__________ is/are underrated.

[kphoger]

My best run was 431 miles without getting gas and I still had 2 or 3 gallons left.

This is meaningless without context.  What year, make, and model of car do you drive?

[JayhawkCO]

15.5 gallon tank.

Difficult to answer questions with the actual information that was requested?

What's your address? Milk.

[hotdogPi]

There's enough information here already, actually, since he says he typically gets 27.5 MPG. That plus the tank size is a good enough substitute for car specifications.

[JayhawkCO]

A 4 door Grey colored car that was bought sometime in the 2000s. Manufactured on Earth. I usually don't give personal information online but you guys are cool so...

I mean, to each their own. But if I told you I drive a grey, 2019 Jeep Wrangler, will anything bad happen? What if I specify it's dark grey? You live in a megalopolis of 52 million people. Pretty sure you're not doing any identifying of yourself if you happened to answer 2009 Toyota Corolla or something of that ilk.

[hotdogPi]

52 million people.

There are 2.9 million Long Islanders outside Queens and Brooklyn. I estimate that 1/100 of them are 23-year-old males. That leaves 29,000. There are probably other things that can narrow it down (e.g. living closer to I-495 than NY 27, not being registered with a political party, etc.)

[kphoger]

There's enough information here already, actually, since he says he typically gets 27.5 MPG. That plus the tank size is a good enough substitute for car specifications.

No, it isn't.  A person who usually drives with a lead foot might call "good fuel economy" what the rest of us just call "average".

[J N Winkler]

I do think twice before I give up year, make, and model.  I don't mind that people know I drive a 1994 Saturn SL2, but if I were driving a new car with a MSRP north of about $25,000, I'd be concerned about coming across as bragging.

It seems to me that in the absence of year, make, and model, it should be possible to have a meaningful discussion simply by citing tank capacity and EPA mileage ratings (including both old and new ratings if the vehicle is old enough to have been manufactured before the EPA recalibrated).

[kphoger]

It seems to me that in the absence of year, make, and model, it should be possible to have a meaningful discussion simply by citing tank capacity and EPA mileage ratings ...

That's what I was going for.

[JayhawkCO]

52 million people.

There are 2.9 million Long Islanders outside Queens and Brooklyn. I estimate that 1/100 of them are 23-year-old males. That leaves 29,000. There are probably other things that can narrow it down (e.g. living closer to I-495 than NY 27, not being registered with a political party, etc.)

And that would give me 29,000 chances not to give a shit about who a particular poster is. I mean, kphoger has found newspaper/magazine articles about me -- probably had my picture. I'm not too worried about anyone on this board having a crush.

[kphoger]

I mean, kphoger has found newspaper/magazine articles about me -- probably had my picture. I'm not too worried about anyone on this board having a crush.

To be fair, you did invite me over to your house for boquerones and gin.   How else could I find my way over? 

[JayhawkCO]

I mean, kphoger has found newspaper/magazine articles about me -- probably had my picture. I'm not too worried about anyone on this board having a crush.

To be fair, you did invite me over to your house for boquerones and gin.   How else could I find my way over? 

I mean, both of those things are pretty aromatic.

[kphoger]

I mean, kphoger has found newspaper/magazine articles about me -- probably had my picture. I'm not too worried about anyone on this board having a crush.

To be fair, you did invite me over to your house for boquerones and gin.   How else could I find my way over? 

I mean, both of those things are pretty aromatic.

So I should just head over to Meadowood and... what?  I don't own a congener detector.

[JayhawkCO]

I mean, kphoger has found newspaper/magazine articles about me -- probably had my picture. I'm not too worried about anyone on this board having a crush.

To be fair, you did invite me over to your house for boquerones and gin.   How else could I find my way over? 

I mean, both of those things are pretty aromatic.

So I should just head over to Meadowood and... what?  I don't own a congener detector.

Clearly look for the Jeep I referenced earlier.

[kphoger]

I guess I could have done that.  Assuming it wasn't in your garage.

Then again, when I was in the area this past summer, I didn't have the free time (or my own vehicle) to pay you a visit.

[kphoger]

For what it's worth, I've posted my actual address on this forum at least twice–yet I'm still waiting for |tolbs17| to send me the check he promised ten months ago.

What are you going to do, sign me up for a health supplement subscription?

Call me old fashioned, I guess.  I grew up being able to just look up anyone's address and phone number in a book that was delivered to your front door for free and updated every year.

[J N Winkler]

For what it's worth, I've posted my actual address on this forum at least twice–yet I'm still waiting for |tolbs17| to send me the check he promised ten months ago.

What are you going to do, sign me up for a health supplement subscription?

Call me old fashioned, I guess.  I grew up being able to just look up anyone's address and phone number in a book that was delivered to your front door for free and updated every year.

I remember the old White Pages.  I also remember that if you wanted to look up someone in another city, you had to go to the library to pull a phone book or city directory for that town, and people's ages (and family members not residing at the same address) were not printed.  Whitepages.com is more of a data broker; much of the friction inherent in the process of gathering personal information about others that existed as late as the mid-1990's is now gone.  Big Tech has never had the economic incentive, let alone the ethical constraint, to restrict the amount of personal data it hoovers up--often with unpredictable impacts on society at large.

Many people now consider looking up a person's profile on Facebook to be stalking.  I've even had people suggest that going to a Facebook friend's profile (i.e., information you already have access to through the friend relationship) to look up his or her recent posts, rather than simply reading them as they appear in your own feed (or not, as the algorithm decides), is also stalking.

[kirbykart]

 The Illinois Capital Building is underrated. Springfield is a pretty dull city, but the capital building is one of the most amazing buildings I have ever seen!

[CtrlAltDel]

The Illinois Capital Building is underrated. Springfield is a pretty dull city, but the capital building is one of the most amazing buildings I have ever seen!

Many of the Texans I know like to think that the capitol in Austin is the tallest of the state capitol buildings, but it isn't. There are five that are taller, including that of Illinois. Also Kansas, for what it's worth.

[MultiMillionMiler]

Global Warming. Winter is just too damn cold in the NorthEast.

[Max Rockatansky]

I love when you makes the jokes for me.  Totally underrated time saver.

[kirbykart]

Global Warming. Winter is just too damn cold in the NorthEast.

You sure you're not kernals12?

[Max Rockatansky]

Global Warming. Winter is just too damn cold in the NorthEast.

You sure you're not kernals12?

Unlikely, I've never seen him complaining about tripping on sidewalks.

[jmacswimmer]

Global Warming. Winter is just too damn cold in the NorthEast.

You sure you're not kernals12?

Unlikely, I've never seen him complaining about tripping on sidewalks.

I could have missed it, but I don't think I've seen any whining about public transit either.

[Max Rockatansky]

Global Warming. Winter is just too damn cold in the NorthEast.

You sure you're not kernals12?

Unlikely, I've never seen him complaining about tripping on sidewalks.

I could have missed it, but I don't think I've seen any whining about public transit either.

Or complaining about how his Dad got run out of the San Francisco Bay Area.

[MultiMillionMiler]

Global Warming. Winter is just too damn cold in the NorthEast.

You sure you're not kernals12?

Unlikely, I've never seen him complaining about tripping on sidewalks.

I could have missed it, but I don't think I've seen any whining about public transit either.

I don't have multiple accounts here if that's what he's implying. I prefer driving over mass transit though.