Why so many gloom and doomers on this site

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69conv said:
I was in Guatemala a few years ago. People living in boxes with tarps, going down to the river to drink with people using the river for sewage. The lucky ones pirated some electricity from a pole beside the road. I was in Honduras where they had been having a revolution for 27 years. The army escorted the police and vis versa anywhere people congregated. I was in Roatan where they haven't minted a coin in 40 years because the money devaluated so much it cost too much to produce a coin.
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Soo sad. I guess we don't have it that bad, yet.
 
M0par said:
I guess I’ll be the odd ball out… your happy about the way things are? Guess I prefer the way things used to be. But that saying definitely defines my age.
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No, you missed the point.
I want to be informed but I don't want to be depressed or pissed off all the time.
I reminisce about the 70s and 80s and do long for the easier and simpler times. There is a lot to be thankful for these days too.
 
Ok, I'll say it: "I'm loving life and having more fun than a human should be allowed" :)


No, I don't like the way a lot of things are going...... \/ \/ \/, yeah, that direction. But I'm still having the time of my life!

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cosgig said:
Alright you sad sac’s, I’m forced to do this. I’m coming out in the open and showing you what I’ve been working on, it’s my dream car. And why not, it’s named after me! There, I done it, now ship up and shape right…..or, something like that! Don’t make me pull this car over! Yes, that’s me behind the wheel!

Geof,
You are an AWESOME person and DAD!!!
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Kern Dog said:
No, you missed the point.
I want to be informed but I don't want to be depressed or pissed off all the time.
I reminisce about the 70s and 80s and do long for the easier and simpler times. There is a lot to be thankful for these days too.
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I couldn't have said it any better.
 
As a single guy I can only do what I can and I only pay cash (no credit card) for what I need. That being said I am going to just enjoy what I have and not move forward on another project. Last year I put my car into the wall, bought another Dart, had big plans to go through the crashed engine and swap out with the new one but with prices the way they are I'll just sit this out
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MopaR&D said:
I just got back from a trip to France where gas is over $9/gallon and toll road fees are many times what they are here. They also don't have auto parts stores like here and very stringent regulations on what you can or can't do to modify a vehicle.

I'm sure most of these whiners have never traveled to a foreign country. Visit literally ANYWHERE else in the world and you will realize that no matter how bad things get here we still have it way better than most of the rest of the world. People have just gotten spoiled and soft and also don't realize that the economy of the 1950s-1990s was a special case that will never happen again.

Complaining is stupid. Get out and do what you can to fix the problems you see in the world, understand your limitations, and just GO. Ironic these days I hear older people complaining more than people my age (20s-40s); past 30 years have generally sucked so it's nothing new for us young folk we don't really have "the good old days" to look back on and tbh it's really frickin annoying to listen to old people whine and compare back to "their time". It ain't your time anymore, get over it.
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So what does France have to do with it? We aren't there. They have the ability to set the direction of their life and if it isn't like it is here, or as good as it is here, they made it like that.

It isn't "our" time any more. Agreed. But when it was, you could get parts in a timely manner, 99% of the time they fit without a rework, and 99% of the time you weren't replacing them because of quality issues. Customer service was in person, by phone, or by mail and the vast majority of the time it worked pretty well.

So now you are telling me I just have to accept and put up with the **** I contend with on a daily basis? That I just have to "understand" my limitations? And some how that is going to solve the problem of firms hawking Chineseium parts that may or may not fit? That somehow with all the advances in communication, that is going to solve the problem of crappy customer service? That I "understand" all this?

I am so sorry that people of my age "annoy" you when we compare how much better it used to be to what it is now. Somehow I remember something about learning from history. Maybe you should realize that it WAS better back in the "good old days" and quit trying to feed me **** and telling me it's chocolate.
 
Ha! Ha!
This entire thread appears to have morphed into it's the thread title....
"Why so many gloom and doomers on this site" really ironic and funny
 
Danny Boy said:
Ha! Ha!
This entire thread appears to have morphed into it's the thread title....
"Why so many gloom and doomers on this site" really ironic and funny
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There's a lot of complaining about complainers here!
 
You know what makes you feel good about the impending doom of the future? A Garden, guns and ammo, land, and family.

The car thing is a hobby. Surviving is Life. Life is about survival. I am prepared for most anything so there is a small part of me that hopes EVERYTHING goes to ****.

If the balloon popped today, we have a garden that can feed our family, a 6000 gallon tank with well, a plenty of guns and ammo to use or barter, tools, land (live on a Natl. Forest adjacent to the Wilderness), neighbors (2 miles away) have plenty of horses, ....

When I move to Texas, we'll be even more resilient. Bigger garden, cow, goats, chickens, pig, own horses.

WITHOUT GETTING POLITICAL, a year out from the next presidential election will see an upswing. By then the economy will naturally be getting better due to supply chain easing, time, interest rate hikes and inflation taking the wind out of consumer sales. I think a bad thing that is happening now is that we have incredible inflation but consumers keep buying. I am going to slow down on the car hobby soon. What that means is no new projects not a sell-off.
 
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go-fish said:
You know what makes you feel good about the impending doom of the future? A Garden, guns and ammo, land, and family.

The car thing is a hobby. Surviving is Life. Life is about survival. I am prepared for most anything so there is a small part of me that hopes EVERYTHING goes to ****.

If the balloon popped today, we have a garden that can feed our family, a 6000 gallon tank with well, a plenty of guns and ammo to use or barter, tools, land (live on a Natl. Forest adjacent to the Wilderness), neighbors (2 miles away) have plenty of horses, ....

When I move to Texas, we'll be even more resilient. Bigger garden, cow, goats, chickens, pig, own horses.

I think the next two years is going to suck but mark my words, last year of Biduhns term is going to be an upswing. He's going to try to get re-elected so it's going to be better. We just have to get there. I am going to slow down on the car hobby soon. What that means is no new projects not a sell-off. With Ukraine going live, gas and food is about to get outrageous.
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You were ok until you mentioned our current leader. Take to to the N&P. The staff here works our asses off trying to keep the General forums free from politics, religion, and Covid discussions. We are a car site and allow you to comment on the other stuff in the News and Politics forum.
 
toolmanmike said:
You were ok until you mentioned our current leader. Take to to the N&P. The staff here works our asses off trying to keep the General forums free from politics, religion, and Covid discussions. We are a car site and allow you to comment on the other stuff in the News and Politics forum.
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:rolleyes:...
 
A small part hoping everything goes to crap! LOL.. or you may be like my favorite uncle (bless his soul..) who died with a gun collection that would rival any gun store ammo making equipment 5 gallon buckets full of gunpowder... While I was in Colorado to help my aunt load up literally 3,000 lb a ton and a half it took two trips of lead in 5 gallon buckets LOL. We took it to the scrap yard and she got a hefty little sum...
 
The ONLY constant these days is change......

"Adapt and Overcome" is a phrase from my childhood that comes to mind, even more applicable today than back then.....
 
I think Go-fish is simply saying, life will get better, he is prepared, and sometimes we all need a test to bring out our best.
I wish nothing bad on any soul, but I feel a large percentage of our population needs a reality check as to LIFE.

I bet we have members on here that are pre teen and people on here older than me, and I hit 74 today. Many if us "older generation" types, we have lived thru Heaven and and thru Hell, the good and the bad, many of us have been up and been down, some of us have slept in our truck because it was better than the dirt, there were days I was thankful for a can of beans and other days that I cared not what that steak cost, some of us...we have looked death square in the face and survived... life.
 
6PakBee said:
So what does France have to do with it? We aren't there. They have the ability to set the direction of their life and if it isn't like it is here, or as good as it is here, they made it like that.

It isn't "our" time any more. Agreed. But when it was, you could get parts in a timely manner, 99% of the time they fit without a rework, and 99% of the time you weren't replacing them because of quality issues. Customer service was in person, by phone, or by mail and the vast majority of the time it worked pretty well.

So now you are telling me I just have to accept and put up with the **** I contend with on a daily basis? That I just have to "understand" my limitations? And some how that is going to solve the problem of firms hawking Chineseium parts that may or may not fit? That somehow with all the advances in communication, that is going to solve the problem of crappy customer service? That I "understand" all this?

I am so sorry that people of my age "annoy" you when we compare how much better it used to be to what it is now. Somehow I remember something about learning from history. Maybe you should realize that it WAS better back in the "good old days" and quit trying to feed me **** and telling me it's chocolate.
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No that's not what I'm saying.

I only used France as an example to show the relative superiority of life in the United States. By no means does that mean we can just rest on our laurels because "at least we're still better than them". I'm simply trying to put things in perspective and help people realize we can't take our American rights and freedoms for granted.

I'm saying, if you got a problem with something, do some homework about it and do something instead of complaining and regurgitating facts about the past that are painfully obvious to everyone at this point. Times WERE better back in your day. But they aren't coming back. And the reason times were better had very little to do with the choices normal everyday people made. Why did customer service go to ****? Because large corporations bought or pushed out the little guys in the industry and couldn't give a rat's *** about taking care of the customer. And everyone went along with it because times were still good so, who cares?? Our economy was flourishing based off our successes in WWII and the dominance we had on the global economy which our government and large corporations ruined starting in the 1970s thanks to short-sighted decisions and policies put in place all just to make a quick buck, who cares what happens 10, 20, 30 years down the road. I'm a history buff, I soak up information about past times as much as I can because I think it's the best way to understand and prevent mistakes from happening again. But it only works if everyone knows about it AND has the balls/ovaries to really make big changes in how we do things on a large scale.

I'm trying to make a difference by refusing to buy Communist Chinese-made products. I buy USA-made where possible but if I can't, at the very least I try to buy from countries that don't have a communist regime and aren't actively trying to undermine our nation. I also don't support companies with shitty short-sighted business practices that care more about shareholders and revenue over the next quarter instead of 5- or 10-year plans. I also try to inform people around me about current events and actions we as normal citizens can take to try to improve the situation and get in contact with local and state government officials to push for reforms and let them know my issues and concerns as a U.S. citizen. Last but certainly not least I work a job at a company designing a new type of energy storage device with the intent to revolutionize our electrical grid and vastly improve the efficiency of how we transfer and use energy to do work and improve our quality of life so we don't need to rely on foreign countries for resources or unsustainable sources of energy. Will it make a difference? No way to be sure but I'm sure as hell gonna keep trying.

Something I feel compelled to point out, I'm not a teenager, you don't need to sarcastically lecture me on the merits of learning history and virtuous conduct like so many older folks do for some silly reason. You obviously aren't sorry for **** so don't be sarcastic about it. I hear you and agree with you, let's just be straight with each other and talk like adults. I'm over the kind of fatalistic negative sarcasm that makes y'all sound really wimpy to be honest.
 
If you're tired of the same old story...



Baby, turn some pages.
 
One of my absolute favorite keyboard solos.
 
MopaR&D said:
I just got back from a trip to France where gas is over $9/gallon and toll road fees are many times what they are here. They also don't have auto parts stores like here and very stringent regulations on what you can or can't do to modify a vehicle.

I'm sure most of these whiners have never traveled to a foreign country. Visit literally ANYWHERE else in the world and you will realize that no matter how bad things get here we still have it way better than most of the rest of the world. People have just gotten spoiled and soft and also don't realize that the economy of the 1950s-1990s was a special case that will never happen again.

Complaining is stupid. Get out and do what you can to fix the problems you see in the world, understand your limitations, and just GO. Ironic these days I hear older people complaining more than people my age (20s-40s); past 30 years have generally sucked so it's nothing new for us young folk we don't really have "the good old days" to look back on and tbh it's really frickin annoying to listen to old people whine and compare back to "their time". It ain't your time anymore, get over it.
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Young people complain about old people complaining?

:lol:
 
MopaR&D said:
No that's not what I'm saying.

I only used France as an example to show the relative superiority of life in the United States. By no means does that mean we can just rest on our laurels because "at least we're still better than them". I'm simply trying to put things in perspective and help people realize we can't take our American rights and freedoms for granted.

I'm saying, if you got a problem with something, do some homework about it and do something instead of complaining and regurgitating facts about the past that are painfully obvious to everyone at this point. Times WERE better back in your day. But they aren't coming back. And the reason times were better had very little to do with the choices normal everyday people made. Why did customer service go to ****? Because large corporations bought or pushed out the little guys in the industry and couldn't give a rat's *** about taking care of the customer. And everyone went along with it because times were still good so, who cares?? Our economy was flourishing based off our successes in WWII and the dominance we had on the global economy which our government and large corporations ruined starting in the 1970s thanks to short-sighted decisions and policies put in place all just to make a quick buck, who cares what happens 10, 20, 30 years down the road. I'm a history buff, I soak up information about past times as much as I can because I think it's the best way to understand and prevent mistakes from happening again. But it only works if everyone knows about it AND has the balls/ovaries to really make big changes in how we do things on a large scale.

I'm trying to make a difference by refusing to buy Communist Chinese-made products. I buy USA-made where possible but if I can't, at the very least I try to buy from countries that don't have a communist regime and aren't actively trying to undermine our nation. I also don't support companies with shitty short-sighted business practices that care more about shareholders and revenue over the next quarter instead of 5- or 10-year plans. I also try to inform people around me about current events and actions we as normal citizens can take to try to improve the situation and get in contact with local and state government officials to push for reforms and let them know my issues and concerns as a U.S. citizen. Last but certainly not least I work a job at a company designing a new type of energy storage device with the intent to revolutionize our electrical grid and vastly improve the efficiency of how we transfer and use energy to do work and improve our quality of life so we don't need to rely on foreign countries for resources or unsustainable sources of energy. Will it make a difference? No way to be sure but I'm sure as hell gonna keep trying.

Something I feel compelled to point out, I'm not a teenager, you don't need to sarcastically lecture me on the merits of learning history and virtuous conduct like so many older folks do for some silly reason. You obviously aren't sorry for **** so don't be sarcastic about it. I hear you and agree with you, let's just be straight with each other and talk like adults. I'm over the kind of fatalistic negative sarcasm that makes y'all sound really wimpy to be honest.
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