Friday night and the EggHead Forum option of the forum choices is eerie quiet- I need to get a life!

lousubcap

There is some rich recent history embedded in this thread.

Keeping on the opening theme- SOSDD here (and a one time explanation-Same Ol' $hit, Different Day).  But it is early although LEO is calling.

Have a great weekend all. 

lousubcap

One more time with gusto- Pulse check-

Not even approaching LEO now but that is the evening's end-game. 

JohnInCarolina

A bit sad to see that my mission to ruin the forum has finally been accomplished.

Buckwoody Egger

The low view counts on recently created threads make me wonder what, if anything, could be cause célèbre.

GrateEggspectations

I suspect the issue is we have a few (great) funnel threads, which serve to absorb content from what would otherwise be one-off posts. Between WAYDN and WAYCTD, that eliminates almost all of what I would otherwise be posting as new threads. 

Buckwoody Egger

Well now maybe that’s a good thing since the thread view is now like a dodge challenger rear window.  

Ozzie_Isaac

Apparently this is a thing now.

Legume

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Apparently this is a thing now.

I guess a tip jar on the bumper would just fly off.

Buckwoody Egger

Hello from the 11th annual to the 26th.  

Ozzie_Isaac

Heard about this new members only club.  Not sure what it has to offer?

JohnInCarolina

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Heard about this new members only club.  Not sure what it has to offer?

There’s only one way to find out?

Ybabpmuts

Liquor in the front poker in the rear

lousubcap

Once again-Friday night and early but the precursors are fairly quiet and they are solid indicators.

I've got nothing to juice this place up these days other than below are the generation labels assigned to your age:

"The definitions are not official. However, based on widespread consensus as well as new Gen Z analysis by the Pew Research Center, and the one generation defined by the U.S. Census Bureau (Baby Boomers), these are the birth years and ages of the generations you’ll want to use in 2023.

Note: Generation names are based on when members of that generation become adults (18-21)."

Generations	Born	Current Ages
Gen Z	1997 – 2012	11 – 26
Millennials	1981 – 1996	27 – 42
Gen X	1965 – 1980	43 – 58
Boomers II (a/k/a Generation Jones)*	1955 – 1964	59 – 68
Boomers I*	1946 – 1954	69 – 77
Post War	1928 – 1945	78 – 95
WWII	1922 – 1927	96 – 101

Langner91

I have a handful of theories.

lousubcap

Langner91 said:

I have a handful of theories.

Feel free to offer in whatever vein you choose.  Just looking for the causes (yours and others) such that this place can address. 

Botch

I have a theory on "handfuls".  

Langner91

Is it handfuls, or hands full?

Botch

I don't know.  

Canugghead

I'll play. People forgot how to park on a steep incline with curbs?

lousubcap

I would offer that the physical location/size of the hand full would frame the final assessment.  A hand full of richard or a hand full of pus-y on Friday slow forum night...never mind other attributes. 

RRP

lousubcap said:

Once again-Friday night and early but the precursors are fairly quiet and they are solid indicators.

I've got nothing to juice this place up these days other than below are the generation labels assigned to your age:

"The definitions are not official. However, based on widespread consensus as well as new Gen Z analysis by the Pew Research Center, and the one generation defined by the U.S. Census Bureau (Baby Boomers), these are the birth years and ages of the generations you’ll want to use in 2023.

Note: Generation names are based on when members of that generation become adults (18-21)."

Generations	Born	Current Ages
Gen Z	1997 – 2012	11 – 26
Millennials	1981 – 1996	27 – 42
Gen X	1965 – 1980	43 – 58
Boomers II (a/k/a Generation Jones)*	1955 – 1964	59 – 68
Boomers I*	1946 – 1954	69 – 77
Post War	1928 – 1945	78 – 95
WWII	1922 – 1927	96 – 101

Oh BOY!!! after all these years and I am now 79 years young I was under the impression that having been born in July ‘44 that I was a  “boomer” and now I see I was not! Do any REAL boomers want to buy any carefully cared for boomer t-shirts, hats, etc??? 

Actually I am kidding as I have none…but I do have a t-shirt I bought back in the ‘70’s when I was subscribing to racy MADD magazine…or was that PLAYBOY or…OH CRAP or was it Mechanics Illustrated?

GrateEggspectations

@Canugghead

Seems like a lost art. That being said, I don’t recall ever having seen a car give way on an incline (other than one I was a passenger in, which went from a “parked” position - neutral with no handbrake - to rolling down a hill into a ravine at a party when I was about 15. We all jumped out just in time to see it take off at a good clip).

Having never owned one, I’m curious if the cars with parallel parking assistance crank the wheels at the end. I’m guessing not. 

dbCooper

Canugghead said:

I'll play. People forgot how to park on a steep incline with curbs?

I believe that practice faded away in the mid 1960's, once automatic transmissions received a "P" (park) position on the gear selector. 

Still is a prudent thing to do, but rarely see it.

Langner91

My youngest is 25 (soon to be 26), so she took driver training/instruction/education 10 years ago.  I remember being surprised they did not teach that to her.  I explained the reasons to her because I am a dinosaur and she was voted most likely to have a manual transmission between her and her sister.  It is a dying practice from the past, I fear.  

Kinda like posting on this forum.

Canugghead

Langner91 said:It'

My youngest is 25 (soon to be 26), so she took driver training/instruction/education 10 years ago.  I remember being surprised they did not teach that to her.  I explained the reasons to her because I am a dinosaur and she was voted most likely to have a manual transmission between her and her sister.  It is a dying practice from the past, I fear.  

Kinda like posting on this forum.

A dying art indeed.

Speaking of driver education I learned a technique from my daughter’s driver education notes eons ago that is a game changer for me - how to position the vehicle when waiting to turn left. It's not as rare as incline parking, may be we should save this for next Friday 

alaskanassasin

Yesterday we test drove a BMW I4 because I have never driven a battery car before, The sales lady said if you pull into someones driveway and can't get turned around the car will use its memory to back you out completely up to like 160'.  Also it auto backs into spots and parallel parks on its own.  Times are changing.

Legume

alaskanassasin said:

Yesterday we test drove a BMW I4 because I have never driven a battery car before, The sales lady said if you pull into someones driveway and can't get turned around the car will use its memory to back you out completely up to like 160'.  Also it auto backs into spots and parallel parks on its own.  Times are changing.

Perfect.  That's gonna be my getaway car when I start criming.

Canugghead

@dbCooperI wonder if it's still taught/practised/enforced in SF. 

Canugghead

alaskanassasin said:

Yesterday we test drove a BMW I4 because I have never driven a battery car before, The sales lady said if you pull into someones driveway and can't get turned around the car will use its memory to back you out completely up to like 160'.  Also it auto backs into spots and parallel parks on its own.  Times are changing.

Imagine taking a driver licence road test in a Tesla on autopilot.  Don't know if anything changed, if you take a road test across the Pond back in the day with an automatic transmission (rare) car, you can't drive one with stick shift.

Canugghead

Friday night bump. Who practises the S-turn manoeuvre when entering dedicated left-turn lanes?