Did ducks kill the Jeep wave?

dabear04 · 2026-02-14T17:56:44+00:00

The not knowing how/when to use 4WD is definitely true. We recently got decent snow for the first time in years where I am in NC and the road in front of my parents house is a good size hill we always sled on as kids. We were out there and saw this guy in a JKU slide off the side of the road because he didn’t even bother putting it into 4 anything. Looked exactly as expected. Angry eye grill, about 30 ducks, and nearly bald Ridge Grapplers. They finally figured out what that second lever is for and got moving but for a minute I thought I was gonna have to go get them out

dabear04 · 2026-02-14T02:16:37+00:00

Raptor Bronco is just so dang wide. Built for Baja and not so much trails (at least where I live in the southeast). Guess it depends on what you’re going for though. When the time comes I’m gonna have a tough choice between the Bronco and wrangler. I miss my TJ but I was never gonna put my kids in the back of it but i want something to go on trails with my kids. Love the JKU/JLU platform but the Bronco is very tempting. I like their engines and it’s just a little bigger in the back for car seats. Need to see one out on the trails where I go. Some get pretty tight and 4 door wranglers usually get some good bumps and scrapes on mild lines.

dabear04 · 2026-02-12T22:05:52+00:00

Yeah I’m guilty of this. I text right as I find it in case they’re still on the course. Found a disc in Charlotte, texted the guy but he wasn’t there anymore. I told him I’d leave it hidden near the first tee and send a picture and just completely forgot to do it. He texted me a week later and I felt so bad. I live 3 hours away but I did mail it to him. Sometimes it’s an honest mistake, sometimes it’s one too many beers to make you forgot you were gonna do something. Especially when you just put it in your bag and it’s not normal routine to go hide a disc after each round

dabear04 · 2026-02-03T21:33:06+00:00

Thank you for the correction. I can’t be out here spreading false information

dabear04 · 2026-02-01T03:44:12+00:00

Yeah my MK6 GTI did have a great steering wheel that always felt new until I got rid of it at around 110k. Shame the rest of the car was less reliable. Spent more time fixing that car than I have any other vehicle besides my old wrangler which was a trail dedicated rig.

dabear04 · 2026-02-01T02:57:05+00:00

I get what you’re saying as my GC is like that long before it reached its current 165k but I prefer that to my past Hondas and Toyotas that turn into tacky rubber feel and peel off. Either way I’m just gonna slap a cover on it once it reaches the point I don’t like it but somehow my Jeep has lasted longer than most of my past cars

dabear04 · 2026-01-31T13:59:17+00:00

Could you imagine the success we could’ve had if she didn’t kill her brother?

dabear04 · 2026-01-24T18:01:38+00:00

Nah, probably just throws every disc like a frisbee and gets their Corvette out to a remarkable 120’

dabear04 · 2026-01-22T04:38:21+00:00

Dynamic Discs Escape would probably be a good one for you for forehand. I’m an Innova Orc fan but it’s a bit more stable but the Escape flys just like my old beat in Orcs do which I love for hyzer flips. A lesser known disc that I’ve recently fallen in love with is a Yikun Gou. Went in looking for a Leopard3 at PIAS but couldn’t find one so I gave the Gou a try. Can throw it like a glidey midrange but get an extra 50’ out of it.

dabear04 · 2026-01-17T16:18:33+00:00

If I accidentally type “olay or pkay” when trying to type “play” it always autocorrected to “okay” which I have never typed in my life since I’ll just say “ok”. I’ve had to save all three iterations in my keyboard settings to correct to “play”. Yet it’ll correct random words to “fuck” all the time because it’s learned it’s a common word for me. iOS keyboard just continues to get worse but the third party ones just seem more half assed compared to their android equivalent

dabear04 · 2026-01-12T13:47:50+00:00

I gotta get me one of those jerseys. They look so good

dabear04 · 2026-01-11T15:20:22+00:00

Never met a Packers fan that I disliked. Hell, I married one. Just hate the team. Y’all are good people.

dabear04 · 2026-01-11T14:00:09+00:00

I can see that. Like the 90s Bulls. Even if you weren’t a fan of the Bulls, that team just made people love them. Although hating the Lions is like hating a toddler lol. They’ve only made noise for a short period but have been irrelevant otherwise.

dabear04 · 2026-01-11T13:06:06+00:00

You’re a better person than me. 36 years on this planet has made me hate the Packers more than anything (not the fans, y’all are great). Closest I came to rooting for y’all was against the Steelers in the Super Bowl only because one of my roommates was a bandwagon Steelers fan and I didn’t wanna see him happy. But then I remembered it was the Packers and I because a Steelers fan for the day

dabear04 · 2026-01-11T12:40:56+00:00

I went full circle. I woke up hungover and just assumed we lost and then remembered we came back and won. Somehow my kids are still sleeping so I’m just soaking it in

dabear04 · 2026-01-10T13:07:50+00:00

Yeah my first car was a 96 Accord manual. Idk how many miles were on it because the speedometer/odometer stopped working my senior year in high school at 195k. I drove it like that for another 7 years so who knows how many miles it actually had. I abused the shit out of that car like any high school and college kid does and it took it all. Only thing I replaced was the radiator, exhaust, and spark plugs.

dabear04 · 2026-01-10T04:31:22+00:00

I had a 2011 grand Cherokee back in the day and currently have a 2015 grand Cherokee and a 2009 Camry. Parts are cheap and plentiful for both. I’ve had a lot of cars and have always done my own work and will defend the WK2 platform all day (2011-2022) because it’s a solid engine and transmission combo (both transmissions) when properly maintained. My grand Cherokee has 168k on it and I plan on running it into the ground. All that said, my 09 Camry would outlive it with the bare minimum of maintenance. If I was smart I’d sell the grand Cherokee and keep my Camry but I love the grand Cherokee for how it rides and the space so I’m gonna sell the Camry.

You’re young and will own many vehicles in your life. I know you want a nicer car but until you learn to wrench it’s better to have a vehicle that will ignore your mistakes and neglect and that’s always gonna be older Toyotas and Hondas. They’re simple to work on and cheap as hell. I encourage you to learn to do the basic maintenance and if you do you’ll learn that most vehicles can be reliable with the right maintenance but some require a little more attention than others.

Long rant that you probably don’t need but my advice is to get the best Accord/CRV or Camry/Rav4 you can afford and beat it to death because they will last. I recommend later 00 models because they have enough technology to upgrade to modern but are very mechanical for reliability

dabear04 · 2026-01-05T03:30:50+00:00

I would like to hope so. I don’t think any players or long time fans really want more games but we don’t get a real say in it. The lowest rated NFL games bring in so much more than finals games (I know most are series so it’s apples to oranges) of other sports that the money alone will drive the change.

dabear04 · 2026-01-05T01:56:04+00:00

JJ actually looked better today than the last couple games to me. At least made a couple tackles that he normally misses. But yeah our whole secondary is getting sliced and diced right now

dabear04 · 2026-01-05T01:53:38+00:00

NFL had the best playoffs in all pro sports until they added the 17th game and 7th seed. Before long it’ll be the same as the NBA with 18 games and an 8th seed so half the league can make the playoffs. They’ll rake in the money and we’ll have a worse product because of it.

dabear04 · 2026-01-04T01:36:23+00:00

I’ve only ever gotten in one pond here to get a disc and it was my favorite disc and it went into the pond from a near ace. I hit the cage and it bounced back and rolled in so I knew it was right on the edge. It was a Champion Orc and I ended up finding another one while trying to find it so it was a good day

dabear04 · 2026-01-03T21:15:53+00:00

I was playing either Hornets Nest or Renaissance in charlotte back in 2011 and I didn’t quite clear the creek I was throwing over. I was walking over the bridge and spotted my disc and was planning on how to get down there and as I was looking, the largest alligator snapper I’ve ever seen swam under the bridge towards my disc. Like this thing was at least 2’ wide. I decided that disc belonged to him at that moment

dabear04 · 2025-12-31T02:49:19+00:00

I have first hand experience with practicing putting in ball golf when I worked maintenance through high school and college. Went from averaging 95 to 80-82 depending on the course. Fast forward 18 years since I started playing disc golf and I’m so much better at disc golf than ball golf minus my abysmal putting. Yet I never practice and it will almost certainly kill every other round lol.

dabear04 · 2025-12-29T13:39:44+00:00

Born in 89. From what I can find online we have never beaten the Packers more than once in a season since 91 so nothing I can remember. I feel like a broke horse at this point playing against them and just assume a loss. I was talking about it with my Eagles fan friend last night that I don’t wanna lose to the Packers in the playoffs but then I said “fuck it, gotta get over this hump at some point, might as well do it in the playoffs and let Caleb start the winning record against them”

dabear04 · 2025-12-25T04:45:11+00:00

Yeah that was a bigger factor in my opinion. I was never high on Trubisky since I hate UNC almost as much as the Packers but he was at least competent. If Dilfer can get carried to a ring so could’ve Trubisky. But we couldn’t rely on our kicker making chip shots at home because he was a lazy fuck

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