I (a woman) have always ended up working in female-heavy environments (first medical research where I just happened to work for female PIs and managers who mostly hired women, then library) and I have come to value it highly, because it means this sort of bullshit rarely happens. I still get volunteered for creative…

Technically it didn’t start out to be a gift. Back when I was just out of college and dirt-poor, my partner got a sudden job offer for what he thought was a good opportunity at the time (it wasn’t, and was probably responsible for some of the grey hair he got early). With the last of the money in his bank account he…

Piddle pads? My partner was trying to convince me to move in with his friends for cheaper rent (you could even get a cat! like you always wanted!). They let their fucking animals (two dogs, two cats) just piss on the floor. I stepped in two puddles of piss while I was there for an hour and a half. It was fucking…

Interesting to hear these stories where the salesmen tag along. o.O When I went car shopping, they never once even asked about driving along, just took photocopies of our drivers’ licenses and handed us the keys. One dude even didn’t LOOK at our drivers’ licenses. When we asked, he was like, if you’re gonna steal a…

I tried to schedule a test drive for some of the older ones (the cheap convertible factor was somewhat irresistible) but after the first one I tried to schedule fell through, I didn’t end up doing one because of what everyone was saying about the gear box.

I liked and tried the Spark too! And tried the Fiat 500 but the interior crumbling in my hands sent me running the other way. (Also the rear seat in the iQ was waaayyyy more comfortable than the 500, somehow, despite being the size of a thimble)

High-five! I cross-shopped the iQ with some other tiny cars. Definitely liked it a lot, but went with something else in the end.

That is amazing.

It’s so adorable. Lookit, it’s literally smiling at you! People who don’t want cars that smile at you in the morning confuse me.

I actually briefly considered buying electric when I was shopping but for me it was immediately a no-go. The reason is I live in an apartment. There are some supercharging stations scattered around the city so ostensibly I guess I could’ve made it a twice-a-week activity to go exercise/hang out on the beach in the…

Every time I see something like this that Fiat pulls off I regret not buying the 1958 Fiat instead of the car I bought. It’s honestly just such a lovely and fun package, with the pastel colours, two-tone interior and awesome retro wheels.

To be fair it’s not necessarily what’s consuming the most gas, since this is only a look at averages, not overall numbers. If 100 people own and drive a Spark but all live within the city they work in, they would average less miles than three people who live out in the boonies and drive Suburbans 70 miles just to pick…

THANK YOU.

I feel like there’s an important factor here being missed out that has nothing to do with the SUV actually hitting pedestrians... but rather the decreased visibility that they create when parked along side a road.

Real question. If you put a plow on it, say, kind of like you would on a horse... how well would that go?

Not gonna lie, I definitely want smart integration/connectivity in my car. I bought a new phone about a year ago (I usually buy a phone every 4-5 years, which is usually when I have enough loyalty points for a free phone a few generations ahead, and my old one stops working). The most recent one came with a voice…

Not gonna lie, if I was in Europe and was still shopping for a car (I ended up buying the Twingo’s little brother a month ago), this might have been too cute to pass up on. I’d have tossed my hat in the ring for the lottery.

I don’t particularly want to defend Uber, but this isn’t an Uber problem. This is a problem where a legislation targeted one group of people who complied with it, and then the same legislation apparently did not apply to others. In other words, the city basically ran a financial scam that they could also legally…

Men have a problem when women gain power on them and their immediate retaliation is always to attack them sexually (whether directly or indirectly). It happened to me recently where the first time I had to unequivocally exhibit power over a guy in a semi-professional situation where I couldn’t find a way to resolve…

His lil’ spinning wheels are the embodiment of the phrase “impotent rage”.