Despite your differing opinion about the meaning of words, I maintain that you are incorrect. A claim has no agency, and to “operate under [an] assumption” requires agency. However nitpicky this point is, Lord Burleigh is correct to hold it. (He has the agency required to voice a claim, unlike a claim, which cannot.)

Given someone who is whining about a supposed lack of editors, it’s pretty rich to claim that the word ‘operate’ doesn’t work there, considering that’s a pretty common usage of the word.

Ah! I told ojiisan not to touch any of the buttons in the center of the Mach 5's steering wheel!

You are not being pedantic; you are merely unaware that the concept of mass exists to deal with this very problem. When taught the difference between mass and weight in school, the teacher often explains that an object with a mass of 1kg on Earth will weigh 1 kg on Earth, but when transported to the Moon, it will…

What you got right:

Can’t tell if trolling or just want everyone else to redefine the term “bourbon” to be what you want.

1. I don’t believe Playboy ever used Vaseline; that was Bob Guccione’s (of Penthouse) gimmick.

Hopefully, in like 5 years, everywhere will have the plate readers and EZpass will just be something you register for and you get a reduced rate since they don’t have to mail you a bill - no transponder required.

Consider yourself lucky. In Illinois, the cost w/o a transponder is double the transponder rate. (This may not be currently true; the no-transponder rate was cut to equal the transponder rate when COVID induced the State to lay off 100% of its toll collectors, and the rate may never have bounced back.)

Back before 9/11 changed everything, you used to be able to drop people off at the gate, and also wait at the gate when picking someone up at the airport. Doing so meant that you almost certainly parked in a paid garage, and perhaps bought something from the concessions to kill time while waiting for your inevitably…

Or there’s the Dire Straits lyric from Industrial Disease:

Ah, but “I have no recollection of a particular event occurring 30 years ago while was at a drunken college party” is sufficient evidence to prove that the event in question never happened and it’s perfectly okay to confirm me as a Supreme Court Justice. So we’ve got that going for us, which is nice.

First off, why are we paying to maintain them if they have a crew provided under the insurance?

Can you do a haiku version?

As a long-time Jetta owner and fan, I can say that this i sone of the ugliest pieces of shit I’ve seen in a long time.

Keith David, eh? I may be a little confused...

As the article has been updated since you posted this reply, I can only comment based on the quotes you pulled in your comment. And while you are correct about some things — the vocabulary error in misusing “alleged” and the obvious, common typos “has” for “had” and the wrong form of its — you are quite wrong about…

New research suggests that cats can distinguish their owner’s voice from that of a stranger’s

UPS shops are ALL union shops. The Teamsters are one of the most powerful unions in the country. UPS employees are extremely well represented by the Teamsters; I can assure you that if this woman really was fired for falling asleep on the job, the union would have had her back on the job within 2 to 3 days at the most.

Ok, but only if you stop typing two spaces between sentences; that only applies when using a monospaced font, like on a 50s’era typewriter.