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Wonder if the private investor funding was the actual reason they built it, on the condition that they didn't make another? In which case it's ok as without them there wouldn't even be one.

Slipped on oil. Didn’t look like a particularly bad crash though, must have snapped a driveshaft or something.

Doing more than ok, makes the rest of the grid look like amateurs.

The thing I hate with all the Forza games on a gamepad is their traction control system. All the very high power stuff is undriveable on a gamepad without it, but turn it on and it’s non existent at low speeds and too intrusive at high speeds, acting more like stability control. Just give me an ...

Initial impressions are it’s quite good. Very much an arcade game so I don’t think it would suit a wheel, cars drift as soon as you turn. I tried a wheel with Horizon many years ago and it wasn’t great. It does look pretty last gen on my Xbox Series X, the cars and city look good but it falls apart ...

I still find it strange that you can chop or change roles within government.

It's like me being a chief draughtsman and then deciding to be the accountant.

Dave!


I mentioned this donkeys years ago and someone said it’s because the role is more about managing other people to do the role ...

HBYCs

DeskJockey wrote: Thu May 14, 2026 5:35 pm New aircon compressor for the Zoe is £1,300+ from Renault

Going with a used item.

Isn't it worth getting it rebuilt rather than risking a used one? This place seems to work on most cars and they're reasonably priced
https://acruksolutions.co.uk/shop/ols/c ... ult?page=1

I’m still mainly in London, but the bees are convenient and checking them once every 7-14 days is the normal timeframe during their active season. I wanted to move a hive to the woods but I’m spread too thin this year as I’m building a chicken coop and I’ve already got big chickens who don’t have a ...

I took a picture of a strange looking bumblebee a few days ago as I wanted to research it further, turns out it was a tree bumblebee so thanks for that Mik.

Summer last year I managed to find a beekeeping mentor in London to show me the ropes. It is a difficult subject to get on top of as every ...

Skoda Superb sold after 7 trusty years and a relatively low 60k odd faultless miles. Bought for 14k, sold for 7.4, not too offensive. Other than servicing and two glow plugs 0 issues.

Now gay and drive a Tesla Y. Initial impressions are good, base rwd model but still circa 300bhp. Bought 3 year ...

It’s a bit of a mute point.

mik wrote: Tue May 12, 2026 1:55 pm

Mito Man wrote: Tue May 12, 2026 12:41 pm need some insulated sockets

Things I didn’t previously know existed #eleventy

Good to see they are as use-limitingly chunky as they are expensive.

Honestly I thought I'll just wrap my socket in duct tape. Then I saw a video showing it's at 170 volts

But that's what the people want. This is a natural progression of democracy, freedom, equal rights and inclusivity. You no longer have a country all filled with broadly similarly thinking people, and there is the luxury of decades of peacetime and relative prosperity which allow for this to happen ...

Might as well get it straight from the horse's mouth
https://www.lotuscars.com/en-GB/lotus-story
Scroll down a bit but clicking 'explore' doesn't open anything new for me.
Looks reassuringly expensive, carbon fibre chassis/body, carbon brakes. That's £250k+

They’ve had too many stupid scandals again, and then not handled the aftermath well. Can’t blame the media when it’s their job to scrutinise these things.
Starmer did a piss poor job of running the ship and keeping his crew in line.

Only the rear image is accurate. The front is an Autocar render.

Well this is something of a damp squib after treating the Tesla to new brakes
https://i.ibb.co/XxQsSjHv/IMG-3149.jpg

Seems like the main fuse is on the way out. DIYable easily enough, just need some insulated sockets but I don’t like messing about with the main battery on this car from an error ...

Yep, our GDP figures are always just teetering into positive territory. It won’t take make to drawdown into a full blown recession.

Gilts going up not because Starmer is a dead man but because whoever replaces him will be worse. Another election cycle wasted…
King Charles might as well save his breath and not bother with his speech later.