The entire notion of “Rank Has Its Privileges” is total B.S. when it comes to air travel. The mere fact that the airlines are monetized boarding order tells you that the whole system is broken. Nobody cares that you flew one million miles last year. Today, right now, at this moment you are the same as everybody else.…

How about: I’m still in love with my college crush.

Part of the reason is the five-year product cycle for the auto industry. What’s being designed today won’t be on the road for five years.

Wrong. Just wrong. Woefully uninformed and wrong.
The chief reason why capital gains is taxed at a lower rate is simple. Risk. By investing, you are taking a risk that the money will appreciate in value more than it would if it just sat in the bank (which the banks get to use, btw). You are risking hard-earned cash for…

I hate that Outlook tries to do you a favor and prettify the sender’s e-mail address. There are lots of times when I want to see (and copy & paste) the real thing.

I once had some girl call who said her name was Phyllis but I could swear that the voice was that of an old flame of mine. Of course, this was before caller ID so I never really knew who it was.

Some days you’re the bug. Some days you’re the windshield.
Last full moon was pretty sucky as was the one before. That last one had a whole series of doo-doo-occurs for me. They say that bad things come in threes. In my case, it was something like 6, 7, or 8. Maybe 9 if I think about it so it’s three threes. FML.

So this is why 60% of Americans have no emergency fund.

Well, one should know the background of people who are pontificating with impunity on subjects that they likely know very little about or who are woefully misinformed... just like Gawker writers.

A disturbing report yesterday said that writers at Gawker have been asked by managers to “ensure every other story has an anti-Trump angle,” presumably for political reasons.

Using a roundabout and pretty much every other traffic management system is quite simple if you remember a few simple facts: No, you are not that important. Yes, the rules do apply to you. No, everyone does not have to get out of your way. Yes, as a matter of fact, everyone else on the road is just as busy as you are.

FUD in the form of click bait.
Freaking out about this is like taking a doofus like Samantha Bee seriously.
Furthermore, most people have no idea how a Constitutional Convention works much less the Constitution itself.

Pampered Chef. What a ripoff. Just go to a restaurant supply house and buy all that stuff for a lot less money.
Back in the early 90s, pre-Google et al, I went to the sales pitch for one of these ludicrous warehouse club things. Their showroom had a lot of fancy stuff in it. Boats. Hot tubs. They said that you had a…

As hilarious as this thread is, I can tell you that your kids are going to be saying the same things to you when you get old and decrepit and they aren’t going to sanitize the language either.
That said, I’m grateful every day that my folks are still with me and have all their marbles.

Remind me again why living in an overpopulated urban area is better than living in the country.

Fun fact: If you notice that clicking seems faster than normal, you probably have a burned out bulb on the side of the car that the turn signal is set to. At least that’s how the mechanical ones usually work.

“Four out of five dentists surveyed recommend Trident.”
The fifth one is smarter than the other four because he figured out that he can make more money on the cavity-filling procedures than the other four.

Makes you wonder why they don’t make hexagonal battery cells for more efficient packing.

Proper side, my ass. I regularly see asshats pull up to the gas pump on the wrong side and drag the friggin’ hose over their roof to the filler. One douche-canoe even broke the retracting string trying to stretch it. Jeez, people!
It’s a likely assumption that these are the same people who pull a full car-length PAST…

IMHO, the correct answer to any trivia questions is, “Well, I’m not trying out to be on Jeopardy! so I’ll have to google the answer for you.”
IMHO, the correct answer to any question that requires you to have memorized the answer shouldn’t be asked of any engineer because looking up the correct answer is less prone to…