Thread for Things That Made You Frown Today

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Originally Posted by Gnome Rage

I want a car. Buy me a good car that gets 35mpg.

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I'll rent you one... for two or three days.

No. >.<

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Originally Posted by Androidpk

Then shut your lips.

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Originally Posted by Delias

Yeah... and seriously, bring a guy anyway. Because it is 1960 in the garage and all places related to the garage.

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Here is a study from Yale about gender/race discrimination in car sales.

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The tests reveal that white males receive significantly better prices than blacks and women. As detailed below, white women had to pay forty percent higher markups than white men; black men had to pay more than twice the markup, and black women had to pay more than three times the markup of white male testers. Moreover, the study reveals that testers of different race and gender are subjected to several forms of nonprice discrimination. Specifically, testers were systematically steered to salespeople of their own race and gender (who then gave them worse deals) and were asked different questions and told about different qualities of the car.

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Eh it's a car to go from point A to point B that's all that matters, enjoy the fact that you're not hoofing it.

Everyone should be required to go to boot camp AND spend some time in a 3rd world country doing some sort of relief work. The whole want v. need perception changes rapidly.

Could always kill two birds with one stone and require everybody to join the liberian army. What could go wrong?

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Originally Posted by AnticorRifling

Eh it's a car to go from point A to point B that's all that matters, enjoy the fact that you're not hoofing it.

Everyone should be required to go to boot camp AND spend some time in a 3rd world country doing some sort of relief work. The whole want v. need perception changes rapidly.

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I will say one thing I like about Marines- when I give them instructions on how to do something, they never interject stupid questions. They listen intently and wait till I ask if they have any questions.

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Originally Posted by AnticorRifling

Eh it's a car to go from point A to point B that's all that matters, enjoy the fact that you're not hoofing it.

Everyone should be required to go to boot camp AND spend some time in a 3rd world country doing some sort of relief work. The whole want v. need perception changes rapidly.

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I realize this, and I know I'm fortunate that I'm even able to buy the car in the first place. That doesn't mean I don't want to bitch and moan about how much I dislike it. Half this thread are people being annoyed by something that happened to them that isn't actually a big deal. I don't take what I have for granted at all, I just wanted to vent my frustration with the purple boat honda.

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Originally Posted by Gnome Rage

I realize this, and I know I'm fortunate that I'm even able to buy the car in the first place. That doesn't mean I don't want to bitch and moan about how much I dislike it. Half this thread are people being annoyed by something that happened to them that isn't actually a big deal. I don't take what I have for granted at all, I just wanted to vent my frustration with the purple boat honda.

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You can show me how small the back seat is and I will commiserate with you.

Boat honda? What the hell are you getting because I don't even think they make a big car!

Do me a favor since you don't like it, and since it's purple, please please please mexicanize the shit out of it. Fake air vents, fake spoiler, coffee can exhaust (with no other engine work), make a non functioning and off center hood scoop, etc.