My mini was too for the decade I had it. HOWEVER, I had the 2003—which had the flaw in the gearbox that was fixed in the 2004 model. My manual transmission failed TWICE, once at 60000 and again at 90000 (I could feel it, barely hear it). I couldn’t swallow the second one and had to move on. My favorite car ever though.

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I honestly don’t understand the appeal of this show. I found the oral rape in the first episode so profoundly disturbing and gross that I can’t imagine watching another minute.

Yep.  We have a combination of cast iron and stainless pans and we definitely do the same for both.

Yep me too unless there’s some reason I can’t.

That’s helpful to know and I’ll defer to your experience. The reason I try not to do it is that when it boils, and the water is dumped out there is a noticeably dull area that seems to allow food to stick if left there.

It also looks effectively disposable.  I minor amount of damage to rear would render it unusable.

I’ve been using cast iron for camping and at home too. I don’t bother with the oil/salt. If there is stuck-on or charred food, I just fill the pan with 1/2" of water, turn on the heat, and use a metal spatula to gently scrape off the food. I let the water get close to boiling (but don’t let it boil as it will boil off…

That is a charitable interpretation—in that particular case, the teacher saw my son as a nuisance and nothing more. To be fair, the school system did nobody any favors with the size of the classrooms (28-30).

Don’t let the school put it off. Each year I’d hear, let’s wait six or seven weeks so the teacher can get to know your child. It has the veneer of being helpful, but from experience this means that no meaningful support will be provided to your child until halfway through the school year. We started demanding to meet…

Fair enough, you speak truth.

I do the same thing for my woodworking workshop.  I use (gasp) crocs, which I would never be caught dead in otherwise.

Learned when selling shoes to ask “what type of shoe are you looking for?” instead of “can I help you?”

Never were more sagely words uttered or written...

This is similar to what I do in the office to warm my hands on a regular basis. We have hot water available for coffee/tea, so I just fill a mug with hot water, let it sit a minute, dump it, and then refill it.  I then wrap my hands around it every so often while I’m working.

I wanted to pedantically disagree with this take, pointing out that there’s no way he could run 20 yds left on a regulation football field.

I don’t have much of any opinion of all of this, but people that exploit loopholes to pay people who work for them are garbage humans.

In a food court, our manager used to exchange food with other food court places to get us something to eat. I was at a pizza place and we’d exchange pizzas for Popeye’s, Mark Mosely’s Frankly Fries, and Chinese Food.

We gotta stop with this dude/dudette.  He’s pretty clearly arguing in bad faith and *waaaaay* in the tank for Trump.  Arguing with MAGAhats is pointless--they’re in a cult and can’t escape.