(I also got a side of hand-dipped mozzarella sticks, but I don’t think they had any affect on the experiment.)

If you’re not using bar soap you’re just paying more for them to ship you a watered down product.

If you’re not using bar soap you’re just paying more for them to ship you a watered down product.

Is this where I go to find my Power Animal?

A little less direct but Steve wielding Mjolnir was also a callback to the first Avenger film when Tony tells Steve that everything special about him came out of a bottle, I think right after Steve tells Tony that he’s not the guy to make the sacrifice play.

Brings to mind how the areas around Chicago have somehow codified this in their parlance: Chicagoland. No, you’re not of Chicago, you’re suburbanites. Own it.  Does any other metro area do this?

While neither of my grandparents lived quite that long my grandfather kept his good looks and vigorous body and mind until the very end when kidney issues brought him down. His secret was similar: Beer and whiskey when you want them and not giving in to every one of your wife’s whims.

I do like the high and deep set speedometer and other related important instrumentation, but why are they in the center? Why is this considered a good idea?

MQT FTW. :)

Well there was the worldwide lead poisoning in the early- to mid-twentieth century that we’re still waiting to taper off in the populace...

I turn away when people are injected with needles in film and television.  I do not look.

Only half?

> I’m surprised Americans even get dressed in the morning anymore.

Seriously. 

Complete *and intentional* misunderstanding.

I definitely see Google’s text-to-speech doing this, correcting something it got wrong 5-10 words ago after I’ve added more context.

I didn’t do anything crazy like that, but I do have a good memory of taking the Red Line to downtown Chicago on the morning of release day (Sunday September 7, 1997) to be there when Toys ‘R’ Us opened. I remember the streets being very empty. I got the game and I think hardly left my dorm room for the rest of the…

I’ve purchased two because it’s otherwise a great charger, but that light is the worst.

I’ve purchased two because it’s otherwise a great charger, but that light is the worst.

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I got an ‘01 E39 about four years ago and I love all those same things about it.  Luckily no (major) issues yet.

Hear, hear. I purchased soap for myself exactly once, twenty years ago, and I think I might still have a couple bars from that pack (Lever 2000). The mini hotel soaps I manage to get are well enough to keep me in good stock.