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Participantflu – I’m pretty sure I for one won’t regret not buying a f**king appliance like an Accord. The “old age” argument falls flat unless he gets a Tesla Roadster, Vette, or something overpowered, silly, classic, or any combo of the three.
ParticipantDifferent strokes for different folks. I can think of many ways to blow $1500/yr extra in preference to a new car (esp. a frickin’ Accord!). Driving an old car doesn’t mean “living like a hermit”:
* Take a trip to some interesting place for a week. $1500 will cover air fare and hotel
* Buy a sailboat and fix it up.
* A few more hours of flying lessons
* A fixer-upper motorcycle.
* Quite a lot of theatre tickets
* Skiing!
* Musical instrumentsCars just don’t rank high on my list of things that I give a crap about, unless the car is interesting in some way and/or classic. Having a more comfortable way to be stuck in traffic is like asking whether I want my teeth pulled or be punched in the face by a mugger.
As far as the old car, to hell with donating it to some bum. Price it right on Craigslist and someone will show up to pick it up, cash in hand, within a few days.
This being said, I actually didn’t want a car as old as mine. I was looking for a post-2000 Subaru, called on a CL ad about a Subaru, and found out that the guy had already sold it. “But I have another car, and I’m flexible on price since I’m moving to FL next week…” OK, so I was in the area, so I took a ride down there! Saw that the car was basically in beautiful condition, and offered a bit over half his ask, thinking he’d never take it. Surprisingly he did, and at that point I couldn’t exactly refuse.
ParticipantNo hydraulic rear suspension (thankfully — expensive to fix!) and it’s louder than a normal car outside, but not much louder.
ParticipantBetter the devil you know than the devil you don’t…. And FYI, I just took a 1000 mile trip in a 30 year old car.
ParticipantThat’s bizarre. Can’t imagine a huge market for stolen Ford GT parts.
August 3, 2012 at 5:14 PM in reply to: UC Police Officer pepper spraying Occupy Protesters acted reasonably. #749451ParticipantI don’t disagree with that. How about protesting against that instead of wall street.
Occupy … hasn’t only been about Wall Street, for oh, the last year at least.
ParticipantToday’s unemployment report is pretty bad, despite the 160k jobs “created”. Unemployment up, U-6 up, participation bouncing around 10 year lows. And it’s awesome that Bennie-Shalom and Mario Druggie are staying out of the game for now. I’d love to see DOW 10k by October.
ParticipantProper response to the above:
“Sweet, I’ve always wanted to solve the population problem, one whiney kid at a time. Now get me the unpolarized lenses. *snap* *snap* CHOP-CHOP, attaboy!”
August 2, 2012 at 2:45 PM in reply to: UC Police Officer pepper spraying Occupy Protesters acted reasonably. #749403ParticipantMeh… OWS my ass…
Rising tuition costs??? How about getting a degree that can pay for the cost after you’re done…maybe….Oh that’s right, folks no longer want to do the dirty work anymore..Those “jobs” are grunt work and should be done overseas….Yep. OWS are a bunch of asses … for not organizing enough to paralyze the corrupt shithole known as DC into something resembling Paris in summer.
Their gripes are legitimate — ever seen what has happened to education and research (other than military crap) since the 1990s? Mostly due to many trillion $ being spend on unwinnable wars.
America ought to be ashamed of itself.
ParticipantOr rather: with Lasik, you need to shop EXTRA carefully. Since if they stuff the job up, it’s sort of hard to undo.
August 2, 2012 at 9:34 AM in reply to: UC Police Officer pepper spraying Occupy Protesters acted reasonably. #749377Participant“Just following orders” is a crappy excuse. My only qualm is that, really, the whole UC Davis PD should be kicked out onto the street. The money saved by not paying those parasites should go towards lowering tuition.
ParticipantWhiskey, Tango, Foxtrot, over? I generally pay under $200 cash for eye exam and (distance) glasses. I generally use either Cohen’s or the independent optician near my home.
This is in NYC, which is generally more expensive than CA.
August 2, 2012 at 9:00 AM in reply to: UC Police Officer pepper spraying Occupy Protesters acted reasonably. #749372ParticipantHe still lost his job. Hope someone here gets to buy the pig’s house at foreclosure auction after he and his family end up on the street.
ParticipantBack then, the economy was good, and they basically told me my car wasn’t good enough for their body shop.
Did you tell the greaseballs where they could put your car?
Translation of their greaseballese: “You’re probably liability-only, and thus paying for the work yourself. We can’t bend you over and cheat you like we do to the insurance companies, since you’d probably call the police.”
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