Misleading; you spend more because you’re raped by the insurance industry; it’s not how much you spend, it’s who’s spending it and how. US public health spending is about 8% of gdp; well below other developed nations.

Actually not. Chances of being the victim of gun crime in the US are much higher than winning the lottery; they're only about a third worse than being killed in a car crash.

It’s just morbid humour, I don’t see the problem with it, especially as its objectively true (I started my crashing at 16).

No it's not fwd. Don't know where you got that idea from.

This is why you can’t have nice things. Horrible. Let’s never speak of this again.

It doesn’t wow me the way the 4C did, but then the 4C turned out to be a bit shit, so maybe that’s not a bad thing. I’ll reserve judgement until I see the interior and read the first test.

Oh do fuck off. The Irish are perfectly capable of killing each other. No British involvement required.

No one ever said it doesn’t happen ever, just FAR less than in America. As it happens, Dublin is (terrorist incidents aside) probably the most violent place in the EU right now, which makes it about a 50th as violent as the US per capita

You could make a list that long for America in the last month...

Yep, real AKs. As it happens the guy who got killed has been suspected of importing arms from eastern Europe and Russia in the past, including RPGs. http://www.sundayworld.com/news/war-head

Oh do fuck off. This is to do with scumbag drug dealers who’ve been fighting a turf war that stretches from Dublin to Spain for the last few years, and that escalated recently one the nephew of one major crime boss was offed. This was retaliation by people who don’t give a fuck who get’s in the way; and its entirely a…

If getting millions of dollars off Jeff Bezos (when your name isn’t Jeff Bezos), is being a loser, put me down for some of that loser juice.

He’s made and presented lots of highly regarded TV shows in the UK. He’s easily the most “car-guy” presenter the BBC could have found, but he’s also always had a strong non-interference ethic that’s got him in to fights with the BBC at earlier points in his career; he was the first BBC Radio presenter to outsource the…

Totally disagree; mainly because I’ve always thought everyone in Shaun deserved to die (except ironically, for Dermot Monaghan’s charcter) because they were all deeply unsympathetic characters (especially coming after Spaced, where Tim & Mike were so relatable). I loved Hot Fuzz, kind of liked World’s End, thought…

There was no UN Mandate to do it though, and if the US had made a unilateral decision to head up the Basra road, the “coalition of the willing” would have collapsed immediately. Plus, in ‘91 Bush Snr wasn’t stupid enough to think that the force raised to liberate a small country was the force needed to invade and hold…

So two months ago Idris Elba was pointing out the UK is moving in the “right” direction. What changed?

What part of it is bullshit? Its certainly a fact that more British troops were killed by Americans than Iraqis.

Maybe its cultural; people might not like the idea of a hologram that’s so real that you don’t know if the person you’re talking to is there or not (maybe it caused some kind of scandal or political disaster in the past) so holograms are deliberately degraded so you always know its a hologram.

Except in the UK where everyone goes for the highest spec they can afford. I don’t know about the A4, but the A6 Allroad is hugely popular with posh country types who don’t want a Range Rover but think all the other German SUVs are tacky.

Looks like the kind of badly faxed copy of a luxury car the Koreans would have done 10 years ago before they got their shit together.