• pedz@lemmy.ca
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    8 hours ago

    Oh yeah. A car shows your social status and you want to impress others. If you drive an expensive car, of course women will want to be your girlfriend.

    I wonder what his father drives? Did he also give his mother cookies because he didn’t have the correct car to impress?

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      7 hours ago

      Oh yeah. A car shows your social status and you want to impress others. If you drive an expensive car, of course women will want to be your girlfriend.

      I mean it IS true, but you don’t want those women anyway.

      Drive a shitbox and the women who still like you will have much better personalities.

      Not sure what the equivalent is when you reverse the genders. Put as little effort into your appearance as possible for the first date? Idk. I think superficial men judge women by their appearance more than their wealth.

      But I also think the mom in this exchange was joking

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    12 hours ago

    I miss my old 1992 Accord. Should have kept it instead of selling it when I got my 2012 Civic.

    Even with the weird start issue, turns out it was probably just a bad clutch safety switch that somehow multiple mechanics missed… Had the exact same issue come up with the brand new Civic.

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    23 hours ago

    I got my girlfriend partially because I drove a 91 Accord in almost mint shape, not in spite of. She realized I value and take care of things and don’t just throw them away because I’m bored or “they’re old, I want new”. Green flag.

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      13 hours ago

      How fuck is it possible? I ride not that old Kawasaki Vulcan S from 2014 and I just can’t keep up with the repairs.

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      19 hours ago

      my ‘new’ car is four years newer than my older car

      I’ve had my older car for like seven years now

      the jump from ~2012 to whatever my next car is will either be an even bigger relative step backwards in age, or be huge because of how many years of vehicles are simply not an option due to shitty tech, touchscreens, bad UI design, and LED headlights

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        12 hours ago

        I’m trying to fix up my parents old 01 Toyota sequoia. Gonna use it as our family vacation vehicle. 14mpg, but seats 8 with trunk space and a hitch cargo thingy. Split the gas between 6 ppl and plenty of room for everyone.

        Plus there’s actually room to work on the vehicle and no proprietary computer stuff that needs to be done at the dealer.

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    18 hours ago

    “you need to prove your worth because you don’t waste your money on bullshit. Also, I’m a terrible mother”