Random Thought Thread

yoko said:
Me and my family drove to NYC for vacation..... yall wild out there lol

Don't think I ever want I drive in NYC again

Detroit is pretty much like a real life Mario cart game , I hate driving there too
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Miami was the worst. Literally the worst drivers I ever encountered...and often the most dangerous...with their vehicles or otherwise.

I have lots of fond memories and stories about those miscreants.
 
yoko said:
Me and my family drove to NYC for vacation..... yall wild out there lol

Don't think I ever want I drive in NYC again

Detroit is pretty much like a real life Mario cart game , I hate driving there too
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Try Italy, or countries in Asia 😅

Drivers in Thailand are a trip!. "So this is rush hour in Bangkok. Uhhh... I can occasionally see the lines on the road for the 3 lanes of traffic...except that there are 5 lanes of vehicles..." (apparently, they felt that there was enough room between the drawn lanes, for vehicles to straddle the lines and make new lanes, squeezing between the official lines of vehicles).

One of the scariest rides I ever took, was a TukTuk, back to the hotel. For folks who aren't familiar, they're 3 wheeled vehicles, powered with a motorcycle engine. These things
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Crazy driver was zipping between vehicles whenever he felt there was enough room. He zipped between two buses, so close, I literally reached out and touched both buses simultaneously, to confirm it wasn't my imagination 😮

My brother and I (squeezed into the back seat), look at each other and go, "He seems to prefer the horn far more than the brakes...". The whole ride was nonstop BEEP!BEEP! BEEP!BEEP!BEEEEEEEEEP!

Then he took a shortcut down a back alley, and we're gripping the seats and whatever we can hold onto, as he barrels down towards the main road at the end of the alley. We can see a whole lot of traffic zipping by. Driver doesn't come to a stop, to merge. Just BEEP! BEEP!
BEEP! BEEP! BEEEEEEP! and swings into traffic.

We get to the hotel in record time. Our parents (who took a regular cab) finally arrive, and they go, "You got back 15 minutes ago? How'd you get back so fast? Oh... TukTuk, huh?"

*** In the 90s, a gal from Thailand laughed at this story. She said, "Oh, those aren't the fastest way across the city anymore. There are illegal motorcycle taxis. You climb on the back and hang on for dear life. They can go even faster, because they can squeeze through gaps the TukTuk cannot". 😳
 
Blues said:
How's your marriage(s) working out? 🤣

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After the premiere of The Walking Dead, my wife noted that the civilized world would collapse really quickly without electricity and order. She asked how much ammo I had (a lot) and thought I should buy more. Then she asked if I had any functional swords and I told her I only had one.

So many years, guns, ammo and blades later, I think I'm going to stick with her. And keep watching Apocalyptic shows with her.
 
The Amazing Virginian said:
I'm in Virginia, and we like our guns here, and we get our sofas from Sofa King. I have guns stashed under Sofa King many cushions. No one would ever find them all.
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I was stationed at Little Creek many years ago. I liked Virginia Sofa King much !!! Your great state is on my short list of retirement destinations….now to convince the wifey. 🤔
 
Richard338 said:
You should see the freeway. I had an idea for a show called Driving With [fill in the profanity]. I'd just record my commute with me hurling abuse at other drivers.
My idea didn't test well so far. Both my wife and son say it's stupid...
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I had the same idea! My wife and daughter HATED my many dry runs. They would get more mad at me than I would get at the many STUPID and incompetent drivers around here. 🤣 I've lived all over, and I used to think Florida drivers were bad. But they have NOTHING on the drivers here in the DMV. The worst.

As an aside, I lived in Kali twice (never again!) and I guess I tend to rag on its denizens. But of all the places I ever lived, Kalifornia drivers were by far the best. Except when it rained. Then they were like Atlantans when it snows.
 
EMCEE said:
I was stationed at Little Creek many years ago. I liked Virginia Sofa King much !!! Your great state is on my short list of retirement destinations….now to convince the wifey. 🤔
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Virginia is like two states. There's NoVa. And there's The Commonwealth - including Little Creek. Now the Commonwealth is stuck with Richmond and Charlottesville, but otherwise it's a pretty great place to retire. NoVa . . . it has pretty much ALL of the money, so you can make a lot here. But there are so many a-holes here that you have to wonder if it's really worth it. Pretty sure literally no one moves here to retire.
 
First my AR was limited to a 10 round mag. Then they wanted me to install a bullet button. Then they made the bullet button illegal. So now the mag can only be released when the upper and lower are separated aka fixed mag, which makes it pretty interesting when you have a jam up. And yes of course the ammo used to come in the mail. Than in person only. Then in person with check. The irony is that the last two guns I bought never got approved because they didn’t respond in 10 days or 30 days at which point it just goes to to discrepancy of the FFL, who allowed me to buy them. So with all of the background checks and legal paperwork they couldn’t get their end handled in a timely manner which negates the whole process.
 
tokerblue said:
After the premiere of The Walking Dead, my wife noted that the civilized world would collapse really quickly without electricity and order. She asked how much ammo I had (a lot) and thought I should buy more. Then she asked if I had any functional swords and I told her I only had one.

So many years, guns, ammo and blades later, I think I'm going to stick with her. And keep watching Apocalyptic shows with her.
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She sounds wonderful.

My wife would certainly approve.
 
The Amazing Virginian said:
I had the same idea! My wife and daughter HATED my many dry runs. They would get more mad at me than I would get at the many STUPID and incompetent drivers around here. 🤣 I've lived all over, and I used to think Florida drivers were bad. But they have NOTHING on the drivers here in the DMV. The worst.

As an aside, I lived in Kali twice (never again!) and I guess I tend to rag on its denizens. But of all the places I ever lived, Kalifornia drivers were by far the best. Except when it rained. Then they were like Atlantans when it snows.
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Perhaps we can shake our fists at each other along the 66...
 
The Amazing Virginian said:
Kalifornia drivers were by far the best.
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I dunno, man. I live in the Bay Area, and I used to think drivers here were just stoned all the time. But now that I've driven elsewhere where pot is legal, I can say it isn't that. People just do really stupid, sometimes strange things with their cars around here.

It is partly the traffic, but I've also lived in other dense cities where drivers weren't so dumb.
 
Blues said:
I'll take a DCC for AIWB or IWB every time...but if it works for you, that's all that matters.

If I'm wearing a belt...all my AIWB holsters, (which is the only way I carry daily), have either DCC or fixed loops. I stopped using PTD loops for the most part.
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Never tried those, but open to it. I just picked up a nice LTT Custom Barretta 92X with the works.. NP3 coating, trigger & hammer job. I can't wait to see how it shoots, and feel that vertec grip. I'll pick some of both up to see if I like em more.
 
bluemax_1 said:
Try Italy, or countries in Asia 😅

Drivers in Thailand are a trip!. "So this is rush hour in Bangkok. Uhhh... I can occasionally see the lines on the road for the 3 lanes of traffic...except that there are 5 lanes of vehicles..." (apparently, they felt that there was enough room between the drawn lanes, for vehicles to straddle the lines and make new lanes, squeezing between the official lines of vehicles).

One of the scariest rides I ever took, was a TukTuk, back to the hotel. For folks who aren't familiar, they're 3 wheeled vehicles, powered with a motorcycle engine. These things
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Crazy driver was zipping between vehicles whenever he felt there was enough room. He zipped between two buses, so close, I literally reached out and touched both buses simultaneously, to confirm it wasn't my imagination 😮

My brother and I (squeezed into the back seat), look at each other and go, "He seems to prefer the horn far more than the brakes...". The whole ride was nonstop BEEP!BEEP! BEEP!BEEP!BEEEEEEEEEP!

Then he took a shortcut down a back alley, and we're gripping the seats and whatever we can hold onto, as he barrels down towards the main road at the end of the alley. We can see a whole lot of traffic zipping by. Driver doesn't come to a stop, to merge. Just BEEP! BEEP!
BEEP! BEEP! BEEEEEEP! and swings into traffic.

We get to the hotel in record time. Our parents (who took a regular cab) finally arrive, and they go, "You got back 15 minutes ago? How'd you get back so fast? Oh... TukTuk, huh?"

*** In the 90s, a gal from Thailand laughed at this story. She said, "Oh, those aren't the fastest way across the city anymore. There are illegal motorcycle taxis. You climb on the back and hang on for dear life. They can go even faster, because they can squeeze through gaps the TukTuk cannot". 😳
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Hahaha we have a very similar Thailand experience. Phuket was crazy.. Tuk Tuk drivers don't care about safety in the slightest and will drive on the floor with you in the back of that little seatbeltless canopy thing. That lady was spot on as well. I saw 6 (I counted three times) people on one dirt bike type thing at the same time.. absolutely nuts.

Also remember a guy carrying like 30 bags of ice stacked one on top of each other. He was slinging them into the air with his foot and catching them.. stack was like 10 feet over his head.

Thailand might be the craziest place I've ever been. I wont get into the "not only ping pong ball show advertised as a ping ping ball show" that enlightened a few of us on just how resilient the female body is lol.

Singapore was up there too.
 
Ohio drivers suck!
Not that they are bad drivers, they are just selfish sacks of… something. I had to drive 3 miles to the next exit, turn around and come back to my exit because I used my signal prior to a lane change. There was enough room for me to get over before I signaled. I’m driving a box truck full of tools. It’s heavy. So I try to drive responsibly because I can’t stop as quick as a typical car.
In Ohio, if you signal to change lanes the overwhelming response (has to be over 90% of the time) of the driver in the next lane over and behind you is to accelerate and close the gap so you can’t get over. If I hadn’t signaled yesterday I could have made my exit.
 
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