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I shall be keeping my petrol estate car for as long as I can I think. There simply isn't an electric vehicle out there that wouldn't be a massive...

Wot, no mom and pop slat-wall? Are you sure?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jun/03/ai-danger-doomsday-chatgpt-robots-fears

The petrol bike is about 65Kg (dry) to about 70Kg for the electric. The EM is very much at the early adopter end of the market and leccy bikes are...

Yup. And lest we forget the original prophet spoke Aramaic. No one can surely think that there were no changes in meaning between these two...

And if you over charge and run flat often and you have a battery problem your dealership will say sorry it's your problem as you void the Warranty...

I was introduced to an electric VW van a few weeks ago, the guy who owned was explaining how you cant over charge it (Only 80% recommended) and must...

Until the technology improves I will keep my diesel car. I make several long distance journeys each year, see dive reports. The stoppage time for...

I was watching a guy on utube With a new £60k van that did 130 miles on a full charge on a good day . He was up a 5am because his van would need...

Quranic Arabic.

But which Arabic? There are many dialects of Arabic. I had a guy who used to work for me who was an elder in the Jehovahs Witnesses. He was always...

And congratulations to steelemonkey. A clear winner and great photo. Over to you for the June competition :)

I hate diving in hot weather, I deliberately avoid it. For domestic vehicles the writing is definitely on the wall. For freight, who knows? ...

I’d expected to see this at ERI, but not so brazenly. Manufacturers and retailers routinely destroy returns and unsold items, known as deadstock, en...

I had this argument with Iain/Father Jack Hackett. There are two versions that the English translations come from, one in Greek and one in Hebrew and...

I used to love winding up IainHSM over it. He didn't seem to like that. I love Chick Tracts, those 1960's illustrated evangelical Christian...

Plenty of Baksheesh needed to oil the wheels.

To quote George Bernard Shaw 'An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.'

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/02/more-than-800m-amazon-trees-felled-in-six-years-to-meet-beef-demand ...

In their defence, most of the airport staff were polite. One had reasonable cause to believe that I was bring radios in via my luggage. A Once...

I had a hybrid diesel, bad on diesel (35mpg), bad on EV (30 miles range only): 0-60mph, 6.9 seconds. That didn`t get old. Two tonne of volvo estate...

Well I can tell you one thing, having hobbies like that isn't going to save the planet, doesn't matter if its petrol or electric, it shouldn't have...

So, to add to the insanity ... Even the AI drones are losing it. (Probably not but you could see it happening sometime soon) ...

Bosch gave up developing new diesel engine systems about five years ago. What does the petrol bike weigh, 80kgs? An extra 5kgs (~6%) on what is...

Nah, sanity ain't gonna happen any time soon. However, the book is, as I love discussing with any proselytiser who makes the mistake of initiating...

I loved reading this, our last trip to Egypt was on Hurricane and was superb in every way. However, the getting there and the getting home and the...

You won't be doing much begatting that way!

The article doesn't expalin whether it is just the King James version or the various other crackpot versions (surely god would not tollerate...