A solid majority of Republican voters (70%) said they are be more likely to support a candidate who would withdraw U.S. support from the multinational deal with Iran.

The sidevalve was a mainstay for Ford for years. My experience with them started with a 1948 E83W pickup with a 10HP sidevalve and culminated with a 1950’s 100E Pop with a roaring, snarling beast of a 40hp (yes, count them forty ponies - who can live at that speed?).

While not wishing to excuse this action in any way at all, when I was a kid (in the 70’s) parents did stuff like this all the time - caught your kid smoking? Make them chain-smoke the whole pack. Kid caught drinking? Make them drink a whole bottle of nasty cheap booze until they puke.

I hate to say it, but since the furthest offroad most 4x4s get is the driveway of the owners’ houses, while these kinds of things are laudable from an engineering standpoint, for the most part they are gimmicks.

The thing is, while Land Rovers are extremely capable offroaders, I can’t honestly see many people spending…

I have a question about one aspect of this, which I hope isn’t taken the wrong way, but wouldn’t the victim be able to tell it wasn’t a real penis? I mean, as a straight man this isn’t something I’ve ever had to deal with, but there have been many times with various partners over the years where sex toys have been…

I like it and my son, who is nine, thinks it’s the dog’s bits :-)

On the flip side of this, I remember many years ago my brother bought a three year old Ford Orion. Now, for those not familar, the Orion was originally going to be the replacement for the Escort before the Focus came along, and was fitted with a four cylinder transverse lump in either a 1.4, 1.6 or 1.8l engine.…

I had the complete opposite happen to me once. I went to a local branch of one of the big DIY chains and made the fatal error of wearing a shirt that was exactly the same colour as the staff of the store.

Here in the UK, specifically in London, we have something called the Congestion Charge. It’s basically a toll you have to pay to drive into certain parts of London in an attempt to lower the levels of congestion.

Maybe I’m being a bit thick here, but if non-consensual sex is the definition of rape, then “forced sex at gunpoint” is basically that, no?

My unit had one of these when I was in the Army. I’m not sure why, because we had no need for one, but we had one. The V8 was factory de-tuned to stop people over-revving it, but as someone who knew a hell of a lot about the Rover V8, our REME guy asked me to take a look at it for a laugh, so on the quiet I fitted a…

Agreed. It’s a surprisingly pretty plane.

Putting an engine into a vehicle it wasn’t designed for is never easy. I remember years ago swapping the nasty straight six out of a Rover SD1 and putting a V8 in instead after it BBQ’d the camshaft (a common fault on the straight six because people were stupid and didn’t follow the manufacturer’s guidelines on…

I tend to pay for everything, but then I’ll pay if I’m out with friends or co-workers too. Without wishing to sound big headed, I am a fairly wealthy person, and most of my friends and co-workers are not, so I feel uncomfortable with other people paying for me when I can afford it much more than they can. I remember…

Never trust a man who wears a hat at least two sizes too big. All that money and he can’t even dress himself...

I’m going to share this as a cautionary tale, one that I am not proud of at all.

Important science here...

I remember the big company meetings we had at a studio I worked at where the publishing folks would tell the rest of us plebs what a great job they were doing. This one year, the head of publishing was bleating on about how, in future, games would only ship when they were ready and so forth.

I actually quite like that Zimmer :-)