I was just thinking about how people get duped into buying stuff, and then I realized that they got me too.

Comcast: TV and Telephone
AT&T: Two cellular phones
Yakima: A whole closet full of junk
Maytag: All appliances
P&G: Diapers, soap, toothpaste, shampoo.
Volkswagen: Car
Adidas: You name it

I'm not really a brand conscious kinda guy, but man, there's really nothing more that Maytag can sell me can they?

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You gotta have . . . the Maytag Skybox Rookie Mini Fridge!



and the Maytag Drying Center, which prevents "shrinkage."

The Bosch man got to me...dishwasher, front-load washer, cordless 14v drill, jigsaw, VW & MB electrical systems, etc.

I'm too cheap to get taken in too badly. I have a hand-me-down TiVo hacked to work with my wireless. I do have a Dell server in my guest bedroom closet hosting my website, and a palmpilot I don't *really* need if I'm honest about it...

Indoor Plumbing...Hot water.....Electricity....Diesel Luxury vehicle.

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85' 300D No inspection, No registration fees, Cheap insurance
"If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you're going to see some serious %$&^."

It's hard to be brand selective when you shop at the thrift store. Although I do prefer ARC thrift stores to Salvation Army stores.

Kuan:
Back to the false/unverifiable issue. I think there's a difference between being able to prove a claim false or true and being meaningful. There are meaningful claims that may not be verifiable.(at least in the sense that 'the cat is on the mat' is verifiable)

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

Capitalist corruption if I've ever heard it........ I'm proud of you!

Mercedes-Benz:
1987 190E 2.3 16V
1987 190E 2.3
1988 190E 2.3
1990 190E 2.6
1995 C36AMG
1998 E300
1998 C230

I rip through 3-4 pairs of New Balance runners every year.

In my "mountain closet" I have two MSR tents, two MSR stoves, an MSR Ti pot and an MSR spork. I also have an MSR drom bag, reflective guy-outs and snow pickets. MSR Ascent snowshoes.

In the same closet I have an MEC down coat, MEC fleece insulating layer and MEC gaiters. Also a pair of MEC Gore-Tex pants and MEC glacier glasses. Three pairs of MEC sunglasses. My base layer is MEC silk and my shirt is an MEC short sleeved hiker. My next layer is an MEC Rabble shirt. My hat is an MEC fleece touque. My gloves are MEC fleece liners covered my MEC puffy Primaloft mitts all covered by MEC Gore-Tex overmitts. My gym bag has three pairs of MEC running shorts and three MEC running tee's in coolmax.

I have been a very bad consumer boy...

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1998 C230 "Black Betty" 240K

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Scott tissue – those 1000 sheet rolls, but Safeway’s got their own cheaper version
Johnston & Murphy Shoes – well maybe not - I haven’t needed any for about 15 years, but I think I’m hooked.
Esoterica tobacco – owns me
Telefunken tubes – hooked
REI socks – there may be others, but I’m not wasting time looking – hooked
MetRx – hooked
Filter Queen vacuum – hooked
Yokohama tires – hooked
Hancock & Moore furniture – umm, I guess
Tapatio salsa picante – hooked
UPS – hooked
Direcway – but I have no choice.
Harbor Freight – Trader Joe’s – Diamond large kitchen matches – Bosch – Minwax –

I’m a slave to advertisers – help me

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89 300E
79 240D
72 Westy
63 Bug sunroof
85 Jeep CJ7
86 Chevy 6.2l diesel PU

"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."
Marcus Aurelius

I bought a pair of shoes with the brand name of "Diesel"

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'83 240D with 617.952 and 2.88
'01 VW Beetle TDI
'05 Jeep Liberty CRD
'89 Toyota 4x4, needs 2L-T
'78 280Z with L28ET - 12.86@110
Oil Burner Kartel #35

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socks- smartwool
cameras- canon
cars- mercedes diesel
shortbreads- Walker's
scotch- McCallan

but I really don't buy by the brand other than these... and I like to try other single malts... and I probably would own another camera brand, I just don't right now.... (not since my disc camera died! remember the disc film?!?)

but, don't mess with my smartwools. no comparison.

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Cannondale ST600 XL
Redline Monocog 29er
2011 Mini Cooper Clubman
2005 Honda Element EX

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www.waldenwellness.com

Toys are killing me. My 2 yr old, I can go into Walmart, buy some cheap chinese whatever off the shelf, as long as it pops or whistles or does something, he's happy. But my 7 yr old - Noooooooo - we have to have a specific brand and model, which has been drilled into his head by Idiot Box. And when he finds it, they are RAPE JOBS. Thirty or forty bucks these days. If he doesn't get it and his friends have it, I'm an ******* to everyone, a big meanie, so now its time for FRIGGIN BLACKMAIL. I hate toys. I spent my whole childhood with a bunch of plastic crap that didn't cost my old man dick. If I wanted an expensive one, he'd let me work it off at 10 cents an hour, out in the vegatable garden. Try to find time for toys when you yank weeds all weekend for a whole summer just to get a lousy Roy Rogers Cap Gun Kit.

Consider the following argument:

Larry is taller than Moe, and Moe is taller than Curly, therefore Larry is taller than Curly.

(I don't remember who is actually taller than whom, but suppose for the purposes of this argument that the premises are true)

It's meaningful, verifiable, but false.

To put it succinctly, yes, I do believe that we have meaningful conversations.

No, I don't believe that truth has anything to do with the real world in the Tarskian correspondense sense, ie., The cat is on the mat <-> the cat is on the mat.

I believe that truth which requires analysis of meaning is merely agreement.

Verifiability is just a matter of pointing to the cat, which is laying on the mat, and nodding. These words we use in their physical form, as typed out on this page, have nothing in common with the actual cat laying on the mat. We attach meaning first to these words and then point so in a sense, meaning is necessary for truth. I'm fine with that, we're meaningful beings who have meaningful conversations.

I am an anti-realist. The only absolute truth is logical truth and that's independent of space and time. The other stuff is meaningful but not absolute. I'm fine with that. I have a good time talking with people.

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You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows - Robert A. Zimmerman

Uh... no, don't think so!

That dryer thing is about the stupidest thing I've ever seen. Seems like it just makes more work.

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You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows - Robert A. Zimmerman

Sony Televisions - DVD players - Satellite equipment - radios - digital camera - camcorder
Milwaukee power tools
Federal ammunition
Mossy Oak camoflage
Bennelli Shotguns.
Zeiss optics.
Lieca rangefinders
Panasonic phone. The list may be brand name but IMO the companies named make the best stuff.

Bosch power tools are NOT as great as they used to be however I still use Bosch hammer drills. Milwalkee and Panasonic are far better cordless tools and Dewalt blows.