Random Thoughts Thread

[Drew Dowdell]

What the heck is an Urban SUV?

[Robert Hall]

'luxury urban SUV'...seems like Escalade (and others) has fit that description forever... not intended for off road use, more for city use.   

1 hour ago, Drew Dowdell said:

What the heck is an Urban SUV?

Same as a 'soft roader' I guess...something for city use and not off-road.   Though in some cities a small SUV fits that bill while other cities (like Phoenix) size is not an issue. 

[oldshurst442]

 

Nobody in that picture has EVER had the nerve to eat at McDonald's other than Donald McDonald Trump.  Even his kid, Don Jr., probaby was a silver spoon kid eating rich people food.  Kennedy, its in the name...  His family member whose was president had personal chefs in the Whitehouse.  Look at him and Musk, they seem sooooooo uncomfortable and stiff.  Yeah guys, you eat that food with your hands. No gold plated cutlery. Not even plastic cutlery. Your fingers is what you use.   

Elon is a South African. Born there...so probably no Mickey Dees there. And if so, probably too expensive for him to eat it back then.  He did do a tour in Montreal, but I doubt he visited a Ronald MacDonald house... 

 Look at Don Jr.  Who the phoque picks up a Mickey Dees fry container like that???   `With that smirk...

But this is a photo to look like ordinary American folk.  To look as if they are OF the people...the ordinary stupid slobs that voted for them.  Harris said she worked at McDonalds so that is where this is coming from.   But all I see is these 5 clowns MOCKING the AMerican people.  And back to Don Jr's smirk, that smirk says it all...   Its ALL mock.  

The ONLY one that truly LOVES this is Donald himself.   Havent seen him pubicly smile like that is a LOOOOOONG time.  

Bill Clinton and him have yet another thing in common.   Love for young girls. Raping them.  Cheating on their wives and McDonalds.   

God BLESS America!!! 

 

[oldshurst442]

I googled Elon Musk and Wiki says Musk grew up wealthy. I always thought he grew up poor because I thought his dad left his mom and she raised him and his other siblings alone.  ANYway... Elon is the same thing as Kennedy and Don Jr.   They come from privilege.   There is NO McDonald's in their lives.  Never was and never will be.   Phoquing embarrassing that that picture is just for show.

[ccap41]

On 11/11/2024 at 11:03 AM, G. David Felt said:

Yes, it does, but we seem to have many Apple users here and they tend to be at the high end of tech prices.

I agree if anyone is thinking of upgrading TV, Computer, Tablet, Cell Phones, etc. It is better now than to be hit with crazy tariffs due to an idiot that does not understand how tariffs work and how it will exasperate inflation.

I don't follow politics much, because both parties are complete trash, but weren't those tariffs left in place since the last time he was in office? 

On 11/12/2024 at 7:27 PM, Drew Dowdell said:

Anyone have a weird longing for a car they sold or traded a while ago? I don't mean something that got wrecked or stolen, that was out of your control.  Just a car that you traded/sold but now regret doing that?

That hit me hard today for my 2004 CTS. 

I'll always wish for my first car again, 1995 Chevy Beretta Z26. 

If I ever fell into a bunch of money I would absolutely find one and have it freshened up along with paying a shop to put an LS under the hood and making it RWD. I wouldn't need some 4, 5, or 600hp car. I'd be perfectly fine with a bone stock 5.3 making like 350hp or so. 

[ccap41]

On 11/13/2024 at 3:01 PM, A Horse With No Name said:

 

Visited this as my last stop on my trip west, it is amazing. 

Visiting a bunch of Native American sites, The First Nations Museum in Oklahoma City, a ton of Civil war sites, The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, The high school in Little Rock Arkansas that was at the center of the integration controversy, and realizing so much of our country's troubled past really put the last election into perspective. I think that America is like a grafted tree...the root stock of racism, hate, bigotry, nativism, and misogyny will seemingly always spring back up. 

 

The Mound

 

From the top of "Monks Mound" you can see St Louis from the top of the mound. The arch should be very visible in this photo. 

 

The whole park feels very much like a sacred space. I really wanted to hike Black Mesa in the far NW corner of Oklahoma but weather prevented that. You can walk to NM and Colorado from the Black Mesa trail, and it is the highest point on Oklahoma. 

I knew I recognized those Mounds and the name "Cahokia"!