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Formula 1 for me. (europe.pub)
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[–] 18 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Skoolies for me. A few years ago I bought a used school bus and started converting it into a motorhome. I made an account at the main forum (skoolie.net) because there were people there that actually knew useful stuff, primarily about metalworking (which I'd never done before) and the mechanical aspects of bus ownership (which I still don't know shit about).

Surprisingly (or maybe not) skooliers heavily tend towards being right-wing, trump-loving, gun-toting, immigrant-hating wankers. There are exceptions but they always end up being driven away. The thought of going to one of the annual skoolie gatherings is nightmare fuel for me.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    skooliers heavily tend towards being right-wing, trump-loving, gun-toting, immigrant-hating wankers.

    Years ago my dad bought an old school bus because he wanted to convert it into a motor home with private bathroom and a garage in the back for his motorcycle for trips to the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.

    Apart from the fact that he never got around to doing any work on the bus and eventually gave up and unloaded it on someone, your description would have been completely accurate.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Your dad did the right thing. I got mine 95% done at the cost of tens of thousands of dollars and arthritis basically everywhere, just for the honor of paying $100 a month to park it at a U-haul lot. I know how to weld and rivet now, just as useless as the bus.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 months ago* (4 children)

    all the people i have known in metalwork or maker spacers were all far-left and kept injecting their politics and insecurity about being 'authentic' and 'cool' into everything. it's a major turn off.

    i have no idea how heating up pieces of metal to merge them together or other stuff like that has anything to do with politics, but people can't help themselves. Also these spaces in my experience... were all well-off white people desperately trying to 'signal' they were not like 'white people'.

    anyways, i take those kinda classes and hobby things at adult education centers and libraries and such... because no politics. a lot older crowd though but a lot less massive insecurity and injection of identity insecurity into everything. turns out the really cool people are the boring uncool ones.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    insecurity about being ‘authentic’

    This insecurity about being authentic has pervaded so many things, even absent any real political food. LIke people will suddenly whip out "You know, nachos aren't really authentic Mexican food, they're Tex-Mex cuisine." Okay, what do you expect me to do in that situation, spit it out and go "Ugh, that's disgusting!" Authentic or not, they're still delicious. I totally get pursuing authenticity when you're trying to preserve a culture and are worried it's under threat, but it gets brought into absolutely ridiculous contents, often by people who have no real basis or authority to be the arbiters of authenticity for what they're discussing in the first place as a way to try and make themselves seem more worldly.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    What. Have you ever been to Texas? Queso is tex-mex. Nachos are something else. Queso is better.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Wasn't really a competition, just for illustrating a point. I've only passed through Texas for a layover, but honestly, Texas as a state has zero appeal to me. I'd rather just go to Mexico for better versions of pretty much anything in Texas that's remotely interesting to me, while avoiding a fair chunk of the things that make Texas so miserable a prospect to me in the first place.

    Besides, Texans might have improved upon nachos at some point, but claiming you have a superior version doesn't invalidate that nachos have already been widely accepted as a Tex-Mex dish. "Nachos are a Tex-Mex dish" is the opening to the wiki article on them, with 8 different citations to back up that claim.

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