For example, if you ask a colleague two different questions in an email, and, in a rush, they respond with a simple “yes” or “no,” you may not be sure which question they were answering.

Back in the middle is an orange Ford Granada Mk1 and the red car with the shaker hood is obviously supposed to be a ‘72-’74 Dodge Challenger.

Hm, you’re right, the written form doesn’t quite catch the spirit. It was more of a “They’re already here for a quarter of an hour and haven’t shown any signs of progress”

expand, buckle and split

I once went into a gas station to pay for the humble amount of diesel my 525d sipped. On the next pump stood a truck with a cigarette boat on the flatbed and two guys were filling the tanks. I asked the cashier “That’s gonna be a small-volume mortgage over there?” “Not far off. They’re here for at least a quarter of…

“Schnepfe” (shh-NAP-feh), f., pl: “Schnepfen”, also used derogatorily for Karen-like women

But ask around careful, as “Schlumpf” is also the german word for “smurf”.

So “Ukeireru” is basically the strange rattle your car makes, that first drove you crazy and then doesn’t bother you anymore because you now know where the sound comes from?

Perhaps he meant the Norisring, which is/was a pop-up racing course on otherwise public roads in Nuremberg...

If you are browsing at home, I suggest setting up a Pi-hole DNS blocker. It blocks ads and other crap right from the beginning (they are not just blocked from showing up but they are not even loaded in the first place). At the moment the would-be-crap covers 40 percent of all DNS queries, so I save up a huge amount of…

“Largest sea plane since the Spruce Goose” is not correct. It may be the largest amphibious aircraft (because it can operate from sea or land), but considering flying boats it’s dwarfed by several other designs. There would be the Martin JRM Mars (MTOW 75t), the Beriev A-40 (MTOW 86t) or the tragic Saunders-Roe…

If you’re handy with a table and/or miter saw (or your neighbor is) I’d recommend a french cleat tool wall. Flexible, adaptable and quite cheap (if you’re into woodworking)

So this is - in essence - exactly what the New Defender could have been if LR had put more thought than well-meant but poorly conceived effort in it.

Yup, I use a spackle/putty knife for the grill, too. It has outperformed every dedicated spatula with ease and it also has that nice “pling”!

I can already see the headline:

If you can live with the shipping rates... Due to being as stupid as clumsy, I wrecked the new balljoint on my ‘05 Suburban right on installation, so I had to order a replacement at Rockauto. It was quick as hell (ordered on Thursday, 19:25, got it on Monday 8:55, even quicker than domestically ordered spare parts),…

I’m not ready to announce it yet, but by the end of this summer, I’ll begin a project that is going to require me to renew my German passport and learn about interior design. More on this, soon (and yes, that was intentionally cryptic).

Finally someone saw the idea behind this! Absolutely correct. European regulations limit the length to 18,75 m for truck-trailer combinations and 16,50 m for fifth wheel combinations - and that includes the cab.

I think, there is a fair share of the market for - as someone here already mentioned - head units designed by adults.

Can be fun. I commuted ca. 30 miles to work on a 50cc scooter for two years. While agonizingly slow, it still was hilarious. You can smell the nature, admire the landscape, almost pick some flowers, all without getting unduly stressed. I caught myself giggling several times while wringing the last half mph from the…