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Is his hairline spraypainted on?

I kid. David is my absolute favorite writer around here. His posts are often him doing cool stuff and telling us about it. It’s like a friend telling me, “OK, you’re not going to believe this shit...”

I can’t get past the spraypainted hairline.

“it tasted like carbonated olive juice.”

Had I not looked at the author, I would’ve legit thought someone stole one of David’s Jeeps.

Oh come on !

I’m impressed with new struts, brakes, tires, and headlights. This was someone’s baby that they were spending money on to keep right.  Then the top frizzed out and the cost estimate to fix was high and the owner is looking for something new to play with.   I would get this thing in a heartbeat.

The concern is that the car is titled based on the engine serial number! I can get that solved at the state motor vehicle office, but it’ll take a bit of time.

To be fair, the original poster was pretty amazing too

They do delete it. They’re doubling down, really. If you push objectionable content to the top of the subreddit, you get punished when it gets taken down, because you shouldn’t be upvoting content that breaks the rules. That’s the rationale behind it at least.

OR try Taxslayer (or a number of others) for under $10 for federal itemized and avoid the company that screwed a ton of clients last year by not informing the poorer among us that IF we were under a certain amount, filing was free. Read more

OR try Taxslayer (or a number of others) for under $10 for federal itemized and avoid the company that screwed a ton…

Couldn’t Nintendo have sent Tsusaka’s grandmother a Switch as a replacement? Or at least a New Nintendo 2DS XL Read more

Also, what upgrade?  I don’t care if it’s only 4-bit graphics.  Gameboy Tetris is still the best version of Tetris.

Yeah, that’s a really knee-jerk reaction and a way to ruin the sorta happy ending of the story. Nintendo could have just commented on the impossibility of repairing the handheld and be done with it but they still managed to send a brand new replacement which is the point of the story.
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Right?  The lady clearly liked her Game Boy, or I’m sure someone in her family would have gotten her something else. 

RE:Hard G advocates: I wouldn’t expect less seeing how they butcher local and foreging words equally. Read more

Scubba, Nah-Toh, and Peeen like everyone else does.

I’d hate to hear how you pronounce SCUBA, NATO, or PIN.

how do you pronounce jpeg (the p is for “photographic” btw)? Read more

Steve Wilhite, inventor of GIF, says soft-g, it’s how it originally was pronounced, and the losers who insist on hard-g are just johnny-come-latelys to the interwebs. Read more