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4 minutes ago, limpid said:

It wouldn't be so bad, but if Trump wins I think I'd rather be spied on by China.

That’s pretty much where I’m at, if I’m going to be spied on, I want it to be a completely disinterested government official, not some orange guy using tweezers to masturbate.

I don’t think the tories can afford another winter cull of their remaining voters.

Autumn, not so slippery they daren’t go out, not too hot to rile up the liver spots.

I’m actually waiting for someone from the militant nutter wing to suggest there is too much of a national emergency to have an election just yet.

6 hours ago, blandy said:

Glue sniffing is addictive.  Gonna need to re supply, yeah?  How else you gonna have a night on the tiles?

But it is something that bugs me, the way these internet thingies track our every move.

I use google maps and I get the little report at the end of every month, a map with dots on to show where I’ve been. When delving further into the graphic, it can tell  not just that my phone went to Worcester, but the route it took, the speed it travelled and the shops and restaurants it went in etc..

So it’s an interesting toy, but it is a lot of info.. Not always super accurate either, there will regularly be a shop that I didn’t actually go in, I can only presumed I dawdled right outside or stared through the window.

Not that I’m doing anything nefarious, but my job sometimes requires me to be without a phone, and on a weekend, to the shock of the kids, I’ll leave the house without it. Just to stay half a step ahead of the man. 

With all this data and intel they hold on me, why do Screwfix send me adverts for floor adhesive when I come back from buying floor adhesive in Screwfix?

Yep, allowing any profit on resale keeps the industry players in the game.

You get a stadium tour, 4 or 5 UK dates, 70,000 at each date, £100 a ticket, siphon off a few % of those tickets and you’ve built yourself a 10% resale on thousands of £100 tickets. It’s a nice little 6 figure additional income.

My missus, for her sins, wanted to see Coldplay at the Millenium. Capacity of 74,500, and it was £160 for a ticket.

10% mark up on a couple of thousand of those ain’t stopping industrial touting.

Bogof

Well I’ve got 16 on there I’d happily go and see, and who knows how many discoveries in little side tents whilst you’re waiting for Kneecap or the like to be on stage.

There’s stuff there from top to bottom, Dua Lipa, LCD Soundsystem, Squid, Steel Pulse, Yard Act, Kneecap, Dexys. There’s something for everyone there.

But I don’t do festivals, so that’s irrelevant.

1 hour ago, Genie said:

Built in China

On the plus side, this should mean that 6 months later there will be a car from the adjoining factory called the Spacia Dring and it’ll cost £9,999 but the doors will be made from turkey foil.

According to his office, he knew Abbott wanted to be one of the speakers on the subject, but there wasn’t time to give everyone a go.

The man is a fool.

50 minutes ago, bickster said:

There is no such mechanism, the HoC can censure him and take other action but not get rid

Luckily, he doesn’t mind bending convention.

Speaker of the House of Commons has had another great day. Following all the questions and debate on Hester and his words, the one person he didn’t acknowledge and allow to get a word in… was Dianne Abbott.

I’d guess it’s also high in Palestine as they were kettled in to densely populated safe zones and then bombed.

It feels like so long ago now that he needed to address the nation in an emergency speech from a lectern outside No 10 where he condemned hate speech and extremism.

It wasn’t made clear at the time he didn’t mean wealthy donors that say they want a black woman shot.

Stuff comes around fast, don’t it.

5 letters of no confidence received yesterday apparently. They need to end this death spiral at their earliest opportunity, so they will still be represented in Westminster after the election. They need a damage limitation April General Election.  

About 5 or 6 weeks ago I swapped my lease car, like for like, I’m very adventurous.

The guy that picked up the old one told me there was a scratch across two panels at the rear of the car. This was news to me so I went out to have a look. There was a slight mark or line, clearly not a permanent scratch, which I removed by rubbing it with my thumb.

He said it was too late, he’d filed his report but if I wanted to I could dispute it. As it was a £220 ‘fine’ for the scratch, yes I disputed it.

VW Finance have just phoned, and asked me what I thought the charge was for as they were ‘independently’ looking at the photos he submitted and they couldn’t see what he was on about! I agreed, they agreed. They cancelled the charge and apologised and also added he wasn’t even on a commission or anything so they weren’t sure what he was thinking.

Far easier result than I’d expected, but very welcome.

10 minutes ago, imavillan said:

wasn't sure where to post this but i suppose this is as good as anywhere.

I see The Jockey Club and Cheltenham have joined the woke looney gang and ditched the traditional Ladies Day naming which has reportedly run since the 1830's.

It's now going to be called ''Style Wednesday'' so it can include best dressed men as well. 

I get times change, but what another LOB. 

Genuine curiosity, do you go to Cheltenham and if you do, how has this affected you in any way?

I could genuinely say it would be something that had absolutely zero impact on any aspect of my life. If they changed it to banana day and said dress code is yellow it just wouldn’t register with me.

What would be looney about it? Is this going to stop women dressing up and attending?

I struggle with the upset at this sort of thing, so genuinely curious as to why it’s upset you. I’m not setting a trap, just interested.

43 minutes ago, sidcow said:

I look forward to watching this no doubt full of paid for inconsistencies paid for by the Oil and Gas industry video later.

About 40 seconds in he suggests he’s going to be comparing the EV with a car that has a clean internal combustion engine, which later turns out to be a 3 litre diesel in a car capable of 150mph. He’s probably just got a different definition of ‘clean’ to me.

We’re all conditioned to compare cars on their speed performance, 150mph and 0 to 60 in 4.8 seconds. Well that’s great, but that’s not representative of much of my commute route. Hopefully soon we’ll be forced in to putting a higher importance on cost to charge, speed of charging, range.

Yes, I want my car to safely pull out of a junction with a bit of pep. We really really don’t need to be able to get to 60mph in 4.8 seconds and we certainly don’t need to be able to do 150mph. Those are stats for the monkey brain.

2 minutes ago, Davkaus said:

You're swinging at shadows here mate, absolutely not what I was saying at all - even in that post I said it'd be a good proposition for some people.

My criticism was simply around the cheapest base option - and as I alluded to in my previous post, I think that's just a headline grabbing price point and they probably won't make many of the 45hp models anyway.

A year ago the MG 4 looked like stonking value at 27-28k, this coming in some 12 grand cheaper and realigning the bottom of the market can only be a good thing. Just spend the extra £350 if you're getting one  

I was just riffing, rather than doing this work thing!

18 minutes ago, Davkaus said:

It's not why you buy one, and I can absolutely see it being a reasonable proposition for someone who just makes short local journeys, but I had to laugh at a 0-60 time of 19 seconds. I wouldn't be laughing if I were on a slip road though!

It might not be why you buy one (or me for that matter, I use motorways), but look around the roads, yes there are lots of boys driving BMW’s and their false eyebrowed love island girlfriends driving Audi’s all up to their eyeballs in credit. But there are other cars out there. Small stuff, tiny little Suzukis, Kias, and Hyundais.

The recently discontinued Aygo, ridiculously popular, and half a second slower to 60mph than one of those new Dacia. Those old folks and shoppers that are dawdling along in front of you in their Daewoo Matiz, that’s as much about car performance as them thinking about their cats. They wouldn’t be doing 70mph down a slip road if you gave them a McClaren. They’ll mostly be sticking to the A’s and B’s and calmly pulling out in front of lorries and not even realising.. 

I can genuinely see this would fit in our garage for charging, will fit 4 bags of shopping, will go to Swansea and back with no danger of needing a charge on the road so no range anxiety, and the budget of a second car. I can absolutely visualise a target market for this car and she’s currently sat upstairs and if I said would you like a grey metallic Audi, or nice yellow Dacia and some weekends away and a new sewing machine and a new set of drums and new double glazing, and a new sofa and money in the bank, I’m fairly confident I know what the answer would be. 

 Or, yes, Dacia have got this horribly wrong and there is no market for a cheap, small, easy to park, local runaround, EV in a nice colour, with a boot just big enough for the weekly shop.

51 minutes ago, Genie said:

Dacia launch their EV at the incredible price of £14,995

Quite a narrow use case though with the standard car coming with equivalent of a 45bhp engine and 137 mile range but it’s an amazing price for what it is.

It’s the car for the likes of my other half.

Needs a car for the across town work commute. Needs a car for the shopping trip to Cardiff. Longest trip taken is a 90 mile round trip to Swansea not using the motorway.

Current car is an Aygo X which looks roughly the same size.

I think there might actually be quite a big market for this.

It was Libertino that had last year’s Welsh Music Prize winner, Rogue Jones.

I think there’s a very good chance this early in the year they’ve done it again with Angharad.

I briefly thought I had a white one, but it was an inner sleeve.

In all good record stores from early April:

45 minutes ago, Jonesy7211 said:

As a former soldier, this is a terrible idea. Morale would be destroyed if you couldn't trust the people working with you, so conscripting people who don't want to be there would be ridiculous.

Soldiers take real pride in being professional. It would be devastating to undermine that.

I’m not much of a military strategist, but I’d have thought there are two army strategies.

One, you have a vast unending line of cannon fodder to exhaust the oppositions stocks of bullets and bombs.

Two, you have a small, dedicated, professional ‘elite’ army.

It appears some want a third option, a small army of cannon fodder.