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Blowaaaah! (reduex) - YouTube
After driving it, it takes me a couple of days to get the smell of gasoline out of my nose. 
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Nice.
Other than looking really bad-ass cool, what is the real reason for having a "Blowaaaah!" in your car? Does it improve performance?
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Makes it look scary / Mad Maxish!
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A lot. Most of the "new" cars have the turbocharger, that works with the pressure of exhaust. A blowaaaah [it should really be registered as a proper word] uses either the air pressure in front of the car or an internal compressor to achieve the same result. Net gains are improved maximum speed and a hellish acceleration, at the cost of fiendish gasoline expenses.
In modern turbocharged cars the additional compression starts above a cretain RPM treshold in order to consume less gas when driving slow and kick ass when you want to sport a little (or overtake).
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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The real reason is that it's bad-ass cool. I don't care about the extra performance (but it did add 150 RWHP to the car, which forced me to buy different tires).
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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But it doesn't even fit under the bonnet (hood) 
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No.
If you have a hood, you're not making enough powaaaah!
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
modified 20-Mar-17 10:20am.
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Of course it doesn't, what's the point of having it if you can't show it off?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Kick ass man!
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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Love the engine - sounds good.
Have to say my favorite engine sound is still that of pretty much any Jaguar. Sweet purr.
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I'm torn between facepalming at the sheer monstrosity of that thing, and just flat out cheering. That is some pretty awesome work sir.
There's a dude lives not far from me who has a couple of badass Corvettes that sound something like that.
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.
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Don't you worry there's a price in Carbon Credits on your head ?
cheers, Bill
«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
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If anyone feels like they're man enough to come and collect it, I invite them eagerly to the party. 
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I don't care what anyone says, this is turning out to be a fine grocery-getter.
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This is really getting out of hand.
I am falling sleeping in my chair, every night.
It has become so frequent that it is no longer an event, but a process with predictable iterations.
"Dozing off" is not even an accurate term. In fact, I'm going to edit the title of this post and change it to "Konking Out". It's like, "Huh?" and I awaken, and at least an hour has passed, tonight I think it was two or three.
This happens enough to make it a regular nightly event, and I don't like it.
Not only do I dislike it, but this WebMD Article Here reports that it might increase the chance of a stroke.
Has anyone else personally experienced this, and fixed it ?
Google does not lead to very good answers here.
Or, quite possibly, I don't know how to ask the right question.
Just exactly what ARE the factors which increase the likelihood of this ?
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May be you are just tired. BTW, just go for a health check if you feel, urm, different,
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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I once fell asleep in a lecture (about databases). Must have been a long night before and the professor talked in a very monotonous tone.
You are too passive. Don't just sit in the chair and watch TV. Do something that demands more activity.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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CDP1802 wrote: Don't just sit in the chair and watch TV
I don't own a TV. I agree with your advice ! 
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How well do you sleep?
I suffer from very bad insomnia and this can lead to inopportune fatigue hitting me during the day; never at night when I need it. If you are not sleeping well at night, go to the doctor for some Zolpidem and get to sleep for a few days and see if that helps.
Another side is the psychological one. What are you doing when you sit down of an evening? Any passive activity - TV is the worst - will increase doziness, while active activities - reading or, God forbid, talking to the family - will stimulate brain activity.
Finally, and this may sound stupid, try sitting in a different chair. Your brain associates the chair with the end of day wind down and will be switching off when you slump into it with your glass of scotch.
veni bibi saltavi
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: talking to the family - will stimulate brain activity.
Either you're very lucky or you're shamelessly lying 
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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Not really, I spend at least an hour every evening talking to the family. I've got the Skype logs to prove it!
veni bibi saltavi
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Do you spend much time far from them? In that case I very well understand you. For most of my life "talking to the family" meant listening to my dad's ramblings (insightful but he tends to repeat himself quite a lot and to obsess on some topic for months at a time) and then it came my fiancé, who speaks to me - and expects only affirmative grunts and the occasional enthusisatic response in regards of some topic she only knows/is interested in. Usually I skip the listening and react only to the pauses in speech (a technique my mother taught me).
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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At the mo, they're all in Africa and I'm here in the UK. Thought they're over for a holiday on Friday so that's a wee "yay!". But as a family we do talk, all the time. Often everyone at once. 
veni bibi saltavi
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: How well do you sleep?
Very poorly, and this is the single glaring reason for that.
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Disclaimer: I am not a medical doctor, nor do I play one on TV, the stage, or anywhere else.
It could be a sign of sleep apnea. Someone I know had such a problem, but I don't recall how it was treated in his case.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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