As the manager of a repair shop in Missouri, I can tell you there is no such law in my state. As to having brakes so bad that you cannot in good conscious see the vehicle leave in that condition, (and we have seen them so bad you wonder how they got there alive) we give the following options. I will give you a ride…

You’re correct that there is no statutory basis for “refusing to release” a vehicle, and this statement has been used to scare customers. But, as a former franchise repair facility(ies) owner, I can’t even count the number of times that people brought in cars with less than one wheel’s worth of brakes (in to the…

I’ll never forget the toilets we had upon first arriving in Kuwait back in ‘90: A simple wooden picnic table with 6 holes cut into the top table part. 6 guys could then sit on a hole with their backs to each other, feet on the bench reading the 3 day old Stars & Stripes news paper. under the table were 6 cut-off 50…

I own 6 pair of these. Wear them every night to bed. I paid $2.50 a pair for them when the Marines left Camp Victory and the PX needed to move them off the shelf.

Going from CDs to this would have been awesome. Re-recordable, fast seek times, small, hard to scratch and damage unlike CDs. Alas, expensive and ATRAC doomed it.

True story: some guest’s +1 did this at my cousin’s wedding; it was basically a wedding dress if you married (hah) a little black dress and a wedding dress. Office printer paper white and more lace than the actual bride’s dress—justified, of course, by the fact that the +1 had been married 5 months ago and considered…

Awesome pictures I found. What a shit week to be a religious Conservative!!!!!!!

Working at godaddy, one comes across the old PayPal dilemma daily. You get these noobs calling in with some rando business idea and they want to use the cheapest $1/month personal site builder and somehow link paypal payment gateways to the whole thing - instead of the alternative, paying for the actual ‘storefront’…

Robert Stevenson Smyth Baden-Powell, the founder of the Boy Scouts, drew enemy defensive works into his sketches of butterfly wings in his espionage days.

You realize that you just described the BSA right? Women volunteers are currently allowed in BSA, even on overnight trips. They’re no more likely to molest a male child than a gay man is. If The Guide to Safe Scouting is followed like it’s supposed to be, this is a non-issue.

Any scout leader talking about their sex life, be it homosexual or otherwise should not be tolerated, so that being the case then it shouldn’t matter whatever a person does in their “private” life.

The V-22 program was started in the late 70’s, and by the late 90’s when I was in the Marine Corps they were still killing Marines a squad at a time loading them into those things. I would hope it takes less than 25 years to unfuck the F-35. The Airforce does get quite a bit more money than the Marines though.

There’s only one way to sway an antivaxxer.

The Yanomami villagers are a small collection of hunters and gatherers who are thought to have lived in total seclusion until they were contacted by a medical expedition in 2009.

If anyone who knows them is reading this, might I suggest a gift for future birthdays:

Brandyn, Maddyson, AbbyGail, AnnaBella, Issybella. Something with a silent q.

JTAC stands for "Joint Terminal Attack Controller". Source: working with them for 10 years or so.

For us, it was easy. We decided to merge Honeymoon and Wedding in one. Did a pop-up wedding in Universal Studios in Florida. Bought a Photo Pass thing that gave us access to the photos that random photographers take throughout the park and had my sister-in-law take photos with their nice camera. Turned out great.

We saved a ton of money by skipping the wedding all together and going to a justice of the peace. :)

I have a good friend that will still insist on staying till the end.