OV9

Alex88 wrote: Sat Nov 29, 2025 1:38 pm Who was calling for her resignation due to the OBR releasing the budget early?

Until the OBR admitted it was their fault, I saw plenty of that on social media. And still after they admitted it was their fault. I was off sick so I had the time to doomscroll that morning.

Crazy talk!

I think that's one of those things you just inherently learn if you do reasonably long distance driving regularly - IE my dad, when he was doing Oldham to Wick, reckoned that by driving like his hair was on fire once he got off the motorways up on the A-roads through scotland, saved about half an ...

As you can probably tell, sales and marketing isn't my strong suit

"A rare opportunity to experience a W212 as it left the showroom."

Yeah because that was such a rarefied and exclusive experience back in the day. The utter pish some of these dealers talk, it's a fucking 15 year old E-class with a big engine mate, get over yourself.

Is RogerTVR down on his luck?

https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/elystan-street-london-theft-seafood-5HjdNWW_2/

(to save a click, given it's LBC and the only interesting part is the headline)

"Shocking moment £200 worth of langoustines stolen from swanky restaurant - as seafood thief still at large"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy8vz032qgpt?post=asset%3A61fd3b39-b653-4cfd-b04a-e1d0c29f8b04#post

OBR apologises and launches investigation into 'technical error'published at 12:27


We've just had this statement sent to us by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR):

"A link to our economic ...

That's capitalism baby!

Annoyingly my best car in slippery conditions, the mito, has frameless doors with drop glass which are a pain!


Repeating myself, but (whilst they don't "feed" the rubber as well) I think the little clear silicon shoe shine pads are even better than gummi pflegge for preventing the glass ...

Did a bit more digging on this because I'm sick of seeing people claiming that politicians can just grab casefiles and evidence for political gain, because that's not how any of this works.

First off, I can't believe I'm having to point this out - that the judge who controls the files was put in ...

Apparently Twitter and ChatGPT are down, so the worlds global IQ just ticked up a few points.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c629pny4gl7o

Worldwide I believe.

Caused by internal services having a shitfit, causing external services to drop their guts.

Still being worked on as I post.

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8gmgl950y3h7

I'm generally fine with whatever premium brand suits the car (as others have noted, some cars seem to 'prefer' some tyres more than others) but I'm dead against Dunlops - had SportMAXX GTs on the E46 when I got it and they were overly keen to let go at the back under weight transitions, like they ...

Yeah, then he'll start an investigation a few days before they're due to come out, causing them to be sealed again, most likely.

(one of the reasons they weren't fully released previously was apparently due to Epstein and Maxwells criminal and multiple civil trials being in progress)

I have vague memories of that being something something Realtek being cunts and not doing drivers good, and later kernels having it fixed or improved at the least. Realtek are not the best industry partners for open source :roll:

It'd be worth going to the update manager, have a look through ...

I'd recommend against dual boot, generally - Windows (usually, but to be fair, not always) has a nasty habit of fucking up the boot sector when doing big updates, 'fast boot' doesn't play nice with fuckin' anything etc.

Virtualbox is probably the quick and dirty way to get a quick Windows VM up ...

Welcome to the dark side ;)

Give some simpler games a try in Steam. Yes, Steam just works on most distros these days. I'm assuming an older laptop won't have a chunky GPU in it, but for shit like Hollow Night, Rocket League and some older stuff suitable for the hardware, you'll be surprised by how ...

I have an irrational hatred for blank buttons, I’m sure this has cost me a lot of money over the years chasing the right spec.


I have zero blank buttons.

I do have a missing stalk for cruise control though. I need to order the kit but I really, really ain't in the mood for splicing it in (a ...

Oh I dunno, they're already pulling the "Er, I think you'll find it wasn't paedophilia, it was ephebophilia" line about Epstein, and describing 15 year old girls as 'barely legal' (when in point of fact, they are 'really quite obviously illegal') so it's definitely hit a nerve.

Question is, are ...

Genuinely quite lucky it didn't and one of the reasons we don't follow the US doctrine for police chases. Just look at the stats for people killed in them.

Mostly, people who aren't the suspect...