Most of it isn't even pop, it's like, adult contemporary. The majority of shit I hear "country music fans" listening to might as well just be what Michael Bolton would put out if he had a drawl and a slide guitar.

God dammit. Now you're making me want to watch it all the way through to see if I appreciate it more. I literally didn't make it past the 20 minute mark, maybe not even that far, but there hadn't been a single moment of anything but fucking sunlight and lens flare and trees up to that point.

Same, if the quilt were made of razor blades and lemon juice.

Last time I was job shopping, I told my boss that I had been on a few interviews and was seriously considering moving on. Got a 40% raise. Not a typo. In retrospect it kind of annoys me that I let myself be that underpaid (and that they obviously knew I was that underpaid) for as long as I did, but... pretty happy…

It's an impressive feat, because there are a lot of movies that have that ethereal quality that I can't sit through five minutes of. Tree of Life comes to mind. I honestly couldn't watch that movie, and that's saying something.

"And there are engineers who "get" art although they are as rare as engineers who can communicate well using their .. you know .. mouth and facial expressions and shit."

I know, I was mostly kidding. We're all a diverse melting pot and don't put me into a box and all that jazz.

The best praise I can give Mulholland Drive is I didn't understand a fucking second of it and I still was entranced. It took two viewings, reading the Internet, and then watching it a third time for me to get it. Note : I'm an engineer, we don't get "art."

GOod one. I can still write neatly but it probably takes me 3x as long as it used to because of how much I have to concentrate. If I just write fast it's pretty much unintelligible to everyone but me (and half the time to me as well).

Did you mean to aim this at me? Because nowhere do I mention a Mahayla.

Cool argument.

Others have said it, but the only way this is a story is if lenders are abusing the privilege : everyone is a day or two late for a payment once in a while, especially when they're living on the hairy edge of bankruptcy. I would almost argue that you probably shouldn't be financing a car if that's your situation, but…

Yeeeeesssss. By far the biggest "argument" the wife and I have regularly (rarely an actual argument, but still).

It doesn't taste lke DiGiorno's, but Santarpio's isn't my favorite. Regina's 4 life.

Did you change / create your screen name just forthis reply? Or is it just really fitting? :)

We don't even have a dishwasher. Generally the dishwasher is "whoever gets up first" (usually me). Not much fighting over dishwasher etiquette that way ;)

It's not that I odn't believe the facts or statistics in teh depreciation argument, I just... don't see it. Last year I bought a new car. I wanted to buy something with ~30k miles on it (I put a LOT of miles on my car and I'm in my mid-30's, I'm done with cars breaking down on me when I need them). Looking for cars…

The type of people who would flip out over their key not working and nineteen seconds of inconvenience are already miserable and going to flip out anyway. You haven't changed their day or life with your little power trip.

As long as those aren't teh first three things they say when the pants come off, you're golden.

Hmph. The only two states I've ever lived in are NH and MA, and MA just doesn't give out temp plates. This thread is just a fucking vat of ignorance for me, so I'm going to bow out :)

If there's one thing Mass is good at, it's sticking with old systems for no good reason other than "it's the way we've always done it."