I have almost this exact story with my ‘76 International Scout. Right rear wheel. Ignored the wheel bearing noise, because “I’ll get to it”. Heading up the mountain with my 12 year old to go snowboarding and the bearing is howling! I turn around to go home, accelerate to complete the left across four lanes, and the…

In my (reckless) youth, I owned several vehicles on the verge of disintegration. To my incredible fortune, none of them failed on the road. I had a few roadside cobble job repairs, but always arrived at my destination in reasonable time. I even drove two of them directly to the salvage yard - no tow needed!

Got my first full-time, “adult” job in the spring of 1993. To celebrate, I traded in the 1987 VW Fox (yes, I said “VW Fox,” which Wikipedia is helpful to point is “Not to be confused with Audi Fox”) that my parents bought me for a new Mazda MX-6 LS (in black).

‘99 Tacoma.

Ten years ago in high school I bought a 1995 Honda Accord with ridiculously high miles on it. The odometer showed 240,000 but I think it was probably much higher than that.

Ten years ago in high school I bought a 1995 Honda Accord with ridiculously high miles on it. The odometer showed 240,000 but I think it was probably much higher than that.

Ten years ago in high school I bought a 1995 Honda Accord with ridiculously high miles on it. The odometer showed 240,000 but I think it was probably much higher than that.

Right now. My daughter’s 2005 ford focus. It already had the clutch literally disintegrate on her a couple years ago, and this year, while back home for only 2 weeks from college across the country, she starts having problems shifting into gear. She goes back with my car (we keep spares for just such an emergency!) so…

I hope they bring back Connery as the next bond.

Why does Daniel Craig come off as such a mensch?! Lots of actors revel in the absurdity of being a male movie star, but Craig seems to enjoy actually working against the privileges of being a man in movies. 

“their new, base model counterparts:”

While i do think the problem is more complex than instant gratification, your story pretty much defines what instant gratification is. Instant gratification can have perfectly reasonable justifications.

That was exhausting. It just kept going and going and going. The guy at the end is just a bad stereotype? I kept waiting for him to just bust out with a

This was some seriously bad acting by Jonathan Majors. He didn’t sound insane, just a goofball. 

Stuck in a rut? Seriously? I mean, at least in my opinion, Marvel movies have increasingly just become copy paste affairs. Black Widow is largely a retread of story beats and set pieces from Winter Soldier. With slight derivations all Marvel movies have the exact same tone, same color palates, same basic…

If not meticulously planned out (12 monkeys tv show) then time travel, and multiverse just become messy tropes.

Unfortunately, I tend to agree. Constant multiversal retcons were one of the reasons I gave up on comics after decades of constant reading. I could deal with all the “Crisis” stuff at DC up until Flushpoint, which combined with Dan Didio being in charge just drove me away. Then Marvel started overdoing it a bit as…

A post credits scene set on Alligator-asguard with Alligathor talking to Alligator-Odin would have been amazing.

Color me skeptical.

That’s only the tip of the iceberg for the future of the MCU—lest we forget, the Fantasic Four is coming. Hopefully, third time’s the charm on that one.