justphil
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justphil

We used to make a point of inviting the Finns and Norwegian women to all of our mess dinners whenever they were around. Because reasons.

Is it somehow better etiquette to poop into your hand?

next you’re going to tell me the fuel and oil needs to be “filtered”

Don’t they just do this for when it’s running (either this or a single air filter over all of them)?

I need these for my Corvair.

I’ve always wanted a BMW 2002 with ITBs and a great diff

Sexist or just going by statistics? Some professions have a huge majority of a certain gender. Repugnant? Get over yourself.

The 12v battery or the hybrid battery? If it’s the 12v I am really impressed, if it’s the hybrid battery I’m still pretty impressed if it manages to run on electric only, lol.

1998 Lexus LS400 w/307,000 miles.

Another one.

Volvo XC70 Wagon with a 6 disk in-dash CD changer. If you accelerated from a stop, while turning sharply to the right, the car would start spitting all 6 CDs out at me.

How did you figure this out...

Maybe 6 is for regular mode, and 7 is for EPA cheating mode?

On my Golf SportWagen...when you first start it up and don’t put your seatbelt on, sometimes it chimes five times, sometimes it chimes six times. And I can’t figure out why. It’s got nothing to do with seat position, the existence of a passenger, the headlamps, or the use of the parking brake. I think it’s a glitch.

Does it come with a sense of failure and rejection? Or does that develop over time?

I’m more interested in old Gawker’s editor AJ Delario’s efforts to help the allies in Mosul.

But how can Boeing pay is shareholders, executive board, CEO, CFO, CTO, CIO, president, finance department, marketing department, and themselves when they have to pay fair wages to the people who build the planes?

And I reckon I can do something else with my own wind tunnel: study the effects of turbulent airflow by actually lining up two or three cars and seeing what’s happening and why overtaking doesn’t seem to happen. Hey, come on, I got a big-ass tunnel.

A giant stack of food, diapers, and clothing labeled as all the things employees could buy for the same cost as annual union dues

Neo-Nazis in the White House. But hey, at least they’re pro-Israel!