I scratched the side of my car in Ireland (100% my fault but for my defense, the roads there are pretty narrow.). Anyway, it was about $3000 estimate and they did charge me. Fortunately, I had insurance through my credit card, and it was pretty painless to get reimbursed, though of course, I had to pay the charge "up front" and get the money back.

@Klaus said: [image: 1773944098852-pxl_20260319_112545987.mp-resized.jpg] Another angle with a stronger hint Great pics!!

Due to inflation, you can now eat food that has been on the floor for up to 7.3 seconds.

@taiwan_girl said in Special Case of South Korea Military Service: I think it is a bit of an overestimate. There will be another K-Pop group(s) to fill the opening. Well, BTS is back. History has shown that no other K-Pop groups has managed to fill the opening -- none has gotten close to BTS' level of commercial profitability, global popularity, or cultural influence. Now we're not even sure if the returning BTS will reclaim the heights reached by the old younger BTS. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/arts/music/bts-k-pop-industry-demon-hunters.html?unlocked_article_code=1.UlA.EW_P.pmKc0d8v1l8y

It passes the sniff test.

Berserk you say! I thought it was performing a martial arts kata.

@jon-nyc If we could get enough people to do it and wipe out the debt I'd pay our share. But only if we had a balanced budget amendment.

Swamp gold

@jon-nyc “He wanted payments — what some people would call a success fee,” said a person with knowledge of the meeting. So that’s what they call it nowadays. Back in the 80s and 90s those of us in the oil patch had a different name for it.

Awesome! I love it when we actually spend time irl with our friends from the forums.

Dont know much about him, but the internet took me down a rabbit hole. LOL Anyways, found this video of his last guest on his show. Pretty (and appropriate) song, I thought. Link to video

@jon-nyc said: I think Caligula became emperor on this day too. So shit literally went down…

Russian ships defying US blockade of Cuba. Now where have I seen that before?

No collard greens. shame.

I dont like them, but I also think that regular cigarettes are probably worse for people.

In other news, .07% of NK Parliamentary Voters have just accidentally fallen off of rooftops, quite accidentally.

I think that if they narrow the bill to show ID for voting and take out the citizenship to register, it will get a lot more votes

c'mon, Lufin, she set you up perfectly....