Finally, someone with taste.

I’m just gonna state the obvious in case anyone was wondering why Mr. 21st’s comment was collecting stars: it’s a reference to the single ‘500 Miles’ by the Proclaimers. And a much appreciated (and appropriate) reminder. :-)

After traveling 500 miles, how long is the charge time so it can go 500 more?

Cool. Then Jaguar should be forced to recall your car and replace the exhaust with one that can meet noise standards.

The fix for this is simple. The government should force all car manufacturers to ensure that their factory exhaust systems comply with federal noise laws and issue a recall if they do not.

For the fourth consecutive year, Genesis took home the top honors with a score of 584 out of 1,000

These dumb fucking things.

That looks like a very small screen with a lot of physical buttons, by 2024 standards. I hope the tide continues to turn this way instead of the 95" screen on the Escalade. Are those real buttons or the haptic feedback style buttons?

“...you’d just wish they had given the story a second look-over.”

I think you meant to say “... given the store a second look-over.”

I like to think it isn’t about difficult to get resources, as in the fuel and slim jims, as it is that customers are paying in a few minutes for the owner to be there all year.

I mean, Christian Bale’s Batman masqueraded as a dissolute playboy. An actual stripper pole that is also the secret bat cave access pole would be on brand.

If this were the case it’d be behind a secret door accessed via button hidden in the head of Shakespeare.

No.  That’s a stripper pole.

I mean, it might make sense. They say this “apartment” is Batman-themed. Outside of the ridiculous “Gotham City” graphic on the one wall, I see literally no additional Batman-Related items. Now, if there were a secret lair under the floor, that would be extremely Batman.

There’s a lot to hate here, but the fine marble pedestal supporting a stripper pole really takes the cake.

I think NJB makes some good points about fire truck size, especially when larger, more built-up cities in Europe and Asia get by with significantly-smaller vehicles (all while packing all the same doodads and gizmos). Why is it fire departments demand such big-ass vehicles for work in some lame-ass two-storey suburb…

I’m sure this will really piss some people off, but there should be two slideshows.

Set down the pitchforks for a second, let me explain.

The prompt was poorly worded and could be two very, VERY different questions.

“Conservatism has one principle, to wit: there is an in-group, whom the law protects but does not bind, and an out-group, whom the law binds but does not protect.”

True story: Singapore is (I believe) the only sovereign nation to have it’s independence forced upon it. When the British gave up their Malaysian colonies, Singapore became part of Malaysia. However, racial tensions became so violent that Malaysia voted unanimously to expel Singapore from the country. There’s…

The white savior was in the third movie, he started as savior the grey.