I KNOW WHAT THIS IS!

It was really embarrassing since I was a MECH-E arguing with an ELEC. It’s a funny little thing because (to me anyway), I totally get how common sense could say a bigger bar gives you more torque, but the engineer in me says that if the bar breaks when the torque at the drive exceeds an amount, then it will just hit…

Related point that I once lost an argument about: your torque wrench will not be accurate if you extend the handle with a cheater bar. I lost a big argument about this in the process of learning how torque wrenches actually work. Because the point where the wrench breaks is not coaxial with the drive, the ratio of the…

Have one more car than you actually need if you are going to DIY everything.

He ain’t wrong, though. I was driving the Miata last week on a beautiful, twisty country lane, lovely new asphalt, nothing but trees as far as the eye could see, feelin’ good, when I come around a tight corner and BOOM oil truck just parked right there in the road right in front of me.

I’ve heard this kind of rationalization before. Once in a while though, a deer, a cyclist or someone just walking will be right at the apex...

Probably the use of this button:

I’m guessing that Checkers is a fast food place, but I’m going to assume that my first thought was correct, and you’ve been eating the game pieces.

Nearly everyone ignores that by far the most important R is the first, Reduce.

I lost nearly everything when I suffered a brain injury with no health insurance. And of course I supported the Affordable Care Act! Why should I wish that suffering on anyone else?

I paid off my student loans on my own. I wouldn’t be mad at all about any program that lessens or forgives that debt for others. A hand up is not a hand out.

C’mon, the navy can’t possibly get any gayer than it already is.

This. Right here. If you cared about the environment, you wouldn't be ordering up a new resource consuming car every 3 years when your current one is running just fine, presuming you are keeping up main entrance. The dude only cares about being seen in a hybrid to show off to others.

Right? Sounds like he gives a damn if OTHER PEOPLE think he gives a damn about the environment. He doesn’t ACTUALLY give a damn about the environment. Its just the perception.

Anyone who buys a new car every 3 years doesn’t actually give a damn about the environment.

I know there have been some studies about when the best time to replace a car, from an ecological perspective. And, as I recall, the math is basically that new cars are so much cleaner than (truly) older cars - i.e. not something from 2018 - that the switch make ecological sense after about a decade or so. Of course…

Oh sweet irony.

“You think your shooo shmart, Trebek, with your Dago moushtache and your greashy hair!!!”

I bought a white GC last week and named it Snowflake.

It’sh only natural that Sean Connery would drag his archnemesis to the afterlife.