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.
Buwheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh, dunng. Ge-dunga-dunga-dunga. Nggggggggggghghghghghgghghghghghghghghghghghgh...!
I'm assuming that it'll target some property of Trump's that has recently had its insurance significantly bumped.
Trump gets his excuse and the insurance payout and his rabid supporters get further evidence of his exceptionalism.
Brumblebury Zoibbbble checking in!
A nice tall glass of raw ice, please.
As opposed to the American Boddle'a'Wardder?
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.
My parents passed their use-by dates and left me enough cash that we could afford a main contractor who's pretty much sorting it all out. So far super impressed with them compared to builders I've used in the past.
Dodgy builders or overambitions DIY project?
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.