It’s a slooooooaaaaaow pump...

“We just had something go right over the top of us - I hate to say this but it looked like a long cylindrical object that almost looked like a penis - moving really fast right over the top of us.”

From about the midpoint on, it felt to me like the filmmakers gave up on plot and turned it into a long, drawn-out CG chase. Like the original, it had a great premise but couldn’t nail the landing.

Lately I’ve had more good experiences with dealerships than bad ones, but that may just be because I only give a dealer one chance to not be manipulate dicks. A bad culture usually starts from the top, and I would be surprised if a dealership that tolerates hostile sales tactics will ever significantly change for the…

You go in the cage, cage goes in the water, shark’s in the water. Ahr shark...

So that’s that the use to bait sharks in Australia, huh? Poor wenches...

Yep, that’s a biggie... last time I checked my ink tanks were nearly empty, and I was getting lines that cleaning wouldn’t fix. So I’m debating between ordering fresh cartridges in hopes that fixes it, or just tossing the thing. I hate to landfill a functioning printer, but I also hate to throw good money after bad.

Whatever the hell your point is, I could not care less. But keep on pasting walls of text in response to jokes online, I’m sure somebody out there will take the time to make sense of it.

I mostly agree, though math homework still tends to be printed out (harder to do that on a pdf). Mine still sees fairly regular service for various forms, and will do a ton of scanning during tax time.

Huh - my cheap Brother multifunction laser is 6 years old and going strong, and has outlived my previous HP. While I’ve also gone through a few Canon inkjets over the past 20 or so years, it eventually becomes hard (and expensive) to source the ink cartridges, but that hasn’t been a problem (yet) for Brother toner.

Ok, thank you for clarifying... that does make more sense, then

“It’s only going to go up in value” is one of those seller gems that pretty much always translates to “I’m fishing for suckers”.

I don’t get how anyone who bothered to watch the entire series, then were disappointed by a sloppily written ending, would give the same creators a do-over. That’s like JJ saying “Sure, we had no idea where we were going with Lost and totally screwed the finale, but wait till you see what we do with the reboot!”

Joke

Nice flashback! Full disclosure: I skimmed the article, but stopped for each of the David Macaulay -level drawings. The 2020s needs more silly, beautiful, hand-drawn “how stuff works” illustrations!

How many students did it take to move it?

Similar story happened to a friend a few years back at a large Boston area Toyota dealership (cough*Boch*). They took his license for a test drive, then “couldn’t find it” when he was ready to leave. As soon as he lost patience and loudly demanded his license back, it miraculously appeared. He did end up buying the…

Nice, I’ll check it out. The pics I posted above are of one that got a B18. Either one is probably overkill in a fwd gen1, but I love that it’s been done.

Here’s a novel idea... how about putting it in a Civic? I mean, one that wasn’t designed by a 10-year-old...

“Mind over matter” is so important in any sport (and by “sport” I include lots if areas - climbing, motorsports, cycling, martial arts, etc). I guess I’ve been able to focus past fear in my experience with climbs and other related activities (rapelling, etc), though it never felt “comfortable”. Good to hear that’s not…