Most of these are just slow by modern standards, MTV changed film editing for good

Into the Wild is pretty minimal once he moved to Alaska

The Master is very minimal of plot but the opposite of relaxing

Doesnt that only apply if it when to court as a criminal case? At the moment this is people talking to the press and it hasnt gone to criminal court.

Last year City did about £715m, and Barca €763 million so yeah it looks problematic but then for the season just gone that will be reported soon they predicting a jump to €950 million, with a further jump to a billion for next year. If those numbers stick, I would guess that’s how if they spending all of that increase on a couple of new signings.

What I do not get is how City are funding their massive spending when you include the significant player wages offered to their new players. Really seems like that they are laughing at the FA and the charges the FA brought against City.

I like it as a cool toy to play with but I have a lot of separate lights that already do many of these functions better than a combi tool can.

I also have a dislike of kickstarter type funding, I get how its useful for the runner but bad experiences in the past have really put me off.

Did IQs drop sharply while I was away?

Yeah its a deliberate strategy by Gaiman, while in the background he goes after his victims that settled previously for breaching NDAs. Even if he doesn’t win its money well spent to stop more accusations from coming out. He’s going to wait this out and try to rehabilitate himself in a few years.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/neil-gaiman-claim-accuser-caroline-wallner-nda-1235321848/

I just don’t understand how they not going to the toilet or filling up with fuel during six or more hours non stop.

Six hours in the UK can be over 450 miles at motorway speed, very few ICE cars can do over 450 miles in six hours on one tank of fuel with a safety margin.

450 miles at motorway speed rather than hyper mileing at 60mph (preferably 56mph) seriously dents your economy EV or ICE.

I will drive that many hours in my EV but I’m happy stopping to charge half way. Its twenty minutes I get to go to the bathroom, have a drink and eat if I want to. No way I want to be driving six hours non stop with no break.

Never! Unless they gave me too many…

But seriously I don’t use the self tappers or nails they give you as they awful, made of soft cheese.

She is amazing, I would love to meet her.

And that’s a great choice of tattoo!

Sigourney Weaver and Arnold Schwarzenegger, some of my favorite films of my childhood and both total bad asses

It’s surely being done to appease the orange toddler as he wants Biden dragged through the courts as he was. Small problem is that either Bidens a much smarter criminal than Trump and didn’t leave any evidence, or he just wasn’t criminal enough to warrant charging.

Market share as a percentage of EVs dropped from gen one to gen two, my guess is they blamed that on it not being a SUV rather on them charging too much for gen two vs. gen one. Larger car also means being able to charge more, batteries are about half the cost to make an ev still.

It was £22k in 2014, for a 22kwh battery, or over £30k today, utter madness. Today I can buy same sized battery in a brand new small hatchback for less than £20k.

Gen two also undersized the battery vs what the price point was set vs expectations at for the initial models. They should have lead with the 40kw and 62kw models but I guess they had problems sourcing the batteries.

I can build majority of flat pack furniture without the instructions, first time, every time.

Oh for sure, and for a Villa fan its conflicting as I know the club needs more money to push on from the fantastic strides we made from where we were, but I wish it wasn’t the case. If I was a United fan I would be furious as the club has wasted so much money on shit and the Glazers have just plain stolen even more.

PSR doesn’t just fuck the clubs who are trying to move up it also fucks the fans as you have to increase revenue to compete. I would much rather we replaced PSR with budget caps and fixed price home game tickets as we have had with away game prices.

In the main the big clubs do not care about the average fan, they are only interested in rich fans who can pay a significant premium to go every week and “casuals” who go to one or two games a season. The latter group spend more than they would normally as they do not go often and as its a treat more likely to buy tat from the club shop, consume overpriced food and beer, etc.

More and more people are being pushed into that casuals group and, at least at Villa Park, being forced to buy overpriced for shit location, premium GA+ tickets as the only way to get a ticket for a category A game as the few non season ticket normal tickets go to people with significant booking history in minutes.

During the O’Neil era I switched my season ticket from the Holte to the North Stand when they issued the £200 adult/£50 U12 season ticket. I can spend that £200 now on one GA+ ticket. Even a normal ticket for a category a game in the Holte is like £90 now.

It has gotten to the point that I only go to a few games a season now, and then only because it means a lot to my now adult son as father son time. I am at the point I would rather cut my losses and just go see a local National League side instead. At least it would be affordable, and the games not moved all over the week making it impossible to commit.

I love my pocketbook colour three. The extra screensize is very much appreciated for comics

Ever more restrictive crash regs from the EU have reduced the size of the glass house on modern cars and required that the bonnet is higher to protect both the cars occupants but also pedestrians. There is actual science behind it. It’s not the same as the pretty much unregulated American monster trucks.

I do however agree that this should have stayed a small hatch back and not morphed into a SUV.

Yeah Japan is awful for that and the tourists have only gotten worse with their behaviour over time. I did the main spots of Kyoto once, biggest mistake of my trip.

If you avoid the popular spots entirely then its usually pretty easy to find places that are more authentic. But its been a few years since I last went, its a very tough holiday for me as I am coeliac and the Japanese just do not take gluten allergies seriously (they had something like three people in five years diagnosed in total) so I have to self cater the entire trip.

Toss up between saying BVI a year after Irma, it was so quiet and empty. We spent the day on the beach at Bitter End (its absolutely amazing now its reopened) and if you know that beach its never empty except we had it to ourselves. Went to a bar in Little Bay and just spent the day hanging out with the owner, only ones there, told to help ourselves to beer from the fridge and had dinner with them. BVI is never that quiet during main season, its usually busy to packed.

Other one is Antigua during COVID, quiet beyond belief. Restaurants only allowed to do take out, so they would bring you the meals to your boat. Had a BBQ of the best steak and lobster on the main beach at Barbuda cooked just for us. Last night they opened up restaurants for dine in, only customers at this fancy Mexican fusion restaurant on the beach. They were so happy to have people back, ended up sharing the head chefs bottle of (very expensive) wine as we chatted at the end of the meal.

Most of my favorite holiday stories are when we have gone somewhere and its empty of tourists and just pretty quiet overall.