Morons who can’t do division

Winning the big jackpot probably won’t make you happy, since happiness is largely a function of brain chemistry and after the initial euphoria, most of us end up more or less back where we started. But what’s also true is being miserable and rich is a shitload better than being miserable and poor.

Well get used to it, because the next full-fat Disco will look exactly the same.

Pretty much the start of Clarkson’s shtick (in the mainstream; he’d been doing it Performance Car magazine for a while)

This. I’d have had it as fact no.1 to be honest.

I’m working on the assumption that its some kind of performance art piece, like when Joaquin Phoenix did that thing. I assume the hair is running the whole installation.

Ditto, but then it occurred to me that helping Peshmerga set up a Kurdish homeland in Iraq might help solve Turkey’s own Kurdish problem.

To be fair, the monkeys in that part of the world are right little bastards.

Don’t see the problem; they’ve done an off-roader before, and they’ve done V8s before, its only turbos that are a new thing for them, and let’s face it, absolutely inevitable in the long run.

You’re being pendantic; “Muslim Spain” is another word for Al-Andalus (“Islamic Iberia” would have served as well). And the modern borders of Portugal weren’t established by 1143; they had still only progressed about halfway down the Atlantic coast, so the animation is reasonably accurate.

Not every time; there are quite a few dynastic unions in there which were brought about by marriage or treaty.

You don’t know that. If the CSA had been successful, it’s entirely possible that the US would have struggled to stay together, or at least not peacefully; there were other secessionist fault-lines, like Utah, and failure of the federal system would certainly have been an existential crisis for a relatively young…

Post-Great Fire London was much, much bigger than Roman London, and Roman London was itself almost completely destroyed by the Saxons and then the Danes, mainly stealing the bricks. And after the Great fire, huge swathes of London were rebuilt from scratch. And let’s be clear, London had disastrous sewage systems in…

Four isn’t a meaningful sample size.

Nope, it’s a Bald Eagle. I have no idea why the Crystal Palace mascot is a Bald Eagle and not something domestic; except for the fact that Bald Eagles are common as dirt and Golden Eagles and White Tailed Eagles (the only two domestic Eagles in the UK) are endangered.

Blueprints are not engineering drawings. At all. Blueprints are for mechanics, drawings are for engineers

I expect that most of the stuff for the Tomcat was made using CAD/CAM,

Because then they’d have to make the fake exits stand up to exhaust gasses and nasty chemicals. Cheaper this way. But you know what? I don’t care; its no more ridiculous than a grille on a Tesla (which should have been on this list by the way) and they look nice.

Not feeling the love at all. It just feels like an MX-5 with a scalpel job to make it look “less Japanese”, but not “more Italian”. They’ve managed to make a generic sports car, which I didn’t even think was possible. Nice engine though.

Does it have a 7-seat option?