Wait, you mean an advertiser might be lying to us?

I can never get past the idea that a “Mikaela” came walking off the street to the focus group and they happened to have an engraved name tag ready for her. Or maybe she sat around long enough for them to go make one and was still that impossibly happy.

On paper it’s the obvious choice for the non-contractor, non-farming types who want a pickup truck. But it looks like a freaking sedan. They’ll sell even fewer of these than they did of the first gen, and that’s almost hard to do.

Neutral (and 1st I guess): It’ll take some convincing. The cabin I visit in the N.C. mountains is at the end of a long gravel road that ends with a steep uphill climb along an even worse gravel path. Let me watch someone else’s autonomous car go up & down that - safely - about 500 times and then we can talk.

Ponder wasn’t, like, UNTHINKABLE as a pretty high draft choice... he showed potential, had a good size, and could cannon he ball... but knowing what we knew about his elbow injuries, and the team’s general mediocrity around that time, it was an odd time to swing for the fences.

I’m an FSU fan but still, I freely agree: that was a crazy high, bad-idea, waste of a pick.

There should be a Tinder spinoff for parents, one for vegetarians, and one for people with herpes.

Yeah I know. And we do need to hear about replays, weird rule interpretations, etc. Maybe it’s the combination of mindless banter and Gruden’s intensity that irks me.

If we’re lucky, Jon Gruden won’t get a companion... he, too, will disappear and I can watch one game a week without hearing anyone talk.

I know, right? I can handle the 37-month season (by ignoring it until games 4/5/6/7 of the playoffs) but the 11 PM Eastern/3:17 PM Pacific tip-offs are ridiculous.

Yeah, it was a weird read. Following the logic, anyone with substance abuse problems has been failed by any institution he or she is a part of and anyone who has ever come in contact with that institution is a part of the problem. Forget personal responsibility.

If you have to ask, you should leave now. I’m already at the car.

By far the best part of the reporting:

Neutral:

Looks like “overly aggressive plastic bullshit” to me.

Counterpoint: have you seen how ugly the regular/new Prius is? This version has the greatest styling ever compared to that.

$60 per car on something they sell > 200,000 gets expensive quick

LOL, critical reading skills in an internet comment section? A man can dream... ;)

Yep, ‘tis the New Yorker in you. I live in an urban/suburban area with a carport and just don’t see a need to drop 6 figures on a car. But $35k (and, you know, details like a way to get service without having my car shipped on a flatbed to Fort Lauderdale) is perfect even if they do have to cheapen it quite a bit.

Agreed, retro styling is the draw. But having names that to the casual shopper seem to be 500, 500L, 500XL, 500+, 500-, 5x100, and so on — that’s an odd branding approach to me.