Back around 78 or so, Pappy McShifterson rustled up for the clan a slightly rough 72 Dodge Titan motorhome, a Class A, a big 30-footer. Looked like a barn with a flat roof. It had a big Dodge V8 o’course, and a thirsty’un. Why, Pappy would say that if you left it running while you fueled up, it would never get full.

I wonder if they didn’t actually try other ideas before settling on the weird stripe patterns.

I give you... Land yacht 1971 Star Streak.

Also from Harry Potter: the flying Ford Anglia. Of course, to be truly realistic, the floor pan would have rusted out and the occupants would be seen falling through once it was at altitude...

You have to think that part of Vettel’s attitude adjustment has to do with the fact that “slob who gets to scare passengers during a presser” for Ferrari is an infinitely more interesting job than “Director Of Performance” for Infiniti.

One (ISIS) doesn’t exclude the other (disenfranchised locals)

They already have a carrier headed towards Syria. They only very recently announced they would start bombing ISIS in Syria (they’ve been hitting ISIS in Iraq for some time now). This may be a retaliation response to that announcement.

I don’t know what they would do. The problem, of course, isn’t going in and defeating ISIS militarily. That’s the easy part. The hard part is pacifying the territory and state-building after ISIS scatters.....which fucking NO ONE wants to do. That’s not even getting into Nusra and the “legitimate” government. And what…

I’m French, living in Auckland, 10,000 miles away.... I feel sick. I always felt quite safe in France, but now :/

Ahh I got a good one for this topic! “When animals attack!”

I think by purchasing a VW you already signed up for the brand stigma that comes with questionable reliability.

Love things on wheels where you can live in. But 35k is bit too much for this thing. Especially if the shower is in the garage. Nice color thought.

Hey, axes! Don’t take it out on the car.

Their reserves of delicious Coca Cola shall be ours!

Bah. I’m a socialist, and I also support an extremely robust naval service and air force. I see providing for robust defense as one of the ultimate examples of socialism: we all pitch in, either in money or service, for the good of the defense of all.

In fact, I’ll reiterate here (since I doubt it’ll make it out of the greys in the other comment) that defence spending as a percentage of GDP under the last couple of years of the Conservative government is lower than it was under the last Liberal government (1.0% now vs 1.1% then). And despite a spike in spending to…

I’m not sure that’s true. The last Liberal and Conservative governments in Canada (neglecting Paul Martin, as he wasn’t in office long enough to make a judgement) do conform to that stereotype: under Harper, budgets grew and Canada adopted a more unilateral foreign policy, and it leveraged force; under Chretien,…

“That’s, ah, very masculine...you can hold the bunny?”