I think there was a misunderstanding here. My mother actually has sarcoidosis. I had no idea that your mother also had it. I have no idea what everyone's life details are here. My mother is going to die, and I don't expect that day to be terribly far off. She is down to 30% lung function.
As far as "outing" the guy, I just wanted my ten bucks. It was an inflation-adjusted version of the movie "Better Off Dead".
I've got one: My mom is so close to dying from sarcoidosis that she can't focus her eyes well enough to read what you just wrote, which is nice, I suppose.
Huh. That wasn't super-funny. But it was true.
I never met somebody so wealthy that they were unwilling to collect money that someone owed to them.
You owe me ten dollars. It doesn't matter if I'm going to eat my only meal of the day with the money or if I'm going to burn it in the fireplace. Pay up.
I'm assuming you are Timothy Middleton, living in New Jersey and affiliated with The Daily Hoon. If you aren't, now would be a good time to say so and save that guy some difficulty.
See how it's not as funny when it comes from an anonymous basement-dweller who doesn't even have the ten bucks he claimed to have?
Well, clearly you are too bright for the "your mom" joke to get the better of you. I have an idea. You were bitching about your low pay... why not be the editor of MT? You just basically showed you are smarter than he is.
There's homophobia in that transcript? There's racism, mom jokes, and a guy who won't take responsibility for what he writes, but there's no homophobia. Women suck cock too, although you might not be aware of that.
That would be... me.
Fair enough. At this point I'm renting cars just to have someone to review: I've had too many PR people cut my access as favors to journalists whom I've insulted / humiliated on track / cuckolded / shoved out of the path between me and the breakfast buffet.
You know what? I 100% apologize. This is what happened:
I entered the pits with the overall lead. Sam, our crew chief, spilled fuel, but he didn't see it happen. So he told me there hadn't been any fuel spilled. If you know Sam, you know that he is about the most honest guy out there. So I was furious. I left the enduro and drove directly to Canada, where I had a date waiting. Sam called me and told me that someone else had seen the spill. We take safety seriously so that settled the matter for me.
We we 4:44 out of first place overall in that race. But if we can't race safe, we don't deserve to win. I owe you a beer and an apology.
My article about the race, mentioning the fuel spill: [www.thetruthaboutcars.com]
No, I don't have to. I don't write about cars for a living. I write about cars because I care about cars. As a consequence, I have the luxury of being honest with you. If that upsets you, Motor Trend has a full staff of failed writers whose rent payments depend on rewriting PR press releases for you.
Do you remember the circumstances? I try to be courteous to everyone who puts numbers on their door. If it was the Putnam Park race, I was probably furious because I missed out on winning the entire enduro (with a PTE Civic) due to a 5min pit penalty. I'm sorry. Send me a message, I will make it right.
It's Facebook, not the New York Review Of Books. Who cares?
LAPIS BLUE GOD DAMN IT
Seriously, there was a purple Neon color, this isn't it.
I like my Neon. Built it from a shell. Myself. We qualified it 5th out of 23 in the NASA National Championships a few years back.
I was just stopping by Jalopnik to find out what the Delta boarding pass looks like and I see that I'm famous!
We're gonna take this fight to the streets, yo. Loh's too light to fight but I'm going to have my girlfriend drop him like Letty dropped Lance.
Now I'M being trolled, but let's face it: as a part-time sysadmin, I need the money. Pay up.
Actually, this is a cash-for-clicks scam on both our parts. We're just more upfront about it.
I am 40 years old and WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS REVIEW
TTAC / Edward Niedermeyer :)
Paul, I was a Jalopnik commenter before I was a TTAC writer, and I've also contributed several articles to Jalopnik, so I don't feel like I'm "over there" throwing stones "over here". We will have a piece on TTAC tomorrow or Saturday with more detail and some firsthand info.
Let's play Mad Libs.
When [NOUN] took over [NAME OF CAR BLOG] it went from being an elite albeit self-selected club of knowledgeable, intelligent contributors who raised the level of online automotive discourse to a sad, advertiser-fueled, press-release-reprinting, hype-and-garbage site without the slightest shred of credibility or respect for its readers.
Honestly, "Arianna Huffington" and "Autoblog" weren't even my third choice to complete the above sentence.
When [NOUN] took over [NAME OF CAR BLOG] it went from being an elite albeit self-selected club of knowledgeable, intelligent contributors who raised the level of online automotive discourse to a sad, advertiser-fueled, press-release-reprinting, hype-and-garbage site without the slightest shred of credibility or respect for its readers.
Honestly, "Arianna Huffington" and "Autoblog" weren't even my third choice to complete the above sentence.
