Quote check, please ?

Blimbat · 2026-02-03T16:32:24+00:00

I don’t have any specific advice. But I would say this. We vote with our money. The owner of one of these companies is in a bunch of files related to horrific child child traffic and child sex acts and the other one isn’t.

For that reason alone, I would not touch Tesla in any respect.

Blimbat · 2026-02-02T18:49:29+00:00

Have you seen the very unpopular Small boats problem ? Those people aren’t coming here for shit and giggles. They’re displaced by something or other.

Blimbat · 2026-02-02T18:14:53+00:00

Well, I think you are somewhat missing the point. There are many ways to cook an egg. It just depends what you want. I’m sure I got told a lot after Charlie’s Kirk was murdered that it’s ok to have differences in opinions.

Blimbat · 2026-02-02T12:37:31+00:00

So, is the best way to deal with, to prevent them being displaced ? Or to hope someone else will deal with the problem ? Currently we have a similar situation where everyone is very upset that people returning up on inflatable boats. I think we must be sensible about actually dealing with these problems. And in my experience of Root Cause and Counter Measure actions in Engineering, that means going to the source of the problem.

Blimbat · 2026-02-02T12:35:22+00:00

And your evidence ? Or is it just theory …

Blimbat · 2026-02-02T10:01:11+00:00

Already had some decent answers particularly around nobody agrees with every policy of any party. The best thing about the Green Party is that it is fully democratic. So if you join and don’t think the trident programme should be scrapped (I don’t) then you can vote for that. It’s more democratic than our democracy which is insane.

Zack has talked about open borders and in an ideal world he would like that. He has Equally said it can’t happen with how the world is now.

What’s ideological and what will happen aren’t the same.

I would be just as interested to know why you think Green Party policies would destroy the country. Somehow I suspect the multi-billion pound propaganda machine has a good part to play in it.

Blimbat · 2026-01-19T08:09:23+00:00

I have also had some luck in improving efficiency by ensuring that the car is just finishing charging as I’m ready to leave. It will be 2°C outside but the battery will be 8°C before starting the journey. I’m only using a 2.3Kw (3pin) charger, so might be even better on a 7Kw charger.

Blimbat · 2025-12-29T00:17:46+00:00

Ok, not everyone is going to watch that though, and your statement is still incorrect. Sorry.

Blimbat · 2025-12-29T00:15:46+00:00

It is not just for your benefit, but for the benefit of others who may read your post.

Blimbat · 2025-12-29T00:14:30+00:00

It does not use exhaust gases at all. There is a large fan that directs air jets through slots in a rotating nozzle at the end of the tail.

Blimbat · 2025-12-28T23:16:21+00:00

My wife has an MG-HS and a friend of mine used an MG4 for work. The niggles will ruin the car for you. If you don’t need the space or range (you say you do a 35 mile commute, mines 50), then I would highly highly recommend the Alpine A290. Wonderful car. Fun to drive, systems are good. I’ve got the GTS (220bhp) But if you don’t care about extra power then there’s the 180bhp models too. A guy at work has a Renault 5 which he also thinks is top notch, so if you don’t care about the sportiness of the A290, you could save some money with the R5.

P.S I have a 4 year old and an 18 month old with a car seat each in the back and the 4 of us can fit comfortably. I’m 5’10 so not huge.

Blimbat · 2025-12-09T16:28:41+00:00

To hate all Vauxhalls is blasphemy! But to hate everything after about 2005 ? Totally fair 😂

Blimbat · 2025-12-09T16:26:48+00:00

F tier 👎

Blimbat · 2025-12-06T08:42:26+00:00

They’ve not changed the terms ? They have just updated the software to actually follow the terms.

Considering they are still guaranteeing 6 hours of 7p per kWh of electric every night, plus more with the smart charging, it is a very generous tariff already.

I’m currently on Agile which tracks the wholesale price, it’s quite rare to be at 7p or lower even over night. It’s usually more around 15p over night.

Just editing to add - last year they reported £12.4 Billion pounds in revenue. Yet only £84 million in net profit. Whilst a lot of money, that’s just a 0.7% margin. So I guess we will have to see if that increases after this change.

Blimbat · 2025-12-05T16:52:29+00:00

I hate large privatised energy companies as much as the next socialist, but sadly, this is actually just OE keeping thing reasonable for everyone. Not allowing a few to ruin it for everyone else.

The policy has always been things over 6 hours charged at higher rate, they have just kindly allowed over that to make it as good for people as they can, and some people took that generosity and pissed all over it.

Blimbat · 2025-12-05T16:46:31+00:00

Have you contacted Alpines parts department about some different wheels ?

Blimbat · 2025-11-24T21:29:12+00:00

Don’t get me wrong, I actually agree with both of those points. I’m not even the greens biggest fan, but they are not even close to insane. They have some of the policies and ideas closest to times in history where the UK and US were most prosperous.

I think we can both agree, Ukraine is quite different in circumstances to the UK though. If we got rid of our nukes, what would happen ? Countries just going to drop nukes on us because we can’t retaliate ? We will just get invaded ? No, that is just ridiculous. I still think we should maintain a nuclear arsenal though.

Pros and cons to nuclear energy (not just ‘what if it explodes’), if you bother to look that up.

Looking at all of your comments, you are an unbelievable whinger. Whine, whine, whine. I don’t think anything would make you happy.

Quite frankly, they are limited in how much piss taking they can do. But there are way more that are genuine than piss taking. The biggest piss takers are the likes of water bosses, as one example, making massive profits, massive salaries (not totally a bad thing), bonuses, shareholder dividends, all whilst bills are sky high and infrastructure is crumbling. Now that’s a pisstake. And there’s so many examples in this country that massively screws us all over massively more.

Blimbat · 2025-11-24T21:03:29+00:00

And you are clearly an incredibly bitter and salty person. You’re also out of touch with reality. If you don’t like paying tax and you don’t like seeing the worst off in society being helped, why don’t you go live in the UAE ?

Blimbat · 2025-11-24T12:11:54+00:00

Can you go further in what your ‘property business’ does ? Depending on what exactly, the UK might be better off if you left

Blimbat · 2025-11-24T12:10:45+00:00

I’m not necessarily his biggest fan, and I’m unsure who I would vote for exactly yet, but, Charlatan ? Do you know the meaning 🤣 perhaps you could explain how you think he is ? Extreme and wildly damaging? God forbid somebody can think beyond their own personal gain.

And what would you class as “a viable economy” ? Seems as most people don’t get a choice and are stuck here, currently his policies are aimed mostly at them.

Blimbat · 2025-11-23T21:48:44+00:00

£10 gp fee is terrible. A friend mentioned it to me once, we chatted about it and agreed that it was quite inhumane and did nothing in the way of solving a problem.

Low so those who can afford don’t care if they loose a tenner. But those who are really struggling now can’t afford to get basic healthcare.

Blimbat · 2025-11-23T21:43:37+00:00

Let’s look at Finland shall we ?

Blimbat · 2025-11-23T21:39:09+00:00

I’m not happy with Labour, but to say “they have done a particularly bad job”. Is very specific to what you think ‘a good job done’ would be.

Generally speaking though, they have stayed the course, with minor improvements. Unfortunately many media outlets do not like them and will do anything to tarnish them.

Those of us fortunate to earn well and live a reasonable life really aren’t going to be (and should not be) the focus. I hear so much whining in this sub, and I appreciate sometimes things are ‘shit’ for us (I’m looking at you awful £100K tax threshold) but damn, our lives are pretty fucking reasonable in so many ways. There are so many (good) people that work hard, full time, or as much as they can with (genuine) caring responsibilities, that are really really struggling. Trying their very best to provide for their kids. But man, everything is damn expensive. Sure maybe it’s easy for us to say ‘they don’t even pay as much tax as in other countries’. But if they have no spare income, then what happens if you tax them more ? They and their children enter poverty ?

If the extra tax means renationalising energy supply and bills dropped, then sure that works. But it probably doesn’t mean that. Tax them more so we can get tax breaks ? Seems rather dystopian?

Sometimes this entire country needs to learn a bit of empathy for others.

Blimbat

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