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Escalation

Mrs Mik's E-Tron has the Matrix LED lights that do the "make black hole around other cars" shizzle. Best headlights on any car I have ever driven. They do occasionally get befuddled though and momentarily light up something (ie another car) that you didn't want lit up - and they are fecki...

In future years we should have a FeCOTY meet to establish a true winner! But I agree with what others say about the fun of reading about the journeys. One of the main reasons I come back to the forum are the buying threads and the posts in fleet running reports. Most of those top placed really contr...

The general issues that driving standards totally stink these days and people have no discipline over their lights definitely stand, although I doubt I would turn them on in the above picture.

Shepherd's/cottage pie - mash Fish pie - pastry lid (or mash?) Meat pie - fully encased, bring on the calories. Fish pie and Shepherd's pie have special dispensation for not actually being pies. A little like how Angel Delight is in fact not delightful. What we need is a legal mind to rule on the s...

If that Cupra has the same infotainment system as the ID3 then it’s a complete disaster. VW admitted as such and said they’re bringing back buttons for essential functions but it will take until 2026 to do so :roll: This I'm afraid. I tested both the ID3 and Cupra Bourn... the Cupra is probably the...

I'm genuinely quite impressed how a 9 year old CPU/mobo combo has lasted me including playing fairly up to date games until basically a couple of years ago (it managed Doom Eternal in the pandemic for instance). So I think I am less worried about the idea of swapping out components as time goes on a...

Alaskan air has grounded their fleet of 737 max after a door blew out at 16000ft https://twitter.com/bbcbreaking/status/1743546384270139460?s=46&t=Kg3-G23T5OptIvzAdzKk1w Wonder if any other airlines will follow suite I couldn't believe this. It's like something out of a far side cartoon. You're...

Excellent thoughts, all. I have had a bit of a dig on the Intel vs AMD threads but am still undecided there. I do take your point on futureproofing though.
Have swapped to the NVME, increased ram and gone full tower with the case (just because it'll fit in me office better).

Good point - I want something that will run games without breaking a sweat (I miss that) but will also be comfortable doing "heavy" office work ie having lots of tabs open, multimedia and some stats crunching.

My current system is mostly 9 years old (i5 4460, Asus Z97-P Intel Z97 mobo and 8Gb of DDR3). It's time for a refresh and I wondered on your opinions on the below. I currently have a Radeon RX 5600 which I was going to temporarily re-use to lighten the financial load with a view to changing next yea...

Lots of it around but very little touching intensive care like in the bad old days. The odd immunosupressed or anti-vax or very unlucky person. Most of what is coming to hospital is people with underlying lung conditions who have had them exacerbated by it. It's become like a seasonal virus like all...

Were you in one of your BMWs, Rich? They always used to have quite low air intakes so following someone wouldn't necessarily be a good idea. Exactly this happened to an old boss of mine, being responsible for the family converting from 530d to Range Rover... I am never sure of the argument of gun i...

scotta wrote: ↑Tue Jan 02, 2024 7:57 pm

Explosive Newt wrote: ↑Tue Jan 02, 2024 7:56 pm I am _certain_ there aren't 40 active forum members? Who is voting on this?

3 votes per user.

Edit: Oh. Oh I see.

I am _certain_ there aren't 40 active forum members? Who is voting on this?

Rich B wrote: ↑Tue Jan 02, 2024 5:50 pm What does the P stand for in FECPOTY?

My guess is 'purchase' but other possibilities are 'pleasantness', 'poltroon' and 'palaver'.

We could have a poll to vote on what the P stands for?

Jimmy Choo wrote: ↑Tue Jan 02, 2024 10:16 am This year I have decided that plastic cheese slices are the only cheese that is acceptable on a burger.

But stilton?

Not a new discovery but I keep going back to Oxford Blue which is a tremendous semi hard blue that goes awfully well on a cracker but is equally at home lending a sandwich some heft.

Thanks for the above recommendations.

Continuing the Brie theme, Baron Bigod has been my absolute favourite this year. A Brie-de-Meaux with oodles of punch, a strong nutty mushroomy smell and taste as well as unctuous texture.