RANT: The Clone Wars

[GeneralSerpant]

Is it sensible to lump all GM cars together as one automaker?

Plenty of decent people will rate Chevy over Ford.

[jmonty]

Is it sensible to lump all GM cars together as one automaker?

Plenty of decent people will rate Chevy over Ford.

This isn't about sensibility or decency!

[VoxExMachina]

Is it sensible to lump all GM cars together as one automaker?

Yes. Most of the engineering is common (chassis, engine, etc.) among different brands of GM vehicles. For example, a Buick Enclave, GMC Acadia, Chevy Transverse are basically the same vehicle.

The corporate quality, manufacturing, & assembly techniques and procedures are common. The components are common. Etc.

[Farley1324]

Yes. Most of the engineering is common (chassis, engine, etc.) among different brands of GM vehicles. For example, a Buick Enclave, GMC Acadia, Chevy Transverse are basically the same vehicle.

The corporate quality, manufacturing, & assembly techniques and procedures are common. The components are common. Etc.

Chevy Tahoe/Suburban = GMC Yukon/Yukon XL = Cadillac Escalade/Escalade ESV

When you get down to it.

[jmonty]

I think many non Chevy fans would like corvettes, Cadillacs and some trucks.

[theshoupguy]

Chevy Tahoe/Suburban = GMC Yukon/Yukon XL = Cadillac Escalade/Escalade ESV

When you get down to it.

Except Escalades are pimped out for douches, gangstas, and soccer moms that pretend they're still 27.

[GeneralSerpant]

Chevy Tahoe/Suburban = GMC Yukon/Yukon XL = Cadillac Escalade/Escalade ESV

When you get down to it.

Actually The Suburban was a common model between Chevy and GMC. I'm not sure about any more. If the Tahoe equivalent is the Yukon, then I suspect that the Yukon XL would be a simple luxury version of standard Yukon. More on this,, after the edit.

Yeah. Seems that GMC Suburban 2013 results all forget about GMC and just say Chevy.

As far as older cars go, Chevy's are better.

[Farley1324]

Actually The Suburban was a common model between Chevy and GMC. I'm not sure about any more. If the Tahoe equivalent is the Yukon, then I suspect that the Yukon XL would be a simple luxury version of standard Yukon. More on this,, after the edit.

Yeah. Seems that GMC Suburban 2013 results all forget about GMC and just say Chevy.

As far as older cars go, Chevy's are better.

For years now the GMC equivalent to the Chevy Suburban has been the Yukon XL. There are no longer any GMC Suburbans, although there used to be.


Chevy Tahoe = GMC Yukon
Chevy Suburban = GMC Yukon XL (extended length)

<---Owns a 2011 GMC Yukon XL. Shopped extensively for these vehicles. Is aware.

Basically when you go from the Chevy version to the GMC version you get a few more options and 'luxury' items. The base level GMCs will always come standard with stuff that a low trim level Chevy does not have, for example, and the upper level GMC has all kinds of nice things the Chevy does not. The GMC Denali trim level is sweet. (Denali is not a model...trim level)

[chazzy1864]

Old drinking buddies with Henry himself, I've heard the stories!

lawlz



I drove a Yukon XL while I was in Iraq.That thing made me have a new respect for Chevy/GMC. I drove the piss out of that thing. It took it pretty damn admirably. During one of the driving excursions with friends, while a friend was driving it, she drove into/through a big enough dip/hole/crater (the rest of us saw it and apparently she didn't) that the force/compression or everything ended up cracking the right rear quarter panel window. It just spider webbed all the way through and slowly started falling out over the next 1-2 weeks.

At some other point i broke the wheel bearing. I was tearing ass across one of the open fields I usually would. But there were two common trails/tracks people used across this field. One had a clean straight shot to the main road. The other ended up having a thin, but sudden dip just before the main road. I thought I was on the other one. I was not. I saw it at the last minute, plowed over it and knew it wasn't great. It drove just fine for awhile, but once I cracked the bearing it was just a waiting game as it slowly got worse. Outside of that and considering the hell I put that thing through, I wouldn't mind having a Yukon XL in the states.

[NewAgeMayan]

Unbelievable.

That dude throws a brick into his washing machine and it continues to run like O.J. Pistorius. My washing machine breaks down and all Ive ever thrown into it is cotton apparel.

[PeterGibbons316]

So a really close friend of mine (he was in my wedding and was living with me when he started dating his fiance) is getting married on the same day as my wife's grandfather's memorial service - the events are in different cities on the same day. Which one should I go to and why?

Also, Chuzzle, the wedding will likely have a cash bar.

[chazzy1864]

Cash bar = meh. Getting drunk at the wake will probably prove better.

[adamdavidson47]

So a really close friend of mine (he was in my wedding and was living with me when he started dating his fiance) is getting married on the same day as my wife's grandfather's memorial service - the events are in different cities on the same day. Which one should I go to and why?

Also, Chuzzle, the wedding will likely have a cash bar.

Do you like your wife's family?

[PeterGibbons316]

Do you like your wife's family?

Yes, very much.

[adamdavidson47]

Yes, very much.

Family trumps friends, in my opinion. It sucks that you won't be able to make it to your cheapskate buddy's wedding, but he'll probably understand. Either way, someone is probably going to be disappointed, and you don't sleep with your buddy (I'm assuming).

[medjen]

So a really close friend of mine (he was in my wedding and was living with me when he started dating his fiance) is getting married on the same day as my wife's grandfather's memorial service - the events are in different cities on the same day. Which one should I go to and why?

Also, Chuzzle, the wedding will likely have a cash bar.

You attend wedding, wife attends funeral. Both obligations met.

[adamdavidson47]

You attend wedding, wife attends funeral. Both obligations met.

"It's ok, honey, you go get piss drunk and have a blast at your buddy's wedding while I mourn the loss of my grandfather." Said no woman, ever.

[chazzy1864]

"It's ok, honey, you go get piss drunk and have a blast at your buddy's wedding while I mourn the loss of my grandfather." Said no woman, ever.

If she sets a budget, then it'll only be moderately drunk.

Unless PG316 resorts to his old tactics of trading sexual favors for money/drugs/booze.

[ThickAsABrick]

Charles, what were you referring to with this:

"edit: It also warms my heart that you adjust your post from quoting TAAB and saying something about his dp having "lower bar squats" and 5 minute rest periods, to quoting me about your misuse and ignorance of common BBing terminology."

[adamdavidson47]

If she sets a budget, then it'll only be moderately drunk.

Unless PG316 resorts to his old tactics of trading sexual favors for money/drugs/booze.

Better send him a copy of the Chazzy handbook just in case.

[ThickAsABrick]

So a really close friend of mine (he was in my wedding and was living with me when he started dating his fiance) is getting married on the same day as my wife's grandfather's memorial service - the events are in different cities on the same day. Which one should I go to and why?

Also, Chuzzle, the wedding will likely have a cash bar.

Would your wife be offended if you didn't attend the funeral? If not, I'd go to the wedding.

[chazzy1864]

Charles, what were you referring to with this:

"edit: It also warms my heart that you adjust your post from quoting TAAB and saying something about his dp having "lower bar squats" and 5 minute rest periods, to quoting me about your misuse and ignorance of common BBing terminology."

His first post was quoting you. Something about you probably not doing olympic lifting. Then said he checked your dp (not sure what that is) and something about you having lots of "lower bar squats and 5 minute rest periods".

Then he apparently edited his entire post to quote me with something entirely different.

[ThickAsABrick]

His first post was quoting you. Something about you probably not doing olympic lifting. Then said he checked your dp (not sure what that is) and something about you having lots of "lower bar squats and 5 minute rest periods".

Then he apparently edited his entire post to quote me with something entirely different.

I have no idea what dp is. I also squat high bar and don't time my rest periods (though they are almost certainly less than 5 minutes.) But then I don't know what "compound weights" are, either.

That guy always gets really upset when I neg him.

[VoxExMachina]

So a really close friend of mine (he was in my wedding and was living with me when he started dating his fiance) is getting married on the same day as my wife's grandfather's memorial service - the events are in different cities on the same day. Which one should I go to and why?

Also, Chuzzle, the wedding will likely have a cash bar.

What would Will Ferrell do?

[chazzy1864]

I have no idea what dp is. I also squat high bar and don't time my rest periods (though they are almost certainly less than 5 minutes.) But then I don't know what "compound weights" are, either.

That guy always gets really upset when I neg him.

lol I don't think I've contributed to his redness at all, but I have taken note of him quite a few times and I am sure you could count on one hand the times that I read his posts and did not think "yep, no question why he is red."

What would Will Ferrell do?

You're crazy, man. I like you, but you're crazy.

[ThickAsABrick]

lol I don't think I've contributed to his redness at all, but I have taken note of him quite a few times and I am sure you could count on one hand the times that I read his posts and did not think "yep, no question why he is red."

At first I thought he was a troll, but now I'm convinced he's just an idiot.

[chazzy1864]

At first I thought he was a troll, but now I'm convinced he's just an idiot.

I just literally laughed. It is amazing how often those two thoughts follow each other about various posters. At first, the benefit of the doubt is given that they're merely a troll......

[PeterGibbons316]

You attend wedding, wife attends funeral. Both obligations met.

I think this is what we are planning on doing now, but I am definitely worried about this:

"It's ok, honey, you go get piss drunk and have a blast at your buddy's wedding while I mourn the loss of my grandfather." Said no woman, ever.

If I miss the funeral, my wife's grandmother MIGHT notice and MIGHT be upset for the next couple years. If I miss my buddy's wedding - pissed at me for the rest of my life.

[medjen]

You attend wedding, wife attends funeral. Both obligations met.

Would your wife be offended if you didn't attend the funeral? If not, I'd go to the wedding.

We should make out.

If I miss the funeral, my wife's grandmother MIGHT notice and MIGHT be upset for the next couple years. If I miss my buddy's wedding - pissed at me for the rest of my life.

So, which of these is more important to you? That your wife's grandmother MIGHT be upset or that you'll miss a major life milestone of a close friend? Really only you can answer that one.

[adamdavidson47]

I think this is what we are planning on doing now, but I am definitely worried about this:



If I miss the funeral, my wife's grandmother MIGHT notice and MIGHT be upset for the next couple years. If I miss my buddy's wedding - pissed at me for the rest of my life.

Your buddy would be pissed, even if you missed it for a legit reason? This would make me go to the funeral. Srs.