This is criminally under-starred. 

I mean other than the price point...I think it qualifies.

Joule thief!

As it happens, metric was about as popular across Europe as it is here in the US. Some of the unit names like cognates of “pound” and “ounce” were redefined in metric terms to mean something close to the local version, which were by no means universal: the Prussian Pfund is about 1 lb 0.5 oz; the Fuss is about 1'…

I always cringe when Americans make fun of other countries. I blamed it on their lack of perspective. They don’t realize how relatively shitty they have it, assuming they are middle class or below.

It’s not a joke, and I didn’t write that all “Americans” are fat.   The United States has fatter obese people than every major country on the planet.

French might not be perceived as working as much as others countries but productivity is another key element... https://time.com/4621185/worker-productivity-countries/

A good number of them had probably fought in WWI too. Add that to the 1.3 million who were killed in that war, the 1.1 million who were badly wounded, the ageing population due to the missing births during that war (estimated 1.4 million, so that’s nearly 700K men aged 21-25 missing from the population), the hundreds…

A ten-month long battle that killed three hundred thousand men was won by “dumb luck and the weather.” You bet. Think about what you just wrote, how fantastically stupid it was.

it’s ok don’t worry, we’re above that.
Plus we’re taught history. We know the score.
We have thousands of years of military history, we were a world spanning empire at some point, we funded the american revolution ... And we also know that even if yes, our government surrendered in ww2, most of the people didn’t, and the…

It irritates the fuck out of me too, especially now — the U.S. government has been overthrown with the help of a foreign power and occupied by a grab bag of fascists and truly ill-meaning incompetents.  And Americans sit around getting fatter while either going along with it all, or at the most complaining on the…

Yeah, the French ‘surrender-monkey’ meme is way past old and stupid. According to BBC Magazine, 5 million men in France were mobilized during WW2, and the population in 1939 was 41.7 million.

Because about a decade ago, BMW finally just made a decision behind closed doors at corporate that they are going to maximize short term profits, whore their brand image they earned over decades of making superior driving machines and make as much of a premium on raiding their past as they can.

Fuck that shit. I’m sick of hearing Americans issuing moronic snide remarks about the French. Only after any American Army fights and wins a battle like Verdun - such a thing hasn’t happened yet and it probably never will - will Americans have any right to talk shit about the French soldier.

For every French soldier who was not “brave enough” – at least according to the usual armchair-general standards of the Internet – there were hundreds of civilians who did risk their lives to help Allied air crews who had been shot down over occupied France.

Don’t be so obtuse.  Waze is a thousand times better than your bmw nav and it’s on car play.  Automakers have been overcharging for nav for years and car play and android auto are the big FU to that practice.  Come see me in a few years when car play is on its next constantly evolving and improving iteration while…

BMW’s version of Apple Car Play automatically disables your turn signals, but unless you click through 78 layers of iDrive to opt out, it subscribes you to monthly blinker fluid deliveries. Made in Germany, of course. 

That’s certainly true for Mini. News flash, uh, BMW - I need CarPlay so that I don’t have to use your shit Nav. 

Whoa whoa whoa.

She traded yellow cones for brown underpants.