Aside from their being women and of color, I’m sure it galls him that they average less than half his age. He knows that long after his last coronary artery has been slammed shut by cheeseburgers and anger, they’ll be running the country.

As owner of a 2004 Jaguar, I feel your pain. I can’t see it, much less get a tool on it, without a lot of disassembly, but if I snake my hand into the right place, I can feel it.

I dont understand why that bit about Russia not being able to be an enemy.  The only reason they arent our enemy in real life right now is the President.  In the movie the President in the film can actually be heroic and doesnt have to be a puppet of Russia.

I fear this may end up being a better plot than the one in the actual movie.

I don’t think they’re thinking that hard about it. They use them because it looks weird and will match the hipster-ness of the food they’re serving.

Imagine coming on a motoring enthusiast website and posting about how ridiculous it is for someone to own a vehicle for more than 30 years

Is that the same motorcycle he had 30 years ago? Really?

I can answer the motorcycle question.  Because they don’t retire motorcycles after 30 years of service.

The age 65 rule is only for airline pilots. Other pilots can fly as long as they can pass their FAA medical exam.

PREMISE

Maverick is a defense test pilot now. Since the FAA permits private-sector flyers up to the age of 65, his age is no big deal. Some vague middle eastern power NOT IRAN OKAY GUYS COME ON gets up to something, and Maverick is recruited to run some kind of small aerial infiltration. The enemy air force will…

... or because it’s Top Gun, and the United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program (AKA Topgun) flies F/A-18s now?

“I like astronauts who weren’t stuck on the moon.”

Like...save the money and just learn to cook properly.

Preach it brother!
Next, we should ban coffee shops and restaurants from operating out of gems of architecture. Who cares people come for comprehensive experience of dining in a nice place. Hotels and restaurants should occupy exclusively glass-steel boxy buildings, because they’re perfectly adequate as feed-throughs.

I want to know what the threshold is for hipsterisation of a shit old van.

Somewhat related: there's a restaurant that started as a food truck in Austin that now has probably 4-5 trucks, and at least two brick and mortar restaurants. It's Mexican-korean fusion named Coreanos, and I was blow away when I saw that one of their restaurants in Seoul. I knew them as the truck at a local beer bar…

Counterpoint - please fucking don’t. The best burger of my life came out of an H van in Torshavn, Faroe Islands (of all places). They look cool as hell, most people who use them as food trucks paint them in funky colors and take great care of them. WTF should they use them for instead, track cars? They’re work vans!

Counterpoint: the quirky vehicle could be the path to riches. In New Orleans the aptly named French Truck Coffee has expanded from an H Van to seven(!) brick & mortars. And a fleet of 2cv delivery vans. Coffee’s good, too. https://frenchtruckcoffee.com/

Pray tell, how DOES it work Bradley?

that’s not how this industry works.