Sounds a bit awkward if you want to, I don’t know, do anything that requires two hands?

Ah, the Tagada! A staple of church fairs since before I was born. There is still one at the Prater, Vienna’s amusement park.

I do agree with the first part of your statement. But I am not convinced (without knowing more) that the guns-out approach was necessary.

You are being obtuse. Surely we can agree that there is a difference between an officer walking up to you with a holstered weapon and an officer with a pistol in his hand? Just as there is a difference between me walking up to you with my dick in my pants as opposed to my dick in my hand. I was not disputing that it…

I see what you mean. But if you replace “gun” with “dick” in your last sentence, you’ll see what I mean.

I remember the time I hit some sort of scrap iron on an evening, doing about 80-85 on a freeway. The front right tire exploded, instant 360, no way to correct. I saw it happen in slow motion, and miraculously, I hit nothing and no one else hit me.

I thought “open carry” referred to having a gun in a visible holster. Not in your hand.

Where I am sitting, a bell is mandatory if you want to ride your bike in traffic. You can call it nanny state. I call it idiot proof.

If this is satire, it is satire on a par with the satire of GTA V (once described by Cracked as worse than what a concentration camp guard and a holocaust survivor would come up with if they met 50 years later to write satire).

There is a civilized country where this is legal?

People who put up their winscreen wipers when it threatens to snow. Yeah, it’s easier to clean your window, but then the springs wear out and your wipers chatter.

In some European countries (I only checked Austria and Germany) it is forbidden to let your car sit at idle to warm it up. Many still do it, of course.

Ah yes, that winter when the hood latch mechanism on our Carina Mk II rusted shut. There was not a drop off oil on the dipstick when we got around to have it fixed in spring. Ran (before and after) as if nothing happened. Thank you, Diesel Toyota.

Been there, done the hammer thing. I think we stuck out two weeks, always starting the old Golf Mk III with a hammer and a helper, before we caved in and bought a new starter.

In manual transmission driving, before you press the brake pedal, the clutch pedal must be pressed completely. 

Strange. Over here, all driving school cars are standard transmission. And people do manage to get a licence, and the usual percentage of them are complete morons. Since you are almost certainly smarter than the worst licenced-to-drive mouth-breather my country has ever produced, don’t give up.

Inevitable unless you’re Mazda, it would seem.

The looks may be forgiveable, the FWD may be forgiveable, but not the 40 % weight gain from the previous model.

Spending 1.100 per month on a car (before you have driven it a single foot or even put plates on it) may not mean you are rich. But you definitely have to be well-to-do (or an idiot).

That yellow one was a quite common sight when a 2CV was one.