I’ve not had a classic head cold for at least 6 months, possibly longer, and very few people I know have either. Are we going through a common cold drought?
People always say when “there’s a lot of it going round at the moment” but they never comment when there’s “not a lot of it going round”.
I don't normally get them but have had 2 in the last six months. Got over one then a few weeks later got another.
OK, hypothesis for the day not looking particularly robust so far.
I’m currently at Britain’s poshest railway terminus. It’s a ridiculous place, as if built by a film studio for a costume drama (but with a Burger King and a Pret).
There is an entire hut, occupying what used to be the tourist info booth, decorated in olde English wallpaper and dedicated to suckering rich tourists into visiting Bicester village. And station announcements in Mandarin and Arabic.
What are you doing at Euston?
Would we count that as being Britain’s least posh terminus, or am I being London centric there? What’s the most squalid, depressing terminus in the country?
Wick
Fenchurch Street. Although, TBF, I haven’t been there for years.
Fun fact: Fenchurch Street is the only central London rail terminus not directly served by the London Underground. Tower Hill tube is a bit of a walk!
Any suggestions for an electric car? Small but comfortable but not a Tesla. Someone said a BMW 3I but they dont make them anymore.
A bit of fun runabout?
Alpine A290/Renault 5.
All other answers are varying degrees of wrong.
The Renault 5 looks great - seems to have the perfect blend of nostalgia by keeping very close to the original but with enough modern touches.
I have decided I no longer have time or space to build my daily drivers from Copart wrecks or non-runners found in the large intestine of Facebook Marketplace. So I have bought my first ever brand new car - 150hp Renault 5 in Peroni/Jassaud yellow. The stock wheels are heavy cast junk so I'm putting OZ Racing Ultraleggeras on mine.
Mint. Mine? Absolute anchor-grade cast alus, probably weigh more than a pair of 4-pot Brembos and a seized H22 block. Swapping those for OZ Racing Ultraleggeras—15x7 ET35 wrapped in 195/50R15 Pilot Sport 5s, torqued to spec with a Snap-On digital. Already shed 6kg per corner and I haven’t even touched the unsprung weight up front—thinking coilover swap to Bilstein B14s and maybe a hybrid ARB from the Clio RS Cup parts bin.
Next step: EBC Yellowstuffs, braided HEL lines, DOT 5.1 flush, and possibly a cheeky remap via OBDLink MX+ and my guy who tunes with a laptop duct-taped to the passenger seat and a sixth sense for AFRs.
This thing’s gonna be a sleeper spec canyon scalpel before the warranty even knows what hit it.
Take it from somebody who actually is funny, you are not. So don't try.
Mate, these bite hard. Zero fade, even after a full blast down the Furka with a boot full of hubris and a nav unit screaming recalculations. Finish is obscene - like if the Bauhaus did CNC. You ever felt harmonic resonance through a cold-forged XJ19 end-to-end? Thought not. Triple-collared mounts, wet-bushed in moly, anodised in something they only use on satellite couplers. Full schwingenfreude at 8,000rpm, and that’s before the preload’s dialled in
Sure, the modern lads go for composite polymers - lightweight, thermally stable, blah blah. But me? NEED mass. Mine are hand-hewn from Sardinian basalt, face-balanced, interference-fit into a vintage ARX spec housing. Takes a while to warm up, sure, but once you're at temp - bro. You haven’t known true mechanical sympathy till you’ve taken a granite dildo to redline on a Tuscan long-weekender
Bro, completed the AXS-LD configuration last night. Full 2x12 EPS DiX2 w/ ARC-FDM and native DualBand-TE sync. No latency. No drift. Just pure indexed intention like even the MAGA fuckwits would recognise.
Crankset is a milled HMP-SL on a CTS spindle, threaded into a T47L-PRT—obviously cold-fitted with TiPhase bushings. Monocoque cockpit with PWR integration, routed entirely internal through a QRM-modified steerer. No ports, no clutter. RTD calipers on FFS pads with 162/140 spec rotors. Wheelset is 35/39 asym deep profile, Ti-Vector spoke laced, tensioned via micro preload. Hubs are NDCS gen.3.3—pre-approval batch, naturally. Tyres AXR 27.3 on 25.9IW. Inflated to VAPR-constant psi.
Whole rig makes me tremble like I'm watching One Foot In The Grave whilst fisking an Arabic dictionary after an all-night session on kale and butter beans after my Fukker-friendly Parish Council meeting.
Normally, have to wipe clean the Tamp FIN 28.45OR afterwards with my tee. But this time, fuck it: might just let the missus figure out the substance I've left behind by herself and hope she confuses it for WD40.
Watching Albanese and Macron eulogising the Pope, Starmer's evil, heretical, godless silence is deafening!
For those who commiserate, my heart goes out to them on the death of the Pope.
As an individual human, just perhaps.
But there’s no institution on the planet that has inflicted more war and death and misery and abuse upon humanity than the Catholic Church.
Interesting claim, but is it true? Depends what you mean by “Institution”
If we take the Communist Party worldwide as an institution I imagine the Party has done worse, certainly in total deaths, than all the Popes
Just put Stalin, Lenin, Mao and Pol Pot together and you’ve got 100 million dead maybe? Plus indescribable torment? Then all the smaller “milder” commie parties from Cuba to Vietnam to Peru to numerous hideous African examples
"The Catholic Church: not quite as bad as Pol Pot on a per year basis" was actually the slogan that JD Vance saw, and which first attracted him to the Church of Rome.
I’ve not had a classic head cold for at least 6 months, possibly longer, and very few people I know have either. Are we going through a common cold drought?
People always say when “there’s a lot of it going round at the moment” but they never comment when there’s “not a lot of it going round”.
I don't normally get them but have had 2 in the last six months. Got over one then a few weeks later got another.
OK, hypothesis for the day not looking particularly robust so far.
I’m currently at Britain’s poshest railway terminus. It’s a ridiculous place, as if built by a film studio for a costume drama (but with a Burger King and a Pret).
There is an entire hut, occupying what used to be the tourist info booth, decorated in olde English wallpaper and dedicated to suckering rich tourists into visiting Bicester village. And station announcements in Mandarin and Arabic.
What are you doing at Euston?
Would we count that as being Britain’s least posh terminus, or am I being London centric there? What’s the most squalid, depressing terminus in the country?
Wick
Fenchurch Street. Although, TBF, I haven’t been there for years.
Fun fact: Fenchurch Street is the only central London rail terminus not directly served by the London Underground. Tower Hill tube is a bit of a walk!
And thousands of people do that walk every weekday in all weathers.
"Preemptive Cuts" in Interest Rates are being called for by many. With Energy Costs way down, food prices (including Biden's egg disaster!) substantially lower, and most other "things" trending down, there is virtually No Inflation. With these costs trending so nicely downward, just what I predicted they would do, there can almost be no inflation, but there can be a SLOWING of the economy unless Mr. Too Late, a major loser, lowers interest rates, NOW. Europe has already "lowered" seven times. Powell has always been "To Late," except when it came to the Election period when he lowered in order to help Sleepy Joe Biden, later Kamala, get elected. How did that work out?
I believe that is what is called - in the vernacular - as "lying".
"Preemptive Cuts" in Interest Rates are being called for by many. With Energy Costs way down, food prices (including Biden's egg disaster!) substantially lower, and most other "things" trending down, there is virtually No Inflation. With these costs trending so nicely downward, just what I predicted they would do, there can almost be no inflation, but there can be a SLOWING of the economy unless Mr. Too Late, a major loser, lowers interest rates, NOW. Europe has already "lowered" seven times. Powell has always been "To Late," except when it came to the Election period when he lowered in order to help Sleepy Joe Biden, later Kamala, get elected. How did that work out?
I believe that is what is called - in the vernacular - as "lying".
What is the current inflation rate in the US? If we can trust their figures.
I’ve not had a classic head cold for at least 6 months, possibly longer, and very few people I know have either. Are we going through a common cold drought?
People always say when “there’s a lot of it going round at the moment” but they never comment when there’s “not a lot of it going round”.
I don't normally get them but have had 2 in the last six months. Got over one then a few weeks later got another.
OK, hypothesis for the day not looking particularly robust so far.
I’m currently at Britain’s poshest railway terminus. It’s a ridiculous place, as if built by a film studio for a costume drama (but with a Burger King and a Pret).
There is an entire hut, occupying what used to be the tourist info booth, decorated in olde English wallpaper and dedicated to suckering rich tourists into visiting Bicester village. And station announcements in Mandarin and Arabic.
What are you doing at Euston?
Would we count that as being Britain’s least posh terminus, or am I being London centric there? What’s the most squalid, depressing terminus in the country?
Wick
You’re only saying that because Newent doesn’t have a railway station.
I'm actually currently in the UK's best railway terminus.
Not to start a road vs rail debate, but is there any railway terminus that is a better place than Tebay Services?
I was there today. Along with, it seemed, the entire population of the North West - or at least that part of it who had Eastered in Scotland or the North Lakes.
Any suggestions for an electric car? Small but comfortable but not a Tesla. Someone said a BMW 3I but they dont make them anymore.
A bit of fun runabout?
Alpine A290/Renault 5.
All other answers are varying degrees of wrong.
The Renault 5 looks great - seems to have the perfect blend of nostalgia by keeping very close to the original but with enough modern touches.
I have decided I no longer have time or space to build my daily drivers from Copart wrecks or non-runners found in the large intestine of Facebook Marketplace. So I have bought my first ever brand new car - 150hp Renault 5 in Peroni/Jassaud yellow. The stock wheels are heavy cast junk so I'm putting OZ Racing Ultraleggeras on mine.
Mint. Mine? Absolute anchor-grade cast alus, probably weigh more than a pair of 4-pot Brembos and a seized H22 block. Swapping those for OZ Racing Ultraleggeras—15x7 ET35 wrapped in 195/50R15 Pilot Sport 5s, torqued to spec with a Snap-On digital. Already shed 6kg per corner and I haven’t even touched the unsprung weight up front—thinking coilover swap to Bilstein B14s and maybe a hybrid ARB from the Clio RS Cup parts bin.
Next step: EBC Yellowstuffs, braided HEL lines, DOT 5.1 flush, and possibly a cheeky remap via OBDLink MX+ and my guy who tunes with a laptop duct-taped to the passenger seat and a sixth sense for AFRs.
This thing’s gonna be a sleeper spec canyon scalpel before the warranty even knows what hit it.
Take it from somebody who actually is funny, you are not. So don't try.
Mate, these bite hard. Zero fade, even after a full blast down the Furka with a boot full of hubris and a nav unit screaming recalculations. Finish is obscene - like if the Bauhaus did CNC. You ever felt harmonic resonance through a cold-forged XJ19 end-to-end? Thought not. Triple-collared mounts, wet-bushed in moly, anodised in something they only use on satellite couplers. Full schwingenfreude at 8,000rpm, and that’s before the preload’s dialled in
Sure, the modern lads go for composite polymers - lightweight, thermally stable, blah blah. But me? NEED mass. Mine are hand-hewn from Sardinian basalt, face-balanced, interference-fit into a vintage ARX spec housing. Takes a while to warm up, sure, but once you're at temp - bro. You haven’t known true mechanical sympathy till you’ve taken a granite dildo to redline on a Tuscan long-weekender
Bro, completed the AXS-LD configuration last night. Full 2x12 EPS DiX2 w/ ARC-FDM and native DualBand-TE sync. No latency. No drift. Just pure indexed intention like even the MAGA fuckwits would recognise.
Crankset is a milled HMP-SL on a CTS spindle, threaded into a T47L-PRT—obviously cold-fitted with TiPhase bushings. Monocoque cockpit with PWR integration, routed entirely internal through a QRM-modified steerer. No ports, no clutter. RTD calipers on FFS pads with 162/140 spec rotors. Wheelset is 35/39 asym deep profile, Ti-Vector spoke laced, tensioned via micro preload. Hubs are NDCS gen.3.3—pre-approval batch, naturally. Tyres AXR 27.3 on 25.9IW. Inflated to VAPR-constant psi.
Whole rig makes me tremble like I'm watching One Foot In The Grave whilst fisking an Arabic dictionary after an all-night session on kale and butter beans after my Fukker-friendly Parish Council meeting.
Normally, have to wipe clean the Tamp FIN 28.45OR afterwards with my tee. But this time, fuck it: might just let the missus figure out the substance I've left behind by herself and hope she confuses it for WD40.
I’ve not had a classic head cold for at least 6 months, possibly longer, and very few people I know have either. Are we going through a common cold drought?
People always say when “there’s a lot of it going round at the moment” but they never comment when there’s “not a lot of it going round”.
I don't normally get them but have had 2 in the last six months. Got over one then a few weeks later got another.
OK, hypothesis for the day not looking particularly robust so far.
I’m currently at Britain’s poshest railway terminus. It’s a ridiculous place, as if built by a film studio for a costume drama (but with a Burger King and a Pret).
There is an entire hut, occupying what used to be the tourist info booth, decorated in olde English wallpaper and dedicated to suckering rich tourists into visiting Bicester village. And station announcements in Mandarin and Arabic.
What are you doing at Euston?
Would we count that as being Britain’s least posh terminus, or am I being London centric there? What’s the most squalid, depressing terminus in the country?
Wick
You’re only saying that because Newent doesn’t have a railway station.
It does. It just doesn't have any trains any more.
The Pentagon’s chief spokesperson, Sean Parnell, issued a statement in a post on X on Sunday night following the New York Times report.
“Another day, another old story – back from the dead,” Parnell said. “The Trump-hating media continues to be obsessed with destroying anyone committed to President Trump’s agenda. This time, the New York Times – and all other Fake News that repeat their garbage – are enthusiastically taking the grievances of disgruntled former employees as the sole sources for their article...
The Pentagon’s chief spokesperson, Sean Parnell, issued a statement in a post on X on Sunday night following the New York Times report.
“Another day, another old story – back from the dead,” Parnell said. “The Trump-hating media continues to be obsessed with destroying anyone committed to President Trump’s agenda. This time, the New York Times – and all other Fake News that repeat their garbage – are enthusiastically taking the grievances of disgruntled former employees as the sole sources for their article...
"Old story" ?
Absolutely.
Trump's Cabinet picks being unfit for office, national security disgraces is an old story.
Any future such scandals will also be an old story as a result.
I’ve not had a classic head cold for at least 6 months, possibly longer, and very few people I know have either. Are we going through a common cold drought?
People always say when “there’s a lot of it going round at the moment” but they never comment when there’s “not a lot of it going round”.
I don't normally get them but have had 2 in the last six months. Got over one then a few weeks later got another.
OK, hypothesis for the day not looking particularly robust so far.
I’m currently at Britain’s poshest railway terminus. It’s a ridiculous place, as if built by a film studio for a costume drama (but with a Burger King and a Pret).
There is an entire hut, occupying what used to be the tourist info booth, decorated in olde English wallpaper and dedicated to suckering rich tourists into visiting Bicester village. And station announcements in Mandarin and Arabic.
What are you doing at Euston?
Would we count that as being Britain’s least posh terminus, or am I being London centric there? What’s the most squalid, depressing terminus in the country?
Wick
Wick's OK. A more forlorn terminus would be Heysham. Or maybe Holyhead.
Severn Beach's not pleasant, especially as it gets a quarter of a million passengers a year. As I recall, the line leading up to it is pretty industrial (i.e. not pretty) as well.
edit: Fort William station's also a bit of a dump. Terrible, unattractive architecture.
The worst must be Stranraer since the ferries moved away. A bleak walk across the former ferry terminal area to the rundown town. And it looks like this.
I’ve not had a classic head cold for at least 6 months, possibly longer, and very few people I know have either. Are we going through a common cold drought?
People always say when “there’s a lot of it going round at the moment” but they never comment when there’s “not a lot of it going round”.
I don't normally get them but have had 2 in the last six months. Got over one then a few weeks later got another.
OK, hypothesis for the day not looking particularly robust so far.
I’m currently at Britain’s poshest railway terminus. It’s a ridiculous place, as if built by a film studio for a costume drama (but with a Burger King and a Pret).
There is an entire hut, occupying what used to be the tourist info booth, decorated in olde English wallpaper and dedicated to suckering rich tourists into visiting Bicester village. And station announcements in Mandarin and Arabic.
What are you doing at Euston?
Would we count that as being Britain’s least posh terminus, or am I being London centric there? What’s the most squalid, depressing terminus in the country?
Wick
Wick's OK. A more forlorn terminus would be Heysham. Or maybe Holyhead.
Severn Beach's not pleasant, especially as it gets a quarter of a million passengers a year. As I recall, the line leading up to it is pretty industrial (i.e. not pretty) as well.
edit: Fort William station's also a bit of a dump. Terrible, unattractive architecture.
The worst must be Stranraer since the ferries moved away. A bleak walk across the former ferry terminal area to the rundown town. And it looks like this.
I’ve not had a classic head cold for at least 6 months, possibly longer, and very few people I know have either. Are we going through a common cold drought?
People always say when “there’s a lot of it going round at the moment” but they never comment when there’s “not a lot of it going round”.
I don't normally get them but have had 2 in the last six months. Got over one then a few weeks later got another.
OK, hypothesis for the day not looking particularly robust so far.
I’m currently at Britain’s poshest railway terminus. It’s a ridiculous place, as if built by a film studio for a costume drama (but with a Burger King and a Pret).
There is an entire hut, occupying what used to be the tourist info booth, decorated in olde English wallpaper and dedicated to suckering rich tourists into visiting Bicester village. And station announcements in Mandarin and Arabic.
What are you doing at Euston?
Would we count that as being Britain’s least posh terminus, or am I being London centric there? What’s the most squalid, depressing terminus in the country?
Wick
Wick's OK. A more forlorn terminus would be Heysham. Or maybe Holyhead.
Severn Beach's not pleasant, especially as it gets a quarter of a million passengers a year. As I recall, the line leading up to it is pretty industrial (i.e. not pretty) as well.
edit: Fort William station's also a bit of a dump. Terrible, unattractive architecture.
Severn Beach is bleak.
However, many railway stations that are termini are since they were built on the outskirts of towns and became goods and logistics depots with merchants and warehouses piling in to store fuel and goods. The land became low value since not many people wanted to live nearby, and it was dirty and noisy.
How many modern industrial estates are pretty?
The beautiful railway stations tend to be pass-through places in rural areas where innovative architecture, and a bit wishful thinking, usually to appeal to influential landowners/ MPs to vote the Bill through, survive.
I’ve not had a classic head cold for at least 6 months, possibly longer, and very few people I know have either. Are we going through a common cold drought?
People always say when “there’s a lot of it going round at the moment” but they never comment when there’s “not a lot of it going round”.
I don't normally get them but have had 2 in the last six months. Got over one then a few weeks later got another.
OK, hypothesis for the day not looking particularly robust so far.
I’m currently at Britain’s poshest railway terminus. It’s a ridiculous place, as if built by a film studio for a costume drama (but with a Burger King and a Pret).
There is an entire hut, occupying what used to be the tourist info booth, decorated in olde English wallpaper and dedicated to suckering rich tourists into visiting Bicester village. And station announcements in Mandarin and Arabic.
What are you doing at Euston?
Would we count that as being Britain’s least posh terminus, or am I being London centric there? What’s the most squalid, depressing terminus in the country?
Wick
Wick's OK. A more forlorn terminus would be Heysham. Or maybe Holyhead.
Severn Beach's not pleasant, especially as it gets a quarter of a million passengers a year. As I recall, the line leading up to it is pretty industrial (i.e. not pretty) as well.
edit: Fort William station's also a bit of a dump. Terrible, unattractive architecture.
The worst must be Stranraer since the ferries moved away. A bleak walk across the former ferry terminal area to the rundown town. And it looks like this.
Yeah, I've been there (2019).
Then you were too late. The last train leaves at 1908. 😆
I’ve not had a classic head cold for at least 6 months, possibly longer, and very few people I know have either. Are we going through a common cold drought?
People always say when “there’s a lot of it going round at the moment” but they never comment when there’s “not a lot of it going round”.
I don't normally get them but have had 2 in the last six months. Got over one then a few weeks later got another.
OK, hypothesis for the day not looking particularly robust so far.
I’m currently at Britain’s poshest railway terminus. It’s a ridiculous place, as if built by a film studio for a costume drama (but with a Burger King and a Pret).
There is an entire hut, occupying what used to be the tourist info booth, decorated in olde English wallpaper and dedicated to suckering rich tourists into visiting Bicester village. And station announcements in Mandarin and Arabic.
What are you doing at Euston?
Would we count that as being Britain’s least posh terminus, or am I being London centric there? What’s the most squalid, depressing terminus in the country?
Wick
Wick's OK. A more forlorn terminus would be Heysham. Or maybe Holyhead.
Severn Beach's not pleasant, especially as it gets a quarter of a million passengers a year. As I recall, the line leading up to it is pretty industrial (i.e. not pretty) as well.
edit: Fort William station's also a bit of a dump. Terrible, unattractive architecture.
The worst must be Stranraer since the ferries moved away. A bleak walk across the former ferry terminal area to the rundown town. And it looks like this.
Yeah, I've been there (2019).
Crikey. That’s grim. Looks like sidings at a depot.
I’ve not had a classic head cold for at least 6 months, possibly longer, and very few people I know have either. Are we going through a common cold drought?
People always say when “there’s a lot of it going round at the moment” but they never comment when there’s “not a lot of it going round”.
I don't normally get them but have had 2 in the last six months. Got over one then a few weeks later got another.
OK, hypothesis for the day not looking particularly robust so far.
I’m currently at Britain’s poshest railway terminus. It’s a ridiculous place, as if built by a film studio for a costume drama (but with a Burger King and a Pret).
There is an entire hut, occupying what used to be the tourist info booth, decorated in olde English wallpaper and dedicated to suckering rich tourists into visiting Bicester village. And station announcements in Mandarin and Arabic.
What are you doing at Euston?
Would we count that as being Britain’s least posh terminus, or am I being London centric there? What’s the most squalid, depressing terminus in the country?
Wick
Wick's OK. A more forlorn terminus would be Heysham. Or maybe Holyhead.
Severn Beach's not pleasant, especially as it gets a quarter of a million passengers a year. As I recall, the line leading up to it is pretty industrial (i.e. not pretty) as well.
edit: Fort William station's also a bit of a dump. Terrible, unattractive architecture.
I will test it out not week, off for a break and do the Jacobite Steam train. Had a very pleasant week trip touring Bavaria week or so ago. What a difference to the UK, all places visited vibrant , no shuttered shops, dilapidated buildings and absolutely no litter anywhere.
I'm actually currently in the UK's best railway terminus.
Not to start a road vs rail debate, but is there any railway terminus that is a better place than Tebay Services?
certainly not with better pies.
It's a silly question; there are umpteen railway stations that are better in the round than Tebay services, either by location or architecture.
But I can't think of a railway station with brilliant Tebay-style food. Small ferry terminals typically have an excellent cafe nearby, but not stations.
I’ve not had a classic head cold for at least 6 months, possibly longer, and very few people I know have either. Are we going through a common cold drought?
People always say when “there’s a lot of it going round at the moment” but they never comment when there’s “not a lot of it going round”.
I don't normally get them but have had 2 in the last six months. Got over one then a few weeks later got another.
OK, hypothesis for the day not looking particularly robust so far.
I’m currently at Britain’s poshest railway terminus. It’s a ridiculous place, as if built by a film studio for a costume drama (but with a Burger King and a Pret).
There is an entire hut, occupying what used to be the tourist info booth, decorated in olde English wallpaper and dedicated to suckering rich tourists into visiting Bicester village. And station announcements in Mandarin and Arabic.
What are you doing at Euston?
Would we count that as being Britain’s least posh terminus, or am I being London centric there? What’s the most squalid, depressing terminus in the country?
Wick
Fenchurch Street. Although, TBF, I haven’t been there for years.
Fun fact: Fenchurch Street is the only central London rail terminus not directly served by the London Underground. Tower Hill tube is a bit of a walk!
Though surely in terms of platform to platform it is closer than many of the others sharing a common name. Waterloo Platform 1 to the Northern Line seems like a very long trek, for example.
I’ve not had a classic head cold for at least 6 months, possibly longer, and very few people I know have either. Are we going through a common cold drought?
People always say when “there’s a lot of it going round at the moment” but they never comment when there’s “not a lot of it going round”.
I don't normally get them but have had 2 in the last six months. Got over one then a few weeks later got another.
OK, hypothesis for the day not looking particularly robust so far.
I’m currently at Britain’s poshest railway terminus. It’s a ridiculous place, as if built by a film studio for a costume drama (but with a Burger King and a Pret).
There is an entire hut, occupying what used to be the tourist info booth, decorated in olde English wallpaper and dedicated to suckering rich tourists into visiting Bicester village. And station announcements in Mandarin and Arabic.
What are you doing at Euston?
Would we count that as being Britain’s least posh terminus, or am I being London centric there? What’s the most squalid, depressing terminus in the country?
Wick
Wick's OK. A more forlorn terminus would be Heysham. Or maybe Holyhead.
Severn Beach's not pleasant, especially as it gets a quarter of a million passengers a year. As I recall, the line leading up to it is pretty industrial (i.e. not pretty) as well.
edit: Fort William station's also a bit of a dump. Terrible, unattractive architecture.
The worst must be Stranraer since the ferries moved away. A bleak walk across the former ferry terminal area to the rundown town. And it looks like this.
Yeah, I've been there (2019).
Then you were too late. The last train leaves at 1908. 😆
I think Appledore and Westward Ho must be close to holding the wooden spoon for pointless railways.
That one didn't open throughout until 1908 and was kiboshed in 1917 by the War Office, which was a remarkably short run.
Any suggestions for an electric car? Small but comfortable but not a Tesla. Someone said a BMW 3I but they dont make them anymore.
A bit of fun runabout?
Alpine A290/Renault 5.
All other answers are varying degrees of wrong.
The Renault 5 looks great - seems to have the perfect blend of nostalgia by keeping very close to the original but with enough modern touches.
I have decided I no longer have time or space to build my daily drivers from Copart wrecks or non-runners found in the large intestine of Facebook Marketplace. So I have bought my first ever brand new car - 150hp Renault 5 in Peroni/Jassaud yellow. The stock wheels are heavy cast junk so I'm putting OZ Racing Ultraleggeras on mine.
Mint. Mine? Absolute anchor-grade cast alus, probably weigh more than a pair of 4-pot Brembos and a seized H22 block. Swapping those for OZ Racing Ultraleggeras—15x7 ET35 wrapped in 195/50R15 Pilot Sport 5s, torqued to spec with a Snap-On digital. Already shed 6kg per corner and I haven’t even touched the unsprung weight up front—thinking coilover swap to Bilstein B14s and maybe a hybrid ARB from the Clio RS Cup parts bin.
Next step: EBC Yellowstuffs, braided HEL lines, DOT 5.1 flush, and possibly a cheeky remap via OBDLink MX+ and my guy who tunes with a laptop duct-taped to the passenger seat and a sixth sense for AFRs.
This thing’s gonna be a sleeper spec canyon scalpel before the warranty even knows what hit it.
Take it from somebody who actually is funny, you are not. So don't try.
Mate, these bite hard. Zero fade, even after a full blast down the Furka with a boot full of hubris and a nav unit screaming recalculations. Finish is obscene - like if the Bauhaus did CNC. You ever felt harmonic resonance through a cold-forged XJ19 end-to-end? Thought not. Triple-collared mounts, wet-bushed in moly, anodised in something they only use on satellite couplers. Full schwingenfreude at 8,000rpm, and that’s before the preload’s dialled in
Sure, the modern lads go for composite polymers - lightweight, thermally stable, blah blah. But me? NEED mass. Mine are hand-hewn from Sardinian basalt, face-balanced, interference-fit into a vintage ARX spec housing. Takes a while to warm up, sure, but once you're at temp - bro. You haven’t known true mechanical sympathy till you’ve taken a granite dildo to redline on a Tuscan long-weekender
Bro, completed the AXS-LD configuration last night. Full 2x12 EPS DiX2 w/ ARC-FDM and native DualBand-TE sync. No latency. No drift. Just pure indexed intention like even the MAGA fuckwits would recognise.
Crankset is a milled HMP-SL on a CTS spindle, threaded into a T47L-PRT—obviously cold-fitted with TiPhase bushings. Monocoque cockpit with PWR integration, routed entirely internal through a QRM-modified steerer. No ports, no clutter. RTD calipers on FFS pads with 162/140 spec rotors. Wheelset is 35/39 asym deep profile, Ti-Vector spoke laced, tensioned via micro preload. Hubs are NDCS gen.3.3—pre-approval batch, naturally. Tyres AXR 27.3 on 25.9IW. Inflated to VAPR-constant psi.
Whole rig makes me tremble like I'm watching One Foot In The Grave whilst fisking an Arabic dictionary after an all-night session on kale and butter beans after my Fukker-friendly Parish Council meeting.
Normally, have to wipe clean the Tamp FIN 28.45OR afterwards with my tee. But this time, fuck it: might just let the missus figure out the substance I've left behind by herself and hope she confuses it for WD40.
Yep, Dura was right the first time.
@Dura_Ace should be mildly flattered. If you have a writing style that can be easily parodied or spoofed it means that, at the very least, you have a style
Any suggestions for an electric car? Small but comfortable but not a Tesla. Someone said a BMW 3I but they dont make them anymore.
A bit of fun runabout?
Alpine A290/Renault 5.
All other answers are varying degrees of wrong.
The Renault 5 looks great - seems to have the perfect blend of nostalgia by keeping very close to the original but with enough modern touches.
I have decided I no longer have time or space to build my daily drivers from Copart wrecks or non-runners found in the large intestine of Facebook Marketplace. So I have bought my first ever brand new car - 150hp Renault 5 in Peroni/Jassaud yellow. The stock wheels are heavy cast junk so I'm putting OZ Racing Ultraleggeras on mine.
Mint. Mine? Absolute anchor-grade cast alus, probably weigh more than a pair of 4-pot Brembos and a seized H22 block. Swapping those for OZ Racing Ultraleggeras—15x7 ET35 wrapped in 195/50R15 Pilot Sport 5s, torqued to spec with a Snap-On digital. Already shed 6kg per corner and I haven’t even touched the unsprung weight up front—thinking coilover swap to Bilstein B14s and maybe a hybrid ARB from the Clio RS Cup parts bin.
Next step: EBC Yellowstuffs, braided HEL lines, DOT 5.1 flush, and possibly a cheeky remap via OBDLink MX+ and my guy who tunes with a laptop duct-taped to the passenger seat and a sixth sense for AFRs.
This thing’s gonna be a sleeper spec canyon scalpel before the warranty even knows what hit it.
Take it from somebody who actually is funny, you are not. So don't try.
Mate, these bite hard. Zero fade, even after a full blast down the Furka with a boot full of hubris and a nav unit screaming recalculations. Finish is obscene - like if the Bauhaus did CNC. You ever felt harmonic resonance through a cold-forged XJ19 end-to-end? Thought not. Triple-collared mounts, wet-bushed in moly, anodised in something they only use on satellite couplers. Full schwingenfreude at 8,000rpm, and that’s before the preload’s dialled in
Sure, the modern lads go for composite polymers - lightweight, thermally stable, blah blah. But me? NEED mass. Mine are hand-hewn from Sardinian basalt, face-balanced, interference-fit into a vintage ARX spec housing. Takes a while to warm up, sure, but once you're at temp - bro. You haven’t known true mechanical sympathy till you’ve taken a granite dildo to redline on a Tuscan long-weekender
Bro, completed the AXS-LD configuration last night. Full 2x12 EPS DiX2 w/ ARC-FDM and native DualBand-TE sync. No latency. No drift. Just pure indexed intention like even the MAGA fuckwits would recognise.
Crankset is a milled HMP-SL on a CTS spindle, threaded into a T47L-PRT—obviously cold-fitted with TiPhase bushings. Monocoque cockpit with PWR integration, routed entirely internal through a QRM-modified steerer. No ports, no clutter. RTD calipers on FFS pads with 162/140 spec rotors. Wheelset is 35/39 asym deep profile, Ti-Vector spoke laced, tensioned via micro preload. Hubs are NDCS gen.3.3—pre-approval batch, naturally. Tyres AXR 27.3 on 25.9IW. Inflated to VAPR-constant psi.
Whole rig makes me tremble like I'm watching One Foot In The Grave whilst fisking an Arabic dictionary after an all-night session on kale and butter beans after my Fukker-friendly Parish Council meeting.
Normally, have to wipe clean the Tamp FIN 28.45OR afterwards with my tee. But this time, fuck it: might just let the missus figure out the substance I've left behind by herself and hope she confuses it for WD40.
Any suggestions for an electric car? Small but comfortable but not a Tesla. Someone said a BMW 3I but they dont make them anymore.
A bit of fun runabout?
Alpine A290/Renault 5.
All other answers are varying degrees of wrong.
The Renault 5 looks great - seems to have the perfect blend of nostalgia by keeping very close to the original but with enough modern touches.
I have decided I no longer have time or space to build my daily drivers from Copart wrecks or non-runners found in the large intestine of Facebook Marketplace. So I have bought my first ever brand new car - 150hp Renault 5 in Peroni/Jassaud yellow. The stock wheels are heavy cast junk so I'm putting OZ Racing Ultraleggeras on mine.
Mint. Mine? Absolute anchor-grade cast alus, probably weigh more than a pair of 4-pot Brembos and a seized H22 block. Swapping those for OZ Racing Ultraleggeras—15x7 ET35 wrapped in 195/50R15 Pilot Sport 5s, torqued to spec with a Snap-On digital. Already shed 6kg per corner and I haven’t even touched the unsprung weight up front—thinking coilover swap to Bilstein B14s and maybe a hybrid ARB from the Clio RS Cup parts bin.
Next step: EBC Yellowstuffs, braided HEL lines, DOT 5.1 flush, and possibly a cheeky remap via OBDLink MX+ and my guy who tunes with a laptop duct-taped to the passenger seat and a sixth sense for AFRs.
This thing’s gonna be a sleeper spec canyon scalpel before the warranty even knows what hit it.
Take it from somebody who actually is funny, you are not. So don't try.
Mate, these bite hard. Zero fade, even after a full blast down the Furka with a boot full of hubris and a nav unit screaming recalculations. Finish is obscene - like if the Bauhaus did CNC. You ever felt harmonic resonance through a cold-forged XJ19 end-to-end? Thought not. Triple-collared mounts, wet-bushed in moly, anodised in something they only use on satellite couplers. Full schwingenfreude at 8,000rpm, and that’s before the preload’s dialled in
Sure, the modern lads go for composite polymers - lightweight, thermally stable, blah blah. But me? NEED mass. Mine are hand-hewn from Sardinian basalt, face-balanced, interference-fit into a vintage ARX spec housing. Takes a while to warm up, sure, but once you're at temp - bro. You haven’t known true mechanical sympathy till you’ve taken a granite dildo to redline on a Tuscan long-weekender
Bro, completed the AXS-LD configuration last night. Full 2x12 EPS DiX2 w/ ARC-FDM and native DualBand-TE sync. No latency. No drift. Just pure indexed intention like even the MAGA fuckwits would recognise.
Crankset is a milled HMP-SL on a CTS spindle, threaded into a T47L-PRT—obviously cold-fitted with TiPhase bushings. Monocoque cockpit with PWR integration, routed entirely internal through a QRM-modified steerer. No ports, no clutter. RTD calipers on FFS pads with 162/140 spec rotors. Wheelset is 35/39 asym deep profile, Ti-Vector spoke laced, tensioned via micro preload. Hubs are NDCS gen.3.3—pre-approval batch, naturally. Tyres AXR 27.3 on 25.9IW. Inflated to VAPR-constant psi.
Whole rig makes me tremble like I'm watching One Foot In The Grave whilst fisking an Arabic dictionary after an all-night session on kale and butter beans after my Fukker-friendly Parish Council meeting.
Normally, have to wipe clean the Tamp FIN 28.45OR afterwards with my tee. But this time, fuck it: might just let the missus figure out the substance I've left behind by herself and hope she confuses it for WD40.
Yep, Dura was right the first time.
@Dura_Ace should be mildly flattered. If you have a writing style that can be easily parodied or spoofed it means that, at the very least, you have a style
I’ve not had a classic head cold for at least 6 months, possibly longer, and very few people I know have either. Are we going through a common cold drought?
People always say when “there’s a lot of it going round at the moment” but they never comment when there’s “not a lot of it going round”.
I don't normally get them but have had 2 in the last six months. Got over one then a few weeks later got another.
OK, hypothesis for the day not looking particularly robust so far.
I’m currently at Britain’s poshest railway terminus. It’s a ridiculous place, as if built by a film studio for a costume drama (but with a Burger King and a Pret).
There is an entire hut, occupying what used to be the tourist info booth, decorated in olde English wallpaper and dedicated to suckering rich tourists into visiting Bicester village. And station announcements in Mandarin and Arabic.
St Pancras DOES NOT have a Burger King!
Presumably, the OP is talking about Marylebone. Where the ONLY announcements in Arabic and Mandarin are for departures to Oxford via Bicester Village: most Marylebone departures go elsewhere.
PS Who knows what the Mandarin is for Oxford and why?
"Preemptive Cuts" in Interest Rates are being called for by many. With Energy Costs way down, food prices (including Biden's egg disaster!) substantially lower, and most other "things" trending down, there is virtually No Inflation. With these costs trending so nicely downward, just what I predicted they would do, there can almost be no inflation, but there can be a SLOWING of the economy unless Mr. Too Late, a major loser, lowers interest rates, NOW. Europe has already "lowered" seven times. Powell has always been "To Late," except when it came to the Election period when he lowered in order to help Sleepy Joe Biden, later Kamala, get elected. How did that work out?
I believe that is what is called - in the vernacular - as "lying".
Looks like Fed are being lined up to get the full blame for Trump's Great Depression.
Any suggestions for an electric car? Small but comfortable but not a Tesla. Someone said a BMW 3I but they dont make them anymore.
A bit of fun runabout?
Alpine A290/Renault 5.
All other answers are varying degrees of wrong.
The Renault 5 looks great - seems to have the perfect blend of nostalgia by keeping very close to the original but with enough modern touches.
I have decided I no longer have time or space to build my daily drivers from Copart wrecks or non-runners found in the large intestine of Facebook Marketplace. So I have bought my first ever brand new car - 150hp Renault 5 in Peroni/Jassaud yellow. The stock wheels are heavy cast junk so I'm putting OZ Racing Ultraleggeras on mine.
Mint. Mine? Absolute anchor-grade cast alus, probably weigh more than a pair of 4-pot Brembos and a seized H22 block. Swapping those for OZ Racing Ultraleggeras—15x7 ET35 wrapped in 195/50R15 Pilot Sport 5s, torqued to spec with a Snap-On digital. Already shed 6kg per corner and I haven’t even touched the unsprung weight up front—thinking coilover swap to Bilstein B14s and maybe a hybrid ARB from the Clio RS Cup parts bin.
Next step: EBC Yellowstuffs, braided HEL lines, DOT 5.1 flush, and possibly a cheeky remap via OBDLink MX+ and my guy who tunes with a laptop duct-taped to the passenger seat and a sixth sense for AFRs.
This thing’s gonna be a sleeper spec canyon scalpel before the warranty even knows what hit it.
Take it from somebody who actually is funny, you are not. So don't try.
Mate, these bite hard. Zero fade, even after a full blast down the Furka with a boot full of hubris and a nav unit screaming recalculations. Finish is obscene - like if the Bauhaus did CNC. You ever felt harmonic resonance through a cold-forged XJ19 end-to-end? Thought not. Triple-collared mounts, wet-bushed in moly, anodised in something they only use on satellite couplers. Full schwingenfreude at 8,000rpm, and that’s before the preload’s dialled in
Sure, the modern lads go for composite polymers - lightweight, thermally stable, blah blah. But me? NEED mass. Mine are hand-hewn from Sardinian basalt, face-balanced, interference-fit into a vintage ARX spec housing. Takes a while to warm up, sure, but once you're at temp - bro. You haven’t known true mechanical sympathy till you’ve taken a granite dildo to redline on a Tuscan long-weekender
Bro, completed the AXS-LD configuration last night. Full 2x12 EPS DiX2 w/ ARC-FDM and native DualBand-TE sync. No latency. No drift. Just pure indexed intention like even the MAGA fuckwits would recognise.
Crankset is a milled HMP-SL on a CTS spindle, threaded into a T47L-PRT—obviously cold-fitted with TiPhase bushings. Monocoque cockpit with PWR integration, routed entirely internal through a QRM-modified steerer. No ports, no clutter. RTD calipers on FFS pads with 162/140 spec rotors. Wheelset is 35/39 asym deep profile, Ti-Vector spoke laced, tensioned via micro preload. Hubs are NDCS gen.3.3—pre-approval batch, naturally. Tyres AXR 27.3 on 25.9IW. Inflated to VAPR-constant psi.
Whole rig makes me tremble like I'm watching One Foot In The Grave whilst fisking an Arabic dictionary after an all-night session on kale and butter beans after my Fukker-friendly Parish Council meeting.
Normally, have to wipe clean the Tamp FIN 28.45OR afterwards with my tee. But this time, fuck it: might just let the missus figure out the substance I've left behind by herself and hope she confuses it for WD40.
Yep, Dura was right the first time.
@Dura_Ace should be mildly flattered. If you have a writing style that can be easily parodied or spoofed it means that, at the very least, you have a style
Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian · 35m The dumbest part of all of this is that most of the trade deals that Trump is currently tearing apart are the trade deals that he himself wrote and signed.
"Preemptive Cuts" in Interest Rates are being called for by many. With Energy Costs way down, food prices (including Biden's egg disaster!) substantially lower, and most other "things" trending down, there is virtually No Inflation. With these costs trending so nicely downward, just what I predicted they would do, there can almost be no inflation, but there can be a SLOWING of the economy unless Mr. Too Late, a major loser, lowers interest rates, NOW. Europe has already "lowered" seven times. Powell has always been "To Late," except when it came to the Election period when he lowered in order to help Sleepy Joe Biden, later Kamala, get elected. How did that work out?
I believe that is what is called - in the vernacular - as "lying".
What is the current inflation rate in the US? If we can trust their figures.
Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian · 35m The dumbest part of all of this is that most of the trade deals that Trump is currently tearing apart are the trade deals that he himself wrote and signed.
Japan. Canada. Mexico. China.
You name it.
I guess he thinks he needs 'new' deals as he won't get credit from his supporters for maintaining a status quo.
Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian · 35m The dumbest part of all of this is that most of the trade deals that Trump is currently tearing apart are the trade deals that he himself wrote and signed.
Japan. Canada. Mexico. China.
You name it.
I guess he thinks he needs 'new' deals as he won't get credit from his supporters for maintaining a status quo.
I'm afraid you got on the wrong track there as soon as you typed the fourth word.
Pope Francis spent his final Easter yesterday bearing witness to the faith he devoted his life to — a quiet presence at a time when the world needed humility, courage, and conviction.
His death on Easter Monday feels especially poignant. He reminded us that leadership isn’t about power, but about service. When I met him in 2022, he spoke warmly of the UK and the values we share. In a world that too often turns away from faith, he stood firm. May he rest in peace.
I'm actually currently in the UK's best railway terminus.
Not to start a road vs rail debate, but is there any railway terminus that is a better place than Tebay Services?
certainly not with better pies.
It's a silly question; there are umpteen railway stations that are better in the round than Tebay services, either by location or architecture.
But I can't think of a railway station with brilliant Tebay-style food. Small ferry terminals typically have an excellent cafe nearby, but not stations.
The food is as much as part of the experience as the architecture is, so it's not that silly a question, though it was certainly light-hearted.
Any suggestions for an electric car? Small but comfortable but not a Tesla. Someone said a BMW 3I but they dont make them anymore.
A bit of fun runabout?
Alpine A290/Renault 5.
All other answers are varying degrees of wrong.
The Renault 5 looks great - seems to have the perfect blend of nostalgia by keeping very close to the original but with enough modern touches.
I have decided I no longer have time or space to build my daily drivers from Copart wrecks or non-runners found in the large intestine of Facebook Marketplace. So I have bought my first ever brand new car - 150hp Renault 5 in Peroni/Jassaud yellow. The stock wheels are heavy cast junk so I'm putting OZ Racing Ultraleggeras on mine.
Mint. Mine? Absolute anchor-grade cast alus, probably weigh more than a pair of 4-pot Brembos and a seized H22 block. Swapping those for OZ Racing Ultraleggeras—15x7 ET35 wrapped in 195/50R15 Pilot Sport 5s, torqued to spec with a Snap-On digital. Already shed 6kg per corner and I haven’t even touched the unsprung weight up front—thinking coilover swap to Bilstein B14s and maybe a hybrid ARB from the Clio RS Cup parts bin.
Next step: EBC Yellowstuffs, braided HEL lines, DOT 5.1 flush, and possibly a cheeky remap via OBDLink MX+ and my guy who tunes with a laptop duct-taped to the passenger seat and a sixth sense for AFRs.
This thing’s gonna be a sleeper spec canyon scalpel before the warranty even knows what hit it.
Take it from somebody who actually is funny, you are not. So don't try.
Mate, these bite hard. Zero fade, even after a full blast down the Furka with a boot full of hubris and a nav unit screaming recalculations. Finish is obscene - like if the Bauhaus did CNC. You ever felt harmonic resonance through a cold-forged XJ19 end-to-end? Thought not. Triple-collared mounts, wet-bushed in moly, anodised in something they only use on satellite couplers. Full schwingenfreude at 8,000rpm, and that’s before the preload’s dialled in
Sure, the modern lads go for composite polymers - lightweight, thermally stable, blah blah. But me? NEED mass. Mine are hand-hewn from Sardinian basalt, face-balanced, interference-fit into a vintage ARX spec housing. Takes a while to warm up, sure, but once you're at temp - bro. You haven’t known true mechanical sympathy till you’ve taken a granite dildo to redline on a Tuscan long-weekender
Bro, completed the AXS-LD configuration last night. Full 2x12 EPS DiX2 w/ ARC-FDM and native DualBand-TE sync. No latency. No drift. Just pure indexed intention like even the MAGA fuckwits would recognise.
Crankset is a milled HMP-SL on a CTS spindle, threaded into a T47L-PRT—obviously cold-fitted with TiPhase bushings. Monocoque cockpit with PWR integration, routed entirely internal through a QRM-modified steerer. No ports, no clutter. RTD calipers on FFS pads with 162/140 spec rotors. Wheelset is 35/39 asym deep profile, Ti-Vector spoke laced, tensioned via micro preload. Hubs are NDCS gen.3.3—pre-approval batch, naturally. Tyres AXR 27.3 on 25.9IW. Inflated to VAPR-constant psi.
Whole rig makes me tremble like I'm watching One Foot In The Grave whilst fisking an Arabic dictionary after an all-night session on kale and butter beans after my Fukker-friendly Parish Council meeting.
Normally, have to wipe clean the Tamp FIN 28.45OR afterwards with my tee. But this time, fuck it: might just let the missus figure out the substance I've left behind by herself and hope she confuses it for WD40.
Yep, Dura was right the first time.
@Dura_Ace should be mildly flattered. If you have a writing style that can be easily parodied or spoofed it means that, at the very least, you have a style
Most people don’t write that interestingly
It also reads like a load of absolute bollox
To be fair @malcolmg certainly has "a writing style that can be easily parodied or spoofed". Chapeau, sir!
Much as I am liking the DuraAce pastiches, they are very reminiscent of either William Gibson in the 80s, Hunter Thompson in the 60s or even EE Smith decades before that. I am stuck on a train but will post examples later if I survive the wait.
Any suggestions for an electric car? Small but comfortable but not a Tesla. Someone said a BMW 3I but they dont make them anymore.
A bit of fun runabout?
Alpine A290/Renault 5.
All other answers are varying degrees of wrong.
The Renault 5 looks great - seems to have the perfect blend of nostalgia by keeping very close to the original but with enough modern touches.
I have decided I no longer have time or space to build my daily drivers from Copart wrecks or non-runners found in the large intestine of Facebook Marketplace. So I have bought my first ever brand new car - 150hp Renault 5 in Peroni/Jassaud yellow. The stock wheels are heavy cast junk so I'm putting OZ Racing Ultraleggeras on mine.
Mint. Mine? Absolute anchor-grade cast alus, probably weigh more than a pair of 4-pot Brembos and a seized H22 block. Swapping those for OZ Racing Ultraleggeras—15x7 ET35 wrapped in 195/50R15 Pilot Sport 5s, torqued to spec with a Snap-On digital. Already shed 6kg per corner and I haven’t even touched the unsprung weight up front—thinking coilover swap to Bilstein B14s and maybe a hybrid ARB from the Clio RS Cup parts bin.
Next step: EBC Yellowstuffs, braided HEL lines, DOT 5.1 flush, and possibly a cheeky remap via OBDLink MX+ and my guy who tunes with a laptop duct-taped to the passenger seat and a sixth sense for AFRs.
This thing’s gonna be a sleeper spec canyon scalpel before the warranty even knows what hit it.
Take it from somebody who actually is funny, you are not. So don't try.
Mate, these bite hard. Zero fade, even after a full blast down the Furka with a boot full of hubris and a nav unit screaming recalculations. Finish is obscene - like if the Bauhaus did CNC. You ever felt harmonic resonance through a cold-forged XJ19 end-to-end? Thought not. Triple-collared mounts, wet-bushed in moly, anodised in something they only use on satellite couplers. Full schwingenfreude at 8,000rpm, and that’s before the preload’s dialled in
Sure, the modern lads go for composite polymers - lightweight, thermally stable, blah blah. But me? NEED mass. Mine are hand-hewn from Sardinian basalt, face-balanced, interference-fit into a vintage ARX spec housing. Takes a while to warm up, sure, but once you're at temp - bro. You haven’t known true mechanical sympathy till you’ve taken a granite dildo to redline on a Tuscan long-weekender
Bro, completed the AXS-LD configuration last night. Full 2x12 EPS DiX2 w/ ARC-FDM and native DualBand-TE sync. No latency. No drift. Just pure indexed intention like even the MAGA fuckwits would recognise.
Crankset is a milled HMP-SL on a CTS spindle, threaded into a T47L-PRT—obviously cold-fitted with TiPhase bushings. Monocoque cockpit with PWR integration, routed entirely internal through a QRM-modified steerer. No ports, no clutter. RTD calipers on FFS pads with 162/140 spec rotors. Wheelset is 35/39 asym deep profile, Ti-Vector spoke laced, tensioned via micro preload. Hubs are NDCS gen.3.3—pre-approval batch, naturally. Tyres AXR 27.3 on 25.9IW. Inflated to VAPR-constant psi.
Whole rig makes me tremble like I'm watching One Foot In The Grave whilst fisking an Arabic dictionary after an all-night session on kale and butter beans after my Fukker-friendly Parish Council meeting.
Normally, have to wipe clean the Tamp FIN 28.45OR afterwards with my tee. But this time, fuck it: might just let the missus figure out the substance I've left behind by herself and hope she confuses it for WD40.
Yep, Dura was right the first time.
@Dura_Ace should be mildly flattered. If you have a writing style that can be easily parodied or spoofed it means that, at the very least, you have a style
Most people don’t write that interestingly
It also reads like a load of absolute bollox
To be fair @malcolmg certainly has "a writing style that can be easily parodied or spoofed". Chapeau, sir!
I'm actually currently in the UK's best railway terminus.
Not to start a road vs rail debate, but is there any railway terminus that is a better place than Tebay Services?
certainly not with better pies.
It's a silly question; there are umpteen railway stations that are better in the round than Tebay services, either by location or architecture.
But I can't think of a railway station with brilliant Tebay-style food. Small ferry terminals typically have an excellent cafe nearby, but not stations.
The food is as much as part of the experience as the architecture is, so it's not that silly a question, though it was certainly light-hearted.
I need to try Le Train Bleu at Gare de Lyon someday. Each time I’ve been there I’ve been rushing to catch a connection so never had the chance to linger.
I’ve not had a classic head cold for at least 6 months, possibly longer, and very few people I know have either. Are we going through a common cold drought?
People always say when “there’s a lot of it going round at the moment” but they never comment when there’s “not a lot of it going round”.
I don't normally get them but have had 2 in the last six months. Got over one then a few weeks later got another.
OK, hypothesis for the day not looking particularly robust so far.
I’m currently at Britain’s poshest railway terminus. It’s a ridiculous place, as if built by a film studio for a costume drama (but with a Burger King and a Pret).
There is an entire hut, occupying what used to be the tourist info booth, decorated in olde English wallpaper and dedicated to suckering rich tourists into visiting Bicester village. And station announcements in Mandarin and Arabic.
St Pancras DOES NOT have a Burger King!
Presumably, the OP is talking about Marylebone. Where the ONLY announcements in Arabic and Mandarin are for departures to Oxford via Bicester Village: most Marylebone departures go elsewhere.
PS Who knows what the Mandarin is for Oxford and why?
Marylebone is rubbish.
Only 6 mainline platforms, none of which are electrified, and served by only one tube line.
"Preemptive Cuts" in Interest Rates are being called for by many. With Energy Costs way down, food prices (including Biden's egg disaster!) substantially lower, and most other "things" trending down, there is virtually No Inflation. With these costs trending so nicely downward, just what I predicted they would do, there can almost be no inflation, but there can be a SLOWING of the economy unless Mr. Too Late, a major loser, lowers interest rates, NOW. Europe has already "lowered" seven times. Powell has always been "To Late," except when it came to the Election period when he lowered in order to help Sleepy Joe Biden, later Kamala, get elected. How did that work out?
I believe that is what is called - in the vernacular - as "lying".
Looks like Fed are being lined up to get the full blame for Trump's Great Depression.
Has there ever been a longer 18 months than those between now and the midterms?
I’ve not had a classic head cold for at least 6 months, possibly longer, and very few people I know have either. Are we going through a common cold drought?
People always say when “there’s a lot of it going round at the moment” but they never comment when there’s “not a lot of it going round”.
I don't normally get them but have had 2 in the last six months. Got over one then a few weeks later got another.
OK, hypothesis for the day not looking particularly robust so far.
I’m currently at Britain’s poshest railway terminus. It’s a ridiculous place, as if built by a film studio for a costume drama (but with a Burger King and a Pret).
There is an entire hut, occupying what used to be the tourist info booth, decorated in olde English wallpaper and dedicated to suckering rich tourists into visiting Bicester village. And station announcements in Mandarin and Arabic.
St Pancras DOES NOT have a Burger King!
Presumably, the OP is talking about Marylebone. Where the ONLY announcements in Arabic and Mandarin are for departures to Oxford via Bicester Village: most Marylebone departures go elsewhere.
PS Who knows what the Mandarin is for Oxford and why?
Marylebone is rubbish.
Only 6 mainline platforms, none of which are electrified, and served by only one tube line.
"Preemptive Cuts" in Interest Rates are being called for by many. With Energy Costs way down, food prices (including Biden's egg disaster!) substantially lower, and most other "things" trending down, there is virtually No Inflation. With these costs trending so nicely downward, just what I predicted they would do, there can almost be no inflation, but there can be a SLOWING of the economy unless Mr. Too Late, a major loser, lowers interest rates, NOW. Europe has already "lowered" seven times. Powell has always been "To Late," except when it came to the Election period when he lowered in order to help Sleepy Joe Biden, later Kamala, get elected. How did that work out?
I believe that is what is called - in the vernacular - as "lying".
Looks like Fed are being lined up to get the full blame for Trump's Great Depression.
Has there ever been a longer 18 months than those between now and the midterms?
No, because Trump by Executive Order will postpone them indefinately.
Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian · 35m The dumbest part of all of this is that most of the trade deals that Trump is currently tearing apart are the trade deals that he himself wrote and signed.
Japan. Canada. Mexico. China.
You name it.
I've always found that the weakest and least relevant criticism of Trump.
There is nothing wrong with renegotiating deals, even deals you negotiated in the past, if you think you can get a better deal.
There is nothing wrong with iteration in general.
Iteration tends to work better than revolution, so renegotiating your own deals can be easier than renegotiating those done by others, since you know well how it went last time and where to go next time.
There are far, far darker and more serious criticisms to make of Trump than that he is iterating his negotiations.
I’ve not had a classic head cold for at least 6 months, possibly longer, and very few people I know have either. Are we going through a common cold drought?
People always say when “there’s a lot of it going round at the moment” but they never comment when there’s “not a lot of it going round”.
I don't normally get them but have had 2 in the last six months. Got over one then a few weeks later got another.
OK, hypothesis for the day not looking particularly robust so far.
I’m currently at Britain’s poshest railway terminus. It’s a ridiculous place, as if built by a film studio for a costume drama (but with a Burger King and a Pret).
There is an entire hut, occupying what used to be the tourist info booth, decorated in olde English wallpaper and dedicated to suckering rich tourists into visiting Bicester village. And station announcements in Mandarin and Arabic.
St Pancras DOES NOT have a Burger King!
Presumably, the OP is talking about Marylebone. Where the ONLY announcements in Arabic and Mandarin are for departures to Oxford via Bicester Village: most Marylebone departures go elsewhere.
PS Who knows what the Mandarin is for Oxford and why?
Marylebone is rubbish.
Only 6 mainline platforms, none of which are electrified, and served by only one tube line.
It’s posh though. The poshest.
Don't be ridiculous!
Ever been to St Pancras?
St Pancras has a Hamley's, a Carluccio's, a Searcy's, and a Fortnum & Mason.
Any suggestions for an electric car? Small but comfortable but not a Tesla. Someone said a BMW 3I but they dont make them anymore.
A bit of fun runabout?
Alpine A290/Renault 5.
All other answers are varying degrees of wrong.
The Renault 5 looks great - seems to have the perfect blend of nostalgia by keeping very close to the original but with enough modern touches.
I have decided I no longer have time or space to build my daily drivers from Copart wrecks or non-runners found in the large intestine of Facebook Marketplace. So I have bought my first ever brand new car - 150hp Renault 5 in Peroni/Jassaud yellow. The stock wheels are heavy cast junk so I'm putting OZ Racing Ultraleggeras on mine.
Mint. Mine? Absolute anchor-grade cast alus, probably weigh more than a pair of 4-pot Brembos and a seized H22 block. Swapping those for OZ Racing Ultraleggeras—15x7 ET35 wrapped in 195/50R15 Pilot Sport 5s, torqued to spec with a Snap-On digital. Already shed 6kg per corner and I haven’t even touched the unsprung weight up front—thinking coilover swap to Bilstein B14s and maybe a hybrid ARB from the Clio RS Cup parts bin.
Next step: EBC Yellowstuffs, braided HEL lines, DOT 5.1 flush, and possibly a cheeky remap via OBDLink MX+ and my guy who tunes with a laptop duct-taped to the passenger seat and a sixth sense for AFRs.
This thing’s gonna be a sleeper spec canyon scalpel before the warranty even knows what hit it.
Take it from somebody who actually is funny, you are not. So don't try.
Mate, these bite hard. Zero fade, even after a full blast down the Furka with a boot full of hubris and a nav unit screaming recalculations. Finish is obscene - like if the Bauhaus did CNC. You ever felt harmonic resonance through a cold-forged XJ19 end-to-end? Thought not. Triple-collared mounts, wet-bushed in moly, anodised in something they only use on satellite couplers. Full schwingenfreude at 8,000rpm, and that’s before the preload’s dialled in
Sure, the modern lads go for composite polymers - lightweight, thermally stable, blah blah. But me? NEED mass. Mine are hand-hewn from Sardinian basalt, face-balanced, interference-fit into a vintage ARX spec housing. Takes a while to warm up, sure, but once you're at temp - bro. You haven’t known true mechanical sympathy till you’ve taken a granite dildo to redline on a Tuscan long-weekender
Bro, completed the AXS-LD configuration last night. Full 2x12 EPS DiX2 w/ ARC-FDM and native DualBand-TE sync. No latency. No drift. Just pure indexed intention like even the MAGA fuckwits would recognise.
Crankset is a milled HMP-SL on a CTS spindle, threaded into a T47L-PRT—obviously cold-fitted with TiPhase bushings. Monocoque cockpit with PWR integration, routed entirely internal through a QRM-modified steerer. No ports, no clutter. RTD calipers on FFS pads with 162/140 spec rotors. Wheelset is 35/39 asym deep profile, Ti-Vector spoke laced, tensioned via micro preload. Hubs are NDCS gen.3.3—pre-approval batch, naturally. Tyres AXR 27.3 on 25.9IW. Inflated to VAPR-constant psi.
Whole rig makes me tremble like I'm watching One Foot In The Grave whilst fisking an Arabic dictionary after an all-night session on kale and butter beans after my Fukker-friendly Parish Council meeting.
Normally, have to wipe clean the Tamp FIN 28.45OR afterwards with my tee. But this time, fuck it: might just let the missus figure out the substance I've left behind by herself and hope she confuses it for WD40.
Yep, Dura was right the first time.
@Dura_Ace should be mildly flattered. If you have a writing style that can be easily parodied or spoofed it means that, at the very least, you have a style
Most people don’t write that interestingly
It also reads like a load of absolute bollox
To be fair @malcolmg certainly has "a writing style that can be easily parodied or spoofed". Chapeau, sir!
Bollox.
Other instantly recognisable writing styles on here include BigG (two clauses per sentence joined with an “and”, lots of the first person, and no commas), and HYUFD (every post begins with a deadpan factual statement). Both easily guessable.
I’ve not had a classic head cold for at least 6 months, possibly longer, and very few people I know have either. Are we going through a common cold drought?
People always say when “there’s a lot of it going round at the moment” but they never comment when there’s “not a lot of it going round”.
I don't normally get them but have had 2 in the last six months. Got over one then a few weeks later got another.
OK, hypothesis for the day not looking particularly robust so far.
I’m currently at Britain’s poshest railway terminus. It’s a ridiculous place, as if built by a film studio for a costume drama (but with a Burger King and a Pret).
There is an entire hut, occupying what used to be the tourist info booth, decorated in olde English wallpaper and dedicated to suckering rich tourists into visiting Bicester village. And station announcements in Mandarin and Arabic.
St Pancras DOES NOT have a Burger King!
Presumably, the OP is talking about Marylebone. Where the ONLY announcements in Arabic and Mandarin are for departures to Oxford via Bicester Village: most Marylebone departures go elsewhere.
PS Who knows what the Mandarin is for Oxford and why?
Marylebone is rubbish.
Only 6 mainline platforms, none of which are electrified, and served by only one tube line.
It’s posh though. The poshest.
They also filmed the scenes where the Silurian plague was killing passengers in the timeless Dr Who classic, Dr Who and the Silurians. Shot in 1969, screened in early 1970.
I’ve not had a classic head cold for at least 6 months, possibly longer, and very few people I know have either. Are we going through a common cold drought?
People always say when “there’s a lot of it going round at the moment” but they never comment when there’s “not a lot of it going round”.
I don't normally get them but have had 2 in the last six months. Got over one then a few weeks later got another.
OK, hypothesis for the day not looking particularly robust so far.
I’m currently at Britain’s poshest railway terminus. It’s a ridiculous place, as if built by a film studio for a costume drama (but with a Burger King and a Pret).
There is an entire hut, occupying what used to be the tourist info booth, decorated in olde English wallpaper and dedicated to suckering rich tourists into visiting Bicester village. And station announcements in Mandarin and Arabic.
St Pancras DOES NOT have a Burger King!
Presumably, the OP is talking about Marylebone. Where the ONLY announcements in Arabic and Mandarin are for departures to Oxford via Bicester Village: most Marylebone departures go elsewhere.
PS Who knows what the Mandarin is for Oxford and why?
Marylebone is rubbish.
Only 6 mainline platforms, none of which are electrified, and served by only one tube line.
It’s posh though. The poshest.
Don't be ridiculous!
Ever been to St Pancras?
St Pancras has a Hamley's, a Carluccio's, a Searcy's, and a Fortnum & Mason.
St Pancras is way too big and garish to be posh. It’s a Westfield idea of posh. And it has that awful statue.
I’ve not had a classic head cold for at least 6 months, possibly longer, and very few people I know have either. Are we going through a common cold drought?
People always say when “there’s a lot of it going round at the moment” but they never comment when there’s “not a lot of it going round”.
I don't normally get them but have had 2 in the last six months. Got over one then a few weeks later got another.
OK, hypothesis for the day not looking particularly robust so far.
I’m currently at Britain’s poshest railway terminus. It’s a ridiculous place, as if built by a film studio for a costume drama (but with a Burger King and a Pret).
There is an entire hut, occupying what used to be the tourist info booth, decorated in olde English wallpaper and dedicated to suckering rich tourists into visiting Bicester village. And station announcements in Mandarin and Arabic.
St Pancras DOES NOT have a Burger King!
Presumably, the OP is talking about Marylebone. Where the ONLY announcements in Arabic and Mandarin are for departures to Oxford via Bicester Village: most Marylebone departures go elsewhere.
PS Who knows what the Mandarin is for Oxford and why?
Marylebone is rubbish.
Only 6 mainline platforms, none of which are electrified, and served by only one tube line.
It’s posh though. The poshest.
Don't be ridiculous!
Ever been to St Pancras?
St Pancras has a Hamley's, a Carluccio's, a Searcy's, and a Fortnum & Mason.
St Pancras is way too big and garish to be posh. It’s a Westfield idea of posh. And it has that awful statue.
Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian · 35m The dumbest part of all of this is that most of the trade deals that Trump is currently tearing apart are the trade deals that he himself wrote and signed.
Japan. Canada. Mexico. China.
You name it.
I've always found that the weakest and least relevant criticism of Trump.
There is nothing wrong with renegotiating deals, even deals you negotiated in the past, if you think you can get a better deal.
There is nothing wrong with iteration in general.
Iteration tends to work better than revolution, so renegotiating your own deals can be easier than renegotiating those done by others, since you know well how it went last time and where to go next time.
There are far, far darker and more serious criticisms to make of Trump than that he is iterating his negotiations.
Agreed that his trade nonsense isn't the worst of him. That would be his assault on freedom and democracy and just about every value that makes the world a better place rather than a worse one.
However it is pretty bad. It's going to cause great damage.
I’ve not had a classic head cold for at least 6 months, possibly longer, and very few people I know have either. Are we going through a common cold drought?
People always say when “there’s a lot of it going round at the moment” but they never comment when there’s “not a lot of it going round”.
I don't normally get them but have had 2 in the last six months. Got over one then a few weeks later got another.
OK, hypothesis for the day not looking particularly robust so far.
I’m currently at Britain’s poshest railway terminus. It’s a ridiculous place, as if built by a film studio for a costume drama (but with a Burger King and a Pret).
There is an entire hut, occupying what used to be the tourist info booth, decorated in olde English wallpaper and dedicated to suckering rich tourists into visiting Bicester village. And station announcements in Mandarin and Arabic.
St Pancras DOES NOT have a Burger King!
Presumably, the OP is talking about Marylebone. Where the ONLY announcements in Arabic and Mandarin are for departures to Oxford via Bicester Village: most Marylebone departures go elsewhere.
PS Who knows what the Mandarin is for Oxford and why?
Marylebone is rubbish.
Only 6 mainline platforms, none of which are electrified, and served by only one tube line.
It’s posh though. The poshest.
They also filmed the scenes where the Silurian plague was killing passengers in the timeless Dr Who classic, Dr Who and the Silurians. Shot in 1969, screened in early 1970.
"Preemptive Cuts" in Interest Rates are being called for by many. With Energy Costs way down, food prices (including Biden's egg disaster!) substantially lower, and most other "things" trending down, there is virtually No Inflation. With these costs trending so nicely downward, just what I predicted they would do, there can almost be no inflation, but there can be a SLOWING of the economy unless Mr. Too Late, a major loser, lowers interest rates, NOW. Europe has already "lowered" seven times. Powell has always been "To Late," except when it came to the Election period when he lowered in order to help Sleepy Joe Biden, later Kamala, get elected. How did that work out?
I believe that is what is called - in the vernacular - as "lying".
Looks like Fed are being lined up to get the full blame for Trump's Great Depression.
Has there ever been a longer 18 months than those between now and the midterms?
No, because Trump by Executive Order will postpone them indefinately.
You'd like to be able to say this is scaremongering but sadly you can't.
I'm actually currently in the UK's best railway terminus.
Not to start a road vs rail debate, but is there any railway terminus that is a better place than Tebay Services?
certainly not with better pies.
It's a silly question; there are umpteen railway stations that are better in the round than Tebay services, either by location or architecture.
But I can't think of a railway station with brilliant Tebay-style food. Small ferry terminals typically have an excellent cafe nearby, but not stations.
The food is as much as part of the experience as the architecture is, so it's not that silly a question, though it was certainly light-hearted.
I need to try Le Train Bleu at Gare de Lyon someday. Each time I’ve been there I’ve been rushing to catch a connection so never had the chance to linger.
I’ve not had a classic head cold for at least 6 months, possibly longer, and very few people I know have either. Are we going through a common cold drought?
People always say when “there’s a lot of it going round at the moment” but they never comment when there’s “not a lot of it going round”.
I don't normally get them but have had 2 in the last six months. Got over one then a few weeks later got another.
OK, hypothesis for the day not looking particularly robust so far.
I’m currently at Britain’s poshest railway terminus. It’s a ridiculous place, as if built by a film studio for a costume drama (but with a Burger King and a Pret).
There is an entire hut, occupying what used to be the tourist info booth, decorated in olde English wallpaper and dedicated to suckering rich tourists into visiting Bicester village. And station announcements in Mandarin and Arabic.
St Pancras DOES NOT have a Burger King!
Presumably, the OP is talking about Marylebone. Where the ONLY announcements in Arabic and Mandarin are for departures to Oxford via Bicester Village: most Marylebone departures go elsewhere.
PS Who knows what the Mandarin is for Oxford and why?
Marylebone is rubbish.
Only 6 mainline platforms, none of which are electrified, and served by only one tube line.
It’s posh though. The poshest.
They also filmed the scenes where the Silurian plague was killing passengers in the timeless Dr Who classic, Dr Who and the Silurians. Shot in 1969, screened in early 1970.
I’ve not had a classic head cold for at least 6 months, possibly longer, and very few people I know have either. Are we going through a common cold drought?
People always say when “there’s a lot of it going round at the moment” but they never comment when there’s “not a lot of it going round”.
I don't normally get them but have had 2 in the last six months. Got over one then a few weeks later got another.
OK, hypothesis for the day not looking particularly robust so far.
I’m currently at Britain’s poshest railway terminus. It’s a ridiculous place, as if built by a film studio for a costume drama (but with a Burger King and a Pret).
There is an entire hut, occupying what used to be the tourist info booth, decorated in olde English wallpaper and dedicated to suckering rich tourists into visiting Bicester village. And station announcements in Mandarin and Arabic.
St Pancras DOES NOT have a Burger King!
Presumably, the OP is talking about Marylebone. Where the ONLY announcements in Arabic and Mandarin are for departures to Oxford via Bicester Village: most Marylebone departures go elsewhere.
PS Who knows what the Mandarin is for Oxford and why?
Marylebone is rubbish.
Only 6 mainline platforms, none of which are electrified, and served by only one tube line.
It’s posh though. The poshest.
Don't be ridiculous!
Ever been to St Pancras?
St Pancras has a Hamley's, a Carluccio's, a Searcy's, and a Fortnum & Mason.
St Pancras is way too big and garish to be posh. It’s a Westfield idea of posh. And it has that awful statue.
Marylebone has a Burger King, FFS!
And Sir John Betjeman's statue is NOT awful!
Not Betjeman, the giant snogging lovers under the pink Tracy Emin banner.
Any suggestions for an electric car? Small but comfortable but not a Tesla. Someone said a BMW 3I but they dont make them anymore.
A bit of fun runabout?
Alpine A290/Renault 5.
All other answers are varying degrees of wrong.
The Renault 5 looks great - seems to have the perfect blend of nostalgia by keeping very close to the original but with enough modern touches.
I have decided I no longer have time or space to build my daily drivers from Copart wrecks or non-runners found in the large intestine of Facebook Marketplace. So I have bought my first ever brand new car - 150hp Renault 5 in Peroni/Jassaud yellow. The stock wheels are heavy cast junk so I'm putting OZ Racing Ultraleggeras on mine.
Mint. Mine? Absolute anchor-grade cast alus, probably weigh more than a pair of 4-pot Brembos and a seized H22 block. Swapping those for OZ Racing Ultraleggeras—15x7 ET35 wrapped in 195/50R15 Pilot Sport 5s, torqued to spec with a Snap-On digital. Already shed 6kg per corner and I haven’t even touched the unsprung weight up front—thinking coilover swap to Bilstein B14s and maybe a hybrid ARB from the Clio RS Cup parts bin.
Next step: EBC Yellowstuffs, braided HEL lines, DOT 5.1 flush, and possibly a cheeky remap via OBDLink MX+ and my guy who tunes with a laptop duct-taped to the passenger seat and a sixth sense for AFRs.
This thing’s gonna be a sleeper spec canyon scalpel before the warranty even knows what hit it.
Take it from somebody who actually is funny, you are not. So don't try.
Mate, these bite hard. Zero fade, even after a full blast down the Furka with a boot full of hubris and a nav unit screaming recalculations. Finish is obscene - like if the Bauhaus did CNC. You ever felt harmonic resonance through a cold-forged XJ19 end-to-end? Thought not. Triple-collared mounts, wet-bushed in moly, anodised in something they only use on satellite couplers. Full schwingenfreude at 8,000rpm, and that’s before the preload’s dialled in
Sure, the modern lads go for composite polymers - lightweight, thermally stable, blah blah. But me? NEED mass. Mine are hand-hewn from Sardinian basalt, face-balanced, interference-fit into a vintage ARX spec housing. Takes a while to warm up, sure, but once you're at temp - bro. You haven’t known true mechanical sympathy till you’ve taken a granite dildo to redline on a Tuscan long-weekender
Bro, completed the AXS-LD configuration last night. Full 2x12 EPS DiX2 w/ ARC-FDM and native DualBand-TE sync. No latency. No drift. Just pure indexed intention like even the MAGA fuckwits would recognise.
Crankset is a milled HMP-SL on a CTS spindle, threaded into a T47L-PRT—obviously cold-fitted with TiPhase bushings. Monocoque cockpit with PWR integration, routed entirely internal through a QRM-modified steerer. No ports, no clutter. RTD calipers on FFS pads with 162/140 spec rotors. Wheelset is 35/39 asym deep profile, Ti-Vector spoke laced, tensioned via micro preload. Hubs are NDCS gen.3.3—pre-approval batch, naturally. Tyres AXR 27.3 on 25.9IW. Inflated to VAPR-constant psi.
Whole rig makes me tremble like I'm watching One Foot In The Grave whilst fisking an Arabic dictionary after an all-night session on kale and butter beans after my Fukker-friendly Parish Council meeting.
Normally, have to wipe clean the Tamp FIN 28.45OR afterwards with my tee. But this time, fuck it: might just let the missus figure out the substance I've left behind by herself and hope she confuses it for WD40.
Yep, Dura was right the first time.
@Dura_Ace should be mildly flattered. If you have a writing style that can be easily parodied or spoofed it means that, at the very least, you have a style
Most people don’t write that interestingly
It also reads like a load of absolute bollox
To be fair @malcolmg certainly has "a writing style that can be easily parodied or spoofed". Chapeau, sir!
Bollox.
Other instantly recognisable writing styles on here include BigG (two clauses per sentence joined with an “and”, lots of the first person, and no commas), and HYUFD (every post begins with a deadpan factual statement). Both easily guessable.
There's several posters who I can 'pick' from just a couple of sentences. In fact of the high volume Regulars I'd say that applies to the large majority of them.
I'm actually currently in the UK's best railway terminus.
Not to start a road vs rail debate, but is there any railway terminus that is a better place than Tebay Services?
certainly not with better pies.
It's a silly question; there are umpteen railway stations that are better in the round than Tebay services, either by location or architecture.
But I can't think of a railway station with brilliant Tebay-style food. Small ferry terminals typically have an excellent cafe nearby, but not stations.
The food is as much as part of the experience as the architecture is, so it's not that silly a question, though it was certainly light-hearted.
I need to try Le Train Bleu at Gare de Lyon someday. Each time I’ve been there I’ve been rushing to catch a connection so never had the chance to linger.
Sadly it is not what it was. Like much of Paris
I’m taking our son to Paris later in the summer after his A Levels. We realised we’ve not been there as a family. Usually go straight down to Burgundy. I shall see if it lives down to your recent disappointment.
Any suggestions for an electric car? Small but comfortable but not a Tesla. Someone said a BMW 3I but they dont make them anymore.
A bit of fun runabout?
Alpine A290/Renault 5.
All other answers are varying degrees of wrong.
The Renault 5 looks great - seems to have the perfect blend of nostalgia by keeping very close to the original but with enough modern touches.
I have decided I no longer have time or space to build my daily drivers from Copart wrecks or non-runners found in the large intestine of Facebook Marketplace. So I have bought my first ever brand new car - 150hp Renault 5 in Peroni/Jassaud yellow. The stock wheels are heavy cast junk so I'm putting OZ Racing Ultraleggeras on mine.
Mint. Mine? Absolute anchor-grade cast alus, probably weigh more than a pair of 4-pot Brembos and a seized H22 block. Swapping those for OZ Racing Ultraleggeras—15x7 ET35 wrapped in 195/50R15 Pilot Sport 5s, torqued to spec with a Snap-On digital. Already shed 6kg per corner and I haven’t even touched the unsprung weight up front—thinking coilover swap to Bilstein B14s and maybe a hybrid ARB from the Clio RS Cup parts bin.
Next step: EBC Yellowstuffs, braided HEL lines, DOT 5.1 flush, and possibly a cheeky remap via OBDLink MX+ and my guy who tunes with a laptop duct-taped to the passenger seat and a sixth sense for AFRs.
This thing’s gonna be a sleeper spec canyon scalpel before the warranty even knows what hit it.
Take it from somebody who actually is funny, you are not. So don't try.
Mate, these bite hard. Zero fade, even after a full blast down the Furka with a boot full of hubris and a nav unit screaming recalculations. Finish is obscene - like if the Bauhaus did CNC. You ever felt harmonic resonance through a cold-forged XJ19 end-to-end? Thought not. Triple-collared mounts, wet-bushed in moly, anodised in something they only use on satellite couplers. Full schwingenfreude at 8,000rpm, and that’s before the preload’s dialled in
Sure, the modern lads go for composite polymers - lightweight, thermally stable, blah blah. But me? NEED mass. Mine are hand-hewn from Sardinian basalt, face-balanced, interference-fit into a vintage ARX spec housing. Takes a while to warm up, sure, but once you're at temp - bro. You haven’t known true mechanical sympathy till you’ve taken a granite dildo to redline on a Tuscan long-weekender
Bro, completed the AXS-LD configuration last night. Full 2x12 EPS DiX2 w/ ARC-FDM and native DualBand-TE sync. No latency. No drift. Just pure indexed intention like even the MAGA fuckwits would recognise.
Crankset is a milled HMP-SL on a CTS spindle, threaded into a T47L-PRT—obviously cold-fitted with TiPhase bushings. Monocoque cockpit with PWR integration, routed entirely internal through a QRM-modified steerer. No ports, no clutter. RTD calipers on FFS pads with 162/140 spec rotors. Wheelset is 35/39 asym deep profile, Ti-Vector spoke laced, tensioned via micro preload. Hubs are NDCS gen.3.3—pre-approval batch, naturally. Tyres AXR 27.3 on 25.9IW. Inflated to VAPR-constant psi.
Whole rig makes me tremble like I'm watching One Foot In The Grave whilst fisking an Arabic dictionary after an all-night session on kale and butter beans after my Fukker-friendly Parish Council meeting.
Normally, have to wipe clean the Tamp FIN 28.45OR afterwards with my tee. But this time, fuck it: might just let the missus figure out the substance I've left behind by herself and hope she confuses it for WD40.
Yep, Dura was right the first time.
@Dura_Ace should be mildly flattered. If you have a writing style that can be easily parodied or spoofed it means that, at the very least, you have a style
Most people don’t write that interestingly
It also reads like a load of absolute bollox
To be fair @malcolmg certainly has "a writing style that can be easily parodied or spoofed". Chapeau, sir!
Bollox.
Other instantly recognisable writing styles on here include BigG (two clauses per sentence joined with an “and”, lots of the first person, and no commas), and HYUFD (every post begins with a deadpan factual statement). Both easily guessable.
There's several posters who I can 'pick' from just a couple of sentences. In fact of the high volume Regulars I'd say that applies to the large majority of them.
That’s different tho. Being easily guessable from your comments is not QUITE a prose style. It’s a personality
I can often guess it’s you speaking from the first two sentences. But that’s not because you have a distinctive, pastiche-friendly prose style, it’s more your persona
I’ve not had a classic head cold for at least 6 months, possibly longer, and very few people I know have either. Are we going through a common cold drought?
People always say when “there’s a lot of it going round at the moment” but they never comment when there’s “not a lot of it going round”.
I don't normally get them but have had 2 in the last six months. Got over one then a few weeks later got another.
OK, hypothesis for the day not looking particularly robust so far.
I’m currently at Britain’s poshest railway terminus. It’s a ridiculous place, as if built by a film studio for a costume drama (but with a Burger King and a Pret).
There is an entire hut, occupying what used to be the tourist info booth, decorated in olde English wallpaper and dedicated to suckering rich tourists into visiting Bicester village. And station announcements in Mandarin and Arabic.
St Pancras DOES NOT have a Burger King!
Presumably, the OP is talking about Marylebone. Where the ONLY announcements in Arabic and Mandarin are for departures to Oxford via Bicester Village: most Marylebone departures go elsewhere.
PS Who knows what the Mandarin is for Oxford and why?
Marylebone is rubbish.
Only 6 mainline platforms, none of which are electrified, and served by only one tube line.
It’s posh though. The poshest.
Don't be ridiculous!
Ever been to St Pancras?
St Pancras has a Hamley's, a Carluccio's, a Searcy's, and a Fortnum & Mason.
St Pancras is way too big and garish to be posh. It’s a Westfield idea of posh. And it has that awful statue.
Marylebone has a Burger King, FFS!
And Sir John Betjeman's statue is NOT awful!
Not Betjeman, the giant snogging lovers under the pink Tracy Emin banner.
Yep, you've never been to St Pancras. The supposed lovers are not snogging, they're actually looking at their mobiles instead of each other.
I'm actually currently in the UK's best railway terminus.
Not to start a road vs rail debate, but is there any railway terminus that is a better place than Tebay Services?
certainly not with better pies.
It's a silly question; there are umpteen railway stations that are better in the round than Tebay services, either by location or architecture.
But I can't think of a railway station with brilliant Tebay-style food. Small ferry terminals typically have an excellent cafe nearby, but not stations.
The food is as much as part of the experience as the architecture is, so it's not that silly a question, though it was certainly light-hearted.
I need to try Le Train Bleu at Gare de Lyon someday. Each time I’ve been there I’ve been rushing to catch a connection so never had the chance to linger.
Sadly it is not what it was. Like much of Paris
I’m taking our son to Paris later in the summer after his A Levels. We realised we’ve not been there as a family. Usually go straight down to Burgundy. I shall see if it lives down to your recent disappointment.
It may be because I have some nostalgic view of beautiful Paris in my head that never existed. I don’t think so, tho. Paris has genuinely declined, just like London, just like most major Western European cities in the last 10+ years
I’ve not had a classic head cold for at least 6 months, possibly longer, and very few people I know have either. Are we going through a common cold drought?
People always say when “there’s a lot of it going round at the moment” but they never comment when there’s “not a lot of it going round”.
I don't normally get them but have had 2 in the last six months. Got over one then a few weeks later got another.
OK, hypothesis for the day not looking particularly robust so far.
I’m currently at Britain’s poshest railway terminus. It’s a ridiculous place, as if built by a film studio for a costume drama (but with a Burger King and a Pret).
There is an entire hut, occupying what used to be the tourist info booth, decorated in olde English wallpaper and dedicated to suckering rich tourists into visiting Bicester village. And station announcements in Mandarin and Arabic.
St Pancras DOES NOT have a Burger King!
Presumably, the OP is talking about Marylebone. Where the ONLY announcements in Arabic and Mandarin are for departures to Oxford via Bicester Village: most Marylebone departures go elsewhere.
PS Who knows what the Mandarin is for Oxford and why?
Marylebone is rubbish.
Only 6 mainline platforms, none of which are electrified, and served by only one tube line.
It’s posh though. The poshest.
Don't be ridiculous!
Ever been to St Pancras?
St Pancras has a Hamley's, a Carluccio's, a Searcy's, and a Fortnum & Mason.
St Pancras is way too big and garish to be posh. It’s a Westfield idea of posh. And it has that awful statue.
Marylebone has a Burger King, FFS!
And Sir John Betjeman's statue is NOT awful!
Not Betjeman, the giant snogging lovers under the pink Tracy Emin banner.
Yep, you've never been to St Pancras. The supposed lovers are not snogging, they're actually looking at their mobiles instead of each other.
I travel through the shithole regularly. The last time I had to go to the desultory domestic platform at the end that takes you to the glamour spots of the East Midlands.
Any suggestions for an electric car? Small but comfortable but not a Tesla. Someone said a BMW 3I but they dont make them anymore.
A bit of fun runabout?
Alpine A290/Renault 5.
All other answers are varying degrees of wrong.
The Renault 5 looks great - seems to have the perfect blend of nostalgia by keeping very close to the original but with enough modern touches.
I have decided I no longer have time or space to build my daily drivers from Copart wrecks or non-runners found in the large intestine of Facebook Marketplace. So I have bought my first ever brand new car - 150hp Renault 5 in Peroni/Jassaud yellow. The stock wheels are heavy cast junk so I'm putting OZ Racing Ultraleggeras on mine.
Mint. Mine? Absolute anchor-grade cast alus, probably weigh more than a pair of 4-pot Brembos and a seized H22 block. Swapping those for OZ Racing Ultraleggeras—15x7 ET35 wrapped in 195/50R15 Pilot Sport 5s, torqued to spec with a Snap-On digital. Already shed 6kg per corner and I haven’t even touched the unsprung weight up front—thinking coilover swap to Bilstein B14s and maybe a hybrid ARB from the Clio RS Cup parts bin.
Next step: EBC Yellowstuffs, braided HEL lines, DOT 5.1 flush, and possibly a cheeky remap via OBDLink MX+ and my guy who tunes with a laptop duct-taped to the passenger seat and a sixth sense for AFRs.
This thing’s gonna be a sleeper spec canyon scalpel before the warranty even knows what hit it.
Take it from somebody who actually is funny, you are not. So don't try.
Mate, these bite hard. Zero fade, even after a full blast down the Furka with a boot full of hubris and a nav unit screaming recalculations. Finish is obscene - like if the Bauhaus did CNC. You ever felt harmonic resonance through a cold-forged XJ19 end-to-end? Thought not. Triple-collared mounts, wet-bushed in moly, anodised in something they only use on satellite couplers. Full schwingenfreude at 8,000rpm, and that’s before the preload’s dialled in
Sure, the modern lads go for composite polymers - lightweight, thermally stable, blah blah. But me? NEED mass. Mine are hand-hewn from Sardinian basalt, face-balanced, interference-fit into a vintage ARX spec housing. Takes a while to warm up, sure, but once you're at temp - bro. You haven’t known true mechanical sympathy till you’ve taken a granite dildo to redline on a Tuscan long-weekender
Bro, completed the AXS-LD configuration last night. Full 2x12 EPS DiX2 w/ ARC-FDM and native DualBand-TE sync. No latency. No drift. Just pure indexed intention like even the MAGA fuckwits would recognise.
Crankset is a milled HMP-SL on a CTS spindle, threaded into a T47L-PRT—obviously cold-fitted with TiPhase bushings. Monocoque cockpit with PWR integration, routed entirely internal through a QRM-modified steerer. No ports, no clutter. RTD calipers on FFS pads with 162/140 spec rotors. Wheelset is 35/39 asym deep profile, Ti-Vector spoke laced, tensioned via micro preload. Hubs are NDCS gen.3.3—pre-approval batch, naturally. Tyres AXR 27.3 on 25.9IW. Inflated to VAPR-constant psi.
Whole rig makes me tremble like I'm watching One Foot In The Grave whilst fisking an Arabic dictionary after an all-night session on kale and butter beans after my Fukker-friendly Parish Council meeting.
Normally, have to wipe clean the Tamp FIN 28.45OR afterwards with my tee. But this time, fuck it: might just let the missus figure out the substance I've left behind by herself and hope she confuses it for WD40.
Yep, Dura was right the first time.
@Dura_Ace should be mildly flattered. If you have a writing style that can be easily parodied or spoofed it means that, at the very least, you have a style
Most people don’t write that interestingly
It also reads like a load of absolute bollox
To be fair @malcolmg certainly has "a writing style that can be easily parodied or spoofed". Chapeau, sir!
Bollox.
Other instantly recognisable writing styles on here include BigG (two clauses per sentence joined with an “and”, lots of the first person, and no commas), and HYUFD (every post begins with a deadpan factual statement). Both easily guessable.
There's several posters who I can 'pick' from just a couple of sentences. In fact of the high volume Regulars I'd say that applies to the large majority of them.
I find im pretty bad at it, i could only spot one or two. Id be terrible at identifying sockpuppets.
I’ve not had a classic head cold for at least 6 months, possibly longer, and very few people I know have either. Are we going through a common cold drought?
People always say when “there’s a lot of it going round at the moment” but they never comment when there’s “not a lot of it going round”.
I don't normally get them but have had 2 in the last six months. Got over one then a few weeks later got another.
OK, hypothesis for the day not looking particularly robust so far.
I’m currently at Britain’s poshest railway terminus. It’s a ridiculous place, as if built by a film studio for a costume drama (but with a Burger King and a Pret).
There is an entire hut, occupying what used to be the tourist info booth, decorated in olde English wallpaper and dedicated to suckering rich tourists into visiting Bicester village. And station announcements in Mandarin and Arabic.
St Pancras DOES NOT have a Burger King!
Presumably, the OP is talking about Marylebone. Where the ONLY announcements in Arabic and Mandarin are for departures to Oxford via Bicester Village: most Marylebone departures go elsewhere.
PS Who knows what the Mandarin is for Oxford and why?
Marylebone is rubbish.
Only 6 mainline platforms, none of which are electrified, and served by only one tube line.
It’s posh though. The poshest.
Don't be ridiculous!
Ever been to St Pancras?
St Pancras has a Hamley's, a Carluccio's, a Searcy's, and a Fortnum & Mason.
St Pancras is way too big and garish to be posh. It’s a Westfield idea of posh. And it has that awful statue.
Marylebone has a Burger King, FFS!
And Sir John Betjeman's statue is NOT awful!
Not Betjeman, the giant snogging lovers under the pink Tracy Emin banner.
Yep, you've never been to St Pancras. The supposed lovers are not snogging, they're actually looking at their mobiles instead of each other.
Yes, I love that statue. So traditional, yet so modern, and so ambiguous.
Any suggestions for an electric car? Small but comfortable but not a Tesla. Someone said a BMW 3I but they dont make them anymore.
A bit of fun runabout?
Alpine A290/Renault 5.
All other answers are varying degrees of wrong.
The Renault 5 looks great - seems to have the perfect blend of nostalgia by keeping very close to the original but with enough modern touches.
I have decided I no longer have time or space to build my daily drivers from Copart wrecks or non-runners found in the large intestine of Facebook Marketplace. So I have bought my first ever brand new car - 150hp Renault 5 in Peroni/Jassaud yellow. The stock wheels are heavy cast junk so I'm putting OZ Racing Ultraleggeras on mine.
Mint. Mine? Absolute anchor-grade cast alus, probably weigh more than a pair of 4-pot Brembos and a seized H22 block. Swapping those for OZ Racing Ultraleggeras—15x7 ET35 wrapped in 195/50R15 Pilot Sport 5s, torqued to spec with a Snap-On digital. Already shed 6kg per corner and I haven’t even touched the unsprung weight up front—thinking coilover swap to Bilstein B14s and maybe a hybrid ARB from the Clio RS Cup parts bin.
Next step: EBC Yellowstuffs, braided HEL lines, DOT 5.1 flush, and possibly a cheeky remap via OBDLink MX+ and my guy who tunes with a laptop duct-taped to the passenger seat and a sixth sense for AFRs.
This thing’s gonna be a sleeper spec canyon scalpel before the warranty even knows what hit it.
Take it from somebody who actually is funny, you are not. So don't try.
Mate, these bite hard. Zero fade, even after a full blast down the Furka with a boot full of hubris and a nav unit screaming recalculations. Finish is obscene - like if the Bauhaus did CNC. You ever felt harmonic resonance through a cold-forged XJ19 end-to-end? Thought not. Triple-collared mounts, wet-bushed in moly, anodised in something they only use on satellite couplers. Full schwingenfreude at 8,000rpm, and that’s before the preload’s dialled in
Sure, the modern lads go for composite polymers - lightweight, thermally stable, blah blah. But me? NEED mass. Mine are hand-hewn from Sardinian basalt, face-balanced, interference-fit into a vintage ARX spec housing. Takes a while to warm up, sure, but once you're at temp - bro. You haven’t known true mechanical sympathy till you’ve taken a granite dildo to redline on a Tuscan long-weekender
Bro, completed the AXS-LD configuration last night. Full 2x12 EPS DiX2 w/ ARC-FDM and native DualBand-TE sync. No latency. No drift. Just pure indexed intention like even the MAGA fuckwits would recognise.
Crankset is a milled HMP-SL on a CTS spindle, threaded into a T47L-PRT—obviously cold-fitted with TiPhase bushings. Monocoque cockpit with PWR integration, routed entirely internal through a QRM-modified steerer. No ports, no clutter. RTD calipers on FFS pads with 162/140 spec rotors. Wheelset is 35/39 asym deep profile, Ti-Vector spoke laced, tensioned via micro preload. Hubs are NDCS gen.3.3—pre-approval batch, naturally. Tyres AXR 27.3 on 25.9IW. Inflated to VAPR-constant psi.
Whole rig makes me tremble like I'm watching One Foot In The Grave whilst fisking an Arabic dictionary after an all-night session on kale and butter beans after my Fukker-friendly Parish Council meeting.
Normally, have to wipe clean the Tamp FIN 28.45OR afterwards with my tee. But this time, fuck it: might just let the missus figure out the substance I've left behind by herself and hope she confuses it for WD40.
Yep, Dura was right the first time.
@Dura_Ace should be mildly flattered. If you have a writing style that can be easily parodied or spoofed it means that, at the very least, you have a style
Most people don’t write that interestingly
His post earlier today was one of the best I've ever seen from him: how very dare you, I'm the funny one!
It was the pathetic neediness and slight insecurity of it which made it so telling. Like his world would fall apart if we didn't recognise him to be the genius he thinks he is and mocked him instead. Because he likes bike and car parts and loves lacing his posts with acronyms he knows all of us will have to ask him to understand.
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Crankset is a milled HMP-SL on a CTS spindle, threaded into a T47L-PRT—obviously cold-fitted with TiPhase bushings. Monocoque cockpit with PWR integration, routed entirely internal through a QRM-modified steerer. No ports, no clutter. RTD calipers on FFS pads with 162/140 spec rotors. Wheelset is 35/39 asym deep profile, Ti-Vector spoke laced, tensioned via micro preload. Hubs are NDCS gen.3.3—pre-approval batch, naturally. Tyres AXR 27.3 on 25.9IW. Inflated to VAPR-constant psi.
Whole rig makes me tremble like I'm watching One Foot In The Grave whilst fisking an Arabic dictionary after an all-night session on kale and butter beans after my Fukker-friendly Parish Council meeting.
Normally, have to wipe clean the Tamp FIN 28.45OR afterwards with my tee. But this time, fuck it: might just let the missus figure out the substance I've left behind by herself and hope she confuses it for WD40.
Discussion closed.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/21/hegseth-second-signal-chat-pentagon
..“The president absolutely has confidence in Secretary Hegseth,” Karoline Leavitt, the press secretary, told reporters. “I spoke to him about it this morning, and he stands strongly behind him.”
The Pentagon’s chief spokesperson, Sean Parnell, issued a statement in a post on X on Sunday night following the New York Times report.
“Another day, another old story – back from the dead,” Parnell said. “The Trump-hating media continues to be obsessed with destroying anyone committed to President Trump’s agenda. This time, the New York Times – and all other Fake News that repeat their garbage – are enthusiastically taking the grievances of disgruntled former employees as the sole sources for their article...
"Old story" ?
Trump's Cabinet picks being unfit for office, national security disgraces is an old story.
Any future such scandals will also be an old story as a result.
However, many railway stations that are termini are since they were built on the outskirts of towns and became goods and logistics depots with merchants and warehouses piling in to store fuel and goods. The land became low value since not many people wanted to live nearby, and it was dirty and noisy.
How many modern industrial estates are pretty?
The beautiful railway stations tend to be pass-through places in rural areas where innovative architecture, and a bit wishful thinking, usually to appeal to influential landowners/ MPs to vote the Bill through, survive.
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/lisbon-portugal-january-18-2016-modern-436557517
But I can't think of a railway station with brilliant Tebay-style food. Small ferry terminals typically have an excellent cafe nearby, but not stations.
He's got to 19. He's giving England a reason not to drop him, which is worrying.
That one didn't open throughout until 1908 and was kiboshed in 1917 by the War Office, which was a remarkably short run.
Most people don’t write that interestingly
Whether it does or not, I just wanted to go into bat for it as it’s a lovely station and I feel some affection for it.
Where the ONLY announcements in Arabic and Mandarin are for departures to Oxford via Bicester Village: most Marylebone departures go elsewhere.
PS Who knows what the Mandarin is for Oxford and why?
And higher prices.
Says a man who always buys his honey and venison there...
@SpencerHakimian
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The dumbest part of all of this is that most of the trade deals that Trump is currently tearing apart are the trade deals that he himself wrote and signed.
Japan. Canada. Mexico. China.
You name it.
But that's before the impact of tariffs
I can't see Powell being in a rush to cut.
A real insight into Iran
From the people that somehow got HAY-p'th from halfpennyworth.
Still, better than turning "isn't that quite correct, sir?" into "innit, bruv?" I suppose.
Only 6 mainline platforms, none of which are electrified, and served by only one tube line.
Only a huge palace, five cars, free travel and 32k/month.
Nowhere near enough freebies for her.
There is nothing wrong with renegotiating deals, even deals you negotiated in the past, if you think you can get a better deal.
There is nothing wrong with iteration in general.
Iteration tends to work better than revolution, so renegotiating your own deals can be easier than renegotiating those done by others, since you know well how it went last time and where to go next time.
There are far, far darker and more serious criticisms to make of Trump than that he is iterating his negotiations.
It helps if you follow football, though, so you can clock all the cliches and absurdities they're sending up.
Ever been to St Pancras?
St Pancras has a Hamley's, a Carluccio's, a Searcy's, and a Fortnum & Mason.
And Sir John Betjeman's statue is NOT awful!
However it is pretty bad. It's going to cause great damage.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=fiat+railway+station+commercial#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:3508d1ba,vid:lWQ4R2Ka7c4,st:0
I can often guess it’s you speaking from the first two sentences. But that’s not because you have a distinctive, pastiche-friendly prose style, it’s more your persona
You'll need Paramount+, though.
It was the pathetic neediness and slight insecurity of it which made it so telling. Like his world would fall apart if we didn't recognise him to be the genius he thinks he is and mocked him instead. Because he likes bike and car parts and loves lacing his posts with acronyms he knows all of us will have to ask him to understand.
Chortle.