That’s what I had always thought, but a friend who has done way too many hours of research into this kind of stuff (Elvis, Beatles, etc.) tells me it’s a lot more complicated than that - and that if you had to simplify the narrative, it really was the record company producers who played up the “cleaned up” rock-n-roll…

I doubt anyone named “Jenny” would agree.

It’s certainly been a very interesting kaleidoscope and Rorschach test on suburbanite women of a certain age in the past 2 months or so.

A luxury car - or any luxury good for that matter - the whole point is to own and let others know that you own something that they cannot afford to own.

When someone parades around town with a luxury good that this person sees many others in the same vicinity also parading, then that good becomes less of a luxury good.

Youtube has a very fine collection of Sovereign Citizen videos. My favorite is the guy getting tased in the courtroom.

I don’t know if they had anything directly to do with it (I’m guessing this is more the publisher), but I know somebody who wrote one of the “Chicken Soup” series and had to fork out $50k of her own money to publish it. She did not make back nearly enough to break even.

Yup - they have Tier 1 gas and they’re very good about pump/filter maintenance. So their gas prices should be compared to other name brand stations, not supermarket discount gas or mom-and-pop X Brand gas.

Yeah that’s some sweet cherry picking of prices in the article. In the 3 states that I frequent, it’s always in the neighborhood of $0.50-$0.70/gallon savings - so that’s $15/tank.

There’s an old lady down the street from me who daily drives this, and it looks to be in immaculate condition. I should go introduce myself at some point.

I mentioned in another thread - I just fed a family of 4 for around $35. Two trays full of burgers, fries, and drinks. That’s a lot of food for present day Brandon Bux.

Shake Shack will set you back close to $20 per person if you’re not careful. Five Guys is getting to around that same price point.

This is a well-intentioned law, but can be misinterpreted in so many different ways leading to all kinds of slippery slope situations.

Still own an original NES and SNES and those things will dance and sing long after the plastic has developed a nice yellowing “patina”. (OK so the dust prone NES connector wasn’t a good example...)

But fast forward to the Mini NES I got - the print of the logo on the front has already wiped away, despite it just having…

It’s not weird. It’s deliberate.

Somebody has to be that proverbial uncle who works at the Nintendo HQ.

The 3 groups you don’t fuck with in America:

The IRS, the intelligence community, and Disney.

$60 for Costco pays for itself with just 4 or 5 fill-ups at the station.

But but but the news tells me the entire city has been burned and razed to the ground already and no one wants to live there.

Just got back from Disneyland last week (albeit in CA). But man I haven’t seen it this crowded ever before. Whatever RWNJ boycott is surely not working.

I’m talking crowded like I can’t even outstretch my arms without hitting somebody at all hours of the day.

Surely someone would have run it through some AI/ML upscaling algo by now. (Probably what Criterion will be doing with their upcoming release)