That was a LetterKenny reference, hence the picture. I'm going to assume it's something you haven't watched.

 

To be fair...

I have seen it. The first season, anyway. I hadn't seen the titty bank episode, but googled it.

I wasn't sure if you were serious about thinking it was just a thing for the TV show. A lot of Americans, including my bank teller, hadn't heard of it.

 

Yeah, I forget what season it was in. Oh no, I knew it was real thing. That's what makes the joke work.

 

... and you're going to just ignore the low-hanging fruit I set out there in the form of "To be fair..."

Minus one Puppers for you.

 

Allegedly

 

 

Make mine a Gus N Bru, I'm trying to accomplish a goal.

 

So, this is kind of hilarious.

I'm a child of the late 70s / early 80s. And it just so happens that WLS-FM is programming all of the music which pushes the right buttons for me. Journey, Peter Frampton, Dire Straits, John Cougar Mellencamp, Jefferson Starship, Styx, Brian Adams, The Police, Air Supply, you name it.

It's like being inside the jukebox at the local pizza joint in 1985.

Well, they're my new neighbors on the 100th floor of Sears. And they have a pretty respectable set of speakers on top of their transmitter racks, pointed directly at my space, powered by a Crown D-75. (This is the amplifier which not only survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, but grew more powerful as a result of it.)

Problem is that, like courteous stewards, they turn the volume way down when they're not there.

Having blindly reached out to their chief engineer via email, I now officially have permission to crank up the volume on their rack when I'm working in my space.

 

I recently swapped my coffee from sugar to Sorbitol.. actual tastes like real sugar but gives you that toothpaste sort of clean feeling on your teeth. Other issue is I definitely go to the bathroom after my coffee which is fine with me. Highly recommended. i used to drink a 12 oz cup with 3 packets of sugar, now i drink it with 2 teaspoons of sorbitol and 1 packet of sugar.

 

I'm constantly perplexed by for sale listings which can be succinctly described as:Can you identify what puzzles me about these ads?

 

Absolutely. Because if it's one simple part to replace, that will dramatically increase the value of your vehicle, why not just replace it?

It's because it isn't actually one simple part and they are trying to pawn off their dumpster fire on someone else.

 

My three biggest red flags when car shopping:

• One line description/one fuzzy photo from ten years ago
• Car is filthy/has visible garbage inside of it
• Car just needs "one simple part" to be perfect in every way

The first one can sometimes turn out OK if the seller is 129 years old. The bottom two are always not worth even looking at.

 

Today, I created an obituary for Garrison Keillor.

Just to be prepared, you understand.

Had an idea in the shower this morning, and refined it throughout the day.

While I don't want Garrison Keillor to die, he is not a young man. And I would hate to be unprepared to demonstrate my affinity for his work to a bunch of complete strangers on the internet when that dark day finally comes.

 

If "one simple part" is something like a CV axle or heater core and the seller is broke AND not mechanically inclined, then yeah, I get it. Remember all those statistics people love to throw around about how much money the "average American" has in the bank? When fixing the car is going to cost 1/3 of your liquid assets, maybe it's time to finance a newer car.

Perfect example: you've got $2k left in the bank because your job got replaced by a kiosk at McDonald's 6 months ago and your Trump/Biden stimulus bucks only got you so far on a diet of Digiorno's pizza and Steak'ums. $1200 shop estimate to replace the heater core in the $1600 KBB valued Ford Ranger you got from your Grandpa when you turned 18 cuts things pretty close to the bone. The heater core may be under $100 for the part but the 10h of shop labor at $120/hr to remove & reinstall the entire dash and HVAC system puts this out of your reach.

​I mean, sure, I'd buy that Ranger for $750 but only because my time has zero value and I'm not afraid of pulling a dash. Sometimes you have to look a bit deeper.

 

Also, thanks to this thread I now have something in common with Joe P, in that we've both had AbeFM in the passenger seat of our Miatas

Didn't get yelled at by rednecks tho

 

As someone who wrote a personal check for $200,000 last week, no, I really don't understand this phenomenon.

And furthermore, if someone does happen to find themselves in that scenario, then unless the vehicle in question is truly a lemon, financing a newer car vs. paying cash to repair the existing car seems like terrible advice to me.

 

Title -
“The young Lutheran’s guide to the afterlife?”

 

A buddy found a 89 toyota teeruck with a brand new V6 for $500 recently, no rust. Older lady kept it in the garage, it sat most it's life. It "only needed" a starter, which she wasn't wanting to do after replacing the whole engine. I guess she had someone change the starter before the engine, it's newer and not soaked in oil. I guess the entire engine was replaced because it leaked oil. Wasn't blown, still ran fine. What the **** even is that? Turns out it's just a $35 ignition switch, and an oxygen sensor that's unrelated. It push starts every time.

Most mechanics are absolutely ******* retarded. I understand completely why someone would quit at some point and just want it gone. I guess they are being a bit untruthful, because they doubt it really is just one more part but what else are they gonna do? Pass on what the mechanic says and call it good.

What I don't understand is asking for a flawless condition KBB minus the cost of the part. Nope!

 

Came here to say exactly this. Owning a car is a luxury. If you can't afford it, you can't afford it. if you have few funds and little income it makes far more sense to put $1000 into a $3000 Honda than it does to finance a $15,000 new car (are there any $15,000 new cars any more? I honestly don't know.)

Placing your financially insolvent *** in debt for a luxury item rather than buying a heater core or a bus pass is terrible advice.

And before people swoop in with the "people live places that buses don't run" argument; if you can't afford a car, and need transportation to get to work, and buses don't run where you are, you can't afford to live there.

 

I went in a very different direction (wrote from the perspective of a resident of Lake Woebegone), however I do like where your mind is at here.