His incessant attention seeking doing the same wannabe kung-fu routine over and over is the unfunniest thing I think i've seen in the world of Social Media shitposting. And his bizarro little fan following on some subs is even worse
The OEM Toyota shocks cost around twice as much as KYB shocks, I am not sure that I will get twice the performance or longevity from them. Are there any other good options?
The OEM Toyota shocks cost around twice as much as KYB shocks, I am not sure that I will get twice the performance or longevity from them. Are there any other good options?
Throughout the testing it was rested on its pillow from the box, positioned face up. I picked it up few times for a couple of seconds, just to see the time. Is there a chance that this might have compromised the testing?
For the first time in my life I received an actual tan instead of a burning red sunburn. I suppose it means that I cannot take off my watch now.
I read Blood Meridian because I wanted something that was easy to read.
As comical and ironic it may sound, it is true. I've been on a streak consisting of history, philosophy and believe or not phrenology/criminalistics books. I was reading Metaphysics by the fella that went by the name Aristotle and after I went over the same page twice and caught myself thinking "What was that again" I decided that the next book I will read would be something "light."
And it so happened that I kept hearing about that Holden feller and how "disturbing" Blood Meridian is and naturally it was a perfect candidate for the next read, so I ordered the book. Now I should mention the fact that I am not a native English speaker, nor have I ever been in the country that speaks English or studied it academically. It's just purely the books, internet and movies.
I was around 50 pages deep when I first noticed that the list of the words I had to translate was getting pretty extensive and I decided to ask the internet and boy did I laugh at the irony when I heard the people that accredited themselves with being the native speakers finding this book very hard to read. I mean what were the odds, that a book that I was presented with by pure chance would turn out to be one of the hardest fiction books to read? I seriously questioned my principle of not researching the books I want to read or the movies I want to watch before finishing them.
However, at least in my case it turned out to be mighty fine. I mean there were a lot of words that I had never heard or heard seldomly, but nevertheless I had no problems reading it, I never had to re-read something.
The list of the words that I found interesting/didn't know if anyone is interested:
>Visage - Appearance/face
Bolls - Box/capsule
Trudge - Walk with heavy steps due to exhaustion
Vindicated - Cleared of something/rehabilitated
Divested - Deprived
Chattels - Possessions
Bight - Curve in a coastline
Lope - Run with stride
Egrets - Heron of white plumage
Parricide - Parent/Father killing
Hamlet - A small settlement
Bung starter - ?
Wainscotted - adorned with wooden panels
Spittons - things to spit in?
Anchorite -hermit/recluse
Redrimmed - repainted?
Ponderable - having appreciable weight ot significance
Uncinched - undone, unbuttoned
Gourd -
Drygulch -
Bacca -
Miasma - unpleasant smell or vapour
Carbolic -
Frizzen -
Nave -
Shied - sudden move of a horse in fear or distress
Skittered - move lightly
Accoutred - equipped
Buzzard - a bird
Scabbard - sheath
Raillery - good humoured teasing
Truculent - eager to fight/argue
Shiring - collecting something
Mortices - hole/nest/slot/groove
Felloes - outer rim of a wheel
Pumice - porous rock used to clean skin
Seep - leakage through the material
Strewn - scattered
Plaintive - sounds mournful and sad
Vadose - underground water
Reliquary - something that contains a holy relic
Flintknapping - silicon?
Stob - broken branch
Larval - containing maggots
Taut - streched/pulled tight
Tabernacle - a movable tent/habitation
Tenon - pin, stud
Shale - soft rocks of mud and clay
Haggard - exhausted
Haunch - thigh
Amiable- friendly and pleasant
Reticent - reserve/secretive
Trundling - rolling
Argonaught - gold digger/greek mythology reference
Brazenly - impudently
Guffawed - cackling boisterously or rudely
Mesquite - a shrub or undulating looking tree
Pyracantha - evergreen shrub
Fen - damp, flat bit of land
Gaunt - skinny, lean and haggard
Trove - a store of treasure
Shoddy - badly made, inferior quality fabric
Burro - donkey
Admonished - warn firmly
Querent - he who asks a question
Arraigned - charged (legally)
Benediction - blessing
Interlocutrix - a woman who partakes in conversation
Blighted - poison, ruin something
Sooth - truth as in forsooth
Holocaust - vast destruction by fire
Apishamore - buffalo hide
Discalced - barefoot
Coalesce - unite
Gastine - wasteland, heath
Deputation - delegation
Promontory - cape
Caldera - a large volcanic crater
Arroyo - a gully formed by water in the desert area of south-west
Lobations - bits, pieces
Purported - proposed or said to be true but not necessarily
Menagerie - a collection of wild animals
Lobo - timber wold
Inimical - hostile, unfriendly
Sullen - bad tempered/gloomy
Jowl - part of a face, near the check and jaw.
Stanched - stopped or slowed (flow of blood or liquid)
Fabled - legendary, mythical, fairytale alike
Beyond ransom or reprieve - beyond hope of rescue
Ilex - evergreen plant with berries (red or black)
Austere - severe, plane, strict
Implacable - unyielding, relentless
Covenant - serious agreement, pact
Deftly - skilfully, quickly
Wicker - a material made by weaving flexible twigs, reeds
Tabernacled - dwelt, resided, were housed
Recital - statement of facts, listing, a formal performance of music
Euchered - outsmarted, beaten
Antecedent - past
Congruence - coherence, harmony
Firmament - heavens/sky