It was really just a joke. (But the point was that the switch to plant-based insulation on automotive wiring led to a widespread problem when rodents discovered that it was delicious - unlike the traditional, less environmentally-friendly insulations.)

Oh, god. Now I’ll have to worry about the squirrels eating my seats and not just my wiring.

I feel you. Years ago I was coming to the end of a long, high-speed highway trip when I heard a soft slap-slap-slap from under the hood as I pulled into my driveway. Shut the car off immediately and found the timing belt (in my Eagle Talon’s interference engine) was holding together by about one strand of fibre and…

Almost been there, almost done that. But in my case it was actually: Hitchhiker. Axe. Back seat.

Yeah, there’s all kinds of people here bloviating about how the study is flawed, proving only that they don’t know what they are talking about. Anyone reading the full article (the one in the journal, not the news piece) will see that it’s perfectly sound methodologically, and doesn’t make any claims that aren’t…

I’m a bit surprised this passed peer review; but then I do see a lot of garbage that gets published these days.

She was already shooting video when the thing went past. (Or, more accurately, when the thing was floating there and the plane went past.)

This needs more stars.

That’s what I was thinking.

If those pro-Palestinians do not protest against Hamas, then, they are just pro-Hamas

Mark Tewksbury (Olympic gold medal swimmer) is pretty famous in Canada.

If a power line falls on or near your car...do not touch metal items inside, such as your seat belt buckle

I was just over at the new Jezebel site (it was picked up by Paste magazine after a brief shutdown), and guess what I saw? AV Club has now joined Splinter and Jezebel in the Paste stable.

OMG, I’m old enough to remember seeing that commercial with the dummy when I was a kid. I thought it was awesome, and I asked my dad whether we could get a front-wheel seat like that, because it looked to me like the dummy was having way more fun than the guy behind him.

If we didn’t already have the word yeet, I feel like we would have invented it to describe what that FJ did to our man there.

A car engine would never be under a boot, because boot = trunk (i.e., the storage area itself, not the thing that covers it). The cover for the trunk space is simply called the boot lid (same as trunk lid in NA). Good rule to follow is that if it covers an engine, it’s a bonnet - wherever the engine is located.

It’s a “front boot.” It’s a Froot!

The word frunk is stupid. A word already exists for this and it’s bonnet.

I’m still trying to figure out what the fuck “traditional values” means?

I always assumed it’s because they’re such a big power suck that you wouldn’t want to be leaving them on all the time. Also, how does a rear defroster “prevent sheets of water from forming on the rear window” when it’s raining?