Sketchy, unreliable, dubious, questionable etc...etc...

Techs typically are the ones who benefit from the system of being paid by the job vs paid for actual time. Experienced technicians can complete many simpler jobs in a fraction of the time while still getting paid for the full allotted “job time”. If it is indeed true that jobs overall take more time to complete than…

I never said it was impossible to do a burnout in a FWD car. Just that most people don’t expect FWD cars to do burnouts so it’s really not much of a surprise when a FWD car doesn’t want to do a burnout (even if it has a powerful engine and LSD).

The late great George Carlin would’ve had some select words and faces for you. Life’s too short to be so angry over a joke. Everything can be joked about. Yes, especially the worst tragedies a human can fathom.

So you would normally expect a driver in a FWD vehicle to be able to perform a burnout?

Yeah, no one expects it because it’s the exception rather than the rule.

It’s fugly but I kinda like it....I guess this is what happens when you own a 500 Abarth

Does anyone in their right mind expect a FWD vehicle to do a burnout?

Yep, Tom’s exactly right. Just ask the dealer to have the car delivered to a nearby shop for inspection. I had this done prior to purchasing my current vehicle. The sales rep was somewhat surprised by the request (and acted appalled by the $120 price tag of the inspection), but they had no hesitation to drive the…

I’m somewhat of a novice MT driver with only a year under my belt compared with over 15 years of driving experience in general. Boy was I surprised when I rode along with a service tech in their own MT car and not once did they rev match their downshifts. No blip, just put it in gear and ease the clutch out with a…

If the infinitely small chance of somehow contracting rubella from a toilet seat as a healthy human being who has been vaccinated against the virus is that concerning to you, you should probably live in a bubble and never leave the house.

Yep, the leather interior on my Abarth is better than this...

Well to the average person with minimal understanding of genetics it would follow that if white/hispanic/asian features will meld, then red haired fair skinned individuals would continue to decline in frequency. Though a misconception, it’s not all that crazy.

Yes, Wikipedia is not perfect and not all articles are 100% reliable. The point I was making, though, is that it is a misconception that Wikipedia as a whole is unreliable. The unreliable article or line in an article that slips through the cracks is the rare exception.

Right, so when those with malicious intent weigh their options of afflicting Mac vs PC, their effort is better spent on a virus or malware for PC because it will be more effective. It’s still true that Macs can and do get viruses. It’s just that they’re less prominent because the evildoers have better targets and…

There we go! Found the smart one!!! That is exactly the way I would get around the “No Wikipedia” stipulation. They say work smarter, not harder, right? :D

I cited Wikipedia many times when I was in school and college, but several teachers and professors either outright forbid the use of Wikipedia as a source, or did not count Wikipedia as one of the mandatory sources for the paper.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_of_Wikipedia

“we’ve also found that vandalism is usually repaired extremely quickly—so quickly that most users will never see its effects.”

While we’re add it, why don’t we add this gem to the list: “Apple computers don’t get viruses”.

Yes! You are correct, many schools and colleges do not allow students to use Wikipedia because they believe the misconception that it is unreliable. There is a much smaller subset that doesn’t allow it because they know it’s an easy starting point and if left to their own devices, students will be as lazy as…