# April Sours... (Monthly Mini-Rants) **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-sours-monthly-mini-rants/1016445 **Category:** The BBQ Pit **Created:** [April 1, 2025, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-sours-monthly-mini-rants/1016445 "2025-04-01T06:45:49Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 206
### Author: ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy) #### Post date: [April 16, 2025, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-sours-monthly-mini-rants/1016445/206 "2025-04-16T15:01:33Z")
Because manual transmissions make about as much sense in 2025 as does a manual pull choke knob (1950s) or a manual spark advance lever (1920s). You don’t seem to lament the unavailability of those. Probably because you didn’t grow up with them. See also > [@Grumpy old luddites around here](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grumpy-old-luddites-around-here/1016701): > > It seems like there have been an inordinate number of “I’m old, I don’t want to change, and computers are expensive!” posts around here. Even when the computers and software in question are actually quite ancient and the replacements are cheap by nearly any yardstick. When did we get so old and fuddy-duddyish? Everyone knows computers aren’t like toasters; you can’t buy them and expect them to run forever without periodically upgrading the software and hardware. Moaning about $129 MS Offic… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-sours-monthly-mini-rants/1016445)._