That gif of the crash made me make an "ooowhhuuwhhh" kind of a noise. I think it's slightly slower in the video but still, ooof, brutal.

To be fair, downhill is also quite bad. Just ask my middle aged, carrying-a-bit-too-much-me-around, knees. But a bit of up and down is probably better than all flat bits, all the time.

yeah "let's sneak up on the leopard with our 'stealthy' diesel truck that also makes beepy noises. For extra stealthiness let's keep stopping the engine so we can loudly start it again."

I love that second shot, the way you can't see the suspension arm through the solid wheel so it looks as though the wheel isn't attached and the bike is somehow just floating above it.

It's a West Midlands accent. I think I read an article that said she was from Walsall, which is roughly between Birmingham and Wolverhampton. If you wanted to say it was a Brummie (Birmingham) accent you wouldn't be entirely right but you'd be pretty damn close.

Close, but also wrong. That's a Brummie (Birmingham) or West Midlands accent

That is definitely better: as Top Gear showed, sticking a propeller on the back risks snapping it off on the boat ramp. Also hydro jets are inherently cooler because jet.

I thought it was a deliberate pun? It would need to be some kind of fancy gold soup in order to go into the fuel tank.

"yeah, i'm not sure why he then kept rolling, but i wasn't there."

He just called you a nerd!

Apparently he is, apparently.

I have a friend with a tattoo on her lower back (pretty much the "tramp stamp" area. Can't remember what it's supposed to say in Chinese (mandarin?), but our Japanese colleagues assure us it reads "workers compensation" in Japanese.

In all seriousness I am actually starting to sort of kind of like Kinja. I suspect it may be Stockholm syndrome.

The Polish air force are also currently fielding some advanced F-16s, decent relatively cheap planes that do the job (rabble rabble I do not approve of the F-35 grumble mutter)

"automotibles"? Seriously? Are the cars too elephantine for the mere word "automobile"?

When they can turn invisible at will like Obama can apparently do in the picture above, I say we just give them all the money before they use their witchy magic to destroy us.

Plus, you can make the "look at the S-car go" snail joke.

That nose, though. What were they thinking? Hard to argue with the price though.

You missed "contracted out under terrible 90's small-government no-oversight idiocy so the manufacturers are getting rich being paid to fix their own screwups". Sort of covered under costly I suppose, but it's a particularly irritating kind of costly. Personally I'd split costly into two, and have "overruns" and "we…

FYI Newcastle Brown is pretty terrible beer.