If I’m paying 31 million buckaroos for my wedding, it must include Idris Elba interrupting the proceedings, declaring his everlasting love for me and marrying me on the spot while David Bowie sings “Life on Mars.” For starters.

Nicole, Kate and Gwyn remind me of expensive field hockey sticks.

Ugh. Don’t even bother. They’re already too long, too dull and too fucking much. A waste of time and money.

the tight-knit SEAL community - a community which prides itself on quiet sacrifice and secrecy.

Please no she deserves better than that greasy beard on chicken legs.

it’s not as much the sense of awe about the book, more like because it’s appliable to RL. For example, because of this book, I’ve become more relaxed, can see long term results more clearly. Sadly, this is only in RL, still shitty chess player...

A few things come to mind; Jurassic Park dinosaur reveal, the final space battles in Mass Effect 1 and 3...but the Muster of Rohan stands out.

This is the type of thing that gets started before the board hears about it, and one member is pulled aside by a chief engineer and they say. “Look, we can’t meet emissions.” So they meet in a room with an accountant who goes “It’s going to cost $20bn of redevelopment and lost revenue, we’re going to have to skip a…

No, this level of deceit isn’t something small. This took budget, time, and resources with massive financial risk. It came from the board.

To think this didn’t go to the board level is ludicrous. The decision to manipulate the vehicles would only have come from the top. You don’t willfully deceive a government agency and risk hundreds of millions in fines without your bosses approval.

I don’t see it as a negative of VW’s engineering. It was actually quite clever engineering. The problem is they got found out. Besides, VW’s customers are happy to look over any less than favourable moments in history. Particularly the very early days. ;-)