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I still refer to papadums as 'big crisps' in honour of Beany at one of these curry nights, and I never even went to one.

... I figured you lot would at least appreciate the theme track we managed to get for this one 8-)


I'm curious from a music nerd point of view - how do you get Seal's track and arrange it with all the other game elements/rearrange it for that trailer? Is it all done in-house with you guys, or ...

...but there wasn't enough of the induction noise you get in the F1, it just sounded like fucking loud exhaust all the time.


Sorry to go back to the T50 for a moment, but this. I don't think the T50 sounds that great from inside or outside, it's all just a bit 'shriek and scream' and no ...

[On that basis I'm looking at cable / streaming TV options from Sky and Virgin but they're all crap these days and don't offer any recording function so for things like F1 they seem hopeless and you're just reliant on the streams being available (which according to threads online, they often aren ...

mik wrote: Tue Apr 21, 2026 10:48 pm
5 or 8 for me

I love these kinds of videos comparing different drums. Unfortunately the Mrs has cottoned onto the fact I love them enough she's figured out how many snare drums I own and I'm getting the evils...

Yep, handle towards the street, placed parallel to where the neighbours opposite put their bin, for maximum efficiency.


I knew you and I got on for a reason, that's almost arousing.

In NZ, the bins have a set of 'this way you moron' instructions printed on the lids (as in moulded in, not a ...

We have a family friend who lives in Florida who has just been over to visit. According to them there is still a very large percentage of the population who think the orange idiot can do no wrong, bizarre.


Ironically enough, perhaps the strongest argument I've seen for rounding up a portion of ...

That feather duster for the taxi is so awesome

Kappabashi Street has probably 15 knife shops that size, just for your next visit

I'll be honest gents, I'm not a 'Japan car scene' fan either, I generally think they look awful and they're not my vibe. My buddy Ash is though, he has a wicked Mk4 Supra with the volume turned up, a 1-of-8 Lexus ISF special, two Civics and I think four MX5s currently. I was more of the mind that ...

How to spend three days in Japan with car nerds... Technically it was four, but by the time we got out of the airport, got the hire car and had dinner close to our Air BnB about an hour out of Tokyo in Chiba, it was gone 9pm and we crashed. So other than a nice cheesy beef donburi, day one had ...

I obviously worked in a major museum for about eight years and was almost as fascinated by the building itself and how it worked - a cheeky glimpse behind the scenes when a staff member left showed corridors just tucked away for prep and staging rooms, as is common with most museums just behind a ...

Updated to host the images on Flickr

Bugger...

I was hoping not to upload these to my Flickr account, I'll have to try somewhere else...

Doing a separate post for this one - car nerd heaven. I'll do the other Japan stuff all together.

If you're in Japan and going to the Fuji International Speedway circuit, I highly recommend you put aside a few hours to go to the new hotel just behind the circuit. (So new it's not in Gran Turismo's ...

That is kinda awesome - I wonder if it comes with the frilly dino and goop?




I was lubed and rogered by the Tokyo Lego airport shop... Significantly cheaper than back home, I came back with the Schmuacher F1 car, Rexy the GT3 and the Technic Ford GT40. (And a free gift-with-purchase picture frame ...

Thanks for the kind words gents. :)

I'm gonna put these up in different places too, but the full write up is for you guys here I think. I figure all of us would be interested in such an event, so just some honest thoughts and opinion I guess. I've been mulling over my 'I'd do it this way to make it ...

I'll take that as a yes... As mentioned at the start of the thread, a good friend of mine just DM'd me one morning in Feb saying 'Do you want to go to this?' The words 'Fuck yes!' left my mouth without even thinking about it. What happened between then and the event has been quite interesting. I ...

Is there any interest in a write-up on this here? I don't wanna bore people, but if people wanna see, I'll sort something out.

If that doesn't make you want to own your own 5 axis milling machine I don't know what does...



*I want my own 5 axis milling machine.

Who is that shit for? Are there actually people out there who see that and think 'fuck yeah, that's what I need!' and buy it?

Dear fucking god.