I may have mentioned it before, but I worked in Guildford for about ten years up until a couple of years ago, and sometimes in the mornings, while coming off the M25 and onto the A3, I would be overtaken by a Vantage up the sliproad.

A lot of it depends on the age of the child, I think. My daughter is five and my son is ten, but in the past both of them have been in male and female toilets, depending on which parent they’re with.

SQUEEEE! I am ridiculously over-excited by this.

And so continues the downward spiral of civilisation. Obviously you peasants are all impressed with this, but any true English gentleman wouldn’t be seen dead with any umbrella other than a Fox & Co Paragon.

My only experience with pregnancy tests are the times we were actively trying to have children and the missus wanted to check.

Have to say I’m firmly in the teacher’s camp here. It’s not like she made them do it on a Saturday or something - it was supposed to be a school day but they got sent home for something that was in no way the fault of the school.

Years ago when I was a recovery driver, after a particularly wet winter I ended up being called out to the same flooded road nine times in one week to tow a variety of 4x4s and light commercials out of the flood because they’d done this very thing.

While I wouldn’t dream of casting dispersions on this chap’s hobby (after all, he’s doing no harm to anyone else), I would hesitate to call this “speedrunning”; more like exploiting flaws and bugs in the game. As someone already mentioned, he might just as well open the console and set the main story arc to complete.

It’s funny you say that, because one of the Microsoft TCRs (Technical Compliance Requirements) is that the game should be able to either be playable or at least fail gracefully on what would be considered a dial-up connection.

The centre screen looks pretty similar to the one I have in my 2013 Golf, and I barely touch it. The on/off button is just that - a button, and after that it’s all done with the buttons on the steering wheel.

Couple of points here - firstly, with regard to load on the system, I fully agree. Years ago I had a BMW 320i (I was young and stupid) and the high beams were 55w candles in jam jars. I replaced the bulbs with 100w bulbs and the first time I used them, it blew the fuse. I replaced the 10A fuse with a 32A fuse and it…

The one about the gun getting a gun in his face reminds me of an incident that happened to me a few years ago. Keep in mind I’m in the UK so we don’t really have much in the way of guns or gun crime, and the British police are really, really hot when it comes to any firearms shenanigans.

So if I go on a shooting spree, I can afterwards claim I didn’t actually kill anyone, I merely “harvested” them?

As someone who spent many years testing adverse network conditions on AAA titles, nine times out of ten it’s actually not latency that’s the problem, it’s actually packet loss, or more specifically, a combination of latency and packet loss.

I’ll be playing through this with my boy when it comes out, no doubt.

One of my favourite sayings to my younger friends is that if you think pushing 40 is bad, wait until you’ve been dragging it for a while...

This happened to a friend of mine years ago while he was restoring an MG Montego. He’d replaced the whole front end but hadn’t gotten around to fitting the safety latch.

Not being familiar with these events, could someone explain why he was disqualified?