have to hand. Make any kind of horrible electronic noises. Use a fucking 1980s Roland W30 slap bass, who could possibly tell you it's wrong? You think Chris Connelly would tell you not to use it? Of course not!

all the little babygothies who've just spent their first term's student loan on eyeliner and clothing absolutely lose their tiny wee minds about it, who the hell is this, they don't even look a little bit goth?

So goth you can't even see where it started any more.

So yeah use whatever samples you

The great thing about it is you're old enough not to care about conventional norms. You've gone right through the other side. Go to the local goth night in your gardening trousers and John Deere jacket. Walk right up on the stage to the DJ booth, hand the DJ a pint, embrace him like a brother. Watch

I would love to see that.

I was very very fortunate that some time around the start of the pandemic - when I was still not in fact particularly young anyway - my partner found a massive box set of CDs of sermons by some particularly rabid televangelist.

So I'm good for unhinged samples for the foreseeable.

It's just a bit of broken plastic, you've got cable ties and a drill right?

Track stitches!

I have a late-90s Range Rover where when you press the button the first time it locks the doors, and if you press it again within about two seconds it "superlocks" them so you can't unlock them with the door handles.

This is more annoying than useful on a vehicle that age, with worn locks.

@leadedsolder.com I spotted a thing on your post about the Wapuro with the rotten power supply. The two transistors glued together with wires coming out of the epoxy looks awfully like the guts of some sort of temperature-compensated expo converter. You see this in analogue synths all the time.

My old flatmate had one of those. It was insane.

It's the massive cursor pads. That's what's doing it.

Like, you definitely wouldn't want to reuse the tank but there's no problem with recovering the fuel, and at about 90p/litre you'd want to ;-)

Propane is a liquid at around 8 bar, so it's not even high pressure. My old Range Rover runs on LPG and I'm more wary of the air suspension tank at 15 bar.

LPG fuel tanks are pretty safe. I've seen LPG tanks removed from burnt-out taxis (a lot of the taxis here run on gas so they can be ULEZ-compliant, and taxis that get left in the wrong part of town tend to mysteriously go on fire) that were still half-full, despite the car being entirely destroyed.

I'd forgotten about Boom Blox. That was a fantastic post-pub game, way better than Wii Sports.

sand, mud, and stones, and a very small, very important, and very expensive screw from daddy's Steadicam that he's been trying to find for about a week, as it turns out.

This is a thing I find baffling. When my son was two his trousers had functional pockets, but most trousers ostensibly for women don't even have anywhere you could bodge a functioning pocket in.

Why does a 2-year-old have trousers with pockets? What do they put in them, even? Well, squashed pasta,

There's no such thing as "nuclear waste".

One of the Chinese restaurants in the town I live in now has been open for over 40 years at least. We lived near here when I was about 5 years old, and used to get a takeaway from there sometimes :-)

From over here in the UK, it's hilarious how much people in the US grant some sort of mythical status to standard manual gearboxes.

If only someone could come up with some sort of control you could engage to allow you to cruise at a steady speed without touching the throttle.

Same problem with old Range Rover P38s, people fire the parts cannon or "OMG just coil it" for the simplest faults.

It takes 20 minutes to rebuild a compressor and 40 minutes to swap all four airbags - maybe an hour if you waste time taking the wheels off.

Yeah but then what would the people who rant about how they've destroyed their sixth 22" alloy wheel in a month because of all the potholes froth and foam about on Facebook?

Average *American* driver, who is roughly five times worse than average EU drivers.

American drivers scare people from Mumbai.

The prototypes have clocked up around five times as many crashes per mile as the average US driver, and the average US driver is roughly five times worse than drivers in any country in Europe.

So, 25 times as likely to be in a crash in a Cybercab as with a typical UK 17-year-old.

I just buy good-quality stuff second-hand. I don't mind spending quite a bit on a bike - especially one that's going to last my son a couple of years because he's growing so fast - because a shit bike is miserable to ride.

My cars are basically just farm trucks, even - *especially* - the Rangies.

one and possibly two of my Range Rovers.

Twice as much as I spent buying my Commençal Uptown although that was very very much Mate's Rates, at that.

I've just spend 300 quid on a second-hand Merida for my son. It's got a fair bit of adjustment on the seat and bars, 20" wheels, and a 7-speed rear set so it ought to do him for a while.

It's also more expensive than at least four of the cars I've owned in the past 20 years, including at least

But it started off in the proper format, and then was mucked about with so people who were presumably born with their eyes one above the other could watch it.

Why not post the original?

What the fuck is this, normal format video with the weird blur above and below to make it sideways video?

Why the hell would you do that?

This seems quite common in EVs, too, which confused me coming from a nearly*-conventionally-powered car that does not need the brake pedal pressed to start it or put it in gear, it only applies the brakes.

* "nearly" in that it's converted to run on propane, making it ultra low emission.

Is this something normal people would care about or can I just block you?