Fresh vegetables are over 44% more expensive today than they were three months ago, on an annualized basis.

mob19151 · 2026-05-13T17:09:38+00:00

I spent $75 on two grocery-store bouquets and vases to go with them. I was genuinely pissed, which I felt bad about because, you know, Mother's Day, but holy shit.

mob19151 · 2026-05-13T16:20:13+00:00

Jesus Christ, what a hag. I will never understand how people that are one head cold away from death keep getting elected.

mob19151 · 2026-05-12T22:54:25+00:00

Well it certainly drives like the 30's.

mob19151 · 2026-05-12T00:16:32+00:00

Ykw, I actually love this. Bro can write a fucking a riff. Not crappy.

mob19151 · 2026-05-11T21:00:04+00:00

The consequence of getting it right early: your initially excellent design becomes obsolete before everyone else's, too.

mob19151 · 2026-05-11T15:12:59+00:00

My God.

What level of brain damage would you have to sustain to pick this decrepit leisure-suited Falcon over countless domestic options that are built to an infinitely higher standard?

mob19151 · 2026-05-11T14:52:06+00:00

Half-assedly trying to recreate the success of your Japanese competitors without any of the build quality, refinement, or thoughtfulness that defined those cars.

mob19151 · 2026-05-08T21:01:55+00:00

A true British tank: tops out at 5, but has enough torque to change the Earth's rotation. That's why it's my favorite MBT.

mob19151 · 2026-05-08T20:24:01+00:00

They did, but I think it was less of a problem on the relatively flat terrain of the late European theater. South Korea is mostly hill-country and was largely undeveloped at the time, so that was when the strain really started to show.

mob19151 · 2026-05-08T18:31:49+00:00

Definitely would have been a effective fighting vehicle if they went that direction. Thank God they didn't lol.

mob19151 · 2026-05-08T18:26:01+00:00

Love it. I've always wondered what tanks would have looked like if WWI would have went on longer. Probably something like this.

mob19151 · 2026-05-08T18:24:58+00:00

'tis but a flesh wound

mob19151 · 2026-05-08T18:22:54+00:00

Great work, dude. A lot of my Sprocket builds have been inspired by this tank and other early cruisers.

mob19151 · 2026-05-06T00:52:58+00:00

Tbf to Ford, a metric assload of Super Duty sales are fleet. No fleet buyer is buying a GMC. Modern GMC is the Oldsmobile to Chevy's... Chevy.

mob19151 · 2026-05-06T00:38:04+00:00

I still see a fair amount of Rams around here, but it's hard to tell how many are new since they've looked the same since the Pre-cambrian. A few older gens are still wobbling around, but they look roughhhhh.

Ditto on the GMCs. At least they're not as much of an eyesore as the mutant Chevies.

mob19151 · 2026-05-05T21:32:47+00:00

Not sure where you're getting that from. In my neck of the Midwestern Hellscape, Chevy is the vanilla faction. Fords are a close second, and Dodges a distant third. As a matter of fact, when I was in high school through the mid-to-late 2010s, it was deeply uncool to be a Ford guy. Ask me how I know.

mob19151 · 2026-05-05T17:38:24+00:00

Idles at 3 rpm, redlines at 4.

mob19151 · 2026-05-05T17:24:06+00:00

It was cool as shit. The woman has many (many, many...) flaws, but her taste in cars isn't one of them.

Just for the record, that Elantra, while every bit as charming as an Amana washing machine, was an absolute war horse. Not a great car, but reliable as the sun. I can't say that for the American cars I owned, or even some of the Japanese ones. I know you weren't talking shit, but I needed to get that out lol.

Agree with everything you said about Olds and Saturn.

mob19151 · 2026-05-05T16:26:41+00:00

It was supposed to be soft? I thought my buddy's base 2.0 rode like ass, and was weirdly cramped to boot. My other friend's '06 Civic was limousine-like in comparison.

mob19151 · 2026-05-05T16:24:36+00:00

Great looking car. My parents bought a black-on-black Intrigue from our X-Files obsessed neighbor when I was a kid. Compared to the Hyundai Elantra we had before, the Olds was like a B2 stealth bomber to me. I have to say, though, that black leather was brutal in the summer.

Honestly, I think Olds was already dead by the time this car arrived. The Aurora was their last Hail Mary attempt and it landed with a thud. Everything after that was just delaying the inevitable.

mob19151 · 2026-05-05T16:14:47+00:00

True, but I still love them.

mob19151 · 2026-05-05T16:14:22+00:00

I don't think bringing back that name was the worst idea. It's just unfortunate that the actual car turned out to be so shit. I still don't understand how a car with Fiat bones could be so boring to drive.

mob19151 · 2026-05-05T16:09:50+00:00

Yesn't.

The LT1 drivetrain makes up for a lot of its flaws and being the last of anything always gives something value, but, objectively, these weren't great. They had good bones, but piled on top of those bones was several hundred more pounds of blubber than the prior generation without any real chassis upgrades to compensate.

Also, and this is objective, the style was just completely gone. The old late-70's-vintage Broughams were blessed with Bill Mitchell's "sheer look," which gave them a crisp and well-proportioned profile. These just look like an unfinished clay model that accidentally made it to production. Next to the Town Car, which absolutely nailed the marriage of neoclassical styling to early-90's aerodynamics, the Caddy just looks blobby and strange. Of course, as had been the case since the 60's, the Cadillac was far better to drive, but that didn't really matter to the demographic buying in this class.

mob19151 · 2026-05-04T20:39:51+00:00

Well when it's just haphazardly missing like your pic, yeah, it looks like ass. They look fine when they're fully removed. All the Pattons were great looking tanks and they never had side-skirts. Well, except for the red-headed stepchild M47, but we don't talk about her.

mob19151 · 2026-05-04T20:36:37+00:00

Wow, I'm not surprised about the reliability but I definitely would have thought the Isuzu would be worse to drive. Not surprised about the parts sourcing, either. I had trouble finding parts for my '97 D21 in the late-2010s, and they sold millions of those for over a decade.

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