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      That's not funny!
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      I thought it was funny in a non-funny sort of way. :p
      Political Correctness'.........defined

      "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

      President of Club Polk

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      “Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
      ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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      daddyjt wrote: »
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      Just last night I was reading about BLMC's very ill-fated Austin America. An intelligently designed vehicle with one little problem. Well... two, actually.
      https://www.curbsideclassic.com/automotive-histories/turkey-week-kickoff-1968-1972-austin-america-yankee-doodle-disaster/
      the automatic transmission that would drive the America was to be a different engineering approach that broke just enough new ground to become an early adopters regret. The four speed,torque converter autobox that was adopted sat directly beneath the engine and shared that units lubrication. This was a risky arrangement given Americans aversion to checking or maintaining engine oil while the car appears to be running smoothly. This would turn out to be the major factor in the destruction of this car’s reputation. The oil level was specified as critical in owners manuals and factory sales training, but for Yank drivers that rarely looked under the hood, the arrangement was a grenade rigged to explode when they neglected to be vigilant.

      Oh, and:
      British Leyland (the company had changed its name officially in 1968 just after the America was in production) also thought that their engineers had solved the suspension issue that turned many American car buyers away from the stiffer, more responsive European ride that was a staple of British cars.

      Designer Alex Molton had dreamed up a system that used what was essentially water and alcohol passing through springs and bladders to cushion the ride of the 1100. It was dubbed the Hydrolastic suspension and while innovative and clever, it was subject to the same real world shortcomings as other infant technologies. The system required de-pressurization whenever suspension or chassis work was performed. This required a special tool that could only be found at BL dealers. Further, a car that lost pressure would settle on its haunches or list alarmingly to one side until the problem was addressed, thus rendering the unit undrivable. This caused lots of bad will between owners and dealers when the units began to give way after just a couple of years of hard use.
      Other than that, they were great, I guess...
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      bcwsrt wrote: »
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      Clark W Griswold electric at your service.
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      bcwsrt wrote: »
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      That carpet has GOT to go!
      Gustard X26 Pro DAC
      Belles 21A Pre modded with Mundorf Supreme caps
      B&K M200 Sonata monoblocks refreshed and upgraded
      Polk SDA 1C's modded / 1000Va Dreadnaught
      Wireworld Silver Eclipse IC's and speaker cables
      Harman Kardon T65C w/Grado Gold. (Don't laugh. It sounds great!)

      There is about a 5% genetic difference between apes and men …but that difference is the difference between throwing your own poo when you are annoyed …and Einstein, Shakespeare and Miss January. by Dr. Sardonicus
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      This person took up 4 parking spaces in a busy grocery store parking lot. I'm assuming to avoid getting door dings.

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      Gustard X26 Pro DAC
      Belles 21A Pre modded with Mundorf Supreme caps
      B&K M200 Sonata monoblocks refreshed and upgraded
      Polk SDA 1C's modded / 1000Va Dreadnaught
      Wireworld Silver Eclipse IC's and speaker cables
      Harman Kardon T65C w/Grado Gold. (Don't laugh. It sounds great!)

      There is about a 5% genetic difference between apes and men …but that difference is the difference between throwing your own poo when you are annoyed …and Einstein, Shakespeare and Miss January. by Dr. Sardonicus
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      ^ What a maroon
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      It doesn’t LOOK like a BMW….?
      “Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
      ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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      audioluvr wrote: »
      This person took up 4 parking spaces in a busy grocery store parking lot. I'm assuming to avoid getting door dings.

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      I miss Fred Meyer, best deli fried chicken around....
      Source: BRP Panasonic UB9000, CDP Emotiva ERC3 - Display: LG OLED EVO 83 C3 - Pre/Pro: Marantz 8802A - Amplification: Emotiva XPA-DR3, XPA-2 x 2, XPA-6, Speakers, Mains/2ch-Focal Kanta No2's, C-LSiM706, S-702F/X, RS-RTiA9's, WS-RTiA9's, FH-RTiA3's, Subs - Epik Empire x 2

      Cables: AudioQuest McKenzie XLR's/CDP/Amp, Carbon 48/BRP, Forest 48/Display, 2 channel speaker cable: Furutech FS Alpha 36 12AWG PCOCC Single Crystal (Douglas Connection)

      EXPERIENCE: next to nothing, but I sure enjoy audio and video MY OPINION OF THIS HOBBY: I may not be a smart man, but I know what quicksand is.
      When I was young, I was Superman but now that old age has gotten the best of me I'm only Batman
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      edited February 5
      skipshot12 wrote: »
      ^ What a maroon

      Are you implying that he’s an Aggie?😬😂
      Things work out best for those who make the best of the way things work out.-John Wooden
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      PSOVLSK wrote: »
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      Are you implying that he’s an Aggie?😬😂

      Aggie wife sends her husband to the store for a gallon of milk then tells him, and if the avocados are on sale, get me six. He comes home with six gallons of milk, when the wife asks why, he said, well, the avocados were on sale!!
      Source: BRP Panasonic UB9000, CDP Emotiva ERC3 - Display: LG OLED EVO 83 C3 - Pre/Pro: Marantz 8802A - Amplification: Emotiva XPA-DR3, XPA-2 x 2, XPA-6, Speakers, Mains/2ch-Focal Kanta No2's, C-LSiM706, S-702F/X, RS-RTiA9's, WS-RTiA9's, FH-RTiA3's, Subs - Epik Empire x 2

      Cables: AudioQuest McKenzie XLR's/CDP/Amp, Carbon 48/BRP, Forest 48/Display, 2 channel speaker cable: Furutech FS Alpha 36 12AWG PCOCC Single Crystal (Douglas Connection)

      EXPERIENCE: next to nothing, but I sure enjoy audio and video MY OPINION OF THIS HOBBY: I may not be a smart man, but I know what quicksand is.
      When I was young, I was Superman but now that old age has gotten the best of me I'm only Batman
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      Geoff4rfc wrote: »
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      I miss Fred Meyer, best deli fried chicken around....

      We still have a few out west - Logan UT, Idaho Falls, Pocatello…
      “Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
      ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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      Geoff4rfc wrote: »
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      I miss Fred Meyer, best deli fried chicken around....

      Isn't that part of Kroger's umbrella? Down here, we have mainly Kroger, Publix, or Wal/Sam's/Costco. Anyhow, between Kroger and Publix deli fried chicken, Publix is easily the winner.
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      I miss Publix.

      First job was bag boy at Publix
      Wonder what the hell they’re called now….,
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      edited February 6
      skipshot12 wrote: »
      I miss Publix.

      First job was bag boy at Publix
      Wonder what the hell they’re called now….,

      Privix
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      Publix. We still have them in my neck of the woods. Expensive, but they carry things that other stores do not. That's great when a recipe calls for something very specific. They'll have it *most* of the time....but not all of the time.

      Tom
      ~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~
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      kinda makes me feel like listening to Steely Dan...
      https://youtu.be/Hx5ZlTyzU-k?si=rRs9iU8iZKLItX8l
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      billbillw wrote: »
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      Isn't that part of Kroger's umbrella? Down here, we have mainly Kroger, Publix, or Wal/Sam's/Costco. Anyhow, between Kroger and Publix deli fried chicken, Publix is easily the winner.

      Didn't have a Publix up in WA, not while I was there. Kroger closed down and left us with Fred Meyer and Safeway.
      Source: BRP Panasonic UB9000, CDP Emotiva ERC3 - Display: LG OLED EVO 83 C3 - Pre/Pro: Marantz 8802A - Amplification: Emotiva XPA-DR3, XPA-2 x 2, XPA-6, Speakers, Mains/2ch-Focal Kanta No2's, C-LSiM706, S-702F/X, RS-RTiA9's, WS-RTiA9's, FH-RTiA3's, Subs - Epik Empire x 2

      Cables: AudioQuest McKenzie XLR's/CDP/Amp, Carbon 48/BRP, Forest 48/Display, 2 channel speaker cable: Furutech FS Alpha 36 12AWG PCOCC Single Crystal (Douglas Connection)

      EXPERIENCE: next to nothing, but I sure enjoy audio and video MY OPINION OF THIS HOBBY: I may not be a smart man, but I know what quicksand is.
      When I was young, I was Superman but now that old age has gotten the best of me I'm only Batman
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      Trying to find a thread here on the Polk forums using Vanilla's "advanced search" tool. Here's one of the results:
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      I guess that all my base are belong to them, too. :#;)
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      mmm.. it is worse than that!
      I found the right URL, but the link maps to @SeleniumFalcon's profile page?!

      Here's the thread I sought: https://forum.polkaudio.com/discussion/194476
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      Here's what pops up when I follow that link
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      PS It's actually a thread I started :o about the Samsung HD FM tuner I have -- pretty benign stuff, so I sincerely doubt that it got vanilla-nanny'd(???).
      :#

      Thoughts?
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      Yep, something is seriously messed up.
      Political Correctness'.........defined

      "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

      President of Club Polk

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      edited February 6
      Is that an older thread? Pre-vanilla, or before they switched the forum address?
      EDIT: Did some checking. You can go to the Electronics subforum and go all the way to page 11 (in the past) and the thread shows up there in the listings, but click on it and it goes to Selenium's profile. The thread before and after work just fine as well as all the others I checked.
      Interestingly, all the threads starting on Page 12 give that One Target message.
      Are we loosing our older threads to some kind of auto-archive? Hope not. 2021 isn't really that old for this place.
      Edit 2: I was wrong about "all" of the threads on page 12. It seems to be only threads with a web link in the thread or something. Vanilla is trying to open an external page instead of the thread. Something is corrupted in the code.

      Also, no worries about old stuff missing. Go to page 576 and there are still threads from 2002 that you can read.
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      edited February 6
      F1nut wrote: »
      Yep, something is seriously messed up.

      Yep several times today trying to report the scammer I got "you do not have permission" to flipping report a scammer.
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      There has been some weird things happening today with the time a post has been posted. Some times it shows & other times there is no time. Just year & month. Strange.
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      edited February 6
      Yes. I see it's working now & yes it was today
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      boston1450 wrote: »
      There has been some weird things happening today with the time a post has been posted. Some times it shows & other times there is no time. Just year & month. Strange.

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      As I posted in another thread, it looks like YEAR MONTH, but there are instances like 2024 26 that make no sense
      The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.—Martin Luther King Jr.
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      edited February 6
      It's all fubared, someone did an update and the pooches back door got hammered.
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