When I was a kid, I always had to sit in the hump seat.
The “channels” aren’t named after the cable channels - they basically are the cable channels in an "on-demand " format (which is available on cable systems for many of them) rather than watching a particular program at a particular time. It might be slightly easier to understand this if you had a cable subscription for one or more of those channels - of course I expect the movie I watch on Max to be the same one I see on HBO if I get the Max streaming service free because my cable package includes HBO.
I’ve never heard of cable channels showing edited or censored versions of movies. As far as I know, they are shown as intended.
Here’s a new one that is more “clueless” than “stupid.”
I just bought a Ryobi electric mower. It has the usual bail on the handle you have to hold back to keep it running. But the two levers that engage the drive to the rear wheels (something I dislike, but don’t consider stupid) are hinged in the center of the handle. When you pull back one, with one hand or the other, they are interlocked so the one for the other hand pulls back at the same time. They both do exactly the same thing…make the mower move using both wheels.
The problem is that you can’t hold on to the handle with one hand and pull back the lever(s) with the other. If I pull back the right lever with the fingers of my right hand, it pinches the fingers of my left hand (and vice-versa). In other words, I either have to use both hands to pull the levers, losing a firm grip on the handle and bail, or take one hand off the handle completely, again giving up a firm grasp on the mower that is about to start moving forward. If they had made the handles a bit shorter, I could keep one hand on the outside of the handle, but they basically extend almost all the way to the edge of the handle.
BTW, if you set the mower to high speed, you literally have to jog behind it. Fastest moving self-propelled mower I’ve ever had.
Do you mean premium channels like HBO/Max or Showtime? Because channels like AMC (or TNT or TBS) certainly don’t show full frontal nudity and will bleep the f-word and other profanity.
It depends- premium channels like HBO/MAX and Showtime will show unedited movies, but one pays extra for those channels. Basic cable channels like AMC often show edited movies.
Sorry, yes, I was thinking of the premium cable channels like Showtime or HBO, neither of which censor movies in my experience.
With airbags being standard, the glove compartment is often far too small to store much of anything. Due to that, the console is very useful.
I have a hotdogs & buns problem. But in the same package.
I recently bought some wart removers from Walgreens. It’s a box full of medicated sticky dots about 1/4" in diameter, and band-aid like things with a matching circular hole in the pad. So stick the small pad on your wart, then apply the band-aid over the top to hold it in place. Replace with a fresh one every day or so. Wart Remover Strips Clear | Walgreens.
The box contains 18 dots and 14 band-aids. Which gives you 14 uses, plus 4 dots left over. WTF?
Perhaps they assume that you already have some bandages in the house?
Plus you don’t actually need the band aid part, it’s more just to keep the little patch in place. If I use one of those on my foot, I don’t use the bandage part since, as soon as the edge rolls back a little bit, the adhesive catches my sock. The disc alone doesn’t usually have that issue.
But at least you’re getting more instead of less. The Compound W version only has 14 (disc and bandage combined).
Having said that, I have to wonder if this is an ease-of-manufacturing issue. Maybe it’s easier (or cheaper) to send 18 instead of 14 discs.
I just bought an eGo electric mower. I haven’t had to mow for years. I love the thing. But boy oh boy on high speed I would have to run. I use the lowest speed and that’s fine.
Rear wheel drive is something to get used to. Kinda weird when you turn. I used to (decades ago) just push down, lift the front drive wheels off the ground and do my thing. Now I just move my hands a bit, there are two big buttons on the handle that either one engages the drive.
It’s actually a very well designed machine.
We bought one last year when our old gas-powered unit crapped out. The store didn’t have a self-propelled model in stock, so we bought a regular push mower. It’s so light that it takes very little effort to push it around the lawn. We love it and would agree that it’s a well-designed machine.
I don’t have a cite, but I have seen some people claim that the reason for the big consoles is essentially safety. The idea is that all the airbags can’t do their jobs if you’re not sitting in the proper position, and that big console forces you to sit in that position.
That said, I recall the flat floor and space between the front seats being a selling point with Chrysler’s original minivans as well.
Heh, used to have a '76 Chevy truck. Back in my visit to college I could cram 5 people in the front seat. Before that I had a 1962 Olds '98. Ummm. Yeah, you could put a LOT of people in that car.
I’d think the seat belts would keep people in the seats. I had a Ford Festiva and a Datsun Nissan Sentra Diesel that were FWD and had no center consoles between the seats. Both got totalled (other guys’ faults) and the belts held me in place.
I still miss that Festiva!
I wrote a story where after a lot of unresolved sexual tension a couple started making love. They were using both spermicidal foam and condoms and when they went to the drug store to resupply they found the first was in packages of ten and the second by the dozen.
“Hmmm. We’ll have to buy sixty to get it to come out even.”
“Okay, but what about tomorrow?”
Hey, I resemble that remark!
At least GF and I are past the worried about unwanted kids or diseases stage. 
That’s assuming people actually use the seatbelts. IIRC the requirements for airbags assume the occupant is unbelted.
I did go on from there.
She laughed and we settled on three boxes each. The cashier said nothing as we stacked them up on the counter but I noticed in the door’s reflection that she was looking after us as we walked out, arm in arm. “One of these days,” I commented as we got into the car, “I’m going to buy like, some clothesline, a funnel, a can of chocolate syrup, a rubber baseball and a box of condoms, just to see if I can get a reaction out of the cashier.”
Glenna started chuckling. “A box of bridge mix and ask if they’re really melt-proof.”
“A package of clothespins and ask if I can buy only three!”
“A bicycle pump and–and–those long balloons they tie knots in!”
“You win!”
Yes, I have a warped sense of humor.