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The copy of this article is so good. The entire piece made me laugh so hard. Thanks for posting this!
by Ecco 4y ago
The copy of this article is so good. The entire piece made me laugh so hard. Thanks for posting this!
- kergonath 4y agoIndeed. And then I felt bad for that old guy. But then it was really hard not to laugh again. Very glad nobody got seriously hurt.
- jacquesm 4y agoIf the 2nd seat had also ejected that Rafaele could have come down pretty much anywhere, it could have easily led to lives lost on the ground.
- bonestamp2 4y agoAgreed. The phrase, "al fresco fighter jet" is enough to consider reading this article if you haven't already.
- bennysomething 4y agoHad me in stitches that line :)
- id02009 4y agoThis one flew right above me, what does that mean? It's it something like driving open convertible is referred to as fresco? Where I come from fresco was just a brand of cheap wine that students drank when we dabbling in sophistication an inch above vodka and beer...
- benplumley 4y agoDining al fresco means sitting outdoors (literally "fresh").
- thombat 4y agoNormally used to mean an activity in the fresh air, generally with pleasant overtones. So dining "Al fresco" might be a meal on a terrace, or a picnic in a park. Flying al fresco could be a jolly ride in a biplane or a hot air balloon, glass of bubbly in hand, not so much the scream of air through your shattered canopy as you guide your crippled jet to the ground. That student plonk was aiming at debonair status; the favourite of my student days was a cooking wine with the grand title of Red Ridge Claret a little undermined by arriving in a 3L cardboard box, which stacked nicely on the mantelpiece as trophies of just how sophisticated we were.
- billfruit 4y agoWith regards to painting it seems to mean work done on top of fresh plaster. However the term "en plein air" means works executed in the outdoors.
- system2 4y agoCame here to say this. After reading SEO riddled garbage for years, this was a pleasant surprise.
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- system2 4y agoWhat ads? I haven't seen an ad for over a decade.
- vinay427 4y agoMost Car and Driver pieces, even the relatively objective car reviews, tend to be better than average in this regard, with more editorialized pieces especially entertaining. It’s one of the main reasons I subscribe to the physical magazine despite its very large proportion of advertising, which is at least somewhat offset by a low subscription price.
- BrentOzar 4y agoThe author, Ezra Dyer, does spectacular work. He’s written many, many other brilliant automotive pieces around the web.
- ptha 4y agoI remember reading him many moons ago in the Improper Bostonian. Here's a bit about how he got his start writing about cars. https://www.motortrend.com/features/ezra-dyer/ https://www.motortrend.com/features/ezra-dyer/
- itronitron 4y agoBack in the early `90's there was a funny article, from Japan, being shared about a US fighter pilot who had ejaculated to safety after some mechanical issue with their plane.
- curiousgal 4y agoThe French words every here and there were cringy though.
- jwmoz 4y agoI really disliked the style, sounded amateur.
- drcongo 4y agoI despised it. Made it incredibly difficult to read as the desperate attempts at humour mangled the English language so much I had to read half the sentences twice to understand what they meant. > At which point the pilot beat feet away from the aircraft Why were there so many feet near the aircraft that the pilot was having to beat them away? Whose feet were they? Were they still attached to the people whose feet they were? And if not, what on earth had happened?
- addingnumbers 4y ago"Beat feet" has been a widespread English idiom for retreat since the 1940's, still to this day published in print thousands of times every year.
- Reubachi 4y agobaffled that one can make the observation: "attempts at humor mangled the english language", and in the same observation not understand one of the most widely used idioms in the English speaking sphere.
- rrrrrrrrrrrryan 4y agoI'm curious - where are you from? I'm a thirty-something California native, I was able to piece together what the idiom meant after reading the sentence a few times, but I'd never come across it before in my life. I also thought the article's tone was bizarre, for what it's worth.
- drcongo 4y agoI was born and have lived in England for decades and I've never heard it or read it before ever. I would love to know where the parent is from that they consider it to be "one of the most widely used idioms in the English speaking sphere". How many times per day do they use it? What kind of hell do they live in that they would need to use that phrase so often?!