repub 1: Let me tell you about this woman I know. High school drop out. 4 kids. Lives off the government dollar. Spouse spent time in jail. One of her 4 just got his girlfriend pregnant at age 17.

It takes three generations to get out of the trailer park.

This is so common in the area around my hometown in southern Illinois. My cousin had her first baby at age 14. That baby had his first at age 17. And that baby had their first at age 15. My 48 year old cousin is a fucking great grandma.

Someone’s being a mathy ding-dong. The ford 302 comes in at 4948.99 CC, which would round down to 4.9 L. They did say “Windsor v8.” Some people like to be smarty pantses and call out that the 5.0 doesn’t actually displace (quite) 5 liters. 

Peep the wear on the hatch sill and the cargo floor in front of the jump seats. I’m pretty sure they ran caskets around in this bad boy. Courtesy car my ass. Unless it was a “courtesy car” for driving your dead ass uncle-in-a-box to his dirt nap.

This song always hits hard - but also speaks a little bit to the freedom/escape we can get when behind the wheel. Maybe that impression (however brief) that you are in control, that you can drive away from the troubles.

I was about to Graduate this one to a NP. It looked like it might be a fun project.

The biggest, most expensive problem the rail has always faced is getting over/through/around the Tehachapi’s. When this was up for vote I voted against it because I could not see a way to do it without breaking the budget in a huge way.

A while back I looked at how much they spent on the planning. It was in the 10s of millions. If you want to get real mad, look up those numbers. There was a debacle where they paid a consulting firm to plan a cheaper way to route the train and the cost of the consulting was more than the plan actually saved. 

There are probably ones, I mean GPS ones used to sell pirate CDs for disc based systems. There also is usually a car hacking village at defcon each year.

A Rolls Royce Ghost. Because they’re fancy and dead. 

Came to say exactly the same thing.  Subscription for something that improves over time, sure.  Subscription to keep a physical feature turned on - GTFOH

The Mushroom People from The Last of Us!

My mom served Dinty Moore over sliced bread as a quick meal from time to time. I used to get excited when she “made” Dinty Moore. It’s probably been 20 years since I’ve eaten it, and I have a feeling I wouldn’t be impressed if I were to try it now. Oddly enough I do have a family-size can in my pantry. I made a run to…

I guess the question for us malaise-era babies would be, what were the least-bad cars from the year we were born?

you used more words criticizing a post for being too verbose than words in the post you’re criticizing. take a moment and let that sink in, you pedantic doofus. 

if you think you hate it now, wait until you drive it...

I hope they bury them near the Atari E.T. cartridges. That will save me some time. 

Now, who among us has not committed a typo or two?

Yep, that part that you showed is now a “park and ride”, still weird. Not as weird as coming out of the city onto a highway that abruptly dead ends into a neighborhood. A guy on my softball team who is an old school city planner actually just wrote a book about the whole debacle called “Stop the road”. So, I know a…