“This email could have been a meeting.”

I don’t know if this is the place for this, but god damn is the original Billy Joel song cringeworthy. “Making love to his tonic and gin”, something absolutely nobody ever says (it’s “gin and tonic”). “Talking to Davy who’s still in the navy” is another example of mangling shit to fit the rhyme scheme. And it’s all just a song about how awesome and better-than-this he, Billy Joel, is (“man, what are you doin’ here?”).

Would be the most lyrically embarrassing song of all time if not for “We Didn’t Start the Fire”.

Edit: I guess this is not the place for this lol.

Nah, I don’t want them thinking they’re influencing my actions in any way whatsoever.

Companies that process food are always looking for ways to increase profit.

I was amazed when Campbell’s came out with their line of low-salt soups. The can was slightly smaller, the soup wasn’t condensed (so you didn’t add a can of water to it), and it cost twice as much. You’re paying over four times as much as normal just for them to not put as much salt in the soup in the first place.

I took an Uber a few months ago and the guy had apparently just learned to drive. The entire time he was always mashing either the gas pedal or the brake, so it was constant speeding up and slowing down. I tried to tell him that he could sometimes just have his foot on neither pedal to cruise and get a smoother ride, but he looked at me like I’d just grown another head.

I was in a car a few years ago with my cousin and her husband who was driving; they were both around 60 years old at the time. He was insanely close to the car in front while we were doing over 50 mph and my cousin was screaming at him to back off. He got irate and said “but I’m maintaining a one-car-length distance!” It’s hard to believe that a person could drive for 45 fucking years and never have learned what a safe following distance is, but there you go.

Especially in the US where almost noone leaves a good gap.

Part of the dilemma (at least on multi-lane highways) is that if you leave a proper gap someone will cut in front of you and then you won’t have a proper gap any more.

this was a sure ticket to lose the driving license

Thank you stranger. This story has warmed my heart on a cold morning.

I’m a school bus driver and I get tailgaters like this all the time. They don’t seem to grasp that I absolutely cannot see them at all when they’re that close, not in my mirrors nor even through the windows in the back door. It’s extra fun when they do it in a 15mph school zone and lay on the horn for good measure. Like yeah dude, I’m going to speed through a school zone in a fucking school bus so you can get to the red light up ahead five seconds sooner, thanks for letting me know.

Rich kids get their cars bought for them by their parents and it’s not usually a Corvette. A $90K car with no down would have a monthly payment of $1500 or thereabouts, just barely affordable for a young person with a shitty job. Having your puny net worth tied up in a sad “super” car is definitely poor people shit.

Where I live it seems that all the Corvettes are owned by young men who live with their parents. Shitty jobs and their whole paycheck goes to the car’s bank note.

Jeeps are unbelievable pieces of shit, overpriced and unreliable. But at least I understand the appeal of the basic Jeep form factor with the 4WD and the removable top and doors and whatnot; I love driving with the wind in my face and it’s probably nice to be at least theoretically capable of a little offroading.

What I don’t understand is people buying Jeep-branded cars. Then you’re just getting an overpriced and unreliable piece of shit car.

Rocket Mortgage has had this commercial for a couple years where some schlub is trudging back into his house lamenting the fact that six bags of groceries has become two (thanks to inflation). Suddenly his house starts talking to him and reminding him that he could get a Rocket Mortgage loan backed by his small amount of equity and use the money to buy groceries. Dude lights up with joy and dances into this house. It’s just beyond fucked that this is obviously one of their most successful commercials. It’s amazing that they can turn borrowing money for food into a positive.

I was just in a literal CVS an hour ago and they have a sign on the receipt printer that says “please don’t grab receipt until it is done printing.” It’s like, shouldn’t the fact that you had to write a sign like that be an indicator that you’re printing out too much shit?

What’s disgusting is that this isn’t even a joke. That is really what those fucking people think, and it’s even what they say out loud.

A lot of people didn’t like that poor girl.

I used to work for an organization in Atlanta that was similar to Habitat for Humanity but smaller. Our mission was to build and rehab housing for homeless people. Ironically, our typical project involved buying an “abandoned” house that was actually occupied by a large number of squatters. The first step was us carpenters going in with shovels and axes and whatnot and rousting everybody out. We would then do an absurdly overpriced renovation on a property that would have been cheaper to tear down and rebuild from scratch, and then the house would be sold to a single family that was relatively well-off enough to afford a mortgage. I was too young to realized it at the time, but I think the whole thing was just a charity scam being run by the CEO.

That’s what happened to Larry Niven’s Ringworld. Cool concept but laughably unsupported by basic Physics. Niven had to write a sequel not because anybody wanted to see more of his characters but because he was tired of readers telling him what a moron he was.

The Integral Trees was a way better concept and much better thought out.

I remember when the original name for the invasion of Iraq was “Operation Iraqi Liberation” until somebody decided that was a little too obvious an acronym.

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awful, expensive, objectively shitty vehicles like Jeeps

Jeeps are the most hilarious brand out there. Absolute pieces of shit and insanely overpriced. If you buy a jeep Jeep, like the real Jeep thing with the canvas top and the doors that come off, I can at least understand the appeal of that basic form factor. The truly mind-boggling thing is when people buy Jeep-branded cars and SUVs that aren’t even real jeeps. Paying a huge premium just to own a pointlessly gilded piece of poo.