Back in the day, when I was hyper involved in the VW community (2000->2005 or so), it was easy to get to know people at the dealer. So even though the dealer policies sucked, and you couldn’t get warranty stuff fudged, I could at least get the parts I wanted/get little things like radio codes etc done quickly and…

OK. Next time you’re on the news, I’ll make sure they refer to you as that.

Well yes, but also no. My 80 year old Fox News watching father got a hair up his ass about pronounce a while back and I said “If you have a friend named William that goes by ‘Will’ and says ‘Please call me Will’ but you keep on calling him ‘Billy’, what does that make you?”

His response was “.... an asshole I guess. It…

Because Ezra Miller chose to be referred to as ‘they’ and not ‘he’ or ‘she’.

So that was my recollection, honestly about Katrina. Then I looked at the average prices and they didn’t really drop until 2008. They went down a little bit but according to this not by much and didn’t fully drop until 2008.

Yeah like, I’m not really complaining about it and I’m in a position to not have to worry about it. I’d LOVE less traffic on the road but I’m able to empathize with the people that were barely making ends meet and now have an extra $50 a month in gas they’re paying for.

But sure, inflation is a thing. But inflation…

I don’t think so. There’s already huge engines you can buy in trucks but all the mass market OEMs but the Big3 and Honda/Toyota are laser focused on getting to all electric.

I have a feeling that gas is never going to come back down fully. Much like lumber in COVID, if it was $2 a stud, then ballooned to $8 a stud,…

He’s a Chevy guy now. Has a 63 Impala SS 409 and some other Chevy wagon with a 250ci TurboThrift twin turbo that is a legitimately cool car/engine. It put down over 450whp.

Seems like the kind of boomer that calls anyone younger than him a millennial and feels the need to “SHOW THEM PUNKS REAL AMERICAN POWER” yet can’t appreciate the work that goes into anything that isn’t a muscle car.

Yup. In the mid 00's I had a GTI that ran low 12's. My buddy loved driving around cruise nights with me and would alway try and start shit with people. ‘But it would be so funny to beat that Mustang!’ ... For what? I built my car because I like going fast. If I win? Cool. I have $8000 into the motor/turbo/transmission…

There’s type 6, too:

I can attest to the poor produce at Walmart. We’ve been doing grocery delivery from there since the pandemic began and I’d say roughly 1/3 of the time we have to submit for a refund because the produce is bad. I’m also sure that Walmart pushes the delivery shoppers to take the worse produce for delivery because no one…

Yeah I think at least historically, agree with the policy or not, they at least had a governmental, fiscal, whatever policy to create and implement. Now? It’s just the party of preventing anything from changing. Nothing evidences that more than the fact that for the first part of the Trump admin, they owned all 3…

Not only slave owners, but also they SECEDED FROM THE UNION. They willingly gave up their citizenship. They’re also treasonous traitors who attacked the US armed forces and also losers that LOST the war and surrendered. 

Nah, ESPN is too woke for them.

Sounds like mk4 era VW. Burn mark through the leather on a heated seat? User error, denied warranty. 6 MAFs in 20K miles on a brand new VR6? Totally normal. Coilpacks popping every 5K miles on a 1.8T? Not our fault, pay up. Window regulator making noise? Nope, it’s the motor, not the regulator despite there being TSB…

It feels like they’re doing their best to try and put Dismukes and Yang over for some reason. They’re fine, but there’s much more talent there than those two. I was glad when they seemed to finally start pushing Kyle Mooney but that seems to have taken a back seat in recent weeks.

They need to move FORWARD in time. I expounded on it in another thread, but if you keep digging into the past of established characters you’re either telling us stuff we already know from the HP books/movies, or you’re telling us stuff that doesn’t matter one bit because if it did, we would have already heard about it…

That’s the whole problem with so many prequels/origin stories of people with very well established character traits and lots of canonical information. You’re telling us stuff that either A) we already know or B) is really inconsequential in the end because if it was of any importance, we’d already know.

Like, if…

It’s also been grossly misused. What it meant was “If the customer base wants feature X, we should sell them feature X unless there’s a damned good reason to not.” Essentially, don’t always let executives or accountants or engineers decide which products are good or bad, because in the end, if the customer doesn’t…