THE OFF TOPIC THREAD

[InfinitiEric]

LOL

[a.blanco0905]

^Lmao Doc...

^^just being in that car while drifting has to be awesome, let alone driving it...

[a.blanco0905]

Surprisingly funny...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2CZmYHy ... r_embedded[/youtube]

[InfinitiEric]

I'm going here on the 28th of May for three months.. I can barely can't wait!!

[a.blanco0905]

Where is that?

[InfinitiEric]

Cali

[antzrus]

I'm going here on the 28th of May for three months.. I can barely can't wait!!

3 Months- Rehab huh..?

You and Kobe.

[InfinitiEric]

LOL no, it's for an internship and visiting friends/family too!

[antzrus]

LOL no, it's for an internship and visiting friends/family too!

Yeah, @ 19 "interning" on the beach, sun, babes and false ID's. Been there, done that.

[InfinitiEric]

LOL no, it's for an internship and visiting friends/family too!

Yeah, @ 19 "interning" on the beach, sun, babes and false ID's. Been there, done that.

[InfinitiEric]

I want the Seraph body kit so badly.. but it costs ~$1300 because of shipping from Japan

[a.blanco0905]

^It's nice but it's not messing with the Kenstyle tho plus it seems like people with the advance tech package cant rock this... am I wrong? what the sides & rears look like? and it's actually very cheap in comparison to other body kits.

[InfinitiEric]

Really? I think it looks better than the Kenstyle. It's definitely not as sporty as Kenstyle but I kind of like the luxury look with the Seraph body kit better. Here's some pictures of the rest of the kit: http://www.huntington-cruise.com/catalog/y50fuga.html

[mexillis]

like these kits....

http://minkara.carview.co.jp/userid/320 ... photo.aspx

this one is jobdesign

http://mkimg.bmcdn.jp/minkara/photo/000 ... 934/p7.jpg

aimgain

http://mkimg.bmcdn.jp/minkara/parts/000 ... 055/p1.jpg

and this is something for stock M's i think looks good

http://mkimg.bmcdn.jp/minkara/note/000/ ... 982/p1.jpg

[SdotSdotS]

I'm with blanco... Kenstyle has always been my favorite.

That Seraph kit almost makes the M look like a different car with the foglights & extended spoiler. It is pretty classy

[antzrus]

Hi! In three days you will all be dead

By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Good news for you! All worries, over soon. All concerns laid to rest. Everything transformed in a white-hot eyeblink of OMG WTF into a lukewarm puddlepool of odious harp music, angel squeals and tepid moral pudding. I know, right? Finally!

This much we know: In a mere 72 hours (give or take, time zone depending, sometime before brunch) millions of true believers shall be whisked off to a cloudless overlit megadome where no one has sex and no one reads books and everyone is huddled together in a massive quivering vanilla cuddleparty, despite the requisite 500 layers of scratchy taffeta. Please remove your jewelry.

Are you ready? Whatever will you wear? Who will feed your dog? Hurry on now, you only have ... oh dear ... three days left until May 21, the oft-repeated, now infamous date of the Rapture, as predicted by Oakland's own nutball octogenarian and world-famous sideshow pastor Harold Camping, after a lifetime of careful biblical calculations and number-crunching and blah blah etcetera you know the rest. (If you don't know, here's a handy FAQ).

So anyway, it's Armageddon, real soon now. Do you have plans? Have you made proper arrangements? For those of us left behind to suffer this terrible beautiful planet after the fanatical Christians depart, there will be plenty to do. There are looting groups forming on Facebook. There will be Rapture parties galore. Brunch parking will be awesome. After all, Armageddon is on a Saturday. Were you thinking Sunday? As if. Sunday is when God rests, barbecues some wild salmon, watches "Idol."

Perhaps we shouldn't be so cocky. Perhaps the good pastor isn't so very far off. The world, you have to admit, is in a bleak state indeed. Arab nations are in turmoil, prophetic biblical lands are war-torn and decimated, oil is threatening to dry up, fresh water too, the euro is on shaky ground and the American empire is on the verge of bankrupt implosion. I know! What else is new?

But that's not all. Ominous signs abound in nature, too. Permafrost is melting fast, honeybees are offing themselves en masse, dead dolphins are washing ashore, epic flooding is destroying the south, tsunamis are poisoning Asia, the Duggars just won't stop procreating. 2010 is now officially on record as the Weirdest Weather Ever, and 2011 is on track as the year we break seven billion horny hell-bound bipeds on a floating rock that never really wanted more than, say, a couple million. Fun for us!


It all adds up, no? But then again, something doesn't feel quite right. Something feels a little too ... positive. Glowing. Possible.

Flashback to the Dark Days of Bush, when the fundamentalists were all giddy from inhaling the toxic fumes of their own homophobic xenophobic bloviation and doom-tracking lists like the Rapture Index were happily sucking at the tit of guys like Ted Haggard; megachurches were all the rage in collective psychosis, and even Bush himself said God told him that launching a few wars and murdering thousands of Islamic innocents was "totally cool" with Him.

In other words, End times predictions were hotter than Ashton Kutcher's tweets, except Kutcher was a 20-something dork and Twitter hadn't been invented yet. What a time it was.

Still, nothing happened. The world felt far more desolate and off-kilter than it is now. America was diving headlong into its ugliest period in nearly a century, conspiracy theories were a dime a dozen, and Fox News' juggernaut of idiocy was just hitting its stride. Angry Jesus simply could not have picked a better time than, say, 2003 to be wildly disgusted and wipe us all out so He could start over with some feral bunnies and a fistful of opium poppies.

It's tough not to feel a twinge of disappointment, then. If you're anything like me, maybe the curious, ironic part of you likes to sigh, sip its Maker's Mark and say, "Gosh, wouldn't it be interesting, wouldn't it be fascinating if once, just once, someone were actually right about just one insane fringe theory of doom?"

Aliens among us, peak oil, 9/11 holograms, a single global currency, lizard overlords from the fifth dimension, Area 51, Osama bin Laden killed and secretly frozen in 2002 and kept in d!ck Cheney's freezer and then thawed out 10 years later just so Generation Facebook can gawk at his withered mug and go, "Him? Really? That frail, filthy imp of human pathos is the reason I have to take my goddamn shoes off at the airport and suffer the Tea Party, Alex Jones and Islamophobia?"

Maybe we've been going at it all wrong. Maybe if there's one thing we've should have learned by now about the Rapture, about the end of everything, it's this: It's a slow b****.

Climate change, the end of oil, the Pacific Garbage Patch, it all takes awhile to knock us completely flat, relatively speaking, despite how all our zombie movies and Armageddon p0rn fantasies have us vanishing in a bloody, cataclysmic, CGI-enhanced poof.

Here's a fun thought: Maybe Armageddon is already happening, piece by piece and storm by storm, but we clever humans are smart/dumb/lucky enough to adapt just enough to stay barely one step ahead, to stretch poor Mother Earth's resources a little further and to whistle past the graveyard one more time to make it home in time for some pizza and p0rn. Barely.

Maybe the Rapture isn't meant to happen in a big megawhoomp zap, like a giant piñata filled with little candy Jesuses exploding all over the Colorado Rockies. Maybe it's actually an epic saga, unfolding slowly over time, like the world's longest vaguely depressing but beautifully shot documentary film. Fantastic lighting! Expert camerawork! Stirring, hardscrabble tales of love and hope! Too bad everyone dies in the end.

Or maybe it's just this: Maybe for one moment this Rapture Saturday you pause, you step back from it all, you take a breath and a deep, hard look, and you realize it's not really so bad after all. You note how, through the muck and the bleak, infinite blessings abound. Because they do.

You do nothing at all, really, except realize the eternal truth, known since humankind was knee-high to a mystical hiccup: The Rapture is instantly available, at any moment, in any breath, if you just widen out a little and take it all in.

No harps. No angels. No nutball pastors. No deities. Hell, no religions whatsoever. You don't have to actually go anywhere at all. Except, you know, inward. Simple, really.

[InfinitiEric]

JIM do you have pets??? http://eternal-earthbound-pets.com/Home_Page.html

[antzrus]

JIM do you have pets??? http://eternal-earthbound-pets.com/Home_Page.html

Funny you should ask. Coincidentally our 19 y/o house cat Clovis died this past Friday the 13th. Is there something I'm missing..?

[kermit the guy]

i like this kit:
http://minkara.carview.co.jp/userid/320 ... photo.aspx

[kermit the guy]

hey infinitieric where in cali? if your in socal let us know !

[a.blanco0905]

i like this kit:
http://minkara.carview.co.jp/userid/320 ... photo.aspx

That one's nice.

[antzrus]

What you think of my new wheels after the Rapture..?

[InfinitiEric]

like these kits....

http://minkara.carview.co.jp/userid/320 ... photo.aspx

this one is jobdesign

http://mkimg.bmcdn.jp/minkara/photo/000 ... 934/p7.jpg

aimgain

http://mkimg.bmcdn.jp/minkara/parts/000 ... 055/p1.jpg

and this is something for stock M's i think looks good

http://mkimg.bmcdn.jp/minkara/note/000/ ... 982/p1.jpg

I'll take all of those plz..

JIM do you have pets??? http://eternal-earthbound-pets.com/Home_Page.html

Funny you should ask. Coincidentally our 19 y/o house cat Clovis died this past Friday the 13th. Is there something I'm missing..?

Wait are you serious about your cat dying? Jim.. that's so sad. You should get a turtle, it would have lived longer

hey infinitieric where in cali? if your in socal let us know !

I'll be in North Cali… Cupertino

What you think of my new wheels after the Rapture..?

Wheels are nice.. but I don't see any CoCo mats

[a.blanco0905]

^Those are VIP wheels Doc.. good choice!!!

[InfinitiEric]

Oh wow





This is like Kenstyle 2.0

[a.blanco0905]

^That's the best one I've seen after the Kenstyle. Which one is that? Those wheels are super ugly tho...

Just talked to Eddie (blueM35x) he did get rid of his M... but he's waiting delivery on a new M3 sedan, he says what's up to everybody and that he misses y'all... ok, ok, he didnt say that, lol. He told me that he will post a pic of his new car once he gets it in.

[InfinitiEric]

It's called K-BREAK COMPLETE PLATINUM TypeS

[antzrus]

Yeah, Clovis died. She was old. We did the death panel thing w/the vet. It was a good death. We all should be so lucky.

[InfinitiEric]

^ LOL, you lost a foot

[a.blanco0905]

^The coco mat monster ate it...