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williegoat AUG 18, 12:40 PM

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"Ain't no rest for the whiskers."

fredtoast AUG 18, 12:53 PM
I don't think the girl in the video is really Australian. If she is she seems to be doing some act intended to get laughs or make fun of Australians.

Either way I don't see the point of making a video just to address the comments of one random meaningless person on Tik Tok. What are the chances the "Australian" girl will even see this response?
rinselberg AUG 18, 07:32 PM


"That's a flag."
williegoat AUG 18, 07:46 PM
The Aussie girl's name is Mia Chloe and she is a died in the wool ass. She has closed her "social media" accounts because she will not own up to her idiocy.

I was in Puerto Penasco during Fiestas Patrias many years ago and I removed my hat and stood in reverent silence during the reading of El Grito. It is only right to show respect for your hosts.
Patrick AUG 18, 07:58 PM

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Originally posted by fredtoast:

Either way I don't see the point of making a video just to address the comments of one random meaningless person on Tik Tok.



Hey, it got its own thread on a car forum!


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Originally posted by fredtoast:

What are the chances the "Australian" girl will even see this response?



Zero.
rinselberg AUG 18, 08:10 PM
I remember quite some years ago there was a very large American flag flying from a tall flagpole on the grounds of what was Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, which more recently became Weathertech Raceway Laguna Seca.

It's near Monterey.

I remember there was a "ruckus" about the noise from the flag. You might not think of flags as "noisy", but this was a gi-normous flag and it could be heard from a long distance away when it was flapping in the wind. Especially at night, when there wasn't as much other noise to mask it. I think the winds were also (perhaps) more commonly stronger at night in that area.

I think it must have been taken down, because of the complaints. Finally. After having been a fixture of the racetrack for many years.

Curiously, I couldn't find any of the news reports about this when I used Google. I'm sure there were news reports. I might try again, later. I have another idea about how to set up an online search. It kind of "bugs" me when I don't find what I expect to find with Google.

That was One Flag Too Many.

I never lived in that area, or experienced it like the people who were complaining, but I think they were right. I think I remember being kind of "spooked" by the sound that I think I must have heard from the whipping of that flag as I was looking upon it.

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williegoat AUG 18, 08:52 PM

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Originally posted by rinselberg:

I remember quite some years ago there was a very large American flag flying from a tall flagpole on the grounds of what was Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, which more recently became Weathertech Raceway Laguna Seca.

It's near Monterey.

I remember there was a "ruckus" about the noise from the flag. You might not think of flags as "noisy", but this was a gi-normous flag and it could be heard from a long distance away when it was flapping in the wind. Especially at night, when there wasn't as much other noise to mask it. I think the winds were also (perhaps) more commonly stronger at night in that area.

I think it must have been taken down, because of the complaints. Finally. After having been a fixture of the racetrack for many years.

Curiously, I couldn't find any of the news reports about this when I used Google. I'm sure there were news reports. I might try again, later. I have another idea about how to set up an online search. It kind of "bugs" me when I don't find what I expect to find with Google.

That was One Flag Too Many.

I never lived in that area, or experienced it like the people who were complaining, but I think they were right. I think I remember being kind of "spooked" by the sound that I think I must have heard from the whipping of that flag as I was looking upon it.



That just goes to show how petty some people are. They built a race track right up against Luke AFB and within months people started complaining about the noise. Some people are just miserable and want to share it with the world.

https://goo.gl/maps/k3x4EA3mPq9nagjy5

I can guarantee that there is a lot more noise coming out of Luke 24/7/365 than a handful of motorcycles on Sunday morning. I can hear Luke from my house, and I am miles away.
rinselberg AUG 18, 10:20 PM

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Originally posted by williegoat:

That just goes to show how petty some people are...


I don't see how that applies to the situation that I described.

There's no big, noisy airport or AFB in that area that surrounds the Weathertech Raceway at Laguna Seca.

When they have Track Day events, anyone who puts a car on the track is subject to decibel limits. (For the car, not for their person.)

Why should there have been an expectation for the people who lived in the area around the raceway to put up with the noise from that flag? The flag wasn't integral to the operation of the raceway. Some Big Flag supporters talked about it like it should be regarded as a historic local landmark, but that seemed like "weak tea" to me.

My second attempt to find anything about this online did not produce.