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They could have written "Man charged after driving through bowling alley." It could have been a mad axe man forcing the car to swerve. The point is that the BBC rarely associate people with car crime. Cyclists collide with cars. Pedestrians collide with cars. They are rarely driven.

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Ian Spencer 🐧 @ian.spennys.world · 6h

They'll probably snag on the high voltage feed to the refinery and still manage to blow themselves up - they've got form for it after all.

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Ian Spencer 🐧 @ian.spennys.world · 7h

Very much WW2 for most of the war.

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Ian Spencer 🐧 @ian.spennys.world · 7h

I'm impressed with the custom number plate. (and the just cos I'm crazy doesn't mean I'm wrong sticker).

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Ian Spencer 🐧 @ian.spennys.world · 7h

The council has a zero-tolerance approach to offensive graffiti - but what's their policy towards light-hearted nonsense graffiti?

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Ian Spencer 🐧 @ian.spennys.world · 7h

In the UK, if something is sold with 0% APR then it is unlawful to offer a discount for cash. My dealer offered 0%, I said I'd not bother cos of the paperwork, test drove, he offered a price, I decided the cashflow was useful - and he refused the loan because he'd done a special cash price. Hmm.

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Ian Spencer 🐧 @ian.spennys.world · 7h

Little thing to look forward to having just rewatched them this week. Riker's exasperation with a drunk crew member. 2 seconds of brilliance in the background.

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Ian Spencer 🐧 @ian.spennys.world · 7h

It's crept in. You'll notice PayPal has an installment offer every time you buy something. Lots of retailers have it as an option with little apparent credit checking. It's reviving the mail order catalogue payments of 30 years ago, paying for small items over 36 weeks at significant interest.

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Ian Spencer 🐧 @ian.spennys.world · 8h

It was the 60 second cut off if you go below a certain threshold which was to do with them working around over-deployment on timed laps. They basically disabled the battery timeout which was kicking in cos the cars were going suspiciously slowly - too slow to spin up the turbo, even on a Ferrari.

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Ian Spencer 🐧 @ian.spennys.world · 8h

Bambi. Hid under the seat at the cinema.

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Ian Spencer 🐧 @ian.spennys.world · 8h

Teams inflicted this on themselves by cheating the system. Amusing guilty "We put this into production without testing it." comments from the FIA developers. Problem fixed in 20 minutes. It took me two weeks to get authorisation to change a configuration switch which we knew was mostly harmless.

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Ian Spencer 🐧 @ian.spennys.world · 14h

I'm going to award a #NoDriverInvolved as there were two cars and only one person arrested, who may not even have been in the BMW. The rest of the article seems to be describing cars in autonomous mode. The BBC really don't believe that cars can crash under human supervision.

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Ian Spencer 🐧 @ian.spennys.world · 17h

My man looks like Brent Spiner realising resurrecting Data at the age 77 is also going to require a strict diet regime.

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Ian Spencer 🐧 @ian.spennys.world · 18h

I have the Yamaha URX44C with HS8 speakers. The mixing facility on the 44C is useful for jamming.

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Ian Spencer 🐧 @ian.spennys.world · 20h

My local shared use path had the expenditure of a painted entry arrow and painted exit arrow. There is no other clue there is a shared path there, driveways, flat entry road, care home entry all to be negotiated without a hint to drivers. OTOH it does stop drivers shouting at cyclists in the road.

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Ian Spencer 🐧 @ian.spennys.world · 20h

If it had been repossessed the car would at least have gone towards their debt. Now they have all the debt and still no car.

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Ian Spencer 🐧 @ian.spennys.world · 20h

I'm afraid he works on the principle that if he starts enough ears then eventually he will have ended enough to win the Peace Prize.

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Ian Spencer 🐧 @ian.spennys.world · 21h

I hate being pedantic about seat bookings, but you know it'll go horribly wrong if you aren't. Basically, be German about it and it works. Perhaps better is the Japanese system where you have to have a reservation for some carriages, other carriages have no reservations.

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Ian Spencer 🐧 @ian.spennys.world · 04/10/2026

The wedge Escort was one of those cars which started out as a sharp and snappy eye-catching design that got worse with every refresh. Yet the Sierra got better from a poor start, as did the Mondeo.

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Ian Spencer 🐧 @ian.spennys.world · 04/10/2026

I wonder what my bike fuel costs are? It's not zero, on a 60 mile ride I'll probably spend £10 on food and drink that I wouldn't otherwise spent, so about 17p a mile.

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Ian Spencer 🐧 @ian.spennys.world · 04/10/2026

The oddest thing about the Bee Gees is at times their singing, even on their big hits, can be quite unpleasant. Robin Gibb's quavering whine, or Barry's overused falsetto, (yet I seem to recall he had a decent normal voice). A great songbook though, even with some dubious lyrics in the 60s.

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Ian Spencer 🐧 @ian.spennys.world · 04/10/2026

But not Presidents? Asking for a friend.

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Ian Spencer 🐧 @ian.spennys.world · 04/10/2026

Now you are just being smug😀

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Ian Spencer 🐧 @ian.spennys.world · 04/10/2026

In Germany, where there is a jam, drivers seem to naturally create a gap just in case before a siren is ever heard. In the UK, much entertainment can be found watching the cars chugging down the outside lane oblivious to the lights and sirens right behind them.

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Ian Spencer 🐧 @ian.spennys.world · 04/10/2026

There is an enthusiast market for building these beasts, complete with buckling spring mechanism which apparently is the magic ingredient.

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Ian Spencer 🐧 @ian.spennys.world · 04/10/2026

Being in IT in the 1980s, there was something magical about the IBM keyboards we used, especially on the dumb terminals we used on the dinosaur mainframes of the era. They seemed to work by ESP, the key depressing themselves as your finger barely brushed their surface. They clacked nicely too.

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Ian Spencer 🐧 @ian.spennys.world · 04/10/2026

#NoDriverInvolved The person arrested is not described as the driver, just a local drunk or druggie passing nearby or living in the house and causing a nuisance at the scene presumably, the car was never driven and there was nobody in it.

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Ian Spencer 🐧 @ian.spennys.world · 03/10/2026

Manufacturers designing features for supposed convenience over safety. My car makes it a feature to exit the car while it is active - exiting deactivates it - but who knows what the driver might do in between coming to a halt & getting out. A keyed auto used to have an interlock - keyless removed it

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Ian Spencer 🐧 @ian.spennys.world · 03/10/2026

I take it you discovered they weren't in the mood by saying...

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Ian Spencer 🐧 @ian.spennys.world · 03/10/2026

In June, they paid a premium on my Euro 5 diesel to close the deal on my Elroq and I can see that it sold within a couple of weeks.😀

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Ian Spencer 🐧 @ian.spennys.world · 03/10/2026

Sitting in my car with the garage door closed, listening to music while waiting for death, because my car is a Tesla and it won't unlock.

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Ian Spencer 🐧 @ian.spennys.world · 02/10/2026

In the UK, a video screen like this is already illegal, but detecting their use would be hard. People don't need extra help to drive distracted, I watched some guy nearly sucking his dick, his head was so far down texting, parked seconds earlier - heading for a line of parked cars. Surfaced JIT.

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Ian Spencer 🐧 @ian.spennys.world · 02/10/2026

However, I think distinct timelines or eras is the only sensible way to avoid death by cannon. Long related series becoming more & more self-referential is the death of imaginative writing.

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Ian Spencer 🐧 @ian.spennys.world · 02/10/2026

I think the fundamental problem is that when movies become series, e.g. the 1970s Superman, or the Burton Batman, or the Star Trek TOS movies, they inevitably cannot sustain the imagination and creativity. A 4th was lined up and vanished into studio politics and money.

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Ian Spencer 🐧 @ian.spennys.world · 02/10/2026

Shaduppaya Face? These were the perils we had to face, sifting for gold on TotP in the TV lounge at Chandos Hall, UMIST.

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Ian Spencer 🐧 @ian.spennys.world · 02/10/2026

Fundamentally, the illogic and impossibility of it is what convinced me against religion. Add in the deliberate gotchas, you cannot have proof as that undermines faith, and a fair few centuries of faith leaders coming up with rules to ensure the faithful are not allowed independent thought...

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Ian Spencer 🐧 @ian.spennys.world · 02/10/2026

My dad was a Methodist Minister, he was bigly into the all-forgiving God. I think his theory was that Hell was for those knowingly being evil as opposed to innocently bumbling through life. "Knowing God and his teachings" together with "deliberately doing evil" - fast track to the down escalator.

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Ian Spencer 🐧 @ian.spennys.world · 02/10/2026

Is that the one that Geordie did on the deck of the sailing ship Enterprise at the start of Generations? It hasn't died out in 2371.

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Ian Spencer 🐧 @ian.spennys.world · 02/10/2026

We have trading standards laws where retailers give a comparative price measure like pence per 100g, so you can see that the bulk product is more expensive than the normal on special offer. People still buy the giant size because it ought to be cheaper.🤔😦

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Ian Spencer 🐧 @ian.spennys.world · 02/10/2026

You'd do it like Britain which uses metric for important things like engineering, but when it came to the public, they panicked and we ended up with grams and pints and things on metric that are actually still imperial measures, like jam coming in 454g jars. We buy petrol in litres but use mpg. 🤔

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Ian Spencer 🐧 @ian.spennys.world · 01/10/2026

At a guess, via Twitter, from Russia with love. Or Facebook. Ditto.

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Ian Spencer 🐧 @ian.spennys.world · 01/10/2026

20 years ago, my boss got himself a Maserati, basically Ferrari with a practicalish body. About £70k at the time. He reversed into a pillar and the one rear panel he hit cost £8k to repair. At the time you could buy new cars for that.

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Ian Spencer 🐧 @ian.spennys.world · 01/10/2026

Spanish cities have generally been revamped to reduce car access. Taking the lane wouldn't make much difference to traffic as it's been heavily calmed and pedestrians are well catered for with cars conceding willingly on ped crossings and crossing lights. Culturally more likely to be accepted.

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Ian Spencer 🐧 @ian.spennys.world · 01/10/2026

I'm going with transmission coolant, my Mercs had a little cooler radiator hung down below the radiator at the front and my 1999 had a leak from the pipework there. It's too dark and oily to be washer fluid.

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Ian Spencer 🐧 @ian.spennys.world · 01/10/2026

I didn't think there would be that much brake fluid in a car - good luck stopping 2.5 tonnes of of van with no brake fluid. Could also be transmission oil - very expensive running an auto box without it.

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Ian Spencer 🐧 @ian.spennys.world · 01/10/2026

It might have been cheaper if they hadn't kept running the engine without any oil. What idiot would see the amount of fluid deposited from the car and think it was sensible to drive or direct it to be driven?

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Ian Spencer 🐧 @ian.spennys.world · 01/10/2026

I would not like to be near her running for the subway.

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