Baggins

We should have gone full metric and adopted the Euro years ago. Then all this bollocks about pints and good old sterling would have been done with.
As usual with UK we do everything half arsed and settle for second best.

This is just incredible. How does a tiny creature like that store enough energy to make that flight. They can’t stop and feed.

Nature is awesome and very humbling at times.

I’ve seen a small woman driving a Hummer in Ware (Hertfordshire UK) of all places, can just about see out of the windows (that’s another thing that pisses me off, don’t people know you can raise the seat to let you see out of the windows?), can’t park in normal bays as it’s too big (and she can’t see) and it has a plate something like V8 HMR. FFS.

/rant

Exactly.

To quote Ramsay Bolton, ‘If you think this is going to end well, you haven’t been paying attention’.

If the driver wasn’t expecting it to stop, then they weren’t paying enough attention to the road in front of them

And that hot coffee will be all over the place. Tough.

Was going to ask the same question - cruise control is for open roads like motorways. Not around town. No wonder they had issues with it.

So they’re not looking for eddies in the space-time continuum then?

Of course they are. As the article.rightly point out, electric vans are too expensive, and charging infrastructure just isn’t there yet. Because the government wanted it all on the cheap and didn’t have a plan.

There will also be a small diehard faction that think it’s not ‘manly’. The sort of people you get (in the states they have guns as well) with their overcompensating enormous pickups.

I’ve just thought of another benefit of electric vehicles, no more drive offs with a tank of fuel at filling stations.

Over $4 million for a bloody car? And people wonder why the world is going to shit. It’s because there are fucking oxygen thieves that can afford things like this.

Nobody needs to have one of these.

Sadly it will be a long time before that happens. I wouldn’t mind betting China an Russia keep it unavailable for some of the smaller countries that have fallen under their influence.

UK here - 1 or 2 a week on my home phone which we never use and not many people have the number anyway. I have BT’s ‘Call Protect’ which is supposed to let you block nuisance calls but it’s such a pain to use - takes too many clicks and menu changes. On Android I just select last number and block.
Hardly any spam calls on mobile as built in software (forget the name) on my S23 automatically warns me of possible spam or blocks them completely.

Much better than it was 10 years ago - that was a nightmare.

You mean an anal ist?

No, it doesn’t. And you know it doesn’t. Goodbye trollbot.

Did they fax?

No, they sent a carrier pigeon. One of their best, named ‘Gesprenkelt Jimi’

Notoriously unreliable as well.
Lots of them in Hertford and Ware (where I live and work) and completely pointless.

N.B. Those of you outside the UK, look up Hertford or Ware UK on mapping system of your choice. Not exactly the Scottish Highlands is it?

Endeavour and KDE.
Like the look of it. Easy to update, no bloatware or games reinstalled.
If I do swap again it’d probably be back to Mint. I had some issues a while ago and moved to MX. That worked well but there was so much guff. Tried Endeavour about a year ago and have been here ever since.

My point exactly.

But who will slap them down for it? We’ll just carry on trading (directly or indirectly) and wring our hands. Russia will only take notice of strength. Every thing else is ‘weak capitalist fools’ and whatever the KGB (they may have a new name but nothing has changed) decide is best for Russia. We need to stand up to them.

Just looked on desktop (I was on mobile earlier) and yes, it has made a difference.
Going to edit my original post

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