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Yes. I too think it’s perfect.

Everyone, note that the OP is the fake Lizardo troll account. He’s just here to act like a dick.

I can’t believe this shit actually goes on. How does a federal court judge get shuttled on a private jet to the palatial estate of a billionaire for his swearing-in ceremony, held in the mansion’s cartoonishly-opulent library (complete with cartoonish walk-in fireplace), and no one seems to have noticed until now?

Am I imagining things? I feel like I have been noticing a quirk in some politicians’ speech in recent years, and it seems like I’m hearing/seeing it more and more lately (perhaps simply because I’m attuned to it now).

There are four provinces in Canada that operate public agencies for auto insurance. It’s based on the idea that if the government is going to require people to buy insurance for their cars, they should make sure it’s available at a reasonable price. Some people bitch about it, but I saw my car insurance bill drop by

Hang on a second. (Yes, I have become obsessed with this. I’m studying that photo like it’s the Zapruder film.) Could that be a bunch of mud (or maybe shit, given all the horses running around) clinging to the shoe? I’m having a very hard time believing that he’s wearing shoes with a big chunk missing from the bottom,

Yeah, as an actual elected head of government, I imagine they have to walk a tightrope in choosing their fits. Too much, and Polievre’s screeching “look at that spoiled fancy-boy!” and “how much did that cost the taxpayers?!?”. Too little and it’ll be “these leftists have no respect for our traditions!” (But damn,

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Glancing at the hed and the top photos, I totally thought this old chestnut was back:

While you are technically correct (which is the best kind of correct), I think the ship has sailed on the original usage. The “from whence” construction has been used so long and so widely that doing it the “right” way would simply cause confusion. I have never been fond of the “well, most people are doing it wrong so

Oh, ffs. People who don’t like gossipy, snarky, cynicism and/or pedantry for the sake of a bit, should maybe avoid columns with names like “Dirt Bag.”

Looking at that header pic, even once we account for Ireland, the arithmetic still doesn’t work out. Unless his wife, the woman who bore all those kids, truly isn’t one of Alec’s “reasons to carry on.”

People that perpetrate crimes like this are evil.”

Yeah, it’s a 2017, and I think it might have been the last one. It was certainly the last one in my city anyway. (The last year they offered an A4 manual in the US was 2018, and I don’t think there were any in Canada that year.) When I asked about manuals, the sales guy initially said they didn’t have any. Then when

Believe it or not: Audi salesman talked me out of an S4 and into an A4, and he was right.

Was thinking the same thing! (But couldn’t get a good enough look to be 100% sure it was a Z4.) Awesome confluence of BMW behaviours, but would have been more believable if Z4 driver had found a way to hit the cop again.

I’m confused about the Volvo S60. Car and Driver says “the nonhybrid S60 is rated up to 26 mpg in the city and 35 mpg on the highway” which would seem to match the numbers cited on the slide. But the photo appears to show a plug-in port on the car. Is this simply one of those times the pic doesn’t match the text?

I yelled at car twice to stop, banging with my fist on hood. After warning car twice I smashed the window and the vehicle stopped.

a semi carrying the bees was traveling westbound on I-10 in the early hours of Tuesday morning when it was hit by a big rig truck merging onto the highway. The semi was being driven by a 20-year-old Georgia man while a 26-year-old from Florida was at the wheel of the big rig.

I was wondering the same thing. There are all kinds of things mentioned in the slide descriptions that aren’t visible in the photos.

I know this is rather beside the point of the post, but is it common in the US to refer to federal agencies using the name of the current president? I mean, were the HHS Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently created under Biden’s administration? If not, then calling it a “Biden agency” in the hed seems