Well...now I know Fiero Trikes are A Thing.

10/10, great prank.

Yer gonna be okay, kid.

It’s probably the shitty, lazy take you crapped out up there.

That’s why pilots have annual medical examinations where doctors - who went to medical school, and everything! - can, y’know, actually examine them and make the call about whether or not they’re safe to fly.

Also he’s a rich aviation geek who flies a LOT more than most non-professional pilots. Law of averages says he’ll have more incidents than a lower-time pilot. Law of tabloids says he’ll have way more attention focused on it.

Did you talk to a pilot before you wrote this?

Funk, disco, whatever...I did not expect to keep that playing until the end. But I did.

I frickin’ love this website.

Not a U2 fan then, I take it?

Years ago I had a job working for a dude who was born in Turks and Caicos. He was a great boss and he taught me a lot of things, but I will always feel a bit bad that I’ll never have that man’s ability to rock a salmon polo shirt. 

As I understand it, it’s not about the absolute height of the hatch, it’s the “and the hatch” part. Specifically, the hatch lip extending down below the top edge of bumper places the 5th door directly in the line of fire in a rear collision.

The problem is that the corporate overlords who own and control this site think you’re an idiot.

I looked at the “About” page too, and now I feel bad because they all seem like they’re having fun and also quite likely non-native English speakers. Which means this probably isn’t about not knowing the language as much as not springing for a professional translator. It’s still a cautionary tale, but one that’s a lot…

I keep abandoning this article to call out in the comments other parts that I read (“A few thousand revolutions per minute’s per second,” I’m looking in your direction), only to find out that faithful wordsmith Jason has already done that work. Thank you for being the welding mask through which I gaze at this searing s…

Hey Torch, can you name a modded Trabant that you saw ever and didn’t like?

I love that people who deploy Futurama references almost always deploy them perfectly. Well done.

“Shakens?”

It’s a seriously great name. It connotes successful navigation, winning races, and high technology. They certainly give the impression that they’re...hmmm, what’s the electric-drive equivalent of “firing on all cylinders”?

Agreed, again. Your mom is HAWT.