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Being off the boards for a couple of weeks and returning to find that I missed an inappropriate discussion that resulted in deleted posts and banned members! :) I don't understand people letting their cats run free outside. It spreads disease (especially to their owners!) and is a serious...

I recently read (maybe it was in this thread somewhere?) that the "Baby on Board" signs are actually handy for first responders to know that a crashed vehicle might have a child inside. Finally, a reason that makes sense!

I'm pretty sure that's the origin. It means to be careful with your behavior/politeness, like being careful to not confuse your 'p's and 'q's.

I would have taken the photo of him flipping me off and posted it to every social media site I could find. :)

Getting a corrected W-2 from a former employer showing that my reported 2014 income was short by $100 (ENTIRELY their fault), and having no choice but to sit and stew for god knows how long before the IRS is notified and lets me know how much penalty and interest I'm going to owe on top of the...

Debit cards have always required a PIN, whether chip or swipe. PINs are new for credit cards, especially in the US. Since the US implemented chip credit cards, most of them still just require a signature instead of using a PIN. (Target is the exception here.) I think things will move toward...

The story I heard is that in the past, most credit card fraud occurred outside the US, so other countries switched to the chip-and-PIN method out of necessity. It's slowly making its way to the US in the wake of various and sundry breaches of large retailers' card-reading systems.

Chip readers are anti-annoying. I never have to insert twice (unlike swiping), and they provide better security (especially once more of them implement PINs). One anecdote of a machine problem doesn't cancel that. Here's a REAL credit card annoyance: Clicking a button that says "Receive a...

Yep. I grew up about 250 miles from Montreal, so I'm very familiar with northern climes. . .

The national border is irrelevant here. I'd say the same thing if he lived in Minnesota or North Dakota! :P

You live in Canada!!! :p It'll be in the 90s later this week, but I ain't complaining. It was in the 70s and 80s all winter. :)

Ortho Weed-B-Gon is still around, but I'm willing to bet that the formula from 30 years ago was stronger than it is today. :) Whether that 30-year-old bottle is still effective is another question. . .

The new Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 not only has FIVE extra scenes scattered throughout the end credits, but the end credits themselves are very entertaining, start to finish. Unfortunately, that's the exception, not the rule.

Non-standard engineering design that makes things more difficult. Our kitchen faucet broke, so I bought a new one. When I went to remove the broken unit, I discovered that there's a washer with a cutout to guide the hoses: It holds the hoses in place, but prevents you from unscrewing the...

It was almost certainly a sophisticated business analysis process that decided it would be much cheaper to replace the number of packages that get damaged in transit than to more securely pack every single shipment.

I believe it's because they're entirely liable for anything that happens to you until you step through that door. They're afraid that you might fall or bump into something.

I prefer the formal kind.

Oh, I see that all the time. The difference in this case is that usually people don't come to a full stop unless the light actually changes. :)

Bill O'Reilly is a commentator whose job is to give his opinions on stuff. Wolf Blitzer is a journalist who's ostensibly reporting news, not commenting on it.

Yesterday, traveling in the middle lane of a three-lane road, the person in front of me came to a complete stop at a GREEN LIGHT. And it hadn't just turned green, either. Ramming speed. . .

I don't follow.

In his defense, if the packaging said it was compatible with your watch, then it most likely wasn't his fault.

People using "ask" as a noun. I know it's technically correct, but it's suddenly gone from rare and infrequent to a daily thing in my life. Especially in business/work settings, for years now people have been using words that are more frequently verbs as nouns, and vice versa, to sound...

Nope. "These guys' skulls" or "this guy's skull." :)

That's not quite true. ABC occasionally shows a Spielberg WWII film completely uncut in prime time. (I think both Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan have gotten this treatment.) Maybe they get special dispensation somehow. Those are pretty much the only occurrences of that kind of...

MTV Live (formerly Palladia) is great. They run videos between shows, and all their programming is either music performance or music documentaries.

You know what makes online statements extra annoying? When they lock you out from viewing past statements online if you still get paper statements. It's a completely contrived inconvenience.

A new generation of OLEDs just came out from LG and Sony that seem to be getting rave reviews. We'll see how cheap the good ones are the next time my DLP bulb burns out. :)

A $500 4K TV will look like crap next to a plasma, but the high-end 4K TVs are not so bad (certainly superior to older LCDs).

Some loofahs take a little breaking in before they soften up.