One must indeed be careful when dealing with such inflated egos.

Lighten up. People have all kinds of little rituals that make them feel better. Rally caps at baseball games, crossing their fingers for luck, and even praying to St. Anthony to find something. Doesn’t mean they aren’t grateful to the person who actually made the wished for thing happen.

I have never copy/pasted a comment before. I hope that it’s legible:

Thanks! My craven, thinly-veiled ruse worked ;-)

“Jan doesn’t know who her guardian angel is. “I’d love to know because it means so much to me,” she said.”

He’s a chickenshit who can’t take criticism that’s as ugly as his comment is. I’m surprised yours didn’t get dismissed like mine did: https://thetakeout.com/1840008034

Your criticism is shitty & mean-spirited, as well as inaccurate - she’s 80, and thus older than the oldest boomers. Who gives a fuck to what she attributes the return of her wedding ring? They returned it anonymously, because they didn’t need any sort of reward to do the right thing.

“I prayed that I’d recover my lost wedding ring my dead husband gave me” is not analogous to “thoughts and prayers” after a fucking mass shooting you ignoramus.  

Lighten up. People have all kinds of little rituals that make them feel better. Rally caps at baseball games, crossing their fingers for luck, and even praying to St. Anthony to find something. Doesn’t mean they aren’t grateful to the person who actually made the wished for thing happen.

True. But even then, some will still insist the Conti is not a legit luxury car “because FWD”. Funny, that never kept the 1969 Eldorado out of Concours shows or anything...

Yes!

I wonder if they’ll take equity in my tech start up as down payment. We’re gonna be the next WeSnapbook, but for technology. 

You know that’s not the recommended application of cranberries to treat a UTI, right?

Huh.  I always thought he was....bigger...

“Harold, give the wee ginger a honk. Poor dear’s trying his best for a soulless git.”

There are few things more humbling than buying a bag of crunchy carb-y salt honestly intending it to last a week and an hour later realizing you’re running your fingers in the creases at the bottom of the bag to get all the crumbs and savory goodness.

We don’t have Gardetto’s in my neck of the woods that I’ve seen (Canada), but a provincial snack distributor sometimes carries bagged seasoned rye bagel chips. They used to deliver to my building and it was the best/worst thing ever to get emails from our admin that just said “Nutman’s here” in the subject line on…

There’s real merit to a single standard— Having “California be its own country” is getting old. You can hate Trump and still see the merit of a 50-state standard of behavior.

I normally don’t mind a little bias (for flavor) but Jalopnik continues sliding deeper into partisan nonsense while giving us increasingly less information. To the people writing for this website: Please attempt to explain an issue semi-objectively before throwing in your opinion. All this told me was that the author…

Counter-point: The company that brought us the Prius (and the textbook definitions of “reliable cars”) is now under attack for not following Musk and the Lemmings off the cliff? News Flash: Toyota is based in a country with ZERO petroleum reserves. Nobody has a greater incentive to cut carbon and reduce oil usage than…