That gets me back to probably the second indication I had 30 odd years ago that the insurance industry was a scam. If you get hit by someone and it’s entirely their fault (say, rear ended).

Your insurance goes up. Because you become a higher risk.

The first being that they raise your rates to offset losses elsewhere in…

My old spot had a requirement that you take two consecutive weeks, they justified it as since we’re a financial firm, that way any discrepancies will pop up while your out of the office.

The upside is that we had 4 weeks off to start.

totally how my boss did it when we became required to provide sick time for everyone....those of us already with a week holiday had our sick and holiday time rolled into one.

It sucks.

3 times a year. 2 weeks off in a foreign destination, usually some package bullshit on a desert island in Spain or Africa or in the Alps

A week for backpacking....

A week at Christmas.

Lol, sorry, that was me as an entry level office dogsbody in Europe, not a working stiff in the US with 25 years experience.

I was on a 1…

“The current ownership structure goes back to 2004"
Like a company was literally formed around the product during gulfwar 2.0?

Damn. That war was a moneymaker.

The Humvee must be getting into the twilight of it’s production, and we’re not going to be using them in the next war. They’re looking to replace declining revenue.

My statistics professor asked our class what profession crashes the most airplanes....we’re like ‘pilots?”

Doctors.....ah, we said.

There’s a 3 something wagon diesel x-drive in my neighborhood that I ! and started jabbering at my wife about the other day when out walking the dogs.

I could’ve swore that it sounded manual.

That is a fine looking automobile there in your title photo.

For a second I thought we were talking about Michael Hutchence. But I confused her with Kylie Minogue for a second.

Like the story about the rats. (natch)

the 355 is the most expensive to maintain.

Such a shame too, since it’s one of the prettiest. (esp in black) It got all the good parts of it’s predecessors and lost all the bits that didn’t quite work.

Pour it into the chef.

Wow, look at the gills!

It’s the creature from the black lagoon.

Covertly drop a couple of these out of your pocket every few days.

was never fair, a nice animal like the opossum gets the ugly and the tough, mean and destructive bastard raccoon gets all the cute.

“what life with the 10spd is like.”
You’ll finally be able to get shift profiles* like you hear in the street racing movies.

*I also have never heard that term used before/not a real thing

Fuck value as a metric.

Tax dodges, layoffs, real estate speculation, inflating the price of health care, or changing regulations so that you can dump industrial pollution into a river or field creates value.

Make something, employ someone, make healthcare or housing attainable by more people, rather than less.

These…

Ooh. Someone more clever than me please do a render...

Yep, we started feeding the birds and the squirrels on the patio precisely cuz it entertains the cats.

I’ll throw peanuts onto the roof of the porch too sometimes, it makes the dog dance around like a nut when the jay is up there walking around.