Finally watched Frozen. SPOILERS

slangel

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Something about that movie in particular just doesnt keep our son tuned in. Just about any other Pixar/Disney movie he watch at least a few times but I really dont think we've ever made it past 15 minutes in before our little guy punches out from Frozen and wants Cars or Cars 2....

again...

for the 7000000000th time...

end to end....

never stopping....



help us

Bitch, you forgot about Mater's Tall Tales and the creepy you tube videos of people opening surprise eggs with Cars characters in them.....thank god his Dora addiction was curbed...:D
 

Maximumwarp

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Bitch, you forgot about Mater's Tall Tales and the creepy you tube videos of people opening surprise eggs with Cars characters in them.....thank god his Dora addiction was curbed...:D

WTF is with the egg opening videos that are all over YouTube? One of my nephews is absolutely transfixed by these things.
 

slangel

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WTF is with the egg opening videos that are all over YouTube? One of my nephews is absolutely transfixed by these things.

I don't know, but they are fucking creepy. C is four, severe non verbal Autism and he searches that shit on you tube every day...along with some of his fave French nursery rhymes. He is obsessed with the egg videos.
 

slangel

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I lived thru the teletubbies and other kid show dribble . I got a house full of teen age boys and I don't think I want to know what videos they watch now .

I have a 16 yr old and a 9 yr old, I have lived through Teletubbies, Blue's Clues, Bubble Guppies, and the fucking Backyardigans. They all are maddening.
 

Maximumwarp

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I don't know, but they are fucking creepy. C is four, severe non verbal Autism and he searches that shit on you tube every day...along with some of his fave French nursery rhymes. He is obsessed with the egg videos.

My wife works with high school-age kids that are nonverbal and on the spectrum. Idk how she does what she does. That's tough, man.
 

discostew

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My wife works with high school-age kids that are nonverbal and on the spectrum. Idk how she does what she does. That's tough, man.



I have a 17 year old girl on the spectrum . Don't feel sorry for me , cause she's one of my best friends . I think she teaches me more than I teach her .
 

slangel

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I have a 17 year old girl on the spectrum . Don't feel sorry for me , cause she's one of my best friends . I think she teaches me more than I teach her .

This exactly. Christian has taught me so much in his short 4 years so far. He has an amazing mind and it's awesome to watch him work it. On the other hand, I wouldn't be opposed to more than 3 hours of sleep in one stretch. ;)

I do have great admiration for his teachers. They are awesome, and since moving to VA, they have found away to reach him. He loves his school and teachers, and I am ever so grateful for them. My child has spoken for the first time in his life and it's all their relentless work with him at school.
 

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This thread keeps veering gayward. Here's some more new tires Kennith: http://www.bfgoodrichtires.com/tire...f-road-tires/all-terrain-t-a-ko2/tire-details

My neighbor got some. They look great in person and good on paper.

That's an interesting development. Their sidewall cut test rig looks brutal.

They are using a "new" compound, and quite a bit more rubber. There wasn't really anything wrong with the carcass before, aside from quality control and that rotting compound.

What they are using now appears to be derived from their Baja tires. Can it really take the years of exposure these will endure? It will be interesting to see.

BFG tires did chunk and chip on occasion, not to any unreasonable degree in my mind. They had more of an issue with wear patterns. This will have to be addressed by compound. Most important is what they've got under that tread section to handle heat, and whether or not the pattern is helping out.

The tread pattern has some brains behind it, but it's perfectly possible to get solid shoulders without all that wrapping around. This eliminates one of my previous gripes about the tire, though, which was it's overly sharp shoulder. It wasn't actually helping anything, so why not give it some shape to help out in the bends?

If they want to make side lugs out of the idea, whatever.

One concern of mine would be, yet again, quality control. BFG couldn't manage to make a circle out of the rubber they had. Can they now make one with even more rubber at play?

On the bright side, this tire means new molds. New molds, if dramatic enough, might mean a few new machine parts. In either event, they've got a chance to really do a better job now, and they've no excuse not to. I really hope they pull it off.

Their tires didn't need much. There's only so much performance you can get out of something that will be used on a street by an average person. You can't compete with Interco in the street performance category, because they don't care. You're not after the same customer; at least, not on the same day.

Know the limitations, and build the best quality off pavement tire you can for people who are actually going to buy the damned things. So many working vehicles run around with these things, and you could line all the plumbing in ancient Rome with the lead hanging off the damned wheels.

Maybe BFG got their shit together.

Cheers,

Kennith
 

Tugela

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Apparently there was an academic symfrozium in Wales recently. I am not making this up, it is in the Guardian, the most authoritative British newspaper after the Daily Mirror. Wonder if Kennith was in attendance.
 

stu454

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Kennith video conferenced in from inside his volcano lair.

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