#bb-Auto

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Porsche bb-Auto Targa Hybrid, 2024 (1986), by Galpin Auto Sports. A restomod based on a 1986 911 Targa wide body built to celebrate the 50th anniversary of German tuning house bb-Auto. The car references the German tuners Rainbow 911 Turbo Targa of 1976 but has been updated with a 4.0-litre flat-6 engine by Ed Pink Racing, paired with a Vonnen hybrid system, delivering a combined 550hp. There is also updated suspension and brakes. Galpin plan to make a limited number of their restomod replicas, each can be customized to the owner’s specifications.

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Cayman GT4

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Let’s be real, we needed more Bernie Crane 😭🙏 it’s a shame there’s no option where you can hang out with him after the game 😭

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Called it.

I think they did multiple things right with the bullying storyline in this week's ep of Dangerous Romance - to start with:

having Sailom be perceptive enough and emotionally capable enough to know that his friends would need some open, honest discussion with and apologies from the people who bullied them, in order to move forward.

having Sailom demonstrate - for both his friends and the audience - the value he places on his friendships by insisting that Kanghan at least make an effort before Sailom was willing to actually pursue a relationship with him.

having Sailom set this not just as a condition, but as a test for Kanghan - is Kanghan the kind of person willing to work to repair injuries he caused, or will he balk? And if he's not willing, is he the kind of guy you're going to feel safe trusting your heart to? We already know Sailom is smart enough to listen to his instincts and do the mental calculus when it comes to whether he feels safe with Kanghan, and this is important additional data for him.

I'm not ... necessarily ... faulting the writers on all of this when I compare Pran's actions in Bad Buddy to Sailom's actions here in Ep 7, because I feel like Pran's almost complete lack of processing re: Pat's bullying behavior and what happened between Pat/Engineering and Wai/Architecture is kind of consistent with Pran's overall characterization. Pran hides what's going on and desperately tries to maintain his secrets, behavior that he's learned from dealing with his mom; he's known Pat longer than he's known any of his friends at college - even Wai; and he also just flat-out doesn't have the kind of high emotional quotient that Sailom does. I love Pran a lot - a lot of my intermittent drive to commit violence on Pat is kicked up by the fact that there are several times when he makes Pran sad, so I threaten to remove his lungs with a spoon - but I also notice there are times, particularly in the beginning of BB, when Wai has to walk Pran through not only typical social interaction but through processing and understanding and accepting his own emotions. Wai and Pran are primed for the kind of complete breakdown of their relationship that influences Wai's (very bad) decision to drop that curtain at least partially because when Pran lies to Wai about what's actually going on and pushes him away in order to keep his secrets, Pran loses the very person who we've seen help him navigate sticky interpersonal situations (a role that, on the other side, Pa fills for Pat). It's a cycle of breakdown that feeds on itself.

ANYWAY, what I do fault the writers on in BB is that the narrative, itself, does a miserable job of recognizing that any of these apologies and reconciliation work are necessary - at no point does the narrative come up with any other way to point out to Pran, "You know, maybe your friends are mad because you're surprise!dating a guy who spent a lot of time getting together with his friends in order to kick the shit out of them and make their lives miserable in various ways? Oh, and, who skived off to go to a concert instead of working on the mutual project they were supposed to be participating in." Not even Wai, once they're speaking again, has this particular conversation with Pran. Or, I don't know, make it a conversation with Pa and Pat, where she explains why of course Wai doesn't like him. Instead, down the memory hole it goes.

From discussion I've seen around and about, I feel like a lot of people expected the same thing to happen in Dangerous Romance. But the fact we've circled back around to it gives me hope that I don't just have my clown shoes on and we're also going to circle back around to some of the other issues that are explicitly simmering in the background, like Kanghan just hauling Sailom around by the wrist to wherever he wants him every time he gets jealous. Or the fact that even though Sailom keeps trying to insist that money can't buy everything, he's getting undercut not just by Auto wanting drinks and air conditioning and whatever else Kanghan's money can buy them, but also by the fact that Kanghan's money not only very much has bought Sailom - who's sold himself into a kind of indentured servitude to pay off his family's debts - but also has installed him in the bedroom right next door to Kanghan's.

Or like Kanghan's behavior pattern of just opening Sailom's door whenever he wants and walking in like he owns the place and can go anywhere he wants - a pattern we've already seen changing in this ep, when, sure, he acts like he's going to open the bedroom door in order to get Sailom to respond to him, but he then not only waits to be invited in but makes it explicit that him coming in is contingent on receiving an invitation.

Meanwhile, another thing I felt like the show did well with the bullying storyline this ep was the fact that Auto and Guy had different, individual responses to the apologies and overtures from Kanghan and his crew, and Guy was allowed to take longer to process his feelings and decide whether to have any kind of relationship at all with Kanghan. I had a bad moment at the beginning of the soccer game when I worried that he was going to be painted as unreasonably obstinate by the narrative, when no, he actually doesn't owe Kanghan any kind of forgiveness or interaction just because Kanghan apologized. Fortunately, they were just giving him the time and space that character needed to process and make decisions, and I really liked that.

It wasn't particularly surprising to me that the final barriers broke down in the face of a common enemy. Both of them wanted blood from Team Yellow, the enemy of my enemy, and all. That's one of the places that I felt like BB at least managed to shorthand some of the interpersonal work that would have needed to be done - by giving them a common project. Nobody on that show was able to use their gd words, but at least they could work at building bridges through actions like mutual projects.

Anyway, I've already seen at least one person comment "Wai wishes he could" on a gif of Guy finally telling Sailom to go get his man, after the soccer game, and yeah. I bet Wai did wish he could have gotten 1) an apology and some upfront reconciliation attempts from the guys who physically assaulted him and his friends as well as harassing him at and potentially endangering his job, 2) a best friend who understood that apologies and bridge-building were both deserved and needed, and 3) the necessary time to process those actions and his feelings about them.

I'm glad to see the improvement, Dangerous Romance.

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Team owner/Driver Pierre Honegger at Viraje de Mulsanne

24 Hours of Le Mans 1980

Photo: © Jean-Luc Chéti

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I recently got obsessed back into the gta, mgta au I had, so I started drawing that and then just decided to do a gta smitty design somewhat true to his in game character, aside from that enjoy my skrunklies :D

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BB! I PULLED HIM! I PULLED ANOTHER QIN SHI HUANG!

He's now NP 4 and that is excessive. Can't wait a whole year for him to come on the banner again so I can have a change to NP 5 him.

WOOO CONGRATSSS! Hey listen. Nothing is excessive when it comes to your favourites! I also have the same goal with Arthur when his banner is back up again! (He's also NP4!) In fact, I'm playing my games solely for my faves. (male MC in HSR, Saber in Fate GO, Solomon in Obey Me etc for me at least there's no shame in that. We should all have the right to openly express our love for our faves! This is a no judgement zone!!)

And thanks for actually reminding me to play FGO. xD I haven't gotten Ex as permanent yet and I believe the event's almost ending. I used up some embers for her already lmao too lazy to farm.

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Being on the ace spectrum and on testosterone is such a weird experience because my mind is chill, just living life, horny never really coming to mind. But then BOOM stick is yearning to be touched and teased, fighting my me when I just need to study

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bb Porsche Turbo Targa Moonracer, 2014. After a 28 year hiatus Rainer Buchmann relaunched his bb brand at Frankfurt in 2014 with a reinterpretation of 1976 bb 911 Turbo Targa Rainbow. Moving forward 10 years Galpin Motors has announced a collaboration with bb-Auto to introduce the company and its products to the North American market. BB-Auto will make it's North American debut at Monterey Car Week in August with a homage to its original "Polaroid" 911

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Porsche 964

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BB Gun And Knife Impact Test

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