Your Boycott List?

[YankeeVol]

What happens when they are in rural areas like I live in? Or when they were selling them on base when overseas?

Cold bastage

They sell them on base stateside too

 

[Carl Pickens]

I have been a big proponent of American cars, mainly because my WWII vet grandfather drilled it into my head that buying a Jap or German car is the equivalent of making a blood offering to the spirit of Tojo or Hitler respectively. I have owned one Isuzu and one Jaguar compared to at least 10 USA nameplate vehicles that I can remember. I guess this makes me something of a foreign car boycotter.

I grew up on Ford Motor Company money....my dad worked at their glass plant in Nashville for 35 years.
I've driven a lot of Fords and still do. I bought a new Honda years ago, but that was the only "new" foreign car I've ever purchased.

 

[YankeeVol]

I grew up on Ford Motor Company money....my dad worked at their glass plant in Nashville for 35 years.
I've driven a lot of Fords and still do. I bought a new Honda years ago, but that was the only "new" foreign car I've ever purchased.

Honda (at least the Civic) is (or at least it was a few years ago) more American than most other cars.

 

[VolunteerHillbilly]

People can look at the domestic content label on any new car and see how much of it is made in the USA.

FWIW, the Buick Enclave, GMC Acadia, and Chevy Traverse have been the top of the list for several years.

 

[Carl Pickens]

Honda (at least the Civic) is (or at least it was a few years ago) more American than most other cars.

There are several foreign automakers that have models more American than most American automakers.... i thought this was interesting

https://www.cars.com/articles/the-2016-carscom-american-made-index-1420684865874/

 

[MyBloodRunnethOrange]

Many Nissans are made in Smyrna Tennessee.

 

[Sin City Vol]

I don't have a problem with them selling GS cookies outside a store. My problem is with youth sports or other groups panhandling outside stores. We used to have fundraisers, now they just have the kids begging like homeless people outside stores.

Aren't Girl Scouts doing the same thing?

 

[SaluteToTheHill]

Aren't Girl Scouts doing the same thing?

I don't think so. They're at least selling something and I'd much rather them do that at a store front than knocking on my door. I'm talking about the ones just there with their hand out. It's one of my top two or three reasons to avoid WalMart.

 

[Grand Vol]

Aren't Girl Scouts doing the same thing?

Youth sports groups aren't selling Tagalongs.

Just sayin...

 

[Grand Vol]

They sell them on base stateside too

Haven't seen them. As a retiree, I use the base about once a month for the retirement A-B-Cs:

Alcohol at the class 6

BX trip to wander store randomly, bump into people with my cart and toss random items inside before putting them back in the wrong spot

Commissary for additional bumping of young AD and family member patrons while grabbing more random stuff and blocking the aisle while talking to someone I haven't seen in years.

No room for Girl Scouts in that kinda trip.

 

[Pepe_Silvia]

I don't have a problem with them selling GS cookies outside a store. My problem is with youth sports or other groups panhandling outside stores. We used to have fundraisers, now they just have the kids begging like homeless people outside stores.

The same thing irks me. And teaching kids to beg for money seems like a unwise choice. At least have something to offer people in return for their money.

 

[508mikey]

Many Nissans are made in Smyrna Tennessee.

Is that where they used to make Saturns ?

 

[BEATBAMA12]

Toyota , mom had a new Avalon touring edition, super nice car, turbo 6 cylinder, 2009, took it to the dealership for all maintenance, then one day I was driving it and it locked up, wouldn't even turn the key over, cometo find out after intense investigation by their insurance and Toyota, and another auto care company, a baffle inside the valve cover came looses and got lodged in the dohc gear, causing the engine to lock up and send an emergency signal to the CPU telling it to shut down completely.

During the past decade or so, some auto maintenance companies were switching to rubber nozzles on overhead oil supply lines with drop down auto reels from steel rigid ones. Evidently the dealership hadn't done that and knocked a baffle loose and destroying the engine.

My dad being a partner with a large auto care company caught the Toyota lawyers attention, long story short, Toyota tried sue my parents and say they caused the damage when service records clearly showed the dealership did it and not my dads shop.

Well my parents won the case and we now boycott Toyota! What a bunch of .... nevermind.

 

[Pepe_Silvia]

Is that where they used to make Saturns ?

No, that was Spring Hill. I think GM still makes engines there.

 

[SWIL]

Geico. Mishandled my claim from the word go and pieced my GT back together with parts their shop must have sourced from a landfill; causing my rear axle to blow apart on I85 while going 80mph. Fixed it again then cut me a check that should have gone to the shop; telling me it was my money. I paid off some debt thinking it was my cash, and the shop held my car hostage until I could come up with the $$ that should've gone to them.

Geico played dumb and denied the whole thing.

 

[Biopsyman]

Outback...my wife and I ate at the one in Destin in 2003. Worst meal ever! Steaks tasted like they were taken out of the freezer and microwaved. That bloomin' onion had to be one of the nastiest things I've ever put in my mouth. I've had Iguana eggs in Panama, pretty sure I had dog in Korea, and horse meat from Burger King. Still, nothing worse than Outback!

Captain Anderson's in Panama City is Dog Food