I'd like it if hatchbacks could be hot again and not SUVs. Ford Focus, VW Golf, those sorts of things.

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Yeah, and since all those plane makers also do military stuff, the military planes all end up looking the same, too.

We'll never see weird designs like the Catalina or the P-38 again and I'm kinda sad about that. The weirdest things in the sky now are drones. The Bayraktar has a empanage that would make Kelly Johnson proud.

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(I'm on a call and can't dig through my meme stash)

Edit: Sorry for the delay, call went long:

I have social scripts that run like macros when there's the right input. If someone asks me how I'm doing I'll spit out "Great, how are you?" with zero extra thought.

In 12th grade we read Hamlet out loud as a class. The guy who got picked to be Hamlet didn't understand that it was supposed to be read as a play.

So he read every line

Like this, because that's how it

Was printed in the book.

It was awful. So when the teacher said we were doing the same thing with Macbeth I immediately volunteered to be Macbeth because I couldn't handle anyone else doing it.

Fuck yeah, I'd love an El Camino

I think it also has to do with the population getting older and fatter. People aren't able to get into and out of traditional sedans anymore, so they need something with more ride height.

That would explain why station wagons didn't come back into fashion.

I like this one. The Internet still works after 9pm but you're reduced to 56k speeds. After 10pm it goes to 28.8k. After 11pm: 2400 baud.

A true nerd has at least one spare raspberry pi laying around. Or just an old box they can throw Linux on.

Ideally they'd form a third party and split the conservative vote for the next forty years or so

I've got a house built in the 70s and a new Volvo wagon won't fit lengthwise in it without gutting the garage.

Meanwhile my GTI can fit in front of my workbench with almost six feet to spare.

Name a more iconic duo than politicians and making promises that rely on the cooperation of other branches of government.

Fuel economy is ruining the sedans and wagons that still exist. Volvos are getting really long and really wide, because CAFE standards take to the area underneath the wheelbase into account, and the bigger that is the less economical they have to be.

I've got a 2015 v60 and while I like the new ones they're just too damn wide and long.

I'd say a hatchback is a sedan with the trunk/boot removed, while a station wagon has the trunk/boot extended to the roofline. Hatchbacks would end up shorter than the sedan or wagon version of cars.

It's cute that they think that, but they smell just as bad as the rest of us. Especially when they try to cover it up with fragrances.

Bring back the Brat!

I've got another one: Airplanes.

There used to be crazy designs and a lot of variation between planes. Tandem seats, swing wings, dual tailplanes, gull wings, all sorts of crazy design choices side by side. Even commercial airplanes had lots of variation. Trijets with tail stairs, engines embedded in the wing roots.

Planes now all sort of look the same. Every fifth generation fighter looks the same. Granted, this is because they're hitting physical constraints of aerodynamics and stealth, but that limits the creativity of the designers.

I prefer being outside in cold weather. If I had my druthers I'd keep my house at 60 degrees in the winter and bundle up. I've lived in a house where I could wake up and see my breath in my own bedroom on especially cold days and it was glorious.

In the last episode of The Grand Tour Clarkson said that he's done with cars because they've become appliances, and it's no fun reviewing microwaves.