<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">On being hip: so the man gets to be 40 something and begins the inevitable mid life crisis, which in some cases can only be fixed with Corvettes and Porches and the like ( and the huge costs of fixing them and tuning them). I knew one man who bought himself a gold-plated rifle, which he never used as he was not a hunter. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">I always wondered just what the correlation is between the amount of money spent on a man's desires and the contentment with their sex lives. Or the size of their equipment. If a man has to have a Hummer.......or the obvious meaning of a gold-plated rifle..........</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 9:49 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_-8175546954646344681WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Eventbrite/Zoom addiction!<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">>…<span style="color:black">I had to learn how to buy used cars and it saved me bunches. Never bought a new one and would advise anyone not to. Share your tricks, Spike? bill </span>w<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">I have had both. In general one does better with used cars. For teenagers, I suggest recognizing this isn’t their dream machine: that can wait for later because they will have more money later. Great deals can be had with a good solid big American rig such as the Lincoln Town Car, Crown Victoria and Mercury Grand Marquis. Reason: for teenagers who live in the Bay Area, they don’t need to go far usually, so giving away some gas mileage for lowered maintenance cost is a good trade-off. Then when they are ready to move up, they can get much of their money back out of it.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Disclaimer: I drive a Lincoln Towncar, before that a Grand Marquis, both well used when I bought them, neither car cost me much of anything in maintenance, and what few repairs there were I was able to do them myself. My Towner is now 18 yrs old. I bought it 5 yrs old and about 60k for a third of its sticker price, put 120k on it since then, never cost me much of anything. Great car. Still looks new. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Teenagers can buy those rigs for about 5k. Great deal. Eh, so they are stodgy and square. You look like your grandpa. But the way I see it, that gives them incentive to work hard, save their money, wait till later to be hip.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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