Earn a Living with Your 4Runner Rescuing Electric Vehicles

ElectroBoy said:
Maybe you were in a hurry and you missed the last sentence of that article you linked.

“ The two different words are often conflated, with people interpreting to call a spade a spade as racially charged. While the origin of that phrase has nothing to do with color or race, the other sense of spade has tainted the phrase, and it should be used with care, if at all.”
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Please take your racism to some other forum Mark
 
OK boomer.
Keep on twirling.
 

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LandCruiser said:
Having lived in the bay area for quite some time, I can’t stand teslas.

People who buy them are either idiots or just simply do not know how to drive. Aside from highway stretches where they can use the autopilot, they are in capable of maneuvering the damn things over surface streets and parking lots.

It is completely pointless why there need to be parking spots up front for electric vehicles, put them in the back so these idiots can wrestle with the cords and waste valuable space that could be used for parking.

I do not know what a clean air vehicle is, I assume that since all my cars pass the California smog test, they are clean air vehicles and therefore I can put them in clean air vehicle parking.
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LOL! But I don’t think it’s necessarily the car but the entitlement attitude. Years ago a lot of hatred was directed toward the numerous BMW drivers suddenly on the road during an economic boom. People were complaining about them being buttheads speeding in town, unsafe passing, running red lights, etc. One BMW owner was quoted saying something like “no Bimmer Pilot would ever run a red light, it’s too much fun beating everyone off the line when the light changes to green”. No wonder.
 
ElectroBoy said:
LOL! But I don’t think it’s necessarily the car but the entitlement attitude. Years ago a lot of hatred was directed toward the numerous BMW drivers suddenly on the road during an economic boom. People were complaining about them being buttheads speeding in town, unsafe passing, running red lights, etc. One BMW owner was quoted saying something like “no Bimmer Pilot would ever run a red light, it’s too much fun beating everyone off the line when the light changes to green”. No wonder.
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First big paycheck, brand new white BMW 3 or 4 series is still the scourge of bay area traffic.
 
LandCruiser said:
Having lived in the bay area for quite some time, I can’t stand teslas.

People who buy them are either idiots or just simply do not know how to drive. Aside from highway stretches where they can use the autopilot, they are in capable of maneuvering the damn things over surface streets and parking lots.

It is completely pointless why there need to be parking spots up front for electric vehicles, put them in the back so these idiots can wrestle with the cords and waste valuable space that could be used for parking.

I do not know what a clean air vehicle is, I assume that since all my cars pass the California smog test, they are clean air vehicles and therefore I can put them in clean air vehicle parking.
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Parking in EV spots or charging stations. LOL. I had to look that up, it’s called ICEing.

From the article linked below:
“The act of ICEing is to park in a space intended for electric cars, without making use of, or having any need for, the charger. In other words, a car with an internal combustion engine using a parking space reserved for electric cars.”

Other than the wrath of a pissed off EV owner, video monitoring, or getting ticketed, it seems
“... some Tesla owners in the U.S. have tested how good their cars are at towing, by dragging ICEers out of the space...”

What is ICEing and why does it annoy electric car owners? | Motoring Research
 
RichinRidgewood said:
Please feel free not to go to this thread there Brick.

I have noticed you seem to have had a lot of issues with many of the other threads as well. I think this is a sign of general unhappiness. You might want to talk to someone about it instead of being a dark cloud and raining on everyones parade in the T4R forum.
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Only the same issues as the admin who told you all to knock it off on numerous occasions. Maybe you should take it up with him.

Stop being such a troll.
 
Nobody Special said:
Like with 4Runners, a few generations ago, a certain "type" bought them and had a basic understanding of how things work.
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Someone else noticing this. Now they are bought by Jeep Rubicon man bun dudes who drive them like the snap crackle pop BMW M4 they traded it in for.

LandCruiser said:
First big paycheck, brand new white BMW 3 or 4 series is still the scourge of bay area traffic.
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Lmao, remember when a BMW model ending with 28i was actually cool? It's like it was a dream.
 
thennen said:
Yeah, I know what it means. Why use it as an insult?
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Not meant as an insult. More of a humorous illustration of why the younger generations get exasperated and poke fun at boomers.
From that previously linked definition:

“ OK boomer can be used online to write off, usually to a humorous or mildly mocking effect, opinions that are perceived as emblematic of attitudes of boomers and older people more generally. These attitudes include a resistance to technological change, inclusivity of marginalized identities, denial or inaction on climate change, and a belief that the problems of youth are due to their laziness or entitlement as opposed to structural inequalities and a lack of opportunity.”
 
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At 72 YO I certainly fall in that group that gets the OK Boomer dismissal. It ticks me off to no end but then I consider the source. They don't have enough time on the planet yet to have gained life skills or reality. They probably won't like it when that sets in and wonder WTF happened.
I do own a Corvette and as a matter of fact it is a gas guzzling Z06. I bought my first Corvette in 1969 when I was 20 and have owned them whenever it fit with my life at the time so certainly not a midlife thing for me. I actually think owning a jacked up big tire with all the offroad gear 4Runner is more of a compensation type vehicle, but we do get nasty weather in Iowa's Winters so I justify it that way. Also my gas guzzling Corvette gets better real world gas mileage than the 4R. LOL!
 
In case you forgot, we had two prominent members get banned recently (Mutant and Jetboy) for refusing to obey forum rules.

Please, test it more.
 
BettysNephew said:
At 72 YO I certainly fall in that group that gets the OK Boomer dismissal. It ticks me off to no end but then I consider the source. They don't have enough time on the planet yet to have gained life skills or reality. They probably won't like it when that sets in and wonder WTF happened.
I do own a Corvette and as a matter of fact it is a gas guzzling Z06. I bought my first Corvette in 1969 when I was 20 and have owned them whenever it fit with my life at the time so certainly not a midlife thing for me. I actually think owning a jacked up big tire with all the offroad gear 4Runner is more of a compensation type vehicle, but we do get nasty weather in Iowa's Winters so I justify it that way. Also my gas guzzling Corvette gets better real world gas mileage than the 4R. LOL!
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Agreed, and thanks for posting. At 62, I'm a few years short of being an actual boomer, but you're correct about time on the planet. I've learned more real and difficult life lessons since 45 than I ever did before that. Life's pains and trials have a way of teaching you if you let them. While "Ok, boomer" may be dismissed as being done 'just in fun' by the speaker, it dismisses the life lessons those people have the scars from.
 
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