Applebees Appetizer posted:

No way I would drive a Kei truck/car on public roads they are loving death traps. Yeah an old cheap F150 isn't the safest vehicle, but it's gonna have an airbag and not cripple you in a fender bender.

This is a kei truck vs Ford Ranger in a low speed crash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX5HTFEID9M

STR posted:

And this is when Bajaja and STR's paths collide.

I would love to find a Baja, but I can't say I've even seen one in the flesh in years.

(don't worry, they're based on the Legacy, which is what Brokeback is also based on, so your dream just put me in a cooler version of my car)

Siochain posted:

So, got married this weekend. Kept it a secret from everyone but the officiant and the two friends who were witnesses.
Perfect day. +1 outside, light snow, had a little ceremony in a nice park. Went home, ate cake and had coffee, then ordered pizza for supper.
A+ would get married again.

Tremek posted:

I’m nice to people and have cool cars, but I get it.

quote:

To be fair, the study also found that conscientious people are also drawn to high-status cars. “The link is presumably explained by the importance they attach to high quality. All makes of car have a specific image, and by driving a reliable car they are sending out the message that they themselves are reliable,” Lönnqvist explains.

Thomas Jefferson posted:

And what country can preserve it's liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it's natural manure.

ilkhan posted:

I'm always interested in hearing what you say. You (collectively) have changed my thinking in some ways and reinforced it in others. Not that any of you commies have any interest in hearing from the other side.

And I remind you all, yet again, I did not vote for Trump in 2016.

KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:

i certainly understand a bunch of conservative points of view, but i don't get how Trump is actually delivering on anything that my conservative friends want.

KakerMix posted:

re: Trump

History is not going to be kind to white male conservatives and this whole ~era~ of just absolute garbage, one way or another.
As a straight white male that lives in a wealthy conservative area I'm constantly looked at like everyone's brother, son, or grandson. The insane off the deep end poo poo people confide in me because I look like them is loving wild. I don't need talking points or NPR or chem trails to make up my mind. Spend some time with true brain worm away-from-reality dead to rights pieces of poo poo white men on a golf course and you too will go 'holy gently caress burn all this down and start over, please.' Those dudes are terrified of Bernie Sanders.

Elviscat posted:

E: I am so loving lucky my GF doesn't blame me for the brake failure I caused by not torquing her caliper bolts properly, and she is totally cool with me doing her brakes again, now that her rear pads are wearing down.

STR posted:

KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:

i feel like it's really easy to get an auto loan

Darchangel posted:

Yeah, sorry, a Northeast car is largely valueless anywhere but in the Northeast. Too much possibility of hidden Northeastness.

STR posted:

Rhyno posted:

I don't know why a dude who has clearly been a republican piece of poo poo his entire life is suddenly being allowed to run as a democrat.

kastein posted:

He's Donald Trump (D).

Tremek posted:

Everything is expensive down under, what is this competitive pricing you speak of

CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:

There's a dirty semi-secert there. The costs of Aust wages had less to do with the final price than the bullshit the LNP and conservative rags tried to say. Toyota were quite well able to make cars cheaper in Australia for some reason.... hmmm.......

Like for instance, did you know GM did a fair degree of profit shifting with Holden under the guise of paying for rights to it's own engineering (Holden's NOT US GM) and trademarks? And as a interesting thought, Opel under it's first year of ownership by PSA made a fairly decent profit. The first one since 1999. Co-incidence you say? Or or likely proof Opel was in fact being leeched by GM? And that in fact Holden's average per worker wage bill wasn't actually that much higher than a GM one?

It also seems odd the conservative govt didnt want to pay a cent more when Holden returned 16 dollars to 1 in economic benefit. The LNP have zero issue handing out big bucks to miners.... who are actually smaller and employed less as a sector than Holden by itself, let alone the suppliers jobs it supported. It's less odd when you work out that Holden and the car industry in general was heavily unionised. So you might say no one would be THAT loving stupid to dare GM to close and risk 100,000s of jobs and billions of economic benefit as a whole just because they hated unions right?



Any doubts now?

shy boy from chess club posted:

Yeah but that's later money, now money is the only money that matters in the US

GnarlyCharlie4u posted:

Don't ever deal with people that don't have real estate agents.
Don't ever not have a real estate agent.

If poo poo goes sideways they can get messier than a divorce and you need everyone you can get in your corner.

Rhyno posted:

That's what I'm guessing. I watched a few tutorials, I might be able to blend the lost paint with some care. I'm not going to go to the trouble of stripping the entire room, not right now anyways.