Fly-By-TheWire

I think the train and automobile nerds would feel a bit miffed if that thread was hijacked too. I’m not brave enough to start a plane spotting thread, but if someone does, I will promise to upload interesting photos from my Airbus flight deck (and of interesting aircraft I encounter) if there’s a genuine interest in aeroplane stuff? Spoiler: I don’t have any photos of UFOs/UAPs

Without wanting to sound like Obi Wan Kenobi: ”An elegant aeroplane, for a more civilised era”

It's a chicken and egg thing, though. The problem is that for the technology to advance, they need to sell the cars to reinvest in new technology and make the cars cheaper. At the moment (in the UK anyway) government investment in infrastructure is poor, which means a lot of people are delaying the switch, or going back to combustion engines. I'm lucky enough to be able to afford a decent electric car with a good range, but I still won't do it because I'm just not prepared to spend such a large amount of money on something that for me is just a way to get from A to B. I'm saving up to invest in my own small plane (flying is where I get my kicks) and for the price of a decent electric car I can have one of these :

I got rid of my electric car. It devalued very quickly, too. I actually loved it, but the infrastructure is so bad in the UK it really didn't serve my purposes. Plus, when the service stations are busy, non-electric cars park on the charging spots and no one really cares enough to regulate it. I actually think some drivers do it on purpose TBH. Imagine having to wait an hour for some d*** in Starbucks to come and move his car to let you charge. I have a Pod Point charger at home which seems to have the best reputation for reliability and customer service. Octopus was the most useful provider at the time for overnight charging rates. One of the downsides of electric cars is that in deep winter nights (I drove to work at 3 am quite a bit) you can have the heating on full whack but it just doesn't feel the same as the heat off a combustion engine. Maybe it's regulated to avoid draining the battery too quickly, but it sucks. Everyone I know with fancier electric cars than I had, says the same. There's a very good short-range small electric car from Dacia that I'm considering for the missus, as she doesn't really drive that far, and doesn't need the fancy gadgets that my electric car had.

Am I the only one who feels a bit guilty enjoying Wallace and Gromit since Peter Sallis' passing? I almost wanted them to stop making any more W&G as it felt an insult to let some 'impostor' take the real Wallace's place. Hasn't stopped me watching of course!

Shame. At least NASA still have the 'Super' Guppy. The US will no doubt find a way to keep that one on display when she retires. I think Airbus may have one on display at Toulouse too.

I think the makers of this 1970s cartoon are about to sue Jaguar’s head of creative design. Did he actually get original on anything here? : 1) Can anyone in the target demographic afford it? 2) More importantly, can they park it? Especially in the UK

Fair play! Is Hulk Hogan even able to run around these days?

I think you way be missing the point of tag team wrestling. As in, you need at least two players on each team so you have someone to tag!

It's a batch here in South Cheshire, but up in Warrington it's a Barm. A 'cob' is crusty I think? I'd eat a cob with soup, but I wouldn't cut it in half and put a filling on it.

The two weeks in the run up to Christmas was always special for me as a child. The three-month run-up trend that seems to be the norm these days just devalues the magic of it all. I find that by mid-December I'm sort desensitised to it all and that makes Xmas Eve lose all its magic. My wife has even started following the trend of giving the kids presents on Xmas Eve morning from the 'Christmas Fairy', because all the other parents have fallen for the commercial spin. Bring back the 80s.

So is there actually any team news anywhere for this game? I haven't seen any build-up on any media outlet.

There are only two sports where the ball is consistently in play. RL and Soccer. I can't get in to watching soccer (as much fun and inclusive as it is to play - you don't need to fit a mould) because nothing really happens when the ball is in play, apart from one or two ecstatic moments as a goal is scored. RL on the other hand, regularly builds up to near-scoring moments which keeps the interest there. And when a team isn't near the line you get the occasional massive defensive hit. I do feel we've lost some of the attacking flair over the last 20 years though. I get the 'defence is the key' mantra, and it's true, but I'd like to see something done which could open up the attacking play a bit more. After all, isn't that the Raison D'Etre of Rugby League? Create a spectacle so that people can make money?

Better make a note of that, as I'm off to the Designer Outlet Mall later. Can I keep my British Knights basketball boots?

You must go to the same Big Men’s clothes store as Dave T?