I daily a FR-S in summer and a tuned Mazdaspeed3 the rest of the time; the former had <32K miles when I bought it for a fraction of MSRP and remains indistinguishable from a new car even now. For the two combined I paid less than pretty much any new car on the market apart from the very basest Cruze, Yaris or Accent.…

$100K could buy a substantially earlier retirement, or a round-the-world backpacking vacation lasting two years or whatever, or any number of other things that would easily crush the “value” of buying new.  

Exactly. I live in a very small metro area (~200K), and not kidding: there are dozens of Mk5/6 TDI Golfs/Jettas available at scads of area dealers (even Ford dealers, etc.) with this same profile for literally half this asking price (i.e. probably hundreds and hundreds of such cars overall). Parking lots full of the…

The best leafblower is simply the combination of time and wind.

The best leafblower is simply the combination of time and wind.

Just imagine the impossible hell Buck would be in now if Taubman had done something truly scandalous, like pantomime a mooning.

God help me, I think I would take Seger over at least half this list...

I would really like to try getting into these games, but they’re literally never on sale, and the notion of paying full price for an old title is repellent. I’ve had them on my PS Store wishlist since 2017, still nothing. Even Nintendo throws their fans a bone now and again.

American law enforcement is truly one of the stupidest collectives to exist in all of human history. The overwhelming majority of speeding tickets are complete horseshit to begin with, and anyone with a functional neocortex is well aware that traffic stops, generally, are just a sadistic and cynical tool for craven…

“Done.”

Or Rivers, who has never missed a start since becoming QB1 in ‘06...

No offense, but you’re putting on a fucking “holier than thou” clinic in this thread, buddy. 

Demonstrably. https://www.propublica.org/article/irs-sorry-but-its-just-easier-and-cheaper-to-audit-the-poor

Had an ‘88 All-Trac Turbo that I had a love/hate relationship with, but which was such a feisty mountain goat of a car in winter that had this been listed a couple of months ago when I was looking for a new winter ride, I almost certainly would’ve emailed the guy and began looking up cheap one-way tickets to Boston or…

Shiiiiit, wait ‘til you see Hard Target.  Brimley dropping f-bombs with a Cajun accent?  Run for cover.  

I’m imagining something along these lines: https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1987/02/23

Maybe I was unlucky in the handful of times I happened to catch him. I just remember one show in particular that he played with Dirty Three, and the difference in energy between the two sets was probably as wide as I have ever seen; he did not want to be there. My girlfiends have pretty universally hated him, though,…

I spent the winter of 2013-14 commuting to a job that was 55 miles each way. This might not have been especially noteworthy in and of itself, but it was in northern WI/MN, and even for there, that was a particularly horrifying winter, the second-coldest and third-snowiest on record, featuring 23 consecutive sub-zero…

Agreed, the only way I would pay $40 for a towel is if it was literally Towelie and he was holding.  

Agreed, the only way I would pay $40 for a towel is if it was literally Towelie and he was holding.  

Can I use a sippy cup if it’s late and I’m already sloppy as hell?