From a guy's perspective- We get all those hints from society that we're the ones supposed to be doing the proposing, so if a woman proposes- it can only mean one thing, right? That we're lazy failures. Personally, I don't see it that way, but I can see where that stigma can arise.

LA Drivers know this one well: The northern end of the 110 freeway in to Pasadena, also known as the Arroyo Seco Parkway. It was the first freeway built in California, and it was put in the bottom of a dry riverbed. Those two facts conspire to make it rather twisty- but nobody cares. Most of it should be signed as…

Instagram needs to die in a fire. Do we really need nostalgic filters on some shit that is from the FUTURE? For a car that hasn't even been released yet?

And that is why you always use wheel chocks...

There's a sub-reddit called "LifeProTips" that posts LifeHacker-ish stuff. Today, one of the tips was actually a "Death Pro Tip"- if you're stupid enough to ignore the warnings to evacuate, write your social security number on your forearm in permanent ink to make it easier to identify your dead body.

So did the Intellivision. I had a TI-99/4A back in the day, and I remember waiting for the add-on cartridge... it was free when you bought certain games, Parsec in particular was one of them where they did that. That is how I got mine.

I also want to point out that this game was released in 1982, the same year as B-17 bomber. It's pretty clear that Texas Instruments invested a LITTLE more effort in their speech synthesis...

What? No love for the TI-994a's speech synthesizer? That thing was way ahead of its time!

Why yes, it is 93 degrees in the middle of fucking OCTOBER in Southern California.

There's some very cool stuff here, but this video is a poster child for why you need someone with good audio editing experience to make a good video. The levels were all over the board- I'd jack up my volume just to hear what people were saying, only to be blasted by the music 5 seconds later. And there were quite a…

Oh, and one more thing. A torque converter on an automatic transmission can usually produce about a 2:1 torque multiplication due to its slippage. Just to get the thing moving, it could actually drawbar 20,000 lbs... for a very short time.

Your gear ratio is off by a little bit. According to this video, they're using a 4x4 truck with a 2.618 transfer case. That brings the gear ratio way way up- to 37.5:1, which makes the draw bar actually 10,000 lbs. So there ya go.

No, I got it right. It is irrelevant which goat the host picks- the strategy is still the same. From the wikipedia article:

As a man, my favorite are the ads that show husbands as complete fucking idiots that can barely use their opposable thumbs with a wife that has all the solutions- and clearly since she's so smart, she chooses (insert product name here). It's the cheapest pander you can get. HEY LADIES- YOUR HUSBANDS ARE RETARDS,…

You are still playing the odds, based on the available information that *you* have about the situation. It's instructive in that it makes you look for information that is not immediately obvious to you. The monty hall problem is so pervasive in statistics precisely because it makes no sense at first blush, but when…

Lots of explanations here, but I always liked this one, in simple terms. First, an important point: the host knows where the prize is! This is key. Lets say this is the setup:

"It makes no sense; who puts books on their phone so they can transfer them to an ereader?"

@Raphael: If you want to experience something sort of like a pork rind, you need to head for your local bodega or mexican market or swap meet and find yourself some duros. They sort of look like orange pinwheels. They're made of wheat, spices, and baking soda- so they should be plenty kosher. The texture is pretty…

It's making me feel really old to think that people actually need to be told that this is a dick move.

Good tires. It doesn't matter what kind of car it is. If it has tires that are NOT the oem tire, and they're a good performing tire- they are someone who cares about their car. I see plenty of BMW's with the absolute cheapest tires on them. Those are people who don't give two shits about how their $40k car drives-…