Also houses, when the place gets dirty just move, a lot less hassle. 

Chewco Investments, Joint Energy Development Investment (JEDI), Obi-1 Holdings, Kenobe Inc., might be forgetting one or two. 

Which is basically how we all have to live for the next several years, at least. Thanks covid!

Dave Ramsey’s advice is basically AA for people who can’t handle money. Most of us can have a drink now and then without going to excess, but an alcoholic can’t stop themselves. There are also people out there who simply can’t and won’t stick to a budget and manage their finances, who think simply being approved for a…

The second button from the top is in a good position, I’ll give it that

Which was still better than the one-woman show where she cooked a meal for God and threw chocolate sauce into the audience.

I went to a restaurant over the weekend that forgot to put out silverware, I suppose that would have been an issue, had I not politely asked the waiter for some when he delivered my pre-dinner cocktail. So, I guess, the answer is that if you need something, ask for it like a person instead of passive aggressively…

Or refer to her as Her Royal Highness, when she hasn’t been called that in 68 years.

As far as how it wound up in a junkyard, I’m going to guess it was wrecked sometime in the early ‘70s, towed home, and left in a field for several decades because the owner was going to get around to fixing it, then he died and the family just thought it was another smashed up old car.

Nissan reinvigorated it and took it in a fresher direction, but retro styling had been a thing for awhile. The ‘66 Oldsmobile Toronado was intended to be a revival of the 1930s Cord 810/812, the ‘71 Buick Riviera was a callback to the boat tailed sports cars of the interwar period, the 1980 Cadillac Seville was a…

I used to work as a nonprofit administrator, and we had this one volunteer who was a total flake, nice enough guy, but scatterbrained and disorganized, and none of the other volunteers ever wanted to do anything with him, so one of my challenges was finding ways to keep him occupied and away from everyone else.

The bottom line is that the Chinese are perfectly capable of building excellent quality products, equal to or better than the best in the world, especially for the price. They have a rep for building cheap crap because Western companies that outsource production there do it purely for cheap labor and demand that costs…

I think they’re using the term the way Indians use “auntie” 

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You mean the lawless island province, run by a gangster regime propped up by the United States, the very existence of which is offensive to all the decent workers and peasants of China?

He wasn’t that committed to it in the end, got married after about a year, and they bought a house in the country, traded it in on a Crosstrek because it was apparently too low for their dirt road.

I believe Changzhou Xili Vehicle Co. is majority owned by the People’s Government of Jiangsu Province, which means the workers of the factory ultimately are working for themselves and benefit from the fruits of their own labor, as do all the dedicated workers and peasants of the great People’s Republic of China. Now,…

Not a big deal - just drill out the holes slightly larger, and stick in some plastic push fasteners. Use a little factory red touch up paint, and the holes will be practically invisible.

I have never understood this at all, if you want a big, central grille that extends the full height of the front end, put in an off-center license plate mounting point. Either that, or include a proper, horizontal bumper straight across the front that’s wide enough to fit the whole license plate within it.

I’ve had 3 or 4 police officers tell me over the years that front plates were of, at best, marginal utility for them. Of course, one of them had just relocated from Pennsylvania, where he grew up and went to college, to Virginia, where he accepted a job as a state trooper, and was complaining to me about how crappy…