can i post a reverse classified? dad has been looking for a 2004 to 2012 colorado for a while now to replace his newer colorado as its too big for him. if anyone knows where a decent (preferably extended cab) version exists for sale please let me know. the closer to detroit the better.
"Sir Lewis is currently second in the World Championship"
isnt he 4th?
"George is my idea of the perfect modern F1 driver away from the track"
very depressing that george is being grouped with lewis and lando and arvind who are the other "british" drivers
"no Abarth in any condition has ever failed to fetch more than $6,100 on Bring-a-Trailer"
aside from the flyer at 4750 yeah he kinda gave up a grand or two. they make cool city cars even now.
"It looks bad."
thanks for the take submid paki woman
"I just want my white fans to know, I love you."
no you dont. fuck off.
"Elon Musk, by contrast, wants to go to the stars. How can you not admire that?"
i think its an admirable goal but this is the same guy who seems aggrieved at the actions of immigrants but hasnt stopped hiring them. surely he could do something to improve the country as well
solid advice that he might ignore as the man has purchased domestic since before the summer of love and im not referring to the covid one
what he really wants is a small truck like a colorado or ranger/s10 but they are basically impossible to find here at any price. might also be alright with an older tacoma though
whichever cab has two half doors (supercab?) in 2wd and automatic preferably. unsure of his max price but maybe 15kusd with not absurdly high mileage although its more of a "take what you can get" scenario
i know im giving vague requirements but thats only because he isnt perfectly set on what he wants at the moment but ill try to get more accurate info out of him
Hot tip to potential buyers, Hurin3s ford might just need terminals cleaned or a starter solenoid. Old fords are notorious for this and you can always jump the solenoid terminals in pinch.
I've replaced the starter solenoid and cleaned its connections. I have not cleaned the connection at the starter. That would require climbing under it, which I'm not physically able to do at the moment.
It's a 302 BTW. Color is two-toned blue and cream. Blue cloth interior.
Sad that I’m talking about Argentina and you think of Los Angeles! But I understand where you’re coming from, plenty of people have your point of view.
I’m on my second supercharged jag. Had a 2000 XJR I had to do tensioners on, now a 2009 XF supercharged. I’d like to get a 2018+ XJR but they aren’t much cheaper than range rovers, so I might get one of those for dogs.
I think they are generally fall-apart-ish but the basic Chrysler-fettled mechanicals are sound. The Abarth is like a little SRT-4 in a lot of ways. It's quite different from the Euro Abarth.
Yeah they're okay-ish. They just don't drive very nice, though. We have a 695 Rivale Convertible, the limited edition Riva-Edition which looks gorgeous. 180 hp with Akrapovic exhaust as a manual with the lovely wooden Riva trim (all stock!). But it's too short for that amount of power, and very stiff. Fun little car to drive to the lake, but not much more. Ours has been pretty reliable so far, except for a faulty seatbelt sensor on the passenger side. Maintenance is rather expensive for what it is.
I have a 2015 with around 55k miles. Owned it for 2 1/2 years and it's been pretty reliable. Had a couple random misfires but that was more related to under torqued plugs from the last owner than anything else. The CV axle started spitting grease which Abarths are notorious for. Door handles also break and the wiring harness on the rear hatch can wear through and disable the popper. Neither of these have happened to me.
Oh and the arm rests are made of papier mache and I immediately broke both after getting the car.
I love the car to death. It's the only "sports" car I've owned so I don't have a lot to compare to but I see so many comments online from people who have owned cars with 2-3 times the power and say that the Abarth is still the most fun.
I’m sure—with any turbodiesel, you’ll have a mountain of torque..kind of the time that I had to move my brother’s B5 Passat V6 with a stick. The clutch pedal was an on/off switch—let off, and it engaged with no buck or judder, without the need to touch the throttle; I dare say that in stop-and-go traffic, that’d be the ideal setup if you had to drive a stick—obviously, good left leg muscles are a necessity too.
My inability to drive stick is the opposite of most people’s problem—I can do a reasonably decent job of starting off from a standstill, maybe even well enough to “heel and toe” on an incline. But once I’m out of first gear and up to speed, I can’t coordinate my left foot and right hand, which makes me a traffic nuisance at least, and probably dangerous.
Sounds like just lack of exposure, and like you're trying to shift to fast. I'd just get a car that's easy to change clutches in and go for it. Also get a cheap motorcycle and ride that around, give you more time doing the same thing a little differently. Maybe ride around with a buddy that has a manual car just to watch someone else do it.
I don't know how any are still running. My brother bought one new in 2013. Dealer basically bought it back since it had so many problems. For example, rear window heater wouldn't turn off (in July) and fuse box melted.
The short block is rock-solid and can take crazy boost. The body is stout and doesn't rust super easily. No obvious electrical gremlins (partly bc the car is pretty basic) and the interior holds up better than H/K or * ahem * some VAG cars.
But the cylinder head and MultiAir are huge weak points on the turbos. It was WITHIN SPEC to burn 1qt of oil every 500mi and you ended up with massive valve deposits or clogged cats or both. Burned valves or trashed MultiAir bricks aren't unusual and the latter needs a special tool just to diagnose. CVs don't last as long as they should and replacements are unobtainium.
Stupid things break - like door handles and window regulators - but they're also very cheap and easy to fix. For a tiny car where everything is jammed together, lots of things are easy to access.
It's fun the way skateboarding or a soapbox derby car is fun - by every literal dynamic measurement, it's a "bad" experience. But its weird mix of traits - the tippy handling, high seat point, SRT exhaust note, tiny size - just made it wildly fun, esp in the city.
Are there any aftermarket online places that specialize in being able to re-create or otherwise provide some sort of non-OEM support, or were there not enough 500s made, much less the Abarths, to make that a viable thing? If they can do it for DeLoreans…! (Realizing that the one DMC shop bought up most of the NOS parts from the BK.)
Doh, sorry - VERY late to this. There's non-OEM support, but it's often much more expensive than makes sense for most people. These are "cheap and cheerful" cars, but keeping one running isn't like keeping a FiST or Cooper S going... and I say that as someone who LOVED mine!
Bob Zecca @ DiCorse can (almost) get or fabricate anything for Abarths, but you start paying real money.
RE:Bed-Stuy, this take is dumb, but I'd imagine any white people in Bed-Stuy hanging out on the stoop are somehow the only poor whites left and thusly outside the sphere of consideration or doing so ironically. The lower class people who hung out on the "stoop" in those old brownstones, they are upstate too, did so because the buildings didn't have central HVAC and the brick would hold heat in the summer so the stoop was often the coolest (temperature) place to be.
Given the prices that these places are going for today I'd assume they have been renovated to include central HVAC rendering hanging out on the stoop for practical reasons superfluous. Its not like anyone interacts with their neighbors, especially as property values rise.
In American-America, the place you would want to hang out was a public or semi-public place, as the quality of the people was sublime and transcendent
In Hart-Cellar "Arooj-Kareem"-merica, you wouldn't want to be in a place where one of these vile economic mercenaries might intrude upon your serenity, ergo the only vaguely decent places to be are privately owned: the home and backyard, the city or country club, &c. The orange wine outdoor seating french brasserie is the lower cost version of this for people still grinding their way toward a transcendent private backyard of their own
Poor Princess George. He should call Nico Rosberg for career advice, which probably would be, “retire as soon as possible, because you’re doomed to be forever number 2 with Toto.”
Oh no, Toto is going to "have negotiations" and then he'll walk off to some other team to be the most underwhelming lead driver in the field. If he was smart, he'd go back to Williams to replace Albon.
My theory early in the season was that he'd win the championship and then Toto WOULD NOT re-sign him only for him to wander the field until retirement as a guy who won because the car was good.
Nico was made of much sterner stuff than George. He knew that the team was divided, largely in favor of Lewis because it was a fundamentally British team, and he raised his game accordingly. You can argue that he would have beaten Max in 2021.
I just figured Nico was exhausted (i.e., sick of the favoritism toward Lewis) despite Nico winning the championship in 2016. I imagined he thought to himself, “I’m not willing to keep going through this shit.” So, he was out.
Nico was no number 2 driver pushover. He earned that championship. He frequently outperformed Lewis. I'll never forget that Nico's pit stops were almost always shorter than Hamilton's because Rosberg was more precise in stopping the car where the pit crew needed it. How many of these drivers are working to optimize pit stop placement?
Elon Musk has the magic touch. He turns historically unprofitable ventures (electric cars, rockets, satellite networks, space travel, Twitter, etc) into profitable ones. Right now he’s building factories to create an army…ahem *workforce* of one million humanoid robots. He will soon have the ability to completely takeover a country if he wants to
"Elon Musk has the magic touch. " I agreed, and really do agree eg for Tesla at least until recently, but always good to consider who his actual customer are. In real life his best customer is US NGA. Hopefully the robot army doesn't report to them--that would simply be a Terminator scenario.
David Letterman's first show after 911 (I was on the 9th floor South Tower got covered in dust no big deal) he choked up when he said something along the lines of "people in North Dakota have a hardscrabble life and no money and they sent us what they could" (still chokes me up) that generosity of spirit for NYC is long gone, never to return and rightly so. The country would like us towed out to sea and sunk like in that Billy Joel song. Tragic what we have become.
The whole Bed-Stuy kerfuffle reminds me of the white man versus red Indian land thing. Never mind the Indians who lived there when the whites took over probably took it over from some other Indians, the white people are still always wrong for taking over/moving in.
Academics have pretty much redefined "indigenous" to mean whoever was in a place at the time that Europeans showed up. Meanwhile, they try to come up with reasons why the English and French aren't indigenous to England and France.
Anthropologists now use a different definition for indigenous than biologists.
Don't get me started on the settler-colonial school.
How come the lefty whites never follow up their land acknowledgment with giving the deed for their land to an Indian? Seems to be the next logical step.
My favorite land acknowledgment was on the Eddie Bauer website. When you clicked on a store location, it had an Indian tribe you never heard of listed by the store address. Of course, Eddie Bauer is now in bankruptcy.
I keep trying to learn more about this but there is a pretty big wall even with the consideration that all modern scholarship about it is slanted in a particular direction. Nobody knows or can know. The absolute civilizational collapse that occured after European contact annihilated any meaningful oral tradition. We are talking sci-fi doomsday levels of collapse. All we have is the oral traditions of the bare rump of survivors that make the pre roman traditional history of Ireland look like the Caesars commentaries for historical accuracy.
The Apache/Commanche/Shoshone ect. are Mad Max leather gangs compared to previous North American civilizations the came before them.
There are two New Yorks. One you visit and one you live in. When you visit, you spend money that is probably at an unsustainable 365 day rate but it's Ok because you are "on vacation". You go to great restaurants and don't mind paying $75 to park your car (and $85 if it's an SUV) in some garage with the attendants who starred in "Ferris Bueler's Day Off". You spend $500 for a two star hotel with a dirty bathroom and towels that haven't been cleaned since the Clinton adminstration. But that's OK because you are there for the museums and art galleries and great jazz clubs. And then you leave for your home where everything slows down again and normalcy returns. If you live in NYC, most likely, your apartment is the size of your smallest closet at home, and for some reason, there's no air conditioning or hot water. It's a bargain at $4,500 per month, and people would kill to have it. You don't dare have a car for all the obvious reasons...parking, insurance, likelyhood of theft, the certainty of damage. So you take the subway to work, and so far Mamdani hasn't made it "free" yet. You are jammed in with people from third world countries who don't believe in bathing or cleanliness. Invariably, there is someone yelling and/or acting in a menacing way, and you hope that you don't make eye contact. But it's only a 45 miunte ride so you have that going for you. You'd like to see a Broadway show but tickets are $500 if you are lucky. Everything is simply too expensive...too difficult to get to...or not worth the effort. Like any major American city, it's great if you have generational wealth to spend; however, the average person only subsists in NYC, living pay check to pay check. In my opinion, the quality of life, for mere mortals, on a scale of 1 to 10, is about 2. New York really fits the old adage, "It's a great place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there".
Everyone I dealt with in LA on my trip in December was extremely nice. I had zero expectations after not having been in LA for decades, but the niceness of everyone was very noticeable and pleasant.
I found that to be true for the 20 years I lived out there. I was surprised at the lack of southern hospitality/niceness when I moved back to Asheville. Probably all the Ny/NJ transplants that moved here while I was gone.
Having your home city's real estate (and all downstream) prices multiplied 4-5X by unmannered new jersey psychos would definitely be a reasonable cause for one to temporarily drop the mask of sanity.
Makes total sense the love is gone!
Also (not from that far from there, but) would love to move to your hometown and bring back the smiles. On a lot of metrics the most desirable city in America.
The cumulative effect of winters is a real thing. It’s why I moved south from Chicago. And I was an avid skier and even used to winter camp. All my high tech winter gear has been sitting in boxes since I moved.
I can remember the dark and gloomy and cold weeks in Chicago where I would be bone-tired on Friday after a tough week at work, and I would force myself to go food shopping on Friday night just so I wouldn’t have to leave the house again until Monday morning. Hibernating was necessary.
Also horrible was going to work in the dark, the sun not coming out all day, watching the sun set from my office, then going home in the dark. It just wears you down. I actually checked the sunny days per year stats when I was picking a place to move to.
You need to move. When we get just TWO straight days of overcast all day my SAD afflicted wife starts seriously complaining about the gloominess. Fortunately that is a rare occurrence.
Chicago winters are sort of the worst of both worlds. Not enough mountains to ski or trails to snowmobile. When i lived in wisconsin it was surprisingly nicer in the winter even though it was colder woth more snow
The lack of sun and constant gloom of Chicago winters is the worst part. Second worst is the weeks of temperatures being below freezing. I do not miss it.
Everything dead and covered in salt. January and February bleakest of all. I once came back to it after an extended stint in the tropics and it was jarring.
Trust me the subway in Toronto is worse, but less crowded on certain lines.
Dangerous lunatics and the drug addled homeless ride free. Normie strap hangers can download a safety app. A recorded message plays constantly, telling you that the TTC (Toronto Transit Commission) cares about your safety.
Second and third world blessings of diversity yell into their phones on speaker, others scroll Pakistani tick tock or share their execrable musical tastes, volume turned to eleven.
On occasion I have foolishly made my displeasure known.
Apparently, there are subway Special Constables, I have yet to see any on my daily pilgrimage to the office.
And semi-rural Western NC where I’m at is the exact opposite after you move here from a big city. No instant sugar rush like being dropped into Manhattan, so it seems extremely boring and limited. For example, I have to drive 30 miles if I want to buy a pair of shoes or clothes I would actually wear.
It takes time to figure out a rural area, but when you do it’s much more rewarding. You really appreciate it only after it reveals itself to you.
That doesn’t stop the New York transplants from griping about how you can’t get a good/real bagel here. Man, it’s a good thing I’m white and can’t be gentrified, even if Appalachia is American Albania.
There’s an old bumper sticker in the window of a store in the tourist town close to me. It’s a cartoon hillbilly with a shotgun and the caption is: “If it’s tourist season, can we shoot ‘em?”
In South Carolina, the typical response to the New York transplant complaint about bagels or pizza or just about everything is, "You are always free to go back".
I'll take your word on the bagels, but Detroit has the best pizza. We have some very decent bagels as well. But the pizza is uniquely Detroit so I have more pride for that.
Something must have changed since I left if NYC is even entering into the conversation of who has the best pizza. When I was there, it was costed out to nothing greasy cardboard peddled by Persians. New York may have the best bagels, but even better is not having bagels at all. I'm most amused by people who think bagels are good while never eating their pizza crusts.
Best Pizza, Wings, Pastrami, beef on Weck au jus, look no further than Buffalo, NY. My mother’s home town. Been a decade since I’ve gone…need to go back.
I used to be openly hostile to them, but nowadays I have seen it go from the halfbacks (NY to Florida then halfway back to NY in NC) to more or less a full on invasion. It's tipped our elections til everyone on the city and county seats are nutbar transplant commies. It's driven land and home prices through the roof (relative to the local economy).
20 years ago we had the opioid epidemic burn entire families down and cause large plots of family land, like entire hollers and ranges, to change hands and be developed. Now we have fent doing the next verse of the same old song.
It's been a rough 30 or 40 years for Southern Appalachia.
It's tough to know to whom I should be the most hostile. I long for the halcyon days where some loudmouth from Brooklyn yapping about a deli sandwich was one of my biggest problems as a local.
As someone who grew up and lived in the very type of rural area lionized on this website — ~1300 people, one stop light, rednecks as far as the eye can see, no real industry to note, near a rodeo, every knows everyone else — I would be happy to never set foot there again.
The lack of opportunity in every facet from professional to romantic, and the extremely few ways to cope with boredom are difficult to deal with as a young man.
I get that, but my area has a thriving economy, and way fewer jerks and thugs than Chicago where I used to live. Chicago was much more appealing when it was blue collar before it got really wealthy and full of itself. It’s much more egalitarian where I live now just like blue collar Chicago used to be.
Chicago is also extremely economically segregated and my area is not, and I much prefer the jumbled economic mess over here than the strict dividing lines between the haves and have nots in the entire Chicago region.
Ya know, and probably because I lived in their proximity for three decades and thus knew them and their families better, I always felt like I was surrounded by more assholes in the podunk county I lived than anywhere else I’ve been.
It’s true…you really see mansions next to trailers next to farms, next to a vinyl sided tract home neighborhood in Henderson county NC. I like the jumble.
I don’t have kids but I was one once. The brutal lack of… anything at all to do or occupy one’s time had quite a few of my classmates get hooked on pills and heroin.
Couple classmates got drunk and killed themselves and/or their friends because there wasn’t another way home after doing the one social activity within 25 miles — drinking shit beer in a field.
Lots and lots and lots of DUIs and should be DUIs just because there is to this day still no alternative. There is A Bar. You can either drive there or you can sit at home and drink yourself to sleep with only your own thoughts.
Idk. It sucks.
I went to a tiny school in the woods for college and even that was such an enlightening experience after my childhood. The freedom to live where not everyone knows my mom. The ability to go to the movies without making it an all day event because the nearest theater was like an hour away.
Brother, college was the first time I had access to fucking broadband Internet, and that was 2012!
My best friend with a multimillion dollar trust fund od and my other neighbor killed herself. Both parents made hundreds of thousands when that was lots of money. Millennial angst is all over the income ladder
"The lack of opportunity in every facet from professional to romantic, and the extremely few ways to cope with boredom are difficult to deal with as a young man."
Yeah, I can't imagine being a young person in some of these places. Unless you're going to take over the family farm or maybe some other family business, the prospects can be pretty bleak. And then romantically what is the number of available people of the opposite sex in a town of 1,300?
I visited a couple years ago, and had a blast. The trick is I stayed in Nassau County, in a hotel that was walking distance to a LIRR station. This gets you the easy train ride to Manhattan, but the steep fare ($8-12 one way) keeps the subway riffraff away. And you also have the option of heading south or east to beaches and diners and other normal people activities via the very picturesque parkway system bequeathed to the island by one R. Moses. LI still has its fair share of annoying brown people but its really no worse than suburban DFW.
I used to be on the phone with our NY HQ in Manhattan everyday and I miss those people. I was always envious of one of the ladies I worked with whose family would rent a house on the Jersey shore for the entire summer, so she would leave work on Friday and go directly to the shore, then leave the shore on Monday morning to go back to work.
I believe the only way to live in NYC is to either be independently wealthy or on government assistance. Everyone in between is working poor with only a slight variance in the quality of their stuff.
I lived in Manhattan twice. When I first graduated from college, I had time to do NYC things, but not the money to do them regularly. The second time I lived there, I had plenty of money and no time to spend it.
I'd like that. That'd be a great idea, sitting on a truck bed at sunset, watching into the great wide open, cold beer in hand and having a good talk with a buddy. Damn I need to get my wife to move to the U.S.!!
There is also the private beach where you can see the WTC. I have no quibbles with the way the Baruths live there except they sold a 5th Ave co-op to move there 25 years ago which is like throwing a lottery ticket away.
The biggest yacht I've ever seen up close was Domino's Pizza owner Tom Monaghan's, moored at Drummand Island, off of the UP, where he had a retreat. It had two 440V lines running to it.
I doubt that cookie store has kosher supervision. There aren't that many Jews in the area, although there's a Reform temple in Petoskey (my first grade teacher's father was the town rabbi in Alpena, btw). Bay View, the enclave on the other side of Petosky may still have restrictive covenants.
Harbor Springs makes me nervous. So does downtown Birmingham. One time when I rode my bike down the Tunnel of Trees on my way to Boyne Falls, I stopped in Harbor Springs. There was a gas station / party store with a hose cock on the outside of the building. I asked them if I could refill my water bottles. They said no.
I think we had the first re-watchable F1 race this year, with fuckups from race control, the broadcasters, McLaren alone, inexplicably starting on intermediate tyres (Andrea Stella's inner Ferrari strategist came out?); Prince George managed to fight with his teammate so hard that he blew the most reliable powerplant on the grid, and even after McLaren fixed their rubber faux pas, as Lando was trying to salvage a P6, his gearbox exploded.
Also, that Princess George IWC is a pretty simplistic watch for 9 grand. Or am I just spoiled by the VCARB Tudor that cost 2k less and is a bespoke chronograph?
Keep in mind that despite it being very early in the season, many of these teams have replaced a TON of parts already. They're either going to get painfully close to the cap early or they're going to have big grid penalties soon. And you know what... that's just what RedBull seems to want. Good luck coming back from 10 behind Max or Hadjar to win a race. (Also... RedBull powerplant is sure looking pretty, pretty good.)
'Also, that Princess George IWC is a pretty simplistic watch for 9 grand. Or am I just spoiled by the VCARB Tudor that cost 2k less and is a bespoke chronograph?'
It's a ceramic pilot's watch with a 120 hour power reserve. By modern IWC standards it isn't priced to insanity.
The real street price on the Tudor is between nine and eleven grand at the moment, for a good reason: it's worth it IMO.
I'm getting irrationally angry about the Starship dragging.
1. They planned on this Starship blowing up. Once hot metal lands in a cool ocean with fuel still left inside the tank, it's inevitable that it WILL do that.
2. Anyone watching even 5 minutes of the video feed would have heard Space X themselves say that they were NOT trying to save the booster and Starship. These were the first V3 to go into space and they could not take the risk trying to land them.
3. Elon Musk has done more for space travel in my lifetime than just about anyone else. Is it any wonder that the pace ground to a haul under the Biden admin when Elon said the administration was a shitshow?
4. My greatest fear is that someone gets into power in this country who tries to make Nasa great again in a way that it was during the Biden years... aka... IT WASN'T. It was incredibly wasteful and other than probes and a helicopter on Mars, it did far less than expected.
I do not truly believe we will ever be a multi-planetary species and I do not believe that there is any weird or strange life elsewhere. But, with every push into a new frontier be it here or in space, we learn so much more about things that help us here on Earth. After all, regardless of who ends up living in space, we still have billions here on Earth to feed and help. Honestly, we learn a lot about ourselves as humans by pushing barriers. Let's keep doing so with the realistic expectations that progress into the unknown means blown up spaceships and death. It is the only way for better or worse.
Side note: Can we get Elon to stop having kids via wackjob women? I think it's time to tone it down a notch.
He’s an IT dork at heart and cannot handle the Samson and Delilah mechanics of cruel and calculating hot girls. He’s good at a lot of things, but wackjob hotties are his blind spot. He’s should hire me to wingman him. Alas.
Hotties? Wackjobs, yes -- but these women are decidedly... not as good looking as one would suppose were possible, were one the richest man on the planet.
Half my family is deep South. So, I have Southern manners that demand I only say someone is ugly when they’re acting ugly. Otherwise I am required to be charitable and charming to all ladies. Bless their individual heart.
I thought so too -- but human history would suggest no shortage of highly intelligent, beautiful women willing to bear children and be cared for in perpetuity as exchange for their services.
Garage beers it is, then -- although "The Women of Elon Musk" is a topic I'd rather not waste much time on, should our paths ever cross.
I've got a garage fridge stocked with various beers from MGD to some pretty tasty microbrewers for whomever would make a state visit to the Glorious People's Republic. Come on out to flyover -- it's lovely this time of year.
I mean, I'm actually more and more shocked how normal Grimes seems compared to a few of the others. And, she does seem to have talent and the sense enough not to totally drag baby daddy for no reason.
I think these are almost entirely IVF babies so it’s more like “robo-mechanically inseminate.”
To me, it’s not entirely commendable to have a ton of kids and a boatload of work responsibilities. I guess he really is African; keeps siring more kids even though most of them will see only encounter him very rarely
"We have a couple of ACF Classifieds"
can i post a reverse classified? dad has been looking for a 2004 to 2012 colorado for a while now to replace his newer colorado as its too big for him. if anyone knows where a decent (preferably extended cab) version exists for sale please let me know. the closer to detroit the better.
"Sir Lewis is currently second in the World Championship"
isnt he 4th?
"George is my idea of the perfect modern F1 driver away from the track"
very depressing that george is being grouped with lewis and lando and arvind who are the other "british" drivers
"no Abarth in any condition has ever failed to fetch more than $6,100 on Bring-a-Trailer"
aside from the flyer at 4750 yeah he kinda gave up a grand or two. they make cool city cars even now.
"It looks bad."
thanks for the take submid paki woman
"I just want my white fans to know, I love you."
no you dont. fuck off.
"Elon Musk, by contrast, wants to go to the stars. How can you not admire that?"
i think its an admirable goal but this is the same guy who seems aggrieved at the actions of immigrants but hasnt stopped hiring them. surely he could do something to improve the country as well
The best advice I can give your dad is to get away from GM products.
solid advice that he might ignore as the man has purchased domestic since before the summer of love and im not referring to the covid one
what he really wants is a small truck like a colorado or ranger/s10 but they are basically impossible to find here at any price. might also be alright with an older tacoma though
crew cab or supercab?
4x2 or 4x4?
manual or auto trans?
price range? max mileage?
if he is looking 20 years old, fly out here where there is no rust to deal with.
whichever cab has two half doors (supercab?) in 2wd and automatic preferably. unsure of his max price but maybe 15kusd with not absurdly high mileage although its more of a "take what you can get" scenario
i know im giving vague requirements but thats only because he isnt perfectly set on what he wants at the moment but ill try to get more accurate info out of him
some random selections:
https://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/ctd/d/ventura-2006-ford-ranger-super-cab-sport/7934530312.html
https://losangeles.craigslist.org/lac/cto/d/wilmington-chevy-colorado-2016-clean/7936996358.html
https://sandiego.craigslist.org/csd/ctd/d/la-mesa-2018-chevrolet-colorado-work/7936263490.html
https://inlandempire.craigslist.org/ctd/d/panorama-city-2019-chevrolet-colorado/7932329948.html
https://sandiego.craigslist.org/nsd/ctd/d/escondido-2016-chevrolet-chevy-colorado/7931743735.html
that ranger is clean and ill be sure to tell him
getting it back might be a bit of a trip lol
Hot tip to potential buyers, Hurin3s ford might just need terminals cleaned or a starter solenoid. Old fords are notorious for this and you can always jump the solenoid terminals in pinch.
I've replaced the starter solenoid and cleaned its connections. I have not cleaned the connection at the starter. That would require climbing under it, which I'm not physically able to do at the moment.
It's a 302 BTW. Color is two-toned blue and cream. Blue cloth interior.
Apropos of nothing:
AI agent that listens to podcasts and summarizes them so you don't have to. Sherman AI! 100x your podcasting throughput.
i now need that but then another ai to turn that into a podcast to be summarized as well
I wonder how many times you can do that before it becomes a steady 60Hz hum.
receiving knowledge at 60hz is just as good as reading
or something
Subconscious education tapes.
Ick .
Subliminal anything sucks .
-Nate
Can be done but you miss a lot if you rely on that sort of thing.
Do you know what every subcontinental has in common with one other? A burning desire to never to return to the subcontinent.
Don't let the door hit you on the ass. See you next Tuesday.
"A burning desire to never to return to the subcontinent"
and yet theyre fiercely nationalistic scarcely ever adapting to the host country
odd that
What is it about every person from a bankrupt shithole insisting that said shithole is the greatest place ever??
Beats me, I bet they're envious and can't admit it .
I live in shithole Los Angles and can't be forced out by dynamite and a crowbar .
If _you_ like it it's not a bad place, period =8-) .
-Nate
Sad that I’m talking about Argentina and you think of Los Angeles! But I understand where you’re coming from, plenty of people have your point of view.
I truly love L.A., it's far more than a catchy song to me .
-Nate
Starship disaster? Wow, talk about yer stupid...
wow, hard to believe those 500 Abarths have been around since 2012. Where does the time go??
anyone have any idea how they are held up?
If I see a $6000 Abarth for sale I just might take it home. I'll probably regret it later but it can't be as stupid as buying a 6K Jag.
how about buying a sub $4K (CDN) Jag....
if its an XJC ....
the cost of the deferred maintenance is worth more than the abarth
What could possibly go wrong?
Wait—don’t answer that.
Supercharged V8 jag: 2003-2009 or 2017+ had metal timing chain tensioners.
Is this investment advice? I am assuming this is investment advice and investing right now
I’m on my second supercharged jag. Had a 2000 XJR I had to do tensioners on, now a 2009 XF supercharged. I’d like to get a 2018+ XJR but they aren’t much cheaper than range rovers, so I might get one of those for dogs.
I think they are generally fall-apart-ish but the basic Chrysler-fettled mechanicals are sound. The Abarth is like a little SRT-4 in a lot of ways. It's quite different from the Euro Abarth.
Yeah they're okay-ish. They just don't drive very nice, though. We have a 695 Rivale Convertible, the limited edition Riva-Edition which looks gorgeous. 180 hp with Akrapovic exhaust as a manual with the lovely wooden Riva trim (all stock!). But it's too short for that amount of power, and very stiff. Fun little car to drive to the lake, but not much more. Ours has been pretty reliable so far, except for a faulty seatbelt sensor on the passenger side. Maintenance is rather expensive for what it is.
I have a 2015 with around 55k miles. Owned it for 2 1/2 years and it's been pretty reliable. Had a couple random misfires but that was more related to under torqued plugs from the last owner than anything else. The CV axle started spitting grease which Abarths are notorious for. Door handles also break and the wiring harness on the rear hatch can wear through and disable the popper. Neither of these have happened to me.
Oh and the arm rests are made of papier mache and I immediately broke both after getting the car.
I love the car to death. It's the only "sports" car I've owned so I don't have a lot to compare to but I see so many comments online from people who have owned cars with 2-3 times the power and say that the Abarth is still the most fun.
The crackles and pops are worth the price of admission.
So I’ve heard!
Are the transmissions easy enough to learn to drive stick, or is your best option still an Acura/Honda box?
your best option is a TDI Volkswagen, they are impossible to stall.
I’m sure—with any turbodiesel, you’ll have a mountain of torque..kind of the time that I had to move my brother’s B5 Passat V6 with a stick. The clutch pedal was an on/off switch—let off, and it engaged with no buck or judder, without the need to touch the throttle; I dare say that in stop-and-go traffic, that’d be the ideal setup if you had to drive a stick—obviously, good left leg muscles are a necessity too.
My inability to drive stick is the opposite of most people’s problem—I can do a reasonably decent job of starting off from a standstill, maybe even well enough to “heel and toe” on an incline. But once I’m out of first gear and up to speed, I can’t coordinate my left foot and right hand, which makes me a traffic nuisance at least, and probably dangerous.
Sounds like just lack of exposure, and like you're trying to shift to fast. I'd just get a car that's easy to change clutches in and go for it. Also get a cheap motorcycle and ride that around, give you more time doing the same thing a little differently. Maybe ride around with a buddy that has a manual car just to watch someone else do it.
I imagine your pleasure is because you understand it's a _Sports_Car_ and not a _Race-Car_ .
Few Americans ever grasp this and so are eternally unhappy .
-Nate
That is a hard distinction to grasp! Now in my 40's, I'm constantly trying to make race cars out of sports cars, if only in my head.
The other difficult distinction is the difference between a sports car and a GT.
A sports car is for local fun and a GT is for long distance .
I use them interchangeably .
The concept isn't that hard to grasp once you've learned to ignore the endless barrage of crap from those who want to sell you things .
-Nate
I don't know how any are still running. My brother bought one new in 2013. Dealer basically bought it back since it had so many problems. For example, rear window heater wouldn't turn off (in July) and fuse box melted.
They're both robust and fragile.
The short block is rock-solid and can take crazy boost. The body is stout and doesn't rust super easily. No obvious electrical gremlins (partly bc the car is pretty basic) and the interior holds up better than H/K or * ahem * some VAG cars.
But the cylinder head and MultiAir are huge weak points on the turbos. It was WITHIN SPEC to burn 1qt of oil every 500mi and you ended up with massive valve deposits or clogged cats or both. Burned valves or trashed MultiAir bricks aren't unusual and the latter needs a special tool just to diagnose. CVs don't last as long as they should and replacements are unobtainium.
Stupid things break - like door handles and window regulators - but they're also very cheap and easy to fix. For a tiny car where everything is jammed together, lots of things are easy to access.
It's fun the way skateboarding or a soapbox derby car is fun - by every literal dynamic measurement, it's a "bad" experience. But its weird mix of traits - the tippy handling, high seat point, SRT exhaust note, tiny size - just made it wildly fun, esp in the city.
Are there any aftermarket online places that specialize in being able to re-create or otherwise provide some sort of non-OEM support, or were there not enough 500s made, much less the Abarths, to make that a viable thing? If they can do it for DeLoreans…! (Realizing that the one DMC shop bought up most of the NOS parts from the BK.)
Doh, sorry - VERY late to this. There's non-OEM support, but it's often much more expensive than makes sense for most people. These are "cheap and cheerful" cars, but keeping one running isn't like keeping a FiST or Cooper S going... and I say that as someone who LOVED mine!
Bob Zecca @ DiCorse can (almost) get or fabricate anything for Abarths, but you start paying real money.
RE:Bed-Stuy, this take is dumb, but I'd imagine any white people in Bed-Stuy hanging out on the stoop are somehow the only poor whites left and thusly outside the sphere of consideration or doing so ironically. The lower class people who hung out on the "stoop" in those old brownstones, they are upstate too, did so because the buildings didn't have central HVAC and the brick would hold heat in the summer so the stoop was often the coolest (temperature) place to be.
Given the prices that these places are going for today I'd assume they have been renovated to include central HVAC rendering hanging out on the stoop for practical reasons superfluous. Its not like anyone interacts with their neighbors, especially as property values rise.
Upscale BedStuy whites don't hang out on the the stoop because they hang out in outdoor dining sheds or orange wine patio bars instead.
Renovated BedStuy brownstones often have redone backyards, so that's the primary outdoor space vs the stoop.
In American-America, the place you would want to hang out was a public or semi-public place, as the quality of the people was sublime and transcendent
In Hart-Cellar "Arooj-Kareem"-merica, you wouldn't want to be in a place where one of these vile economic mercenaries might intrude upon your serenity, ergo the only vaguely decent places to be are privately owned: the home and backyard, the city or country club, &c. The orange wine outdoor seating french brasserie is the lower cost version of this for people still grinding their way toward a transcendent private backyard of their own
Poor Princess George. He should call Nico Rosberg for career advice, which probably would be, “retire as soon as possible, because you’re doomed to be forever number 2 with Toto.”
Oh no, Toto is going to "have negotiations" and then he'll walk off to some other team to be the most underwhelming lead driver in the field. If he was smart, he'd go back to Williams to replace Albon.
My theory early in the season was that he'd win the championship and then Toto WOULD NOT re-sign him only for him to wander the field until retirement as a guy who won because the car was good.
Nico was made of much sterner stuff than George. He knew that the team was divided, largely in favor of Lewis because it was a fundamentally British team, and he raised his game accordingly. You can argue that he would have beaten Max in 2021.
I just figured Nico was exhausted (i.e., sick of the favoritism toward Lewis) despite Nico winning the championship in 2016. I imagined he thought to himself, “I’m not willing to keep going through this shit.” So, he was out.
yep. Proved his point and left. Up yours Lewis!
Nico was no number 2 driver pushover. He earned that championship. He frequently outperformed Lewis. I'll never forget that Nico's pit stops were almost always shorter than Hamilton's because Rosberg was more precise in stopping the car where the pit crew needed it. How many of these drivers are working to optimize pit stop placement?
Elon Musk has the magic touch. He turns historically unprofitable ventures (electric cars, rockets, satellite networks, space travel, Twitter, etc) into profitable ones. Right now he’s building factories to create an army…ahem *workforce* of one million humanoid robots. He will soon have the ability to completely takeover a country if he wants to
Don't worry, he'll need people to hunt down rogue robots at some point. See, that's where we come in.
Been there done that it was documentation Blade Runner…
Here’s hoping more for Cherry2000
Thomas we are hoping for more “Rachael” models. 😉😉
Calm, been watching reruns of Clone Wars not have we?
Clone Wars is future prophecy
Elon is counting on it.
"Elon Musk has the magic touch. " I agreed, and really do agree eg for Tesla at least until recently, but always good to consider who his actual customer are. In real life his best customer is US NGA. Hopefully the robot army doesn't report to them--that would simply be a Terminator scenario.
All of NYC can get bent.
That is all.
David Letterman's first show after 911 (I was on the 9th floor South Tower got covered in dust no big deal) he choked up when he said something along the lines of "people in North Dakota have a hardscrabble life and no money and they sent us what they could" (still chokes me up) that generosity of spirit for NYC is long gone, never to return and rightly so. The country would like us towed out to sea and sunk like in that Billy Joel song. Tragic what we have become.
Yeah no big deal, just got covered in dust.
And they think McQueen was cool.
HA, no, I mean I didn't get cancer or lung problems, although I did have my thyroid removed afterwards, but probably genetics not from 911.
My neighbor and I are going for a last drink at the dive steakhouse Donohue's tomorrow after work, you are welcome to join.
https://patch.com/new-york/upper-east-side-nyc/iconic-ues-steakhouse-close-after-75-years
One more thing about 911 and I'll shut up.
NYFD Orio Palmer made it to the crash site, before the building collapsed, this is his recording, he said "send up lines we got this"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP51TrbyfsI
I won't be back in the city until a week from tonight! Thank you for the invite, though :(
Sir, you lived through hell!
I can’t imagine!
I can’t believe that it’s going to be TWENTY-FIVE FUCKING YEARS!!
Thank you.
The whole Bed-Stuy kerfuffle reminds me of the white man versus red Indian land thing. Never mind the Indians who lived there when the whites took over probably took it over from some other Indians, the white people are still always wrong for taking over/moving in.
deeply arrogant group of people and much harder to deport
but not impossible
The Comanche almost wiped out the Apache.
The history of the Americas is filled with examples of native tribes/nations allying with Europeans to take revenge over other native tribes/nations.
did they also have to do a land acknowledgement
Academics have pretty much redefined "indigenous" to mean whoever was in a place at the time that Europeans showed up. Meanwhile, they try to come up with reasons why the English and French aren't indigenous to England and France.
Anthropologists now use a different definition for indigenous than biologists.
Don't get me started on the settler-colonial school.
"Don't get me started on the settler-colonial school"
yeah but i kinda want to becuase you know what youre talking about lol
"they try to come up with reasons why the English and French aren't indigenous to England and France." well they originally were from Africa ...
somehow everyone was african
LUCY MOTHERED US ALL!
The Welsh and Cornish have some thoughts on that...
As do the Picts.
How come the lefty whites never follow up their land acknowledgment with giving the deed for their land to an Indian? Seems to be the next logical step.
Cause it’s all just cosplay as a kind, benevolent overlord. They’re just doing it to prove that they are better than us.
My favorite land acknowledgment was on the Eddie Bauer website. When you clicked on a store location, it had an Indian tribe you never heard of listed by the store address. Of course, Eddie Bauer is now in bankruptcy.
It might have to do with formerly durable goods that are now utter crap!
That absolutely is the next step. The state will facilitate.
look to british columbia for an example
I miss using “Indian” to refer to N/A indigenous peoples!
I can deal with them, and I have no reservations about saying that they might have legitimate gripes!
canada went from having an indian problem to having an indian problem
I keep trying to learn more about this but there is a pretty big wall even with the consideration that all modern scholarship about it is slanted in a particular direction. Nobody knows or can know. The absolute civilizational collapse that occured after European contact annihilated any meaningful oral tradition. We are talking sci-fi doomsday levels of collapse. All we have is the oral traditions of the bare rump of survivors that make the pre roman traditional history of Ireland look like the Caesars commentaries for historical accuracy.
The Apache/Commanche/Shoshone ect. are Mad Max leather gangs compared to previous North American civilizations the came before them.
There are two New Yorks. One you visit and one you live in. When you visit, you spend money that is probably at an unsustainable 365 day rate but it's Ok because you are "on vacation". You go to great restaurants and don't mind paying $75 to park your car (and $85 if it's an SUV) in some garage with the attendants who starred in "Ferris Bueler's Day Off". You spend $500 for a two star hotel with a dirty bathroom and towels that haven't been cleaned since the Clinton adminstration. But that's OK because you are there for the museums and art galleries and great jazz clubs. And then you leave for your home where everything slows down again and normalcy returns. If you live in NYC, most likely, your apartment is the size of your smallest closet at home, and for some reason, there's no air conditioning or hot water. It's a bargain at $4,500 per month, and people would kill to have it. You don't dare have a car for all the obvious reasons...parking, insurance, likelyhood of theft, the certainty of damage. So you take the subway to work, and so far Mamdani hasn't made it "free" yet. You are jammed in with people from third world countries who don't believe in bathing or cleanliness. Invariably, there is someone yelling and/or acting in a menacing way, and you hope that you don't make eye contact. But it's only a 45 miunte ride so you have that going for you. You'd like to see a Broadway show but tickets are $500 if you are lucky. Everything is simply too expensive...too difficult to get to...or not worth the effort. Like any major American city, it's great if you have generational wealth to spend; however, the average person only subsists in NYC, living pay check to pay check. In my opinion, the quality of life, for mere mortals, on a scale of 1 to 10, is about 2. New York really fits the old adage, "It's a great place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there".
10/10
I think LA also fits that adage, but for wholly different reasons.
The benefit of LA is the weather is much better, and there are very few New Yorkers there.
Everyone I dealt with in LA on my trip in December was extremely nice. I had zero expectations after not having been in LA for decades, but the niceness of everyone was very noticeable and pleasant.
Sunshine does a lot to make people happier
I found that to be true for the 20 years I lived out there. I was surprised at the lack of southern hospitality/niceness when I moved back to Asheville. Probably all the Ny/NJ transplants that moved here while I was gone.
Having your home city's real estate (and all downstream) prices multiplied 4-5X by unmannered new jersey psychos would definitely be a reasonable cause for one to temporarily drop the mask of sanity.
Makes total sense the love is gone!
Also (not from that far from there, but) would love to move to your hometown and bring back the smiles. On a lot of metrics the most desirable city in America.
Sunshine on my shoulder makes me happy … somebody once said
The thing that really scares me would be the earthquakes, and the knowledge that there’s A BIG ONE on the way!
I would absolutely want to live LA if I could afford to do so.
The northeast winters are getting to me.
The cumulative effect of winters is a real thing. It’s why I moved south from Chicago. And I was an avid skier and even used to winter camp. All my high tech winter gear has been sitting in boxes since I moved.
I hear that. I would love to move south or west.
I have seasonal depression AND work outside. I’m somewhat young, but it’s aging me quick lol.
This past winter where it was ten degrees for like two straight weeks, with a foot of ice on the ground just about killed me.
Oh man, you gotta move.
I can remember the dark and gloomy and cold weeks in Chicago where I would be bone-tired on Friday after a tough week at work, and I would force myself to go food shopping on Friday night just so I wouldn’t have to leave the house again until Monday morning. Hibernating was necessary.
Also horrible was going to work in the dark, the sun not coming out all day, watching the sun set from my office, then going home in the dark. It just wears you down. I actually checked the sunny days per year stats when I was picking a place to move to.
You need to move. When we get just TWO straight days of overcast all day my SAD afflicted wife starts seriously complaining about the gloominess. Fortunately that is a rare occurrence.
Chicago winters are sort of the worst of both worlds. Not enough mountains to ski or trails to snowmobile. When i lived in wisconsin it was surprisingly nicer in the winter even though it was colder woth more snow
The lack of sun and constant gloom of Chicago winters is the worst part. Second worst is the weeks of temperatures being below freezing. I do not miss it.
I can deal with the cold if the suns out. The eight straight weeks of overcast can really get to you.
Everything dead and covered in salt. January and February bleakest of all. I once came back to it after an extended stint in the tropics and it was jarring.
Trust me the subway in Toronto is worse, but less crowded on certain lines.
Dangerous lunatics and the drug addled homeless ride free. Normie strap hangers can download a safety app. A recorded message plays constantly, telling you that the TTC (Toronto Transit Commission) cares about your safety.
Second and third world blessings of diversity yell into their phones on speaker, others scroll Pakistani tick tock or share their execrable musical tastes, volume turned to eleven.
On occasion I have foolishly made my displeasure known.
Apparently, there are subway Special Constables, I have yet to see any on my daily pilgrimage to the office.
"On occasion I have foolishly made my displeasure known."
we ought to be able to legally carry so i can tell you to pack a gun
Agreed!
But then all the bodies you’d have to step over after the daily commute!
You only need to do it once or twice. Behaviors would change if they were being punished appropriately.
wishful thing sadly .
-Nate
And semi-rural Western NC where I’m at is the exact opposite after you move here from a big city. No instant sugar rush like being dropped into Manhattan, so it seems extremely boring and limited. For example, I have to drive 30 miles if I want to buy a pair of shoes or clothes I would actually wear.
It takes time to figure out a rural area, but when you do it’s much more rewarding. You really appreciate it only after it reveals itself to you.
That doesn’t stop the New York transplants from griping about how you can’t get a good/real bagel here. Man, it’s a good thing I’m white and can’t be gentrified, even if Appalachia is American Albania.
I surmise you live in Asheville, Mr. White. Asheville is to Appalachia as Chicago is to the Midwest -- the outlier to keep people guessing.
Yes, but only about 20 square blocks get to pretend they’re the West VIllage. The rest is Appalachia. It’s a coal town without a coal mine.
I really like a lot about Asheville. The artiness is very attractive to my (artist) wife. The "pride-week-meets-bluegrass" vibe is not really my jam.
Nothing makes my redneck buddies laugh more than me saying “Don’t move here and talk, dress, and act like you’re still in New York.”
Or vote!
I checked that before I moved here. The last Dem my county voted for was FDR.
Famous fl. Bumper sticker
“ I don’t t care how you did it in Ny”
There’s an old bumper sticker in the window of a store in the tourist town close to me. It’s a cartoon hillbilly with a shotgun and the caption is: “If it’s tourist season, can we shoot ‘em?”
I saw one on an hyundai veloster the other day. "sticks and stones may break my bones, but hollow points expand on impact" Gotta love Fl.
I want one that says, "During tourist season, does it start with bows or black powder like deer?"
In South Carolina, the typical response to the New York transplant complaint about bagels or pizza or just about everything is, "You are always free to go back".
They also whine about things like “why is the Target so far away?” to which I respond “that’s why this place is appealing.”
And everybody begging for Costco to come to town. I’m a Costco member, but I’d rather drive to Greenville than have another big box club in Asheville.
well, to be fair, New York does have the best pizza and the best bagels...
Not the best pizza
But yes best bagels
you are right. the best pizza is in Radda, Italy. New York is second.
I'll take your word on the bagels, but Detroit has the best pizza. We have some very decent bagels as well. But the pizza is uniquely Detroit so I have more pride for that.
Something must have changed since I left if NYC is even entering into the conversation of who has the best pizza. When I was there, it was costed out to nothing greasy cardboard peddled by Persians. New York may have the best bagels, but even better is not having bagels at all. I'm most amused by people who think bagels are good while never eating their pizza crusts.
Best Pizza, Wings, Pastrami, beef on Weck au jus, look no further than Buffalo, NY. My mother’s home town. Been a decade since I’ve gone…need to go back.
The pastrami in Montreal is better.
They use beef from 'berta. That stuff is good in general. Montreal is one of my favorite places to eat, for sure.
Cant say never been, but Ive yet to have great pastrami or corned beef outside Ny.
on the other had, the outdoor biker bar down the road from me, has the single nest BLT Ive ever had.
Schwartz’s deli!
Smoked meat, yes. Pastrami or corned beef, no.
I had the smoked meat concoction when I was in Montreal 30-ish years ago! First rate! 😋
I think you should be hostile to these people, even though I really only rarely deploy hostility
How do you handle these situations?
I used to be openly hostile to them, but nowadays I have seen it go from the halfbacks (NY to Florida then halfway back to NY in NC) to more or less a full on invasion. It's tipped our elections til everyone on the city and county seats are nutbar transplant commies. It's driven land and home prices through the roof (relative to the local economy).
20 years ago we had the opioid epidemic burn entire families down and cause large plots of family land, like entire hollers and ranges, to change hands and be developed. Now we have fent doing the next verse of the same old song.
It's been a rough 30 or 40 years for Southern Appalachia.
It's tough to know to whom I should be the most hostile. I long for the halcyon days where some loudmouth from Brooklyn yapping about a deli sandwich was one of my biggest problems as a local.
As someone who grew up and lived in the very type of rural area lionized on this website — ~1300 people, one stop light, rednecks as far as the eye can see, no real industry to note, near a rodeo, every knows everyone else — I would be happy to never set foot there again.
The lack of opportunity in every facet from professional to romantic, and the extremely few ways to cope with boredom are difficult to deal with as a young man.
I get that, but my area has a thriving economy, and way fewer jerks and thugs than Chicago where I used to live. Chicago was much more appealing when it was blue collar before it got really wealthy and full of itself. It’s much more egalitarian where I live now just like blue collar Chicago used to be.
Chicago is also extremely economically segregated and my area is not, and I much prefer the jumbled economic mess over here than the strict dividing lines between the haves and have nots in the entire Chicago region.
Ya know, and probably because I lived in their proximity for three decades and thus knew them and their families better, I always felt like I was surrounded by more assholes in the podunk county I lived than anywhere else I’ve been.
I can see that, we’ve got them here, too.
Maybe it’s because I hang out with older rednecks I’ve got it better.
My roofer did switch to an all Mexican crew because he was tired of bailing the young rednecks out of the county jail so they could make it to work.
It’s true…you really see mansions next to trailers next to farms, next to a vinyl sided tract home neighborhood in Henderson county NC. I like the jumble.
That's a very fair point, but in the era of "kids don't play outside" it matters less, I think.
Maybe…
I don’t have kids but I was one once. The brutal lack of… anything at all to do or occupy one’s time had quite a few of my classmates get hooked on pills and heroin.
Couple classmates got drunk and killed themselves and/or their friends because there wasn’t another way home after doing the one social activity within 25 miles — drinking shit beer in a field.
Lots and lots and lots of DUIs and should be DUIs just because there is to this day still no alternative. There is A Bar. You can either drive there or you can sit at home and drink yourself to sleep with only your own thoughts.
Idk. It sucks.
I went to a tiny school in the woods for college and even that was such an enlightening experience after my childhood. The freedom to live where not everyone knows my mom. The ability to go to the movies without making it an all day event because the nearest theater was like an hour away.
Brother, college was the first time I had access to fucking broadband Internet, and that was 2012!
My best friend with a multimillion dollar trust fund od and my other neighbor killed herself. Both parents made hundreds of thousands when that was lots of money. Millennial angst is all over the income ladder
Please, someone let me try this ! .
I like to think I'd not be corrupted by wealth but I doubt I'll ever know .
-Nate
"The lack of opportunity in every facet from professional to romantic, and the extremely few ways to cope with boredom are difficult to deal with as a young man."
Yeah, I can't imagine being a young person in some of these places. Unless you're going to take over the family farm or maybe some other family business, the prospects can be pretty bleak. And then romantically what is the number of available people of the opposite sex in a town of 1,300?
I dunno ;
I hiked, camped, fished and by age 12 was resurrecting rusty old junkers for fun, plus there's always the radio and now the internet .
Don't dull your sense with dope / alcohol and there should be plenty to keep one amused .
-Nate
Before Covid my wife and I wanted to visit New York, but after stories like this, I think I'll pass.
I visited a couple years ago, and had a blast. The trick is I stayed in Nassau County, in a hotel that was walking distance to a LIRR station. This gets you the easy train ride to Manhattan, but the steep fare ($8-12 one way) keeps the subway riffraff away. And you also have the option of heading south or east to beaches and diners and other normal people activities via the very picturesque parkway system bequeathed to the island by one R. Moses. LI still has its fair share of annoying brown people but its really no worse than suburban DFW.
And that’s why God gave us his true promised land — New Jersey.
Bark Maruth, Born in Cherry Hill, cosigns.
Ah Cherry Hill! A lovely place for a shopping mall! And with a light rail to Americas best city, Philadelphia!
As much as I don’t care for my hometown and many of the people in it, I genuinely do love the rest of New Jersey.
I used to be on the phone with our NY HQ in Manhattan everyday and I miss those people. I was always envious of one of the ladies I worked with whose family would rent a house on the Jersey shore for the entire summer, so she would leave work on Friday and go directly to the shore, then leave the shore on Monday morning to go back to work.
My immediate reaction to seeing "Cherry Hill..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu3mF3QfOOo&list=RDIu3mF3QfOOo&start_radio=1
Pops had a nice house in Short Hills, N.J., I visited, wasn't impressed .
-Nate
😂😂😂
And yet so
Many do live there just to be a part of it. I don’t get it, the place sucks
Yeah, I don't get it either, but I guess some people like that.
I believe the only way to live in NYC is to either be independently wealthy or on government assistance. Everyone in between is working poor with only a slight variance in the quality of their stuff.
30% of peopel reputedly work for sate or city gov.
I lived in Manhattan twice. When I first graduated from college, I had time to do NYC things, but not the money to do them regularly. The second time I lived there, I had plenty of money and no time to spend it.
When I lived there I had time and money. That led to not keeping much of the latter...
"Brother Bark and I sat in the bed of my F-250 and we broadcast a conversation..."
I would ❤️ this on TikTok
Bedliner Takes
Make sure to line the bed with AstroTurf for the show.
No TikTok! 😬
I'd like that. That'd be a great idea, sitting on a truck bed at sunset, watching into the great wide open, cold beer in hand and having a good talk with a buddy. Damn I need to get my wife to move to the U.S.!!
The more I think about this the more I think we're gonna do it.
Why not ? .
In the 1980's there would be extended limos with pickup beds lined and filled with water, guys drinking beer as they rode Hollywood Blvd. .
-Nate
"Rowayton"
You spelled Norwalk wrong.
But it's the RYC, not the NYC!
"R" ""YC""
if i call my back yard Augusta National, does it make it so?
IDK man I saw a couple of expensive boats! By Ohio standards anyway.
Every single twin outboard 30+ foot center console there costs more than every car on my property, combined. YC, Indeed.
There is also the private beach where you can see the WTC. I have no quibbles with the way the Baruths live there except they sold a 5th Ave co-op to move there 25 years ago which is like throwing a lottery ticket away.
Ever been to Harbor Springs?
The biggest yacht I've ever seen up close was Domino's Pizza owner Tom Monaghan's, moored at Drummand Island, off of the UP, where he had a retreat. It had two 440V lines running to it.
What was it named, pray tell?
Is Tom’s Mom’s Cookies kosher? The best chocolate chip cookies, bar none!
I don't remember the boat's name.
I doubt that cookie store has kosher supervision. There aren't that many Jews in the area, although there's a Reform temple in Petoskey (my first grade teacher's father was the town rabbi in Alpena, btw). Bay View, the enclave on the other side of Petosky may still have restrictive covenants.
Harbor Springs makes me nervous. So does downtown Birmingham. One time when I rode my bike down the Tunnel of Trees on my way to Boyne Falls, I stopped in Harbor Springs. There was a gas station / party store with a hose cock on the outside of the building. I asked them if I could refill my water bottles. They said no.
I think we had the first re-watchable F1 race this year, with fuckups from race control, the broadcasters, McLaren alone, inexplicably starting on intermediate tyres (Andrea Stella's inner Ferrari strategist came out?); Prince George managed to fight with his teammate so hard that he blew the most reliable powerplant on the grid, and even after McLaren fixed their rubber faux pas, as Lando was trying to salvage a P6, his gearbox exploded.
Also, that Princess George IWC is a pretty simplistic watch for 9 grand. Or am I just spoiled by the VCARB Tudor that cost 2k less and is a bespoke chronograph?
Keep in mind that despite it being very early in the season, many of these teams have replaced a TON of parts already. They're either going to get painfully close to the cap early or they're going to have big grid penalties soon. And you know what... that's just what RedBull seems to want. Good luck coming back from 10 behind Max or Hadjar to win a race. (Also... RedBull powerplant is sure looking pretty, pretty good.)
I am SO here for everyone hitting the cap and taking penalties. it'll be even better than rain storms during qualifying in mixing things up.
Me too! I think it will be a factor at some point.
You mean a spending cap? How in the world do they track that? F1 gets to audit everyones books?
they have to pinky swear
That is fucking insane!
'Also, that Princess George IWC is a pretty simplistic watch for 9 grand. Or am I just spoiled by the VCARB Tudor that cost 2k less and is a bespoke chronograph?'
It's a ceramic pilot's watch with a 120 hour power reserve. By modern IWC standards it isn't priced to insanity.
The real street price on the Tudor is between nine and eleven grand at the moment, for a good reason: it's worth it IMO.
I'm getting irrationally angry about the Starship dragging.
1. They planned on this Starship blowing up. Once hot metal lands in a cool ocean with fuel still left inside the tank, it's inevitable that it WILL do that.
2. Anyone watching even 5 minutes of the video feed would have heard Space X themselves say that they were NOT trying to save the booster and Starship. These were the first V3 to go into space and they could not take the risk trying to land them.
3. Elon Musk has done more for space travel in my lifetime than just about anyone else. Is it any wonder that the pace ground to a haul under the Biden admin when Elon said the administration was a shitshow?
4. My greatest fear is that someone gets into power in this country who tries to make Nasa great again in a way that it was during the Biden years... aka... IT WASN'T. It was incredibly wasteful and other than probes and a helicopter on Mars, it did far less than expected.
I do not truly believe we will ever be a multi-planetary species and I do not believe that there is any weird or strange life elsewhere. But, with every push into a new frontier be it here or in space, we learn so much more about things that help us here on Earth. After all, regardless of who ends up living in space, we still have billions here on Earth to feed and help. Honestly, we learn a lot about ourselves as humans by pushing barriers. Let's keep doing so with the realistic expectations that progress into the unknown means blown up spaceships and death. It is the only way for better or worse.
Side note: Can we get Elon to stop having kids via wackjob women? I think it's time to tone it down a notch.
He’s an IT dork at heart and cannot handle the Samson and Delilah mechanics of cruel and calculating hot girls. He’s good at a lot of things, but wackjob hotties are his blind spot. He’s should hire me to wingman him. Alas.
Hotties? Wackjobs, yes -- but these women are decidedly... not as good looking as one would suppose were possible, were one the richest man on the planet.
Half my family is deep South. So, I have Southern manners that demand I only say someone is ugly when they’re acting ugly. Otherwise I am required to be charitable and charming to all ladies. Bless their individual heart.
I'm 3/4 German and 1/4 Serb, bred and buttered in the "honesty is the best policy" Midwest.
I'm not saying they're homely women. I'm saying they certainly don't rise to the level of hotness.
He’s playing at Boyd from brazil trying to replicate another Elon. He’s electing women based on mental traits I think.
I thought so too -- but human history would suggest no shortage of highly intelligent, beautiful women willing to bear children and be cared for in perpetuity as exchange for their services.
Hey, booty is in the eye of the beholder. When I saw Claire (Grimes) at the met gala in that mildly goth outfit, I knew Elon was in deep shit.
I would say that she's not homely by any stretch, but that's a conversation to have with garage beers not online, really.
Garage beers it is, then -- although "The Women of Elon Musk" is a topic I'd rather not waste much time on, should our paths ever cross.
I've got a garage fridge stocked with various beers from MGD to some pretty tasty microbrewers for whomever would make a state visit to the Glorious People's Republic. Come on out to flyover -- it's lovely this time of year.
Let's put this in perspective. Bezos simps for a drag queen. Zuckerberg found an ugly Chinese woman. At least Grimes has talent.
I mean, I'm actually more and more shocked how normal Grimes seems compared to a few of the others. And, she does seem to have talent and the sense enough not to totally drag baby daddy for no reason.
Perspective is quite enlightening. Bezos' and Mark's choices though -- equally vexing.
Elon's the type of guy that would rate a woman at a 11 out of 10 that's really an actual 4 just because they could pull off a specific cosplay kink.
We are all that type of guy. It's just that not all of us know it.
As someone who accepted my wife's friend request on Myspace because she was dressed as OG Jolie Laura Croft.... YOU AIN'T WRONG.
Funny enough, we were talking about that the other day and my wife says to me:
"I wish I still had the props." -Her
"Me too, Love.... me too." -Me
None of them are fat. That makes them almost default minimum 6 these days
"Can we get Elon to stop having kids via wackjob women?"
for Elon, that is a feature, not a bug. also, he seems to think he must single-handedly reverse the declining birth rate. I imagine he'd screw anyone.
I'd say yes, but some of these ladies he isn't even having sex with. Kinda takes the fun out of it don't it?
Why, yes it does! 😂😂
I think these are almost entirely IVF babies so it’s more like “robo-mechanically inseminate.”
To me, it’s not entirely commendable to have a ton of kids and a boatload of work responsibilities. I guess he really is African; keeps siring more kids even though most of them will see only encounter him very rarely
Elon shows that impregnating a woman is not the same as being a father.
OUCH