I was once driving back from near Cambridge to Bristol, and my route involved the M25 (which is the infamous motorway that circles London). This was before ubiquitous GPS in smartphones btw.

Mind you, they actually made their air-launched ‘Shuttle 2’ slightly tamer than the real-life ideas, which included plans to add hydrogen-burning afterburners to the 747 carrier aircraft.

In the UK you have to renew your license at 70.

I also can’t imagine why you’d bother. That’s a math experiment, not something you’d throw actual money at just to find out, not when there’s no payday to justify it.

I always hear people shout “Play Johnny B. Goode!”, but maybe that’s just a UK thing.

And yet, speeding under the 11'8" bridge does not induce squat. In fact it does squat. Something about solid and liquid flow being different.

I’d call it the automotive equivalent of figure skating.

a 1.0-liter three-cylinder engine that makes about 114 HP

Dunno about Avatar, and I’ve only read the first book, but “orphan finds they have magical power that can save the world” is not the most original story I’ve ever read.

Though I kept waiting for Eli to casually crush something to show he’s got some remnants of the Super Soldier Serum in his DNA.

I did kind of wonder why they’d introduced Sally Ride as a character, when during the first season they’d mostly invented characters as stand-ins for real people.

First car: 2002 VW Polo. Cost me £2,700. Passed on to my little brother, who eventually killed it a few years later.

I get the impression us Europeans tend to own less cars overall than the Americans.

I think I’m going to be right at low end, also, you may notice a certain pattern emerging...

“Public roads not built to be raced on” describes basically every rally stage in existence

I want to know how they got the coffin down when they reached the funeral.

I was just looking up at mine, thinking what a good job they did creating Hubble from bricks.

In the UK there’s no consensus on which lane you should be in to reach each exit, and normally you have to look out for arrows painted on the ground.

I’m more surprised that he’s still rocking a disposable mask. It’s been a year now, there’s loads of cool looking masks he could be wearing. They’re cheaper than a t-shirt, and how many of us buy cool t-shirts?

I’m going to assume plain old fuckup rather than grand plan.