Yeah, you don’t understand. You just don’t. The man was taking a selfie, for heaven’s sake. The helicopter should understand how important that is and immediately stop its rotor. The staff should have been arrested, along with the designer and manufacturer of the helicopter. When the sacred bounds of selfie etiquette…

I’m glad Team Knight Rider was mentioned, but the sequel series has to be noticed. It used a Shelby GT 500 instead of a Firebird Trans Am. Ok, fine, whatever. The Shelby is beautiful, so no problem, I guess. But in (I think) the pilot episode, Hero Guy is being chased by Minivan Full of Accessorized Baddies. So, let’s…

Do they have something before the bridge that detects overheight vehicles? On at least one of those it looked like the sign over the 11' 8+8" bridge started flashing as a semi approached.

I have, maybe 5 times total on 2 vehicles over 15 years. Not a big deal.

This is pretty absurd. It’s a horrible idea. The charge is lying under oath by saying, “precedent on precedent”, essentially a confirmation of stare decisis. Ok, fine. The flip side of that is that the candidate would basically have to affirm, “I will not change my mind in the face of compelling evidence”. What’s…

One Smart car and one baby African elephant meets my needs a little better.  Is it ok to mix and match like that?

I actually had a dealer tell me that, on a much cheaper car. “No, no test drives, but it’s great, trust me.” This was for a used Taurus SHO.  Noped right out of there.

I’ve taken your post, removed the ad hominem elements, and retained only the logic and reason. Here’s how it looks now:

And a little too much of “my word!”.  It’s like hearing my great-grandmother, bless her heart...

I don’t think so, and I’m certainly not one of them.  I know a few that are thoughtful and introspective.  I don’t agree on a lot of matters, but I appreciate that we can talk about it.

Agree about stud extractors and stud finders.  Someone brought a stud extractor near me once and I was suddenly pulled from my chair and right to the tool.  And I went down an aisle of stud finders at Home Depot once.  Every damn one of the things suddenly went off.  So annoying.

That’s what I was thinking.  I mean, it’s right there in the name...

My father would tell the story of impregnating my mother every winter solstice. It was beautiful. You Jalops have hang-ups.

“...an $80,000 adult toy”

The Coke trick works extremely well.  If you use enough, it causes complete shutdown, keeping the engine from using any gas at all.

So this isn’t the secretary to Kate. This isn’t that secretary’s assistant. This isn’t the assistant secretary. This is the assistant secretary’s assistant.  The pay sounds about right.  This seems more like internship than a long-term job.

I’m up to join Antahole.

A point on proper writing: It is considered improper to refer to “the Duke boys”.  Accepted practice is to instead say, “them there Duke boys”, optionally followed by cracking open a Budweiser.

Yeah, that’s how I see it, generally. He’s a political creature that can exist only with deep division. It seems like the best thing just might be to give him enough rope to hang himself. I say this as a conservative-to-center person who despises Trump’s divisiveness and demands of loyalty to him personally over all…

Well, that’s just objectively false. He is a very bright guy, but there are many bright people out there. Musk has one sad commonality with Trump— a really lousy reading of the Twitterverse at times. In business, he’s had some great ideas and some real duds. But that’s not his strength. He’s incredibly good at putting…