Yeah, well, if you plan on ever travelling anywhere in the Third World and don’t want to be left completely at the mercy of a limited array of shitty public transportation options, there’s definitely a point to learning.

Done; after waiting since December I finally took delivery of my ‘22 BRZ Ltd last month. I’ll only drive it May-Oct as salt season is legitimately 6 mos/yr here, so based on the results I saw with my FR-S under the same conditions, it’ll only accrue ~5K mi/yr. I’m in my mid-40s and would be stunned if I saw anything…

No worries, they’re all diatomic gasses in the end. :-)

Maybe it’s just the old Hindenburg footage talking, but I definitely don’t want hydrogen in my tires, thank you.

I’m not so sure, there’s definitely a certain strain of white woman who believe they were born with an invisible radar gun that endows them with the ability to magically know everyone else’s speed, for the purpose of hectoring innocent strangers. I once had a woman shriek at the top of her lungs at me from the…

“Well, I’m glad they forgot about Grandpa.”

“Is there tap water in this?”

My insurance agent. The police are never going to arrive in time to “help” with a violent crime anyway, many of them will admit as much, so there’s no point even considering that; there’s a reason they’re called “law enforcement” and not “crime prevention”. Meanwhile, about 2/3 of property crimes in the U.S. go…

Depends on the drug and the country. E.g., Iran famously doesn’t give a fuck about opium, it’s so widely available that close to 3% of the adult population are classed as addicts.

“Zeus of Child” sounds like a shoo-in for a podium finish on the next “Little Buff Boys”.

At that point, I just called a local locksmith directly; he arrived in 15 minutes and had us on the road soon after. The locksmith said he regularly worked with AAA, and told us to submit our receipt to AAA for compensation.

Amen, at least as shown in the video, the oblivious moron biker never even looked to his right as he blithely sailed through the intersection without a care in the world, and it was a one-way street with traffic coming from only that direction. It’s a wonder this guy has evaded the forces of natural selection this…

Agreed. Speaking of jokes about fat people, he’s also very severely hostile to overweight people, to the point where most of his jokes on the topic aren’t even close to being funny, it’s just pure, unalloyed hatred, he clearly despises them, on a pathological level. It’s pathetic coming from someone who as earned as…

This is the same country that sentenced Jack Ruby to death, unfortunately...

Oh they’re idiots, I once printed a couple of old WPA posters from the 30s at the local Walgreen’s for some cheap and interesting wall decorations; when I went to pick them up the woman at the photo counter attempted to stonewall me, claiming they were a copyright violation. I laughed and said I had obtained the image…

Amen, I hate terms that are used to evade responsibility for assholes. Even worse than “bad luck” is “accident.”  A true accident is a tree falling right in front of you as you’re driving down the road, or a landslide, something to that effect.  There are very few true “accidents”, there’s mostly just varying degrees…

For example, a buyer might have to forget about that RAV4 Hybrid but instead, go for a Subaru Forester, as I’ve seen a trend of more Subaru stores sticking to MSRP and seem to get cars in reasonable time frames.

Well, we’re going to need Mentats after the Butlerian Jihad anyway, might as well start developing them now.  

It’s legitimately one of the best films of the 90s (as is Heat, for that matter) and that sequence is insane, Means, Studi and DDL all absolutely kill it. And yes, the Trevor Jones score is spectacular as well, it actually causes a problem for me in naming the best film composer, in that as much as I love Zimmer,…

Wait until you try Instacart. I threw my back out, badly, early this year and signed up for a trial membership when I saw they did Cub and Aldi; by the 2nd or 3rd order, I had zero thought of canceling. I’m pretty sure I didn’t set foot in a grocery store once between February and last month.