They just really don’t sell many manual transmission cars in Canada so I’ve had scant experience with them. I did drive one a little bit for work but I wasn’t used to it and would stall out on hills.

They do seem like they would be fun to drive. Sometimes my automatic will just rev on pointlessly high gears and I’m like, downshift you bastard

Longest wait was Telus for 2 hours. I had to cancel my service as I was moving and not getting in touch was not an option.

When I was in Germany recently I was shocked that if you sit on a lovely outdoor patio that smoking is allowed. So you either pick indoors and get no views or sit outdoors with the smokers.

The funny part about driving to Austria from Germany is you only know you’re in Austria because the GPS lets you know the speed limit is 100.

I navigated Europe in 1997 while hitchhiking using nothing more than paper maps and a sharpie to mark where I’ve been and where I wanted to go. It was pretty fun. Only got off track once or twice.

Unfortunately nothing has changed. I live in a condo and our strata has landscapers show up twice a week. All I smell all day is gas fumes and cut grass. I asked our strata if they could hire a company that just does manual trimming without the noise and pollution but they shrugged and said if I can find better to bring it forward.

I have fond memories of smoking at certain times in the 90s. But it was a filthy and unhealthy habit. Glad I quit without much damage being done.

I have to say, I miss how you’d go on smoke breaks. I love how the IT Crowd portrayed the social pariah that was smoking into the 2000s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvjS_c1U6zs

Wow, this is so surprising to hear. My partner was in her 20s in the UK in the 90s and she just absolutely lives in those glory days. The music, the partying, the culture.

I do think homophobia and misogyny were very ubiquitously normal in the 80s/90s though.

In the 80s, it was fairly common to call everyone by LGBT pejoratives. Hey, f-word, hey homo, hey queer.

It was like, no matter how manly you were your masculinity was constantly being challenged by the homophobic vernacular.

It’s amazing how nobody ever remembers this.

It’s normal and a bit weird. I only give a little tip though. So for example, it’s $30 and I give them $35.

But the real atrocity is the price of women’s haircuts and colouring. My partner goes to the cheapest place she can find and still manages to spend $160. Women’s hairdressers are getting as expensive as lawyers.

I’ve been banned from all my favourite subs. So I have to create a new account, get past the new account posting limits, build rapport again in my communities…

too much work

So, not manufactured in China?

Wild guess: they eat a lot of pizza lmao

Well, autism is pretty rife on Reddit

My experience with Reddit mods:

You’ve been banned

Message mods asking why

You’ve been muted

every computer problem is solved by installing Linux

LOL! I know, they’re more insufferable than the vegans.

How can you live in Germany, the country where the best cars are made, and drive an import?

I was playing with randos on Ghost Recon Breakpoint and some slavic sounding dude was trying to explain Putin is cleansing Ukraine of Nazis. I was like, buddy, he better start with himself.

The USA has wanted to be isolationist for centuries but just like the Godfather film they keep getting sucked back into international geopolitics.

20% of Americans wanted to make a peace deal with Hitler. This is how little they care about what’s happening outside America.

We even say dude and y’all like we’re Californians and Texans.

I remember growing up we used to say buddy and eh.

Google News is the worst. If you use it to get a quick snapshot of what’s going on in the world you won’t find anything outside America. You have to change your region to Germany or Britain to get actual results.