Smokey & The Arse Bandit

[straycat]

Scanias are uglier than my sister and thats bad.
730 hp doesn't mean all that much its all the the final gear ratios (trans and rear ends). I'm sure the Sacnias are meant for the flat land anyway.
Never see one of those up in the mountains of Eastern Ky hauling coal probably couldn't pull the hat off you head pulling a mountain with a load on.
My first tractor was a Ford Louisville line day cab short nose conventional with a 290 hp Cummins/10 speed trans.
Swapped the gears around in the back of the trans and I hauled 60 ton track hoes with ease up and down the mountains and would cruise all day long at 100 mph on flat ground if you wanted and pull interstate hills with out down shifting.
Last truck I drove was a 460 Cummins international with twin turbos and it had a hard time pulling tiny hills with 40,000 lbs on it.

[VitaminG]

did you read the review?

[straycat]

My second truck was a 78 Marmon cab over with a 600 Cat and an 18 speed Spicer trans it pulled out of the strip mines with ease.
Pulled many a load grossing over 100.000 lbs.On flat ground it was a beast and got me in trouble all the time.
One classy truck too felt like you were in a Rolls Royce inside the cab.
Not my truck in this pic but mine was the same color scheme.
Funny story I got pulled over in Northern Ky for doing 115 mph with a load of coal on about 40 tons and the DOT man said well you can't be overweight because you were running too fast LOL Little did he know, I'm glad he didn't weight me.

[AdRock]

I wasn't alive in 1977 so I could be wrong, but I don't think Coors was "illegal" east of the Mississippi. I think it was the unlawful and unlicensed attempt to sell it that was illegal.

Here's some info I found:

[QUOTE][Was transporting Coors east of Texas in 1977
really considered bootlegging?

This question has plagued me for some time
now. In the movie "Smokey and the Bandit", Bandit is offered a large amount of
money to transport Coors beer from Texas back to Georgia. Was it really illegal
to transport Coors east of Texas in 1977? If so, any idea why?

ANSWER 1
Yes it was. Coors had an agreement with Anhieser Busch not to distribute Coors
products east of the Mississippi. Because of that agreement, Coors did not have
State permits in the Eastern states at that time.

ANSWER 2
It is generally illegal to transport more
than a small amount of alcohol or tobacco across state lines, since it means
that you are paying taxes to the other state rather than the state you live in.
It really has nothing to do with the brand of the merchandise; however, Coors
beer was only sold in certain states in the 1970s (it wasn't distributed
nationwide back then), so if anyone had Coors in Georgia back then, it obviously
came from another state.


/QUOTE]

[straycat]

They are still bootlegging un taxed cigarettes in my state its a huge business. Most truck stops around here deal in them that way.

[ginsambo]

They are still bootlegging un taxed cigarettes in my state its a huge business. Most truck stops around here deal in them that way.

Same here. Except customs and excise call it smuggling as we're an island. I noticed in VA you only had to cross the town lines and you could buy cigarettes from an old shack without the tax. Yes, it is curious and antiquated tax and funding system, especially considering that these days we and all the countries in Europe are now ruled by the same federal European superstate with Merkel at the helm and even the armed forced and police are to become shared between European. Fecking shafted by the Europeans ridiculousness.

Although I think this size comparision is stupid, because efficiency is the name of the game these days. My Ford Transit tipper (3.5Tonne Gross Vehicle weight) can carry 2mx3m x1m+ of compost, weight in at 1.9 tonne kerb weight and has a 5.5 tonne train weight. It has 67 hp and under 300NM of torque and does 32mpg (UK). Compared to an F350 tipper, it's equivalent vehicle over there it is a marvel in engineering efficiency, terms of carrying weight and volume on the tipper tray alone.

Shovels, you use those crap pointy long handled trench shovel things to shift things by hand, we use much larger, short handled square mouth shovels that can shift four times more material with one action. however from what I have seen, it is rare that Americans do any graft by hand. In fact I've watched several landscaping and construction groundwork and road repair crews and I reckon it's ridiculous the way you guys work. The only exception is studwork, roofing and bricklaying but consider that our bricks are bigger than yours and our old imperial bricks are a lot bigger than yours and on the whole, our walls are higher than yours too. You guys chicken out and start getting out the nailguns on the studwork after you've only built what we would call a plinth base. Easy peasy.

Yes, we might have bad teeth and assymetrical faces but in general we graft harder and carry a lot less weight, mainly because most places in the UK are so densely populated and inaccessible, you wouldn't even get a microdigger in. Even with cheaper $450,000 surburban houses on the edge of town you wheel building materials through the living room on the carpet, because, simply there is no other entry to the back garden to earn your meagre wage.

I'm just doing my tax return, I reckon I must pay $4000 in cigarette taxes alone a year and $10,000 in fuel taxes, that isn't even including the tax on domestic fuel and council (Local government) tax or the 20% tax on food and everything else. Yet they don't even consider that as tax and I still have to pay another 30% of my income. Now they want to tax Dr Pepper with an extra tax. Yes, it is a truely shit country. If they tax dr Pepper I'm moving to Australia. Fuck these posh toffs cunts grinding the country into the dark ages and the working classes into the workhouses, whilst they let their mates off tax free.

Smokey reminds me of my youth when I used to dream of another place, a better place.

But the thing that REALLY bugs me is that, including Private health insurance, Americans pay exactly the same outgoings per annum from their wages as we do over here. Food isn't taxed by 20%, yet it is the same price, if not more expensive than over here and most private communcations and other utility services are a total con. The funniest thing is that you don't even have a 'Free' national health service that is strained by the extra use of some 800,000 unlimited immigrates per year who have never paid taxes here, but still receive free life saving free operations and free extended outpatient care. Yes, you can buy a bigger house on a bigger plot of land for the same money and yes gas is cheaper, but you are more likely to die of pharmaceutical side affects, so the adverts tell me and seriously, where is all the money going? For a nation built on tax avoidance you guys seem to be seriously paying through the nose for something.

Oh the irony. Even smokey is an ironic film, as is the sixthteenth amendment to the consititution, considering the founding reasons for your country.

But that is what politicians do the world over isn't it, tax the lowest bottom denominator to extinction. If all the men in a particular state or town in the US were bald because the local water plant couldn't afford the necessary reverse osmosis kit, you could bet your bottom dollar that the local politicans would decide that a 3000% state tax on regaine would be a good idea.

It's fucked up, where I was the town couldn't even afford road repairs and the local water plant only just got the kit necessary to filter out all the unwanted natural occurring flouride levels that were causing high infant mortality rates and high rates of brittle bones in children. Seriously and the local population was comparable to a town here in the UK and people were spending the same outgoing in insurance and taxes as they would here in the UK. Seriously fucked up. I sometimes think the USA has more in common with Russia than Europe given all the people on the make at the top who rip off the working classes and don't pay taxes.

Really. It makes Smokey look like a state censored reality show.

Still, on the bright side, at least you didn't go through two world wars, only to be ruled by a federal, German superstate by stealth.

Do you want to know what it feels like? Well imagine that Canada made all your national and local laws and tax regimes for you, and told you how many extra tens of billions you all should contribute to the Canadian economy every year, just for the sake of it so their MP's can use it on Canadian infrastructure projects or make senseless decisions on allowing unlimited immigrants from Canada in to use your heavily taxed facilities and claim welfare free of charge, inflate house prices and undercut your wages and take all the social housing. Well that is what it feels like.

It's not just Europe either, the global elite have their sights on a global social engineering project where we all will work in the workhouse with no H&S 7 days a week for free. Enslavement is what it is. Fair enough if you can go out in your 4x4 at the weekends and fire off your aka, but in a society where people already live on top of each other and the cost of housing is at breaking point and services are already overstretched and most of its utilty fuel is imported and utilties/services/ communications already in foreign ownership, beer is too expensive to afford and guns are banned, it just doesn't cut it with me.

Anyway I digress, fecking tax returns, I'II probably feel better in a few months. The bastards even charge you extra when you put your tax on a credit card.

RICCCCKKKY! Sanjay? Ghita? RIIIIIICCCKY! SHUUUUT IT YOU SLAAAAG! RICCCCCKKKKY!

Yes, I must admit, I haven't seen eastenders for a very long time. However it gives an inner strength to lonely British spinsters nationwide who seem to be addicted to watching it religiously everynight. Much I am sure, in the same way some lonely, bud drinking, obese American bachelor, working in a dead end job at Food Lion sfor thirty years, sits down to watch endless reruns of Smokey and the Bandit in his old sputum stained armchair to reassure himself of who is he really is and that life is not so bad and there are others out there with the same life values, even if in reality they only exist on TV.

In an ideal world, the priviledged and educated underclass elite would toil endlessly to serve their Celtic and Aboringinal masters with the best beer and women imaginable. Unfortunately life is so far from reality i makes me so angry I wanna cry.

Although that wouldn't work, I'd probably fall for some girl from another race or culture and then my ginger/aboriginal eugenics programme would be in tatters. It's just about a sense of freedom, equality and having some degree of control in your life by making your own decisions and not having them forced on you. These days there is no accountability and we MUST pay our taxes, it just seems wrong to me. In Smokey Burt Reynolds was free man, he was liberated. Now excuse me, I must tug my furlock and return to my sputum stained armschair to complete my tax return as I'm supposed to be on site at 10.

[straycat]

Oh snap!
Are we a wee bit bitter?
I have been to England didn't like it, hopped on the plane and flew home.

[RacerX]

Damn ginsambo write a novel why doncha?

Although - a rarity! - I did read *all* of your above screed - typos & all!

[VitaminG]

Damn ginsambo write a novel why doncha?

Although - a rarity! - I did read *all* of your above screed - typos & all!

really?! Can you give us the abridged version?

[Snoogans]

[Rsmacker]

it is rare that Americans do any graft by hand.

Mexicans do it for them.

You missed the tax deadline, didn't you? Looks like you too can be an Arsebandit, running from Smokey (Bacon). The world is your lobster, Rodders.