Yeah, it took me forever to understand "BS BB," which shows up a lot in this forum for some reason.
Still don’t know what the BB abbreviates - I know BS stands for bronco sport.
for almost all websites, googling "my search terms -ai: site:thiswebsite.com" beats the tar out of the site search function.
They dont make a I-Pad or Tablet...How about curling up , on the couch , with a roaring fire in the fireplace , a hot beverage in hand , and .......read the damn owners manual !!!
Oh that's right ....it's not that easy anymore .....
It's the Big Bend model.
I HATE cursive and I couldn't be happier that it's on the verge of extinction. I grew up in the 1980's and we were told in school every year that our generation was entering the computer age. Then why the hell were they still teaching us to write like some damn aristocrat?
I appreciate your effort with this but most people can't even be bothered to do a simple search. There are some topics that have hundreds of threads for the same question. Do you really believe they'll seek out this thread when it's buried a few pages deep by next week?Happy New Year - the Year of the Maverick
The Maverick has recently won numerous accolades & awards from the press - and 2026 will bring new & prospective owners to the forum. Any advice for them? I’ll start:
I have never had an issue finding something with the search function. I think the biggest issue is that most people don't actually know how to use the search function properly. When doing a search many people use way too many words. Also if you click the box for "Search Titles Only" it severely narrows down results. 99.9% of the time I find exactly what I'm looking for by doing that. And on the rare occasion I can't find results that way I go to Google.
The value of cursive has always been that you can write quicker that way. Printing takes more time.
I think a good part of the "read the manual aversion" is due to the fact that while back in the day, the OM was a pamphlet, current manuals on most vehicles, including the Maverick, have enough heft, due to the number of pages, that it's sufficient to kill a small animal if dropped out of a second story window. Picking up a pamphlet is different from the heft of a copy of War and Peace.
I never found it to be quicker, and most people writing in cursive were sloppy and it took longer to read. But that's not even the point. The point is who even writes anymore? Everything is typed on computers and now phones. What would be the benefit of teaching cursive in school these days? Do it just because that's the way it used to be and we can't adapt to change? They aren't going to actually use cursive in their every day lives and it will be just another thing they were forced to learn for no valuable reason only for them just to completely forget about it.
