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Big fan of Bosch and Bosch:Legacy. Still need to watch the final season of Legacy. Really good shows.
I had a trial of Paramount+ and watched some of the Taylor Sheridan shows. Really enjoyed Landman with billy Bob Thornton and Lioness (both series). Some of the action scenes in lioness, particularly in season 2 are some of the best action scenes I’ve EVER seen on tv.Yellowstone and 1883 are Taylor Sheridan too. They’re on Netflix at the moment. Both really good although you have to sit through some randomness of Yellowstone series 1 before it gets really good
Is he Elon Musk in disguise? 😂
to be honest the term “civil servant” covers everything from people working in Whitehall to people answering the phones in a Hmrc call centre so it’s a pretty broad term. Got to wait to see who they want to cut I guess.(unless he was specific I’ve not heard what he said).
no matter what they say, people with disabilities will end up getting rinsed somehow. Hopefully I am wrong though!
The worst thing about these policies is that loads of genuine people will get caught in the net and denied access to something they should really have. Especially if the people reviewing claims have a target to hit in terms of reducing the number of successful claims. If you’re close to the line your claim will be in the bin. Then it will cost even more to appeal and maybe go to tribunal etc.
The general public love these kind of policies as they have this idea that they’re getting cheated out of their tax money and it makes them feel better if they think someone is trying to fix that.
The fact is that millions of £ are wasted every single day in every area of the country and that’s just part of the cost of running a country of this size.
Once you add the admin costs of these polices i would imagine it’s hardly worth doing and you’d likely get a better return on redeploying the thousands of civil servants that will be required into reclaiming tax money from something bigger (actual tax fraud for example).
it is my understanding that benefit fraud is nowhere near the top fraud out there yet it gets a disproportionate amount of publicity
One of the reasons I think Farage is doing well is because he can sell. You might not like what he’s selling but he can sell it and he has charisma. None of the others have that really.
Another thing that I’m not keen on is the idea that voting in a new gov will make my life better. It might or might not. I’m sure some people out there have convinced themselves that it will be better with Labour but realistically we can’t predict the future. It might be better, it might be worse or it might be roughly the same.
Off the top of my head, I can’t think I’ve heard anything positive from any of the parties when it comes to people with disabilities?
I can’t think of anything I’ve seen other than Lucy where she’s the main character.
Two great films I’ve seen that she’s in are The Prestiege and Chef. I’d rate both of those higher than Lucy although they’re not really comparable.
Not sure if they’re allowed to be in the conversation as she’s only has supporting roles in them
I don’t think things are helped by the media either. There’s a lot of tribal stuff when it comes to EV’s and journalists know they’ll get a lot of interaction online (which is obviously the point) if they publish certain articles. Especially ones that are designed to scare people, like being forced into an ev when you’re not ready or pushing range anxiety etc.
In think if you took all that away then you would mostly be left with people naturally migrating to EV’s when they’re ready.
EV’s aren’t perfect but they’ve come a long way in 10 years and it will be interesting to see how far they go in the next 10
The bosses at these car manufacturers must have been physically sick when they realised that the billions of ££ they threw into EV’s has been undone by Mr Bean.
It’s hard to think that they all had such a huge blind spot. I know the first question I ask myself when I’m looking at an EV is would Mr Bean drive this? I’m sure that goes for most others too ?
I remember a lot of people making similar comments about the Nissan leaf for having the zero emission badge on the back.
Did anyone ever genuinely look at a little badge on a car and think oh that must mean zero emission in sourcing the materials, building the car, driving the car, charging the car, disposing of the car?
Is it even possible to manufacture anything of that size and complexity, on this sort of scale while producing absolutely zero emission anywhere?
Im sure this is just used as extra ammunition by people who are against EV’s in general you know ?
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There’s a lot of tv series that I end up watching more than once if I love it. I’ve only seen sons of anarchy once and it was quite a few years ago now. I do remember at the time, getting to the end of season 1 and being so excited to watch season 2 that I finished work early the next day so I could come home and watch it!
I’ve just thought of the tv series “Bosch” on Amazon Prime too. I really enjoyed that and also the spin off series called “Bosch Legacy” was good too. If you check out the IMDb ratings for that, the episodes have pretty consistent high ratings. It’s one of those detective shows where each series relates to one case so you can get right into rather than something like criminal minds where the case has to be opened and closed in one 45 min episode
Mollys game
Catch me if you can
Lethal Weapon
The big short
A time to kill
They’re in no particular order and I could easily make another 5 top 5 lists not including any of the above but those were the first 5 that came into my head
The Wire, Breaking Bad, House, Sons of Anarchy, The Shield.
Going to throw some in that haven’t been mentioned that are worth a mention: Top Boy (Netflix, split into top boy summerhouse which you should watch first then the series just called top boy)
This Is Us (Amazon prime. Not my usual as there’s no drugs, guns, car chases, explosions etc. but the way the show moves through time is really good and easy to follow and I think some of the writing/acting is spot on)
Yellowstone (watched fairly recently, it’s really brutal and the first series doesn’t make much sense but after that it’s brilliant. Hasn’t finished as I believe there’s a contract dispute of some sort but will wait and see if anything happens) – that description doesn’t sell it very well does it ?
You know, I didn’t consider hybrids and had no idea the Renault hybrid made that kind of power.
I guess that shows that the type of car is important because I bet that Renault has similar performance to a 1.5 petrol golf even though it has about 50bhp more. (Obviously heavy with batteries)I’d still say, that although most cars are available with a powerful engine, the average person wouldn’t buy that one. For example, I bet there are tons more 320i’s out there than 335i’s.
Slightly different on motab where the price difference between lowest power and highest is just a one off payment rather than a big increase in monthly payment.
My theory was mostly based on this thought – if you make a mental note when you’re driving of cars you pass that probably have over 200bhp there aren’t that many.
but saying that the majority of cars on the road are probably 5-10 years old so maybe that average power increase is yet to be seen on the road. Well that’s what it’s like where I live anyway ?
It depends on the size of the car. For me, somewhere in the 150-200bhp range is ideal.
I’d say that 200-300bhp for the average family car is a bit of an over estimation. I don’t know what percentage of cars on the road have over 200 bhp but I doubt it’s very high. 5% maybe?
Probably even less if you take EV’s out of the equationOf all the cars I’ve leased, I think the only time I had leasers remorse was when I switched from a Seat Leon mk2 1.6tdi to a Leon mk3 1.8tsi. On paper the mk3 was better in every way but I really missed the mk2 for a long time after I handed it back. It was a car that I really enjoyed which is something you can’t see on a spec sheet! I got over it eventually but even now when I occasionally see a mk2 I think ah I wish I still had mine
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The titanium seems to be the colour that all the people reviewing it are recommending. I thought it looked good when I saw it.
I’d definitely get a max for the bigger screen but one thing they don’t tell you in the adverts is that if you’re not very tall and wear skinny jeans it won’t fit in your pocket very well.
Not a problem if you have a handbag to keep your phone in but I only use my handbag on special occasions ?If you’re just buying the phone outright I can’t imagine there will be any significant discounts anywhere yet as it’s so new.
I was in the Apple shop the other day and they didn’t have any in stock so I came home and ordered online. Can’t remember the estimated delivery date but it’s still another week at least.What colour are you thinking of Brydo?
When I was in the shop I honestly thought the pink 15 looked the best out of all of them but I wanted the pro so I went with Navy
I’ve never been a fan of Tesla’s but I actually really like the look of the new model 3. You’d probably have to pay £1.5k on top for the nice wheels and another £2k for a colour other than white.
I watched Rory Reid’s review on it (autotrader YouTube channel) and that was quite good. He demonstrated the indicators on the wheel and to be honest I’d rather have the stalks. Even selecting drive and reverse is done through the touchscreen and I don’t like the look of that either.
I was thinking that it should have a button called simple mode or something where it changes the front screen so all of the basic controls that you use regularly are there in front of you with nothing else to distract you
I wonder how many miles you’d need to realistically drive in 3 years to recover the £8k AP.
I also wonder how much time you’d have to spend plugging and unplugging it over all those miles.
It doesn’t seem like a very good deal to me
I honestly thought we’d never see the likes of the MX5 and Golf GTD return to the scheme but I am pleased that they have.
GTD looks a no brainier if you were considering an R Line as I think it’s a £300 difference in ap.
I’d love an mx5 but I tried to get in and out of one a couple of years ago and it was embarrassing ?
As others above have said, it all depends on your personal circumstances and there isn’t a one size fits all answer to the question.
Even if you got a deal where you pay a bit more overall, it could be worth it if it allows you to sleep easily at night
Skoda Karoq could be worth taking a look at. I’m guessing it’s a similar size to the Renault and the AP’s seem reasonable.
No idea if the Renault AP will be reduced in the future
I’ve always given mine a quick hoover and usually go through the hand car wash a bit earlier in the week so I get to enjoy last few days with a clean car.
I wouldn’t worry if it’s too difficult to do this. All the dealers have someone to valet the cars if they need it so it’s not worth putting yourself through a load of pain
I wouldn’t believe anyone who told me they needed a car with over 400bhp to overtake safely or join a fast road safely. You don’t even need half of that. I would believe them if they said it’s fun
I’ve read a few of the online comments on this article and it just makes me feel sad. I’d love to be able to transfer my disability to one of these haters for a month then give them the option of keeping the disability and getting £280 monthly or going back to their life and not getting the money just to see what they’d choose. I can’t imagine there’s anyone out there who would choose the first option because I know from experience that it is absolutely horrible
