Anyone else find the act of fixing cars literally addictive? I had an “interesting” youth full of drugs and whatnot, but when I replaced the worn out carburetor on my FJ45, and the engine fired up first turn, it was literally the best high I have ever had. Even routine maintenance gives me a little tickle, and if I…

Baby diarrhea green and off-white cream two-tone. With wide white sidewalls.

six months ago I bought an ‘04 manual two door civic with 200K+ on the clock. Rust free and runs good, 1500 bucks. I’m driving that thing until I cannot see anymore.  Cars cost too much money.

That idiot is the author...

Tranny swap into a better ZJ, and keep the cowl tag from the original as a souvenir/documentation.

People are also keeping their vehicles longer, because the cost of the new ones have gotten so freaking high. I'm still driving my 13 year old truck, because a new one is going to cost me literally double what this one cost me when it was new.

i think a major contributor to the used car issue is the popularity of leasing. used to be your great aunt or grandparent or even parent would buy a car and drive it for 70-80k over a long term for years because those people never drove and than bam you could scoop up a nicely used vehicle. now a lot of people are…

Counterpoint: Yes, native Americans were (and continue to be) horribly mistreated by European invaders. Yes, their generally-welcoming nature and invaluable contributions to the very survival of those same European invaders who went on to slaughter them en masse as soon as they could have been swept under the rug.…

Damn Bradley, I feel your pain.

Ahhh crap, that’s not even 20 blocks away from me. Now I need to go look :) But going out in Fri. PM traffic on a psuedo-holiday weekend... eesh... maybe tomorrow.

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Predicting new internet trend of people putting scotch capsules up their butts to see if it gets your drunk. Will call it Scotch Tape-Worming.  Will inevitably end when it progresses to people drinking the scotch trickling out of a butthole and being hospitalized.   

Airports should be considered international waters.  In fact, the urinals are full of international water. 

Charlotte’s airport is legitimately awful. I got stranded there a couple of years ago. Moved to a different terminal after seeing cockroaches in the one I had been occupying

But I was guaranteed it wasn’t a typo!

Ok, so if “defending” wasn’t a typo... what in the world did you mean by it? 

Instead of Wide Body, it needs to be called JC Whitney Edition. 

You have to be interviewed during Hockey Night in Canada to get one of those. I feel like there might be some bad juju all over those things in your home. Incidentally, where did you find them?

then clearly you’ve never met people who work at hedge funds.

Can confirm. People immersed in PE are easily the worst people I’ve ever been involved with, and I comment on the internet.