as an American, my geographical knowledge is limited to: “North, cold. South, drugs.”

Skylines rule. Hummers are lame. It’s not a tough concept.

There’s this part that usually gets installed with high horsepower builds... it’s called a driveshaft loop. It’s used in case you overpower your poor ujoints or old driveshaft. Would have saved a lot of damage in this case for sure.

Do I have to pick just one?

including mechanical testing,

Start a club who’s charter includes “driving classic cars as they were originally intended.” Boom — every time you drive your classic, you’re doing a “club activity.”

Seems like justification to own 7 Classic cars.

I hear you. I ride a Triumph. We Triumph owners are usually arguing over who’s got the spanners. Well, not arguing; more like politely discussing over tea.

I ride a BMW. We BMW riders usually fight about fashion and leather riding outfits.

“Tension between Bandidos OMG and Cossacks MC remains high in Texas”

HMS Victory is an administrative establishment. It is a legacy of naval legislation that all naval ratings and officers must be assigned to a ship (which may include a shore establishment - still regarded as Her Majesty’s Ships by the navy). Any navy person allocated to work in a non-HMS location (such as the Ministry…

It’s a public government hearing, how could this be seen as inappropriate?

Former US Navy boomer nuke here, 1980-86.

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Former fast boat guy here. I agree with pretty much everything you said. Sounds like a whiny nub who was overwhelmed by his first patrol. For someone who admittedly doesn’t know much, and is pretty low ranking in the pecking order, seems to jump to a lot of conclusions about parts of the ship he knows nothing about.

I wish someone would mail this to the press. Great writeup.

Okay, I read most of it. I was on a Trident sub years ago and I can tell you this guy is mostly full of shit.

I do wonder if the original article could have left off a digit.

He didn’t get a time-out, he got kicked out of the event entirely.. which speaks volumes about these relationships between manufacturers and “journalists”.

If you think about it, he actually got kicked out for being a journalist, instead of the good little lap-dog that manufacturers wine and dine at these events.

“At 64, I wouldn’t mind being this cool.”