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you know what fuck it im gonna liveblog fast x
first off.
brother you are driving an automatic Touareg. what are you shifting up
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I don't know what goat I have to sacrifice to which deity to get Ford to stop calling and texting me thinking I'm my partner (this after speaking to them several times EACH and saying "no, please remove this number and use the other one on file. yes, that one.")
#today it's because they want him to rate their service#ma'am you do not want him to do that lol#but also I'm petty enough to rate you 1 on everything bc you're fucking annoying me#i know you HAVE to.#but also you are#not listening#and also drilled a hole in his truck for a cosmetic change you didn't clear with him#and made it look worse in the process so#anyway#pro tip#mavericks are very nice. but also have electrical issues#like. out the ass.#sad.#lp bitches#car things
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Crowley's Tool
For the love of all that is earthly. I AM SHIT WITH CAR BREEDS AND TRADE TOOLS.
What on EARTH is the thing Crowley uses for his time powers.
It kinda looks like a tire iron, but also like a wrench or something. It spins, so it's like a crank???? It was IN the Bentley when it exploded. It flew out of the Bentley so and it would make sense if it was a car part, but WHAT PART???
Did Crowley put his fucking time power tool thing inside the Bentley??? Or did he like the Bentley because it had a tool/device that looked like his time power tool???
Please, someone take pity on me and my lack of car understandings.
What the fuck is it called. I need to be able to fucking name the thing and not have to edit this fucking fic five billion times as I try to decide what the fuck to call the fucking thing
#good omens#please I'm begging you#car things#cars befuddle and confuse me and I hate them#I don't care if that can be read as playing into gender roles#I just fucking hate them#ughhhhhhh#someone bless me with knowledge#come and infodump on me#please#I am in need of someone with a special interest or hyperfixation or just someone who generally likes cars#kit rambles
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hey guys, I have had A Day™️ and I’ve not written todays october prompt yet. It’s only 8.20pm and I’m hoping I’ll be able to pull something out my ass before midnight but if I don’t I’m very very sorry!
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Might drive you crazy💜
#tiddy tuesday#moparaddicts#car things#charger#car girl#sadgirl#borderline personality disorder#reblog
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I saw this and I feel like its wrong in a way. Is it? Perhaps. Perhaps not.
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Will people finally stop rubbing their noses over my car windows? Likely not.
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Shout out to whoever used the hand of god to tighten my oil pan bolt.
I wanted to do my own oil but fuck me I guess.
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what is with men being mad any time a woman raises her voice where did that even come from. someone posted a video of a small electrical explosion, and the top comment was of course the woman screams. the second comment is women try not to scream challenge, level impossible. i had to go back and watch the video again. there is, somewhat fainty, a little gasp emitted off-camera, more of a yelp than a scream. it is mostly lost in the crack of the explosion. afterwards, you hear her voice, shaken, say, are you okay?
i am helping one of my friends train her voice pitch lower, because she wants to be taken seriously at work. she and i do each other's nails and talk about gender roles; and how - due to our appearance - neither of us have ever been able to be "hysterical" in public. we both appear young and sweet and feminine. she is cisgender, and cannot use her natural voice in her profession because people keep saying she appears to be "vapid". we both try to figure out if our purposeful voice lowering is technically sexist. is it promoting something when you are a victim to it?
a storm almost sends a pole through a car window. in the dashcam, you can hear the woman passenger say her partner's name twice, crying out in alarm. she sounds terrified. in the comments, she is lambasted for her lack of calm. how is that even fucking helping?
in high school, i taught myself to have a lower voice. i had been recorded when i was genuinely (and righteously) upset; and i hated how my voice sounded on the phone speakers when it was played back. i was defending my mom, and my voice cracked with emotion. it meant i was no longer winning the argument: i was just shrieking about it.
girls meet each other after a long summer and let out a little joyful scream. this usually stops around 12-14, because people will not tolerate this display of affection (as it has the effect of being passingly annoying). something about the fact that little girls can't ever even be annoying. we are trained to examine each part of our lives (even joy) for anything that could make us upsetting and disgusting. they act like teenage girls are breaking into houses and shrieking you awake at 3 in the morning. speaking as a public school educator: trust me, it's not that bad, you can just roll your eyes and move on. it does not compare to the ways boys end up being annoying: slurs in graffiti, purposefully mocking your body, following you after you said no. you know, just boy things.
there's another video of a man who is not allowed to yell in the house, so he snaps his fingers when he's excited about soccer. the comments are full of angry men, talking about how their brother is unfairly caged. let him express himself and this is terrible to do to someone. eventually the couple has to address it in a second video: they are married with a newborn baby. he was trying not to wake the infant up. there is no comment on the fact women are not allowed to yell indoors. or the fact that it could have been really alarming or triggering for his wife. sometimes i wonder if straight men even like women, if they even enjoy being in relationships with them.
for the longest time, i hated roller coasters because it always felt inappropriate and uncomfortable for me to scream. one of my friends called me on it, said it was unusual i'm so unwilling. i had to go to my therapist about it. i don't like to scream because i was not raised in a safe situation, and raising my voice would have brought unsafe attention towards me. even when i am supposed to scream, it feels shameful, guilty. i was not treated kindly, so i lack a basic form of self-protection. this is not a natural response. it is not good that in a situation of high adrenaline - i shut up about it.
something very bad is happening, i think. in between all the beauty standards and the stuff i've already discussed - this one feels new and cruel in a way i can't quite express. yes, it's scary and silencing. but there's something about how direct it is - that so many men agree with the sentiment that women should never yell, even in an emergency - it feels different.
is the word shriek gendered automatically? how about shrill or screech? in self defense class, one of the first things they tell you is to yell, as loud and as shrilly as you can. they say it will feel rude. most women will not do this. you need to practice overcoming the social pressure and just scream.
most women do not cry out, even when it's bad. we do not report it. we walk faster. we do not make a scene. what would be the point of doing anything else? no matter what we do, we don't get taken seriously. it is a joke to them. an instagram caption punchline. we have to present ourselves as silent, beautiful, captivating - "valuable."
a woman is outside watching her kids when someone throws a firecracker at them. she screams and runs towards her children. in the comments, grown men flock together in the thousands: god. women are so annoying.
#warm up#writeblr#this one has bothered me for a bit#any time a woman does something even passingly annoying we treat it like a fucking crime#hey man. women are allowed to be annoying. everyone forever is allowed to be passingly annoying#as long as they aren't hurting anyone/thing#like u wanna know something? i find it super annoying that men don't wear seatbelts#why arent there thousands of comments on driving videos thats just like : men try not to die in a car crash challenge#''this briefly annoyed me''. okay??????? AND????????????????? go get ur self a cookie and calm down about it#ur not entitled to control other ppl's experiences and emotions just so u can maintain ur own peace#if being briefly annoyed ruins ur whole day! you! need! therapy!!!!#men try not to become immediately angry about nothing challenge: level impossible#ps author is nonbinary. we didn't even get into the gender presentation thing#the fact men think it's SEXY that my voice is on the lower end....
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My car just ran out of gas, lmao time to go walking home at night😅😭😭🤣🤣🤣🤣😎😎
#personal#car thoughts#car things#I personally find it funny#maybe if I want listening to talking heads it wouldn’t happen
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Just parallel parked for the first time in a year and a half since I got my licence. Which is roughly two years since the first time I ever parallel parked.
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Hey, hi and hello, it's @brick-enthusiast coming at you from the sideblog again!
As part of a friendly agreement with @things-about-cars-in-posts, I am here to introduce another race car.
You know Peugeot? In recent years, the French brand is probably best known for fighting tooth and nail to shake a reputation of dullness. However, you've probably heard - or perhaps you remember - that Peugeot used to be a whole lot more cool.
Well, this story takes place a little bit after that. Less than a year after the last story I told, in fact, in 1995. And the similarities between the two don't end there.
The car in question is the then-new Peugeot 806.
By all means a run-of-the-mill, boring people carrier, unveiled in 1994.
PSA Group had co-developed it with Fiat, so it was also sold as a Citroen, a Lancia and a Fiat.
(As you may remember from a recent post by @things-about-cars-in-posts!)
Anyway! Peugeot wanted to do something to promote their version of the so-called Eurovan. Someone, half-jokingly, suggested to take it to the racetrack.
That someone was Pascal Witmauer, the man in charge of Peugeot's advertising in Belgium, as well as marketing for the Belgian Procar racing series. Peugeot's "promotional event" was set to be 1995's running of the Spa 24 Hours.
A 24-hour endurance race, yes.
A 24-hour endurance race that was happening at the end of July. It was May.
The project was handed over to Kronos Racing, a Belgian racing team that would go on to build successful Peugeots and Citroens for the circuit as well as dirt. And well, they did complete it.
As much as a parts-bin-special it might have been, the Peugeot 806 Procar was a serious racing machine. Its interior was stripped of anything non-essential, the 8 factory seats were replaced by a single carbon bucket and a roll cage.
The engine and drivetrain were a mix of parts from the 306 Maxi rally car and the outgoing 405 Mi16 circuit racer, while the then-new 406 Supertourisme donated a 6-speed sequential gearbox.
The van's speed certainly didn't lag behind. It qualified 12th overall and third(!) in its class. Not to mention that it certainly stood out in a field full of contemporary BMW 3-series and French hot hatchbacks.
By the start of the race, the big white box was already the crowd favorite. Pascal Witmeur (who also happened to be one of the 806's three drivers) recounts:
“Every time we passed by Raidillon¹, people were applauding. The public liked it, because apart from being atypical, it was often on two wheels!"
¹ a corner on the Spa-Francorchamps track
Unfortunately, mechanical issues didn't take long to show up. The team ran into brake problems an hour into the race. The engine itself gave out before the 10-hour mark, leading to a DNF for the Peugeot.
Not that it mattered to the public though. The touring van single-handedly improved the image of all MPV's² - not just the French-Italian quadruplets. Peugeot of Belgium had 5000 posters printed - all of which were given away signed by Witmeur.
"For a few hours, I was more more famous than Johnny Hallyday³!"
he laughs, admitting it was likely that many workers from Peugeot's local Sevel Nord⁴ factory came to see the race.
² multi-purpose vehicles in case you don't know, European for "minivans"
³ iconic French singer, composer and actor, regarded as "the French Elvis Presley"
⁴ that's where the 806 was assembled. Note the logo on the side of the race car's front bumper!
The very same Peugeot 806 Procar is still around to this day. After the race, it was reportedly kept by one Jean-Pierre Montron - founder of Kronos Racing - until his passing. It went up for sale in 2020 (wherein it had a bunch of articles I could use as sources written about it) and again in late 2022, when it failed to sell at auction.
Thank you for reading <3
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the tension between me and the potentially cute boy in my rearview mirror
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Huh.
So I randomly remembered Croc is pretty much Italian.
#if Buggy had wheels he'd go Chop-Chop Car#this might be the stupidest thing I put effort in#Anyway I love them#One Piece#Cross Guild#Dracule Mihawk#Sir Crocodile#Crocodile One Piece#Buggy the Clown#OP Spoilers#One Piece Spoilers#just to be safe#in greek we say the same thing but use “scooter” instead#which is arguably dumber#Mihawk doesn't think highly of Buggy he's just guessing the wasted potential#nnobodiusart
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Human that comes up out of no where: Hey! I'm hoping you can save my life! My car won't start and they told me to go find Alex
Me: you came to the right human. You're parked up front right? Meet me up there and I'll get you squared away
I drive my car over, get my jumper cables out, get everything ready to go, get in her car, press the ignition start
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'ignition ON'
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Huh . . . I look down . . . And i put the car in park from where it had been living in drive . . . Lo and behold . . . Car starts right up
But hey, she gave me 20 bucks so who am I to complain about people doing stupid shit
#car things#is this relatable#common sense#why do i work here#why does this keep happening#why do i do this to myself#what the fuck#what are you doing#stupid people#lord help us all#i wanna cry
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imagine: you get your memories back after years of amnesia to find out your whole species is dead and earth doesn’t exist anymore. that the only thing left of your culture is your weird ex and his busted honda civic that barely even works that he stole from the government when he was 13. And he’s been taking members of an alien species for trips in his honda civic and they’re all like “woah it’s so cool” and you get upset because it’s NOT COOL it’s a honda civic, the turn signals don’t even work “wow it can go up hills” yeah OF COURSE IT CAN GO UP HILLS EVERY CAR COULD DO THAT. but they’ve never seen a car before so everything it does is the coolest thing ever. And your ex’s only tool is a fucking screwdriver which is somehow also cool to this dumbass alien species even though it’s a fucking screwdriver so you just look like an idiot screaming about how none of this is even cool it’s actually really shitty but your whole planet is gone so you can’t even prove it but also you’ve had a constant drumming sounding in your head since you were 10 slowly driving you insane. I would become evil too.
#This metaphor might have gotten away from me#Whatever#the master#toschei#doctor who#tardis#the doctor#Companion: wow it can actually fully reverse and go backwards!#The master: *seething bc EVERY CAR CAN DO THAT*#I would be so mad if the only thing left of my culture was my ex and his terrible car#That he doesn’t even have a license to drive#Tensimm#J watches drwho#I really wanna draw this but I don’t have any artistic ability due to there being no apples in my brain#Plus your ex kinda wants to fuck the car
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