Disney did this themselves in a comic book - the Beagle Boys (had to look that up) broke in and tied up Scrooge. He asked to take one last dip, and they let him - he suggests that they try it too, and they all knock themselves out.

Last time I bought gas, it was 70 cents less per gallon (!) when paying in cash. Not to mention that vendors have to pay all sorts of fees for swipes and I’d rather not harm the very few businesses that I patronize. And FWIW, having every little purchase tracked makes me unhappy.

In NYC, at least, the points on your license will affect your insurance. The fine is just like a cover fee at a club; you still gotta pay for all your drinks.

Tolls and Fines. Fines are probably 2/3 to 3/4 of that total number.

It was a Range Rover Sport, different car.

That does take a split second - you see a red light flash briefly, but you still have to look at what the other lamps are doing to be able to interpret what is happening. Not to mention the countless cases where you can only see one taillight.

Yup - I used to work next to the neighboring 30th precinct. I once photographed an E30 Touring that was illegally parked there (one of the cops was a BMW collector) and he popped out and started threatening me for taking pictures. Kinda glad not to be in Harlem any longer in general, to be honest.

I have been alone in a subway car in NYC, but that’s actually a horrible feeling as you don’t know who may decide to join you to take advantage of the absence of witnesses.

If 15 minutes is true, then that doesn’t sound atrocious.

That hype video is so sad, and keeping the plate inside of a glass box is faintly ridiculous. I can understand buying the plate, but they don’t need all of those production values to make it desirable.

Well, Mercedes-Benz were part owners of Force (once known as Bajaj Tempo) for 43 years. They still collaborate.

Yes, they just do it with a bit more subtlety. 

Hilarious and awful. Golf clap.

Something along the lines of Koksnüstern Edition perhaps? (that’s my translation of coke nostrils; you’d have to a lot of it to design this or to bleed out of both nostrils simultaneously)

Seconded. That was a weird take, like saying “I’d rather sleep with Selena than with you” as if it was a putdown.

Meh, sure, but part of the joy of being nouveau riche is having people envy you for your things; no one except the dumbest of poors will envy an XM owner. Real wealth doesn’t care, but real wealth drives a Highlander or something.

Holy crap, it looks like a twenty-year old Indian show car or something from Ssangyong that everyone would mock.

They’re not doubling down on that a-hole grille, this is like sextupling down.

Yeah, camp grounds within one day’s drive of NYC fill up months in advance...

I don’t think going outside should be limited, but as a worst case example, having a bunch of bored rich people traipsing around the Galapagos or the Anatarctic is best avoided. I am just aware that me being into the forest isn’t helping the forest.