#and for me 47 is a bit of a boomer when it comes to cars

[ellenchain]

Which are the preferred personal vehicles of 47, Diana, Lucas and Olivia?

I know that 47 has access to the hearse in Freelancer and while that is his brand of humor, I don't see him using it much.

I bet Lucas had a bike he drove recklessly after he escaped from the institute (misquoting B99's Hitchcock, he has nothing left to live for and drives like it). But after he got Olivia, he upgraded to a car. But I can't decide if it's funnier if he goes directly to a football mom suv or if he drives something like a muscle car and only when someone makes an offhand comment on its safety, he switches to the suv. (Hi Mr Grey. Olivia is settling in nicely. Is it true you drove her in an Impala? My husband has one as his project car and those safety ratings are terrible, I would never pick up my kids in one. .......Haha, of coirse I wouldn't either, my car's at the garage nd this is just a rental........fuck).

Diana probably has a landrover, reinforced like a small tank.

I bet Olivia drives a cute hybrid or electrical car.

47.....sleek Italian sports car? In black, of course.

oh boy how I LOVE that question! Honestly, I've been thinking about that quite a lot recently, I don't even know why, but it crossed my mind

And I like your headcanon, which I absolutely agree with! They probably all have several cars, they are rich, they can drive whatever they want. But there are one or two cars that I associate with them…

I think 47 loves cars, especially old cars. He certainly has a penchant for spending his money on classics. But an everyday car? Next to his many sports cars (e.g. Lamborghini Aventador)? Probably a rich (old) person one like a Porsche Panamera (in red because it's probably his favourite colour, I mean his tie is always red):

But I think he prefers to drive his classics. Unfortunately I don't know much about them, but he seems to love this black one in Freelancer a lot!

I can well imagine Diana in a sleek little sports car. She certainly has to get around a lot and quickly. Power woman style (but still reinforced like a small tank, as you say. She knows her enemies and how to protect herself from them). I think Diana has a lead foot on the highway (that's what we say in Germany when you drive way too fast) So why not an Audi R8 in blue? Her little show-off car

47 loves driving in it. But not so much when Diana is at the wheel (vroom vroom)

Ohhh Olivia, our cute little mouse, must have been driving around in a junk car for many years. But she values environmental protection, so she got herself a small, affordable electric car recently (after the old car died). Everyone thinks the car is ugly, but she loves her green box a lot, her Honda e:

(this car is so ugly, it's insane)

And Lucas. Oh, he probably sees cars purely as a commodity. And yes, he certainly made sure to drive a decent car in Olivia's school days so that no one would be suspicious, but I think he has several cars (despite being against capitalism). One for missions, where you get a lot in, get through every terrain, etc., probably a Dodge Ram 1500:

(I don't know much about American cars, but here in Europe these things are way too big for our streets and are more used by hunters or forestry workers because you can pack a lot onto the loading area)

He probably has a small SUV for everyday use (in the city), because the weapons have to go somewhere, right? A Dacia Duster is probably something for him - relatively cheap, yet robust, not a posh car, just an SUV:

(I'm starting to get the feeling that I am going to sell you a few cars)

BUT in the depths of his garage in Berlin he has his greatest treasure, his old Opel Corsa B in mint green:

This thing has seen a lot and is 30 years old. All doors except the driver's door can only be opened from the inside, the boot can no longer be locked properly and when you hit the gas pedal, the car only gets louder and not faster. Air conditioning: Roll down the windows manually. But he loves it with all his heart and enjoys driving around Berlin at weekends to get a Döner at his favourite Döner stand 💘

(47 only drives with Lucas in absolute emergencies in this car, which sometimes makes strange noises and the lack of insulation makes it feel like your arse is about to hit the road. 140 km/h (around 85 mph) with this car is like a death sentence, but Lucas has fun)

[gromvillage]

all odds motherfucker. come get yalls juice

thank you for enabling my procrastination

1. you wake up naked next to the last person you texted, what would you say?

i think it would be mad awkward but i could think of much worse people to wake up naked next to. i’d probably say something really intelligent like ‘yikes’ or ‘this is weird’

3. If your boyfriend or girlfriend was into drugs, would you care?

drugs are for sure not my thing so yeah i would care a lot

5. Was your last kiss drunk or sober?

very much sober

7. What does your last received text say?

my cousin was texting me about honors colleges and stuff like that

9. Where was your last kiss at?

my friend’s house

11. What do you drink in the morning?

generally nothing but sometimes water or hot cider cause i’m exciting like that

13. Do you think relationships are hard?

of course, you’re trying to connect with someone who has different thoughts and ideas and feelings than you

15. You’re locked in a room with the last person you kissed, any problems?

nah man we good

17. Do you know anyone with the same middle name as you?

my mom!

19. Do you think you will be in a relationship 3 years from now?

i know i will be in a very different place in my life in three years so i don’t know for sure but i would like to be!

21. Have you ever kissed someone with a name that starts with an S?

that’s gonna be a nope

23. Is there a person you CANNOT stand?

oh plenty of people

25. In the past week have you cried?

i’m sure i have but i can’t think of a specific instance 

27. Do you dry off in the shower or out of the shower?

inside the shower, it’s cold as fuck when you get out and are still wet

29. Do you think you’re old?

big nope

31. What type of day are you having?

fairly average, the sad/tired combo that’s a real classic for me hit for the first time in a while this afternoon though

33. Do you prefer warm or cold weather?

cold weather (as long as i’m prepared for it)

35. Would you prefer a relationship or a fling?

right now a fling would probably be best

37. What song are you listening to?

high road to harlan by jason tyler burton

39. Is there a girl that knows everything or almost everything about you?

not a girl but there is someone who knows quite a bit about me

41. When did you last receive a text message?

like ten minutes ago

43. How well do you know the last female you texted?

you really obsessed with my recent texts. i don’t know her super well, i’d like to get to know her better though

45. Would you date someone right now if they asked?

depends on who it was but possibly 

47. Who was the last person you talked to in person?

my mom

49. Has someone recently told you something you didn’t want to hear?

not that i can think of?? 

51. Do you hate the person you fell hardest for?

not really no

53. Do you like rain?

i love rain but i always seem to be working when it’s rained recently so i can’t enjoy it so that’s kind of a bummer

55. Have you ever liked somebody and never told them?

of course

57. Are you shy?

depends on the situation and my mood that day

59. Have you dated the person you texted last?

61. If you were paid 1 million dollars to spend the night in a supposed haunted house, would you?

yes because you know your girl broke but also no because i’m a coward...i’d have to know more

63. Think back to October, were you in a relationship?

negative ghostrider

65. Did anything “cute” happen in the last week?

i got a new pair of pants i love but i don’t think that’s cute per say?? this girl i’m kinda into was obsessing over my fish, that’s pretty tight i guess

67. Would you rather pay to get your nails done or do them yourself?    

i don’t really do a lot with my nails other than cut them so do them myself

69. Do you have any stickers on your car?    

not yet sadly

71. Blackberry, Anroid, or iPhone?    

right now i have like a motarola cause i’m cool like that (and broke) like that but i’d go with an iphone

73. Do you like diet soda?   

god no i have taste

75. Are you 16 or older?   

yuhhh 

77. Do you have a job?    

yeah! i really enjoy it

79. Did you ever have braces?  

no but i feel like i should have  

81. What does your last status on facebook say?    

i don’t have facebook because i’m not a boomer

83. Are you closer to your mom or your dad?   

generally my mom but my dad and i are closer than most i think 

85. What’s the last movie you saw in theaters?  

i hardly ever go to the movies so probably booksmart?? last summer??

87. Would you rather wear heels or flip flops?    

flip flops

89. Do you normally wear your hair straight or curly?   

my hair can’t hold a curl to save it’s life so it’s always straight 

91. Would you rather swim in a river, lake, or pool?   

i love swimming in rivers, there’s something about floating with the current that is so relaxing to me. i also have some great memories of time spent swimming at the lake tho 

93. …Had sex in a car?    

wouldn’t you like to know

95. What were you doing last night at midnight?    

uhhh sleeping?

97. Do you like the camera on your phone?    

i fucking hate it

99. Have you ever passed out from drinking?  

that’s not my thing so noooo  

101. Have you ever had a pregnancy scare? 

lmao no   

103. Do you have any tan lines right now?   

it’s winter so,,,,no 

[exyusimp]

Hot takes: Non personal edition: aka things 24sata or haters need to understand 💅🏻

(By the way these aren’t personal ones, just ones most people albeit stans or not should understand, or boomers on 24sata who think being more toxic than Chernobyl is ok. Basically a 24sata rant post. I might do a personal later on tonight if y’all want also idek why I’m doing this, just in a ranty (copyright me) mood. By the way this isn’t @ing anyone here, it’s basically @ing boomer users on 24sata or other haters. Also there’s 3 points each so I’m not milking this longer than the Harry Potter series.)

Emilija

• Emilija quit her musical career due to it being stressful and her suffering a ED amongst me too level incidents. Not because she noticed she was losing relevancy or flopping.

• (Honestly goes for any older musician) Emilija ages, how scary that people don’t look 20 when they’re 50

• (Another industry wide problem) she didn’t need to keep her innocent Riva image post breakup, and what was even inappropriate about her solo image, she wore crop tops and leather outfits oh no I’m so repulsed

Riva

• Rock me did deserve its place in 89 despite the political situation.

• (A whole Eurovision wide problem) Riva didn’t copy the style of the Denmark entry that year (vi maker byen rød) there’s clear differences between the two, they definitely did take inspiration but I doubt they even knew birthes song pre the contest. Many musical genres just feature similar traits.

• (Don’t understand why people beef over this not gonna lie) rock me is from a Yugoslavian and Croatian band, honestly it depends on your point of view if you classify them as a Yugoslavian entry still or Croatian or both.

Tajci

• She wasn’t a traitor to her homeland, she did what she felt like to survive and keep her inner peace. Plus many musicians at the time were moving to the states too, god even djurdjica was planning to before her death.

• Her having a religious awakening doesn’t mean she’s a religious cult leader or something, she again just followed in her own morality to achieve her inner peace.

• (Now y’all on 24sata or just anyone who does this needs eternal rehab) tajcis s word assault from her teenage years wasn’t her fault, it never will be the victims fault, famous or not.

Novi Fosili

• Their “best” era depends on personal taste.

• (Can’t believe some people can’t get over this for the last 40 years) djurdijca wasn’t a robot, she left to pursue a family life and settle down, sanja coming was bound to happen and there’s no changing that now. I’m not sorry Balkan boomer number 47 but you could’ve just stopped listening and focus on djurdjicas solo career if sanja pissed you off that much.

• (We getting a bit controversial here) rajko’s eventual drug abuse was due to him having a traumatic yet lonely childhood. Despite his actions later on in life with his wife (which was quite disappointing, even for a fan, domestic abuse ain’t the way to go.) and the band, he wasn’t a mean spirited man. He just found the wrong way of escaping his troubles and traumas, via a substance quite rampant in the music scene at the time which he tried distancing himself from many times, but the vices kept getting stronger. He did many great achievements as well which we shall remember him for being the artistic legend he was instead of a worthless junkie.

Djurdjica

Thank god the only thing 24sata users can agree on is to respect her so props to y’all for that. There was one guy on YouTube who said she looked like a female bob Marley but we don’t talk about that here because he’s irrelevant.

Sanja

• Her affiliations with HRT or RTL aren’t because she’s part of some underground ring or she’s sleeping around, she just has contracts for both and got offered roles.

• (How do people even think this?) her giving interviews post nenad’s death wasn’t a way to milk money out of his departure, she did it to inform others and recount her families and her strength throughout the ordeal.

• (This is to the memers when she became a meme some years ago for dino jelusick looking at her “clipboard” and yes this is true) some people really think she’s princess Diana in the gif. I can’t anymore with life.

Lepa brena

• She never stated she was a all seeing god nor has a complex It’s more of a fandom thing which many fans say about their idols, usually in jest.

• (Y’all gotta be taking the piss now I swear) let her take a non makeup photo if she wants to because big surprise like everyone else she looks different without it. Just because she’s a notable figure doesn’t mean she’s not always caked up.

• (Another thing singers and or wealthy people do) her spending her millions on various expenses or projects doesn’t mean she doesn’t save money, she uses it on things she finds worth the funds like cars for her children, etc and who doesn’t splurge from time to time, definitely not just her.

Thank you for listening to my Ted talk ✨

[theliterateape]

Enjoying the Perks of Novel Coronavirus COVID-19

By David Himmel

Yesterday, novel coronavirus COVID-19 had a big day in Chicago. It gave Mayor Lori Lightfoot enough reason to cancel the city’s famed St. Patrick’s Day celebrations, which include the dyeing green of the Chicago River and the South Side Irish Parade. Not only will these cancelations help reduce the risk of the virus spreading, in the case of the latter, it will help reduce the number of wealthy white boys in black North Face vests from puking up hot dogs, blood, and bile on a poorer family’s front stoop. News also broke of the first confirmed case at a major downtown business hub, Prudential Plaza. The employee of CA Ventures, a tenant at One Prudential Plaza.

I work in Two Prudential Plaza. These two buildings are connected. They’re also connected to the Aon Center by a small passageway anchored by a Panda Express on the south. Prudential Plaza is also directly connected to the underground Chicago Pedway which connects to more office buildings to the west and three different train lines. Thousands—I can’t find an exact number, but thousands—of people work and/or pass through these places every single day of the work week. The buildings are still open for business, but my office has decided to close until at least next Friday. Everyone is working remotely. These are precautions I fully support.

This virus outbreak, now officially a pandemic is making things weird. The world around us is confusing and ever more empty as people self-quarantine. Door knobs are sinister, a person who coughs or sneezes in any public space is met with more disdain than someone who talks loudly on their cellphone in an elevator. Italy is closed. The NBA is closed. Jesus, even Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson have tested positive for the virus.

COVID-19 is coming for our favorite food, our favorite professional sports league that doesn’t have cheating champion teams, and the one Baby Boomer white man of all America can get behind. Things seem bleak. But after spending forty years in this body and several thousands of dollars on therapy, I am well-equipped to find the silver lining in any situation. I’d tell you that I’m a positive person in moments of crisis, but I feel that telling you I’m positive in this climate would only scare you off.

Regardless, I want you to know that there are perks to this pandemic. You just gotta know how to find ’em.

Get a seat on the Blue Line

On most workdays, you will have to wait four or five Blue Line trains before you can barely squeeze your way into a car if you’re heading toward Forest Park east of Western between 7:501 and 8:47 a.m. But with so many offices closing or strongly encouraging employees to work from home, hoping on at 8:15 is not only simple, but comfortable. The cars have room to spare.

No wait

Reservations aren’t needed. Fewer people are going out, which means you can get the best seat in the house just by showing up. It feels like you’re Ray Liotta in Goodfellas. Even Alinea is taking walk-ins.

It helps you finally stop biting your fingernails

I’ve basically been trying to stop biting my fingernails for thirty years. But no matter how far I got, I’d always, always find myself chewing and nibbling at my fingertips. This pandemic has done wonders in helping me kick this habit. It’s been at least two weeks since I’ve had a bite. Do you have any idea how hard it is to break a habit like this!? I’m not one to ask for praise—that demand is the mark of a toddler or woke white woman—but if I can stay off the keratin for good, I deserve as much praise as someone who overcame opioid addiction.

Biting your nails is gross. I’ve always known that. This habit has been my greatest shame that I’ll admit to in public. Biting your nails and unintentionally eating a deadly virus is even grosser.

With your new nails, you can scrape away gunk from just about any surface

Having fingernails is awesome. Every surface in my home that has been touched by my sticky son and gooey wife is now gunk-free. With just a flick of my thumb and that glob of whatever is loose and into the paper towel to be carried to the trash. And then I’m off to wash my hands because, well, yuck.

You can fart in elevators

Go on. Push it out. Fill the metal box with all of your gutted butt funk. If someone gets on and smells your stench, so what. Stare ’em down. Apologize for the odor. Tell them you were just diagnosed with COVID-19. A new strain. One that affects flatulence. They’ll be so worried that breathing in your ass blast will give them the virus, they’ll forget all about you. And in a few months, when things are close to back to normal and they board the elevator with you again, they won’t remember your face at all—just the smell of your insides as they hotboxed an elevator.

There’s plenty of time for you to do you

Social-distancing. Ah… My Myers-Briggs personality test told me that I am extroverted but like solitude. So, because that’s what it told me, I’m going to get a real kick out of being alone for a bit. Because my company has closed the office for at least the next week-and-a-half, I won’t get to enjoy the empty Blue Line, but I can enjoy social-distancing. I did partake in the practice on my own accord in 2010 and 2011. I consider them two of my best bachelor years.

Enjoy quality and affordable healthcare

Our president said it, and when has he ever lied to us? Insurance companies are waiving co-pays and for treating COVID-19. And it sounds like the Feds are ready to help out if people need money to pay for treatment. So, the great healthcare that has been so impossible to give to the American people is, apparently, now, without fanfare or what could possibly be considered difficulty, available to everyone.

Traffic is light

To and from work. To and from the grocery store. To and from UPS to return something to Amazon. Traffic moves like it’s 6 a.m. on a Sunday. And with the NBA all shuttered up, there’ll be no traffic to battle on game nights. We can only hope that Major League Baseball follows suit. It’ll also give teams more time to come up with new hand signals since the Astros are thieving bastards.

So, there you go. Have fun during these last few days on earth. Remember, even though we’re all going to die, it’s your fault for not washing your hands that one time.

[totallymotorbikes]

Whatever: Moto Inequality A few MO commenters are always encouraging me to keep my politics to myself, which I do as much as I can because I understand people want to read about motorcycles and look at pretty pics when they come here to get away from it all. The problem for me is that if you’re paying attention to your life, including motorcycles, politics can’t be avoided any more than you can just ignore the family of bears who just decided to share your campsite. Politics affects my bottom line. Stop me if I’ve already addressed this topic before, but what got me onto it again was people lamenting the other day how the motorcycle industry is dying off because the kids don’t want to go outside and ride; they just wanna sit in a sensory deprivation hyperbaric chamber all day and take selfies and play video games. It’s their parents’ fault, they also say, for not exposing them to the Great Outdoors as children. Personally, I think what’s wrong with the millennials is this: None of them are buying motorcycles because none of them have any money. So, fine, let’s not talk about politics: Let’s talk about economics. The Motorcycle Diaries is a pretty fun film about a couple of guys whose clapped-out Norton causes them to become Commies. I might be willing to go along with the millennial bashers if I didn’t have my own dog in the fight (my son), and if he didn’t have a bunch of friends in the same holey boat. To begin with, if we Boomers had had Playstations, “Call of Duty” and VR headsets, you can be damn sure that the Indulgent Generation (children of the Greatest Gen) would’ve been all over that action, and just like the current one we would’ve grown eventually tired of those toys, too. I can’t remember the last time I saw mine (now 23 years old) shooting up the forces of evil from my couch. He does have his nose in his phone a lot, but every time I expect to find him playing Candy Crush or looking for Pokemons, he’s reading something for a school assignment or doing homework. I do wish we’d spent more time camping and hiking and doing Great Outdoors things when the kid was growing up, but with his mother and me both working full-time and then some, there never seemed to be enough energy or money, for much of that on the weekends – though for years we did pack up the Ranger (the kid’s still driving it with almost 180,000 miles showing) nearly every weekend for a trip to one of the local MX parks, none of which were nearer than a two-hour drive. Not like when I was a kid, where you could ride your minibike all kinds of places not necessarily legally but nobody much cared. And I don’t know anybody who packs the kids up in the station wagon every summer for a two-week vacay anymore like we used to do (on one income), though I do know a few people (mostly on Facebook) who are constantly checking in from Monaco or Hawaii or a really expensive restaurant. Their big garages, already groaning with collectible Ducatis, are always gaining new bikes and expensive cars. I manage not to be too bitter mostly because my MO duties sometimes have my own garage stuffed with great motorcycles, but that wouldn’t be the case if I was having to pay for them. And my son, who was kind of soured on bikes there for a few years after a couple of frightening RM85 mishaps involving gravity, is back into motorcycles now in a big way, so we do have that going for us. We Burnses are simple peasant stock who don’t need much. If he hadn’t had me for a role model, though, I don’t know that my kid would’ve ever caught the motorcycle bug in the first place. What I see in his generation isn’t a lack of enthusiasm for letting the good times roll, but a much greater and earlier awareness of the harsher realities of life than we Boomers had: Faced with the high cost and need for education, and the expensiveness of lots of things we took for granted (a garage, healthcare, Rolling Stones tickets), I see a frugality that’s more in line with my Children of the Depression parents (save that aluminum foil!) than with my own. A buddy in Solvang who was looking for new digs sent me this Craigslist: $1450 / 2br – 400ft2 – 5th Wheel on 15 acres (Full Hook-ups) (Solvang) That kind of overarching worry about finances had them wondering the same thing: Why would you ride around on a vehicle that’s 38 more times likely to get you killed than a nice sensible Pontiac Bonneville? A lack of money creates a cautious worldview that excludes things like motorcycles, which are both dangerous and toys to outsiders. Google “millennial earnings” to find tons of stories like this one at Forbes. In the ’60s, we bypassed our parents’ concerns because the world was our ever-expanding oyster and bell-bottoms and bongs were in; shooting guys to the moon was also a dangerous thing with no real economic payoff, but we all got behind it anyway. And the astronauts got Corvettes! In that era, a lightly-used Camaro or Mustang was not out of reach of the average 20-something; neither was a decent middle-class living for just about anybody who worked 40 hours a week. Homelessness wasn’t yet a thing, not where I grew up anyway. The future, in short, looked rosy, and motorcycle sales, especially cheap Japanese ones, soared. A quick run over to Chevrolet.com informs me that the cheapest new Camaro with a V-8 starts at $37,295. It’s not like there’s not still plenty of money sloshing around in the economy. The problem is very little of it is leaking down into the pockets of people who buy motorcycles anymore, which used to consist mainly of young males. For a while there the Occupy Wall Street movement gained a little traction complaining about things like the CEO-to-worker pay ratio, which has climbed from 42-to-1 in 1980 to its current level of 335-to-1, according to the AFL-CIO. GlassDoor has it at only 204:1. Either way, we’ve moved on to more pressing concerns like transgender bathrooms and walling off Mexico. Do Americans buy motorcycles when they have money? I think this little chart from webbikeworld.com is worth a thousand words. One man’s “wealth redistribution” is another man’s “tax reform,” but lately both terms are code for even less disposable income for those just launching themselves into the job market. We worship the wealthy in the U.S. Nobody has a problem with the six heirs to Sam Walton’s Walmart having a net worth greater than the bottom 42% of Americans combined, but make no mistake their six fat straws are drawing from the communal milkshake. Good for them and Sam Walton; I don’t begrudge them their wealth at all. I do know the country was better off when the top tax rates were a bit higher. I was there. I seriously doubt that the small percentage of us who gravitate toward motorcycles has grown any smaller; blaming the youngsters for a faltering motorcycle industry is a classic case of blaming the victim (even if E-i-C Duke deduced in this editorial that fewer kids today are riding bicycles, creating a bigger hurdle to riding a motorcycle one day). Meanwhile, the people who do have a few bucks continue to keep Harley-Davidson, BMW and other builders of upscale motos afloat. Ducati and its Scramblers are one bright spot among several, but my intel is that the average Scrambler buyer is 47 years old. (And that’s not even a bad thing if said 47-year old trades in a nice, clean bike for a disadvantaged youth to pick up on the cheap.) I’m almost ready to throw up my hands and not care anymore, really, since it looks like my own offspring, after taking only five years to secure his four-year degree, appears to have landed a jay-o-bee after he graduates in a few months where he’ll make more than his dear old Dad right out of the chute. I couldn’t be prouder and when it comes to pass, I think it means he’ll be giving back my old R1 – and maybe even the old Ranger truck. First thing he wanted to know when he called me with the news, was ‘what’s up with that new Ducati Supersport anyway?’ He thinks he needs one. I think I’m going to offer him a smoking R1/Ranger package deal and see if I can finally achieve the Buell XB-9S of my dreams, then pull up the prosperity ladder behind me. I’m glad we’re able to have this discussion without getting into politics. What’s a nice pre-owned RC213V-S down to now? Maybe I’ll get one of them… Whatever: Moto Inequality appeared first on Motorcycle.com.