Meme Thread... no politics

NickD said:

I really wonder if the H-pattern is more effective as a boomer anti-purchase device than a millennial anti-theft device

Edit: No meme but how about some facts?

Perhaps unsurprisingly, people who report having owned a manual transmission car tend to be older, with 80% of men over 55 reporting that they have owned a car with a manual transmission at some point. That number falls to 51 percent in men between the ages of 18 and 34, and just 43 percent in men and women in that age range. Curiously, though, it’s the people in that age bracket who report being most interested in driving a manual car.

From: https://www.carscoops.com/2021/01/66-percent-of-americans-say-they-know-how-to-drive-a-manual-but-almost-no-one-is-buying-them/ 

So the "millennial anti-theft device" works on less than half of millennials but also a fifth of boomers

Edit2: It's official, check the stats in the source:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ON3bwsb6wWTlVzB1Ql5tMK2fgwW4RnoOAzapWIqi3Wc/edit#slide=id.p7

Freshly made meme:

RevRico said:

Cruft. So much cruft. Vast libraries included to get some fragment of functionality, or just because it was included before and nobody knows whether removing it will break something.

XKCD provided a hotlink URL, so I'm taking that as approval to hotlink, but here's the comic on their site, too: https://xkcd.com/2347

I learned to drive on a 62 Chevy truck with a 4 speed in 1979. I was 11. 

The last car I bought was a 6 speed. 

I have zero urge to daily a manual transmission in rush hour traffic.

Toyman! said:

I learned to drive on a 62 Chevy truck with a 4 speed in 1979. I was 11. 

The last car I bought was a 6 speed. 

I have zero urge to daily a manual transmission in rush hour traffic.

Born in '70.

6 manuals, one auto in the yard. The auto is not mine but the mrs'.

Looking for a reward for doing their homework?

I'm a 1955 model, never happier than when I get to drive a manual transmission car. 
 

I've always been the weird one. Why should this be different?
 

This is a good opportunity to share a picture from a recent fuel stop.
 

I was already amused that the springs on his badass 4x4 were painted to match the body color, and then he very carefully went around the truck spraying foaming tire cleaner on all the "VenomPower" tires. Which already appeared clean. 

johndej said:

Man, that is dumb-ass math

In reply to 67LS1 :

Bad math? Who the berk eats at Chili's 3 times a week?

In reply to NickD :

It was 1872, and it was for speeding.  Therefore, I think he ought to be the official President of GRM.

In reply to volvoclearinghouse :

Fixed it. I was doing the math of 1872 was 151 years ago and somehow merged the two together as 1852. He got stopped once for speeding, then arrested for speeding like the next day by the same officer, then failed to show up for his court date, but paid the fine and commended the officer that arrested him. Also, as far as names go Ulysses S. Grant is berking badass.

NickD said:

Also, as far as names go Ulysses S. Grant is berking badass.

It's actually Ulysses S Grant - no period.  His middle name is actually S, not an initial for a longer name.  It was from a typo on his West Point application or maybe birth certificate, I forget.

Duke said:

NickD said:

Also, as far as names go Ulysses S. Grant is berking badass.

It's actually Ulysses S Grant - no period.  His middle name is actually S, not an initial for a longer name.  It was from a typo on his West Point application or maybe birth certificate, I forget.

His actual name was Hiram Ulysses Grant, but it got butchered into Ulysses S Grant on his West Point application and stuck. Having the initials of US earned him the nickname of Uncle Sam from soldiers during the Civil War

And of course, you had Harry S Truman, who also just had the letter S for a middle name.

In reply to NickD :

That's treading dangerously close to politics.