I have a habit of holding onto car parts. I have rotary parts (I haven’t owned a rotary in about a decade), I have a MAF from an old car, I even keep the nuts and bolts that are still good because, hey, I might need them one day and it can be hard to find the exact one that you need at the hardware store.

I’m not disagreeing with you on that point at all. In fact, that’s entirely my point: egregious misuse of land should already be covered by legitimate, necessary laws, not some bullshit “can’t have covered cars parked in the driveway if they’re past a certain age” garbage. If that neighbor has legitimate beef with…

as the singer himself explained.

At this point, I’m curious why you’re bothering to respond to anyone at all, since you’re just repeating yourself over and over, completely ignoring the entire point of the original comment.

a) It’s called sampling. The original lyric was clipped and used to mean something different. Just because you’re not familiar with the phrase doesn’t mean that everyone is as ignorant as you are.

You’re clearly not following the conversation here. That was my point. Several people have pointed out your erroneous logic and you just keep ignoring it.

That’s because for some bizarre reason, you’ve yet to grasp the point.

You’re a fucking idiot.

When did I ever say I was British? Oh, I see, you’re incapable of following a conversation.

But “Fire Starter” is still about pyromania, right?

That’s not even what the band says. The original lyric sampled is “Smack my bitch up like a pimp,” which is obviously a reference to violence against women

“Change my pitch up, smack my bitch up.” I’ve always heard that the little knobs on a mixing board are called bitches and that smacking one up means changing something about the mix (volume, pitch, etc). I’m no sound engineer, but that’s the story I got.

Oh. That’s okay then. I’m sure everyone who hears it will certainly not interpret it as being about violence against women. Just like when I say “I’m going to kill your puppy!” to people with puppies, they should just know that I’m really just talking about eating hash brownies.

This is pure speculation on my part, based on my experience with tuning turbocharged cars.

That thing has $957 worth of “performance upgrades” that all together total roughly 15 hp.

Here’s one of the exceptions. Course it took a rotisserie resto to bring it to said glory:

That’s a good point and I appreciate you pointing that out. Indeed, if it makes her feel better (and, you know, as long as “it” doesn’t involve harming other people), then it’s probably worth her time. I hadn’t considered that perspective (obviously I’m much luckier than her or even you, and ignorant in that regard).

Preservation of history. Certain facets of pop culture have become massive forces shaping the face of modern life.

I’m not sure I understand what exactly is being stated, and I’m not discounting any studies that I don’t understand, but my overall attitude remains skeptical of the negative impact of viewing pornography, primarily because scientific studies aren’t always completely accurate or don’t always account for certain…

You also deserve many stars. That whole fiasco really pissed me off as it was obvious what was happening.