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This is brilliant. I'm now going enunciate Canadian domains (such as Google.ca) as "Google see, eh?". In my day, women just did that for fun.
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GDT GDT: Buffalo at NY Rangers 7:00 pm ET, 1/3/2017, NBCSN
MattPie replied to Doohickie's topic in The Aud Club
FWIW, the NHL average for goals scored per game this year is 2.68 and ranges between 3.46 (CBJ) and 2.05 (COL) (BUF is 2.14). I'm not surprised that the Sabres are pretty good when scoring more than 2, as there are only 5 teams that average 3 or more goals. https://www.sportingcharts.com/nhl/stats/team-goals-per-game/2016/ -
Congrats d4rk! Get West Herr to put some winter tires on it now and get a set of 20s with summer tires for June. :)
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Japanese does it, I think. You soften a statement with "day sun a" (long a sound) which translates to "is it not". This just in: How about we stop at Panera's in Williamsport for lunch? -- MrsPie
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Do be honest, it only seems to come up for me when the surface is chunky or bumpy, and even then all it feels like is bike mildly lurches forward a bit mid-stop. I've only noticed it a handful of times in the 73,000 miles I have on the bike. On dry or wet pavement, the tires these days are so good it doesn't even activate. This will throw you for a loop: my bike as servo-assist power brakes. Most people seem to hate them, but as this is my first street bike I don't mind them because I'm not used to anything else. And man, my bike may be under-powered and overweight (like me), but BMW didn't skimp at all on the brakes; they're *so* good and with ABS you can just grab all it without worrying. Forgot to post this earlier this week: My house went from snow to 32 and rain on Saturday, to 55 and rain on Sunday, and back to 22 Monday morning.
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I think my mom does that, I'll have to keep an ear out for it while I'm in town.
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Entente II: World War Bugaloo I think this is well known: The Archduke Franz Ferdinand was shot when his car happened to stall in front a cafe where the assassin was sitting after the first attack earlier that day failed. Dumb luck ended up killing millions. (Note, I said dumb luck, not the President-Elect with a very similar-sounding description. ;))
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This wouldn't surprise me; the team has enough to worry about outside of the "maybe we'll see this every 5 games" drill.
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GDT: Buffalo Sabres at Florida Panthers 7:30 PM EST 12/20/2016
MattPie replied to The Dominator's topic in The Aud Club
Last one, I promise: if [ git checkout yourself == false ] ; then rec yourself ; fi -
GDT: Buffalo Sabres at Florida Panthers 7:30 PM EST 12/20/2016
MattPie replied to The Dominator's topic in The Aud Club
Somehow, I think this isn't the venue for code humor, pal. git rm yourself! -
Oh myyyyy... http://www.victorybeer.com/beers/java-cask/ Hint: it's a 750ml, and as strong as wine. Under no circumstances drink a couple Storm Kings on either side of it.
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Interesting point there: at what point does Sammy decide to not sign with the TT-led Bills and go to a team that has a throwing QB? It's gotta creep in that Tyrod isn't going to make him a star and you only get one ot two chances in the NFL to do that.
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Missing poster formation; the lost please check in
MattPie replied to Stoner's topic in The Aud Club
That one too, although it's not one I immediately think of. -
The only way I change that is given the two centers we have now (not then), *maybe* a natural winger would be my pick, but that has nothing to do with Samson's play. Having three solid true centers is never a bad thing.
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Missing poster formation; the lost please check in
MattPie replied to Stoner's topic in The Aud Club
Must be, because it's either the American Medical Association or American Motorcycle Association. -
There are certainly people that have the ability to outperform ABS. I think Doohickie is on the right path though that the set of people that are better than ABS, in a situation that they can significantly outperform ABS, and (this is the big one) they're prepared and focused to perform maximum effort braking is vanishingly small. It's one thing to beat ABS in tests where the driver is ready to perform the maximum for each test, it's another to be that vigilant on your entire 40-minute commute home on a Wednesday night. I consider myself a student of the driving arts (ha), but I know that in panic braking situations I'm not that good. A motorcycle magazine ran ABS vs. not tests awhile back and for that test, the best humans could do bested the ABS by 2 ft in stopping distance on dry pavement. On wet, only one guy could beat ABS consistently and when asked, he was using tricks like, "well, the manhole is only 2 ft wide so I can just let the front tire slide over that and it'll be fine, where the ABS detected the lock-up but didn't recover immediately when it got back onto pavement. My bike has ABS; I know that in an emergency it'll be better than me.
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Game discussion thread GDT: Kings at Sabres 7PM 12-13-16
MattPie replied to spndnchz's topic in The Aud Club
Man, how can you tell what shoes they're wearing? (hey, o.) -
I feel I should say something about tires. Modern snow tires are the bomb. If I lived where it snowed a lot I would have them on all my cars. I narrowly made the decision to put all-seasons on Van-dor a couple weeks ago. If not for it requiring run-flat tires, I would have seriously considered putting snows on and then getting new rims and tires in the spring. What do yo think?
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Ouch Kane, 4th line on the wrong wing?
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Year? The early stuff was OK, but not great. The newer stuff is a lot better. For instance, the computer doesn't just see the wheel locked up, it notices if one wheel is slowing down faster than the rest or if the wheels are slowing down faster than the car should be able to (i. e., it knows the car can't go from 60-0 in 1 second) and adjusts. I should look up some studies to see. Now, there are situations where ABS doesn't make sense. Gravel is one, where apparently the vehicle will stop better with a locked up tire as it will plow a small hill in front of the tire which has more friction to push than a rolling wheel. I could see the same thing applying to snow, although I'm more skeptical as to how often that happens.
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Y'all are crazy if you don't like ABS. It's way better at minimum stopping distance than any person (other than a pro in controlled conditions).
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Yep. That McD's was "cited" for serving the coffee too hot several times before that incident. They were serving it near boiling.
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Yep, I used to eat like that too at that age. Enjoy it while it lasts. (Small beef and 10 wings is around 3 wings too many when I go to Bar Bill now)
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I don't think traction control actually locks the wheels, at least not modern systems. I usually leave it on, although I barely notice it working either. That could be because I have a WRX with Sporty Winter Tires and a sense of how to drive. I'm not some FWD driver mashing on the gas figuring the car will go faster.
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I love that these posts are consecutive, even if they're not talking about the same player.