Here's the official first video of my new channel, with a video essay on 12 Things I Learned on My First Solo Bike Tour.
If you saw it on the other thread, it's the same video with a different title.
If you saw it on the other thread, it's the same video with a different title.
figmentPez
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This is why I watch Awesome Games Done Quick; entertaining runner with lots of info about how the run works, and funny commentators on the couch with some great banter.
"Mom, have you seen my firework pot?"
"...Your WHAT?!?"
figmentPez
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figmentPez
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Making fire with a hammer and anvil
GasBandit
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The story of the SUV is literally just "we know you want station wagons and minivans, but we make more money when we skirt efficiency and safety regulations, so here, we'll spice things up with some toxic masculinity and you can convince yourself this is what you wanted anyway. Or not. We don't care, we're not going to sell the other stuff anymore anyway."
Thankfully efficiency has still dramatically improved and a hybrid SUV can get 35+ mpg and now there are decent electric options.
I saw that the day it came out. I don't even follow the channel, but the station wagon is the best all-round family design and I will not hear otherwise. There is one -- ONE -- decent modern wagon out there right now...buuuut it costs something like $75k.
--Patrick
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GasBandit
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For the moment. We're in the process of rolling all that back. If you get double digit mpg you're a trans commie terrorist, now.
I was living in the Detroit area when the Ford Expedition was announced, and I remember a (Guindon?) newspaper cartoon that had two guys in a very tall SUV that was crowding and belching smoke over everyone next to them, and the driver was saying something like, "Who needs a tailpipe, when you can have a smokestack!"
This was almost thirty years ago.
--Patrick
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Well, I am on their team, at least, so yeah.
I'm not trans but at this point give it ten years, who the fuck knows.
It does not appear to have a NA equivalent, but it looks almost exactly the same as a Honda Odyssey, which definitely straddles smack dab between the station wagon and minivan slots.
--Patrick
The Wish is a smidge smaller, I believe, which is why when I look at a Wish I think "station wagon", but when I look at an Odyssey I think "SUV".
But, of course, we are firmly within the gray area where these definitions are nebulous and could go either way.
(Also, thanks to recent cinematic offerings, when I look at an Odyssey I also can't help but think "the Honda Odyssey fucks hard".)
But, of course, we are firmly within the gray area where these definitions are nebulous and could go either way.
(Also, thanks to recent cinematic offerings, when I look at an Odyssey I also can't help but think "the Honda Odyssey fucks hard".)
figmentPez
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I did not see that ending coming.