Methodist Jesus definitely drives a Chrysler Crossfire.

Excuse me in this household we celebrate the December to Remember event and I will not stand by as you erase our culture!

So even if that's the case you're taking out a far more valuable thing that can drop and break or be stolen. And I don't know why a phone would be any appreciable amount easier to find than a smartrip unless you are wearing parachute pants and have your pockets filled with crap.

There are literally no advantages.

Not to be rude or anything but the high end of whiskey and tequila starts way beyond $115.

There are absolutely solid bottles in your price range, but nothing "special." $60-$115 will get you a base offering single malt, or a 2nd-from-the-bottom tier premium label bourbon. I'm not super familiar with tequila but I'd be surprised if it was all that different.

I would focus more on the "unusual" side of things if I were you. Something like Jefferson's Ocean which is mid-tier bourbon but has the fun gimmick of being aged on a boat at sea. It'll run you $90 bottle or so. Or if your dad doesn't live in the area, something local (even though our local stuff isn't that good) like Catoctin Creek or Copper Fox would be unique to them but not break the bank.

Yeah, I don't get the supposed utility of the phone thing at all.

Smartrip - take it out of your pocket, tap, done.

Phone - Take it out of your pocket, unlock phone, find wallet app, open card, tap, apologize to the people behind you because you just took 30 seconds to do something that should have taken 1.

Not to mention the fact that people are way more likely to grab your phone when you're holding it out than your Smartrip, and even if they do take my Smartrip it's like $2 to replace instead of $200.

> I'll pass on the 1K a gram shit lol Its not worth it in my opinion.

My wife and I splurged on a caviar sampler which included $200/oz Osetra. We both agreed the $30 paddlefish "fake" caviar was by far our favorite.

Also from DC, also went to high school in DC, also graduated in '04, also never heard of this.

(I wonder if we know each other in real life?)

What kind of monster asks someone to drive them to Dulles for free?

You're saving like 20 minutes for yourself at the expense of nearly 2 hours of that person's time. I wouldn't even ask my own wife to do that.

Dulles is a 35 minute drive from Metro Center so unless Uber has a new teleport option I'm not aware of you're only "paying" 15 minutes.

> The host was Mac McGarry, who would sometimes make unexpected asides during the show.

I was on It's Academic! back in the early 2000s. Because of Mac's unexpected asides there was a rumor his "coffee" cup was always filled with vodka. My teammates and I kept trying to get to his cup to see if the rumor was true but we never managed it.

NIMBYs don't want anything, that's why they're NIMBYs.

The fact of the matter is that they were not the reason there isn't a Metro stop in Georgetown, so regardless of what they wanted it was not racism that doomed the Georgetown Metro stop.

>- MPD recruitment was defunded. They are not funded to hire enough officers to replace retirees and those who leave for other jobs.

MPD already has one of the highest number of officers per capita in the nation. If they weren't doing their jobs effectively before, this is a moot point.

So because they probably won't get convicted that means you should just let everyone do what they want without any concern that there will be any consequences whatsoever?

Studies have shown that the actual severity of the punishment has very little to do with the decision to commit a crime, but the perception of likelihood of being caught is a much bigger factor.

When people know they can literally hit and run in front of a cop and they won't do a thing, they're going to do it with impunity every time. If they know that they're going to get booked and there is a chance they will get charged and convicted, even if it's a small one, that's infinitely more incentive not to commit the crime.

What's that saying cops are so fond of? "You can avoid the charge but you can't avoid the ride?" I guess that only applies when you're trying to harass an innocent person and not when you're actually supposed to be doing your job, huh?

> When prosecutors and District Attorneys don't do their jobs, what's the point?

I wonder how long I'd keep my job if that was my attitude?

"Hey boss, I didn't write that report you asked me to. I just don't think you will use it the way I want so what's the point? Oh, you don't like that? Why don't you drown your sanctimonious bullshit in the Potomac!"

Take a day trip to a winery in VA.

Attend one of the many Christmas markets happening around this time.

Go for a hike in Rock Creek or on the Canal even though neither of you really like hiking but both pretend to like it because it's a "couple thing to do."

Take a trip to IKEA and almost break up because one of you just wants to get the table you came in for and leave and the other wants to wander around in a hellish maze of Scandinavian consumerism.

Book a table 3 months in advance and shell out $1,000 for a single dinner where all your food gets cold because the thousand Instagram pictures are more important than eating.

You know, normal couple things!

> I’m sure there are a bunch of available masks that will seal with a beard

I've been scuba diving (with a beard) for nearly 20 years now, and I've used dozens of masks, both full face and regular, and I've never once used one that doesn't leak even a little bit.

Yeah but someone said "ACAB" online and people talked about but never actually defunded them so obviously they're justified in not doing their jobs. They're just so demoralized by those aforementioned traumas, who could blame them?!

Of course they're still going to wear their "thin blue line" (electron microscope required) and Punisher gear, that's a given. I guess the meaning just changed to "punishing" ordinary citizens by not doing the jobs they get paid to do.

My DCPS high school had a required DC history class in 10th grade.

Yeah but think of the high quality ladies that kind of industry attracts!

"Does your mother still hang out at dockside bars?"

Customink HQ is in Merrifield and they have a retail location

The "etiquette" is your car, your choice.

"No." is a complete sentence.

Not sure exactly what you mean by "reserved" but my favorite non-fancy/neighborhood bars (don't you dare call them dives!) are Trusty's, Tune Inn, Wonderland, The Raven, Atomic Billiards, Nanny's, The Pug, Dan's Cafe, (for real this time) the Blaugard, Marx Cafe, Bedrock Billiards, the Red Derby, and Lyman's.

They saw their clientele and said "why even pretend we're not the basement of that frat house that got kicked off campus for too many roofie incidents?"

Agreed.

In my fantasy world we remove all the parking meters on busy commercial corridors and replace them with a visible overhead red/green light (like in those parking garages where it tells you where a space is open) with a button. The button turns red to green for 10 minutes, just enough time for a rideshare driver to pick up their passenger or food delivery driver to pick up their order.

Every block gets a tow truck patrol, tow truck sees a red light, your car is gone.

> I don't think checking some crowdsourced datasheet just in case someone submitted it and it's still accurate is any more convenient than having to ask an employee

Yeah, I know, I literally just said that. I was simply responding to your assertion that there is "no point" in having the wifi password since no, not every place has it "at the register already."