I grew up in Boston, and was pretty close via family to some of the folks running WGBH, which has always kind of been the brain trust for all PBS programming in general. So I feel qualified to give a little background on how and why Elmo ruined Sesame Street.

The struggle is real.

I feel you. 29 and still on the family plan. My excuse is that I’m grandfathered into Verizon unlimited data, and pay $30 a month for it.

I used to hate them, like everyone else. But now, I think to how so few people are into cars and into getting their hands dirty with them to make them go fast, even compared to just 10 years ago.

No offense was meant there, I swear!

Speaking of Chinese luxury...

Once again, the answer, of course, is a Saab:

This.

I agree in that it’s a little TOO geriatric looking, and I blame it on the grill. Especially when you compare the car as built to some of the more aggressive looking wide-grilled speculative renderings that were floating around.

Now the REAL question is:

I’m sure that most people who aren’t sociopaths can understand that their speech has consequences.

Supposedly the -J’s have some major COG and flight characteristic differences from earlier hercs, which the AC’s boom-boom kit apparently exacerbated.

I heard accounts on other sites of Hawker Hurricane-style skin ripples from the fuselage sagging, and I’d bet its cross-section is more elliptical than circular now.

The TL:DR version:

I’d call it “The M.O.A.B.B.”

A festering hive of “[X] studies” majors being clueless about something as intricate as middle-eastern foreign policy?

“TheDisney Pixar Cars Roleplay organization, an influential and globally-important association of people who like to pretend to be the characters from the Cars series of movies on Facebook.”

The Saab Runway Friction Testers.

Fiat 500 Abarth

Given that recently released document about our Western Pacific ops with the redacted 5-7 digit designation flying alongside the usual suspects, I think it stands to say that there are some considerably more, uh, “interesting” assets than a few BUFF’s buzzing around the South China Sea right now...