I would wager the “car is a status item” people outnumber the “car is just a tool” people. In any event, my point, if I had one, was that if the average Camry was driven as hard as the average Mustang GT then their reliability figures might look more like the Mustang’s.

Problem is by the time you met the crash regulations you’re almost the size and cost of the full-size truck.

It’s the perfect magazine for old people who buy old people cars and drive them like old people.  More of them have probably done a burnout on their toaster than their Camry.

With the “anti-elites” in power, I strongly suspect that there would be no more college deferment.  You would have to get out of it the all-American way -- get a doctor to say you have a bone spur. 

I don’t see how this can be, everyone knows the Patriots’ balls are all deflated.

If there’s engine that sounds as good as a small-block Ford, I don’t know what it is.

The cost varies from park to park. For most people, the $80 all access annual pass is usually the best deal. We almost always got two years of vacations from it because it is “by month”, so if you buy it 1-June it is good through 30-June of the next year.

“we accept their legal sex without question”

I would not drive that garbage if they paid me the $4,500.

It’s not new.  My ‘67 Cougar had them.

Less experienced people are very often more productive in my field (software) because everything changes so fast. Many of the skills I was valued for having 35, 30, 25, 20, 15, even 10 years ago are now of little value.  If I ever stop learning, I will be useless in short order.

Longer than it took me to leave.

Where I work some jobs are unionized and some are not (I am not).

Here the deal with seniority. It’s easy to see why a majority of current workers favor a seniority scheme, because they are the ones protected by it, (if you are in the, say, the top 2/3rds most senior, you are unlikely to get laid off, so you think a seniority system is great), thus it’s virtually impossible to get…

I think the worst think I ever saw was coworkers seeing how long cockroaches could survive in the microwave.  Ugh.

Of course, like virtually everything, unions have bad and good aspects — I’m just outlining the challenges they face in fields unlike the traditionally unionized.

Here’s my problem with unions — the seniority rules all mindset. The two guys with X years of seniority both earn $N and the guy with X-3 years earns less. And if somebody has to be let go, it’s the low-seniority guy who goes. In jobs (most of which have no been replaced by automation) where workers are essentially…

Left out the part I really wanted to see -- how do you get the valve springs out?  It doesn’t look like a “normal” value spring compressor would work.

If the DOT wants zipper merges then they should pony up for traffic lights and signage (“one car per yellow”) so it works right.

Even if you are dumb enough to not believe in germs, he wipes his own ass right?   Guess he likes his food with a twinge of poop-flavor.