The old myth was that Cook was close by to some Aborigines, he pointed to the strange hopping beast and asked for what it was, and the natives replied “Kangaroo” meaning “we don’t understand what you are saying.”

I did watch that episode of Top Gear. I recall two key things from the review:

I'm not deciding at all, it's really more a comment on the systemic nature of unbalanced wealth accrual and the cultural acceptance of it. At first blush people say "he earned it", but when you look into the economics and structure of it, at some point you have to admit that the super-rich don't "earn" it with their…

To me he showed how much bigger the world was than just what the hobbits/reader understood. That the drama of the ring wasn't the end all, be all of power and ideas within Middle-Earth and it opened up the possibility that as the story unfolded anything could happen because we've been introduced to someone who is…

Force Choke me all you want, I still say Tom Bombadil was fucking awesome. You're just a grumpy ol' adult. "Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo! Ring a dong! hop along! fal lal the willow! Tom Bom, jolly Tom, Tom Bombadillo!"

The SkyActiv-R and the RX-9

Bought her in September of 98. I was 19. 94 RX-7 PEP. Still with me till this day.

My 1999 Jeep Cherokee Sport:

Toshiro Mifune as Obi-Wan Kenobi

Ratchet up the excellence and shape the passenger compartment like this:

Here is where things again get more specific, and it has something to do with expectations.

I myself once bought what you could call one of the most reliable cars of all time, a 1993 Lexus ES300. It was built when Toyota (according to the internet, the most reliable car company in existence) was making its fattest cars. By that I mean the car was overbuilt in ways you just can't see. Three heavy, long bolts…

Okay fine. Fuck it. Let's get Ghostface in there:

yeah, Moses's whole argument to God was "hey you've got the wrong guy, I don't speak well in public and I'm 80 flipping years old and oh yeah there's that whole being kicked out of Egypt thing" and God goes "nah, don't worry about it, I got your back" and Moses goes "welp, alrighty then"

The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.

Sorry to be that guy, but as a Finn I see the US dick massaging on every other movie and series to a point that I don't think many Americans themselves even notice it anymore, and it rarely bothers me to the point I can't watch anymore.

The Porsche comparison doesn't work. If Porsche wrote "Porsch" on the back of their cars, yes. But, unlike Mazda, Porsche does not do business under that name or validate that alternative pronunciation anywhere. Same goes with regard to Volkswagen and BMW. You don't have to say "Folxvahg'n" or "BayEmmVay," but…

Still seems unusual to me, at least for names that are straight-up Japanese like Honda and Nissan. Korean car brands are a lot simpler in that way; seems like the problem there was getting the Romanization right. Hyundai really should've been written Hyundae. Wasn't the old tagline that it "rhymes with Sunday"?

Do you mean that they write "Mazda", and not "Matsuda", and that they use katakana and not hiragana or kanji? Very strange.