I started wrenching way too old, but I’m cheap, so learning.  I also have a girlfriend with a very touchy old Volkswagen, so I’m getting tons of practice.  As of last week, I’m now the proud owner of a set of torque wrenches, which makes me feel very proper instead of “oof... that’s probably tight enough.”  The other…

If you get frustrated, walk away if possible. I know sometimes you gotta fix the daily to get to work and are under a time crunch, but if you aren’t, wrenching frustrated is when you break stuff or ruin something. Stepping back and relaxing can even help you find the solution you weren’t seeing under the red mist.

Strangely, Slideshows where you have to click 11 times to see all the options isn’t on the list of old features we miss.

The foot control was exceptional for high beams because you didn’t have to take your hands off the wheel while driving in very dark and often twisty conditions.  As soon as you see an oncoming car pop up, you just tap the button with your left foot and your hands don’t have to move.

And if that's true, see an endocrinologist. Don't stick your dick in a Chernobyl box. 

The most hilarious part about all of this is that guys like Tucker that drone on and on about how it’s the end of “real men” is that they are the absolute embodiment of betas. Just look at them and listen to them! How alpha is it to sit around all day behind a microphone or in front of tv camera in a damn bow tie…

It’s weird that they’re still so into this whole thing. Not too log ago a lot of conservatives, including entitled little private schooler and wealthy heir Tucker Carlson, were going on and on about how tough and manly the Russian army was, and how we were too soft and weak to compete with them. But now that the Red…

“Okay, testosterone levels have crashed and nobody says anything about it, that’s crazy”

What, and I cannot stress this enough: the fuck are they talking about?

Counterpoint: The PT Cruiser needed, and deserved, to die. They just replaced it w/something so bad, arguably worse in every measurable category, that people actually looked back on the PT Cruiser with fondness when presented w/the alternative.

“I’m an internet journalist, not a mathematician!”

I stared at that wheel for far too long counting spokes trying to figure out how they weren’t divisible.

Right? Those looked great.

Slide 4: “Any wheel where the number of spokes is not evenly divisible by the number of visible lugs.”

Sayonara, fuckheads. 

He pledged to “come back to finish this job” in the metro area at some unspecified time

Station wagons are better than SUV’s.

Are you and your company deeply tied to the leader of a regime who is invading a foreign country? Is your company the result of massive graft and you were able to purchase a state owned company for pennies on the dollar? Is your wealth tied to corruption and being best buds with a maniac with delusions of recreating…

Citizen arrest without a crime actively being committed looks a lot like kidnapping.

NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO!!! That would be completely different because....reasons.

Unless part of your brake job was replacing a hose or caliper, you shouldn't have to bleed brakes after a brake job - regardless of the vehicle age.