That’s exactly how I felt when I got my Mustang. I could have taken up one of the ones on the lot, and maybe paid $1K less or so, but I wanted the options I wanted. Ordered from the factory.

“Can you imagine how hard it must have been for a second-grade Mahershala Ali to spell “Mahershala”?”

Isn’t this the exact same thing he said about the Cayman?

I liked it a lot! I preferred it to The Grand Tour, actually. Not that I didn’t like TGT at all, but on average I was interested in more of TG than TGT. I also like the chemistry between the three hosts on TG, they seem like they’re having fun, while Clarkson and company seem almost ... curdled? Like, they’ve been…

I’m cynical enough to believe in industry astroturfing.

real inspiration

Nixon should have been Secretary of State in a much better person’s administration.

Nope.

“pedigree” = “coasting on name”

that redwood house tho ... damn

more like, “if you’re praising a manual just because it’s a manual, and not because it’s actually involving or does what a good manual should do, rethink your priorities”

Thank you!

Ah yes a “parking thread”.

the problem is when “in this economy” becomes basically what you say for your entire career.

Solid interview, Torch.

This is a nightmare. Instead of single identity, Nintendo has multiple personalities? This is dumb.

tried suggesting everything to my MIL (including Chevy SS) and she turned all of it down. Will continue driving 12-year-old Chrysler 300.

I grew up in a fairly affluent Connecticut town, so was always surrounded by upper-middle-class wealth (not Greenwich ballers, the people who lived in NEW HAVEN county), but never thought that made any of them better than me. Not in a “I don’t see wealth” way - we always knew who had more than others - but they never…

sounds like a “there’s always a bigger fish” situation.

That $0.33 was a figure someone somewhere quoted as an average .... I just looked at PG&E’s site and their quoted average was around $0.22.