I get the same impression. On this site I always see people say that the Mk4 Golf is a unreliable car, but from my European point of view it’s one of the most reliable cars ever.

I’ll tell you exactly why that is. Europeans, especially Germans tend to maintain their cars very well. Americans typically don’t.

Went to a lecture this summer to listen to a newspaper columnist give a lecture on city architecture in Philly and she said “um” every other word. It drove everyone nuts. People left and went to the reception room to get a drink before she was finished.

Destination fees are worse to me than baggage fees. With baggage fees, you are still technically providing an additional service - even if it’s one that used to be “free”.

Can sort of relate to this. I think salespeople would struggle in applying these heinous give-me-your-first-born sales tactics to a frugal crowd in Western European countries. Perhaps differences in credit/debit mentality may have to do with it. Most people I know who buy new cars either do so through their company’s…

And may I throw in this little gem — repeat the question before answering, during Q&A. If I can’t hear you without a mic, I certainly can’t hear the unamplified person across the room whispering a question.

I’m assuming that you may be British (?) based on spelling. Whatever your background, I think you’re onto something. Churches in the US tend to fulfill a lot of social functions that other institutions may fulfill in other countries. Or it might just be that those functions are accomplished in the very localized…

Show me someone who thinks engine braking is bad and I’ll show you a stupid person. I’ve never heard anyone express that opinion honestly, not sure where Engineering Explained came up with that.

The answer given was good, to which I will add that American cities and neigborhoods have developed in ways that discourage walking and actively discourage reliable public transportation, particularly on Sunday.

I use an old pair of jeans. As part of playtime, I sometimes grab my cat and put him inside the old pair of jeans jeans and cinch it at the waist. He’s figured out that he has to tunnel his way down one of the pant legs to freedom. He seems to enjoy it... I think he likes sort of enclosed spaces and tunneling. I make…

I thought the correct terminology was “purrito.”

Some churches will run a shuttle to pick up people that can’t drive and bring them to services, bring kids to/from bible school in the summer, transport day care and bible school kids on field trips, take the choir or other groups/clubs within the church to their different events they might attend, etc.

That’s funny—my grandmother always told me that if each person thinks they’re doing 60%, it’s probably even.

Exactly.

What in the ever loving fuck is wrong with this country that anyone, but specifically the people in charge think this is a remotely reasonable way to conduct business?

Queue some daft Scottish bint saying stfu because she and her husband have paid more taxes and contributed more to the economy than I have so that makes…

Are you going to pay for them to buy land in non-flood plains? If not, how will they afford it? Is there job going to move with them? When everyone moves out of the flood plains, how will you prevent the poor people displaced by price change of local areas above the flood plain from moving into the flood plain?

I have a friend who was unsure whether the obviously flirty waitress that left her phone number on his receipt was actually hitting on him. An Asian waitress rocking the nerdy look at that. I told him I’d kick his ass if he didn’t give her a call. Rest assured, they are married now.

I didn’t know I was about to have sex with someone until she started taking her clothes off in my bedroom.

Yup. Ladies, if a woman is hitting on your guy friend, please let them know ASAP, because good chances are, they don’t realize it unless she is literally grabbing his dick.

Line cutting was how people made everyone hate them before social media.