For sure! In most hobbies you start paying exponentially more for very minor improvements once you get past the first few levels of quality. I mountain bike a lot and there’s a pretty big difference between a $500 bike and a $1500 bike, but the jump from a $1500 bike to a $4500 bike doesn’t get you as much of an improvement. I buy clothing at Costco all the time!
I just bought my mountain bike used (was about 5 years old when I bought it). Payed about $600-700 at the time. IMO, that level is needed if you want to actually do trails and not have something break every time. I have a specialized stumpjumper hard tail for reference. If buying new, I agree that about $1500 is where one would spend to maximize value (IIRC, that is around the new price of my bike as well). After that, you face very quickly diminishing returns.
I started my mountain biking on a late 90s Trek rigid steel mountain bike. I broke stuff all the time. It just could not handle the abuse. Weird stuff too. The pedal just flew off during one ride (stripped out). My hands would be totally numb after about 15 minutes riding that bike.
Quite the thread progression. Rush Limbaugh dying logically leads to the cost of mountain biking!
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Any of your parents listen to this guy’s garbage? I wonder how less angry and miserable my dad would have been if he hadn’t listened to this shithead over the years.
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I have a hardtail Trek for mountain biking, a single speed Bianchi for day-to-day activities and have recently bought a second hand Dutch-style oma bike because there’s a pandemic and why the hell not at this point.
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I definitely think it has a huge impact on people. I mean you’re spending a lot of each day listening to someone angrily speak about everything being wrong.
We already know that 24 hour news cycles and people checking in on them report having more anxiety and depression about the world. In my experience most of the people who listen to these types religiously are miserable. Honestly how could you not be? Imagine the average Alex Jones fan telling you that everything is a plot against you and the world is setup against you and horrific events are faked to control you. How many of those people stop that and skip outside in the sun and take in deep breaths of fresh air and feel gratitude? I don’t see how you could I’d be too busy thinking about the plans and how they were trying to destroy me and the country if I really bought into that stuff.
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Brand identity is a strong thing. Most people probably can’t tell the difference in quality but they may feel differently about themselves because of what that brand is.
Doesn’t make sense to me much either as a generally pretty tight money person but it’s clearly powerful.
Edit: Also some superiority there as well. I’m clearly better than you because I drink this and wear that. You don’t “get” the difference because you’re not someone who uses this or can afford it.
It’s that whole keeping up with the Jones’ type mentality.
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Love those headphones too.
However my propensity to listen to Zep, Rush (the band hehe) etc a bit too loudly then, has made any Class A dynamic range or distortion spec frivolous now.
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Neither of you spent any real time listening to him. That is very clear. He was very optimistic 90% of the time. At least 40% of the time he was joking around about something or other.
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I mostly heard Limbaugh in his public appearances, television interviews and appearances; newscast, etc.
I personally never listened to his radio show (with the exception of outtakes).
Some people value their time more than others. Let me ask you, why would you care what an uneducated man who never had a real job thinks? I don’t value the opinion of people with limited education and/or life experience but I guess we are all different when it comes to that.
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I’ve listened off and on while at work over the years. Good background noise. And he was hilarious.
Never had a real job? I’m pretty sure working in radio is an actual real job. I am certain he was more successful at his chosen field than you have been or will ever be at yours. I’m positive being director of group sales and special events for the Royals was a real job. For God’s sake, Biden’s only “real” job before politics was less than 2 years as a lawyer. He’s been on the government tit since 1970.
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I laid out how much I listened to him already. I wouldn’t call myself an expert daily listener or anything.
Might depend on your definition of optimism? Was he optimistic much when Obama was President? I dunno I’m just curious if his segments were a lot different when a Democrat was in office. Maybe they were optimistic during GWB just as much as Obama? I’m genuinely wondering.
Might depend on your definition of joking around? We see a lot of racism defended as “oh man you can’t say anything now can you?!” when someone points out how something is racist.
I dunno maybe it was all just liberals are idiots yuck yuckss?
Not looking to start some flame war merely saying that people can consume the same content and take it completely different ways.
LOL!
You’re not wrong. It was mostly a reaction to the troll in here because some of us just couldn’t take any more 
I cannot possibly wrap my head around this. Every single speed bike I’ve ever been on was just terrible lol. I need at least a couple different gears.
A sign of a life well lived right there.
I disagree. I can tell the difference between cheap headphones & speakers versus quality ones. If you don’t listen to a lot of music then it doesn’t matter to you. I can tell and feel the difference in a $80+k vehicle vs a 30K car. Costco jeans (didn’t know costco had a brand, surely you mean jeans sold at costco) are not sold for the same reason as gucci is sold. Two different segments. Gucci is style over function, except for their belts. Their belts are top quality at a ridiculous price. Dom taste horrible, it’s a status symbol.
I get what you are trying to say, but you are generalizing incorrectly. I’ve been exposed to top level luxury. There are people who live above their means for show. There are wealthy people who can afford to flaunt their money. $1000 a night hotel room may not be any better than a $130 a night room. A $30 hamburger is no better than whataburger. A $900 dinner may be no better than Macaroni Grill. However, walmart shoes are crap compared to Nike. Walmart jeans are crap compared to Gap jeans. In your example, people should only be concerned with function and never quality.
I agree with you. I’m not saying don’t but quality. But at the same time there are quality items that aren’t always super expensive. I’m arguing that often in the extreme end (status symbol stuff) there is so much diminishing returns on your money. If you have a ton of money, I don’t really see much of an issue. It’s just that most who have these things don’t have the money. I would be driving a lamborghini or something if I was off the chain wealthy. Perhaps my examples needed some refinement. I did say above that for mountain bikes one needs to spend about $1500 to get something with enough quality to last and take the abuse. I wouldn’t recommend a Walmart but to anyone trying to get into the short if they were serious about it.
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That prepares you to be a know it all about politics and global issues? Or just, how people really live?
I could do his job, he could never do mine. All he did was what I do here, only into a mic. I would be better looking while doing it however. BTW, Ted Bundy was more successful at his chosen field than you are at yours so that statement is pretty much meaningless. Did Rush make more money? Yes. But I’m sure drug dealers and porn stars might make more than I as well.
He was basically Michael Scott and a wedding planner. Sounds about as real as WWE.
Are you using this to defend both Rush and Biden or to criticize them?
He was hoping that Obama’s policies would fail. Of course that would have affected the average American with a real job and kids but not Rush.
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Okay, I got your point the first time. It was just your examples.
We totally F’d this thread up!!!
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