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Have you considered a bicolour rootbeer GMT II? The colour of the rose gold has to look right with your skin but you don't see one on everybody's wrist like the Batman and it's not a lot more expensive despite the precious metal. Yes - quite suprisingly as I don't normally like bi-metal watches. Th...

You would never guess it is 75 years old next year! Perhaps a little slow but I may get it serviced / a new mainspring - a small speck of dirt has appeared on the dial so there is clearly some debris floating around and a good ultrasonic clean is probably needed. May also swap out the band for a li...

I need to work out how to disconnect the vacuum tubes (or the electrical supply to them) to enable me to do a proper cold start on the GTS. As I posted before, it seems that the valves don't fully open for c.30 seconds after start up even with the sports exhaust switched on (which I guess is ECU nan...

Anyway, the 'Brothers in Arms' scene was :cry: although Dire Straits is the perfect dad rock choice for those three :lol: Yep that was a tearjerker. Particularly for me as my FiL passed away last year and Dire Straits was one of his favourite bands. The show as a whole was excellent I thought. It d...

Ended up stuck at a work event last night so haven't managed to watch this yet. Really looking forward to it - seems like the true ending of an era that stretches back to being a teenager and eagerly awaiting the latest TG to air on Sunday evening.

This also reminds me - the reservoir for the brake fluid on the 911 is below the minimum which means that must have a leak somewhere.

WFA costs are only about £2bil a year according to google. IMG_1759.jpeg https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-10094/#:~:text=Around%252011.6%2520million%2520people%2520in,a%2520further%2520%C2%A32.6%2520billion. I can’t see this process saving any money in the long term. Look...

Illiquid wealth is very difficult to tax and raises little money wherever it has been tried.

Politicians are also too braindead to work out that Total Asset Value is different to Net Asset Value and that liquidity correlates with neither of those things.

Yeah, but six years ? What are they made of, pasta? Flexis to the calipers is my understanding. Remember this is a car that is designed to get caked in shit. I also expect that given something as serious as brake line corrosion, if they'll easily do 10 years you'd bank on changing them at 6 so ther...

Drug enforcement also a big factor if we're talking about mental health. De-criminalise skunk and wow, what a surpise, lots more paranoid schizophrenics to deal with. Funny that.

@ZedLeg https://www.macmillan.org.uk/healthcare-professionals/news-and-resources/blogs/cancer-care-decades-behind We're 25 years behind mate. We have to deal with it - it isn't a good system and we shouldn't defend it as not facing up to the problems is a hindrence in dealing with them. The first s...

Much like Japan and Spain, it seems to depend on the type of cancer. I would also caution against comparing us directly to different countries. E.g. Japanese have different genetics, diet and attitudes to health than us in the UK. So their baseline cancer risk is different, which will affect their ...

ZedLeg https://www.macmillan.org.uk/healthcare-professionals/news-and-resources/blogs/cancer-care-decades-behind We're 25 years behind mate. We have to deal with it - it isn't a good system and we shouldn't defend it as not facing up to the problems is a hindrence in dealing with them. The first st...

No

Question for you.

If you were to contract cancer personally, without private health insurance, and of any description - would you want treatment in the UK or Japan?

Probably the easiest question you'll ever have to answer.

Yes whilst I was sat there basking in the luxurious cloth seats I wasn't regretting spending my £60(ish)k on a 3 year old 4.4 litre Range Rover instead.

Cancer's a good one.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/count ... by-country

Good work! I've done that before and makes a world of difference. RR is in for a service. A 72 month-er so a mahoosive £1500 bill (though it includes things like changing the brake lines). Rear pads needed doing to pass the MOT as well. Had my pants down at £500 inc. VAT for those - I was warned at ...

It’s bullshit imo, the NHS has been systematically underfunded for a long time and now a Labour prime minister is going to continue that policy until the unions give in. Labour and Conservative occupy the same political space now. We spend the same amount of GDP as Japan and Spain for worse outcome...

Forgot to mention the e220d we had on holiday in Tuscany. Quite appropriate really as it was quite forgettable :lol: Reasonably nice thing with a pretty gutless engine - it has quite snappy takeoff but not much above that. It did seem to do incredible MPG though. Ride was also pretty bad. It was ver...