therealhantsram

Hands down the internet.
For the impact it's had, nothing even comes close.
Roll back 30 years, and see what other technology even comes close to changing the world in the same way?
Literally every other advance since has been spawned by it.
 

Some irony that I am reading this advice on a website! All too meta for me ?

Some irony that I am reading this advice on a website! All too meta for me ?

I suggest you stop looking at IMDb for guidance and form your own opinions! I’ve never heard so much nonsense as “Severe”. Mr Robot is about a hacker ffs! As in computer hacking not bone hacking! 
 
If you let websites guide your life, you may as well not bother living because somewhere there’s a website that would advise against absolutely everything possible!!
Missing out on so much good TV. Tell me, have you ever tried sexual intercourse? There are books and websites advising against it!! 

I think it highlights how lucky we are to be living in the environment we do. 
It's not just the North that was shabby in the 70s.
We all just got used to it. Homemade clothes were quite prevalent and cheap cuts of meat more common than steak and choicer cuts we now take for granted. 
Kids would often play at the dump or in run down buildings which would cause a major panic now! 
I might give the Ripper series a go but I remember it quite well. So many needless deaths after they first suspected Sutcliffe. 

Loving Battlestar Galactica at the moment (BBC2 & iPlayer)
Even Mrs Wolfie, who's not ever normally into space ships exploding type stuff is gripped & even wanting to stay up late to binge-watch.
Properly good Sci-fi & drama. Kicking myself that I've left it as long as I did to watch this.

KM... How bitter? ?
Mel made you look a fool in the Summer.
Get over it.

Quick reminder
 
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Trying to make a name for himself as an eGamer as far as I can tell. I guess must have had lots of free time to play Xbox recently.

Come on that's always been part of Trek, going right back to the 60s series there was a social commentary on racial segregation, communism, and an overriding anti war perspective. All at a time of MLK, the McCarthy witch hunts and the Vietnam war. Call it value signalling if you like. But like it or not, It's a core part of the show. 
Series 1 was classic Star Trek in that respect.

Come on that's always been part of Trek, going right back to the 60s series there was a social commentary on racial segregation, communism, and an overriding anti war perspective. All at a time of MLK, the McCarthy witch hunts and the Vietnam war. Call it value signalling if you like. But like it or not, It's a core part of the show. 
Series 1 was classic Star Trek in that respect.

Scroll back, you'll find we had that debate on here last week. I'm with you on this one.

Based on that list I think you would like Escape at Dannemora. I think it's available on Sky on Demand or Now TV.

I thought it was trying too hard to be the new Breaking Bad, but the characters just weren't likable enough. I quit after 4 episodes because I just didn't care what happened to them.
Horses for courses I guess.

For anyone who likes Queens Gambit, I would also recommend Alias Grace and Godless. Both on Netflix. Both limited series of about 6 episodes.
Alias Grace is probably closest in tone and pacing. Godless is a lot more violent, but is from the same producer- director as Queens Gambit so shares some key themes despite the very different settings.

i think he might go something like this.

he would find a way to get that front 4 on the pitch together i'm sure

Bielik = Thorne
Bird = Hughes
Knight/Sibley = Bryson/Hendrick 
Shinnie in the Eustace role, Holmes as cover for the advanced two.
Lawrence, Jozwiak  Ibe, Whittaker vs Ward, Russell, Dawkins, Bamford
Waggy, Rooney, Kazim vs Martin, Sammon
Keogh and Buxton vs Clarke and Evans/Wisdom/te Wierik/Davies
Grants's distribution vs Marshall's

I actually have a thing for Portrait Artist of The Year on Sky Arts.
Fascinating to watch the portraits come together in many different media. 
 
Then the joy of shouting at the telly because I don’t agree with the judges!

Finished the final episode of the 2nd series of this last night, only to find out that a 3rd series looks in doubt. Would be a crying shame if it didn't get a chance to complete at least another series. 
Excellently written - especially the interviews held with Edmund Kemper, Charlie Manson et. al. and the two lead FBI agents in particular were very well acted. 
David Fincher's (House of Cards) influence as producer is clear too. Really well made show.

I’ve kind of given up on the first team and I’m just pretending premier league 2 is the highest echelon of football and all the rest doesn’t exist. 
the games are free to watch, we play great football, we win against big clubs, we’re top of the league. What’s not to like about that?

Head turner because it's particularly ugly? ? And that walnut effect inside. I agree.  Seems they are banking on a 70s revival that just won't happen.
 

A friend has an electric VW Golf and loves it. Does mostly short journeys. Used to fill up with petrol twice a month. Now it’s 20 quid on the leccy  bill. They have a static in the lakes (live in Burnley) It will make that one way trip without difficulty unless you hammer it. Charge falls very quickly above about 55/60 MPH. Biggest expense ? Closing the tailgate on a new iPhone ! 
 
I’d love one but not ready for that leap yet. Charging time and infrastructure have a way to go for me but if anyone wants to give me an iPace I wouldn’t say no ?

I’m very seriously considering upgrading my Peugeot 3008 to a new hybrid 3008 when it comes out in January. 
we’re on a PCP scheme with Peugeot, so we pay monthly. We pay about £250-£300 a month on petrol. Before lockdown my wife would have to drive about 80 miles a day, and I’d have to do some long trips to Manchester. We were spending about £500 a month between us. 
Electric motor has a range of about 40 miles, which is exactly what my wife needs to get to her new work and back. 
so I figure, if it increases our monthly payment by £100-£150 we should be quids in. 
we also have solar panels, batteries, and a leccy tarriff that pays us for using electricity during the night, which should reduce recharging costs to virtually zero. 
thinking of investing in a fast charger too. That way I can finish work, get home at 5, stick it on to fast charge, and then it’s fully charged ready for her to get off to work at 7. 
I did fancy a full electric for my next car, going hybrid feels a bit like being a vegetarian who still eats fish and chicken on special occasions. But I think a plug in hybrid is a good, sensible half way house til the infrastructure catches up. 

Depends on your range - if you really are only doing the school run look at some gen one plug in hybrids that you can now pick up quite cheaply (Vauxhall Ampera, BMW I3, Nissan Leaf) as long as you can get a low mileage one that hasn't had the batteries hammered.
I have an Ampera which I bought a few years ago, currently doing about 94mpg (it has a petrol engine that kicks in when the batteries run out). Most of my runs in it (especially in the last six months) are less than 30 miles, I honestly can't remember the last time I was at the petrol station. One point, less so in modern versions, is that range differs significantly summer to winter - my Ampera charges to about 40 miles electric in summer but in winter that is down to 28-30 miles and in colder weather that can end up being a couple of miles less.
But, to repeat, if you really are doing a few <10 mile runs a day it's a steal - I reckon by the time I trade in mine I will have saved more than half the initial outlay in fuel savings and I'll sell it around half what I paid for it. Not many cars you can say make you money.
I love the ride in electric mode, it's totally different as you don't have gears and torque is way above a petrol equivalent. But I'm still not in a head space where I think we can commit to all electric - just still need that petrol engine 'other car' for the long motorway trips.

some of my Vehicle Engineering colleagues at JLR, when we were still working on the PHEVs and MHEVs, got to test a lot of the then-existing electric cars. They take some getting used to, instant power and re-gen on the brakes. 
From memory, the Nissan Leaf, from a practicality, engineering and driveability point of view, came out as the overall favourite. It may be a bit pokey, but hey ho.