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Yo DJ Commie (stole this from Rhyno in the craigslist gold thread) Go buy this
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DJ Commie posted:I already have a turquoise Rocky! What the heck I don't need two brightly colored early 90s convertible SUVs either, someone should buy it.
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Jul 15, 2017 22:57
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I'm starting to think about importing kei cars from Japan and selling them over here in the US. The volume will be tiny, one car at a time and it will be exclusively kei class since that's what I've immersed myself in. The only international port in Florida they seem to be able to be delivered to is in Jacksonville, on the other side of the state from me. This means I have to figure out how to get them from over there to where I am in Sarasota (south of Tampa) and I've been looking at towing vehicles and what is needed for that. So far it seems I can expect around 1500 pounds for a tandem axle trailer (with brakes) and kei cars themselves never weigh more than 2000 lbs. As for vehicles with which to tow the trailer with I would like an SUV instead of a pickup because at least I can seat more people in it, where as if I want a pickup I'll just get a kei truck. I've been looking at J80 Land Crusiers (and the LX450, same truck) and second and third gen 4runners. I like the 4runners because it's less truck than a land crusier and they come in manual transmissions. Is there anything I'm missing or have extremely wrong? I'm wholly ignorant on towing and what I should expect. I also want to do it right.
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Jul 16, 2017 04:34
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angryrobots posted:If you want to go Toyota, how about a Sequoia? The drivetrain is quite stout and the first gens I see for pretty cheap. Maybe a little more truck than you are wanting, especially if it's gonna be an everyday vehicle...but I can vouch for the ability of that chassis to tow comfortably and reliably. Applebees Appetizer posted:I would think that a J80 or LX450/470 would be more ideal for towing than a 4Runner. The big Lexus SUVs can be had cheap with higher miles, but as you know that doesn't really matter for the right truck. I would take the Lexus features over the Toyota all day long, tow in comfort gently caress it. The one you linked is the best LX that's close by. Looking at it more closely I thought the LX470s were huge compared to the LX450 but it turns out that the 470s are shorter and only slightly longer and wider. Ugh. Pretty sure the reason I'm so hesitant to go for a 470 is because I feel some sort of disgust by becoming 'one of them' in a typical giant Lexus SUV fashion. That's all in my head though and it does make more sense to get a newer more comfortable Lexus. The sc300 has spoiled us so much that I've swung hard toward Toyota so in a sense I'm already one of them 
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Jul 16, 2017 07:18
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Applebees Appetizer posted:That's how I first kind of felt about LS430s before we got one. But it was such a good car for the price there was no way to pass it up, we love this car. And of course, most non car people have no clue about luxury car depreciation or think the car is brand new, so we had people asking us when we won the lottery or if we got a inheritance and poo poo like that Was it you that told me about the 'Lexus Drivers' webpage that Lexus has where you can plug in a vin and it will spit out every dealership service that vehicle has ever had? I plugged in that LX 470 you had linked and it turns out that's its spent it's entire life in Buffalo New York, all the way up until Jan of this year.  I went ahead and asked about any rust issues and if there were any undercarriage pictures but I'm not holding my breath.
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Jul 17, 2017 05:22
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Larrymer posted:Most companies don't pay for loyalty, unfortunately. If a company will let you go for various small reasons then it's only fair that employees treat their companies with the same respect. Loyalty goes both ways and you should give just as much as the company you work for as a baseline. It's just smart business imho.
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Jul 18, 2017 18:30
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It's stupid that you can jump to another company and get a 20% raise, then possibly come back to the original company and get paid even more. It seems to work that way in my industry at least (auto).
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Rhyno posted:I'm having some pretty weird/serious problems at work. That sucks dude. Try to contact someone above whoever you talked to at the police station. We had an issue with some neighbors riding dirt bikes around our neighborhood and the standard police wouldn't do anything or cite laws that didn't exist. Eventually we got a hold of the police chief who then sent out a specialist in dealing with the problem and sorted it very cleanly and instantly. It took a few weeks to get to that point of course, but in the end the system did work out in our favor.
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Jul 19, 2017 01:43
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Rhyno posted:See I don't know if he is trans or not. I can't parse them as a woman because of the amount of stubble on their face. See why I'm on eggshells here? I have how to even talk about this! So then default to "they" "I'm not interested in them" "They make me uncomfortable"
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Jul 19, 2017 03:47
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Rhyno posted:When I first encountered and had an issue with this person they were very clearly a man. Now they have bright blue hair, pigtails, and wears skirts but has nothing female about them. I know, I work in a comic shop, weird should be common. But few of my customers say poo poo like "You could love me if you just gave me a chance." You can still say 'them' even if they are clearly a man or clearly a woman. The issue though is that they might not consider themselves one or the other, or maybe neither of them. Everyone likes to mock the xi/xer/whatever the gently caress other identifiers people come up with but yeah like, it isn't for you to make that call so just be neutral about it. They probably will still get upset if they are mad at you but that's not what you want to avoid, you want to avoid becoming the bigot they are claiming you are, 'they' is for other people, not the person you'd like to avoid. I had a clingly girl in highschool once and that's as far as my 'stalker' experience goes, so I truly don't have an idea what something like this would be to deal with. However if they are doing the things you say they are but you don't want to be a bigot then I don't know what to tell you. Move? Get a different job? The end of this line is one of those things unless you do the police/security route. If you are afraid of them tar and feathering you then they've won and whatever mind games they are trying to play are working. So don't play those games, play it as straight (heh) as possible and by the books. Or you can keep going 'guys this sucks' and we can all go 'yeah'.
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Jul 19, 2017 04:02
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Annnnd this is suddenly one of the few times I'm glad I come off as a cold blunt rear end in a top hat on first meetings with strangers. He does work at a comic book shop so that sort of exposure jumps up prolly like 200% over the average. Adiabatic posted:
But conversations like this really get my motor runnin' Cars: This is from the craigslist thread, someone go buy it because I'm on the other side of the country.
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Jul 19, 2017 04:04
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Head out on the Highway! This one is a bit more appropriate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhY9GOhFwN4 (sorry Rhyno)
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Jul 19, 2017 04:10
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:I would have thought this one was more appropriate Rhyno posted:Rude!
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Gingerbread House Music posted:Dude posts about being loving stalked and you idiots are worried about his harassers loving pronouns? Let me help you out: Rhyno posted:I'm not famous or anything but I'm well known in town. It doesn't take much to smear someone's repuatation here and I spent months doing damage control over that. And it hurts the store because they're seen as employing a gay-hating bigot. I have a question  What makes a steering wheel do this?
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Jul 19, 2017 04:54
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scuz posted:In other news, I've become obsessed with MR2 AW11s because I We went and looked at this one last week and it's worth maybe 3k with all the interior bits broken and missing, and the rough exterior paint. But it also does truly only have 52k miles on it so. You know what to do.
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Jul 19, 2017 05:07
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A 2000 Land Cruiser is about an hour away from me, good price too. From the pictures the interior looks good, seller claims that it was a one-owner vehicle. The downside is it has 337k on it. An hour is just an hour sure but in the land of ~Land Cruisers~ I don't know if north of 300k is anything to worry about assuming all the maintenance was taken car of properly. Should I even bother going looking at it?
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Jul 21, 2017 04:18
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mariooncrack posted:Any cool restaurants or things to do while you're out there? Might be worth it for that and add looking at the car as well. If not, and you don't really need the car, I'd pass. Ybor is close by, could go up there to get some cubans I guess. I'm just looking to get some sort of vehicle to tow kei cars that come in every month for an 8~ hour round trip drive along super-flat Florida.
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Jul 21, 2017 04:56
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spog posted:Related, but I saw a Nissan Figaro for sale yesterday Helaciously expensive, it seems to be one of those cars that people are slightly familiar with and since they are super unique looking the demand far outpaces supply. Especially since they are now legal in the USA. Lots of people here to drive prices skyward. I always liked the Pao more anyway, it's a 90s VW Thing made by Nissan. Canvas top available, 5 speed manual and available A/C.  or the Be-1  Or the S-Cargo but that seems way more gimmicky than any of these cars. Made at the same time by the same studio as the Figaro.  KakerMix fucked around with this message at 19:47 on Jul 22, 2017 |
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Jul 22, 2017 19:44
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FAT32 SHAMER posted:If he's white then the police chief will chortle about kids these days and then daddy will give a generous donation to the police man's fraternal order Unfortunately he's still going to be the 'dentist student that got naked and ran at a family while at a museum'.
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Jul 23, 2017 03:51
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Hello I am Mr. Mechanic I am using this tire iron
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Jul 23, 2017 07:01
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Martian over Moon? Really? Have a seat over there, we need to talk....
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Jul 23, 2017 16:25
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Forgive my ignorance but as a person living in the USA I constantly get reminded that Minis and Range Rovers are unreliable garbage considering the alternatives we have available. But everyone in Britain (maybe even Europe?) drives Minis and Range Rovers and don't seem to have any reputation for being garbage. Is there some geographic difference between the vehicles or is it a social thing?
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Jul 23, 2017 18:19
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fridge corn posted:theres an awful lot of americans driving chryslers or so i am told That's never done out of pride though Adiabatic posted:Oh got it so only idiot British folk drive Minis and Land Rovers. No it's just that when someone has one over here in the US it's assumed they are trying to exude some sort of ~class~ and I was just wondering if it's the same in the birthplace of both brands, turns out it is but since that is where they are from it's much cheaper to repair them out of warranty thus people deal with them. KakerMix fucked around with this message at 19:41 on Jul 23, 2017 |
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Jul 23, 2017 19:39
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Moon is better than The Martian in film form.
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Jul 23, 2017 23:33
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fridge corn posted:Moon was a decent little film. I enjoyed watching it despite the fact that apparently the moon isn't isolated enough Maybe if the movie didn't take place on Sam Rockwell's rear end
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Jul 23, 2017 23:38
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InitialDave posted:Steering back away from DangleBagChat... Insanely jealous of everywhere that isn't the US regarding import laws. 25 years is bullshit and I am not buying a Chevy gently caress you  I am jealous of your car.
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Jul 24, 2017 20:41
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Re: RCR Looks like he finally realized how to pronounce 'kei' although he still gets docked for claiming the radiator is underneath the Acty. That's the condenser and he'd be hard pressed to flip a kei car even being as tall as it is. All the weight is down below and those tires are going to lose grip long before he flips.
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Jul 24, 2017 21:37
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Rhyno posted:Guys like to look at lady parts. It's not that hard to figure out. Some guys want lady parts themselves as you may or may not know
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Jul 24, 2017 23:40
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Enourmo posted:Humans are the only species that have evolved permanent boobs (ie present outside of pregnancy/nursing) and some biologists theorize that it's specifically because we started doing missionary however many million years ago, basically they developed as like a frontal visual equivalent to rear end cheeks There was a thing I watched recently that debunked that in a way that made me go 'oh yeah' but I can't recall where I saw it. It's just as well anyway, even if you aren't a boob person on birth you can certainly become one in western society in short order as that prolly has more to do with the fetishization of breasts. Lots of cultures in Africa don't care about boobs.
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Jul 25, 2017 00:27
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Just watched the 1978 film "The Driver" and it was great. Funny reading reviews of the time calling it 'ultra violent' though.
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Jul 25, 2017 09:07
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Powershift posted:Reviews written by mercedes owners, no doubt. I just watched this today as well and winced a whole bunch during that scene.
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Jul 25, 2017 16:22
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IOwnCalculus posted:My Summer Car? Yeah http://store.steampowered.com/app/516750/My_Summer_Car/
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Jul 26, 2017 01:00
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 Finally. It's dark now though so I can't get a good look at it tomorrow. It's hilarious how low tech it feels vs. the Honda.
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Jul 26, 2017 03:08
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Is that two driveways or a sidewalk? It's a church parking lot at the end of our road. We live at the end of a dead-end so I had the delivery driver just pull through the parking lot. Large, well-lit and he can pull through instead of having to back out.
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Jul 26, 2017 03:58
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At least eat cheese instead, milk is a piss-poor source of calcium and is pretty much bad at everything besides making cheese.
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Jul 26, 2017 19:11
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Sinestro posted:This is one of the few things Trump's done I'm not finding the ability to get angry about. I'm cool with not being able to be drafted to die in our next pointless quagmire in the Middle East or elsewhere. Yeah but you'd still be just as guilty of doing the classic 'gently caress you got mine' thing that the conservative baby boomers subscribe to that elected the guy in the first place. Gotta feel like a hollow win, right?
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Jul 27, 2017 05:09
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Ether Frenzy posted:I have a feeling in Trump's America where fairness and decency reigns, the draft will have a giant asterisk overturning that issue. Sorry about your impending service invading North Korea, Iran, the non-homicidal maniacal portions of the Phillipines, Putin's biggest political enemy's condo in Paris, Al Udeid Air Base, California, and mainland China via beachhead landings at the same time. Same but switch around Gen X and ~millenials~ and you've got yourself a deal pops edit Wait when do gen-xers stop and millenials begin?
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Jul 27, 2017 05:21
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The 'millenial' label stretches so drat far though, my wife and I were born in the early 80s and played outside, phones with cords and know what it was like to use card catalogs and phonebooks. That we're lumped in with people that didn't do that sort of stuff like we did feels like it's incorrect. Every generation thinks they have it right and the ones before it were old fashioned and the ones after it are doing it all wrong so whatever, not like it's going to suddenly change this time.
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Jul 27, 2017 05:29
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I've already lost track of time and do the thing where you go 'heh yeah us young people' and then realize that the kid you are talking to was born in 2000.
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Ether Frenzy posted:It happens quick my dude. I laughed at the oldass 42ish dads of my friends, sitting around drinking Busch Light and listening to the Allman Brothers telling us all to enjoy youth while it's there like 'whatever, gramps'. It was yesterday. in 1990. HEH whatever old man *kick flips can of SURGE and surfs away on SNICK couch listening to Incubus*
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