The anything thread.

cyclemike4

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While this is not new and belongs in the T700 forum, thought every body would enjoy it. Some is insane!

Even though I use the older I get the faster I was phrase, Even I could not stretch the truth far enough to say I had balls to try that! haha. I really like those types of videos. I just wonder how many times that bike was broke before they got done with the filming.
 

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And why think that it is of poor quality?….it is only an artisanal method…not industrial

Very interesting to see how things are done in other parts of the world. I have seen a few videos of what I would guess to be the middle east doing work. Everything from welding and machining gears and rear ends in trucks to industrial machine repairs. I have seen all the equipment that we have in the smaller shops around the united states but they seem to want to squat in the dirty floors to do the manual work. If they can build or buy the machines to do machine shop type work why could they not take the time to build a couple work tables out of wood or scrap steel. Different cultures I suppose or this is the way we have always done it type thought process may be. Or I could be the soft American that can't work like that anymore. haha. They are working hard too.
 

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A company that I worked for in the 1980s set up a small assembly plant in Thailand in an effort to ‘globalize’ and hired local workers. They would all squat on the shop floor to do their work and the Canadian managers brought in several work benches so the workers could be more comfortable standing, and the Forman gathered them around and made a demonstration. Next morning the workers were indeed using the work benches, but they had climbed up onto the benches to squat beside their work.
 

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I happened to see this posted on the Ol' Inter web.............. World is crazy folks !



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Not a good time to purchase a Vehicle period. If my car needed replacing I would go back to full time ridding till things become more favorable to the consumer. It’s a sellers market like I have never seen. Been selling them for 20 years.

Not a huge fan of leasing but in this market it might be a good stop gap measure. :)
 

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I happened to see this posted on the Ol' Inter web.............. World is crazy folks !



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I was wondering how the prices I saw in online listings got so high on these Broncos. That last line in the Accessory Package is both unconscionable and a sad sign of our times. Cute little disclaimer at the bottom "This is not a Factory Sticker." This is a base trim, cloth seat entry level Bronco with a lift kit and tire/wheel package that started out with a $37,965 MSRP that ballooned to a $83,455 sticker. And some sucker will buy it (or, more likely at this price, lease it).
 

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This crazy market actually favors leases. I have had several people actually profit from their lease endings to the tune of 5 to 8 k. But unfortunately unless you are thinning the herd you have to jump back in.
 

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The Lone Ranger and Tonto walked into a saloon and sat down to drink a Beer. After a few minutes, a big tall cowboy walked in and said "Who owns the big white horse outside?"
The Lone Ranger stood up, hitched his gun belt, and said, "I do....Why?"
The cowboy looked at the Lone Ranger and said, "I just thought you'd like to know that your horse is about dead!"
The Lone Ranger and Tonto rushed outside and sure enough Silver was ready to die from heat exhaustion. The Lone Ranger got the horse water and soon Silver was starting to feel a little better.
The Lone Ranger turned to Tonto and said, "Tonto, I want you to run around Silver and see if you can create enough of a breeze to make him start to feel better."
Tonto said, "Sure, Kemosabe" and took off running circles around Silver.
Not able to do anything else but wait, the Lone Ranger returned to the saloon to finish his drink. A few minutes later, another cowboy struts into the bar and asks, "Who owns that big white horse outside?"
The Lone Ranger stands again, and claims, "I do, what's wrong with him this time?"
The cowboy looks him in the eye and says,

"Nothing, but you left your injun runnin".

 

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This Cockney i know got off the plane in San Fransisco after a long-haul from Heathrow. Turned to the missus and said "I could murder a fag". The cabbie turned to them and said..."don't say that around here, man".
 

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This Cockney i know got off the plane in San Fransisco after a long-haul from Heathrow. Turned to the missus and said "I could murder a fag". The cabbie turned to them and said..."don't say that around here, man".
Not as good as the American Tourist who asks " Why did they build Windsor Castle so close to the Airport "
 
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