There is only one phone in a tree - it just gets stolen repeatedly, faster than the human eye can perceive.

Yeah, this counts as memorabilia about as much as a KISS-themed happy meal toy.

I think you may have inadvertently offered to conduct a hit on Gene Simmons for $30,000.

Add an election bumper sticker, spray paint some racial slurs, slather it in fake orange tan, and then set it on fire.

Now there’s a marketing idea - the Emperor’s New Clothes angle. “Why, only the most sophisticated and superior drivers with extraordinary sensitivity can detect the scent of organic garlic in our vehicles. You must be a very refined individual.”

Continuing trend of increasing anti-consumer practices by the multinationals. You don’t own the possession you’re buying, you’re just paying to be allowed to use it for a defined period and according to rules set by the provider. The dream is to turn every customer into a “subscriber” rather than a “purchaser”.

Excuse me, you’d rather they be unfrozen? The neighbors started to complain about the smell, what was I supposed to do.

A literal red flag.

You’re ... 1960's-era Batman?

Better than Hyundai UK, which has declared “Hi-YOON-dieeee” as official pronunciation, because hyperforeignism is now canon.

“American car journalist discomfited by sexual trace evidence disclosing strange erotic sessions with Chinese vehicle; color-discriminant restraining fabric strips were employed in unspecified manner”

If you want to do more detailed inspections, then you need qualified inspectors to do it, facilities to do it in, and equipment to do it with - all of which requires significant funding - funding that Americans generally have not been enthusiastic about supplying. Tax revenue (as a ratio of GDP) in the US is low,…

Yeah, I’m in Baltimore. I’m pretty far out from city center so there’s ample street parking where I live. When I lived in a rowhome, it wasn’t terrible - though I did end up paying a lot of parking tickets.

It’s really contingent on what city you live in and even what neighborhood in your city you live in. I live in an East Coast city where if you have the option to avoid mass transit, you take it. Because our public transit sucks. We have one subway line that goes straight north-south through city center, and one subway…

One day, it will be a ritual of adulthood for young Canadians to take up arms to guard the Dam, knowing that they are all that protects civilization from those disease-ridden creatures that come from what they now call “the Plaguelands”.

If anyone’s curious, our smallest president was James Madison, who was 5'4" and about 100 lbs. Interesting fact: He is the only president to have two vice presidents die while in office.

So, that 1,353,000 yen converts to about $12,775 American dollery-doos

Briefly.

Yeah, yeah, USS Indianapolis - but really, the WW2 ship with the best stories is the USS William D. Porter.