I thought you were a driver, Dura_Ace, not some pampered fop who needs to be able to specify the temperature of his seat and that his air temperature needs to be two degrees lower than that of his pa… (View Post)

"Fisherfolk"? This conjures an image of olde worlde types for whom the 19th century is dangerously modern. :smile: Nice alliteration though. (View Post)

Yes indeed - but as someone who a) buys a nearly new car and then runs it until it doesn't work any more, and b) takes the same approach with phones (my current phone is 4 years old); I'd s… (View Post)

The world needs contrarians. But the problem with contrarians is that they grow to feel the need to take the contrary view on EVERYTHING. (View Post)

Yes, I'm agog to find out. Scott is one of the posters whose number of posts to revealing backstory ratio is particularly high - but I had never guessed he is in showbusiness. (View Post)