I love that response - “That’s no excuse, I hear that all the time.” It’s such a clever and sort-of subtle indicator she is an overly harsh stick in the mud to all the 1st grade children - and all the parents have the same reaction.

“She is a twiddler, a dreamer, a silly-heart.”

Well, if you put this car in a t-bone accident and compare it to a modern “bath-tub with 4 inch windows” in the same accident, you might change your tune.

The average man in the US is 5'6" and woman is 5'2". In 2016, 76% of drivers commuted to work alone in their car. SUVs now outsell sedans - ergo, the vast majority of SUV owners are driving the majority of the time alone. That claim was not ludicrous by any means. Try googling shit for 2 seconds next time and you…

Yeah, this was the old “germans drink warm beer” myth, too. The beer was cellar cold, not room temperature. And since it was good and flavorful it was (and is) much better that way. The US’s pasteurized crap beer has to be frozen to be palatable, so that was how people were used to it. My dad would try to convince…

Nope - big ass speakers blasting the drivers choice of music. Ride of the Valkyries, Enter Sandman, Bridge over trouble waters, etc. How fun would that be? You’d see the smoke trail, then growing from the desert, the sounds of Daft Punk come blasting as the French team flies past.

The people who say this are the ones obsessed with 0-60 times. Mazda went with great handling instead of joining the horsepower wars. So people who aren’t driver experienced focused think that makes them less fun. Mazda was never really about raw speed (with one real exception I can think of) but somehow they are seen…

Incorrect - at least for cocaine. It is used in certain nasal surgeries due to it’s superior ability to constrict blood vessels and reduce bleeding. My wife has assisted on multiple surgeries where it a liquid form is used.

I’m not sure exactly - but I get the feeling you are unaware that they were called the Black Sox because they were corrupt played from the White Sox. There was no Black Sox team - this is a poetic nickname. Or did you know that and thought other people were unaware of that? Sorry, it’s kind of early for comments…

“I believe there must be no god whatsoever” is absolutely faith as much as “There must be a god.” “We don’t know” is the only neutral answer.

Are you sure? He’s going to buy a rifle, so he’s getting a weapon. Then he clearly identifies as a Trump supporter and then indicates there will be civil war if Trump is impeached. I think it’s pretty easy to take that as a threat. If a political process goes opposite of how he wants, he will engage in violence.

That is not technically true. Talking about violence and threats are not protected speech - and in fact, many laws exist prohibiting such talk. He might skirt some of them since he is making fairly vague threats, but just because he hasn’t started shooting people, it is not legal to say you are going to get a gun and…

I’m there with you. Flew from ATL to Sydney last year. 6-ish hours to LAX, then 2 hour layover (less then the range I am comfortable before I worry about missing a flight, but you take what you get), then 15 hours to Sydney. So 25 hours - we had a longer layover on the way home, so it was 26-ish coming back. Put me on…

Pepperidge Farms remembers!

I was thinking this - we’ve had the math for figuring HP out from drag runs for - a long time now. MT could have weighed it, thrown on some GPS and run a few 1/4 miles and seen that the dyno was coming in close or wacked out (which it looks like to me). Someone had a bad day at the office and they wrote a whole…

When we merged everything, we just went and did all of it. It was not a consequence we foresaw... and I have to admit, now seems like too much trouble to go back and split the credit cards. We get rewards on both of the ones we use and we would both have to redeem purchases... I get tired thinking about it. :)

I would, but I remember to buy her little gifts more often than I remember to get cash out of the ATM. And I have become humorously taken with getting my “reward” points on my credit card purchases.

My wife and I merged our accounts after getting married. We had similar money styles and never had an issue with it - but it did lead to an amusing development for a while after. We both felt a bit uncomfortable spending the money from the other account when we were alone, as it felt like spending the others money -…

Not at all unlike if my transmission goes out. Or a fairly long list of other failures on a traditional ICE car. I’m unsure why this failure is being treated as so much worse? Is it the seemingly overlooked engineering gaff - or the polarized opinions of Tesla?

I thought the same thing - it’s obviously an avoidable engineering mistake, but is this that different than having to replace a clutch on a 4 year old car? I’m pretty sure most people knew buying an early Tesla would result in some new problems most car owners hadn’t had before.