Thank you for the compliment - very humbling even from an internet stranger. I had the same parenting around ‘you better get tuff, boy’ and I followed those lines until I hit a rough patch around 16. Once I came around from that (starting by pulling the literal gun out of my mouth), I started looking around and…

We need a thread about this alone.

This whole vertical is very much not aimed at me (male, white, small midwestern city dweller) but I want to add a saying that we have in my family that I am using to guide and raise my boys.

Awesome - love it!

You wanna bet?

I think it was Over Paid, Over sexed, and Over here while the Brits were, Under paid, under sexed, and under Eisenhower.

Re-watched that movie a bit over a year ago and was absolutely shocked that the producer/director/whoever the hell was reviewing the rushes off that film decided to let Kilmer continue to try to use that accent. It was awful and disappeared at parts through the movie.

You - I like you...

There you go - if it’s in a shop/garage you’re okay. If it’s taking over living/eating/bathing space - DANGER!

I think this place has more in common with Cheers than a Rehab center. We’re all just jovially enabling each other.

I’m happy for you, David, I really am. But, I’m also having nagging thoughts here that this is like an alcoholic that finds a way to make it through a rough family vacation without too terribly endangering himself and his family. I gotta say, man, get help. This automotive obsession might be getting well beyond…

Completely agree with you - if nothing else because I don’t want to see another Choson. I think, at this point, I’d take a Chinese non-Kim puppet government that was capable enough to at least feed the people and start emptying the detainment camps. The stories out of those places are horrible.

What is going to break them open is going to be the infiltration of culture from South Korea. I saw another documentary on that recently on how simple TV shows and movies are being smuggled in and breaking people loose from the ‘Kim Clan’ (and I don’t mean anything on E! - although they can be overthrown soon as…

Also known as ‘Murdered out’ if the car is all black.

No - If you are able to stop for a Yellow light safely, you are supposed to do so. It’s not a ticket-able offense as it is a judgement call, but the general rule is that if you can stop without endangering yourself, your passengers (cargo), or people behind you, you should brake and stop when the light goes yellow in…

You completely misspelled Missouri.

Beyond the obvious need to maintain your car, drive reasonably - not recklessly, and PAY FUCKING ATTENTION TO THE ROAD AND NOT YOUR PHONE:

Just picture a mascot head of Generic Middle Age White Guy sitting at a folding card table with a vaguely racist town crest on the paneled wall behind him - makes me laugh picturing it too.

Gonna go against the grain here - Black is the worst color for cars. It’s hot as hell in the summer. You can see every single speck of dust from 30 feet away. And every single ding on the door is impossible to hide. When it’s showroom perfect they look great, but in the real world it feels like a beater in 10…

City name or it didn’t happen. Fess, up - where are you. If you were really from around here you’d have just written Ark City. I’m in Wichita, but spend a fair amount of time around Wellington, Oxford, and Marion so I know little towns in Kansas that are less than ideal.