What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

[LizzieMaine]

Lizzie,



I drive 165mph on some twisty roads. Yeah, they're out in the country.

I used to cover news stories about crews picking fragments of guys like you out of trees. Saw some things I wouldn't wish on anyone. But hey, I'm sure they thought they had a pretty hot car, too.

 

[jamespowers]

Women who make a duckface when having a snap taken of them.

There ought to be a law....

 

[LizzieMaine]

And as far as the ideal female physique goes, my vote is for Mamie (wife of Uncle Willie) Mullins.

Or perhaps Blanche Payson.

 

[vitanola]

Lizzie,



I drive 165mph on some twisty roads. Yeah, they're out in the country.

One of your kind recently killed an Amish family in our neck of the woods, and another rear-ended some friends of mine who were touring in North Carolina a few years ago. They were driving 45 miles an hour on a 45 mile an hour road in a car which was painted carmine red with black trim and a black top which stood over seven feet tall. In addition, the car was fitted with a flashing safety strobe. The day was clear. The fellow in the Lexus who rear ended them was going over 85 miles per hour, and said that the "hadn't seen the other car". No doubt...

 

[LizzieMaine]

I read some place once that some people find it tastes like soap....and that's genetic.

-Newsman-

Exactly. I'd rather eat sliced Fels Naptha in my food.

 

[Gregg Axley]

There ought to be a law....

Cruelty to ducks if you ask me...

 

[jamespowers]

Exactly. I'd rather eat sliced Fels Naptha in my food.

Gee, that would ruin salsa for me.

 

[jamespowers]

Cruelty to ducks if you ask me...

Howard the Duck.

 

[vitanola]

I used to cover news stories about crews picking fragments of guys like you out of trees. Saw some things I wouldn't wish on anyone. But hey, I'm sure they thought they had a pretty hot car, too.

I personally don't care about how these reincarnations of Ralph dePalma are scraped off of the road, save for the expense to taxpayers or insurance ratepayers, but they so often take innocent, sensible folk along with them. All due to their entitlement mentality;"I bought this hot car and I can drive it as fast as I may. All of those slow-pokes out there had better get out of my way. They have no idea how important I am."

I think we could use a three-year national speed limit of 35 miles per hour with mandatory lifetime license suspension for the third violation. Within three years time those hot-rodding jerks who are unable to control themselves or bend their habits to allow for the safety of others will mostly end up as pedestrians, and when the limit is lifted we should have some measure of sanity restored to driving.

 

[jamespowers]

I personally don't care about how these reincarnations of Ralph dePalma are scraped off of the road, save for the expense to taxpayers or insurance ratepayers, but they so often take innocent, sensible folk along with them. All due to their entitlement mentality;"I bought this hot car and I can drive it as fast as I may. All of those slow-pokes out there had better get out of my way. They have no idea how important I am."

I think we could use a three-year national speed limit of 35 miles per hour with mandatory lifetime license suspension for the third violation. Within three years time those hot-rodding jerks who are unable to control themselves or bend their habits to allow for the safety of others will mostly end up as pedestrians, and when the limit is lifted we should have some measure of sanity restored to driving.

35?!

 

[LizzieMaine]

When I'm dictator every car on the road will have a governor on the motor to keep it under 40mph. I've about had it with these overcompensating middle-aged juveniles trying to run me off the road "because they can."

I was driving the Plodge yesterday on a newly-paved back road, extremely twisty, and shrouded by overgrown trees so that it was very dark. There were no markings yet painted on the road, just those little rubber tag things hammered in at intervals. I'm going up hill at about 35mph -- a prudent speed under the circs -- and some viagrist in a Batmobile-looking "performance car" comes tearing up behind me, swerves to pass me, and barely misses a car just coming over the crest of the hill. If there'd been a crash, I wouldn't have been able to stop in time either, and it would have been a three-car disaster. There was no shoulder on this road, either -- it was pure woods, and going off the road would have likely been fatal.

So yeah, I hope the "thrill" was everything he hoped it would be.

 

[Foxer55]

Lizzie,

I used to cover news stories about crews picking fragments of guys like you out of trees. Saw some things I wouldn't wish on anyone. But hey, I'm sure they thought they had a pretty hot car, too.

Yeah, its pretty hot. Silver one in the lead here. It tops out at 200mph. I'm working on getting there.

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[Foxer55]

vitanola,

...85 miles per hour...

Phttt...!

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Women who make a duckface when having a snap taken of them.

There ought to be a law....

 

[madame babette]

Cell Phones

 

[McPeppers]

Smartwatches that try to look like they are from Tron rather than Dick Tracy. Someday we will class these things up.


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[Zombie_61]

Cilantro? What's wrong with cilantro?

Speaking only for my wife and myself, a) we dislike the taste of cilantro, and b) if any meal includes even the smallest amount of cilantro, the cilantro is all we can taste while we're eating it.

...The last few decades' female ideal is even more ridiculous - she's a bone skinny stick insect, with a big bust, swollen lips and bleached, streaked, unkempt hair. Gag.

I blame the "stick figure" look on Lesley "Twiggy" Lawson. Or, rather, those in the mid-60s (and everyone in the "world of fashion" in general) who promoted her thin build as the "ideal" that women should aspire to and that men should find attractive. I much prefer a woman who looks like a woman, not a malnourished thirteen-year-old boy. To be clear, I'm not saying that I find naturally slim women unattractive. But I do think the vast majority of women who are willing to risk their health by severe dieting, over-exercising, and/or undergoing unnecessary surgeries in an attempt to achieve an unrealistic and false "ideal look" have issues that run deeper than what they think they see when they look in a mirror.

 

[Foxer55]

madame babette,

Cell Phones

I'll second that!

 

[Edward]

Wired telephone networks and landlines. I rather resent paying out for a landline I never use in order that I can be provided with decent broadband. I would very much like to be able to ditch the landline altogether in exchange for a wirelessly hooked-up broadband wifi hub at home. I don't like landline phones in general - I will always, always, always call a field telephone number first. Actually, I'd rather email most people than speak on the phone at all.

 

[dh66]

Speaking only for my wife and myself, a) we dislike the taste of cilantro, and b) if any meal includes even the smallest amount of cilantro, the cilantro is all we can taste while we're eating it.

That's not uncommon. The distaste for the flavor of cilantro has been linked to a genetic trait. It's just something you're born with, like eye color.



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