came here for this comment; left happy.

I like this as much or perhaps more than I like Bird-Dogs and Dog-Birds, which are my favorite

I had that one too.

SO MUCH THIS.

I fell asleep half way through sky fall... I fell asleep 15 minutes I to Quantum of Snoooore...

Yes, because he was driving it fast... In the rain. Rowan Atkinson is a madman behind the wheel.

YES.

Re: Depeche Mode

Quebec has some pretty incredible rust buckets rolling around the roads shedding red dust as they go... I wonder how some of them stay in one piece given the terrible roads.

Hyundai Elantra Touring. Aka the i30SW for America. I had a 2011, it was a very good car, and a surprisingly good drive as well. It’s weakest link was the electric power steering, but the engine and transmission worked perfectly together, and the chassis was lively and predictable, I embarrassed/pissed off a lot of…

As a Biker, I *HATE* other bikers. Too many of them are fucking irresponsible dickwads. I have a few friends I ride with, but I avoid other motorcyclists like the plague. I do not wish to be associated with them.

Don’t get me started about the monetization of the stock market and the need to provide “Investor Value” in the name of making the ultra-rich stock holders happy... that’s a whole ‘nother rant.

Sometimes you gotta do tough stuff.

True Dat.

I never said it was good idea, just not the worst possible idea. Trump is still an idiot and his administration is a pile of ass-kissers with more skill in buttering up the boss that their actual jobs.

The environmental issues are EXACTLY what we should be addressing. NIMBYism plus the global economy has resulted not in improved methods and practices, but in taking advantage of economically disadvantaged peoples to place the same old dirty practices in their back yards instead of ours. We NEED to be thinking about…

I worked with a medical products manufacturer who kept having problems with the steel from their Chinese supplier not passing the spot tests, but when they had ordered a control batch it was good, and every batch they received had the requisite paperwork. So they sent a QC person to the supplier and asked to be shown…

As someone who has worked with Chinese suppliers, Chinese steel is ABSOLUTELY lower quality, unless you ride the supplier like a chimp humping a football and install your own quality control and management staff in the supplier’s operation. This may change over time, but as of recent history and the present it is the…

The free-marketeers will tell you it creates more jobs and/or raises wages to try to meet demand for products, allowing workers to afford the now more expensive products... This is maybe trueish, but automation has certainly put a crimp in that theory, not to mention the age-old issue of lagging economic response. I…

truedat, tasty beer will get drunk, no mater what. SeaQuench is pretty tasty.