And the award for the best shade throwing goes to...

[Scooter]

Too soon?

[BoSoxGal]

I re-posted a meme that I liked on Facebook - someone wishing that America will be as lucky as the Delta jet, with all of us surviving our upside down landing but the right wing exploding into a fiery end.

[Scooter]

[MajGenl.Meade]

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[BoSoxGal]

Okay wait - did the bus driver say, "hey jack booted thug, gargle my balls!" or did s/he say, "hey jack booted thug, go gargle your balls!"

Inquiring minds want to know.

[Scooter]

I was wondering about that myself. "Gargle my balls" would work idiomatically in the same way as "eat my shorts". But "gargle your balls" is more like "go fuck yourself". So I think either works.

[ex-khobar Andy]

I couldn't help thinking that 'These balls are made for gargling' fits well with the old Nancy Sinatra tune.

I need help.

[Sue U]

Honestly had not considered the alternative view. I have a serious lack imagination, apparently.

[Big RR]

[Scooter]

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[Joe Guy]

[ex-khobar Andy]

And in fact Ford and GM and whatever-the-fuck-Chrysler-calls-itself-now have long had factories in Europe (never been to Japan so don't know) and made cars there. The UK Ford Escort (and before that the Anglia) were pretty good cars and the German Merkur, also Ford-derived, was excellent. I had a Hillman Hunter (Chrysler) which I liked. A lot of the European Fords were styled by Ghia, an Italian designer, who knew what he was doing.

So Stephen Miller is either blind, or ignorant, or lying. My guess is AOTA.

[BoSoxGal]

I recently heard a piece on NPR which discussed the move in recent decades among American automakers toward behemoth vehicles, especially trucks and SUVs. Those cars are exacting a price here at home in terms of higher numbers of pedestrian strike fatalities and high energy consumption - and they're also impracticable for many European settings because the size of the roads won't accommodate them.

I imagine the models Andy mentioned are smaller and built for the environment in which they're meant to be sold.

[Crackpot]

Joe why would you deface an orange like that?

[Crackpot]

Outside full size (or larger) trucks and SUVs size isn’t as much of a driver. There is however many cost drivers due to local safety regulation and even income accessibility.