The great thing about Twitter is that you can watch celebrities making fools of themselves in real time. It's like Kryptonite for people who don't have a good filter for what they say.

None of that makes it legal to run over the guy.

I'm not sure that I'd want to drive any of those cars at 60mph: that sounds terrifying.

Right, the Swastika was originally a symbol common in Asia that was appropriated by the Nazis. The original Swastika doesn't have any bad connotations. The weird thing is that it's come full circle - this car is clearly Nazi inspired, with the Iron Cross as well.

I'm pretty comfortable with any Nazi, neo-Nazi, or quasi-Nazi being verbally reamed. Free speech is about being legally entitled to speech free from criminal repercussions. Free speech doesn't mean that people aren't allowed to call you out on being an asshole, a bigot, or a smear on the buttcheek of humanity.

The second part of your headline is redundant :).

I think the people who do the dramatic music have been taking it further and further every season.

Can't blame you, I don't understand it either :)

Good point. Please feel free to shoot, bludgeon, stab or run over anyone who you feel is scary.

Sadly I've run into plenty of people who think that on some level: either fully buying into it, or having some idea that it was "standard". Bad ideas die hard sometimes. People do worry about looking cheap, either to their partner or to outsiders.

Unfortunately a lot of people do feel the social pressure about these sorts of things even if they shouldn't. I've seen even typically level-headed people be a bit thrown off by people posting photos of large engagement rings and so on on Facebook. There's always the temptation to compare.

That's what DeBeers would like you to think :).

You pretty much describe the situation I found myself in. I knew my now-fiancee didn't like most modern ring styles and had specific taste in vintage rings (that I sort-of-but-not-really understood). After spending a while looking at rings and hemming and hawwing about whether she'd like any of them I realized that…

That's the stupidest reasoning I've ever heard "Oh I was scared, so I was justified in running over people."

Yep, a situation where everyone acted like a jackass. The bikers probably more so. But yeah, no matter how much of a jackass someone is being, you don't run them over.

Yep, a situation where everyone acted like a jackass. The bikers probably more so. But yeah, no matter how much of a jackass someone is being, you don't run them over.

If I've learned anything from the other comments, I'm pretty sure they're all going to have to haul a pile of granite and a horse trailing up a steep muddy hill at 60mph any day now, because America is big and rugged and cowboys and shit.

I guarantee you that people in Australia are almost as baffled by the epidemic of giant trucks as anyone in the UK.

People in Australia drive sanely sized trucks though. If you drive through the suburbs in any American city, you'll see a rash of F-150-size trucks driving around with nothing in the bed. You rarely see trucks that big in Australian cities (or in the country even) that aren't legit commercial vehicles.

The strange thing is that there's very little overlap in pickup truck size between Australia and the U.S. In Australia you can easily get car-chassis based ones, and up to mid-sized truck-chassis ones. But in the U.S. Ford doesn't even sell the Ranger anymore - you have to go to the comparatively huge F-150.