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Barry Foster posted:Her answer is basically "gently caress you, too bad" - like, not an ounce of contrition or even feigned empathy Even the usual racist replies below have the awareness to do the "Sorry that happened to you, but" business.
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thebardyspoon posted:What's incredible to me is just how hard Truss has been memory holed frankly, like she blew a massive hole in the economy 3 months ago and you basically never hear her mentioned or interviewed at all. It's pretty good to be able to say to anyone that thinks Rishi is doing well, that he still lost to Truss. He's officially worse than the worst
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thebardyspoon posted:None of what they're doing is new, they're just not even bothering to gussy
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I saw a Tesla on the m25 today which had 'ORG4SM' as its numberplate and I've been thinking all day about the chain of events and thought process which would lead a person to have that numberplate.
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The Perfect Element posted:I saw a Tesla on the m25 today which had 'ORG4SM' as its numberplate and I've been thinking all day about the chain of events and thought process which would lead a person to have that numberplate. you can ask him about it ITT
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Dead Goon posted:She's very concerned about the plans to build a Mega-incinerator in my town, apparently. The gas chambers too, probably.
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Jedit posted:The gas chambers too, probably. We're talking about Truss, so presumably her main concern is ensuring that a company that has paid a suitable amount in
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The Perfect Element posted:I saw a Tesla on the m25 today which had 'ORG4SM' as its numberplate and I've been thinking all day about the chain of events and thought process which would lead a person to buy a Tesla.
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While I get that Braverman has a job to serve the main goal of this government i.e. placate the right wing ultra maniacs, I hate her more than any cabinet member ever and pray that even a small percentage of the spite, cruelty and malice she has attempted to spread in this country is reflected back on her.
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McFlurry Fan #1 posted:While I get that Braverman has a job to serve the main goal of this government i.e. placate the right wing ultra maniacs, I hate her more than any cabinet member ever and pray that even a small percentage of the spite, cruelty and malice she has attempted to spread in this country is reflected back on her. happens every time she looks in a mirror before realising it's herself
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Only Kindness posted:
Yeah I wonder why someone might buy the third best selling car in the uk this year. Sad that people here are still desperately trying to cling to the narrative that they are bad.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Yeah I wonder why someone might buy the third best selling car in the uk this year. Sad that people here are still desperately trying to cling to the narrative that they are bad. https://twitter.com/mahkusg/status/1579655753174253568
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Yeah I wonder why someone might buy the third best selling car in the uk this year. Sad that people here are still desperately trying to cling to the narrative that they are bad. It's actually really good when my car spontaneously combusts
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I did a sick skid stop and almost ended up in a drainage ditch getting out of the way of an ambulance the other day, i bet if I'd tried to do it in a tesla it would have tried to download an update for the brakes, swerved back into the road and tried to run over the oncoming traffic and also caught fire.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Yeah I wonder why someone might buy the third best selling car in the uk this year. Sad that people here are still desperately trying to cling to the narrative that they are bad. "They must be good because people keep going for them" he says, in the 13th year of continuous Tory government
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Reminder that the Lada Riva was an incredibly popular car in the UK in the 80s, the UK just likes poo poo cars.
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If i could afford an electric car i'd probably get a Nissan Leaf. Though in saying that i don't really do enough miles these days to justify owning a car at all (once a month to get my prescription + shopping). 
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Nobody buys teslas they just lease them and don’t read the fine print when they insure them so they don’t insure the batteries, then get hit with 5 figures left to pay to their finance company after the insurance pays out on the car that just got written off for something silly like a cracked windscreen because the part was on back order for 18 months and it was cheaper than hiring them a car for that long. It’s pretty funny tbqh.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Reminder that the Lada Riva was an incredibly popular car in the UK in the 80s, the UK just likes poo poo cars. my granny had a lada samara to follow on after her rear engine skoda both seemed pretty fun tbh, wouldn't mind either of them, especially the skoda it had awesome early 80's dials. Sure it ran on leaded petrol but that's fine 
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This is all extremely funny when we remember this all kicked off with this dickhead boasting, unprompted, to Greta Thunberg about his cars. 
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OwlFancier posted:both seemed pretty fun tbh, wouldn't mind either of them, especially the skoda it had awesome early 80's dials. Sure it ran on leaded petrol but that's fine Then again, back when I used to have a powerful (for its time) PC, I used to think it was funny to put it in an old beige RM case.
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Both of those are fun ideas IMO.
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There are some really good EVs now from people that aren't Tesla. A friend has an electric Fiat 500 and it's really cute, full of neat toys but the toys have actual buttons so you don't need to navigate menus on a featureless touchscreen while driving a big block of lithium. The local Seat garage has a Cupra Born which is basically them doing a luxury brand to eat Tesla's lunch, but it's also a sensible size for a non-Californian road and knows about things like rain. gently caress it, even if you had the money and just wanted an answer to "what if Tesla, but not made by a twat" there's Lucid, which was set up by ex Tesla people. A few years ago there's an argument that there needed to be a blunt instrument like Tesla to actually bamboozle enough people into going all in on EVs but now the infrastructure is there, and every time Musk opens his mouth the things depreciate so fast that it's almost a selling point that they write themselves off before the batteries degrade enough to make them completely unsaleable. There's almost no reason for anyone who can afford one to buy one except inertia or chud-signalling.They're not the only game in town for that kind of person any more. So yeah, let competitor EVs take off and become widespread enough to take chunks out of the petrochemical industries keeping everyone car reliant, start converting all the Esso's into all night convenience stores and local libraries and bike repair shops and whatnot, and start putting serious money into affordable mass transit.
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Yeah the stupid iphone design is a big thing I don't like about EVs and teslas in particular, and also I'm only ever going to drive old cars anyway so unless the batteries still work 10 years down the line they're no use to me whatsoever.
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Cars are just eye wateringly expensive now (along with most other things I suppose), and to make it worse it seems a lot of the smaller decent options are being replaced with horrible crossovers and SUVs. Once the four year agreement mine was on ended in the second half of 2022 I just bought mine out as it was by far and away the cheapest option open to me (and I really liked the car). As it turned out I'm now living somewhere where the shops/town centre/relatives are in easy walking distance, and I work from home most days. Its actually really nice, plus I've been living here for a month and a half now and I've lost 2KG without really trying.
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Teslas like driving into emergency vehicles, so I have read.
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Isomermaid posted:So yeah, let competitor EVs take off and become widespread enough to take chunks out of the petrochemical industries keeping everyone car reliant, start converting all the Esso's into all night convenience stores and local libraries and bike repair shops and whatnot, and start putting serious money into affordable mass transit. You mean charging stations.
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Just Another Lurker posted:If i could afford an electric car i'd probably get a Nissan Leaf. If I could afford an electric car, I'd be glad I could pay for my Zones 1-5 season ticket.
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OwlFancier posted:my granny had a lada samara to follow on after her rear engine skoda Both of those beat the gently caress out of a Tesla simply cos they're easily owner repairable.
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smellmycheese posted:This is all extremely funny when we remember this all kicked off with this dickhead boasting, unprompted, to Greta Thunberg about his cars. i bet some car nerds are furious they didn’t specify which models in the headline
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Bobby Deluxe posted:There's a company in Hampshire who take old cars, gut them and fit them with modern engines and electrics. Their most common job is apparently e-type Jags but I always thought it would be funny to take a shitbox like a Lada and have it done up like that. Bobby Deluxe posted:Then again, back when I used to have a powerful (for its time) PC, I used to think it was funny to put it in an old beige RM case.  I did that with an old HP office desktop case once. They're better cases too.OwlFancier posted:Yeah the stupid iphone design is a big thing I don't like about EVs and teslas in particular 
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It's something that's really annoying with a lot of stuff, appliances, cars, electronics. Who the gently caress likes touch screens? Ok they're sensible for some things, like a tablet PC sure and maybe a phone although phones should still have keyboards, but why does a loving cooker need to be a flat slab of glass? loving space nerds and their aesthetics over function horseshit.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:There's a company in Hampshire who take old cars, gut them and fit them with modern engines and electrics. Their most common job is apparently e-type Jags but I always thought it would be funny to take a shitbox like a Lada and have it done up like that. Do it with one of these:  And those Cupra EVs seemed really popular when I was in Barcelona over the summer. Or at least, they were being advertised to gently caress. The music festival I was at had a big Cupra stage OwlFancier posted:but why does a loving cooker need to be a flat slab of glass? My Smeg (hehe) cooker is hella nice, it's a flat induction pane with built in display stuff, but it's all controlled by big chunky dials mmm
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OwlFancier posted:hy does a loving cooker need to be a flat slab of glass? I don't miss cleaning my old gas hob that's for sure. RE: EV fires etc. Exploding Teslas is a funny meme and Musk is an utter peanut but any fire that involves an EV is given massively disproportionate coverage worldwide giving a highly misleading perspective on the risk they actually pose. By any measure EVs are significantly less likely to catch fire than combustion vehicles so it's difficult to see it as anything other than petrochemical industry FUD to be honest. Tomberforce fucked around with this message at 20:14 on Jan 14, 2023 |
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Flat glass cooking surface: good Flat glass controls while cooking: less good Same with my TV, every part of that is tending towards being a flat bit of glass with a power cord, but even the fancier remotes are still tactile. OwlFancier posted:loving space nerds and their aesthetics over function horseshit. 
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The top being easy to clean is good but pissing about with the hold-to-activate touch controls is loving poo poo. Shithouse cooker manufacturers can afford to add some loving knobs.
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Touchscreen controls in cars absolutely need to gently caress off though. Tactile control is important when you need to concentrate on driving.
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OwlFancier posted:It's something that's really annoying with a lot of stuff, appliances, cars, electronics. Who the gently caress likes touch screens? Ok they're sensible for some things, like a tablet PC sure and maybe a phone although phones should still have keyboards, but why does a loving cooker need to be a flat slab of glass? cheap
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