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"It makes my stomach turn to see everyone stroking each other off because of their cool new shift boots or carbon fiber turn signal stalks. It really takes away from the accomplishments of people like Ash for building an engine from the ground up for an NA to TT conversion or the network the guys in Texas have created for helping out other members with their upgrades, repairs or just routine maintenance. Those are the gears that turn this place. If friendships are created as a by-product, that's cool, but to come here looking for friends and acceptance is sad. I'm not trying to single any one person out here; it's something I notice a lot from many people. When someone feels the need to post a picture of every little useless knick-knack that they glue onto their car it overshadows the real contributions by the likes of Tom B, my91z and the other regular posters in the REAL, i.e. Technical, forum. I actually like seeing pictures of everybody's cars. Don't get me wrong. It's one of the brighter points of the General forum. What I don't like is seeing a picture of a set of blow-off valves STILL IN THE BOX!! Who cares how nice it looks sitting on your bed. Install it yourself and THAT will be impressive. A picture of one more Greddy PE sitting on a kitchen floor only shows that person knows how to use a credit card and a box cutter. That really gets 'em wet. It's all the stuff that doesn't get posted that makes this forum great. It's the guys that come on here, use search then go outside and fix their nagging hesitation problem without ever saying a word and not making a post to brag about how they fixed it. Not an update that it's only 57 more minutes before you trailer you car to the Tuner of the Month. It's fine that you're able to pay someone to do it but it's not that interesting to hear about.
Now I'm sure you will take a personal offense to this seeing how you do everytime someone questions you, but if I hear one more "rags to riches" story I'm gonna puke. If I had nickel for every time I heard someone proclaim that they worked hard, paid their dues and ate stray cats until they finally "made it", I would have my very own rags to riches story to tell. Just because I personally have had a steady progression upwards in my standard of living doesn't make me any less "special" because I don't have a hard luck story to use as a crutch or defense mechanism. I don't feel the need to explain myself to anyone nor do I need to get my daily affirmation from a bunch of strangers either. You say you don't need to apologize or make excuses for what you buy or post about, yet you constantly apologize and make excuses for what you buy or post about. That's the only thing I just took from your post. When you write a novel about not caring what other think, I'm pretty sure it's a sign that you really care what others think. You seem perfectly willing to accept gushing e-mails from a sad little 17 year-old creaming his jeans over your car, but as soon as someone says something negative, you chalk it up to jealousy. So just relax. Do whatever you want. Just quit explaining yourself over and over. By making a post like you just did, you're just setting yourself up for more criticism next time. Trust me on this one. I'm one of those people who want to be critical of most of your posts. It's nothing personal, because I don't know you. All we have here are blind perceptions of one another because it's the internet. Not everyone is going to like you so just learn to live with it."date: Feb 2002
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My adverseries crumble when we rumble, it's a catastrophe
I have a morning ritual that I need to share. I call it "the terminator". First I crouch down in the shower in the classic "naked terminator traveling through time" pose. With my eyes closed I crouch there for a minute, visualizing either Arnold or the guy from the second movie (not the chick in the third one because that one sucked) and I start to hum the terminator theme. Then I slowly rise to a standing position and open my eyes. It helps me to proceed through my day as an emotionless, cyborg badass. The only problem is if the shower curtain sticks to my terminator leg. It ruins the fantasy..
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