Dawgfanman

re: The average monthly car payment is $745 for new cars and $521 for used

Posted by Dawgfanman on 6/10/25 at 12:03 pm

A $750 car payment today is the same as a $400 car payment in the year 2000.

re: 75-80% of all divorces are initiated by women.

Posted by Dawgfanman on 6/10/25 at 11:39 am

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I was a nurse so I worked with lots of women.They bitched about their husbands being addicted to video games or other pastimes,

Isn’t nursing the profession with the highest rate of cheating women?

re: Texas Football Fan Question

Posted by Dawgfanman on 6/10/25 at 11:36 am

[quote]That was for the conference title. Either they matter or they don’t. Make up your minds. You guys waffle more than a politician.[/quote
I’m just going by your own definition that it is postseason games, like the SECC, that matter.

re: Texas Football Fan Question

Posted by Dawgfanman on 6/10/25 at 11:32 am

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The important games are the post season.

Yes, like the SEC Championship game.

Life insurance: any real need in late 50s?

Posted by Dawgfanman on 6/10/25 at 10:19 am

I have a permanent 25k of life insurance at no cost to me. I currently carry over 600k in term. Half of it expires next year. The other is thru work and goes away when I am no longer employed there (it’s pretty darn cheap). No minor children. Wife would get my pension (60k a year - cola adjusted each year) for life. She would also get whatever is left in retirement accounts, emergency fund, etc. I just don’t see a need for it, except the cheap work policy and similar at any other job I might get going forward. House is paid off next year. Anyone else just view themselves as “self insured” when their kids became adults?

Money Talk

re: One of the most forgotten greatest upsets in SEC HSTORY

Posted by Dawgfanman on 6/10/25 at 6:30 am

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What the frick was Tennessee doing playing a road game at Memphis?

I think Memphis may be UTs most commonly played OOC opponent.

re: “Best” or “nicest” 3 row suv around 30k

Posted by Dawgfanman on 6/10/25 at 5:26 am

Toyota Highlander

re: The Marines are the only branch of the military that answers directly to the President.

Posted by Dawgfanman on 6/10/25 at 4:58 am

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Claim it’s not true, then claim you think it’s not true. STFU and sit down

You can suck an entire truck full of dicks. You and the rest of the slope headed nuckledraggig fricks you hang with.

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re: The Marines are the only branch of the military that answers directly to the President.

Posted by Dawgfanman on 6/9/25 at 7:16 pm

This is not true, at least I don’t think it is. Commandant, Sec of Navy, Sec of Defense, then President.

re: Invest America Initiative - $1000 to all newborns in America

Posted by Dawgfanman on 6/9/25 at 6:34 pm

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I think this is a great idea. It won’t help anyone on this message board but it will be great for young people!

We are borrowing money, that they’ll pay back in taxes, to invest in their name. Seems very inefficient.

re: Invest America Initiative - $1000 to all newborns in America

Posted by Dawgfanman on 6/9/25 at 6:27 pm

Why not let tax paying parents keep their money and invest it as they see fit?

re: The average monthly car payment is $745 for new cars and $521 for used

Posted by Dawgfanman on 6/9/25 at 6:12 pm

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Bring it on. Accident free for 30 years.

That’s fine. It only takes one. You want to risk losing everything you own in an accident, that’s on you but seems foolish.

re: The average monthly car payment is $745 for new cars and $521 for used

Posted by Dawgfanman on 6/9/25 at 6:09 pm

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I’ve never had a car payment. Always settled for what I could actually afford. I couldn’t imagine being that greedy and paying anything more than legally required minimum liability insurance.

Hope you can afford a couple hundred thousand or more in property damage or medical bills for anyone you might injure or property you might damage in an accident

re: The average monthly car payment is $745 for new cars and $521 for used

Posted by Dawgfanman on 6/9/25 at 4:40 pm

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Why wouldn’t you just lease instead of paying that foolishness. Good grief

Average lease payment is around 600

re: Why do people act like going to the beach is fun?

Posted by Dawgfanman on 6/7/25 at 10:51 pm

Best vacation we had with kids when they were young was DC. Stayed in Alexandria right across from metro stop. Didn’t move the car all week. Took the train into town and hit all the museums.

re: Why do people act like going to the beach is fun?

Posted by Dawgfanman on 6/7/25 at 10:31 pm

I took my kids to the beach nearly every year until they were 16. Never hauled anything. Wife would carry a bag with some towels, I’d usually have one with some drinks and snacks. We’d rent beach chairs and an umbrella someone else sets up.