Remarkably stupid comment, thank you.

Yep! Definitely thought about that. But in the editorial decision-making process, I decided that going for clarity for readers over spot-on French-language fluency in the top shot was the best decision.

So I went with what you actually asked us to do and gave this a NP (though I am in the vast minority).

At first I lamented the loss of the pop-up headlamps...then I saw quasimodo living out back.

Or that America uses the month/day/year format when most of the world uses either the day/month/year format or year/month/day format (more common in Asia).

“everyone uses/knows metric” is on my list of sensible Genie wishes.

But there are a few weird holdouts, for various historic reasons, like England, Australia and Japan that have cars with steering wheels on the right.

My favorite line from that video was the drive-thru attendant: “Is something wrong with the car or with you?”

Of course, back in his Jalopnik days, Doug had the drive through thing worked out:

Found the person that hasn’t been to a lawyer party. Let’s just say, in a profession known for alcohol abuse, they kick it up a notch or several in the parties.

Lawyers are actually pretty fun to party with...

At one point in history, workers shoveling coal in ship’s boilers had similar feelings.

Maybe, there’s no guarantee that anything is straight.

Which is the same split in anything in life where people either align with better ideas or with better self interests.

All us guys were teenagers once, we’ve all had a semi in the wild.

+1 for Euclidean geometry joke

I don’t blame Euclides. He was just confused by the geometry of NYC grid system.

You’re taking a lot of liberties in assessing what did and did not happen in this situation. I wonder if she actually did say this and not the perhaps bullshit that you assume she probably said. In my experience, teachers will often treat young students as if they are completely clueless to anything that their lesson…

I don’t know how to do gifs and emojis. But I’ll just type blank face and leave

*blank face*

The “OK” knocked me out. It has to be the the step child of “I said what I said” This child is COMPLETELY unbothered by his teacher. It’s fabulous. And I have been trying to find a way to articulate what my mood for 2018 is and this child found it for me.