Anyone who has not jumped through the hoops to try to get on the NDIS can fuck right off with their opinions of it being "easy money".

Utter bollocks.

Noone left behind = Stragglers will be shot

The Road Gods appear to look fondly upon sidecarrists, presumably because they enjoy a joke as much as the next deity, so, although I had some pants-wettingly close calls, nothing too serious ever happened.

I, too, think Tucker should be tormented for a very long time for the substantial role he played in the rise of MAGA. Preferably with lots of sharp things and corrosive liquids.

To be fair, that seems to be one of his more evidence based beliefs.

And, given he seems to have chosen to start with Iran, how is that going, exactly?

As someone who has cycled rather more than the average bod, and done rather more recreational drugs than the average bod, I'm afraid I would have to say that, no, it's not. It *is*, however, more useful for getting you from one place to another, actually extant, place.

Picture shows the rear, left-hand view of Razorback, my slightly mad and really rather dangerous Suzuki GSX550 rat/survival sidecar outfit. Rust and grey primer are in copious evidence.

Picture shows the front right hand view of Razorback, and an astonishingly young me, at the Magna Carta Rally in 1995. I look happy, quite possibly because I'd just driven (outfits are always *driven*. If you make a mistake and say "ridden", the Belstaff Mafia will hunt you down and blow rancid pipe smoke at you until you're VERY SORRY INDEED) the thing all the way from Bristol to London without it trying to kill me even once.

Certainly. Here's Razorback, built by a mate and I, with zero sidecar experience, over a manic, sleepless, 36 hours. Looked rough (intentionally), and had some....errrr....quirks, mostly due to budget constraints, but I'm still bloody proud of it.

Isn't that essentially the plot of Artificial Intelligence?

Cars have touchscreens because they're cheaper and easier for the manufacturer. End of.

As someone who suffered well used Japanese tiddlers for many years, I think it's now severely underappreciated how dreadful they were after a few owners and a couple of British winters. It would be hard for the current crop of Chinese clones of the designs to be worse.

I'm pretty sure that whether the pipes are wrapped or not makes zero discernible difference to the power output of a Chinese 125. Or anything else that typically has wrapped pipes.

When you think about it, the US has *always* been, essentially, a slave economy, regardless of what happened in 1865.

In terms of sheer numbers of haters, I suspect Trump has a substantial lead, thanks to population increase and better global communications.

Well, clearly some cultures *are* dysfunctional. Just maybe not the ones Palantir means.

Going off topic a bit, it's interesting that you knew a family who fled Batista but returned under Castro. I've always suspected there might be many such, but they're never mentioned, the emphasis always being on those fleeing Castro and his successors.

Now lets see some footage of it being *ridden*. And not just a 5 mph wobble down an alley.

I'll take the Rex-Acme, thanks. A proper, sporting motor bicycle.

I have some rather discouraging news for Ms Parsons....

A picture of a rather dilapidated copy of "The picture of Dorian Gray" There is visible water damage to the cover and the plastic cover is yellowing. Obviously, not evident from the picture but there is a truly foul musty smell emanating from it!

Last week, a gentleman returned this rather dilapidated copy of this famous book to us after 50 years. He had found it in his attic!
Presumably this means there is a pristine copy somewhere in our libraries....

It may be time to recognise that *all* senior US (most other places too) pollies are, to a greater or lesser extent, awful people, because the system they need to navigate in order to gain their positions is specifically designed to reward awful people.

I likes me a Marx tin diesel, I does. Although the solitary example I own is in the (rather nice) B&O livery instead.

I don't find Marx mechanisms too bad, once they're relieved of their 70 year coating of 50-50 heavy gear oil and carpet fluff.

For a country with a rather fond, collective, national delusion of being an egalitarian society, Australia's class system is at least as rigid as that of, say, the stuffy old UK. I don't think the fact that our rich cunts often don't wear collar and tie is really enough to qualify as egalitarian.

I have much the same theory about Kiss.

From my observations, *if* you can find an EV, from the still limited range available, that suits your needs, and *if* you can charge at home most of the time, an EV is already eminently practical. However, Oz is applying its usual combination of half-arsery and price gouging to the infrastructure.

I has no idea ICE had nabbed him, TBH.

Could be worse. Given how often Harry seemed to turn up in Australia, I thought at one point that we might again become the dumping ground for English toffs too embarrassing to keep at home, and he'd end up here permanently. Luckily, the US seems to have received that particular "honour".

I assume, like the Australian far right, the UK fuckwits just regurgitate thinly anglicised talking points from the usual suspects in the US. Sometimes not even *thinky* anglicised.

I love roundy-roundies. Well designed, you can operate them realistically as an end to end if you really want to, but it's nice to be able to just set something going and let it go round.