YOU DESERVE ALL THE STARS.

I thought of this. Because explosions.

I love how car companies love to advertise “the (biggest engine/most horsepower/most cargo capacity/shiniest lug nuts/thickest engine cover/deepest-pile carpet) IN ITS CLASS!!” ...It always makes me imagine that they’re probably creating these weird one-vehicle classes. “This is the most high-performance,…

This is really really good news for people interested in sprucing up a 10-year-old VW: The market is about to get flooded with stripped parts (unless the TDI sellers are just throwing them away out of spite) and prices should be set to plummet.

Right? I was like “Why did she say ‘at least’? I .... I mean, maybe she’s talking about step-parents or something? But that’s waaaay more inclusive that I’m used to seeing from Yelly McIncoherent...I...wait, no, trying to apply logic. I should get more coffee..”

This is utterly insane and I want it. Price is about $5500 too high, but I LOVE HOW INSANE IT IS.

DAMMIT. Beat me to it.

oh god. Those sandwiches. They always taste the same. The bread is squishy and overly moist - somehow, sitting in a fridge wrapped in cling film always turns the bread to a barely-cohesive almost-mush that tastes like wood pulp. The meat tastes like salt and despair.

This dovetails nicely with one of my perennial rants: Rental car surcharges are utterly batshiat. It typically goes like this:

Goddammit.

I was hovering on the NP button because MURICA EFFF YEAHHHHHHH..... but then it struck me that there is not enough Lysol and bleach to scrape off 30 years of syphilis.
I’ll pass.

So I know there are 260 replies in front of me, but this is a good one: About 10 years ago, went to Grand Cayman for a wedding. For reasons that are now foggy (money saving?) I rented with a non-chain company. We wanted to explore the island a bit, so we got a Jeep.
It was a “jeep”, not a Jeep. As in ... I’m pretty…

It was a pelican.

Yup. My parents considered this and the Kia Soul because they wanted something with higher seating (they are older and a car that one gets “over and into” instead of “down and into” is a lot easier for them).

I was *this* close to saying “model trains” and went with ham radio instead. :)

When I picture the potential buyer of this car, I picture an exquisitely grumpy old man named Harold. He doesn’t want any of that “fancy stuff”. He doesn’t need navigation (“We took the beaches at Normandy without a goddamn GPS, you can bet your ass I can make it to Safeway without one”). He doesn’t need power…

COTD, November 5, 1955!

Probably ground already covered, but I’d argue that dogs are 4WD. If they want to (say, picking their way carefully up a hill) they can absolutely tear it up with all 4 legs. But if they’re surprised by slippery surfaces while already in motion (like a hardwood floor), they skid and spin like a Mustang leaving cars &…

As someone who had long hair for many years, can I just say: The “sport” bands with the little silicone ribs are the best thing ever. Anything else and my hair starts escaping the moment I put it on.

Okay, so I don’t really follow F1. But I know that it’s a sport of precision and strategy and literally every millisecond counts. And I also know that - like many sports, there’s probably a lot going on in a race that a neophyte might miss. But still, seriously ... apart from Hamilton’s World’s Most Expensive Riding…