You are absolutely allowed to be picky when judging a 40-year-old car with a 5-figure asking price!

I’ll watch it because I still enjoy the trio of presenters. In fact, I still throw on Top Gear or Grand Tour reruns when I’m working on something around the house and want some background noise.

Their phony personae really became clear to me when I started watching some of James May’s solo stuff (Man Lab, Man in Japan, Reassembler, and Cars of the People). He is a very intelligent guy, and TG / tGT just makes him look like a buffoon sometimes.

I’ve seen promos for it, but I’ve so far avoided it because I guess I just assumed he’d take a “bring a bigger hammer” approach to things.  On your recommendation, though, I think I may check it out.  I enjoyed his earlier not-quite-so-cartoony stuff, so if that’s what this program is like, it has some potential.

I kind of hoped that some of the behaviors we’ve become accustomed to over the past year would “stick” but that doesn’t seem to be the case. For example: Maybe it’s not practical to stay a full 6' apart from everyone else all the time, but I’d at least want the guy behind me in line to stay back far enough that I…

They may be doing something along those lines since Native American names are falling out of fashion (but “Cherokee” remains a big part of Jeep’s identity). They could have the Compass and the Cherokee get close enough to each other in specs that they eat into each other’s business, then quietly drop the Cherokee. And…

I’m not sure if this is what you mean, but I often wonder about how less high-profile celebrities live. I’m thinking about the one-hit wonder who hasn’t been heard from since the ‘90s or the character actor who pops up in movies every now and then with just a few lines. They could still be hustling trying to make it…

https://vole.wtf/kilobytes-gambit/

Everybody breaks up at Pomodoro.

If the power went out before closing time, they may have been unable to lock up (e.g., the system is normally controlled electronically, employees aren’t issued keys, so when the power fails it’s stuck in the “unlocked” position).

Whether it’s about the amount of time he was in the water, what he claims he did when he got out, or how he claims the cops reacted, I don’t believe a word this idiot has to say.

Personally, I’ve always found coffee in a tea bag a little suspect. How could a mug of hot water deliver the flavor-boosting extraction of a pour-over, French press, or drip coffee machine?

I’m fine with this. The documentary was fascinating and captivated pretty much everyone... but just as quickly, everybody got over it.

I like the design (I was/am one of those nerds), but I’m not sure if I’d want it in my car. The fiber-optic lighting sounds snazzy, too, but when I think about it, it sounds awfully similar to the stretched towncar that hauled my friends and me to prom back in high school, and that’s not a comparison I’d want in my…

Looks like jets or turbofans to me, not propellers, but I’m no expert on Russian aircraft.

I read those last 3 words in Elaine’s voice.

These stories of watermelon princes and vampire melons are all very interesting, but you’re way overthinking it. The legend of the sprouted swallowed watermelon seed is a classic Dad Tale™ (woo-oo). It’s exactly the sort of thing that a dad would tell a group of kids at a BBQ where watermelon is served (and many dads…

I can’t even begin to tell you how much wine I’ve dumped out because it was past the expiration date on the label.

I am a creature of habit, so while I go to the same grocery store all the time and avoid others, it’s not because I hate those ones that I don’t go to — I’m just more comfortable with the known quantity.