The only justification for straight up ramming someone like this is if the biker pulled a gun or something. At that point, yeah, take him out. That is defending yourself against lethal force, with lethal force. Unlike what many people want to believe, a car is in fact a lethal weapon. It’s a 2000+ pound brick of…

take my fucking upvote and get out of here :P

That was my first thought.

Hell yeah. If I own a car, I’m going to drive the shit out of it. I don’t keep trophies, I use them!

I feel like 400 lbs — 2 human men, pretty much — is something one could wriggle, with pain, out from beneath. Twice that is a whole other story.

The other takeaway here is don’t ride a bike you can’t lift. At least, I was always taught that if you can’t heave it back up once you drop it, you shouldn’t be riding it in the first place...

That dude’s lucky you aren’t like one of my pals. He would’ve taken the gift card AND left the review up.

Why didn’t you just hang up on him? He has no reason to call you and beg if he fucked up, and you have no need to listen.

I used to dig the fluffy bits out of rolls when I was a kid...

Nope, not true. Furry isn’t just sexual.

I would vaporize that kid with my incandescent rage.

Mom should’ve been watching the kid. I’m fully on board with this. When your kid is around dangerous animals or heights or whatnot, hold their hand or carry them or something. BUT, every so often any parent is going to fuck it up. It just happened that the stars aligned in the right way that her fuckup wasn’t “oh man,…

How sucky must it be to know you won not because you were awesome, but because someone’s pit crew fucked up? Most Pyrrhic victory.

If you ask any bunch of people around here, #4 has already been answered, and the answer is apparently “no.”

I think about this a lot. It’s scary how 90's kids aren’t kids anymore...

I don’t think there is liberal indoctrination at college, but I do think many communities pressure people to be non-religious — mainly the STEM community. I went to MIT and I definitely felt the “wow I’m a minority” thing in the nerd community and among other students. People were unsure why I didn’t just become full…

There’s actually research pointing to the idea that people who are conservative are driven far more by fear — and have larger amygdalas and stronger pathways for emotion in the brain to show for it. Being certain in something is comforting, so it’s nearly impossible to get them to change, because they need more…

Even after I became more liberal I still disliked books whose real theme is “fuck religion.”

You seem to think family and local politics has no effect on setting kids’ initial values. Many people only figure themselves out after they leave home.

This is really similar to my story, actually. I grew up in Douglas, GA — so I totally know what you’re talking about. I was THIS close to staying in the South for university, because I can’t stand change and travel and stuff, but I ended up moving up north. Best thing I ever did. It allowed me to work out my faith and…