ChickenLadyLovesLife @ ChickenLadyLovesLife @lemmy.world

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A lot of CD units from the 2000s were wired to connect to a 6-CD changer mounted in the trunk, and you can get an adapter cable that provides an AUX input this way. I drive a 2001 BMW and I'm able to play music from my phone over the car stereo with one of these (cost around $50).

This worked a lot better before I was forced to buy a new phone without a fucking headphone jack. I have a USB adapter that works but the signal level is much lower than a normal headphone jack so the maximum volume is a lot lower.

how often do you really get mad enough at someone that you hang up on them?

"I love you."
"I know."

I think that comes from pro wrestling.

The only non-functioning payphones I ever saw were the ones where the handset had been sawn off.

We had a smoking room, but it was only for seniors.

Oldhead here: we slammed the living shit out of those phones.

I thought you were going to say something about naked kickboxing and I was preparing my hardiest "duh".

I was less impressed when I learned that all the actors in that scene were on bicycle seats. But then I was more impressed when I learned they only had one ladder to let them down to take a pee.

Another fun Life of Brian fact: the production re-used the Tunisian sets built for Zeffirelli's Jesus of Nazareth television series. Zeffirelli was furious that the Tunisian authorities allowed this; he apparently did not know how money works.

The whole "high school is the best years of your life" thing was always total bullshit. The drugs are much better in college.

Yeah, M Roadster != M3 lol. The cheapest M Roadster I can find on Autotrader is $16K. Looks really nice, too. God damn it.

I don't know about the swapping thing, but power meter cranks are like a grand. I'd rather buy the regular kind and pay my local mechanic $50 to swap them. Although I've biked about 5000 miles a year for the last 20 years and I've never had to swap cranks.

I bought my second one a few years ago for $8500 with 70K miles on it, with the 2.5L and near-mint condition. You can get the older ones with the 1.8L engines even cheaper, maybe around $5K or so. I've driven most of the roadsters at least once and I think the Z3 is at the top of the list in terms of bang for the buck. Miatas are not bad but they cost around the same (or more) and they don't really have the power and handling of the Z3, although they're generally cheaper to maintain (especially in terms of tires - the back wheels of a Z3 have a severe toe camber so tires barely last 10K miles even with regular rotation). I think a Z3 is easy to find as long as you're willing to buy on eBay or Autotrader (I've bought one on each) and fly somewhere to pick it up. If you're only buying local it would probably be very hard to find one.

My holy grail car is an M Roadster, which looks almost identical to a Z3 but is apparently an entirely different car from the ground up.

I feel more like I'm dancing when I run or cycle in time to music, and that makes it seem more like fun than exercise. Same rationale as when I got high as a kite before/during my runs/rides. When I quit smoking weed, I was very worried that I was also going to quit exercising but that turned out not to be the case, fortunately.

There are peoples in New Guinea where the men walk around with their penis attached to a cord tied around their waist. I had assumed the cord was tied to the head of their penis, but in fact the foreskin was tied around the cord. Hard to fathom for a circumcision victim like myself.

I played naked frisbee on the front lawn of my college once. I thought it would be effortless but in fact it's extremely painful to have your nuts bouncing around unsupported like that. But I kept at it until the Dean of Students came up to me and asked me to put my clothes back on because it was prospective weekend and there were a bunch of high school students with their parents standing off to one side. I thought I was accurately representing what the college was all about but he thought otherwise.

I felt bad years later when I found out the Dean's brother had been murdered in Mississippi during the civil rights era (they even made a Hollywood movie about this incident). He must have felt great knowing his brother had been killed fighting for black people, and he was busy making stupid white boys put their pants back on.

Yeah yeah, that's what I meant.

Z3 master race.

Lol wait til you're peeing five times a night.

I bought a roadster ... which turned out to be probably the best financial decision of my life. $11K (used, obviously) and I drove it for nine years and then resold it for $5K. The thing about roadsters is that they're thoroughly impractical, so dudes buy them and then keep them in a garage for a decade or two and then sell them for next to nothing. I have no friends so I don't even need the one passenger seat let alone a back seat.

If your pedals have power meters, you've gone too far.