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You can't beat new car day.
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You know what these modern electric cars are like Alex, like an iPad on wheels. Might be worth considering...:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Alex_UK
There was talk about making "New car registration" day a public holiday. So that all those who can't afford a new car can line the streets and wave at those who can.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
cheap way to charge it. :D
https://i.redd.it/6d3k3chhkf8z.jpg
There's one of those VW Beetles been sat opposite my house for about two weeks now. One tyre is completely flat. Starting to wonder if it's been abandoned.
Thinking about breaking it bit by bit. Must be a few quid there.
Arrived and used so it's not new no more.
Nice car, drives well. Will take a while to get used to ithttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...41b28d6a79.jpg
Nice car grant!
like the colour.
The styling is...interesting.
It'll be a good car Grant. Hyundais are decently put together.
seems well enough put together so far. plenty headroom for me too getting in/out. still working out what majority of stuff is lolQuote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
lol, in what way?Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
think its surf blue mate. i quite liked it personally.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gazjam
Actually it's dive blue
Love it :lol: if only we could make it happenQuote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Car is charging.. remote on phone is very handy. Biometriclly controlled so you need my finger to get in.
Up to 252 miles range, and 86% charged
Can defrost it, heat it up, lock and unlock etc all from my seat indoors.
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...ae6c8677fb.jpg
A lot harder to lose your fingers than your keys. Just be sure to keep them within easy reach at all times, and don't let anyone else get their hands on them :)Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
I think it's probably the lack of a radiator grill that makes it look "interesting". But then a radiator grill on an electric car is unnecessary and just a wind scoop. Not good for economy. Personally I like it's face, better than Tesla's.
yup cheaper too. i dont have a fancy electic low rate for charging, so just same price for everything. i reckon its cost me about 2 quid for an equ of about a gallon or so in last car. so thats a third the cost. all rough est of course.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
It has a mouth nose eyes and eyebrows.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Can't see a hole for the starting handle though :).Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
drives well and i dont have to worry about petrol prices....just lecky prices:doh::D
I bet it's pretty quick off the line too. These evs always seem to be nippy, and effortless with it :)Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
true steve. when you have it in sport, the throttle can be vicious if you really stab it. over 200bhp in an instant..no lag:stalks:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
smashed my knee yesterday again. outside edge and im paying for it today. :rolleyes:
Bugger... hope it comes right soon. Do you need both legs good to drive the Kona, and if not is it your driving leg?Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
yeah my good leg... still it's not as bad as last time. more bone and nerve i think. bashed it into a fence postQuote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
On Sky Arts just now, there was a documentary called 'The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On', with an introduction saying "....a favourite haunt of the Beatles that now plays host to stars like Adele". That may be true, but it just shows how values change. The Beatles back then, would have been horrified to have been mentioned in the same breath as anybody like Adele.
I thought the original was knocked down and another built across the road :scratch:
They may have got on with Adele; they were very supportive/friendly to Cilla ?
some infoQuote:
Originally Posted by guy
https://www.cavernclub.com/blog-post...nhistorymyths/
The new one is on the same side of the road as the old one. There's an empty lot where the old one was, full of aircon vents for the shopping mall next door.Quote:
Originally Posted by guy
I went to the opening night of the new one. There were no Beatles there and it was packed so did not stay long.
The old Probe Records shop is just a few doors down. That's now a restaurant. I've eaten in there a few times but feels a bit weird knowing what it used to be like.
Then:
https://i.ibb.co/yqsKFCP/probe.jpg
Now:
https://i.ibb.co/Z2S617P/buttom.jpg
The Disneyfication of Liverpool became chronic some years ago now.
When things go upmarket, they go down in social worth. It's the usual trend.
Everywhere is designed to have the widest appeal (including "child friendly" FFS) and blandness is the result.Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
I think a lot of places ask the parents to take away their kiddies by 9pm, but this is too early. I would say 6pm is better, and come 6pm i would enforce this by playing Wayne County and the Electric Chairs' "Fuck Off" on the sound system. At full volume. That'll shift the buggers.
Hah that's true - although Probe is still going just in a different location.Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
I think McDonalds run the opposite policy where you not only must have young children with you but also they must be able to scream continuously at very high levels.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Cheers Grant (and Martin for subsequent post) - very interesting stuff :)Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
asda delivery there so im all stocked up. never seen so many substitutes especially as i checked it yesterday ... we are soon going to just have a few staples:doh:
supermarkets have been discontinuing products I like for decades. Try buying some proper frozen American waffles these days. They all used to stock them including Asda which was the last to stop selling them some time back in the early 1990s.
even Amazon don't sell then in their 'American' shop.
I like the Sainsbury iced donuts but go in after 10am and they're sold out. That's always been the case. They have no way to tell how many they would have sold if they put more stock out.
Went into Kwik Save once, only after a couple of things, plain digestive biscuits, tin of tomato soup and I forget what else but it was something totally ubiquitous. Sold out of all three.
All of this was way before pandemic, shortage of drivers, shortage of shipping containers etc etc.
There should be some sort of tagger next to the price card you can swipe your phone on and it tells them 'Yes I would have spent some more money with you if you had the thing I wanted.'
With this ordering on-line thing they just flog you a 'substitute' instead so it's better for them as they still sell you something instead of you walking out empty-handed. No incentive to improve.
With the corner shop I just tell him what I want and he gets it in from the cash and carry. He still can't get proper waffles though.
Well that will help with holding it all together :)Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
boom, boom;)
They're a bugger for substitutes - sometimes they're acceptable, but I draw the line at getting Solvol Autosol instead of Colgate :(Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Are Kwik Save still around? They don't deserve to be. I remember their adverts, featuring items at a greatly reduced price, but when I go in they never had any. Probably limited to one tiny store on the outskirts of Burnley which had 2 tins of half price baked beans.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
I wonder if the days of the big out-of-town superstores are numbered, and will become warehousing/distribution centres - when only a small percentage of the population can run an ev, because most folk live in a terraced house or block of flats with piss-poor parking and no reliable access to charging points, deliveries will become the norm.
Not to mention the cost of EVs. A small petrol Fiat 500 starts at around £12,500 new, the electric version double that!Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
start a new political party.. the AG&W party. :eyebrows: (anti green and woke) it might do very well:D
no there's been no Kwik Save for years. We used to have Co-Op ('Pioneer'), Kwik Save and Iceland. If you want lack of stock that Co-Op was the worst ever, acres of empty shelves. Quite often they'd have no fresh meat at all. It was like living in Soviet Russia. This is years back too when lorry drivers were ten-a-penny.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
The Kwik-Save became Lidl and then the idiot Council decided to bulldoze some Grade II listed Art Deco buildings and replace them with a big, ugly tin shed for a Sainsbury, which they justified by saying it would draw people in to the town and revitalise the place. (It didn't).
The crappy Co-Op closed about two months after the Sainsbury opened. It's now a BHF furniture shop.
Recently Iceland closed and the Lidl next door to it expanded into their old building so we now have a massive Lidl. Not been in it though.
I don't think these big supermarkets will close, likewise the retail parks. Whereas I see shopping as chore that has to be done as quickly as possible so I can get back to the telly, for many it seems to be an outing similar to going to Disneyland.
There's lots of people driving about 'going to places' for no other reason than they can't think of anything better to do.
Why not invest in a waffle iron, they must be awesome homemade.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Too much mess. Besides I liked the frozen ones.
I think I prefer them thawed myself. :)
Anyway, are you talking about the potato ones or the pastry ones?
My central heating is faulty. Will have to phone when I get home.
Had to do it when temp went below freezing doh
Pastry.Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
how about these.. https://www.u-buy.co.uk/product/LK3H...z-box-24-countQuote:
Originally Posted by Macca
out of stock.
They're always out of stock. I stopped bothering to check years ago.
Ask Alexa if she'd like some toast.