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The persuadertron was the way, the truth, and the light on any level with civilians.

Lah, la-la-la-la-la-la-laaah lah la la la-la lah!

Disco bandit checking in! You got any meat paste?

Revenge of the Mutant Camels - highlight 1: “Ninety-foot high, neutronium shielded, laser-spitting, death camels”. Hightlight 2: Almost 40 years after its first release, in 2021 Jeff Minter fixed a bug on collision detection in the Commodore 64 version.
Impossible Mission - highlight: “Another visitor. Stay a while… stay forever!”
Deuteros - highlight: the way the game world unfolded and opened up
Syndicate - highlight: abusing the Persuadertron
Shadow Hearts - highlight: the Judgement Ring

Yup, that’s exactly what I was thinking of from 2018.

Musk: “I’ll build a submarine to save them, then everyone will love me even more!”
Cave Rescue Expert: “That’s not an especially practical solution given the situational needs of this resuce operation.”
Musk: “… er… well… pedo!”

Not with that attitude! Come on, believe in yourself, you can do it!

One of my closest friends is a nurse (now general practice but did years in hospital A&E) and she wore crocs all the time. Changed my response to them completely.

In the UK you can see what year most cars were bought based on the license plate. I absolutely give Tesla owners the benefit of the doubt if it was bought before this year - although Musk showed something of his true personality in 2018.

But the other day I saw a dude driving a Tesla Y with a '25 plate and I absolutely judged him for buying a car fronted by an actual nazi.

Must be a Bruges thing. I stayed in the Ibis last year and while it wasn’t a complete horror story it was pretty awful with 1980s decor, stains on the walls, wires hanging out of the wall. I think they must be shuttering it or something because reception and breakfast were in the attached Novotel. I’d certainly never book an Ibis again.

Brumblebury Zoibbbble checking in!

Back in the day I participated in poll tax protests (fuck Thatcher) and later in some Reclaim the Streets protests.

The poll tax ones were quite tense. What with that and the miners there was a lot of political anger at the time.

The latter were much more fun and often had a chill family feel to them. Such a mix of people from families with small kids to crusties to clubbers with kick ass sound systems. Occasionally you’d see a couple of the “fuck a copper” brigade but they were mostly chill.

Just remembered another thing he taught me which should help with standing starts.

Doing a hill start, you pop it into first gear with the clutch down while still on the hand brake.

Give it some revs (not a huge amount, and how much exactly will come with practice) and slowly start to come off the clutch. What you’re looking at is the front of the bonnet. As you get to the biting point the bonnet of the car will lift slightly. At that point you should be able to take it off the hand brake without rolling back.

Same thing if you need to do a standing reverse start on a slope, only this time you’re looking for the bonnet to dip a little.

A looooong time ago I learned to drive.

Figuring out the clutch was just a single driving lesson. He took me to a road which was basically a long hill with no traffic around. He got me to head up the hill in first gear, then to slowly start depressing the clutch until we stopped moving. Then he got me to just play with lowering the clutch more (we slowly start to roll back), lifting the clutch (we start to crawl forward), adding some more throttle and then catching and holding it on the clutch again, rolling back slightly, crawling forward slowly, and again, and again - all while listening to the engine note so I could hear just before we stalled. We spent about half an hour on that hill and by the time we left it I had pretty much mastered holding the car on the clutch.

Not trying to pick a fight here.

I’m genuinely curious how TikTok has changed society. I don’t use it, but then nor does my teenage daughter. I get that it is/was popular, and changed the way people consume some kinds of content, but I don’t see that it changed society in any fundamental way.

Oui!

Alabama 3. I saw them lots of times in little pub venues and playing non-main stages at festivals in the mid to late 90’s.

Blew my mind when I went to live in the US in 1999, put the TV on, and one of their tracks turned out to be the opening theme tune to this relatively new show called The Sopranos.

Saw a thing about the world’s most expensive pizza ($2k+) the other night. Squid ink pizza dough, caviar, truffles, gold leaf, etc. It looked revolting.

I was furious with my wife in a dream recently and it did take a couple of hours for me to be alright with her the next morning.

Commodore Pet 4016

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Then a Commodore 64. Loved that machine.

I’d stand on street corners telling everyone who passed by that one day people would be putting pineapple on pizzas.