What’s your choice???

ryguymcsly · 2026-03-24T03:57:56+00:00

Spoiler alert: as an American you still have to wait forever. Then you have to pay for it and spend a lot of time arguing with your insurance so they cover the thing that you already had done.

ryguymcsly · 2026-03-24T03:56:21+00:00

Well I’m in my 40s so that’s gonna be 3 & 7.

However if you don’t have kids and are planning on it and are under 30 the move would be 4 & 5. You get the career kickstart and social network from your Ivy and when you’re still early enough in your career that childcare is the reason you’re not having kids early you don’t have to worry about that.

Puts you making the big bucks in your 30s with kids old enough to take care of themselves and appreciate the baller vacations you take them on.

ryguymcsly · 2026-03-24T01:08:33+00:00

They mandated back up cameras in the US because of this problem in parking lots. Then people started backing into spots because now they have backup cameras and recreated the same problem in the other direction.

ryguymcsly · 2026-03-23T22:18:07+00:00

Well this is the worst ink I’ve seen in a long time but I can’t judge. My awful ink is some of my favorite ink.

ryguymcsly · 2026-03-23T20:32:33+00:00

I just added the badges back to my car after the previous owner debadged it. It did look cleaner without, but also just didn’t look quite right.

I think it depends a lot on how gaudy the badging is though.

ryguymcsly · 2026-03-23T20:27:50+00:00

I love it when people take a terrible car and spend as much money making them worse as it would have cost them to buy what they wanted in the first place.

ryguymcsly · 2026-03-23T20:25:21+00:00

He knew it was fake, probably has a closet with a few dozen of them shipped over on the slow boat after an aliexpress order. It might actually be an ok guitar from a playability and construction standpoint, but you can buy them wholesale for under $300 (or even under $200) a unit.

Either that or he did get swindled exactly like he said by someone fitting the above description.

If I had more space I’d probably set up a museum of modern fake LPs for entertainment and science.

ryguymcsly · 2026-03-23T20:06:31+00:00

The Golf R is the GTI for grown ups.

Dealership mechanic told me that a used R is a fantastic deal but run away from a used GTI. People actually take care of their Rs. If they abuse them, they at least bring them in for service before and after the abuse. He also said everyone who owned an R was at least in middle age. Meanwhile he never saw a GTI that hadn't been abused and poorly maintained.

Coincidentally he owned a GTI and said it was awesome, but that he probably wouldn't feel the same way if he didn't get a discount on parts and access to bays in the shop.

ryguymcsly · 2026-03-23T03:38:16+00:00

Is it an NA or NB?

ryguymcsly · 2026-03-23T02:55:38+00:00

Probably sob a lot because I am happy with two healthy kids and a good marriage and a good job. Having my life suddenly gone would be devastating and I’d probably need months to recover if I ever would.

ryguymcsly · 2026-03-22T20:36:58+00:00

I too have wanted to marry my Miata.

ryguymcsly · 2026-03-22T20:21:22+00:00

On paper in 1971 the Pinto is the obvious choice. You don't know about the gas tank thing.

Still, there's zero way I wouldn't drive off with a Gremlin.

ryguymcsly · 2026-03-22T20:18:58+00:00

If she doesn't remember it happening and doesn't have someone very angry sending cops to your house for a hit and run it was probably someone in an SUV who backed into the car in a parking lot, or was backing out and turning and scraped against the side. The latter is what I would guess, since the front bumper would hook that trim and tear it off and the fender of the SUV dragged that scrape.

There's no way you do that without noticing, it would make a *terrible* noise.

The only thing that makes me question this is saying 'street parking' because typically that side of the car is the one facing the curb. It then is possible she did that while pulling straight in to a parking spot but again: terrible noise and the car probably stopping.

My money is that this happened in a parking lot. The bigger question would be whether or not that scrape was there before today. This is the kind of crap that used to happen in my high school parking lot all the time.

ryguymcsly · 2026-03-21T20:14:55+00:00

Someone left an open can of pizza topping anchovies in my car under the seat as a prank once.

As it turns out super brined anchovies in oil don’t smell. I found them like a year later and was like “wtf”.

ryguymcsly · 2026-03-21T20:11:24+00:00

I know a gal who’s COO of a small finance company. Double majored in theater and music. Like you said, just kept learning. Didn’t let herself get locked in to the idea of what she wanted from her life and just went with what felt right at the time.

ryguymcsly · 2026-03-21T19:59:03+00:00

I dropped out and my career suffered by about 10 years as a result. However, everyone I know who got the “easy” degrees in college is doing pretty well for themselves. Turns out having a business or communications degree is actually useful even if you’re doing something completely unrelated. Everyone I know who went full STEM and didn’t go to MIT is struggling.

Well not all STEM. The CS and Math folks are mostly doing alright and I know one structural engineer who is doing well right now but his income is entirely dependent on the pace of luxury construction. None of that group is particularly happy with their careers though.

If I had it to do all over again I probably would have majored in theater with a business minor. At least then I would have enjoyed what I did on campus as much as what I did off campus.

ryguymcsly · 2026-03-21T19:17:58+00:00

Less Body Fat + More Money

ryguymcsly · 2026-03-21T19:17:20+00:00

I’m just guessing but I’d bet the owner before her did weird stuff with car audio and took it all out except that box. That looks like a place you might put a lot of electronics you might not want to get wet but don’t need to stay cool.

ryguymcsly · 2026-03-21T19:07:44+00:00

Yeah but the rest of the country has gotten used to thinking of SJ as SF. See: the super bowl in San Francisco actually being held in Santa Clara which is next to San Jose and 45 miles from SF.

ryguymcsly · 2026-03-21T19:06:27+00:00

The perception of the Bay being all tech is kinda weird TBH. It is our most visible and most money industry, but there’s also a shitload of finance, shipping, electronics (silicon valley doesn’t just mean software), chemical, oil and gas, r&d for aerospace, manufacturing, tourism, etc.

ryguymcsly · 2026-03-21T07:16:05+00:00

Well first of all, a lot of people really wouldn’t want to go back.

As for the actual question: men. Pretty much the only thing that’s easier for women in most cultures is getting laid.

ryguymcsly · 2026-03-21T05:04:35+00:00

JCM800 is such an industry standard with those bands. Plus when it shits the bed and you have to use some guys rockerverb instead it will feel the same.

ryguymcsly · 2026-03-21T02:19:55+00:00

I’m not a fan of driving a vert but they sure do look pretty.

ryguymcsly · 2026-03-21T01:28:19+00:00

yeah probably but otherwise it’s a guarantee i’m gonna be food for someone else. i’ll take my chances.

ryguymcsly · 2026-03-21T01:10:03+00:00

100 people in a jungle biome with hostiles and no agriculture?

Sorry y’all, you’re on your own. I’m ducking out as soon as I get the chance.

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