Rear Wheel Removal Tip

[GMA52]

It is very funny that my work address sounds to my suppliers like 'I love you, transportation, good fortune, peaceful road'. But California sounds like silly gibberish because of the R and L.

Sanka You

 

[GMA52]

I had a Subaru GL 1800 wagon (a 1983 model I think?).
It was plain and ugly, but I had good luck with it, and it was big enough to sleep in the back with the seats folded down.

My first car was a 1984 Mazda GLC sedan like this,..

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It was a typical "Econo Box" car from that era.
I drove the living snot out of it delivering pizza for Domino's with it for more than 5 years.
I replaced the clutch three times, and would only get 40,000 km on a clutch.
I remember wearing out my Tiger Paw tires, and put on a set of used Michelin tires.

The Michelin tires were a high mileage hard rubber tire, and I was doing burnouts at every stoplight and sign for two weeks until I got used to them.

The biggest problem with all my different vehicles was rust.
They all ended up dead from rusting out.
I could never afford a new car, and just tried to keep my rusty junkers going.

Michelin High Milers got the best wear of any tire we tried on the Original DFW Airport Train (Originally called Airtrans). Firestone absolutely the worst and only got 10-19K miles on them. Very soft rubber and did not work well on my sons first car in 2001 that came on them. The best thing we ever did was to go to Discount Tire and get a road hazzard warranty on them and they were replaced 2 or 3 times. We also used Michelin’s and Continental’s on wife‘s Honda Accord of which both were good tires.

 

[PedalUma]

Sanka You

Shanka Yoha

 

[PedalUma]

My street address is 921.
In Chinese, the number 921 is
九百二十一 (jiǔ bǎi èr shí yī) for the actual number, but in internet slang (Chinese internet slang/number codes), 921 (jiǔ èr yī) sounds like "I only love you" (只爱你 - zhǐ ài nǐ) or "I love you".

 

[GMA52]

My street address is 921.
In Chinese, the number 921 is
九百二十一 (jiǔ bǎi èr shí yī) for the actual number, but in internet slang (Chinese internet slang/number codes), 921 (jiǔ èr yī) sounds like "I only love you" (只爱你 - zhǐ ài nǐ) or "I love you".

Are you Chinese or just speak Mandarin?

 

[PedalUma]

Are you Chinese or just speak Mandarin?

Nope, I just happen to live in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is like if you lived in Cajun country, you would pick up some old timey Canadian French culture. Also, I used AI and took Anthro.

We had the Ellis Island of the West called Angel Island. It is the immigration station where Chinese were held during a period of racism.

 

[GMA52]

My wife’s mother grew up in the Bayou‘s of Southern Louisiana. Her mother’s mother was French with the last name Breaux. Sometimes her mother would come out with French sayings I guess she picked up from her mother.

 

[PedalUma]

My wife’s mother grew up in the Bayou‘s of Southern Louisiana. Her mother’s mother was French with the last name Breaux. Sometimes her mother would come out with French sayings I guess she picked up from her mother.

Cajun is short for Canadian. The French took to the rivers and went all the way down stream. Bleu Breaux.

 

[PedalUma]

Gumbo.

 

[GMA52]

I like Gumbo but without Crawfish or Shrimp. Can’t stand shell fish that look like a cockroach

 

[spokewrench]

Cajun is short for Canadian.

The people calling themselves Canadians are imposters. The real Canadians had disappeared by 1543. In 1534, Cartier sailed up the St. Lawrence to Stadacona and asked what the place was. They said kanata, which meant “town.” It was part of a federation living on 90,000 square miles along the St. Lawrence. To expand their trade monopoly with the French, they attacked the Mohawk in New York. Meanwhile, Cartier wrote “Canada” on his map of the St. Lawrence valley.

The war with the Mohawk went badly. By 1543, the land he’d called Canada was now Iroquois land. The settlements he’d called Canadian had been abandoned. (The Iroquois also expanded over what is now Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan.)

Unlike Canadians, Cajuns are not imposters. The term comes from the Mi’kmaq, who inhabited the Gaspe Peninsula, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland. When Verrazzano visited Nova Scotia in 1524, he asked where he was. The natives said Cadia, which means “fertile land.” They were so uncouth that he left. They responded by lining up on the shore and mooning him.

As a Catholic, Verrazzano was well aware that in 1204, victorious Greek Orthodox soldiers had mooned Crusaders in Constantinople. He decided that the Nova Scotians must be Greeks, and when they said “Cadie” they meant “Arcadia,” a region of Greece. That’s what he wrote on his map. By 1604, Henry IV had straightened it out. He wrote “La Cadie” on his map. To strengthen his territorial claim, he sent settlers. They called themselves Cadians, pronounced Cajuns.

In some Cajun settlements, priests would incite Eastern Abenaki to raid English settlements in what the English called Massachusetts. A treaty in 1763 called for Cajuns in those settlements to relocate. Most resettled within 200 miles, but 50 families from Port Royal went 2,000 miles to Louisiana. It was still under French rule although most of the settlers were Germans, deported for mooning the pope.