Right? All I could think while reading this was “how utterly fucking stupid have people become?” How addled are some people’s brains that we have to tell them “if you wouldn’t put a food in your freezer, don’t leave it in any other below-freezing-point environment - because it will, you know, freeze”? In what kind of…

In general, it’s good that those poky, easily bent or broken things are no longer sticking out of our cars, but I have fond memories of one of mine. I locked my keys in my car at the airport years ago, in the middle of a giant parking lot with no tools or coat hangers in sight. Harnessing my inner MacGyver, I noticed…

Prince Edward Island, a small Canadian island northeast of Maine

I have made some really, really bad videos and Powerpoint presentations to show my students what not to do, and to illustrate how gratuitous effects and attempts at “humour” can nullify the usefulness of any actual content. That TSA video checks every “don’t” box, and then takes it to another level altogether. I have…

Enough with the anticar koolaid please Amber.

Gotta love it when these idiots fight, but there’s no one to root for. Reminded me of something I saw in the NYT this morning. I read that someone said of Musk: “He’s a truly evil person.” OK, sure. Then I saw that the quote came from Steve Bannon. My brain is now vapour locked.

Holy fuck, you waited a year to post this failed attempt to sound superior? Of course that’s the reason, genius.

Exactly! That’s the kind of gambling that could actually make the flight more fun. Prop bets on all kinds of shit like whether the flight attendant will smack you with the bar cart, how many idiots will smoke/vape in the lav, how many feet of duct tape will be needed to tie down the guy who goes batshit halfway to…

Your incoming president refers to our Prime Minister as the “governor” of the “51st state”, and threatens to take over our country “by economic force” if necessary. You guys have a massive fire problem, so we naturally send a bunch of firefighting planes and crews to help. A Canadian firefighter and his girlfriend in…

I’m surprised to hear that you don’t believe many people might walk 20 minutes a day. On weekends I normally walk at least an hour a day, just for fun. I am also lucky enough that I can walk to and from work in about 20 minutes each way. I do this very happily, year round (and I live in a part of Canada that has very…

Damn, I miss the days of Brock Yates, Csabe Csere, Patrick Bedard, et al. I get a lot of blank looks from the utes when I invoke names like theirs as I begin my “back in my day...” rants.

I rode these at my summer job (many years ago) with a power utility patrolling remote power line rights-of-way that went through all manner of difficult terrain. But their inherent instability encouraged all kinds of “fun” hijinks among the crew. For example, riding your front wheel up onto one of your co-workers’…

It’s wild that you would self incriminate yourself like this in public.

Mrs. Muck and I had plans to take the QM2 for a trip to UK a couple of years ago. It just seemed like it would be a cool way to travel, and to avoid the shittiness that is air travel these days. As you say, it’s not a “cruise ship” per se, and thus I suspect that the clientele tend to be people who probably wouldn’t…

About 2.7 million of those sales are fleet sales

U.S. car market hasn’t returned to the 17-million-vehicle annual sales mark

There’s just something special about French car designs. They’re weird, they’re cool, they’re gorgeous, they’re ugly, they’re some mix of everything.

First, it appears you don’t know what gaslighting is. Second, your pronouncement of a warped definition of DEI shows you don’t know what DEI is either. Finally, “America” is totally fucking racist and bigoted, and utterly lacking in sense (common or otherwise). Either you know these things, and are playing dumb so as…

I can confirm that it does work, despite what some ill-informed folks are claiming. Squirrels chewed the wiring out of my Audi multiple times until I read about the Honda tape a few years ago. The last time the little bastards chowed down, I got the dealer to order a roll. I said I’d buy the tape if they would wrap…

This sounds like it could be the work of AI. As they said, they’ve been doing this for some time, but I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that they’ve recently supercharged the system with AI bots that are now drawing unwarranted conclusions. As long as the onus is on the customer to prove otherwise, why not let the bots…