Official: You know what really grinds my gears?

If the chrome start ring isn’t blacked out, the magnified reflections from the 12,000 lumen interior LED lights would burn holes in the headliner. Or worse, burn holes in your junk if the angle’s just right.

Also, not sure why there’s even a start button on these things to begin with. It’s not a lemans race car or anything. It’s a 4runner, keys are just fine. Hell, two bare wires are more fitting than a start button.

 

Whew, for a minute there I thought you were talking about me! I had blackout overlays on the c-pillar but replaced with mix of red TRD and black Off Road. Front/backs are overlayed in red. The toyota Sombrero on my steering wheel is overlayed in red.

I agree, those guys blacking out everything are a bunch of ding dongs!

 

I am not offended in the least

No hurt feelings here. Feathers perfectly coiffed. Ready to smoke the peace pipe, except I don't smoke. Anything.

I like Blackout. Still. Even now that the novelty has worn off. I think it's because I used to go to my local "Bike Night," which should have been called "Harley and maybe One or Two of Something Else Night." Chrome this. Chrome that. Chrome on top of chrome. I developed a serious chrome aversion, so the 4Runner Blackout trend has felt like aloe on a burn. Ahhh....!

I already have the Blackout for the steering wheel, now I just need a 4Runner to stick to the back of it...

 

"It is what it is"

No fucking shit!!!!!

 

Student loan forgiveness. Don't get me started

 

Thank goodness I dodged that one. I graduated from Heartbreak Ridge.

 

I can't believe I didn't post this as a gear grinder. Both the wife and I WORKED off our undergrad and grad school debts because we had signed promissory notes obligating us, financially and ethically, to pay back that money.

What the hell is wrong with the current generation?

 

Yeah, I went back to school while working full time a few years ago. I paid as I went with my wife's help. It sucked for sure because working 40-70 hrs/wk (getting paid for 40, being on salary), getting my tuition reimbursement rejected by the company, and not going to a well known "prestigious" school left me worrying if it was worth it. But graduating with no debt, getting a job with a great well known company despite not graduating from a well known school, then doubling my salary within 3 years showed me I made the right decision.

Seeing a couple of years later that student loans might be "forgiven", meaning I would pay for other people's poor decisions with my taxes, pissed me off to no end

 

Maybe this will have a positive result if it gets the whole college loan industry to pull back. Something has smelled fishy about the higher ed for a while now. Too many on-line colleges popping up that just seem designed to generate student loans.

If the banks don’t see a profit in making every effort to financially trap naive and unsavvy students, maybe they’ll grant less loans. And schools will see less value in stupid fields of study.

It’s kind of crazy how so many people end up mortgaging their entire future away. And how schools and banks don’t really discourage that.

 

I don't see the loan industry pulling back. It was the college loan industry that pushed for changes in the bankruptcy laws some years ago. Student loan debt cannot be discharged in bankruptcy court. It is just a different kind of slavery.

 

Yeah, for sure it’s a form of financial slavery. Now that I think of it. It’s federal loan forgiveness isn’t it. They need to pass laws that will make the private banks hurt instead. But the law to prevent bankruptcy discharge just emboldens them. Wouldn’t surprise me if that's made the student loan crisis significantly worse.
Bankruptcy could have functioned as a “brake” on the banking industry by making them experience the consequences of their lending decisions.

 

I flew to TPA from Dulles few yrs back and the return flight got rerouted to Jersey and I would not claim my bags. What a mess that was to get my bags back to Dulles with me on the same flight.

 

My youngest daughter is starting college this year. I’ve been saving for it since she was born and have it covered. But maybe I’ll tell her to take out a $10k loan and bank it for a year or two. If student loan forgiveness happens, then woohoo free money! Courtesy of the taxpayer! If not, she just pays it off early.

I would never really do that. It’s corrupt as hell.

 

Always read the fine print.

 

Based on your previous posts which reveal a bit of your character, I was surprised and disappointed until I went back and noticed the fine print I had missed the first time.

You got me.

Good for you saving for your daughter. "Saving" seems to be an obsolete concept nowadays.

 

Chalk it up to the prepper mentality. TBH though I’m only about a six on the paranoia scale.

 

went out to get some groceries around 5 and dealt with three tools driving like this guy

bonus points of you know the movie

 

It's quite ridiculous that you have to study the law in each individual state to know if you're about to break a state law that seems to upend something enshrined in the bill of rights. I don't typically condone the federal government trampling states rights but when it comes to laws that seem fly in the face of the bill of rights, I wish there was some consistency across all the states. You know, as if they had accepted them and abide by them as part of the agreement to join the union of states

 

But probably completely legal (I'm not a lawyer and not offering financial advice). This seems a prime example of integrity - not something everyone possess anymore

 

Nothing wrong with being prepared. I prefer to be called "cautious" rather than "paranoid".

I used to think I was paranoid, borderline conspiracy theorist, when it came to technology. Then I majored in software security and minored in cybersecurity. Although the risks are low for individual users, I quickly realized the threat is real. Mainly due to the complete mishandling of personal and sensitive information being data mined and insecurely stored by companies - who are regular targets

 

Weekend at bernies? Haha, I actually don't think I've seen that movie - what is it?

 

Roadhouse!

 

Well now I feel like an idiot - I thought I'd seen roadhouse! Maybe I'm confusing it for that one family guy episode...

 

Didn't you know? The little bit of chrome burns their retinas and makes them go blind. At least thats what some of them says.
I dont know how they drive but the chrome emblem on my steering wheels has never blinded me.

As for the exterior, you don't think how the SR5 or TRD overlays look like a weird shape from far?
What about the black hole it creates when the emblems are covered?

 

Yikes. I think I’ve seen better ones offered than those horrors.

 

Ya know what really grinds my gears?

My tendency to respond to people here without really thinking about what they mean, and make myself sound like a fucking idiot. I know it's my own fault, but it does grind my gears.

 

Meh, arguing with complete strangers and making a fucking idiot out of yourself is why al gore invented the internet. That, and porn. Super, duper serious.

 

Those are the better ones offered. I just altered the image to make it look like a non Toyota person was looking at it from far. Can't see details from far so it's just a weird black shape.

I've also seen worse.
Something like BMW emblems where it's just a smooth circle but the owner paints it black just for the sake of black out.
Turns it into a black dot on the car.

 

Bread and circuses.