Spot on. We feel outraged for 5 minutes, then go back to feeling helpless about whatever is the current disaster to decency is. But at least for that 5 minutes, we felt like WE had accomplised something, other than just sitting on our ass.

Friends of mine had an English Rover with “LUNAR”. They worked at JPL in California.

30 years ago, in L.A., saw “1000101". That’s “69" in binary code.

As Marie Antoinette said “Let them eat crappy pizza”. Que French Revolution.

David Roth has written the greatest description of DT, and the state of rich man politics yet. It’s almost Shakespearian. The sad state of chain store pizza too. I agree with the comments about P.H.’s & P.J.’s food-like substance. Consider they make their pizza with substandard ingredients, crafted by high school kids…

I mostly agree. China is too smart to get in an exchange with the US. They’re business people first. They don’t want to lose millions, billions of dollars in revenue. I think they would join in with us and use Conventional Weapons to stop the North Koreans and Kim from making things worse. They would help topple the…

Adults don’t really study a box of cereal. Little kids, while eating a bowl of cereal, will scrutinize the package. I did when I was a kid. The imagery will seep into their subconscious. The may end up thinking that brown individuals are only good for menial tasks.
 That’s why ‘Joe the Camel’ was eliminated, so kids…

I just submitted my story about the ‘66 English Ford Cortina p.o.s I drove in 1970. I forgot to add the part where, after realizing what a joke this car was, I figured this car needed something classy added to it. I found a bowling trophy and took the lady bowler off it. She was shinny brass plated, wore a long…

A Yugo wouldn’t kill you in a 25mph accident. You’d only receive serious bodily injury. Anything above 35 would kill you.

My Yugo-like experience was ‘66 Ford Cortina, an English import. My sister got it new, and by ‘69, was handed down to me. The engine was still running strong, and the only thing good with the car. EVERYTHING else was crap. The list of bad:

Here’s a fix-it story that actually ends happily. I’m working at a gas station at the bottom of a long hill in Laguna Beach, around 1974. It’s 5:00,Sunday. This guy rolls into the station in an early 60's English car, like an Austin coupe. He rolled into the station because his engine quit at the top of the hill. He’s…

I loaned my ‘67 VW Squareback to a friend named Joe once, back around 1973. He hadn’t put the hood down properly after gassing up. The hood flew up, and bent the edges and became misaligned with the pin/catch assembly. I spent the next 7 years dealing with that.

A friend of mine worked at a small emergency clinic. He told us about a guy who came in with a Qtip jammed into his eardrum. The guy was cleaning his ears with the Qtip while driving. He had to grab the steering wheel with both hands for a moment, and at the same time, saw a fly buzzing around the inside of the car.…

I heard a story about a month long garbage collection strike in NYC. Garbage heaps everywhere. This one guy put his garbage in boxes, gift wrapped them, and left them in his unlocked car. Problem solved.

That’s because there is a flood light under the dash.
This next peeve is off topic, but in sci-fi movies where the actors have lights inside their space helmets, so you can see their faces. Did you ever try look out a car windshield with a bright flashlight shining in it, from the inside, at night? Alot of actors…

I drove a friends mid-size RV to Las Vegas from LA once. The steering linkage must have been set to” Full Jello” mode. My arms wore out from the NON-STOP- corrections-or-die. Coming back, I did the drive at night, with heavy cross winds. Worst drive EVER!  

Using correct vintage cars in a period movie is good. However, since most of these cars are rented from the owner/collector, the cars they use are immaculant. Meaning spotlessly clean, shiny, no dents, perfect. Realistic?? Occasionally, they’ll throw in a beater pick-up truck.

I think the “CHIPS” TV show from the 70's started the car flip craze. But, if you watch enough dash cam videos on YouTube, you’ll see hundreds of car flips, mostly in Russia. Apparently, Russian drivers prefer driving in the inverted attitude.

Sports car sounds coming from big American cars. You can hear this in cheap European movies from the 60's and 70's. With the shifting and 4 banger motor. Coming from an Impala or an LTD.

How about another cop car. Park away from bank/jewelry store, walk to cop car after caper. Drive off and disappear. The Marx brothers (Groucho, Harpo, Chico) made a short TV bit, in the late 50's, where the painted up a car to look like a local police car. They then robbed a bank, put on police clothes, and left the…