How about fines as a proportion of income rather than regressive arbitrary amounts?

Counterpoint: Those aren’t bullshit tickets - you were actually in violation.

Because Tennis Channel is on for 3-4 hours every day at my house.

Most American players, if they were in a grand slam final against Hitler... well, it’d be a hard choice for me to decide who to root for.

I already pay extra for Tennis Channel because my cable provider lumps it into a “sports” package. So, for my basic cable subscription fee, I get ESPN and the Watch ESPN app where I can choose from lots of matches during the other 3 majors, at no extra cost.

I didn’t, because Jared Donaldson is a whiny “ugly American” brat.

What’s a Ute?

Wow, you guys are doing a great job of convincing me that this is not a good backpack for using as a backpack.

Wow, you guys are doing a great job of convincing me that this is not a good backpack for using as a backpack.

My house is paid off. You lost me at “rent.”

The Mythbusters confirmed that in some circumstances, you get a smoother ride by going faster over a washboard road.

It’s the same person who’s teaching people you can’t turn right without slowing to a max of 5 mph.

I get what you’re saying. Can we agree we all hate Kinja anyway?

Notice how Kinja converts your two-space full stop to one space. Dammit.

Part of my job is reading/editing stuff from my other team members. I’m an old, meaning I learned to type on a typewriter that works just fine without electricity. So I’m a two-spacer. Mostly. Most of my younger colleagues are one-spacers. Mostly.

“Download this app that can do this one specific thing that could be done in a browser tab.”

Who has 16 old phones? Pretty much any family with two or three kids, some of whom have reached college age. I’ve got a drawer full of flip phones and two or 3 generations of smart phones. Some of them still even work.

Damn, first tip? Thanks! I have to give credit to a former co-worker, who related how he and his blushing bride discovered on their honeymoon why their San Antonio hotel was so cheap...

Here’s another helpful tip - don’t let your dog crap in the house.

Thinking a vacuum cleaner (robot or otherwise) will pick up a semi-solid, semi-liquid mass, without smearing it everywhere is even more stupider.

1) I had a proper typing class and don’t look at my hands except when typing some of the weird punctuations that are up there on the top row.