Because you’re buying cheap junk toilets. I have an efficient Toto that an elephant couldn’t clog where I have never had a problem jamming old school toilets with my very non-elephantine ass. As a kid, I got good at selecting an appropriate stick to assist the toilet—just flexible enough not to break, but with enough…

Nothing. It was a valid, if expensive, solution to EU regulations calling for increased pedestrian safety. What we got were taller cowls so driving even a hatchback seemed like taxiing a taildragger aircraft after driving something older with actual visibility from a reasonable cowl height.

I also liked them because they allowed for the steering wheel to be easily changed out instead of the hideous, steering-feel-reducing airbag wheels all for the dubious sake of safety from those shitty early airbags that were a danger to anyone of smaller stature due to the high power of their deployment and the…

It was in response to EU pedestrian safety standards. Other ideas from other OEMs were pop-up hoods. What was settled on is a set amount of open space above the hard points in the engine compartment, which raised the cowl height on cars, negating some of the safety both in terms of greater potential damage to the…

Got stuck in a traffic jam from a situation like this some years back. They had to put up signs during the ongoing construction to remind these cretins to make sure they put the beds down. These kinds of head-shakingly stupid events and the way they drive in general and seemingly exclusively (I’ll allow for a bit of…

There was an earlier version in the late ‘80s or early ‘90s that had the weights sliding on spokes on the wheel itself. It was at a now defunct sporting goods store. I rode it briefly out of curiosity, but don’t recall what it was like other than thinking it was mechanically interesting, but not something I wanted. I…

Had PTSD for 30 years. Not an ounce of sympathy. If this guy has PTSD and is having a flashback with this kind of extreme, extended response from something so innocuous, then he’s damn well aware that he is incapable of handling a firearm or being in any kind of situation that one would normally encounter as a police…

Never watched this creep, but I read something about him promoting himself doing philanthropic acts (the article was criticizing his methods or something) and the first thing that came to mind was that it was a cover for some really deviant shit. People who do charity for the sake of wanting to help don’t need to…

I heard that stupid shit before the internet. It was a dumbass white supremacist “retort” to the left for a while that’s probably just getting more widespread renown thanks to the internet (or is it that white supremacists are adding to their ranks and it’s new-to-them?). There’s a reason Orwell put doublespeak into…

That’s a big reason I bought a GR86. Yeah, RWD manual sports car with classic proportions practical enough for daily use with the 2+2 and fold down seat (I fit 9' boards in it and could probably do 10 with the trunk closed and 8 tires at one time), but a not-insignificant appeal is the lack of stupid BS that…

Or boring ass Honda with 1.5T or pretty much any Hyundai/KIA or Ford with an Ecoboost in apparently any flavor or ... Ridiculous counter demands on drivetrains of too much safety adding weight, plus mileage and emissions requirements, and customer expectations of power has resulted in backwards reliability and it’s…

The battery is not just energy storage, it’s the power delivery source. It’s why a long range (large battery) comes with a lot of power—the larger pack can discharge more power at a time safely. The motor just converts it into rotational work. A small motor will hamstring a big battery by limiting its work potential…

Only technically, as that would make it a Miller cycle engine. Though those are generally considered to be supercharged, it’s the forced induction portion that defines it and there’s nothing that would prevent a turbo from working with it instead. Having more off boost conditions, would kind of make it an…

That’s OK, they’ll get a second chance at a longer sentencing after they let him out in 2.5 years and he kills someone, per usual procedure. Or someone will take this guy out in self defense and they’ll sentence the defender to a longer sentence than this dirtbag got. What little child mentality thinks this garbage is…

That’s what you got from that. Wow. I don’t know how you tie your shoes. I guess that’s what Velcro is for.

You’ve pretty much got it. He’s referencing someone who misinterpreted a study either through malice or stupidity that looked into the mortality of COVID patients on vents—though it’s not a COVID-specific problem—that showed many patients had died of an acquired pneumonia that comes from being on a vent (VAP). The…

You really just took whatever this nonsense source as correct without thought? Nothing about it smelled funny enough to indicate that maybe you’d want to look into that claim—at least before parroting it—in order to not be seen as an idiot? Care to guess why some COVID patients were put on a ventilator? It’s OK, I…

Few? I’m lucky if I can drive a few miles without smelling a skunk’s ass. Go for a walk, same thing. City, woods, doesn’t matter—these entitled degenerate losers impose themselves on everyone else at all times worse than cigarette smokers used to. Moreover, these weak people drive terribly and the cops can’t test for…

When driving, I hate other drivers, cyclists (the spandexers, at least), and pedestrians. When I’m walking, I hate drivers, and at least half the other pedestrians. When I ride, I just hate drivers, so I guess that tracks for me.

I wish my car isolated me from outside smells. I can smell all the weed junkies driving…

And FEEL. You often felt connected to the machine you were operating. In many of these older cars, you could actually feel the texture of the road, the throttle was a GD cable that operated a more linear throttle without the hesitation of modern ECUs second guessing your demand, clutches with well defined catch points.…