Antony Ingram

Yeah I'm pretty okay with spiders but I draw the line at some things 😆 Other day I found a big bugger of a house spider crawling out from under a bag I'd put on my bed. First thought was "did it arrive there with the bag, or was that in bed with me five minutes ago?..."

Bloody hell. I guessed at the brake thing being a problem, but the rest of that is pretty mad too.

They use a rolling road for things like handbrake effectiveness right? I can imagine some EVs throwing a bit of a wobbly being made to do that kind of thing, and probs not as simple as turning traction control off or whatever.

I tend to naturally think of any jacked-up thing C-seg and below as a crossover, and anything bigger than that an SUV. So a BMW X1 or X2 is a crossover, but an X3 or X5 is an SUV. For say, Lexus, LBX/UX are crossovers to me, NX/RX are SUVs. RAV4 now big enough to be an SUV, I think.

Building a web across a gate and complaining about people walking through it is like moving next to a race track and complaining about the noise.

It reminded me a bit of this.

A+ for effort for the spider that strung a web across a gateway as it caught a lot of flies.

F for execution because when I walked through the gate I not only destroyed your web but also walked off with your food across my arms and t-shirt.

Now that sir is a racing car 👌

I started Celeste a while back. Definitely enjoyable even though it's not normally my kind of thing, but it really is quite difficult and as my gaming time is precious I find I can't really plough loads of time into things that I find a constant struggle...

Fab looking Alfa from today.

Not been to a Southside Hustle in a while. Early start (4:30am) but some great stuff there today, and good to catch up with a few people too.

Insane to me that this tech is so often being used for creative pursuits, i.e. the things we should be doing *more* of as human beings. The people pushing for it must be the most creatively bereft on the planet.

Big thanks to @kuangeleven.bsky.social for sending me the Alfa I was never going to end up finding in the shops around here, plus an onigiri-powered bonus 🍙

Only two colours on the Rallye (in the UK at least) and I think neither had clearcoat - both are solid colours so I guess less important than with a metallic.

Very cool! That green racer looks fab.

I dunno exactly what paint the Peugeot has but there's no clearcoat on it, so stuff like T-Cut gets right down to business. Does mean the paint oxidises easily (last polished it in about 2022 and it was almost flat at that point, still better now than it was then).

I've had the thing hand car-washed a few times and I figure whatever cleaner they use affects the top microscopic layer of paint (it's the original paint and there's no clearcoat on this white, which probably makes a difference). T-Cut presumably just clears up that top layer.

I know this shouldn't really be surprising but a couple of hours of T-Cut has really brought up the 106's paint. Those streaks weren't coming out with a wash or rapid detailer - think a washing chemical affected the paint. Gone with a pretty half-hearted pass with T-Cut.

You're a loose cannon, Porter.

I dunno what it looked like elsewhere but also it doesn't seem in such bad condition to me. Probably done half the miles of a US car too, and given safety inspections out there are pretty lax, it may well be mechanically better than a cheap US car too.

An LS like that would be a £1500 car here today, and a half-decent Chaser is easily £15k or more.

It's doesn't seem that odd a concept though. Dude clearly bought it cheap over here, used it for however long while he was stationed here, and liked it enough to have the military ship it back 🤷‍♂️

Not in the UK they don't, and a good Chaser is like ten times the price that LS probably cost. Wouldn't have been difficult to bring back either if they're in the military.

I like my Steam Deck, suits certain sorts of games quite well (arcade racers, platformers). Less good with complex stuff - I tried Papers Please on it, but too much going on. It's also a big old thing so a bit of a PITA to actually bring places.

Can't say I'm into the CrossCabrio (though I do quite like the regular Murano), but the SSR is very my kind of thing.

Additional shot of that Fiat Coupé from yesterday, because I happened to be driving something else yellow and Italian and couldn't resist stopping for a pic...

Quite like the way those are styled, even though there's a bit of Smart/Twizy ripoff in there...

90s F-150 next to it too, those can't be that common any more.

Would be interesting to stick a decibel meter in the car on either side of the channel. The coarse concrete of the M20 is *so noisy* compared to what's on the other side.

It's starting to feel uncharitable criticising cars for riding poorly in the UK, since most are fine in France, Germany etc.

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The original GTA narrowly predates the original GT, and I'd be surprised if there's not something station-wagony in that too.