Got a new car recently. Was between a Golf GTI and the Astra GTC 2.0 TDI, I opted for the GTC purely down to the fact I do 15k miles a year and I looked to be far more economical. 2 months in and I'm getting around 35-38 MPG. Was expecting far more. Could've gone for the bloody GTI after all! How o...

peypea wrote:A fucking year.

Non-metal you say? According to my last.fm, my last six months have included: Paloma Faith Puppini Sisters Icona Pop Lucky Chops Lyre Les Temps Electric Swing Orchestra Meghan Trainor Taylor Swift Lemon Jelly Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox I seem to fucking love electro swing and do-wop. I'll bl...

Rick Parfitt!

tranmerefan wrote:Went on a training course for work on monday and had to drive. Turns out they pay 45p a mile for your petrol which worked out as £94. It only cost me about £25 for the petrol.

60p per mile if you have 3 passengers

Is the polymer that the new fivers made from not oil based? As in, petrochemical oil? Because once upon a time, that oil was animals too. Albeit zooplankton, but still - sea creatures.

Knew Tet would be tight on the reaction times

Fuck yeh!

+1 on HelloFresh. We get meaty boxes with usually at least one veggie meal in. Recipes are always really good, easy to make, and the quality of the meat they send is second to none. Probably accounts for most of the cost of the boxes.

NeglectedField wrote:Uggggh microfibre cloths feel horrible.

Use moisturiser on your hands. Stops the clingyness.

NeglectedField wrote:I'd just like it if the humidity backed the fuck off.

Yeah good luck with that...

Sounds like you want a job in project management! A friend of mine (who at the time was a project manager) described the job as being very simple: ask people what they need to do to get the project done and then tell them to do it. Can't believe people can get away with charging £600/day to do that...

keera_envenomed wrote:Considering a career change to an agricultural agent so I can get paid a lot of money to be utterly incompetent and disorganised and everyone will just think that is normal.

Sounds like you want a job in project management!

My bet is the adapter. Digital to Analogue requires a microprocessor, rather than just a simple signal circuit, so I think they could be prone to failure. Was it pricey? Can you get it replaced easily?

How about them kitchens, then?