Thnk you! Disclaimer: I have a kid, and I’m glad I did, but it’s clearly not for everyone (inluding some who do have kids unfortunately). Why does society consider someone else’s personal lifestyle decision a relevant question? Good for her to have such a solid response.

Or, more common around here in silicon valley, is just to call a car broker and have him (they all seem to be “him”s) go dig up the car you want and deliver it to your home. No need to go to a dealership and put up with the pandering well-dressed sycophants. Plus the sycophants wear $3000 suits while the bently and…

I first misread that as “dowdy sphincter” which at first seemed plausible, but he’s so pale he’d have to be a sphincter touched up with some anal bleaching.

It’s hard for me to see what’s wrong with this. It’s kind of dumb, but not wrong.

Realtors can be such shits. A few years ago I was sellng my house and when my agent showed me the offers she said about the best one, “Are you OK selling to this person? She’s a half breed.” I don’t think I’d ever heard anyone utter that phrase out loud before — or since.

This syle of car phone is what the SIM card was developed for. Ever wonder why, when you buy a sim it comes in this credit card sized holder you break it out of? Well that is the standard SIM size, so you could keep it in your wallet and put it into what ever car you got into.

Almost all of them. Sure, there’s a traeoff between cheap Walmart jeans that only last a few washes vs something a little bit higher up the cost curve: sometimes the cheaper is better sometimes not as people have commented here. But the “high end” is mostly about showing off. My ex liked the expensive Prada clothes…

I completely agree on the they-should-pay-me front. It’s even more egregious when you realize that they’re all made in the same factory. So for example you an pay $$$ for a “polo” shirt (with it’s weird pseudo-wasp fetishism) or just $ for the identical shirt without the silly polo guy on it. Not to pick on ralph…

I got that treatment from my boss’s boss once. One day I ran into him by the coffee machine and he told me how glad he was I worked there, what a difference it was, etc. I was just a dumb kid and probably not earning my keep but I figure it’s part of his job to tell people they’re great and I just happened to show…

Brilliant! The joke will be on him when the only country willing to give asylum to him, trump and the rest of those fucked up pygmies will be... Iran!

I don’t care about Garcia: you managed to be a student (at a demanding school) while you had a kid. That’s more superhero level than some pro athlete.

I just pull spikes onto my boots for that transition region between indoors / pavement and snowshoe zone. I use Yaktrax diamond but there are plenty of other good ones. The Yaktrax fit over downhill ski boots which is really important.

At least we can be releived to know that no functioning turn signals were harmed in this incident.

I have been in an emergency jetliner landing (I was in coach) and there was room to “assume the position”. The flight attendants had time to come around, collect our shoes, and check everybody’s position. They also had time to move some people out of the emergency exit row and stick me in instead. A flight…

If you mean at home, California would rather you didn’t. The fancy pants places capture and recycle the water. I think they care less about water waste (what, a whole bucket?) than soap and crap getting into the water table (which means the SF bay around here).

For years I flew 100K+ miles/year and needed a simple system. I hated those all-in-one gadgets because they have always seemed flimsy to me and didn’t always fit when the only plug is, say, behind the bed or up against a corner. What I do is carry european style two prong cables that end with the “figure eight”…

For years I flew 100K+ miles/year and needed a simple system. I hated those all-in-one gadgets because they have…

I’d wear a mask myself if I were anywhere near Guliani.