ChickenLadyLovesLife

I had a friend who used to help out an old lady like this in his neighborhood. She had no children and when she died she left him a couple million dollars and her house. He had no idea she had anything.

I wish I could find this again, but there's a Pathe newsreel from 1946 or thereabouts that shows the coming wonders of mobile phones. It even has a man at the grocery store calling his wife to ask what brand of beans she wants. Of course the "phone" was basically a walkie-talkie with a huge backpack, but they had the principle exactly right.

Should have been three rocks instead.

I'm amazed by people that put those Monster scratches on their cars. Like, your energy drink of choice is that big a part of your personality?

My least favorite part about riding on bike trails is le peloton -- the mass of riders all gabbing with each other and not paying the slightest bit of attention to what's right in front of them and crowding up to take over the entire lane. I can't count the number of times I've been literally run off the trail by this shit.

I used to bike to work in Louisiana. No bike lanes anywhere but my route was relatively free of car traffic. The problem was the unchained dogs that would come after me from time to time.

Old railway converted into a bus route, no cars allowed but bikes can use it.

This can't be anywhere in the US, can it?

Damn, I wish I'd read your second sentence.

The n-word is an effective appetite suppressant.

I rented a Taurus back in the early '90s for a thousand-mile drive. At one point the window crank (which some cars still came with back then) fell off in my hand, fortunately with the window still closed as this was in December. I reported this when I returned the car and the rental place was like "yeah, of course it did" and they didn't even charge me anything extra.

I had a buddy who went to the GM institute for college and then went to work for GM in the late '80s. His first project involved tearing apart a Lexus and an Infiniti when these first came out and counting the number of production defects they found. He said a typical American car at the time had 300-400 defects. The Inifiniti they tore down had 2; the Lexus had 0.

Fun fact: the American Legion was founded after WWI and was intended to keep returning American veterans from becoming communists. Legionnaires were employed in their Legionnaire uniforms as strike-breakers, until public outcry forced them to stop ... wearing their uniforms while strike-breaking.

That’s about the same amount the federal government pays every year to give farmers super cheap crop insurance.

Or 1/15 of what we're paying Iran for "losing" the war.