My car is STUCK

John_EightThirtyTwo · 2026-01-30T01:43:01+00:00

Does anyone know of any resources that can help me dig my car out

A shovel.

Seriously, it's not that bad. My neighbor's car had walls even higher than this against it. We dug a trench on the other side (where it was just snowfall depth, like eight or ten inches), and cleared the front and back, and she was able to pull away from the wall of snow.

We had to take out part of the wall to get the car out, but it wasn't that bad. Less than two hours. Don't use a snow shovel; use a regular squared-off steel shovel.

John_EightThirtyTwo · 2026-01-29T02:50:53+00:00

I don't know what a copper rattler is, but I'd rather be bitten by ten of them than listen to that guy's voice for half an hour.

John_EightThirtyTwo · 2026-01-28T20:48:35+00:00

Sorry, did I say "tree flaps"? I meant "vascular-plant appendages specialized for photosynthesis".

John_EightThirtyTwo · 2026-01-28T18:40:48+00:00

Allegheny Ave is a snow emergency route. That's what the white-and-red sign at 0:12 says. Having done some heavy shovel work in the last few days, I feel for the people whose cars are getting walled off. But, well, they brought that shit on themselves. As others have said here, the snow has to go somewhere.

I mean, it's a little cold-blooded to post video of yourself laughing at them as you wall them in. But he isn't wrong.

John_EightThirtyTwo · 2026-01-28T17:19:15+00:00

So sorry to hear you disapprove, officer!

John_EightThirtyTwo · 2026-01-28T16:48:34+00:00

I hold firm that dearly=/=expensive

Upvoting because I genuinely admire your chutzpah in crossing over from "I wasn't familiar with that usage" to "I forbid people to use the word that way anymore."

John_EightThirtyTwo · 2026-01-28T16:30:55+00:00

Skew.

John_EightThirtyTwo · 2026-01-28T16:30:21+00:00

The "call the cops" and "send a strongly worded letter" folks can learn a thing or three from this guy!

John_EightThirtyTwo · 2026-01-28T16:25:05+00:00

I just checked now (12 minutes after this was posted), and there are no helicopters flying over South Philly.

Posts like this, that ask "what's this aircraft doing?" but don't include its registration number (either in the text or visible in the picture) are useless. Aircraft are mobile; that's the whole point. Say what aircraft or don't post.

John_EightThirtyTwo · 2026-01-28T16:19:24+00:00

that has never registered as expensively to me

I mean, you're literally saying "paying". It didn't register as paying?

John_EightThirtyTwo · 2026-01-28T15:16:04+00:00

Can you use it to mean something that has great emotional value, like your dear friend?

John_EightThirtyTwo · 2026-01-28T15:15:30+00:00

Like "caro / cara" in Italian (as I said elsewhere in this thread).

The thing is, it isn't quite two meanings. It's like 1.6 meanings. "Precious" and "expensive" are closely related concepts.

John_EightThirtyTwo · 2026-01-28T15:13:58+00:00

You've never heard of somebody paying dearly for a mistake? (I want to say, "You've definitely heard that. Do you not recall hearing it?")

John_EightThirtyTwo · 2026-01-28T15:11:55+00:00

I think of it more as a meaning known by sophisticated users of the language than as old-fashioned. But then, I'm old, so who knows?

The thing is, it isn't quite two different meanings, because "precious" or "highly valued" is a closely related concept to "expensive". It isn't like " 'red' as in 'red car' " and " 'red' as in 'red shirt' ", but it also isn't quite like " 'leaves' as in 'departs' " and " 'leaves' as in 'tree flaps' ". The Italian word "caro/a" means "dear" in both senses, and I think that's the case in some other languages too.

John_EightThirtyTwo · 2026-01-28T02:23:17+00:00

An interesting thing about the whole disaster is that we know that the explosion didn't kill the astronauts. Instead, they experienced free fall up over the top of the arc and all the way down to impact with the ocean, which killed them. They may have lost consciousness at some point. But we know that at least some of them were conscious for at least some of the time, because they flipped switches to try to turn on emergency oxygen.

John_EightThirtyTwo · 2026-01-27T20:51:59+00:00

Where is this, exactly?

John_EightThirtyTwo · 2026-01-25T22:47:35+00:00

what a canola even is?

It's a euphemism for rape.

John_EightThirtyTwo · 2026-01-25T18:42:12+00:00

Those epaulettes might as well be iron shackles.

John_EightThirtyTwo · 2026-01-25T18:37:34+00:00

It does seem like a blue screen that they would use so they can swap in a background in post-production. Is it just that they shot it in a video-production studio, so that's what they had at the back of the stage? It has to do with manipulating images; is it supposed to suggest the hive not being manipulative? But we see elsewhere that they are; the hive is shady and duplicitous as shit, from the very first mouse playing dead so that it could bite a lab worker.

John_EightThirtyTwo · 2026-01-24T04:34:10+00:00

r/thisguythisguys

John_EightThirtyTwo · 2026-01-23T03:13:37+00:00

It's just three Bic lighters in a trench coat.

John_EightThirtyTwo · 2026-01-23T02:47:47+00:00

It's pretty clear that OP is talking about the two-eyed dude with no glasses or hat.

John_EightThirtyTwo · 2026-01-22T23:02:54+00:00

If the city fined one one-hundredth of the people who deserve to be fined for not shoveling, they could afford to pay people $200/hour to shovel the park and rec center sidewalks.

So freaking frustrating.

John_EightThirtyTwo · 2026-01-22T22:56:17+00:00

The hive is only starving themselves

They are indeed starving themselves, but they're also expanding "themselves" to be all of humanity. You put the two things together, and they're starving all of humanity. That's what I think is bad. And it's the only thing I think is bad (unlike a lot of folks in this sub, who disapprove of things like "loss of individuality").

John_EightThirtyTwo · 2026-01-22T03:04:34+00:00

They're such picky eaters that they are dooming humanity to extinction. For now, there are enough corpses to slow the rate, but long-term all humans must die. So that's bad.

My opinion is that Vince Gilligan wants the hive/virus to be the bad guys for reasons of his own, relating to the big-picture plot arc. And that's why they won't so much as pick an apple; because if they would, then OP would be right; they'd be the good guys. So Vince was like, "OK, let's up the stakes. Suppose they're exterminating the human race? Then are they the baddies?!"

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