I don’t know what the correct way to cleaner a slicer is but I do know that OSHA would not have approved of the way 16 year old me was taught to clean one years ago.

Entire exhaust from the cat back just a couple of weeks ago. It had gotten progressively louder over the week prior but I just figured it was a small rust hole in the cat that had gotten bigger. In fact it was the weld joining the pipe to the flange just behind the cat. Rolled over a speed bump in a parking lot and it…

Driving home from school with Dad in the early-80's in the old Bonneville. Nothing really going on then suddenly a dark streak flashed by the driver’s side window, kinda up and backwards. Before anyone could get out a “what the heck was that” CHUNKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK the front left suspension hits the asphalt…

one that you missed: Person behind you flashes their beams while you have your turn signal on —> It’s OK to merge in front of me.

A quick flash of the brights means there’s something ahed for them to pay attention to (usually a cop) if you’re moving or “go ahead and pull in front of me” if you’re stopped/slowed and they’re waiting to turn.

I lost the entire driver’s side windshield wiper assembly off my 1980 Celica Supra, at highway speed, in a driving rain storm, at night, while passing a semi on a single highway. So, there I was, courageously (yet cautiously) passing this truck, windshield wipers going full pelt, when I first hear, then see, my entire …

My buddy and I were taking our combined 3 kids to the local air show, blasing down the freeway at 120km/h, when the splash shield on the bottom of the engine fell right off our 2010 Tiguan. A rather surprising “ba-dum-bum” as the back wheels drove over it, and it was gone forever behind me in heavy traffic.

Notable partings:

September, freshman year, heading from school on Lawn Guyland up to Binghamton for a friend’s party in my oh-so-lightly-used-and-lovingly-cared-for (snicker) ‘75 Monte.

I had a 1998 S-10 2 door, 2wd with the 4cyl that use for commuting. One day the three bolts holding the exhaust headers to the downpipe broke or shook loose. I was basically running straight pipe into the engine bay for the rest of the week until I could get it fixed. Made a ton noise but no extra power.

Wasn’t me but my father had a front brake caliper come off on the highway. Honestly I don’t remember anymore if it was still dangling or just gone completely but it made a hell of an unpleasant sound when it went AWOL. And I do still remember my dad being uncharacteristically concerned by the noise and the immediate…

I had a Fiero, this could get long. It was basically like Hansel and Gretel and you could trace my movement by a path of random parts that fell off it it.

Destroying this plane really showed off Putin’s tiny dick energy.

I would consider myself “terminally online.”

to give some perspective on how big this thing actually was, here it is crossing a 6-lane autobahn:

All-Star Superman is definitely essential reading, it beautifully captures the essence of Kal-El and his fundamental decency. 

Lurking on the Gran Turismo Reddit, I came across a post venting about which cars can/cannot be turbo/ supercharged, which led to this gem:

Adam, thanks for investigating this...very illuminating! While a lot of this is, as you said, an “open secret”, it’s nice to have confirmation for someone who is actually in the thick of it.

Once you’ve experienced real soft-body damage everything else just feels like a cheap gimmick.

Definitely not a labor shortage...it’s a wage problem. For a very long time artists have been paid peanuts and affordability has exploded everywhere. The sad thing is it comes at a time where this AI “artistry” is coming up so what does a company do instead of raising wages...
We’re truly in a crossing point in our…