That shortened Chrysler minivan is not the first do it, but the first to apparently start with a Grand Caravan/Voyager (I know this due to the length of those rear windows).

I’m ridiculously laid back on everything EXCEPT my finances (and maintenance on European cars).

If you get 0% financing you are usually giving away a substantial cash back award to get the “Free” financing. You can’t beat the banks, the system is rigged against you. Plus, you better get gap insurance if you are not covering the depreciation with a down payment, that is going to cost you.

If you have the discipline to do so. Buying cash helps you to evaluate want vs need when you watch your savings/investment accounts drop by $35,000. 0% can open the slippery slope, buying with cash helps keep one accountable. Whether its a candy bar or a car.

Buy beaters

You are right regarding your first statement, and horribly, tragically, embarrassingly, perhaps even criminally wrong regarding your second.

I looooove George. But he had been doing the same bits for so long that the act had grown stale when i saw him in the early 00's. I felt like I’d heard every joke, and the audience reaction felt like everyone was in the same boat. He relied so heavily on material that was 10-15 years old, that it got kind of old.…

It’s okay little buddy, owning a truck that has a lower payload than what is essentially a golf cart doesn’t make you any less of a man. Thinking it’s does is what makes you less of a man <3

Somebody’s mad his weak little F-150 can’t haul as much junk in the bed as a big-daddy Mahindra.

I’m gonna use that blocked-ad revenue money to buy you some nice, soothing butt-salve, and a mohair washcloth with which to apply it. Because you’re worth it.

Yup. Plus; in the mid-aughts (I saw him then too) he WAS an angry old man, like all of us will probably be one day and when you reach that age, you’ll have earned the right to bitch and moan about humans and life in general. It’s the younger people who (OMG student loans, expensive mortgages, the environment!) are…

Why won’t they sell a base model in North America like the rest of the world?

Why do I keep nodding off when I see a picture of one?

He was a genius. You might be only thinking of him in his later years and later image. His cultural insights and ability to get inside our linguistics were tops.

If all you know if “Angry old man” George Carlin, then your opinion is misguided (but you are still entitled to it). Some of his funniest material was his stuff from the late 60's and 70's. He is in my Top 5 (only behind Pryor) and should be in everyone’s Top 10, if only because of his impact and the doors he opened…

Where the hell can I watch Torch’s stand-up set?

Saw him live, in the mid aughts, it was terrible. His whole set consisted of ranting about how terrible human beings are and he didn’t even attempt to make any of it funny. Nobody in the audience of ~1k people laughed more than once or twice. Weirdest fucking thing I’ve ever seen. He made good points, we suck, but…

Make sure not George Karlin, or Jorge Carlin was the previous owner

If you, like me, are a massive fan of George Carlin, one of the greatest comedians to ever have lived

So did he drive it like an idiot or a maniac?