Best wishes man! I’ve been there, it’s a rough go around but you’ll get through. Best luck in your search, we’re all here to help (in fact, I bought my last car from Thompson BMW/Lexus in Doylestown if you need a dealer recommendation...the guys in the Lexus side were great to work with and it was a very pleasant…

This post was clearly sponsored by Google, because half the time when i bring a chrome sat with me traveling, I forget it in the hotel and have to get a new one. 

Are you referring to this? www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/investing-legend-burton-malkiel-on-day-trading-millennials-the-end-of-the-6040-portfolio-and-more-2020-06-22

Oh absolutely. But many aren’t just using relatively safe(er) mutual funds (which places like Robinhood don’t allow you to purchase) and instead picking individual stocks. Most retail investors don’t have the knowledge, information, or response time to really make good decisions on individual securities. 

It’s pretty. It’s well done. I’d not kick it out of bed...ummm, my garage.

My biggest concern is that now, with so many brokers and apps giving “free” (note: they’re not really free) trades, retail investors are jacking up the market based on emotional factors more so than actual business metrics.

Right?! The issue isn’t that the random wood corners are denting, it’s that they have to be there in the first place because this was so stupidly engineered. The wood is a positive, the design is a huge negative. 

The most key part of this is that it’s random pieces of wood. If it was some specialty carbon fiber or silicone or hybrid gel whatever that would be one thing...but the fix is totally home-garage mechanic level. That’s just, well, lazy 

I just bought new tires. Comparing costs at local tire places, Tire Rack, Costco, BJ’s, etc took an Excel spreadsheet and about two hours. Why TF is the “tire price” on websites never the actual tire price? Nobody knows. You have to go to the order page to realize that the tire advertised for $149 + tax really costs…

I’ve never felt this strongly about anything in my life, let alone something squash-adjacent. Good writing, but I’m hoping for your sake you don’t really feel emotions this strongly. 

To be fair, I think Rolls’ customer base is mostly “new money” entertainers. 

I wish we still had COTD for moments like this. Take your star. 

I too spent a lot of time looking at these before going to BMW. Both gas and diesel, though nobody could agree on whether the diesel was reliable or not. In the end, BMW seemed more straight forward with maintenance and repairs (as straightforward as a used German car can be, anyway). 

And that’s just dumb. I mean, I get it, and customer satisfaction blah blah blah. But they could have a mechanical secondary latch AND the internal mechanical safety latch could release both. It doesn’t seem like a hard problem to solve, especially if they use a VW-like tongue style pull handle for the external…

Couldn’t they just do two-stage unlocking, like a normal hood?

I remember driving my buddy’s 94ish Avalon from central PA to NYC. It had like 275000 miles on it and was the sweetest ride in the worst traffic I’ve ever been in. Plus did the whole journey on one take of gas. 

Waaaaaaay back, in like 2004 when this first started being a thing, “pumpkin spice” was pumpkin flavor + a little cinnamon and nutmeg. Now it means “pumpkin pie spice” flavor, which means no pumpkiny goodness.

Can you point out on the doll where the jack-o-lantern touched you?

I thought those were really awesome looking when they first came out but...holy cow they did not age well.

I was all ready to call shenanigans, and then I did an autotrader search. Holy crap, they’re really that cheap.