Man, with all due respect, I don’t agree at all. Bigger isn’t alway better with trucks: I, and a lot of other people, don’t want a modern full size truck. Jesus, even my Tacoma is bigger than I’d like it to be. I don’t need to tow a goddamned cruise ship every day, I just need to pick up some lumber and equipment once…
Upmarket Mercury Cougar.
I miss the halcyon days when America was run by a ruling class hellbent on maintaining their own sovereignty; who wouldn’t hesitate to leverage racial and class tensions to maintain their own power, even if it meant doing grave harm to complete innocents... but who at least had a modicum of intelligence and social…
Yeah I was gonna say... this isn’t “hipster plus fisherman.” This is “hipster plus what someone who’s never been on a boat but has seen some BBC period dramas thinks a fisherman looks like.”
Yeah I was gonna say... this isn’t “hipster plus fisherman.” This is “hipster plus what someone who’s never been on…
Personally, I have less of an issue with screens replacing gauges than I do screens replacing input devices. As long as the screens serve the purpose as well as gauges: meh? Display the important info in a clear but unobtrusive way, minimize glare, and be accurate. Check those boxes, and whatever. I think…
The diesel swaps and the 4WD conversions are my favorites. I read those kind of like I read David Tracy posts: the part of me that will forever be 15 is going “fuck yeah!” And the part of me that’s actually almost forty is going “you fucking morons.”
Eh, I mean making that kind of sweeping statement is a great way to be proven wrong. I will agree that in my experience, Toyota drivers tend to be one extreme or the other: they either ignore maintenance altogether, or are obsessive about it. And, I mean... Toyota makes more than Camrys and Rav4s. They make some…
Man, being a son of the rust belt, this is viscerally revolting to me. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve got no problem with patina and rat rods and whatever the hell else, but the thought of intentionally rusting an entire car, no matter how superficially, makes my eye twitch and my lip involuntarily sneer in disgust.
Man, stains are the least of my worries about eating in bed. Crumbs are enemy number one. I cannot abide crumbs in bed. The feeling just drives me nuts. On top of that, I just don’t find the position comfortable, eating with my legs out; it tends to give me heartburn.
Man, stains are the least of my worries about eating in bed. Crumbs are enemy number one. I cannot abide crumbs in…
Yeah, exactly. And why hasn’t every other speaker at the conference pulled out in protest, etc. I mean, we know the answer to all of the above is “money,” but still.
Building a PC is scary only because people think it is. In reality, it’s far, far less difficult than most people believe. The physical aspect of building it is really pretty simple: try to minimize static electricity and dust, and just take your time. Google is your friend, and there are dozens of build videos for…
I feel like implementing this in America would have zero impact on overall productivity. If anything, productivity would increase. As Lauren implies, the vast majority of Americans don’t work 40 hours a week now. Sure, they sit at their chair for 40+ hours a week, but what percentage of your daily life is spent on…
I sometimes get irritated by Tracy’s posts, but that’s usually not his fault... his posts usually irritate me because it’s been more years than I care to think about since I was young and single and childless enough to be able to devote hours and hours a week to keeping unreliable (but often fun) vehicles running.…
You know, if the ad had disclosed the title status up front I’d almost be tempted to go with NP, even knowing the myriad gremlins that probably lurk beneath that thing’s skin. But the fact that it doesn’t even mention it is just a huge red flag for me. Even though he hints at it by saying it could be bought for parts,…
I agree, but the only caveat being that it’s all a matter of what you want to compromise on. He can have kids and all those things, but he’ll really compromise on convenience as you say... you can only cram a small child and his or her accoutrements in a small car so often before you get really sick of it. But that…
Anyone who’s ever tried to squeeze in a last sail a little too late in the season will tell you that the Great Lakes aren’t a great place for flat water about half the year. Gordon Lightfoot will back me up on this one.
I love reading these rants and trying to figure out if this is a paid plant or if the commenter is actually as dumb as they sound.
Seriously.
Women tell me.