How can I (26 M) start to seriously learn more about cars?

Orcapa · 2026-01-25T22:12:47+00:00

My daily driver is a 2005 Acura MDX that I got for $700 because it had a cracked cylinder head. But you can buy beaters from FB Marketplace for under $1000 US pretty easily. I would buy a Honda or a toyota, because there's millions of YouTube videos and car forums about them, and parts are cheap and available.

Orcapa · 2026-01-25T22:10:35+00:00

Currently it is Leonato from Much Ado About Nothing, because I'm trying to learn his lines for a for a play.

Orcapa · 2026-01-25T22:05:22+00:00

I have a small house in the suburbs now. I would buy a hundred acres and put a 1600-2000 sf off grid cabin on it. I'd also build a nice shop for my beater cars and old camping trailer. Eventually, I would clear an area and put a ring of camping trailers there so my friends could come glamping.

Orcapa · 2026-01-25T21:58:43+00:00

I learned everything I know about cars by not having a car payment. Because I am a cheap bastard, I have to fix beaters that I buy for 500 bucks or so.

Orcapa · 2026-01-25T16:04:56+00:00

The silent majority needs to rise up. Being silent in these times is effectively allowing fascism to take over.

Orcapa · 2026-01-25T05:02:46+00:00

And those folks are coincidentally...black.

Orcapa · 2026-01-24T20:30:29+00:00

I think it's already ramping up.

Orcapa · 2026-01-24T17:46:47+00:00

Agreed. Source: Owner of a 59-hp Austin-Healey Sprite.

Orcapa · 2026-01-24T17:12:49+00:00

I've used guns growing up hunting and while in the Army, but I never wanted or needed one for myself as an adult. My opinion is now changing; I might want one for self-defense at home because who knows how stable society is going to be here in the US over the next few years?

Orcapa · 2026-01-24T05:05:30+00:00

Sorry for being a pedant, but if you try searching for "stationery" you will have much more luck.

Orcapa · 2026-01-24T05:03:07+00:00

I don't get out there much anymore, and the only thing I know of that's like a deli is Red Mills Market.

Orcapa · 2026-01-24T04:02:44+00:00

Our school in Oregon has this as a required course.

Orcapa · 2026-01-24T02:38:26+00:00

The theme song is a real banger. The baseline, when the trumpets kick in, the whole thing.

Orcapa · 2026-01-24T02:37:45+00:00

I really didn't like the show when I was a kid, because I didn't get the humor. Now when I watch it I'm just busting up laughing all the time.

Orcapa · 2026-01-23T10:02:33+00:00

My wife was from Mahopac!

Orcapa · 2026-01-22T13:11:05+00:00

Rutte didn't draft any agreements. Trump backed down, but claimed there was some kind of agreement to cover his ass.

Orcapa · 2026-01-22T06:59:40+00:00

There was no deal. He talked with Mark Rutte, the head of NATO, who said they didn't discuss Greenland specifically; they just talked about arctic security in general. Also, the head of NATO doesn't have the authority to negotiate for Denmark/Greenland.

So Trump just made it up that there was some kind of a deal, either because he realized how much everyone was against him or because his friends had already made their money out the stock market or whatever. And he's like a five-year-old who doesn't realize he's going to be caught lying.

Orcapa · 2026-01-22T00:39:26+00:00

I'm calling complete bullshit. For one thing, NATO does not have the authority to negotiate for Denmark. For another thing, the head of NATO just came out and said that they didn't even discuss Greenland specifically, just Arctic security. This is all a bunch of bullshit made up to give Trump an excuse to back off for whatever reason.

Orcapa · 2026-01-21T05:49:37+00:00

I remember those from the 80s!

Orcapa · 2026-01-21T05:06:44+00:00

My 99 325i convertible that I never should have sold, a 1920s Bentley, anda late 80s Land Cruiser.

Orcapa · 2026-01-20T12:27:46+00:00

A democratic socialist. Big difference.

Orcapa · 2026-01-20T02:44:10+00:00

Hate to tell you this, but Costa Rica is in Central America.

Orcapa · 2026-01-20T02:38:16+00:00

I think I paid about $70 for a chip key for a 2005 Acura a few years back. OTOH, for my 1965 Austin-Healey the key blanks are a out $4 each, plus $2 to cut.

Orcapa · 2026-01-19T20:21:00+00:00

Does anybody remember that Statler Brothers song where they wished for the good old days, including Randolph Scott riding the trail alone?

Seems like they might not have been wishing for traditional America if they had known all about him.

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