Not entirely sure if it counts, but while riding my motorbike in North England, I once pulled over and made an extremely expensive international call on my phone to a friend in New Zealand, at about 3AM his time, just to tell him that I was on the highway to Hull.

Going for the “Hey, I know that place on Jalop” coincidence twofer, not only do I occasionally freelance for Blunty (Or, the Brisbane Times, if you prefer), I also worked on that same ferry in my youth.

“Tesla claimed to have reviewed the logs from each accident and concluded that the driver was at fault.”

Okay. Not to be too blunt, but it’s new years day here and I’m frightfully hungover, so forgive me - What’s your fucking point? None of that relates to what I said, and frankly, it just seems like an opportunity to take a smug shot at the new top gear crew. Don’t piggyback on me for your cheap shots, make a relevant…

As a thought, maybe because they have been released from the BBC shackles they kept whinging about for years, where they’d likely get in trouble for carrying on like that.

Not that they know what’s funny, and they’ve suddenly lost it, more than they always thought this was funny, but like George Lucas with the…

To be entirely fair, if offered the choice between a good shag, and some fucking quality ice cream, I’d probably have to have a bit of a think about it too.

I mean, provided that you can’t have both. I guess that’s assumed, considering.

Obligatory Stewart Lee being ahead of the game:

Can’t wait for the inevitable tweet from Elon Musk accusing Marcus of being part of the Anti-Tesla Conspiracy.

In this comment section:

“Unfortunately he is probably going to lose his job for breaking the rules, even though it was self defense”

Missed opportunity to mention Ken Block’s Hoonicorn, which is a “67 Mustang” where damned near the only original part IS the VIN and title.

“in addition to JUSTICE, rains from above.”

Jesus, if that’s how you react, I must have cut you real deep. I didn’t mean to hurt you, dude, it’s okay to not know things.

Dude, maybe I’d take you seriously if your expertise wasn’t a quick skim of his wikipedia page. You don’t know what you’re talking about.

Yeah, except he’s also head of a studio, and has directed dozens upon dozens of smaller projects, including feature length projects. Plus, it’s not his first full-length feature film from a major studio - it’s his first time being lead director on a full-length feature film, but he was the Creative Director on Scott…

Doubtful - Miller was already a very successful studio owner/head, with involvement in other big projects(including big credits on Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Thor:Dark World, and Creative Director on Scott Pilgrim Vs the World), and was already both an Academy award nominated writer/director, and a pretty rich…

“So who do you believe? In matters like this, the truth usually lies in the middle”

They, not he. Chris Evans did not have final creative control of what went to air, despite the internet’s(or really, Jalop and Reddit commenters) tendency to blame everything wrong with the new top gear on him. In fact, in his apology on his radio show for the stunt, he literally said with zero ambiguity that it…

If you ever need a laugh, then, head over to basically any Tesla thread on reddit. Or if you ever need evidence that people still believe in impossible miracles. Dudes in there practically telling you that it’s one software update from turning into Optimus Prime, but with Elon Musk’s voice instead of Peter Cullen.

“People believe it can do more than it really can, and once that belief sets in, no amount of written warnings can condition people out of it”

Worse than that, try to tell them otherwise, they’ll just call you a luddite, or an anti-(Company) shill. The warnings are dismissed as just legal-arse covering of a…