To be truly authentic, the time should be in Roman numerals.

I want Gregorian chants or Baroque mandolin music.

They’d be the best compromise for me. I usually drive short distances in the city, but maybe once or twice a year I want to do the 800km journey back to my home city in the next province. Train travel isn’t an option.

Well… there are things like tires, tubes and components that would be hard to create.

I believe it’s run by eBay now.

Nextdoor has a sales feature, if you’re on that at all. I’ve never used it, so can’t say whether it’s any good.

Craigslist is definitely American, and looks like something from 1998.

This is sad.

When that size system first started being used, size zero would have been for a newborn infant. Actually, size 0 didn’t even exist then.

The size range of most adult women’s clothes was once referred to as “misses” sizes, as in “young misses”. So a size 12 (before vanity sizing existed) was actually intended to fit an average 12 year old and the size numbers referred to the approximate age of teen that could be usually be expected to wear it. There was no size 0 back then, misses clothing usually went from 12 up to 20, although the range sometimes started at 10. After that, a woman moved into “woman’s” sizing and the next number up was 40.

“Vanity” sizing started to appear in about the mid 80s and every manufacturer had their own idea of what a size 12 was supposed to be. This is when I first noticed that off the rack sizes no longer matched up with sewing pattern sizes.

Here’s an example of a sewing pattern size chart from the 1950s. All the pattern companies used standard sizing, with minor variations.

Subtle! I like it.

Well, yes.

Are you also driving an 11 year old Grand Caravan? (Whatever happened to the Petite Caravan?)

There’s a mineral called jasper that is often reddish brown, but it can also appear in a lot of other colours. So unlike malachite, ruby, or emerald, it’s not a great name for a colour.

What beautiful markings!

One of my molars is capped in gold and there are titanium screws with a matching plate on one ankle, so I figure I could get more.

No in-flight movie? Cheapskate owners couldn’t spring for business class?

This is why I had a light yellow tint applied to my glasses last time I got some. Yellow industrial safety glasses also work, for those who don’t have prescription lenses.

Agreed! One of the few things I miss about Calgary is the LRT.

As my street doesn’t get plowed in the winter and turns into deep ruts when the ice melts and refreezes (Saskatoon), I want something with big enough wheels to climb out of said ruts. I would also like a sodium ion battery as those are proving to perform better in very cold temperatures.

Otherwise, the Malaysian Ora Good Cat in pistachio green is too stylish to pass up. https://www.gwm.com.my/en/models/ora-good-cat