I admit to being one of those people: When in a restaurant, I used to upend the pepper mill to check if it was a genuine Peugeot article. (These days there are none on the tables, what with the pandemic and all.)

TL, DR: You can have a lot of money to spend on really nice things and still be an a**hole. Ah, yes.

There is a place in Western civilization where a contraption such as that gold ... whatever is street-legal? Color me surprised.

Well played. Have a star.

I don’t know a truck owner. As far as I can tell, my life is fine. 

... and the sound quality of the average CRT TV was better than of the average flatscreen TV, probably because there is less room for decent speakers.

All good advice. I like the Mazda, because I had a Mazda5 (based on the predecessor of the Mazda3 suggested by D.T.), bought for under 7k with over 50k miles on the clock, and drove it for another 70k miles with zero issues.

My gosh, how big are those wheels? I’ll never understand how you can market a segment towards families and give it totally unnecessary super-expensive huge wheels (I’m looking at you, Renault Scenic).

I doubt it’s as easy as that. I’ll be looking forward to the new rules regarding how to dress for mourning. Because currently many people in the western world dress in black, thereby associating that colour with, you know, something not fun.

I rode in a car seat around that time. Mine looked downright sensible compared to those things.

Artisanship maybe, but art? Nah.

Oh yeah, the Zenit! I am not much of a shutterbug, but my wife brought a Zenit into the marriage. I just love it for being an SLR and feeling as solid as a Soviet tractor tire.

I do like the seats in my Opel Insignia. Very firm, but you can sit in them for half a day and more. The only downside is that they take some time, what with being adjustable in 10 ways, if I counted right.

I find the mechanics of those seats puzzling. If her backrest is reclined so far that it touches the backrest of the rear seat, its upper end should be decidedly lower. 

They took his licence for ONE WEEK? Canadian law sure is user-friendly. Where I am sitting, he would take the bus for at least half a year, and that is only because the law doesn’t specify suspend durations for speed excess of more than 100 kph above the posted limit. 

Tucker had one, didn’t they? And there was some sort of Skoda in the 1930s, if memory serves.

For business meetings I still prefer this:

No. For many airlines, first class actually loses money. It’s so much more expensive to supply the added room and service that they keep it for image reasons, not to turn a profit. 

My thoughts exactly. I never could believe that they actually went and called that thing a Spider.

Oh really? It’s my ringtone since about 2015.