If you've ever been to the UK, you'll know we only get about three hours of bright sunlight a year, so we just don't know how to cope.

It's pretty standard and legal over here in the UK, as far as I'm aware. Much like the CHP's recommendation though, it's all about context and speed appropriate to the situation. My daily commute in a car takes 40 minutes or more, on my bike, 20 minutes, due to the fact I work in a city and traffic is usually…

If it doesn't have serious electrical faults, it's no longer officially a Lotus.

Yeah, but then they blow it up.

Yup, we used to do all kinds of idiotic things. One of our favourites was playing 'war' with hunting air rifles. Oh, the fun we used to have, picking lead pellets out of ourselves with penknives. It was a miracle no one lost an eye. Not to mention the fact we were doing it in an abandoned coal mine building that had…

Wait! You seriously have to shovel your own sidewalks or you'll get sued?

Wow, that's insane.

Sheesh, You could buy at least three in the UK for that price.

That's just stupid. How else would you get the hooker's blood out of there?

Used to have one years ago, but now I've moved on to the relative sophistication of a lightweight, which is practically identical mechanically, but even more ugly:

I really didn't have to, it was *everywhere*. The only redeeming feature was I was wearing leathers at the time, so I could hose myself down when I got home. Had to dismantle most of the bike to get all the gack out, though.

I did a mod for a mate's car years ago that used RFID keyfobs in place of the door locks and ignition barrel. It worked well, and was a complete off-the-shelf hardware solution, rather than having to use a Pi or something similar that needed programming, and without the inherent security flaw of anyone being able to…

Not quite as impressive, but I had a pheasant fly into the front wheel of my old CB750 at about 60mph.

What *was* impressive was the amount of feathered pheasant purée that both myself and my bike ended up covered in.

- Argentinian military dictatorship invades a territory belonging to the UK for 200 years, believing the UK will capitulate as it's on the other side of the world, in order to bolster support for the Junta.

Well, I guess if they can't throw us out of the Falklands, they'll just have to do what they can with the limited resources available.

From the front, it looks like it's driven into an inflatable hot tub and carried on.

From every other angle, it looks fugly.

So why the current political fervour for 'taking back' the Falklands in Argentina? The Spanish, French and even the USA have more legitimate historical claims to it than Argentina.

The best thing about these are the hydraulic window switches that have two settings: 'close normally' and 'cut any potential assassin's arm off'.

The best thing about these are the hydraulic window switches that have two settings: 'close normally' and 'cut any potential assassin's arm off'.

Ah, Porschicide, my favourite automotive crime.

Just the fact that someone actually rides a motorbike in the land of pissed farmers, suicidally bad drivers, random tanks crossing the road and occasional meteorites, is worth mad props on it's own, let alone shaming these fuckwits.