Gotcha. Never really looked at it as closely as some people on this thread seem to be obsessing over it — it was a cool toy to get unexpectedly, but not one that I actually do anything with. I looked it up online after I received it and read that it was an actual production knob, but looking at it more closely, it…

Never looked at it as closely as some people seem to be obsessing over it, but yes, it is not identical to the knob in the car.  It is a cool toy, but not one that I have spent a lot of time analyzing.  I had read somewhere after I got it that it was an actual knob from the car (which would make sense, since it hardly…

I missed my window. Bought it June of 2017 and the slots for that Fall were filled by the time that I knew that they were open. I was not the only person who had that happen — Ford did not exactly make a big announcement when they opened enrollment.

That is true.

Now if Ford had made it a functional peripheral, it would have been the best driving sim gadget of all time. 

I traded in my ST for it. Considering that I drive a company vehicle for work and put less than 5,000 miles a year on my personal vehicles, there was absolutely nothing sound or logical about either purchase.  Sometimes you just grab the bull by the horns. 

If you are talking about the spots on the left side, those are just reflections from the lights in the room. Smooth as a baby’s bottom otherwise.

I would be down with that. Sadly, it just sits there for you to stroke futily.

One of the silliest but coolest things when I bought my Focus RS was getting the surprise ownership package in the mail a week later with various toys including a desktop version of the shift knob from the car. Nothing that I had read prior to buying it gave me any indication that was going to happen. Not exactly the…

He is arguing for the sake of arguing, which will always lead to strange arguments.  Pay it no more mind than it deserves.

This.  It is physically impossible to infuse oil with real truffles.  All truffle oil, no matter what you pay for it, is oil with a chemical odorant added. All truffle oil is an abomination. 

“This is just one of the innumerable confirmations of my theory, that pops up first in a Google search (it relates to the automatic gear, but the principle is the same):

Not when it comes to Animal House references.

In some races, everyone wins. 

Don’t give him ideas. 

Makes sense that Donald Trump would remember one of the greatest African-American singers of all time the same way that he considers all African-Americans: as the hired help.

Even worse, most people do not understand that the $717 billion is just the frontline Pentagon budget. It does not include the actual costs of waging our various wars, nor does it include maintaining our nuclear arsenal (which falls under the Department of Energy.) It also does not include all of our other national…

Definitely not as idiotic as doing this when you have been called out for a falsehood:

Too late.  But that comment is still at the rock bottom of the page, fortunately.

“Attributed” being the key word. It was hardly worth checking, but outside the meme itself I cannot find anything tying that statement to him. And let us be fair, John Wayne had some problematic views (racial, among others) so I am not defending him per se, but I am wholly against goddamned idiotic quote memes.