I’m glad her supervisor knew the rules and straightened things out. I’ve read more than one account of a cop not knowing the regulations, trying to ticket somebody doing nothing wrong, the supervisor showing up, and the supervisor not knowing the rules either.

Illegal window tint is absolutely a fishing expedition. Here in NY, the changed the tint laws a few years ago so that if your tint exceeds a certain amount, you car won’t pass safety inspection. Except that many cars come with more tint than that from the factory. Also, trucks and SUV’s are exempt from the tint rules.…

I’m consistently shocked by the number of fuckwits out there that have in their heads that Puerto Rico is some far off land and a completely foreign country. It’s not! It’s not a state, but it’s a US Commonwealth. Puerto Ricans are US citizens. Full stop.

Mini’s are BMW’s, so they’ll have all the same issues BMW’s do. It depends on which one you get if they’re terribly unreliable. I guess the earlier ones (in regards to re-imagined, BMW-owned Mini) are hot garbage. The newer ones are better, about on par with your typical European car. European cars do demand more…

This is crazy. My wife manages several medical offices for one of our local hospitals in Central NY. One of their offices flooded on Sunday evening because they got 5" of rain in like half an hour. Home is 25min north and it didn’t even rain. I was at my brother-in-law’s house halfway between for most of the day and…

I guess people would sell their account when it contained a super rare item. This devalues the hell out of them, though.

Isn’t an exploit just taking advantage of an unintended behavior?

I’m 59 right now and have only run across him once. He stomped my ass when I was around 30, but I was in a weird place in regards to my build and how I was approaching my gear, so I was kind of in a bad way. I suspect I’d do better now that I’ve worked that out, but he doesn’t want to show up.

Jesus. That’s violently octogenarian.

You’re right about the average person being bad at money. We’re violently allergic to teaching people about it.

It’s too bad that they were hot garbage. A good friend of mine had one and I spent way too much time underneath it, puzzling at what the hell Daimler-Chrysler was thinking. It was a remarkably useful car for its size, though. He crammed remarkable amounts of stuff and people into it and took it all over the country in…

Interesting (to me) that you’d remember liking that steering wheel. I have a fairly visceral reaction to it. I hate it. There’s something offensive and smug in its shape and layout. I think it’s because it screams to me in the same way those universal remote controls with the giant buttons you buy for your infirm…

My vote goes to the (still!) ubiquitous beige Toyota Camry.

Unless your finances are significantly better than the typical person’s, a $1000 car payment is being bad at money. I get that cars are more expensive now than ever and that even cheap cars aren’t cheap, but it seems like people are just using that as an excuse to completely overextend themselves by taking on a new…

I’m curious what exactly is driving such high transaction prices. I suspect it’s because manufacturers and dealers are only stocking models that they make a larger profit on, driving people to buy what they have on hand.

I wonder what percentage of people went Chuck Norris (Cal Norris? Chuck Kestis?) with the headband/full beard combo like I did.

I played crossguard/double-bladed for most of the game but found I needed more ability to block for the more unpredictable and harder to stagger bosses. I found I did better with dual-wield toward the end.

I don’t think I’ll ever come around. Peak BMW (looks) for me is either the E24 or the E30. I have an E46. My dad had a couple F30's. A friend has an F82 M4. The newer ones just scream out to be looked at. I’m not in love with that.

The full ports aren’t how groundwater gets into the tanks.

The fill ports aren’t where the water is getting in. My observation was that there was usually some water in the vault around the fill port, but it could be drained into pipes that connected to the storm sewer by opening a valve. The idea was that normal water accumulation was the same as the water that would have…