This is the worst car in a range of cars that’s 90% dull. BMW design is currently the most taste-free its ever been. The new 8 and Z-4 may yet be a return to form, but this piece of crap definitely isn’t. And don’t get me started on the interior; why would you subject yourself to that tedium?

No other animal cooks its food either, and yet here we are with our big brains aided along by our clever ways of processing food to more efficiently extract calories (and that’s all cooking is, processing food to make it easier to digest and access its calories). We eat grains because the effort-to-energy output for…

Except the experience of everywhere else in the world with strong privacy laws and hugely successful lotteries shows that’s just not true.

This has actually been done:

“Protecting the integrity of the lottery”, is a feeble excuse for forcing winners to go public. The winners aren’t anonymous to the lottery itself, who are completely at liberty to do background checks on winners. In Europe, where the right to privacy is enshrined in law in most countries, its simply impossible for…

Yeah. No. She’s five. Don’t be a twat. You don’t insult people’s kids. Don’t.

It was. American WW2 doctrine was that tanks support infantry (and infantry support tanks), but tanks don’t fight other tanks. Unfortunately the Germans didn’t get the memo.

There’s something about the North of England that creates men like this, and its not just because its pissing down all the time and they need something to do. Its like some kind of “industrial revolution started here” thing that’s baked in from birth.

I’m impressed by the way they’ve made alcantara look like 1970s velour. Sets the tone, and reminds me of the many terrible rental cars I endured on my early visits to the States in the 90s with uniquely blue interiors that were really rare in Europe back then (there are now one or two nice blue interiors; Range Rover…

Much as I think he’s kicking at an open door at the moment; Star Wars is crap now (come at me bro etc.), I’m not sure Dune is the vehicle to create “Star Wars for Adults”; it’s a decent enough couple of books followed by progressive terribleness, and I’ve never been convinced it’s got mainstream appeal. There’s better…

I’m sure it’s an ergonomic and technical masterpiece, but the current Mercedes interiors are a bit over-styled for my liking. That white and red leather combo in the pics would be way too “tart’s boudoir” (as my Dad used to say) for me. I think I still prefer the Velar and the new Audi A7 interiors; a bit cooler, not…

Airbus took a gamble that the domestic Chinese (and maybe Indian) market was going to be their bread and butter, but it hasn’t worked so far. Part of the problem with the 380 is that for the airlines themselves they’re only really profitable over the short-medium term if you configure them for max passengers, which…

Not been any Victorians for over a hundred years, and the British (where those pesky Victorians hailed from) are far less prudish than North Americans. We’re still more prudish than say, Scandinavians, but way less than Americans. This isn’t a Victorian hangover, its a much more modern trend.

I think Buffy The Vampire Slayer would like a word.

In the UK and other civilised places, its still the position not the person.

I’m confused. The CLA is the A-Class sedan.

“The Anglosphere”? Like England perhaps?

The BBC had “The Black & White Minstrel Show” as late as the 1970s. And most people know who Al Jolson was just because of the historical significance of “talkies”. I can remember a lot of comedies by very famous comedians who’d black up regularly.

Upper Class is the best. I got bumped up once, and I’m fairly certain its because I worked at the BBC, and they (very wrongly) assumed I was someone important, because I asked if my mate who was travelling with me could have an upgrade as well and they said yes. Then when I met my wife, she worked in the corporate…

Like they would give a shit about what the internet thinks.