The Internet is full of CAPTCHA challenges designed to ensure that you’re human. If you’ve been curious, CAPTCHA means “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart,” and they’re supposed to be tests that you can pass, but bots cannot. Well, except for when CAPTCHA rides a line so fine that you question if you’re a bot.
Jason wrote about how AI ruins cars on social media, and included an interesting scan of an Argentine Ford Falcon brochure. Max Headbolts:
Is that CAPTCHA working for anyone else? I keep clicking the squares with the “Ford Falcon” in them, but nothing is happening.
Jack Trade:
“Click on the images of a lackadaisically assembled vehicle”
Ferdinand:
“Click on images of motorcycles”
Promptly shows a bunch of maxi-scooters and images with portions of motorcycles
What counts here?
Kleinlowe:
I tried to click on every part of the Ford Falcon ad that had a car in it.
Anonymous Person:
A I Carrumba!
Lincoln Clown CaR:
Don’t create a cow, man.
Jason wrote about the creative penalties of the 24 Hours of Lemons. Colin Buckhurst:
Torch, given your love of archaic technology and introducing it the the younger generation as a penalty, have you considered wiring up a rotary phone hooked up to a monitor (via a complicated program you’d have to write) to make them send a multi tap text apology? It seems up your alley in terms of overcomplication for you to set it up, and matching frustration for the competitors.
AutoTea:
I incurred the Bob Ross penalty several years ago and painted a happy little Yaris passing under yellow.
Finally, Matt wrote about how German car companies are surviving, and finished with a question about your favorite VW. V10omous:
The site sure manages to come up with some tough questions. It would have been easier if they had asked some less unpleasant stuff like:
-Which of your children would you like to sacrifice to the old gods?
-Which form of debilitating chronic disease would you most like to live with?
-Which medieval torture instrument is your favorite?
-Which of the plagues of Egypt would best suit your current life?
And so on.
Taargus Taargus gets a giggle out of me:
The answer to all of these questions happens to be the 2012 Tiguan, strangely enough.
Have a great evening, everyone!
Topshot graphic image: Ford
I keep missing when I get a CoTD mention, like an ungrateful clod.
WooHoo! First COTD!
oh man, rotary phone T9 is diabolical. DO IT
I do not have the VW disease so I don’t understand how anyone who does puts up with all that, but lol nonetheless.
Credit to V10 for the comment and lobbing that meatball over the plate for me.
I’m glad it got called out as COTD because I missed it on the original post and it’s a gem. 🙂
YAY! COTD@!
I would thank the Academy, but they never let me in. I’d thank my parents but they didn’t help.
So uh Hi uncle Joe! I’m goin to Disney World!
Ironically, when I clicked on the Jason AI article link, I got: “Sorry, you are not allowed to edit this item.”
same
I think it’s probably best that we aren’t all allowed to edit Jason’s work. Although something like “Twitch Writes a Torch Article” might be fun, it just wouldn’t be the same.
Piling on more irony, I saw in a CNN article yesterday that Torch is also a voting rights lawyer? https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/29/politics/takeaways-supreme-court-voting-rights-act
I have run across that version of Torch in articles before. I assume he came from the Mirror Universe.
Yeah looks like Mercedes mistakenly put the admin link in.
Ruh roh, I gave y’all the edit link! Well, at least that confirms we didn’t accidentally give anyone admin privileges. 🙂