When this first came up a while bcak in this very article, it was like World War 3 around here.

When this first came up a while bcak in this very article, it was like World War 3 around here.

Yuuuuuuup. It's fucking amazing how much 30 feels like a hard dividing line. I'm not going to pretend I feel OLD old but there's just some shit you can no longer do. Drink like you are 19 and sleep anywhere are two of them.

No no, these ones are fine, but some of the comments on the nomination thread ... it wasn’t so mcuh the issue as the joyless ways they are enumerated. If someone has a snack in your car they are not only barred from your car but no longer in your life. The ridiculous “my car my radio” mantra that just comes off like…

“There are DOZENS of us!”

All the nomination thread for this taught me is there are some REALLY uptight people on this forum. My wife mocks me for being a little too sensitive to messes in my car, but if she read what some of you people sound like.... man.

My wife tells me when we’re ten feet PAST the turn, typically. “Oh, we should have turned there” is something I hear often when she has the GPS / map duty.

We had it in our backyard. We have a pretty small house / yard, but still managed to fit 130 people pretty comfortably (AND it rained half the night). Everyone chipped in, my wife made all the cakes (yes, cakes, as in 10 of them), we were both reasonable on what a wedding dress and ring is and should cost, some…

Yeah, I mean, I agree, but aside from the fact that I couldn’t afford a 6, it doesn’t come in a hatch either. :) I’m willing to forgive the fugly dash for its other strengths, but between the stupid radio and the enragingly bad LCD tach / info display, it’s far from an ideal purchase.

The Mazda is especially frustrating since I don’t even have the infotainment system and they STILL put that thing on the dash, except without a screen.

Placement never bothered me, but materials did. Every time I even glance in the front windshield of a Mini that cheap plastic shroud around the tach drives me up a wall. I mean, even if it’s not “cheap” plastic, just the fact that it looks like it... it makes such a cool-looking car look cheap to me.

Bingo. My dad got a Pontiac sometime in the 90’s as a work car, and I was 10-12 years old and remember thinking all the grey plastic buttons were AWESOME, but looking back with adult eyes.... good God.

Oh definitely personal preference, and also depends a lot on where you live. For me the ways that are much longer but traffic-free are back roads, while traffic is highways. SO it’s not a lot of merging and whatnot so much as ... stop signs and twisty roads through the woods.

Stressful is an interesting metric to measure it by. I’ll gladly take crazy convoluted roads and get home 10 minutes later if it means not sitting in traffic. I use Waze for every commute, and always look at the “routes” screen not to see which way is fastest (least time) but which way has me sitting in traffic the…

I agree, but I don’t mind fun games.

It’s just not all that funny to get me to believe Stephen Colbert is running for president. Like... when the reveal comes that he’s not, are we both going to laugh? For a “lie” to become a prank, to me, the prank part is getting someone to believe something that they’d be embarrassed they believed. If it’s something…

Never understood when “lies” became “pranks.”

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The funny thing is, if you want to overthink it even more, there's no reason to think that "ghosts" are anything but some sort of alien intelligence more than proof of afterlife (unless part of the thought experiment is that you KNOW aliens are aliens and ghosts are the spirits of departed humans). Even if you see a…