I think he was referring to physically flying OVER the Middle East, not flying on a Middle Eastern registered/owned aircraft.

As in...the Chinese ship paints the US ship, or takes a more aggressive posture and all of a sudden a sub just breaches juuuust next to them ‘OH HAI THERE WHAT YA DOING WITH MY FRIEND?’

I learned how to drive in my mom’s 91 or 92 929! I loved that car. It was just comfortable to drive in. Just wanted to go forever. (I hope it was a 92, because a 92 929 is just too much fun to type out.)

(Ps, I LOVE my Genesis. I just got it like 2 or 3 weeks ago, but DAMN. Such an upgrade from my Civic. I may even like it more than my MkV R32 I had. So much car for so little money)

Really? I’ve never actually noticed that (or, most of the Evo’s I’ve seen have it deleted). I’d love one on my Genesis Coupe right now. (literally right now. It’s been raining all day where I live.)

Gotta love pinning it on other people!

People will probably complain about this wiper, but I’ll be damed if it isn’t great to see that on a sedan’s shallow sloped rear window. My old 2002 Camaro had the worst rear window for rain to sit on and made rear vis horrid. I always rain-ex my windows, so a quick accel gets the drops off, but backing up was…

I really would not be surprised if the Chinese shadow had it’s own shadow.

Yeah, that would be idiotic putting a carrier group in those itty bitty islands. I just jumped at an occasion to use that photo.

Oh yeah. There's no way a CSG would be getting that close to the islands. Just saw an opening to post a favorite photo of mine.

USN: Check

There’s actually a strict ‘no dutch ovening’ agreement in place. There’s no need for war crimes in our relationship.

Odd moment of bonding between my gf and I:

No, but it should be.

I’ll wait to see how that plant and infrastructure work turns out. The waterfront facilities that just came to light the last few years took what, a decade or so to actually have anything happen? Maybe more than that. It was a contentious point when I first started college there.

Well, compared to NYC, Buffalo is much cheaper, and that has that going for it. There is some to do for a while, but it runs out quickly, then the winter comes and none of it is attractive. I live in Pittsburgh now, and just moved here from Norwalk, CT (basically a suburb of NYC), and I greatly prefer Pittsburgh. It’s…

I can’t say I was enamored with Buffalo as you were. I’d say Buffalo is cool to visit for a weekend in the middle of the summer, but outside of Elmwood and Allentown, maybe the park and bike paths if you’re a cyclist...you’re about out of things.

I went to college just around the corner from the Duff’s on Millersport Highway (and no, not UB, Daemen college...blink and you’ll miss it). What I’ve learned about wings in Buffalo is they just go for heat...which I’m not that much of a fan of. Their fries were good though...and it was walking distance back to campus…

Screw you Andrew, I am forever and always team Sheetz. MUCH more consistency among the Sheetz I’ve stopped at over wawas.

Who’s McCutcheon?