Good Week @ 996Outpost.com

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Post by 5chn3ll » Fri Feb 21, 2020 1:17 pm

You're missing out, man - the conversation about "custom" caliper paint colors ("I'm thinking about painting mine to match the colour of my ginger pubes") is riveting.

Understeer: You will hit the wall with the front end.
Oversteer: You will hit the wall with the rear end.
Horsepower: How hard you will hit the wall.
Torque: How far you will move the wall.

Gone hunting with Alec Baldwin and Dick Cheney. Back soon.

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Post by 32wildbilly » Fri Feb 21, 2020 2:29 pm

5chn3ll wrote: Fri Feb 21, 2020 1:17 pm You're missing out, man - the conversation about "custom" caliper paint colors ("I'm thinking about painting mine to match the colour of my ginger pubes") is riveting.
Nope! FB is evil, run by a trump supporter and populated by Russian trolls. I did set up an account to locally post my Z-car to sell it, but haven't used it since.

Honestly didn't know there was a 996 page and your quote above is enough to make me stay away!
Never gonna make you cry...

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Post by 32wildbilly » Fri Feb 21, 2020 2:30 pm

gnat wrote: Fri Feb 21, 2020 1:03 pm You are not doing anything to change my mind about banning FB from my life...

Never used. Never will. Running my own DNS servers in my house specifically to block accidental clicks and hidden tracking crap.
Somebody told me the same about bad stuff about Google...
Never gonna make you cry...

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Post by 5chn3ll » Fri Feb 21, 2020 2:40 pm

The ginger pubes comment may have been artistic license.

Understeer: You will hit the wall with the front end.
Oversteer: You will hit the wall with the rear end.
Horsepower: How hard you will hit the wall.
Torque: How far you will move the wall.

Gone hunting with Alec Baldwin and Dick Cheney. Back soon.

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Post by gnat » Fri Feb 21, 2020 2:46 pm

32wildbilly wrote: Fri Feb 21, 2020 2:30 pm
gnat wrote: Fri Feb 21, 2020 1:03 pm You are not doing anything to change my mind about banning FB from my life...

Never used. Never will. Running my own DNS servers in my house specifically to block accidental clicks and hidden tracking crap.
Somebody told me the same about bad stuff about Google...
And Apple, and Amazon, and Twitter, and AOL, and Comcast, and ...

There are degrees of evil and we have to pick our battles. I did block all of Google at one point, but unlike FB and Twitter it actually did have a significant impact on my life.

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Post by Renn Meister » Fri Feb 21, 2020 3:02 pm

The 996 FB pages are where the cream of the crop show their idiocy!
I was kicked off, or left every Porsche FB page. I'm only on there now so I can try to find deals on military vehicles.

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Post by gnat » Fri Feb 21, 2020 3:12 pm

We're certainly all idiots here, but hopefully a more palatable style of idiot :mrgreen:

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Post by 5chn3ll » Fri Feb 21, 2020 3:13 pm

Sarcastic idiots are the best kind of idiots.

Understeer: You will hit the wall with the front end.
Oversteer: You will hit the wall with the rear end.
Horsepower: How hard you will hit the wall.
Torque: How far you will move the wall.

Gone hunting with Alec Baldwin and Dick Cheney. Back soon.

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Post by 32wildbilly » Fri Feb 21, 2020 4:26 pm

5chn3ll wrote: Fri Feb 21, 2020 2:40 pm The ginger pubes comment may have been artistic license.
Oh well that makes it all better!
Never gonna make you cry...

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Post by Battery Guy » Fri Feb 21, 2020 5:58 pm

5chn3ll wrote: Fri Feb 21, 2020 12:46 pm While we're on the topic of people Jake might want to back over with a half-track: any of you all (besides B3) members of the Facebook "The Porsche 996 Carrera owners page" page?

To paraphrase Obi Wan, you may never find a more wretched hive of asshattery. The "align your center caps with your valve stems" crowd is alive and well.
I am a member of the FB group. The brits are entertaining to me, and once in a great while there is some useful information. But there are some real asshats on that group too...
My main reason for being on it is seeing the Euro spec cars with some different options and color combos than we see here in the US.
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No Options!! (How did that happen??)

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