Dude tried to slim jim the lock. It didn't work. You'll find a lot of newish cars are designed not to be unlocked that way.

You do realize that a BSCS is like a union card when it comes to getting any sort of IT job. While I'm sure there are some people in IT who don't have one (a certain Mr. Zuckerberg comes to mind), you'll have a hell of a time getting hired without it. Lots of luck to you.

I heard another joke once that the Swabians were kicked out of Scotland for being too cheap.

I learned this trick in Germany from my German teacher. According to him, it's what they did with the old one pfennig coins in southern Germany, where sparen is the national pastime.

How to turn a penny into something useful. (1) place in vice, (2) drill hole in center. Voila! You now have a washer that can be used in just about any repair job that requires one that size, and for a fraction of the cost, not to mention gas for the trip to the hardware store.

How many new kitchen appliances have you had to replace just in the past year? Cutting corners wherever they can get away with it is practically a religion over there. You'll be lucky to be able to drive a Chinese car until you're finished paying for it.

FTFA: "The current Toyota Yaris, made in China by the FAW-Toyota joint venture that will also make the new Yaris."

Well, it's nice to know I'm not the only one who figures that taxes should be the least concern to anyone on the cusp of the 28% bracket, which is a fair piece of change more than I make. If there ever was a first world problem that's it.

Maybe now the lads at Top Gear won't be so keen to dismiss it as 'rubbish.'

Welcome to Sector 001.

As they say, it's your money. You should care enough to know these things. It's rather basic, really. If you cannot understand what "28% of income from x to y" means, well, chances are good that you'll never get there to begin with. So anybody claiming to be tailoring their salary to some figure under x for tax…

Stupid because they don't understand, and cannot be made to understand no matter how you dumb it down, what progressive taxation is.

Of course, to some people, you might as well be explaining it to your cat.

People who think tax brackets operate from dollar zero on up are generally too stupid to possess the skills necessary to make that kind of money.

And if he were 111 years old, and living in New York City while Babe Ruth was still pitching for the Red Sox, he very likely would also have been involved in the First World War, and there are any of a number of organizations who keep track of those sorts of things, including the reasons (as applicable) why he didn't…

I used to drink MGD...in 1991.

Let me correct myself - it's the LE that most people get. The S comes with a significant gas mileage penalty, and if you don't care about gas mileage, you probably aren't getting a Corolla at all.

Mercury looks about the size of my Honda Civic. The Gemini looks about the size of an average minivan.

Most people buy the LS.

And then they still want to vote in New York.