The desaturation of color in Final Fantasy seems to correlate quite nicely with its lost sense of whimsy. I miss the days of IX.

Don’t look at as old and tired. You’re experienced and economical. You’ve seen enough and done enough to know when enough is enough. Haggling down an overpriced offering is a difficult hassle while walking away is both cheap and easy.  Advantage: those of us who have had plenty of everyone’s BS for one lifetime and…

The seller’s time is so limited, they couldn’t bother to catch typos in the ad.

So the proctologist reaches into his pocket and pulls out a thermometer, pauses for a second and says “great, some asshole’s got my pen.”

Dang it, Mr. East Coast Liver, I would have gotten that result if it hadn’t been for that one hour time difference!

Yeah, this is what people forget about Silence of the Lambs. Buffalo Bill was not transgender. The FBI team go to the main transgender clinic in the state asking to sift through their records looking for people who applied for gender reassignment but were rejected because they didn’t have any of the appropriate…

As I like to put it, no one gets to take away the stories I love, and that includes the people who made them. See also Dune, where I’m honestly surprised there hasn’t been a huge backlash like there was with the Ender’s Game movie as Frank Herbert was just as nasty a homophobe (though he at least has the decency to be…

And even Silence of the Lambs, which certainly plays with the trope, takes the time to explain that Buffalo Bill wasn’t trans. Like, they have a whole plot point where they look for the killer through folks getting reassignment surgery (which, yikes) and the breakthrough is that he didn’t qualify because he isn’t…

The real thing is for sale near me - a triple white 1975 Eldo droptop “Boss Hogg” model with 75k original miles - for nine grand. It has less than the extra 4500 bucks’ worth of cosmetic fixes, with more than enough change left over to install the steer horns on the hood.

This would have been the engine that blew on my great-aunt’s Caddy at around 4k, less than a year from new, after multiple electrical failures that had it at the dealership all the time. My uncle was a very wealthy small-town farmer who bought her a brand new Caddy with a cashier’s check every other year He was…

I still fail to see how a term that refers to drug paraphernalia can be racist to anyone. I fully understand that the crack-cocaine epidemic targeted low-income Americans, but to say “crackpipe” is racist is like saying “bong” is racist.

Crackpipe is now considered racist or offensive in someway to someone. So in an effort not to hurt peoples feelings it got swapped out to ‘No Dice’.

Fun fact: built for SEMA directly translates to “No Dice”

All the SEMA builds I’ve seen on TV are a bunch of guys running around in the last 12 hours screaming at each other how they’re not going to finish in time to get the car on the truck for Vegas (and random showers of sparks in the background).

To my mind, SEMA Build says one step above Pimp My Ride quality.

For $60k I could get a new S4 that doesn’t have the questionable build characteristics of a SEMA car. Or, for less than half of this, I could pick up another 2013 S4 that doesn’t have the questionable build characteristics of a SEMA car.

This plays heavily in to the Sam Vimes ‘Boots’ Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness: The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

They are very thorough...

I encourage you to revisit this pin assembly.

I have this horrible feeling you’re going to get through the TUV to be told that, yes, while your vehicle has passed the “checklist” portion of the test, but unfortunately the inspector assigned to your vehicle has been following your repair blog and there’s no way he can - in good conscience - let this vehicle on the…

Something Ive learned as Ive agead: Cheap is expensive. Whether in time or actual dollars, cheap will cost more over time