In high school I did (PA) NY to London: Car, plane, bus, train, Shropshire. 36 hours of travel. I was 17. No way I could survive that today.

Ah the pre 9/11 days where a good kid was basically treated like a king by the attendants and able to sit in the cockpit before departure, good times.

I made the mistake of taking my C7 Corvette through one of those “conveyer belt” car washes. The belt mechanism has a metal plate at the end that allows the rollers to drop down and return to the beginning. Normally the plate lays flat but somehow it had flipped backwards and was standing straight up in the air. As I…

I mean, a Prowler has a pretty stiff platform, you could probably make some cool cutouts on the sides of the front cowling with exhaust piping coming around like some of the old SSK-styled cars.

I think we need to determine the most absolutely batshit insane, yet plausible automobile this can be shoehorned in to and make, let’s arbitrarily say two, trips down strip before turning the frame in to abstract art.

I’d buy into an ‘asshole’ charge myself. Earlier today, I was talking to a recruiter (I’m an IT contractor, always looking at new gigs) and we were discussing terms. We talked a little about money and then I hit him with my deal breaker: “The money is not as important to me now as one other factor: I don’t work with…

And apparently not even wearing a full face helmet.

He even claims that it was “too much confidence for too little skill.” That reads to me like he thinks there’s a level of skill where lanesplitting and weaving through traffic at 100+ miles per hour could ever be done safely.

Pilots are an interesting lot. In many ways they are extremely capable, resourceful, and responsible. But every now and then I experience something a bit off about them. I was on a flight for work shortly after COVID vaccines were rolled out and people started to travel more and sat across the aisle from two off-duty…

Better known as the American system.

Zing!

I do not own a gun because I HATE PEOPLE. Because - well, you know why - see this guy. 

I lived in NYC for a decade and my favorite pedestrian-vs-cars story was when I almost got run over by an SUV with diplomatic plates during UN Week. I was limping back to my office after a 12-hour day running an event in high heels, and I definitely had the light (not only the green traffic signal but also a Walk…

A million times this. I remember one from a while back where a woman in England pulled this (and recorded it, of course), but in that case, she wouldn’t give any name at all. She’d been pulled over for doing something like 65 in a 45—not horrible, but you’re probably going to get a ticket—and the officer mostly just…

Dear god, yes. This wasn’t even something that was reserved for high-end models. Legitimately *every* American car, even the economy ones had big comfy seats in them. IMO, it makes a car feel way more “premium” than any amount of technology does.

saying things like “there are too many tourists” at all makes you part of the problem, tbh

Mahwah or the Highwah, Klaus!

The difference is that cyclist wear helmets to protect themselves, pedestrians don’t. A person knocked down by a cyclist can end up with a severe head injury. 

As a recreational cyclist, there’s no doubt that just being on a bike doesn’t make an asshole less of one. I get pissed when I see cyclists completely flouting traffic laws, riding in big groups and blocking traffic when single-file would let cars pass, splitting traffic, etc. because I know all it’s doing is pissing…