With great power comes great responsibility. Except when it’s great horsepower, and that comes with a responsibility to do the most outrageous, vile, and morally reprehensible things possible.
I’d like to tell you that I dragged these three girls, all of whom had, shall we say, an unstructured approach to sexual ethics, back to one of those great contemporary buildings behind the main restaurant at Cavallo Point and then went six ways to Sunday while cheerfully reflecting that it would take two of the three to add up to my age. But in truth I had to head up the road for photography and the trackday at Thunderhill. So we shook hands and parted ways.
While I gently weep onto my guitar, you can check out what Bark and I wrote for publication this week.
The “Ask Bark” series had some high and low points this week. A question about finding a great sporting car for a family man drew all sorts of interest. When Bark was called to use his powers to help the family of a compulsive hoarder, however, the B&B weren’t quite as excited.
I spent much of my TTAC week editing reader submissions, but I still took time to toss in what looks like it will be a 500-comment monster responding to one of the reader pieces that I edited.
For R&T, I reminded the world that Mustangs and Macans are not sports cars.
Next week I should have no fewer than five fun things for you to read, including a road and track (in both senses of the term) test of the McLaren 675LT. I won’t include anything about these girls, or any other, in that test. It’s just between (all of) us, right?
DAMN Jack ~ you must be getting old or something .
-Nate
Bark, thanks for featuring my question. Your responses and the B&B’s gave me a lot to think about.
PLUS after my wife read it, she said “Why wouldn’t you just lease a new BMW?” She is a little on the frugal side so this was a bit of a shock.
You’re quite welcome!
If adding a hard top to a sports car makes it a GT, then does adding a soft top to a two-door make it a sports car? As in a drop top 911? I need to banish my ignorance.
Strictly speaking, the 911 is a 2+2, in either GT or convertible form.
It’s interesting that a male reviewer “dragging” females in for a night of debauchery is an act that, if consummated, would be considered a matter of pride. I wonder if a female with three men would be viewed the same way? Or would it be described as *her* being dragged?
But then, I guess car reviews have always been a guy’s thing. 🙂
@Orenwolf, can’t tell if you were trolling; regardless, that comment was bitch-perfect.
How handsome are the men in your scenario?
Biologically speaking, having three extra sons is a matter of pride.
Bearing the child of someone whom you primarily remember as “the guy in the green car” would be less pride-worthy 🙂
It seems like the volume of comments at TTAC have gone up some recently. Is that the case or is it just my perception?
That always happens when post volume goes down. Same amount of dialogue on fewer posts.
Other than the demise of the newsbot, why the reduction in posts?
I watched PBS Frontline’s ‘growing up trans’ a while back. It was illuminating on many levels. One kid was 10-12 years old, didn’t appear 100% confident in his choice, but his mom had trans-munchausen syndrome and was uber-excited to take him to a children’s hospital to start heavy duty hormone therapy. Both my wife and I got the strong impression mommy dearest wouldn’t accept anything less than having the first trans kid on the block.
As a pre teen.
That kid was contrasted (IIRC) with a much older teenager who was clearly at peace with her determination the wrong gender was assigned at birth.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/growing-up-trans/
BTW I want to be clear that when I said “you need to close your mouth and stop talking” I wasn’t just lazily telling you you should shut up. My point was twofold; 1) I’ve known more than one person who has gone through that at some point in their lives, and when I said it’s not “trivial” I meant “nobody just up and ‘decides’ which way they go.” 2) You don’t know the people in question, you’ve never met them, you don’t know their family dynamic. All you know about them is a few sentences typed by Lou_BC. I just don’t see that as sufficient information to come to a snap judgement that the way they’re handling it is “wrong.”
I know it’s the done thing in this country to form a hard-line opinion on something right off the bat, but there’s no shame in saying “you know what, I don’t know enough about this to know what I think about it yet, so I’ll hold off on forming a judgement pending further information.”
My favorite repartee:
RideHeight
“[…]
What’s it say about guys who pine for the days when cars looked like d1cks?”
Jack Baruth
“That we want to run them headfirst into first-generation Tribecas, obviously.”
Somebody call Farago and thank him for choosing a worthy protégé.
If you get the opportunity to test one, I’d be very interested to read your thoughts on the new BMW M2. I don’t know whether to believe the hype that BMW has finally produced something that drives similar to the E36/46 M cars…I have a feeling that such a car is simply no longer possible, but the M2 is as close as we’re going to get.
Thirty days from now!
Didn’t everyone already try to say the BMW 1 Series M Coupe was the true spiritual successor of the E36 and 46 M3s a few years back? Granted they were a limited run.
I’m inclined to agree with you, recapturing that car is impossible now. I’m curious how many people have even driven an old M3 to be able to make an informed comparison to the M2.
So an Accord Coupe and Mustang are not sports cars
A Mustang is a sedan
I suppose tradtional nomenclature is tradtional nomenclature, but I’ve always been comfortable calling 4-door non-hatchback cars sedans.
” Thirty days from now! ” .
Whip that bitch jack , we want to read all about it .
-Nate
Just leaving this here in the interest of not clogging your e-mail, Ross Bentley is a wizard and secretly maybe a hypnotist. Thank you for introducing me to his work.
Ah, good to hear you’re getting somewhere. Let’s drive this summer!