My eldest brother had asthma, so my parents were generally careful not to smoke around us. They had a dedicated room in the house for smoking so that the rest of the house would get less contaminated. Fortunately, this meant that they didn’t generally smoke in the car while driving us around. Also, my dad worked and/or commuted thirteen hours a day so I was mostly around my mom, who smoked a lot less.

The car borrowing I mentioned was years after my brother had moved across the country when my dad drove his car almost exclusively alone, so at least no one else (who wasn’t borrowing the car) was engulfed.

I’m sorry you had to suffer through that.

I was born with a deviated septum, so I can’t smell much of anything, but cigarette is one thing I can smell… And I can confirm everything in your post.

My dad used to smoke. A lot. I once had to borrow his car for a week or so and couldn’t even drive it without flooding it with febreze and opening all the windows.

I used to have a co-worker who smoked so much that I (and others with more sensitive schnozzes) could tell if he’d been in a room in the past hour or more.

Even if you don’t care about your own health, you shouldn’t smoke for the sake of those around you.

Unfortunately, I am too ignorant on the subject to say, but I think what I described above is what the OP intended to represent.

Looks to be something that gets very hot, possibly an engine, possibly attached to an aircraft; and it seems that someone touched it before waiting for it to cool after use, leaving a probably very painful handprint.

That’s my interpretation, at least.

It was very disappointing recently to open a can of them only to find out it was noodles, sauce, and literally nothing else.

I can’t understand enough of this statement to determine which side you’re on, but I enjoyed reading it nonetheless.

Once, while waiting in line at the DMV (MVA? I forget which states use which acronym), I was behind someone defending their use of plate covers. I don’t know much about the person - I only interacted with them long enough to direct them to another line, mainly to get them away from me - but based on everything they said, they might have been the worst (or at least most annoying) person I ever met.

Nice.

Are you sure?

Does the shirt say anything?

Many ways, but the most egregious is that it just randomly makes its own decisions about what the settings should be. I almost always watch YouTube on my LG TV (I’m aware that I can side load other options, but I don’t want to do that kind of thing at least until my warranty expires). I nearly exclusively watch it with subtitles on, yet every time I launch the app, I have to re-enable them in the first video I play. I have found no option for that setting to persist between sessions.

Commercials usually have no subtitles (which is okay, I guess, but weird) or, when they do, they’re messed up (for example, often the commercial subtitle will often be mostly off the screen to the top left and only show the last few words).

Commercials will often disable subtitles for the primary video until I re-enable them.

Switching between videos will often change the language of the subtitle from English (the only language I can fluently read) to Korean or Russian (neither of which I can read or speak at all) even though I’ve never chosen either of those options myself. This is the case regardless of whether English subtitles are available.

Often subtitles, English or otherwise, are completely unavailable, even though YouTube can auto transcribe things. This would be more acceptable to me on brand new videos, but I’ve seen it on videos of all ages.

Sometimes (though not frequently) I will start watching a video with subtitles until the first ad, then after the ad, the option for subtitles is unavailable. Even if I rewind to the part I already watched with subtitles, YouTube will proclaim ignorance. This is similar to an earlier point, but I forgot to mention it while I was typing that.

These are all the grievances I can think of at the moment, but I’m sure there are others. Apologies for any typos; my phone’s keyboard has really been working against me today.

edit: It messes up every multi digit number (I haven’t noticed whether it does single digit). For example, 2,000 becomes 22,000 and 20,000 becomes 200,000. I choose to watch with subtitles, but if you were actually in need of them there would likely be a lot of confusion, especially on scientific or mathematical videos.

I thought you were starting a YAML file.

Also, your post is relatable. I wanted to make a (edit: obviously uncreative) post about how the OP would never know because I’d deleted my post, but couldn’t figure out a good way to make it funny.

As a premier member of the Seinfeld cast, I imagine you see a lot of residuals, so I can understood why you’d keep mum.

No, you’re me.

Don’t they want to handle your paperwork for you but are prevented from doing so by laws written, effectively, by Intuit?

Don’t they very much want to tax the rich but are unable to do so because they aren’t given funds sufficient to fight the lawyers employed by the rich?

Subtitles enhance everything except media that puts details at the bottom of the screen.

YouTube’s approach to subtitles is deeply frustrating.

Hence the “bastardization” part.

… You have friends?

My mind went to “we’re the Monkees,” but that’s a bit of a bastardization and also ages me somewhat. I’ll just pretend I’ve ever heard of Sseth. Yeah! References! And so on.

… There may be some consequences to this decision.