Just a quick reminder of how bad Porsche interiors used to be in the early naughts:

I see a lot of Dodge Caliber answers, rightfully so.

Jag XK8, just an amorphous blob, the interior manifestation of the worst of 90s “melted bar of soap” styling. Also, looks like something only old white guys is sansabelt slacks (think Ted Knight in Caddyshack, white shoes and polyester pants) would think of as fancy and fashionable.

We’re looking for worst not best.....

The first-generation, Brazilian market Chevrolet Celta. GM was proud to announce that the Celta had the cheapest ever dashboard and door panels to ever be made on a car factory, since each was a single piece of injected plastic, but oh boy what an emphasis on cheap.

For whatever reason, I think that is one of the coolest speedometers. I remember being driven around a friend’s family Astrovan while I was quite young and remembering that speedo because it looked so cool.

OK I’m old but when I was a kid my dad drove us around in about a 1975 Dodge van that had an interior like this. All I can remember is that the engine heat radiated through that giant plastic cover and that sumbitch was like riding around in an oven. Good times.

This is low-hanging fruit, but the first car that comes to mind is a Yugo my friend bought for the three months he was in working in Atlanta, because buying the Yugo outright was cheaper than renting a car for three months.

I once owned a Chevrolet Lumina sedan as a poor college kid. Bulletproof engine, but the interior drove me nuts. The instrument panel was cheap plastic tacked on as a whole assembly to more cheap plastic. And at eye level, where YOU WILL ALWAYS NOTICE, was the connection line between the two different types of…

I have a feeling that we’re going to learn that in the distant past Wakanda was itself responsible for some colonialist atrocities that brought it into conflict with Atlantis before they ultimately imprisoned Namor. And now Namor’s back and he’s pissed.

I don’t think that’s Wakanda. The pyramid in the background of the opening scene looks Aztec rather than African design. With Namor played by a Mexican actor and looking to have a pre-Columbian aesthetic himself, I’m guessing MCU Atlantis is/was off the coast of the Yucatan peninsula, and that’s what we’re seeing here.

and we didn’t ask for it.

I’m right there with you. Having depressed Thor sitting around playing Nintendo, drinking beer, but maintaining his buff surfer body would have seemed... off. I thought his story was handled with humor but also with empathy. I’m a fat guy, and I had no problem with any of it.

Holy christ, maybe next time let someone who actually enjoyed the trailer do a breakdown of it

This would also be the period when the Dwarves of Khazad-dum and Elves of Eregion were openly friendly, both fond of smithing and crafting, to the point that they built the “say friend and enter” western gate together.

And this is what you get in a society that fetishizes guns.

Since we’re comparing Grandmothers - my American Grandma shot a man on the side of the road in the central valley back in the 30s. Apparently her and a friend were hitchhiking, caught a ride with a man, and when he started following them on foot after dropping them at the side of the road they realized his intentions…

This is the society you get when you treat firearm ownership as an inalienable right, rather than a privilege with responsibilities.

It’s rare, but it does happen. Over the last decade or so there have been a couple municipalities that have disincorporated or consolidated with others. One I can think of specifically was the Village of St. George in south St. Louis County. A mayoral candidate ran on a platform of “Elect me, and I will dissolve the…

lol that’s how you shut shit down in the south. “If you excessively fine that money will go to schools” OH we can’t have that happen!