It’s not the lack of grids that makes Sydney’s roads shit. It’s that there are no grade separated roads other than the woefully inadequate motorways, so you spend your entire fucking life waiting at traffic lights.

I like all of those things, but lamingtons are still terrible.

Tim Tams are good, but I was a bit disappointed to find out they were just the same as Penguins and not some sort of mythical perfect food.

That’s weird, did they just not get them finished in time? I’d have thought if you’re going to all that trouble you’d want to get your money’s worth out of it.

It was a bright, cold day in April, and the dildo was dialled to 13?

I regret not doing it the other way around at the start of the year :(

If you want to do it, then do it.

Salaries in the UK are some of the lowest out of equivalent countries; depending on field they can be about 50% of the USA, Canada or Australia. Cost of living can vary. It’s difficult to say exactly, without more…

There will always be arseholes, but the arseholes won’t always win.

It’s right there in the quote, too. The lack of proof-reading is really glaring.

It might not be a big miss, but the first series of White Gold was rather funny and I’m not sure it’d be able to pull off a The Thick of It style swap of the main character. Oh well.

*scrolling down*
Watersports. heh.
Hmm, actually, how *do* you stop wetsuits getting musty?
*clicks*
Oh.
Watersports. heh.

Eh, I quite like it. It’s an overly-twee own-brand imitation of The Postal Service, but it’s okay to me (though I could imagine on repeat it might get irritating).

Fleetwood Mac always had Fleetwood and Mac in it though. Sound changes, sure, but it’s not like some bands where there’s no original members.

Now that there’s all the video stuff and the like, have you considered doing a series where you try and actually build one of these contraptions?

The 850 ran from ‘92 - ‘97, before being facelifted into the V70 which ‘90s’d the front end up a bit, and ran until ‘01.
It was the last car designed by the guy who did all the really square Volvos before he retired.

I think a lot of the optimism in the article & comments is that the USA never got the manual in it?…

The nose scoops so big it’s meant to look like it’s got an F1 car growing out of it, mainly. That and the headlights made for a not-very-pretty front.

Oh, sorry, I was looking at stats that were a little old. It’s £27k not 26.5 now (so inflation-adjusted, it’s about a 25% pay cut over the past 10 years)

I work in software, not the automotive industry, but £51k is high - sounds like a typical salary for fairly senior job outside of London to me. National average is about £26k, which is a pretty common kind of starting salary for jobs requiring degrees.

You can sometimes go fairly direct these days with the internet (sites like goo-net-exchange), but there’s lots of specialist importers and exporters buying at auction.

They’re fine now, but their electrical components were infamously unreliable in the ‘60s-’80s.

They counted as mopeds.

I think the ad was for stuffed crust.