Czerny...anybody who’s had piano lessons for a few years hates that fucker.

42 people died in Toronto during the SARS outbreak.

No worries. Even Chinese people themselves are being racist against each other - cancelling Chinese New Year celebrations and community events without much provocation other than that there will be many Chinese people gathered in one place.

I live in a place with lots of high tech, and with it an increasing number of Chinese chains opening up. They seem to be all pretty high-end in terms of pricing - which is in line with the upper class image conscious Chinese consumers’ desire to be seen eating there just as much as the food itself. We tried out one of…

Macau was a Portuguese colony.

I have never lived in a region where dealers stamped their own logo on the cars (with the exception of the recently opened Carmax). I would not hesitate to make removal of the logo part of the negotiation.

More foam, please.

Yep. We were having brunch on the regular in the late 80s/early 90s in Portland. Of course, back then it just meant going to Denny’s a little closer to lunchtime.

It’s gotten to the point at certain grocery stores (WF, etc.) where you actually have to make an effort to avoid gluten-free products versus the other way around.

In the not-so-distant past, the largest purchaser of kale in the world was Pizza Hut. It was used as decoration at the salad bars at their restaurants (back when they still existed).

Am I the only one who remembers back in the day when they were selling natural gas as the environmentally better alternative over electric?

That’s not quite true. My intern pulls up with his Altima next to my G37, and the very first thing I noticed was that the door lock button on the door handle was identical. The next thing I noticed when he got out of the car was that the key fob was also identical save for the logo. Upon further inspection, there were…

I had a G37 for 8 years and miss it very much because I needed something with AWD to get around the nastier winter weather we’re getting these years. It was between the G37 or a 335, and the G37 had 85% of the sportiness of the 335 but without any of the reliability headaches. The car had zero time in the shop other…

Every elder generation since the dawn of time has criticized and outright disparaged the younger generation. There’s a famous Socrates quote about it.

I’ve had pigeon. It’s like eating quail.

This was our family’s first van - we had the RWD version. It clearly had some superior interior materials than the contemporary vans, and the lack of sliding doors was refreshing as a feature. The down side was that the transmission never seemed to engage gears correctly - lots of whirring and hunting around. The…

People in Hong Kong flip parking spaces like Americans flipped houses back right before the last mortgage meltdown.

I have a friend who is an executive at a Hong Kong subsidiary of a Fortune 500 company. It’s just so horrendously expensive to have a car there - he drives a Lexus ES because you have to double the price and then some to account for taxes and parking.

Don’t ever fuck with white males named “Kelly” or “Ashley”. They have more to prove/compensate for their given names.

I think he’s pulling Trump’s leg a bit here claiming this is the first US factory for LV. I’m quite sure they have manufactured items in the US in the years past.