I read this entire thing with fascination, as if it was an account of how people live in third world countries. I cannot imagine having to spend that much time stressing about parking. I get one underground space and access to another one in the lot (about twice in the last two years have I come home and found the lot…

Right, it’s definitely sexism and not the fact that outside of the activities you mentioned, other than adding diving to the list, I can’t think of one other where the outcome is entirely based on subjective judging.

It’s weird to me how many people think “it’s not a sport” means “it’s not hard/doesn’t require a ton of physical effort” and freak out as if you’ve said the latter when you really didn’t.

Makes sense. None of the other guys have ever won a title either.

I’m starting to think that we’re envisioning different scenarios, because unless there is a very big disparity in traffic between one road and the perpendicular road, no one would ever need to slam on their brakes and it would be impossible to get into a high speed collision.

I’m not talking about Venus or the specific intersection here. You made the general statement that it’s never permissible to pull into an intersection on green and wait to make a left turn when the traffic clears (i.e., when the light turns yellow). I’m saying that at many intersections that do not have a left turn…

If that was true, how would anyone ever be able to turn left at a busy intersection without a left turn arrow? You would literally have to sit there for hours.

I won’t address your basketball take here, but you’ve nailed what would be disappointing about Kerr visiting the White House. It is one thing for a player or coach who keeps quiet about politics to visit Trump- to basically say, I don’t really care what kind of a president he is, I’ll participate in a photo op - but…

Exactly. I can see all of the arguments regarding respect for the office, etc, if the president was a normal president (even one whose politics were really really conservative). Instead, Trump is the least qualified, most boorish, utterly unprofessional shithead of a president in this country’s history. No one should…

Let’s be real: those kids were fucked from day one with those morons for parents.

1 game out of first in a really bad division that they have to win to make the playoffs, as they are way out of the wild card race.

Which is arguably *more* impressive, when you’re dealing with NBA superstar egos.

But Rich2261, he clearly should have made better lifestyle choices in his first day on earth. And his parents should have been financially responsible enough to have half a mil or so in cash set aside before they even thought about having a baby.

I had a similar experience. I went to the ER last fall when I almost passed out for no obvious reason (and I’d been experiencing chronic chest pain at the time, so I was especially concerned). They did blood work, EKG, etc which I recognize costs money. They also asked me if I thought I might be dehydrated. I said no,…

It’s interesting to me that in an era where a hypothetical used car that is X years old with Y miles is better and more reliable than at any point in history, people justify trading in their perfectly good cars to cripple themselves with payments on a new one.

Yeah, based on the headline I expected an article about now being a particularly bad time to buy a car when it’s really about many people not really being able to afford the cars they’re buying.

To put it another way, he makes slightly less than a third of what LeBron makes.

Part of it’s that my wife is pickier than me when it comes to motels, and part of it is a couple of annoying experiences with either having trouble finding a place with vacancies, or finding a place for what I wanted to pay. (That was also at a time when a $30 or $40 difference in price mattered more to me than it…

Personally, I still find the blue signs very useful for food and gas. We only get out our phones and search for food if we’re craving something specific. Otherwise, it’s “there’s a [whatever] at this exit, sound good to you?”

Exactly. Baseball is the most team-dependent of the major sports. We all know how superstar driven the NBA is. And the QB gets to touch the ball 50% of the time in football.