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The funny part is that if you are actually old enough to have the experience they 'require', and look like the distinguished gentleman in the meme, well, it turns out you are too old and feeble to be considered a good fit for the position what with all the health problems age brings...

'Failsafe' the word you are looking for?

Huge difference between your little 'extravagances' in your game collection and spending $700 on something you are going to flush down the toilet in a few hours. Yours is a tangible investment, the orher not so much.

Came in to say this.

47 here.. I suppose im at the tail end of the people who still had a chance. We have a house that is half paid off but that needs a new roof, windows, and flooring that we cannot afford to take care of due to inflation screwing everything up. We have 2 cars but they are both 30+ years old and keeping them on the road is taking up most of what free time I have. When we got the mortgage it felt like we had finally 'made it' and that future pay increades would allow us to remodel and modernize our 'fixer upper' but the intervening 15 years has been an escalating shitshow that has us barely able to maintain what we have in its current state. It is starting to look tempting to liquidate the house and extraneous posessions and buy an old RV and become modern day nomads for our remaining years. The only thing really preventing this is that our 2 adult children are living with us still because there are no jobs that pay enough for them to move out on their own and we are not going to just dump them on the curb and say 'figure it out' like my parents did to me...

I have been using smartphones forever and have never had a plan that did not charge extra for this feature... Granted I have always used verizon, so maybe its a verizon thing?

Panel 4 could be replaced with the contents of a hot pocket fresh from the microwave.

I live in a little backward town in the middle of nowhere and recently took a trip to San Francisco and I have to say this kind of thing was the biggest culture shock to me... I use my phone to text and look at memes, this is a bridge too far!

Yeah the rubber monstrosities are just bad looking. I took them off to clean and straighten some minor issues but after removing them I couldnt bring myself to bolt them back on.

"Rolling sofa" is a very accurate descriptor, I like it.

I remember this becoming a thing at my jr high school in the late 80's in rural NV, well before there was any internet access in the town at all... this is nothing new.

You should only consider driving an old car as a daily driver if you also want to make a hobby out of keeping it on the road. If you are not prepared to do the vast majority of your own mechanic work then you should stick to a newer car. Old cars break... alot, and sometimes in weird ways. As a person who grew up working on cars with my dad I have always done my own work and personally prefer the older cars which have relatively simple systems that are easier to troubleshoot and maintain. If you are comfortable getting dirty and are mechanically inclined and have or are willing to get the basic tools needed then by all means drive an old car.