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I have been watching "Vice Grip Garage" on YouTube for the last few weeks and really enjoying how he can get a car running that should have been in the crusher.
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Only criticism I have is his clear Chevy bias and I hate hate hate the jerry can fuel tank/hose taped to the body solution. Stupid dangerous and ugly. Otherwise I like his personality, he’s the only “will it run” guy who’s actually entertaining and doesn’t take himself too seriously.I have been watching "Vice Grip Garage" on YouTube for the last few weeks and really enjoying how he can get a car running that should have been in the crusher.
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What's it say at the beginning of his show: "I'm and idiot..." The first show I watched, I was cringing the whole time and thinking to myself "what a red neck idiot..." But I started noticing the way he worked on the cars, and the dialog he used reminded me of myself when I am working on a car, except English is my second language when working on cars.Only criticism I have is his clear Chevy bias and I hate hate hate the jerry can fuel tank/hose taped to the body solution. Stupid dangerous and ugly. Otherwise I like his personality, he’s the only “will it run” guy who’s actually entertaining and doesn’t take himself too seriously.
Most of the less cool cars (the ones not turned into ongoing projects) end up getting saved from rotting in some other persons yard to his yard to rot. Storing cars on grass is really bad for them.
My wife watched that for several shows but has not watched it since then. I never really liked it that much for not other reason than it's about kids growing up and doing weird sh!t. LOLAnyone watch Stranger Things? I hear that season 5 is coming out soon.
My oldest said her friends were watching it and really liked it. Honestly I wasn't expecting much when it started, but I am surprised how well it's done. Probably one of the best series I have seen in a while.
Its full of 80's nostalgia and if you are into Science Fiction/Horror it's a must watch IMO.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4574334/
What's it say at the beginning of his show: "I'm and idiot..." The first show I watched, I was cringing the whole time and thinking to myself "what a red neck idiot..." But I started noticing the way he worked on the cars, and the dialog he used reminded me of myself when I am working on a car, except English is my second language when working on cars.
The thing that gets me is he tends to ignore black mold, mice and rabbit droppings, bacteria and most things they have taught us to be careful of. I have only seen him sick once with a cold during the 4 years and he did wear a mask in the airport once during covid.
But his GM bias can be a bit much sometimes. Last show I watched he got a Ford Grand Torino that should have been burned at the stake. But he drove it several hundred miles home!
Anyone watch Stranger Things? I hear that season 5 is coming out soon.
My oldest said her friends were watching it and really liked it. Honestly I wasn't expecting much when it started, but I am surprised how well it's done. Probably one of the best series I have seen in a while.
Its full of 80's nostalgia and if you are into Science Fiction/Horror it's a must watch IMO.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4574334/
Only criticism I have is his clear Chevy bias and I hate hate hate the jerry can fuel tank/hose taped to the body solution. Stupid dangerous and ugly. Otherwise I like his personality, he’s the only “will it run” guy who’s actually entertaining and doesn’t take himself too seriously.
Not saying I want to watch shows with minors getting fucked up
That was my expectation when we started watching it. Even though the kids are the some of the main characters, the show is really more about the town. There's a lot of other big characters in it too.My brother really likes it, keeps wanting me to watch it. I will eventually I suppose. I'm not into shows built around kids because you can't hurt kids (maim, burn, shoot, rape, kill, stab, dismember, etc.) so when those characters are placed in "dangerous" situations it's guaranteed that they will come out of them unscathed. Not saying I want to watch shows with minors getting fucked up, just that those scenarios are wasted on kid characters. Oh no, there's a savage beast that is unstoppable, it's already killed 10 men, what's going to happen to poor weak junior warrior kid... oh, nothing, just like every other time, he actually contributed to its demise, yawn.
Yep, sometimes he is hard to swallow with the way he does things... "I'm gonna do the right thing and .... forget I didn't see that..."
My kid plays D&D at his school as part of an afterschool enrichment class. His friend's older sister plays it with her friends as well on weekends. Fascinating to hear about.Stranger things is responsible for a resurgence in D&D; I spent a lot of time in the 70's and 80's running d&d games. I still have an ongoing dungeon, with about 10 people involved, but we last played in 2001, ad two of that crew are now dead.
We watched theI ended up watching the first two episodes of the Three Body Problem last night.
- Production is quite good; reminded me a good bit about another series I enjoyed based on hard SciFi (The Peripheral). Hopefully The 3BP it will last longer
Still working through See: Season 3 on AppleTV. Great series with lots of plot twists and good character development.
I just looked this up and will have to watch it. I assume you mean the animeWe watched theKoreanChinese version... Intense!
Oh no, this is a series show. It's called Three-Body. You can read more about it here:I just looked this up and will have to watch it. I assume you mean the anime
The Three-Body Problem (animated TV series) - Wikipedia
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I really enjoy this author (Cixin Liu) but the chinese movie adaption of his book The Wandering Earth, just felt like a hollow blockbuster movie coating a good amount of pro chinese govt propaganda. It wasn't very memorable. Being a sucker for all sorts of Sci-Fi, I'll watch almost anything.