*Gets beat

Sometimes they are appropriate though..

“Donde esta la niña?”

I think this looks more honest than the new Prius with all its contrived polygons, creases, elongated lights.

Corporations keeping wages low is one of the reasons why consumers demand lower prices. At some point the expansion of credit is not going to be enough to compensate for the loss of purchasing power and companies are going to learn the hard way that maximizing profits by keeping wages low is not a good long term…

Shoulda ducked.

In fairness, Coronas make sense in these films because it takes also requires suspension of disbelief to think it’s a good beer.

I never understood why people hate the idea of bullet trains so much when their main purpose would be to compete with airlines.

We’ve been sold the lie that “if you go along, you will get to join the ‘rich’ someday” for so long that people will defend that belief no matter what the consequences.

It suffered from VWitis. They made a good affordable “peoples car” sports coupe in the Scirocco. Then VW built the Scirocco III (aka the Corrado) and realized that they had priced it too high and no one would buy a Scirocco for that price and had to rename the car to Corrado. They slowly and steadily have done the…

SUVs ruined the sports coupe market. Marketers think that all singletons need a behemoth SUV when a coupe could get the job done 99 percent of the time.

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Baby’s First Scam.

The second part of that lemonade stand story In The New Yorker is kind of revealing, too, but in a different way:

Found the suspects:

How much are you listing them for?

Doing donuts is lame and requires no skill. I realized this after watching Gas Monkey.....one time.

I always get “420 friendly?”

I am very interested in your tunneling machine. I represent a large “family run” Mexican business currently in the export business. Please contact me at your earliest convenience.

The X6 (and the Merc equivalent) are this generation’s Hummer H2.