Alright, I won’t buy a rental car that a bunch of people have had sex with.

Wow! I had no idea that existed.

This article is just as much about cars as any of the articles on other facets of car culture. Methinks a touch of subconscious (or not) misogyny has influenced your opinion.

I live in Canada and don’t see very many 500s, but it makes sense that they’d be more common in the UK where smaller cars are the norm. It honestly never occurred to me to wonder if there was a certain demographic that was into them, but I guess every car has a fan base. TIL.

That’s fair. I haven’t looked much deeper than that into the Parker car, and maybe the date is inaccurate, but what I took away from it was that the 1886 Benz was just another in a long line of early vehicle designs (although it just occurred to me that, while it wasn’t the first car, it might be the earliest car…

Here’s 3 sources for the 1884 date:

Well, Eric Stoltz did kinda look like Crispin Glover at that age...

I always thought the Oh La La magazine was kind of unintentionally hilarious. There’s barely any actual nudity in it. I get that it was a different time, but I’ve seen 1950s pin-up posters in antique shops that were far more sexual than anything in Oh La La. It just strikes me as funny that something so mild would be…

It’s corny as hell, but enough plot points revolve around it that I don’t think it’s possible to cut it out without significantly altering the story.

Hey, don’t knock riding shit down hills. A buddy and I had an awesome time in high school riding office chairs down a sloped sidewalk.

The Robin is enclosed, though. Motorbikes are open-air...

*Reliant Robin has entered the chat*

A steam engine is an external combustion engine. The actual combustion happens outside of the cylinders.

What really bugs me is that there was also an electric car in 1884 built by British inventor Thomas Parker. It had four wheels and was much more car-like than the Benz, and by all rights, it should be famous. But somehow historians (and the Mercedes-Benz marketing department) got it into their heads that “car” means…

Most steam locomotives had the cab in the rear so that the fireman could shovel coal from the tender into the firebox and also still talk to the engineer. But on really big articulated locomotives like these, they needed so much fuel that there had to be a mechanical system to feed the fire anyway, so the cab could be…

Captain Marvel had the same idea.

If he goes to prison, it’ll be some swanky rich people prison that barely qualifies as such.

She’s not wrong.

And, I mean... if you’re on PornHub anyway, you have access to vast swaths of actual porn. It’s not like people are going “well, I wish there was porn, but I guess this scene from a TV show posted on PornHub will have to do.”

That picture of the dead eagle in the water is a perfect metaphor for the state of the US right now.