oldshurst442

Bleu-Blanc-Rouge

I second @ocnblu guess. But...what gen Avalanche? Ill go with 1st gen, de-cladded.

You left us in the middle of the night without warning. You never told us what, where, why. You never even said goodbye. So now, you come back and you think everything will be alright? Just like it was before? Come here you big lug! Give me a hug!

I dont like the name. I dont like the reason why they came up with that particular name. (Because Cadillac is the music world's most sung brand.) I dont even like the idea going with "iq"as the last two letters of a name they come up with as a naming theme for their vehicles. But hey! At least Cadillac got real names now. Its just that I think Cadillac needs commanding, arrogant yet elegant names for their cars. Lyriq pronounced lyric is still fruity. It could be elegant. Its just that its goofy spelled with "iq" at the end. Making it fruity nonetheless. Im OK with the styling, Its elegant. Its sporty, kinda. Lets be honest though. You were wishing for a Blackwing V8 in it. Well, it does not have V8 worthy, in your V8 face kinda styling. Its looks are too tame for a growling V8. The name Lyriq is too fruity for a V8... The styling of it is perfect for battery electric... So...

Ummmmm.... I havent seen the promo vid of this thing just yet. But hasnt GM been touting something about cameras in the rear that will be broadcasting the feed live via the interior rear view mirror? Something or other in the C8 Corvette? Of course GM has! Could it be that Cadillac would have the same thing?

Shooting break, anyone? Anyone? No? OK... Ill tell you what... Its not a wagon. Station or otherwise. Not to you. Not to anyone. Anyone! Its an old fashioned...body on frame, sports utility vehicle. SUV for short. (put that in your pipe and smoke it)

When I was 25 years old...I owned a 1999 Olds Alero, a percentage of my dad's 1994 Pontiac Grand Am and if I am to try to compete quantity wise with Balthy, I will lie and say that I STILL owned my 1985 Olds Delta 88 Hmmmm.... versus Tough to figure out what Id rather... I think imma gonna go with Balthy's stable instead of mine.

I had sooooo wanted to post a 1955 Chieftain when I posted the Buick pic a couple of days ago. I just ran out of steam. I have been tired from work these past few days. I was just too lazy to search for the perfect picture of one. But then Balthy posted the front end. Great minds think alike. So Ill do Balthy, myself and the car some justice right now.

Yes. Unbelievably hot indeed. To this day.

Evy (pronounced with a short e, rhyming with heavy) (girl I used to know. 'Twas her nickname. Her name was Evy. And she was quite...heavy. Heavy Evy)

The only Kandi Id like to be ridin' (But neither since I wouldnt be wanting to put myself into any kind of risk. You guys have good imaginations... use that to define what it is Im talking about)

Hockey

@ocnblu Tsk Tsk Tsk The charging panel is on the side of the car. Gravity and physics takes care of the sides of the car...for the snow part of your argument THAT above, is a lot of snow, woudnt you say? Its a hefty snowfall. Just brush it off. The top of the car is more work anyway.... If it snows more than that, and the WHOLE car is covered, Id say your job of getting your car out of THAT mess is a tad more grueling than just lightly brushing off a few flakes in a normal snowfall... Id say, in a snowstorm like that, the LEAST of your problems is a charging door buried in snow... The whole phoquing car is buried. You need a phoquing shovel to clear a path for your car to be able to drive off. But then again, the Lyriq is an CUV. AWD... (laughing at the irony and sarcasm) Same with ice. If there is an ice storm, getting your windows clear of ice is more of a concern... and Im sure that the motors of that sliding panel, kinda like a van/mini-van, will break off the ice as the mechanism will probably make the panel detach itself popping up forward, cracking the ice, then sliding back. Unless of course its a real ice storm and the ice is 2-3-4 millimeters thick. THAT is a lot of ice accumulation and it does happen from time to time. At least in Montreal it does. But then again...what may happen next as you drive on your merry way may be more of a concern then a charging door panel not being able to open from ice accumulation... As far as mud goes...and snow accumulation... Yes. Yes... cars DO get dirty from time to time. A good wash does a car good from time to time. The ONLY problem I sees though, and Im actually agreeing with your concerns...is this scenario. And a scenario of which many EV lovers LOVE to flaunt. Is that charging is done at home. SHOULD be done at home... NOT an ideal situation... So your post is somewhat legit...

Ford had the license to build them during WW2 I believe. If I remember the story correctly, Willys, Ford and another company all drafted a military personnel carrier when the US government asked for a design prior to WW2. Willys won the design, but later incorporated some of Ford's details when the government liked some of Ford's ideas, but Ford won the contract to build them as FoMoCo had the knowledge and capacity to mass produce them. Or something like that. In essence, Jeep by Ford Brazil is more legit than Jeep by AMC or by Jeep Chrysler through the purchase of AMC by Chryco and so forth...

Could the KIA Soul EV be a compliance car? And hence why folk stayed away from it... The Hyundai KONA EV is selling great. Shattering the Soul EV sales. Could it be that the KONA is THAT much better of an EV than the Soul ever was and the market is just responding to that situation accordingly? This would be a case of sales reflecting how good or bad a product is in the marketplace...

I dont. Phoque German products. For many reasons. I bought a Miele vacuum cleaner for my mom in the early 2000s. 2001? Her Electrolux from the 1970s finally died on her. So I thought, German engineering/products = the best. Didnt last 3 phoquing years. So we bought her Sears Kenmore. 2004? She past 4 years ago, and the thing still phoquing works. Oh... When I got married, my wife and I also bought a Kenmore, in 2003. That too...still phoquing works. We got central vacuum plumbing installed in to our home from the get go. We havent bought a central vacuum. We got two great working vacuums from the early 2000s still working fine.... I dont want ANY feedback from ANYBODY giving me shyte for this opinion. If it works for the Japanese car/American car argument....it shall work for my German vacuum argument right here right now!!! Good for the goose, good for the gander... Back to WW2. YES...back to WW2... Why? Because I said so... Why dont you wanna hear it? Doesnt jive with your view and your dumbass thinking... Tough noogies. DEAL WITH IT!!! German engineering. (Automotive more or less) Those awesome, fearsome Tiger 1 tanks, broke down... The Americans didnt have to do anything with their Shermans, the few Tiger 1s they encountered were mostly broken down. (OK...the ones that werent, wreaked havoc on the Shermans, but those were few and far between). The Panzer 3s were not that better either. They were effective in the Blitzkrieg, but many broke down. Its just that there were sooooo many Panzer 3s. The Russian made tanks, everybody made fun of those, yet they proved to be what won the war on the Eastern front. The Sherman was nowhere near as deadly as the Panther and Tiger 1 and 2 tanks and the Russian T34. But...they NEVER broke down... Like NEVER. The Panther was a good, reliable and deadly tank. Not enough of them were produced or utilized. It seemed, German war logistics preferred the shyyty engineered stuff over the good stuff. The Kubelwagen versus the Jeep. The Kubelwagen was very reliable but... The Jeep could haul more, could tow more, and could drive faster over more rougher terrain. Yes...1930s and 1940s... But all I hear is that phoquing lie about German engineering being superior, although German engineering is quite awesome sometimes, its nowhere near as reliable as some people like to say. Even in 2020, German cars are plagued by some of the industry's WORST results concerning reliability. So why the hatred towards American products? American products didnt kill millions of people. It helped the freedom of said killed people. That was then you say? Phoque off I say! America is not a perfect society and country. Many phoquing problems. But America is STILL better than most countries. The folk seem to be a tad self centered at times more so than other folk, but its a lovable flaw nonetheless... American cars and trucks have CONSISTENTLY been the MOST reliable, TROUBLE free cars and trucks on the phoquing planet since day phoquing one!!! All the way to TODAY!!! But we choose to forget that. Americans want to buy some of the world's most shytty cars. Anybody remember the Toyopet? The Honda CVCC wasnt all that reliable either. It was a rust phoquing bucket. All Japanese cars were well INTO the 1980s. Americans are gobbling up Hyundais like no tomorrow. Where is the outrage for the Pony, the Excel, the Stellar, the Scoupe, the 1st gen Sonata, Santa fey, Tiburon. The Vera-phoquing-cruz? Datsun/Nissan cars were always garbage. Just because we all liked the Fairlady Z shouldnt negate the shyte that Datsun sold us... Audi and BMW and Mercedes Benzes....NEVER reliable. The same years American cars were shyt. Mainly from the mid-1970s (some models only) into the 1990s, the Japanese were marginally better in the 1980s. WORSE in the 1970s. WORSE in the 1970s. The break out was in the 1990s. But American cars were not horrid in the 1990s either. Japanese cars were HORRID in the 1960s and in the 1970s... HORRID But yeah... Wave that American freedom flag by buying foreign phoquing cars while STUPIDLY believing American cars are worse than their foreign car counterparts... Or worse... American jobs angle bullshyte... As proven by some of us that American car makers STILL employ MORE Americans than the foreign ones do...

I didnt do it for America though. Nor because it was Japanese and therefore more reliable than American... I bought it because it was my actual freedom of choice that I bought a better product for myself and my family's needs... I dont do the shyte argument that was presented to me here. I NEVER heard the, I bought it because it was a better product for me. Fits my needs better.. I got the toot toot toot , freedom of choice by using veterans as an excuse and criteria. I got the reliability card too. I pointed out the hypocrisy, the idiocy, the fallacy of that argument. Some of us got it. Some of us dint. ALL OF US IGNORED THAT MESSAGE AND STATEMENT... We still POUND the reliability aspect. FALSE FALSE FALSE . We IGNORE Japanese and German reliability problems... I said that older veterans had the OPPOSITE opinion. (Got a downvote because "historical nonsense" and that WW2 is...old.) Some of us pointed out that some of these protected vehicles have problems, RECENT problems but some of us were told that that is in the past. Yet those people defending these more recent problem plagued vehicles STILL want to hold onto grudges from the American brands....while they flag wave about freedom, yet WW2 was about freedom too. But that was tooo far back into the past. But not far enough for their own biased views for American products... All over the phoquing place... Now...these biases have plagued us unto the pick-up trucks... First phoquing time I hear that American pickup trucks are plagued with problems... Phoque man, every phoquing year, 1 million F150s are sold. year after year. Of course there will be some gremlins. No MECHANICAL product is perfect. Definitely not anything Japanese... Self hating' Americans. I dont understand it. Like I said, Germans are horribly embarrassed by their Nazi past. So much so that revisionist phoquing historians dont even wanna equate to Nazis to Germans. Same with the Japanese. Japanese are much much embarrassed by their Empirical time during WW2. But both of these folk will NEVER buy ANYTHING BUT their home turf cars... Only the Brits and Americans self hate to the point of driving their own industries to the ground...but hey...we are free to buy what the phoque we want... Just dont phoquing complain if eventually, there is no more American industries around... Some of us all act as if the foreign conglomerate, multinational corporations are all nice and teddy bear like... They do no harm to others, the environment. Dont commit fraud of any kind. Its just the American ones that are evil... Stupid stupid thinking...

The above post is not downvote worthy. But it aint upvote worthy either. Its somewhere in between for me. Ill give you my opinion sentence by sentence, if you want me to.... Tough noogies...you are getting it anyway. True. Many folk dont have good work ethic. This is what I learned over the years from my experience with owning and running a restaurant and managing people. The good thing thing about that though, is that most of my employees are late teens and young adults. I get to mold them into good employees since many of them working at my restaurant is their first job. Also, what I learned that, with my partner and I, is that at our restaurant at least, there are NO bad employees, just bad management. Therefore, if we have problems with 1 or 2 employees not doing their duties properly, is that its our fault for not showing them what we want from from properly in the first place. Corrective measures HAVE to be in place and proper corrective action MUST be taken in order to prevent any further bad habits and wrong work ethic from these employees. Usually, my partner and I, we succeed in maintaining an awesome working environment with all of our employees respecting their workplace, their colleagues and our clientele. That aside, I have also noticed though, that folk that have poor working habits IN a work environment will have POOR working habits working from home. ESPECIALLY working from home. I am just speculating here. But if an employee takes pride in his/her work and takes his/her job seriously and respects his/her job, in a work environment, will probably reciprocate that working from home. Again, just pure speculation here. Im also speculating here, but insurance companies, insurance salesmen and reps, are all about the $$$. The industry itself doesnt really care too much about the little guy anyway. Ive dealt with insurance companies and sales reps and adjustment pricks for my parents' home, my home, my car, my restaurant (2 restaurants at one time) and Ive had good and honest and awesome representation on occasion, but overall, HORRIBLE...HORRIBLE service. I phoquing cringe when I have to make an insurance call... Like buying a phoquing car at a dealership type cringe. I HATE the experience. In other words, what you experienced from that guy that he was working from home, you would have had a similar shyte experience from him if he was working in his work office... (putting you on hold several times, repeating to him MULTIPLE times what it is YOU need to communicate to him because he is not quite getting the "story" right...etc...) Not calling back. Standard insurance practice? Ive hadnt experienced that personally, I know plenty of folk who have though in the past. Wrong amounts must be a working from home thing. But...I personally never experienced having to wait for insurance money, I know plenty of people who have waited an eternity... I understand that insurance companies have to make their due diligence for fraud purposes...but, sometimes it seems like they deliberately stall to pay out. (although the stories I hear from my friends might not be 100% truthful either... I understand that fully) Employees not caring. Standard practice for employees not respecting their workplace. Happens. Especially in the insurance business... THIS, I have experienced MANY MANY times. The end results were painless, but the voyage to get there was cringe. Full on cringe. I have mastered the communication needed to cut to the chase when I need to file a claim. 16- 17 million cars sold per year...every year...says otherwise. I googled. 221.7 million licensed drivers in the USA. I googled. 24 to 36 months is the avg lease term and 70 months is the avg loan term for new cars in the USA. I googled, for the last 3 years, 30% of the new cars are leased. About 5 million cars in a 17 million cars per year sold cycle. That leaves 12 million cars sold new. Which would last the owner at least 70 months... 6 years... 5 times 3 for the year leases equals 15 million units... But...16-17 million units are sold each and every year since 2012... Ill do 16 million units times 7 years would make 112 million cars sold or leased in the US since 2012... 7 years since 2012. That is two lease cycles on avg. That would be 30 million units since 2012. 12 million cars sold new times 7 years since 2012 equals to 84 million units. (I didnt include the 6 million units sold in 2020 so far) 30 million leased PLUS the 84 million units sold equals to 114 units sold since 2012. The math works both ways... 112 to 114 million cars any which way you slice it... There are 221 million licensed drivers in the US. About half of those licensed drivers have at leased bought or leased a new car since 2012.... In 7 years. Half of these people have leased or bought new AT LEAST once... Dont forget. That every 3 years, a more or less new car, is thrown into the used car market. EVERY YEAR. 221 million licensed drivers and at least half of them, delve into the used car market. BUT...the other half buy or lease new... To say that people are NOT enticed simply doesnt make any sense... I said earlier...that there are many many OLDER OLDER cars being held unto in the warmer, weather friendlier areas of the USA. But to say that people are NOT enticed to buy new...is simply bupkis... Been like that since the last 45 years. Im 47, and I dont remember seeing the planned obsolescence that was in the 1950s/1960s. So...closer to 50 years. Half a phoquing century. A 1970 Bel Air/Impala looked the same, more or less as a 1976. The 1977 version lasted until 1990 or 1991. The Celebrity was introduced in 1982 and stopped in 1989. 7 years with minor headlight and rear taillight adjustments. The other platform playmates had even LESS and even more minor refreshes. Not to mention they kinda all looked the same. The F-Body in the 1970s had minor changes too. The 1980s. The 1990s. The H Body FWD cars in 1986 lasted until 1991. 5 years with literally just headlight exterior changes. They looked the same though. 3 different cars from 3 different brands, but all looked the same from one another... Dont get me started with the J platform. OK...the 1988 Z24 coupe and Sunbird GT coupe had a very radical and cool styling. But the 4 doors... ALL OF THEM...dont get me started. The G Body. From 1980 to 1988.... And Im just hovering in the 1980s. The 1970s was a tad better, but I did mention a few cars that stayed the same. And ONLY from GM... Ford, Chrysler, Toyoter, Honda... If I get picky with them, you will see that they too, share the same stagnant styling woos as with GM. Common practice. Since 1970. Hard to argue with that. The twice the price of ICE part. And...well...yeah... 2021 will be a bad bad...bad year economically for many on this planet. NOT just the US.

Cocktail

My cashier's reaction to me, bro...

Roseanna

This song comes on the restaurant's radio. First time I hear it. My cashier, 20 years old, starts singing it. Belting it word for word while doing a funky dance. (Store was empty) I catch on, but I start saying: They call my name. They call my name. They call my name. She tells me quite sterningly (is that even a word?) that those are not the words... The phoque I care...all I could hear with the beat is this song... Never felt so old though... HA on her though! 20 years old and she cant go clubbing... COVID! I was on top of the world @20!