Making bear-proof trashcans that are still easy enough for the dimmest/laziest human to use is a real challenge.

I’ve felt like a chump about the loan I got that one time back in the day. Now, I’m kind of excited it was for less than 20%. Thanks Jalops for making me feel better!

Thanks to Jalopnik I understood every line of this. 

I can get on board with calling compound butter something other than a sauce. I’m definitely struggling with what, though.

Welp, guess it’s time to go play Katamari again.

Over the 4th I was able to re-confirm that Busch Light is still not horrible but not something I will ever directly spend money on ever again.

I agree - that’s some good college pranking. I kind of remember the police weren’t excited about it (true to any college town, Ames PD was not a fan of student hijinks). I think whoever was doing it stopped once it hit the newspaper.

I grew up in rural Iowa in the 90's. The naïve attitude at the time for a lot of farm and farm-adjacent folks was just ‘leave the keys in the ignition, nobody’s around to steal it’. Funny thing about that is that people didn’t remember to stop that habit when they went to college.  There was a series of quasi-thefts…

Exactly! We were sitting there wondering why the house lights weren’t coming up, so we walked out in the dark.

Two guys with a floor jack and a sawzall can strip a Prius in about 2 minutes (just enough time for a bystander to say, “What are those guys doing? Hey I should do something, whoops they’re gone already.”) 

I’m kind of surprised that there are so many surprised folks here in the comments. I’m living in California and this stupid shit has been going on for years. There was a lull a few years back when the state required recyclers to ask for chain-of-custody, but they apparently found a loophole because thefts are up…

Same! I can’t figure it out either.

After I saw the review here, I said “oh no, I love it.” Sounds like I’m not alone...

I was in Kindergarten when GI Joe and Transformers entered the kiddie mainstream. Up until that moment I loved He-Man, but it dropped immediately to #3 on the list once I had my western propaganda and Japanese robots. Plus He-Man figures had really fragile shoulders so half of mine had superglued rotator cuffs that…

I can’t figure it out either. Superhero movies and LOTR are fine at 2.5-3 hours if there’s a lot of story to tell (but The Hobbit says otherwise so, counterpoint). Give me a 90-minute tidy film with a good story arc and I’m happy. Is it a sense that you don’t get your money’s worth if you don’t get 180 minutes of seat…

I read all the way through this and I have to express my dismay at the lack of a Baby Driver shoutout.

I’m replying to myself to keep the negativity in the greys. The reply is exactly the kind of gatekeeping that causes people to feel like they can’t play! A person can play D&D For Free, right now! The books are nice and extremely helpful but far, far from mandatory.

If I know I don’t have time for a real full-service meal, I try to find a local coffee option if I can (Hey Stumptown, love you boo). If I do have time though, I’ll generally hit a place with a real bar and get what I can get.

If you’ve got $20 and a Target store nearby you can be well on your way to getting a D&D game started.  The Essentials Kit has tips for playing with just you and one other person, but if you have two-to-four people you know that like board games and can sit at a table for a few hours at a time it can work! 

I don’t know about the others, but the Fiat has hill assist. Alex is going to be driving in a hilly town, so having that little bit of help would be nice. It’s kind of a trip for me when I don’t have to drop the clutch and/or handbrake start while on an incline.