I’m pretty sure nobody driving that midlife crisis on wheels has ever gotten “serious” about their lifes
If I had that kind of money I would just get myself a few gokarts and a track. If I wasn’t quite that rich and just normal sports car money l would get a field or some woodland and some quadbikes and dirt bikes.
man, those guilt coping posts. maybe just do the right thing, so you don’t need to make up bullshit to feel good
You mean just take the bus?
Yeah just take the bus
Nooooo, I wanted to ride the bus but someone took it!
It’s OK my friend, just catch the next one. You can probably make it to the next bus stop even, that’s what I like to do.
Okay, I caught it. Now what?Keep going until the buss is on a surface which it can develop traction.
I don’t know. It seems pretty angry. I don’t want to give it an advantage.
Pqp vou chegar tarde na aula e a profe não vai acreditar que o ônibus deu problema. De novo.
I wonder which one is more expensive, a new Lamborghini or a new bus.
Overall or per capita?
Overall. I wonder, if somebody gives me a Lambo, can I sell it, buy a bus, and drive friends in it?
Depending on the model of the Lambo and the bus, yeah, you’ve got a good shot at it.
Nice. Maybe the real magic was the car flipping plan we found in the comments - all along.
This is super wholesome.
Disclaimer: Remember_the_tooth does not advocate for flipping consumable, non-durable, or semi-durable goods for profit. Do so at your own risk.
The bus
Depends on the size of the bus - anywhere from high 90s to half a million for a school bus.
A 28 seater bus is, unless a very high end model which the example isn’t, will be cheaper than that particular Lambo was new.
Engineering decisions: how can make something that pollutes to the legal max both in particles, noise, and, come to think of it, any aspect possible? Oh, I know, a car!
A lot of people I’ve seen in Lamborghini cars aren’t serious about their lives. They’re spoiled idiots who lucked out and got a ton of money handed to them and are driving it around to show off how much money they have as if they deserved it.
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“Wife and a kid” = normal life.
hmmmm.
Do you consider having a wife or a kid not normal?
I consider it normative to suggest that such is “normal” and suggests not having a wife or kid(s) as “abnormal”. At least by implication.
Yeah, it’s rather normal to have a wife and progeny, most people do, that’s what normal means. You seem to be fishing for outrage, but you are missing that normal does not imply good, and not normal does not mean bad. Being astoundingly beautiful is not normal, but it’s commonly seen as positive.
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I mean it was pretty strongly implied but ok
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Normal mainly implies average.
The average person has a spouse and a kid. So the statement is not wrong.
Doesn’t mean you can’t have a normal life without a wife or a kid. It just doesn’t mean average then.
Its a normative statement. It contributes to alienating people without wives or kids.
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Perhaps I came off as too hostile. I read your comment and I thought it was potentially harmful and I’m incredibly depressed, so I wrote a hasty sniping response. I tend to think of things said as their effects in aggregate rather than the virtue of the person saying it.
I’m also bi and arguably aromantic. And intend to remain childfree.
Doesn’t mean you can’t have a normal life without a wife or a kid. It just doesn’t mean average then.
wait. so normal means average, or normal does not mean average?
As there are substantially fewer polygamists than there are single people, the average person has a fraction of a spouse.
The average man has one testicle, the average woman one breast and they both only have one eye.
There might be some better way of measuring this than a mathematical average, some means of describing the most common grouping in a given cohort, but that’s for smarter men than I.
I’m an enthusiast with no kids (and a vasectomy to make sure it stays that way) and I’ve driven both around a track. Glad to have done it once, but I’m not in any hurry to do it again. Wouldn’t buy either one over my Miata.
Supercars are vastly overrated.
Miata Is Always The Answer
Yeah, that’s my thought, though I have a kid. Doesn’t really matter if I just want to rent one to have fun driving for a bit (other than if she’d find it cool to ride in one). Would be fun for a bit and then a huge liability to own one. Especially with how much attention they’d get. You’d get random butt prints from assholes taking pictures with it, not to mention some others driving nearby will get more aggressive when they see what you’re driving, making accidents more likely. Not to mention everything about it will be very expensive.
And, at least based on video games, you’d barely ever get out of 1st or 2nd gear in normal driving unless you want to risk getting it seized (or worse) for excessive speeding.
Also, make one mistake with the throttle and a video of you spinning into a curb or something could go viral if it’s one of the rear drive supercars.
If he didn’t realize these things before making the purchase, it would seem like he falls qualifies for the idiot side with a sprinkle of luck.
By chance was he able to afford it because of inheritance? Only a fool takes that kind of money to splurge on a vehicle and he would then fit exactly into the sot op laid out.
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Yes. That’s why I made it. I use foresight and logic to deduce the mindset of the person involved in the timeline as you’ve described it.
What you’ve said is a man with a wife and child who gather the resources to buy m a super car. It was only after he had purchased it that he realized it wasn’t a practical family car. This scenario does not contain an adult who is using logic and reasoning skills in a major luxury purchase.
You are free to clarify or correct the timeline you described. Given that you choose to attack me instead, I am going to expand on the scenario by guessing this is someone you admire.
I don’t know but I’ll happily attack you. Please list your insecurities so I can more accurately ridicule you.
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All you’ve got is insults; I suggest you take your own advice.
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What you described is an individual with more money than sense and that’s what Clent described. You’re delusional if you think they’re the asshole here.
Commas, man. They’re important to not abuse. You made my brain hiccup
What’s Your, Problem?
Commas, man.
To split infinitives or to not split infinitives, that is the question.
This shit ain’t Latin. English splits infinitives.
How would you split an infinitive in latin?
That… no… but…
The argument that “you can’t split infinitives”, as I’ve heard it, is because you can’t split infinitives in Latin (since the “to” is a part of the verb itself). This might be fallacious (a straw man) according to Wikipedia, but I’m fine with that. People split infinitives and I’ve never seen a strong argument as to why that’s wrong.
That’s my understanding, too. It’s a fact I was exploiting in a kind of underhanded way for humor. I like the clarity of not splitting infinitives, but I agree that it and a lot of other grammer suggestions don’t really matter as long as good communication occurs. Anything more than that will probably be defined by far more specific conventions in whatever professional specialty applies. Thanks for having fun with me on the internet.
Was this supposed to be fun?
Aren’t grammar and etymology always fun?
Very carefully.
Notice the implied and unquestioned assumption that “life goals” means accumulating resources and not building relationships or contributing to society. In fact, it’s expected that personal relationships and societal responsibilities shall be neglected in the quest for resources.
If this wasn’t 2025 I would have thought this image was satire it’s so overtly toxic and stupid.
Yet here we are.
And if you do have friends, they can laugh at you when you struggle to get out of the car
So sexy! 🥵
Your life can be so much better if you get over the notion of having to own things. Almost every luxury out there can be enjoyed without having to own it, as long as you’re able to discard the consumerist propaganda that you’ve not enjoyed it properly unless you can take it home.
Yeah, and I think that is tied to a subconscious need for good things to be permanent.
I think that truly internalizing the temporary nature of literally everything is an important part of getting to the mindset you’re talking about.
Aka take joyrides in other people’s Lambos, then ditch the car, but NOT AT YOUR HOME.
You won’t be accumulating anything without building vital relationships.
Yeah, that’s why Elon Musk is well known for his ability to form and maintain many meaningful relationships…
Well, yes. How do you think he became the lead of DOGE? With the help of a random number generator?
The car they’re working on only has one(functional) seat…
I listened to a really interesting podcast the other day about how the current online alpha male culture, the kind we see propagated by Andrew Tate and co, actually emphasizes an incredibly lonely existence. It’s almost hermitical. Whereas masculinity in the 80’s up through the 2000’s or so was about getting rich, partying in incredibly conspicuous ways, and getting laid all the time.
This lambo meme (first part) falls right in line with the Tate mentality for sure. There are people who read that and go “yes, that sounds great.”
It’s very likely that it’s all about justification of where someone is more than it is about getting to where someone truly wants to be. Making a lot of positive changes is hard but claiming that you actually really wanted whatever shitty outcome is “easier”.
In the ‘80s it was about claiming you definitely weren’t buying your friends and, if you were, that was some kind of cool power thing and not horrifically depressing for all parties involved. These days most of the world hates these losers, and for good reason, so they shift the blame away from themselves in a desperate attempt to pretend that they aren’t at fault.
We’re social animals and we want genuine connection. The alpha males are deeply lonely and angry about it all the time but try soooo hard to pretend they aren’t which only makes them sadder and madder.
I think the current online alpha male culture is a marketing tool meant to validate the antisocial beliefs of potential customers in order to convert them into paying customers.
Oh definitely. At its heart is the grift
I fucking hate people that act like they escaped the matrix because they drive a personally owned vehicle.
Like wow you’re really showing us public transit welfare queens what true independence looks like, gripping a steering wheel in a vehicle they can only legally operate with a government-issued license, on a road built and maintained by the government, cleared of snow by government workers driving government-owned trucks, fueled by government-subsidized oil, and parked in government-funded lots. Let’s not forget they had to go to a government building, talk to a government employee, and pay a government fee just for the privilege of registering their car — which they’re also legally required by the government to insure. And after all that bureaucratic red tape and recurring fees, they have the audacity to act like they’re the icons of self-sufficiency. The cherry on top? If their precious symbol of ‘independence’ breaks down, the government isn’t going to help — they get to shoulder the repair costs entirely on their own.
Meanwhile, I swipe a card once a month and get access to a system that moves people efficiently, doesn’t ask for my blood type, and doesn’t require me to pour thousands into maintenance and paperwork — and I’m the one supposedly suckling at the teat of Big Government?
Ok.
As someone who owns a vehicle, I feel more like I’ve escaped the matrix when on public transportation than when I’m driving. I still have to have a car to get places public transit won’t go, but I always look forward to the completion of each new station, one more area I don’t have to drive to.
I rarely go farther from my home than I can go in a few minutes in my bycicle, so I never felt the need for a car. But once every few months I would need to go somewhere that is two hours away by bus, often with inconvenient bus timings (like either 6am or noon) - so I sometimes take an Uber instead.
When people her about me taking an Uber for such a “long” trip they call me insane, say that I’m wasting money and I should just get a car and those trips would be much cheaper. They never consider all the other costs involved in owning a car.
But then after a while people in my town started giving up on Uber and it became hard to find a driver whenever I might need one, so I finally got a driving license and bought myself a bike. People now were like “you’ll see how it changes you, you’ll use it for everything, you’ll go out a lot more often and to everywhere with it”. By the time I had a trip to make it was no longer turning on due to being stuck in a garage for so long. The counter showed less than 20 kilometers when I sold it.
You are definitely singing the song of my people. I bought my car when I was working 2 jobs with heavy overtime, and it mattered a lot that I could drive 20 minutes instead of the 1hr bus ride. I put about 20k kilometers on the odometer. Things changed recently, and I’ve found myself doing maintenance on it based on a time schedule rather than distance. I could buy 200 round-trip Uber rides per year for what I’m paying.
I tried getting into cycling, but there’s a lack of cycle paths and protected bike lanes here. It’s one of those areas that has “sharrows.” Pro tip: drivers do not share the road even with the sharrows.
Expensive Rear engine Yellow
This made me giggle. You could really rile up this type of person with that logic.
“Yeah, it’s all the same, man. $600k, rear engine, yellow, 600hp. I guess one of them doesn’t include a professional driver, but we can’t always have everything.”
“This is a Lamborghini! It’s a big deal!”
“Oh, sorry bro, I didn’t mean that as like a dig at you. You’ll get there. Just stay on your grind.”
Ha, I love that the bus is the one with a professional driver.
If you’re choosing life-goals that shut out your friends, those are the wrong life-goals.
Bold of you to assume people like this have had friends.
The F1 with a single seat.
When you reach the epitome, with noone to accompany you.
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This breaks down immediately, because you have multiple others around you, on the same track. They are your colleagues, your friends and your rivals.
And I haven’t checked, but I’d say the F1 is more efficient at running than the Lambos
This breaks down thousands of hours before an F1 car starts because it takes thousands of people to design them
I’m pretty sure the Lamborghini car also took quite a bit of people-interaction. Road compliance and all, you know?
I actually do know. I briefly worked in F1, and I also separately registered my own car with a properly hand built chassis to NY state registration standards.
They are orders of magnitude apart. It’s like saying “both this IKEA glass and the space shuttle took quite a bit of engineering”. Trust me, more hours were put into any mundane F1 part than almost any other vehicle out there
I bet there are a lot of remote drone racing competitions …
Why is no one asking about the bus with no wheels?!
Ha I had to double take but it looks like they’re just recessed in the wheel well
