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Hyundai has appointed Albert Biermann, a former BMW executive, to head its research and development.

I have to have my side mirrors (including on my bikes) set up so that the side of the car (or my arms) are just at the edge of the mirror’s field of view, otherwise I have no perception of exactly where the mirror is pointing without having to expend a lot of mental effort on working that out at the same time as

Lastly, when you turn the wheel, don’t do the old hand-over-hand maneuver, crossing your arms over in front of the wheel.

Sucks to be you, there’s at least 3 British companies making bodypanels for classic UK made cars, in some cases with original tooling which they presumably rescued from the companies as they went bust. In keeping with classic British engineering, some of them make shitty parts that aren’t worth the money too.

That’s cos one of the standard ways of making a big explosion without actually making a big explosion sort of simulates a BLEVE, they use a small amount of high explosives to blow up a bottle of petrol or whatever their preferred flammable liquid is. AFAIK this doesn’t generate as fine a mist as a BLEVE cos the liquid

The Nissan Leaf Mk1, cos it has an extra instrument panel!!!!!11!!11111!!eleventy!!! 

The dash looks like one of those 80s LCD ‘computer’ games that was about as complex as the Mario Watch. Not like it’s out of the game, like it actually is the game with the car at the bottom of the screen, zooming down a couple of vector drawn lines.

Is the tiiiiiny writing next to the idiot lights legible in the dark?

My fave part about this is that there was a huge effort from the alt-right to spread disinfo that Heather Heyer just randomly had a heart attack and wasn’t actually killed by The Chinless Wonder, cos that somehow excuses him ramming a crowd of people, and his lawyer didn’t even mention it in his defence. Fields’ own

It is not clear 108 Chapter 6 that Pygmalion’s passive

From my read it seemed the commune is supported by mostly foreign aid/advocacy organizations

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There was a poll last year, I think, that found that a hard border between the Irelands would swing support in favour of reunification, just in time to turn a throwaway line from Star Trek NG into prophecy-

Life expectancy has flatlined in the UK as well, just as Whitehall is privatising our healthcare system.

reduction of international conflict

Ghosn might’ve earned the nickname “the Cost Killer” because of his ruthless efforts at making Nissan profitable again

I am now picturing a RealDoll™ sat at the UN Security Council table.