[Christ]

Originally Posted by Arragonis

I sense you are not at one with calm.

Grab a beer.

Beer always helps.

Beer is the universal stress balm.

Beer is good.

And if it doesn't calm you down you have empty bottles you can throw at people.

I actually took the advice of one of the mods here on that post... I let it stew for awhile to make sure it was something that I felt needed to be said, as opposed to something I just wanted to spout off about. That post was edited no less than five times before I felt it was worthy of pressing the "post reply" button. Believe me, I was more than calm when it was finally submitted.

However, if the mods deem it inflammatory in any way, I'll be sure to remove it in it's entirety. That's not what I'm working for.

It would be nice to bring the thread back on topic, though.

With that said:

Since many of us downshift with full intentions of slowing to a stop, it may be beneficial to those interested to use a knob something like this one:



Or this one:



Albeit with a more appropriate label...

There's also this one, so you don't inappropriately hit the button: