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The three best middle priced cars are IMO:

1. Toyota 2. Volkswagen 3. Honda (in that order).

Volvo, Suzuki and Audi are good as well, even if Audi is a bit pricier.

I’m sorry to hear that phone guy is disappointing you, and glad to hear that you as usual have lots of other guys to have fun with.

Hot guy… there’s not a doubt in my mind that he’ll surrender… it’s only a matter of time really ;-) …

Also… really good points Serena!

If the car is rusted car dealers/people will offer to pay you far less than the blue/black book value though.

You can sell the tires separately (depending on rims and brand etc, you can probably get around $300 for the set) (put up an ad on Craigslist). The battery may fit in your new car (and you can keep it as an extra battery).

You can also try to sell the car (not in parts) on Craigslist.

Fixing a really rusted exterior is not a good idea, it costs a lot and the rust will “eat through” the new lacquer and start to come back within a year.

Hope that helps…

I was also thinking of talking to my mechanic as to cost of parts and stuff. Because I plan to use the car I buy as long as possible so maintenance will definitely have to be looked at and if the parts cost much more then I don’t want to invest in such a car. So I am planning to make a list of cars of what I like, research their fuel efficiency and safety rating and shortlist accordingly and then talk to my mechanic re difference in cost if things need fixing and then decide. As the car I only want to buy next spring after all the snow melts, I have months to do my research. And then a couple of different FWNB guy’s input will definitely help :)

WOW.. you girls amaze me about cars ! I should post you Frank over. he’s in the mechanic trade !

My boss only wanted to talk about work. PHEW ! On A SOUR note, I got a phone call from our IT/SECURITY telling me to turn my computer off immediately, someone would be down to collect it and investigate it for whether I was breaching state security. I WAS SCARED SHITLESS. What had i done ??? turned out and email from…. a new mode.. had a virus ! Told my bosses i was NOT HAPPY about how IT security had handled the matter as they really upset me and embarrassed me, thinking was I going to be suspended and investigated !

Mike is back liking my posts on Fb and saying to a mutual mate his plans for the weekend. I am ignoring !

my offer accepted on house, just have to get the paperwork started. Ryanair said NO job vacancies in Germany but a language school accepted my resume.. think it only one or two hours a week work… not good enough.. but you never know, there could be fulltime work.

hope everyone keeping well.

Men’s brains vs women’s brains

We’re gonna start discussing men’s brains, women’s brains and how they’re very different from each other. Now I wanna start with men’s brains. Right? Men’s brain are very unique, men’s brains are made up of little boxes and we have a box for everything. We have a box for the car. We got a box for the money. We got a box for the job, we got a box for you , we got a box for the kids, we got a box for your mother somewhere in the basement.

We got boxes everywhere, and the rule is: “the boxes don’t touch”. When a man discusses a particular subject, we go to that particular box, we pull that box out, we open the box, we discuss only what is in that box, alright? and then we close the box and put it away being very, very careful not to touch any other boxes.

Now women’s brains are very, very different from men’s brains. Women’s brains are made up of a big ball of wire, and every thing is connected to everything. The money’s connected to the car, the car’s connected to your job and the kids are connected to your mother, and everything’s connected to everything ….

It’s like the Internet super highway, Ok? And it’s all driven by energy that we call emotion. This is zzzzz. It’s one of the reasons why women tend to remember everything. Because if you take an event and you connect it to an emotion, it burns in your memory and you can remember it forever. The same thing happens for men, it just doesn’t happen very often because, quite frankly, we don’t care.

Women tend to care about everything! And she just loves it. Ok?

Now, men, we have a box in our brain that most women are not aware of. This particular box has nothing in it. It’s true, it’s true. In fact, we call it the “nothing box.” And of all the boxes a man has in his brain, the nothing box is our favourite box! If a man has the chance, he’ll go to his nothing box every time. That’s why a man can do something seemingly completely brain-dead for hours on end. You know, like fishing.

Now, they’ve actually measured this. The University of Pennsylvania, a couple of years ago, did a study, and discovered that men have the ability to think about absolutely nothing and still breathe. You know, they connected all the wires and stuff like that, marked the brain activity ….. Our brain is dead! Huh! Hang on.

Women can’t do it, they can’t do it, their minds never stop, and they don’t understand the nothing box and it drives them crazy because nothing drives a woman more crazy or makes you feel more irritated than to witness a man doing nothing!

Hi everyone, I can see that this thread has gone quite off topic but I am really interested in this topic (I am going through the same thing). I’ve seen mentions about Ireland here. I am Irish too! I feel that being Irish with a Catholic upbringing is very relevant to my connection with men. Number 1, our mixed messages about sexuality growing up. Number 2, not feeling “worthy enough” to be with a man who really loves us. It’s a big journey I’m constantly relfecting on and learning from. Hope we can have a discussion about our “nice girl” selves attracting awful behaviour from men

Harley, I’m glad the boss and IT thing was a false alarm…

Mike… is an idiot.

The house… does this mean it’s final… is it really yours now/soon!??

Red, REALLY interesting about the boxes. I consider meditation being in a nothing box/thinking about absolutely nothing though (and we all know women can do that)…

Re sending mixed signals… don’t blame yourself… just start sending clear signals from now on…

Dee Dee, I’m looking forward to hearing the other girl’s answers… I find the subject interesting but have zero experience in the matter… my upbringing was the exact opposite of yours…

Violetta, I MISS YOU, hope you’re doing fine <3

Serena, Chicago sounds great… I like the vibe of that city… big, bold, clean, lots of wind and water… and probably excellent shopping too lol…

Sherri, by new car, do you mean new as in straight from the manufacturers?

Hot guy… has not called or texted… He will though… he just needs a little time to process “what the hell” happened (and honestly, so do I)… plus, he doesn’t want to come off as too eager (a big no no if you only want casual)…

Lovely to hear back from you Harley!! And hearing the names of Irish places :-) I’ve been living in Australia for 5 years and no Irish around where I live. However the culture is not so different. I still attract the same behaviour from men and must admit that I go on and off “slutty phases”, being super flirty with men, some sort of rebellion from my youth of “sex being bad”. I attract men sexually but then these short encounters are extremely damaging for me. If I do meet a man who I am really attracted to who shows some attraction to me I’m like “What… me?? Wonder what’s wrong with him” and then I feel the decent men who I am attracted to pick up on my insecure signals and get scared away. I feel the unworthiness of having a partner who’ll blow me away…

Jeez, I’d be considered a total whore and rebel in Ireland… perhaps not a whore though, cause if the men are that bad I’d live in celibacy…

Harley, is the Kildare house in Loughanure or Castleroe East or somewhere else?

Yeo sass.. Irish guys more than others want agirl who looks good on the outside, not many PDA’s, can cook and a whore in the bedroom…sometimes they are even put off if you are too much of a whore adn YES , they DO be thinking, can I bring her home to mammy ! Irish mammies CAN be sooo judgemental. Oh yea, Maria.. it’s a world of it’s own here. I’m too wild and independent for most of them.. two even started telling me how to dress ! irish guys don’t TALk about emotion.. at all ! They go all red in the face and change the subject. We seriously are brought up with nuns and priests who taught us ” sex is dirty”. And so.. like Dee Dee says.. I think a LOT of Irish have complexes. I was a bit like this, but then I WENT TO GERMANY AND reallY DISCOVERED WHO I WAS, MENTALLY, EMOTIONALLY, PHYSICALLY.. I’VE never LOOKED BACK. i HAVE NO TIME FOR PRIESTS.. except the odd nice one and don’t believe any of the shite they puport to say. The Irish.. don’t break rules much.

Dee Dee. .how old are you ?? You gotta break the rules more like me. Get happy in yourself and sexuality.

Ha.. I just thought.. maybe my repressed Irishness re sexuality is WHY I find it sooo hard to orgasm ! Lightbulb moment. With Frank… I REALLy trusted him, maybe drink helped and I LET GO. Ha ! And talllady wonders why I want more of him !

House is a thatched house… preservation order again . on property.ie.. $40,000, somewhere beginning with F.. near athy.

Hyundai is a cheap car for several reasons, no 1 being it will not last for many years or miles.

I don’t know from what year the cars you are looking at are, but I’d rather buy an older Toyota (or Volkswagen/Honda) than a newer Hyundai for the same price.

A Toyota can last for 400 000 km or more and a Hyundai max 200 000 km.

Also, I would buy it privately and not from a car dealer. Car dealers cars are A LOT more expensive… (like 25-75% more expensive)…

More expensive German cars like Mercedes, BMW and Audi are of better quality than Toyota.

Volkswagen are about the same quality as Toyota.

I depends on the model too though, both VW and Toyota have cheaper models and the quality of those are a little lower…

Have you been checking out car ads online yet?