Thanks all - I'm homing in on light gray, in eggshell or satin that would hopefully be easier to wipe clean than this stuff.

Quote from: giant_mtb on September 14, 2024, 03:45:45 PMGrays are all the rage these days for houses and garages.

And cars and trucks and everything else in the world.

I vote for Sassy Grass Spice that shit up.

Mine is white, but the walls are all marked and dinged up to hell from the previous owner.  I'll paint mine at some point, but it's probably last on the list of house projects.

White just looks dingey really quick in a garage.  I'll probably go with a boring, darker gray next time

I blame the dumb primary system. Iowa's got too much clout.

Plow up the land - grow GM corn - turn it into sugar, ferment some of it into alcohol - which we burn in our cars - while we sit in the drive-thru waiting for our order of high-fructose-corn-syrupy goop from FastFood Inc.

This is a great business plan - all you'd need to do is to get taxpayers to subsidize it. Why has nobody thought of this before?

When we drove through (Nebraska?) the pumps had 87/ 87/ 89/ 91. One had more corn in it.

The E88 was very popular during the fuel prices spike back in 2006ish- there was only a handful of stations near us in MD and the price was easily a dollar less than all the other fuels.

But cars had to say "flex fuel" or whatever to burn it without falling apart. All the old-fashioned rubber would deteriorate. I think most cars are "flex" now, without being advertised as such.

Quote from: giant_mtb on September 14, 2024, 07:09:39 AMAlternative take:  Maybe pedestrians should START FUCKIN LOOKING BOTH WAYS BEFORE CROSSING A STREET INSTEAD OF STARING AT THEIR PHONES AND THEY WON'T GET HIT. IF YOU CAN'T SEE A SUBURBAN RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU, MAYBE YOU NEED A GUIDE DOG OR BLIND STICK.

I've done that and still almost gotten plowed down by some dummy not paying attention while driving. The Fort has the lowest speed limits and "most safe" roads anywhere you'll see- and I still see people barreling through the crosswalk when another lane going the same direction has already stopped and the yellow lights on the pedestrian sign are flashing (user button)...

Was at a bar/restaurant earlier and saw an ad for this pop up on the TV.

https://chooseunleaded88.com/

Scroll down to the bottom, and who sponsors it?  Nebraska Corn Board, South Dakota Corn, Indiana Corn Market Council, IL Corn, Ohio Corn & Wheat, Maryland Grain Producers, Minnesota Corn, Wisconsin Corn.

Never even heard of E88 before...87, 89, and 91 are the norm here.  I guess E88 just has more ethanol (corn) in it.  Non-ethanol 91 is available at certain places here because that shit fucks with small engines and we have lots of snowmobiles, ORVs, snowblowers, etc, that don't like that bullshit.  It fouls plugs, doesn't burn as good, and goes sour quickly.  Not even sure why it was being advertised...although I can surmise why given who sponsors the website.  They love their corn subsidies ever since we started throwing ethanol into gasoline, and E88 has more corn in it, so.

Bleh. Thanks Obama.

Quote from: Morris Minor on September 14, 2024, 06:32:11 AMThe EU is slowly regulating itself out of existence. Just drop the front number plate requirement altogether. Who needs 'em?

I too am no fan of penile inadequacy megatrucks but we would save a lot more pedestrian lives if we started looking hard at our road layouts and designs. There are lots of videos out there highlighting our dangerous high speed multi-lane "stroads," with no sidewalks, no crossings, no lighting etc. An urbanist will talk to you all day about this.

Agreed.

One of my brother's best friends was killed last year, while trying to cross a multi-lane "stroad."  Ironically, he was in the process of buying a car, and was trying to cross the street to grab a bite while the dealership was processing the paperwork.

I find it incredible that Americans travel to Europe only to marvel at the sort of walkable cities that we bulldozed more than a century ago to make way for millions of cars!

But as far as wall color goes. Either plane ol' white or a pale gray (as mentioned by FoMo). White will give you maximum lighting, a gray will maintain plenty of light but feel a bit softer/less harsh overall. Grays are all the rage these days for houses and garages.