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jmonroe1

qbrozen said:

ab348 said:

Looks like a Civic.

I thought the same thing.

and why in the world did they decide to have the hood cut into the fenders like that? That very well may be the ugliest production Benz I have ever seen.

Could it be that they are expecting strut problems. Less time to replace when you can get at them better. There’s always a reason.

jmonroe

fintail

Definitely an "I'm electric, look at me" thing going on, just like with the 4 elongated egg Tesla designs. Apparently this shape has an amazing drag coefficient, but I would rather it look like a normal E - however, this will probably make it sell. I am sure there will be a slightly longer wheelbase variant for affluent CCP types.

Regarding the G, it doesn't really have styling, especially the older one that was posted - same thing for decades, a utility vehicle originally intended for military and farmers etc.

bwia said:

qbrozen said:

ab348 said:

Looks like a Civic.

I thought the same thing.
and why in the world did they decide to have the hood cut into the fenders like that? That very well may be the ugliest production Benz I have ever seen.

It's an electric vehicle after all. And perhaps the China market has a big influence on design and aesthetics. For some reason most BEVs use the Prius as their guiding principle: make their vehicles different, ugly, and price it high to exude a futuristic aura of minimalism and environmentalism.

explorerx4

@driver100,
I checked the Vancouver Sun, it was in my last post. That is a Canadian paper.
Not sure what was better, watching her excellent play, or the TV experts looking stupid.

jmonroe1

venture said:

I'm at my Subaru dealers right now getting the Ascent inspected, oil service, and tires rotated.

They have 2 new Subaru's on the lot. Both WRX's.

Which one are you going to deal on?

jmonroe

qbrozen

@snakeweasel said:

@driver100 said:
Some people have the attitude...I'll buy what i want to buy and I like a G Wagon, and I don't care what you think!

Well in that case here is a video of a Mustang entering an intersection to fast. tries to stop but hits a building.

https://youtu.be/EZVxepa_Q10

Must have been exiting a show. Hahaha

qbrozen

@snakeweasel said:

@driver100 said:
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder....I love the looks of a G Wagon. I like the squareness and the large windows. And, I like that it looks a little old fashioned, not like a round bubble car with little wind resistance.

And some people are as blind as a bat. Every time I see them I look for "Brinks" on the door.

I’d rather have a Brinks truck than that horrible egg thing. The only Benz I could understand some folks may find worse would be the late 90s A class. But that wasn’t sold here.

andres3

mjfloyd1 said:

@snakeweasel said:

@andres3 said:

Negative points because they didn't mention what he was driving!

And remember, the Solomon curve only applies when there's other traffic to have a speed differential with; no other traffic equals no speed differentials.

From the article it would seem that there was plenty of traffic on the road.

I’d agree that with more than 50 traffic stops recorded, there may have been a bit of traffic

A good hustling cop can do a ticket every 15 minutes easy. 8 hours @ 4 tickets per hour is 32 tickets. So 2 Officers could easily write 50.

oldfarmer50

snakeweasel said:

@driver100 said:

Some people have the attitude...I'll buy what i want to buy and I like a G Wagon, and I don't care what you think!

Well in that case here is a video of a Mustang entering an intersection to fast. tries to stop but hits a building.

Ha ha, you had me expecting this:

https://youtu.be/0cFBn2lkUDg

snakeweasel

@andres3 said:
A good hustling cop can do a ticket every 15 minutes easy. 8 hours @ 4 tickets per hour is 32 tickets. So 2 Officers could easily write 50.

I would say it would be around 20 minutes or so from pulling out to pull someone over to setting up again. The variable is how long it will take for someone to speed by fast enough to warrant being pulled over. I would say about 2 an hour would be the average. Then consider that unless it's a serious offense you have a slightly less than 50% chance of a warning I would say that there had to be at least 5 officers or the 50 tickets were over the whole three day weekend.

venture

jmonroe1 said:

venture said:

I'm at my Subaru dealers right now getting the Ascent inspected, oil service, and tires rotated.

They have 2 new Subaru's on the lot. Both WRX's.

Which one are you going to deal on?

jmonroe

I would like to, but I was already told I didn't want one.

driver100

bwia said:

2023 Mercedes-Benz EQE350, the electric version of Mercedes's E-class.
Built in Germany and in China, the EQE line launches with the EQE350, rated at 288 horsepower from an electric motor on the rear axle.
The EQE's battery pack has a usable capacity of 90.8 kWh, . Mercedes claims a driving range of 410 miles. https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a37477662/2023-mercedes-benz-eqe-350-revealed/?source=nl&utm_source=nl_cdb&utm_medium=email&date=090721&utm_campaign=nl24526983

They make them ugly on purpose....to appeal to the anti-car loving people. Ever see a Prius, E-Mustang or Honda Insight;

driver100

snakeweasel said:

@driver100 said:

Some people have the attitude...I'll buy what i want to buy and I like a G Wagon, and I don't care what you think!

Well in that case here is a video of a Mustang entering an intersection to fast. tries to stop but hits a building.

Good point. I see how that Mustang video relates to someone saying they don't care what you think about their beautiful G-Wagon.

btw, the G-Wagon looks like a real car.........it doesn't look like some kind of hybrid or E-Car.

driver100

explorerx4 said:

@driver100,
I checked the Vancouver Sun, it was in my last post. That is a Canadian paper.
Not sure what was better, watching her excellent play, or the TV experts looking stupid.

Why are you looking at a Vancouver Sun?

We will be close to there Sun to Wednesday....seeing children & grandchildren in Victoria and Vancouver.

mjfloyd1

@andres3 said:
A good hustling cop can do a ticket every 15 minutes easy. 8 hours @ 4 tickets per hour is 32 tickets. So 2 Officers could easily write 50.

You used the words “good” and “cop” in the same sentence.

Looks like we agree that there was quite a bit of traffic

explorerx4

@driver100,
I looked at the Vancouver Sun because I wanted a Canadian source.

driver100

explorerx4 said:

@driver100,
I looked at the Vancouver Sun because I wanted a Canadian source.

So did the Vancouver Sun say she wasn't actually a Canadian?

abacomike

Update on my side effects from the vaccines I had this morning:

I feel very achy - like I have a mild case of the flu. It started at about 1:30 PM (had vaccines at 9:30 AM) and my legs and arm muscles are painful. I am going to take some Tylenol and hope the malaise subsides a bit. Taking both the flu and the Pfizer booster shot at the same time might be contributing to this.

I had no side effects when I took the first two Pfizer vaccines in January. 😩😩😩

benjaminh

Hang in there Mike! Good choice getting both of those. I'm going to try to get a booster when and if I'm eligible.

Meanwhile I should try to get a flu shot. Every days seems like there's a reason not to. Part of it is that my spouse wants to do it with me, but if we coordinate seems to take longer.

stickguy

we always get ours when the county has their free clinics set up. Usually I think we end up going in October. I don't like to go too early, to make sure the protection doesn't run out!

kyfdx

stickguy said:

we always get ours when the county has their free clinics set up. Usually I think we end up going in October. I don't like to go too early, to make sure the protection doesn't run out!

Received both the annual flu vaccine and my first dose of shingles vaccine, today.

stickguy

I need to get the shingles vaccine this year. Not sure why my GP (who just retired) never sent me for it before. I think he was still working off the age 60 recommendation, though I hit that milestone next B'day, so either way, it is time!

kyfdx

stickguy said:

I need to get the shingles vaccine this year. Not sure why my GP (who just retired) never sent me for it before. I think he was still working off the age 60 recommendation, though I hit that milestone next B'day, so either way, it is time!

This year, it's free, through most group health plans.

imidazol97

The second shingrix shot got a good reaction from my body when I took it. I didn't
expect it because the first shot had very little effect.

It's brave taking both the regular flu shot and the covid flu shots together...

imidazol97

I got my seasonal flu shot at Kroger at the beginning of August. I checked to be sure they had the
over 65 version of the shot and had no noticeable reaction. I think they gave me a dummy shot: nothing in it. Or maybe just pickle juice left over from their pickleball tournament they sponsored.

stickguy

is shingles shot like the Flu, where you can just walk in anywhere they give it? Or do you need a doctor note to get it?

qbrozen

imidazol97 said:

I got my seasonal flu shot at Kroger at the beginning of August.

So in what aisle did you find it? I'm thinking in the cold case next to the OJ?

imidazol97

qbrozen said:

imidazol97 said:

I got my seasonal flu shot at Kroger at the beginning of August.

So in what aisle did you find it? I'm thinking in the cold case next to the OJ?

Right next to the diet supplements and high protein drinks.

imidazol97

stickguy said:

is shingles shot like the Flu, where you can just walk in anywhere they give it? Or do you need a doctor note to get it?

I don't believe I had to have a prescription. They may have needed my healthcare card. It may be age specific. Give your place a call to ask.

My doctor kept after me every visit about getting it because she had cared for many folks who had had shingles.

andres3

snakeweasel said:

@andres3 said:

A good hustling cop can do a ticket every 15 minutes easy. 8 hours @ 4 tickets per hour is 32 tickets. So 2 Officers could easily write 50.

I would say it would be around 20 minutes or so from pulling out to pull someone over to setting up again. The variable is how long it will take for someone to speed by fast enough to warrant being pulled over. I would say about 2 an hour would be the average. Then consider that unless it's a serious offense you have a slightly less than 50% chance of a warning I would say that there had to be at least 5 officers or the 50 tickets were over the whole three day weekend.

I'd like to think our good Officers out there are better than you describe, as you put it, they have a one-track mind laser focused on speeding violations while ignoring the other 39,999 vehicle codes, including DUI, unsafe lane changes, impeding traffic, reckless driving, failure to stop, and many other violations. I get speeding is the cash cow, but other violations are written.

Also, while Police might give warnings, your 50% warning rate would be about 40% off with the CHP. You get pulled over by the CHP, you can count on getting a ticket at least as well as you can count on pocket aces in Texas Hold'em.

andres3

snakeweasel said:

@andres3 said:

A good hustling cop can do a ticket every 15 minutes easy. 8 hours @ 4 tickets per hour is 32 tickets. So 2 Officers could easily write 50.

I would say it would be around 20 minutes or so from pulling out to pull someone over to setting up again. The variable is how long it will take for someone to speed by fast enough to warrant being pulled over. I would say about 2 an hour would be the average. Then consider that unless it's a serious offense you have a slightly less than 50% chance of a warning I would say that there had to be at least 5 officers or the 50 tickets were over the whole three day weekend.

I'd like to think our good Officers out there are better than you describe, as you put it, they have a one-track mind laser focused on speeding violations while ignoring the other 39,999 vehicle codes, including DUI, unsafe lane changes, impeding traffic, reckless driving, failure to stop, and many other violations. I get speeding is the cash cow, but other violations are written.

Also, while Police might give warnings, your 50% warning rate would be about 40% off with the CHP. You get pulled over by the CHP, you can count on getting a ticket at least as well as you can count on pocket aces in Texas Hold'em.

andres3

qbrozen said:

@snakeweasel said:

@driver100 said:

Some people have the attitude...I'll buy what i want to buy and I like a G Wagon, and I don't care what you think!

Well in that case here is a video of a Mustang entering an intersection to fast. tries to stop but hits a building.

Must have been exiting a show. Hahaha

Pretty sure the meme for that video was "TOO MUCH HORSEPOWER UPGRADES, not enough BRAKES" for the car nuts out there.

andres3

mjfloyd1 said:

@andres3 said:

A good hustling cop can do a ticket every 15 minutes easy. 8 hours @ 4 tickets per hour is 32 tickets. So 2 Officers could easily write 50.

You used the words “good” and “cop” in the same sentence.

Looks like we agree that there was quite a bit of traffic

Other good cops and other bad drivers

It does imply not all cops are good though.

andres3

https://www.kpbs.org/news/2021/may/13/six-years-vision-zero-san-diego-streets-are-even-d/

You don't say?

And don't blame me!!!! I've contributed zero at-fault collisions since I was 18 on public roads, and therefore zero injuries and fatalities due to my 26 years of driving..............and counting.

imidazol97

The SiriusXM trial on my '15 Cruze ran out last evening on the way to a cruise-in. This morning I logged back in and did CHAT with the SiriusXM crew to add the radio to my account with the $60 for 12 month package.

I had gotten thoroughly addicted to sitting with my morning coffee in the car listening to Soultown and Yacht Rock music and a couple of morning talk shows on cable carried on XM. I couldn't find a way to add the radio online because the system only offered a 6 month signup for $30 or another package I didn't want.

At least on chat, I could listen to George Michael and Elton John "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" and other great songs like Boz Scaggs "Georgia" on my computer while waiting.

I wonder how Chat clients the representative was handling at one time? 4? There are long pauses just like on the phone calls where I'm sure they're talking to other callers.

imidazol97

When I signed the papers for my recent flu shot, one of the questions was if I'd had any other vaccination in the last 14 days or some period of time like that. I took that to suggest they don't want to overlap vaccinations. Maybe it's okay to double up on certain ones.

qbrozen

@fintail , broker today said they just ordered the appraisal. I asked how long and he said 10-14 days.

bwia

@abacomike said:
Update on my side effects from the vaccines I had this morning:

I feel very achy - like I have a mild case of the flu. It started at about 1:30 PM (had vaccines at 9:30 AM) and my legs and arm muscles are painful. I am going to take some Tylenol and hope the malaise subsides a bit. Taking both the flu and the Pfizer booster shot at the same time might be contributing to this.

I had no side effects when I took the first two Pfizer vaccines in January. 😩😩😩

@Mike, I read somewhere that the original formula for the Pfizer vaccine was the weakest possible. Pfizer did that to minimize side effects and adverse reactions. So for the booster shot they may have increased the dosage, and as result increased side effects...(This however is pure speculation on my part). Your achy feeling could be your body's reaction to an immunocompromised immune system.

roadburner

I had a chance to exercise the 2er a bit today; I was on my way home from a seminar on impaired driving prosecutions and I decided to take a more circuitous route. I have to say that I really like being able to switch into attack mode by pushing the mode button and slotting the shift lever into the Sport/Manual gate. I floored it away from a light and once the tires hooked up the ZF 8HP shifted almost like the revered "bang-screech" TH400 in my friend's 1970 LS6 Chevelle(which he still owns).

fintail

Not bad. I was given roughly 5 weeks to close, if I could get it done that fast it would help.

Today had a bit of a kink in the process, inspection. 90% of it was great, a few small issues, and a couple larger ones to deal with, hopefully won't derail the process.

qbrozen said:

@fintail , broker today said they just ordered the appraisal. I asked how long and he said 10-14 days.

tjc78

@qbrozen said:
@fintail , broker today said they just ordered the appraisal. I asked how long and he said 10-14 days.

To results, or just to get them out there? It mirrors what we saw just last month. We were extra delayed on the appraisal because some knucklehead originally inputted it as a re-fi.

Every part of the process is backed up. Our Realtor said she has had several clients miss closing because of bank delays.

qbrozen

Results. His words were “it should be back in 10-14 days.”

Our refi appraisal was very quick but underwriting took quite a while. This is the opposite. Underwriting approved us same day. Weird.

snakeweasel

andres3 said:

snakeweasel said:

@andres3 said:

A good hustling cop can do a ticket every 15 minutes easy. 8 hours @ 4 tickets per hour is 32 tickets. So 2 Officers could easily write 50.

I would say it would be around 20 minutes or so from pulling out to pull someone over to setting up again. The variable is how long it will take for someone to speed by fast enough to warrant being pulled over. I would say about 2 an hour would be the average. Then consider that unless it's a serious offense you have a slightly less than 50% chance of a warning I would say that there had to be at least 5 officers or the 50 tickets were over the whole three day weekend.

I'd like to think our good Officers out there are better than you describe, as you put it, they have a one-track mind laser focused on speeding violations while ignoring the other 39,999 vehicle codes, including DUI, unsafe lane changes, impeding traffic, reckless driving, failure to stop, and many other violations. I get speeding is the cash cow, but other violations are written.

Also, while Police might give warnings, your 50% warning rate would be about 40% off with the CHP. You get pulled over by the CHP, you can count on getting a ticket at least as well as you can count on pocket aces in Texas Hold'em.

If an officer is sitting in one spot monitoring traffic he can only enforce laws that are broken in his/her field of vison. If someone habitually makes unsafe lane changes the odds of the officer seeing them do it are a lot less then something that they are consistently doing like speeding. Where as a habitual speeder is going to be more likely to pass the officer while speeding.

The odds of getting an ace is around 7.7% so the odds of getting pocket aces is around half a percent so if you can count on getting a ticket as well as you can count on pocket aces then the CHP gives out very few tickets.

ab348

fintail said:

Today had a bit of a kink in the process, inspection. 90% of it was great, a few small issues, and a couple larger ones to deal with, hopefully won't derail the process.

Not at all unusual for an inspector to find issues with any house that has some age to it. Usually, if it is a wear-and-tear thing or an obsolete whatever, you try to reach some sort of compromise instead of demanding it be totally replaced. In my case I remember there were two issues and we agreed the seller would cover one and I would cover the other.

kyfdx

imidazol97 said:

The second shingrix shot got a good reaction from my body when I took it. I didn't
expect it because the first shot had very little effect.

It's brave taking both the regular flu shot and the covid flu shots together...

Definitely extra sore at injection site for shingrix. (unusual for me, but expected) No effect for the 12 hours I was up, after the injection, yesterday. But, when I went to bed, my head was swimming a little. Fine, this morning.

It seems most people have negative reactions to shingrix. But, I've heard horror stories from those who've had shingles. Worth the trade-off, to me.

I've never had a reaction to the flu vaccine, so no issues there.

kyfdx

stickguy said:

is shingles shot like the Flu, where you can just walk in anywhere they give it? Or do you need a doctor note to get it?

Kroger pharmacy requires appointments, right now. Mostly because of giving COVID vax. But, the appointment list was wide open. I booked appointment for the next day.

Cigna administers my insurance plan, and they said shingles vax is considered essential, now, and there is no co-pay. But, I'd check first.

kyfdx

imidazol97 said:

When I signed the papers for my recent flu shot, one of the questions was if I'd had any other vaccination in the last 14 days or some period of time like that. I took that to suggest they don't want to overlap vaccinations. Maybe it's okay to double up on certain ones.

There is definitely a list. They don't want to give any vax, along with COVID vax.

But, any non-live vax can be given together. Kroger limits you to three at one time. I checked the GSK website, and it confirmed that flu/shingrix could be given at the same time.

kyfdx

qbrozen said:

Results. His words were “it should be back in 10-14 days.”

Our refi appraisal was very quick but underwriting took quite a while. This is the opposite. Underwriting approved us same day. Weird.

When my son bought a house, last year, the local mortgage brokers had pretty much stopped doing re-fi, so they could concentrate on purchase mortgages. They said they were swamped.

tjc78

@qbrozen said:
Results. His words were “it should be back in 10-14 days.”

Our refi appraisal was very quick but underwriting took quite a while. This is the opposite. Underwriting approved us same day. Weird.

Same with us. We had an approval very quickly. The problem was getting the condo approved. The underwriter thought we were buying in some large complex when in fact it was a small 6 unit building.

carnaught

It seems like whenever you call a customer service line, even if unrelated to banking, you get the dreaded message, “we are experiencing a higher than usual call volume so wait times will be longer…”. These sometimes are based on the “Covid crisis” but it just amazes me that this is so wide spread.

qbrozen

tjc78 said:

Same with us. We had an approval very quickly. The problem was getting the condo approved. The underwriter thought we were buying in some large complex when in fact it was a small 6 unit building.

SC apparently works differently than NJ when it comes to title work. The lawyer takes care of it rather than a specific title company. Anyway, I'm thinking that might be the holdup for us in the end. When we were first put in contact with the lawyer, we were assigned a "Real Estate Opener" and instructed to filter everything through her. I let her know when the inspection was done and she said "Great!" I have heard absolutely nothing from her otherwise. So I emailed last night to make sure the title search was in progress. This Opener replied that we've been assigned an Opener and here is her contact info. Oh boy.