That couple, they do not look like the foodies I know.

Yeah, telling myself that doesn't make me less paranoid, either. ;)

Yet everything turned out all right!

The parents who only read about the high cost of spawning were more likely to talk about the emotional satisfaction they receive from parenting. The authors write, "The costs of raising children motivate parents to idealize parenthood... The perceived joys of parenthood may thus be a rationalization of the high costs…

Consider this: [www.motortrend.com]

The problem is I only ever generate a pdf when I need to send something out to a lot of people on a lot of platforms and have all my formatting preserved while making it a bit harder to re-edit it and pass it along as my work. Using some technologically-superior-but-unknown format is kinda pointless for me (and I…

Because they don't get government subsidies the way the interstates do, in large part because of the trucking industry lobby? Per-mile, they're on the order of 10 times cheaper to build, vastly easier to maintain, more energy efficient, etc. The only real downside is inflexibility, which is less of an issue for…

Tailgating is bad, but would you really argue that people deserve to die for it? The cost associated with improving these bumpers is miniscule.

This is not as inconvenient as strapping on a helmet every time you get in the car (nor does a helmet necessarily make sense in a car with airbags and without a roll cage to hit your head on). This is a minor change in how you work with knives. I know lots of non-professionals who have taken big pieces of fingers…

Synthetics are great for some things, but I'll still take wool over any other material (ok, silk is nice) given the choice. My synthetic exercise gear all gets washed weekly, yet it still reeks of rotten sweat after the fir wear no matter what miracle cure I use on it. My wool jerseys, balaclavas and gloves go, uh,…

Agreed. What benefit is there from having a name that's not just famous but ICONIC? :)

I was with you until you went off on the weird anti-America rant. As someone who has had only one genuinely bad experience with a cop out of many interactions, I wonder what you're doing that has you running afoul of them so often that you're able to fairly compare Chinese and American cops?

Most sports cars age very gracefully. I can't think of any heinous Euro sports cars of the last 30 years. Even the ones I consider "ugly" will probably look better in 10 years. The 924 and 914 used to be the butt of a lot of jokes, but when you see a clean one today they look fresh and tasty. The Japanese have a hard…

I dunno, the 300ZX screams early 90s to me. In a good way, though

This is like the woman with the unleashed Standard Poodle that came running up to me barking aggressively on a trail through a local (urban) park.

Processed food takes no less time than smart cooking from scratch. Cooking for working parents is easy enough if you decide it matters. There are lots of shortcuts, especially if you have a freezer and a crock pot.

All of ze Germans. It wouldn't be that hard: import a stripped down base version of everything. Get back to marketing yourselves as cars from the land of unlimited speed limits. Be cocky and tell us what we need. Get back to building cars for drivers. Add NVH.

Manual transmissions make it DAMN difficult to use a phone or beer and drive, too.

Toyotas (at least the ones larger than the Corolla) are always among the cars with the lowest driver fatality rates, and sports cars and small trucks are among the highest. So are Toyotas/toasters such a bad thing for our well-being? A Mustang enables stupid behavior a lot more effectively, it's just that it's…

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