freaked out when she kept stalling it.
A few years later, after we broke up, she ended up getting a manual car and taught herself the hard way, from what I hear.
A few years later, after we broke up, she ended up getting a manual car and taught herself the hard way, from what I hear.
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TWSSAHTOXA wrote: A few years later, after we broke up, she ended up getting a manual car and taught herself the hard way, from what I hear.
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Yeah, I was trying to make an innuendo out of that, decided to let someone else have a go. Apparently I simply could have gone with a TWSSRope-Pusher wrote:TWSSAHTOXA wrote: A few years later, after we broke up, she ended up getting a manual car and taught herself the hard way, from what I hear.
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The innuendo was already there, my friend.
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I just came back from a trip that totaled 886.0 Miles
Consumed 48.98 U.S. galleons of gasoline (regular grade, 10% ethanol)
At an average cost of $2.87 per galleon
For a total fuel cost of $140.75
and an average fuel economy of 18.09 smiles per galleon.
Not terrible considering I was towing a 3,350 lb pop-up camping trailer for 600 of those miles.
Consumed 48.98 U.S. galleons of gasoline (regular grade, 10% ethanol)
At an average cost of $2.87 per galleon
For a total fuel cost of $140.75
and an average fuel economy of 18.09 smiles per galleon.
Not terrible considering I was towing a 3,350 lb pop-up camping trailer for 600 of those miles.
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because i walk/bus, my milage is steps! I average 4000 steps a day.
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52k miles on the Sonic now. 11k miles on the motorcycle, which I bought with 7k miles in December of 2014.
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322? In the ST
121,xxx in the Buick. Reminds me. That thing needs its annual oil change.
121,xxx in the Buick. Reminds me. That thing needs its annual oil change.