#COTD

"How I got out of debt: I worked hard as fuck, for a long time. It didn't work, so I sued somebody. It worked."

"And then, finally, I received a court settlement for my injury. I took the $51,000 and immediately paid off all of my credit cards—"

What I read:

Just go look at the mainstays of any economy and compact rental car fleet. Sparks, Versas, Corollas, Rios... BORING everyone to death since the beginning of ever.

I've driven a Prius, my boss at my old job bought one as a runabout to save money on gas. I was the gopher a lot of the time and probably have logged 500+ miles in that bastard. Worst thing to happen to my life.

I had to use a picture of a beige one and the new one didn't turn up immediately. Here's the new one:

Toyota obviously sets the standard with the Camry and Corolla.

What American Compact car from 1984 could keep up with a 205 GTi on anything other than a drag strip?

So was every 12-year-old but that doesn't mean my gym teacher was passing out playboys or that my dad was forwarding me links to porn sites.

Is this guy even a car reviewer, or enthusiast of some kind? I suspect he's not being British, he's just being a ponce. Tell you what, drop Richard Simmons in a Vauxhall VXR and then judge all Americans by his reaction. The British built the Spitfire, remember.

Yeah... no. You 'Mericans can keep it. Along with all the other massive, gas-guzzling dinosaurs you call "sports cars". We'll stick with our hot-hatches (most of which you poor sods don't get), which are quite fast and can even turn corners - and some heads. And can park. And aren't too thirsty. And... oh, sod it. I…

Mark me under "it's fucking creepy for an adult coach to be taking 13-year-olds to look at titties".

I still don't understand why the guy didn't just say "Okay, we'll go to Chili's" or whatever. Personally, I've actually never been to a Hooters, but I've got three kids and I don't have a principled stand on whether they should or shouldn't go to Hooters. But what kind of a fucking idiot doesn't understand he's going…

Coach should be thrown in jail for endangering children by exposing them to the biohazardous grease sponges Hooters calls "wings."

Now, I know Deadspin/Gawker lays the hyperbole on pretty thick at (most all) times... but I'm confused.

"...JP Sougnalet, told him and some of his staff to turn in their playbooks following some completely oblivious parents' outrage over their boys stepping foot in Hooters, and Burbach's refusal to back down and move…

Dear Open Letters,

A good friend of mine encouraged me to take up bicycling. He was very careful to let me know that not all bicyclists were like the bicyclists you describe, and that bicycling should be an activity enjoyed by all, without all the flair. "Just get a bike with a comfy seat and start riding," he said.

The biker in traffic is bad, but the one that drives me the craziest in Minneapolis is the biker on the sidewalk. There is always some asshole hauling ass down a sidewalk (when there is a fucking bike lane!) and you just know he is going to make it into the intersection just as you turn through it, and then the biker…

We're not "entrusting" anyone with anything, we're begging them for a ride because we've driven our own space program into the ground.