I’ve always had a wide ranging interest in cars - I’ve been a longtime reader of Classic and Sports Car, which tends to be a “broad church” sort of publication (everyone’s welcome). But about fifteen years ago or so my tastes started getting more eclectic and to an extent obscure - previously I was mostly into old…

Thanks for the answers. I didn’t know they were checking for errors too - I always stop because I’m never there at peak times so the thirty second wait isn’t annoying or anything.

Right? I can sit and watch Jeopardy and answer questions while not quite paying attention, but damned if I can press the button at just the right moment. I seem to have the video game reflexes of a drunk. 

I’ve noticed that Netflix will sometimes delay the change if there’s a stinger at the end of the credits. Typically it switches way before they’re done (I’ve only heard the end credit song from BoJack Horseman on Youtube because it always jumps to the next one). 

“The money goes back to (Country X)“ is an argument I hear all the time from people who only buy American cars. Doesn’t matter that their car might have been built in Canada or Mexico, my Japanese car built here in the USA is still traitorious because “the money goes back to the homeland”. Bring up the hundreds of…

Fry’s still does that, and it is in fact an LP thing, because they actually inspect your items. I think Best Buy also does that but I haven’t actually purchased anything there in years.

Sub topic - are all Fry’s stores dumpy? The one nearest to me just looks like a junkyard, shelves all in disarray, half empty at…

So, wait, do the people at the door know the price of everything? Or do they just assume that all pricing is correct and just look for any items that are rung on two line items, instead of once with an “X2" next to it? (As someone who works in retail I can assure you that incorrect pricing in the POS is pretty common…

At that age I still wasn’t quite sure what that all meant. Plus, I’m pretty sure that if they were watching porn they were renting it. We never bought videos - none of us is that into watching movies over and over, and by the time we got the player us kids were beyond the age where we wanted to watch the same cartoon…

See, I never use it below about 45, because I go out into the country and just sit on a straight, emptyish road. It would never occur to use it around town, even on a longer stretch of side street at 30 (there aren’t many of those around here anyway). The more you know! 

I have an aunt who uses the cruise control everywhere. I’m not talking when she’s on an open road for a decent stretch - she’ll use it on suburban side streets with a 30 mph limit if there happens to be more than two minutes between stop signs. I imagine she’s paranoid about getting a ticket but I’ve never asked…

I have a dislike for these things, for one reason: my neighbor had one. I’m pretty sure he bought it used at the time, but he insisted on always referring to it as “the Eddie Bauer”. As in “Oh, I can help you pick up that lawn mower, we’ll just take the Eddie Bauer”, “I wouldn’t worry about the snow, we can take the…

Man, I remember when my folks got our first VCR in like 1983. It was definitely VHS - Dad had scoped out the local rental places and they had a larger VHS selection - and a top loader. Giant fucking thing. I hate to say it but I remember that we went to the store to rent a movie for the first time and I chose the…

No, that’s a pretty solid deep cut burn. Respect. 

I legitimately thought that car had a big old Camry Dent. 

“Designo” sounds like the name of an interior design firm started by someone who watched way too much HGTV and thought “Hey, I could do that!”, in the hopes of one day seeing a Designo line of mantelpiece tchotchkes on the shelves at Target. 

You didn’t get the direct deposit? Super convenient. Just bring a canceled check or the banking info to your next riot, and drop by the kiosk. They have all the paperwork, usually takes one pay period. 

The phrase “Longtime fans of He’s the DJ, I’m the Rapper” brings to mind a guy who has a pristine vinyl copy, limited edition Japanese releases, the original video releases on VHS, and who is consistently disappointed when he goes to a Will Smith concert and he doesn’t do a song from that album. 

Those were the best ones to have. I still cuff jeans depending on how long they are, and now I think I need to go get a paisley bandanna and sew it into the bottom of the legs so I can do that. 

Happy to - I didn’t really word this well. The bride has a brother. He wasn’t married at the time and brought his girlfriend to the wedding. However he was a groomsman, so he had to sit at the table up front with the rest of the bridal party. Girlfriend was seated at the single person’s table. Mother of the bride (and…

I almost always have two bottle openers on me - a keychain (a Corter Bottlehook) and the opener on a Swiss Army Knife. The SAK gets a lot of use, as I’m never near any of my bottle openers at home (yeah, I have a bunch, including like ten old metal church keys with beer logos stamped on them, breweries used to give…