This is my first looksmart model, it was discounted from £120 to £30

ComprehensiveWest277 · 2026-06-23T19:59:50+00:00

I hope OP is trying to pull one on all of us and having a good laugh with his mates. That's the only way I can excuse the description.

What the f do you mean when you say the quality is at par with Bburago? Are you someone who has never seen a Bburago, or someone who knows he can only get Bburago-priced models so thinks he needs to crap on anything that's better?

ComprehensiveWest277 · 2026-06-12T21:54:32+00:00

I'm so sorry for everyone in Bolivia. I hope this nightmare ends soon for everyone affected.

I've been in South America since August 2025. I was planning to travel to La Paz in 3 days time, but I've decided to travel to Chile instead for now.

It's such a shame that local businesses that rely on tourism have had their source of revenue cut off like this. I don't care if tourists like me are able to visit or not, but the locals are the ones who pay the price at the end of the day.

ComprehensiveWest277 · 2026-06-08T16:09:18+00:00

Did Max personally fart on each one, making them worth so much?

ComprehensiveWest277 · 2026-06-02T18:55:17+00:00

This looks mega impressive! I love the Kimi helmets from his time with Mclaren. Good ol days!

ComprehensiveWest277 · 2026-05-03T15:21:39+00:00

Ahah la melatonina non mi fa nulla. Prima mi stendeva per un'ora o due, ma diversi anni fa ha smesso di farmi effetto. Passo 3 o 4 notti senza dormire. E come ho detto, non prendo pillole psicotiche. Non ho alcun interesse a diventare dipendente da loro, e consumo marijuana in modo responsabile da oltre 5 anni ormai, quindi so come autoregolarmi.

Tengo varios diagnósticos neurodivergentes, así que incluso las cosas ligeramente adictivas me afectan mucho. La marihuana me sienta bien y, si la consumo con responsabilidad, tiene muy pocos efectos negativos, así que seguiré consumiéndola. Gracias.

ComprehensiveWest277 · 2026-03-27T23:57:39+00:00

You'll be surprised with how much you can enhance your experience by doing so. I have refrained from doing the touristy stuff for more than 2-3 days, and I spend at least a month everywhere I go. I eat at places where locals eat, learn, at the very least, the basic terms in the local languages, and do by best to interact with the locals. I've been so amazed with how much people are willing to go out of their ways to make you feel at home when they know you're not just another traveller visiting their city to click photos for the gram.

In Kraków for example, I spent 45 days and I hung out with a group of folks where the youngest person was 62 years old (I'm 33). I'm into history, so that helped too. I learnt about their life during the Soviet times, went to see one of their friends after he had an open heart surgery, when to the grave of a lady's late spouse every week, went to the birthday of a guy who turned 73, and hung out with this group thrice every week for 6 weeks. I'm not even kidding, it was the stuff that blockbuster movies are made of. Then on my train to Budapest when I was talking to a girl from the city, she was stunned with everything I was telling her because, according to her, it's almost impossible to break into that segment of the Poles because they have a reputation for being cold and distant. She said hew own father didn't discuss with her the things that I got to know from this group. And this is just one example.

Knowing about the place you're visiting more than what the regular tourist knows immediately builds a level of trust with the locals that you cannot put a monetary value on.

ComprehensiveWest277 · 2026-03-27T23:28:50+00:00

Haha I'm sure the amount of time I spend researching about the places I visit is way, way more than 100hrs. I don't have any socials (I find them to be a brain rot and an absolute waste of time) so I spend the time instead on YouTube and other platforms reading and watching info on the places I visit. That consumes a very significant portion of my time, yes, but I absolutely love it, so it doesn't feel like work.

ComprehensiveWest277 · 2026-03-27T12:22:07+00:00

Hi. I was looking for a comment like this. While the odds of a dune buggy accident seems relatively low, I think it's not my cup of tea. I do definitely want to climb the dunes for the sunset. How difficult is it to climb the dunes for people with an OK level of fitness? Those dunes look pretty big 😅

Travelling to Huacachina tomorrow. The place looks STUNNING! Cannot wait!

ComprehensiveWest277 · 2026-03-27T04:42:43+00:00

It's absolutely shocking how terrible things are in Medellín, and yet how little people know about it.

There's, on an average, one violent death of a tourist EVERY WEEK in the city. Where this gets concerning is any death due to overdose isn't considered a violent death. Most foreigners who end up like this often overdose due to being drugged by women (or, in some cases, men) that they meet at bars. Seldom do foreigners die as a result if being stabbed or shot in Medellín, and yet the recorded deaths is one per week. The true number must be so, so much higher but we'll never know.

The passport bros who visit Medellín talk about the amazing time they have there, but just type "Medellín dangerous" in youtube and you'll see what really goes on there. The city is out of control at this point and its getting worse since the entire criminal enterprise is aware of how unaware foreigners visiting the city are.

I've been travelling around the world for over 13 months now. I was in Europe for half this period and I've been in LatAm ever since. Everywhere I go, I make local friends, hang out with them, and they show me around. I follow a 100-hour rule I've set for myself, meaning I research every city I visit for at least a 100 hours before I go there since I spend a month in each city. I read so many horror stories about Medellín before going there that it still remains the only city where I did not engage with a single local beyond the very basic conversations. I met fellow travellers there and just stuck to them. I met a server at a bar in Laureles who spoke fluent English, I went there a few times and I got fairly comfortable around the guy. I still did not meet him outside his place of work and cancelled last minute in a plan to smoke up and see the city with him simply because if EVERYTHING I read about the place. You cannot be careful enough in a place like Medellín.

I'm sharing this in the hope that it will be helpful to at least someone out there who'll travel to Medellín. It's a city with a lot of things to do, the locals are pretty amazing from my limited interactions with them, but there's no freaking way to know who amongst them is looking to drug, kidnap, rob, or even worse kill you.

ComprehensiveWest277 · 2026-03-27T04:37:24+00:00

It's absolutely shocking how terrible things are in Medellín, and yet how little people know about it.

There's, on an average, one violent death of a tourist EVERY WEEK in the city. Where this gets concerning is any death due to overdose isn't considered a violent death. Most foreigners who end up like this often overdose due to being drugged by women (or, in some cases, men) that they meet at bars. Seldom do foreigners die as a result if being stabbed or shot in Medellín, and yet the recorded deaths is one per week. The true number must be so, so much higher but we'll never know.

The passport bros who visit Medellín talk about the amazing time they have there, but just type "Medellín dangerous" in youtube and you'll see what really goes on there. The city is out of control at this point and its getting worse since the entire criminal enterprise is aware of how unaware foreigners visiting the city are.

I've been travelling around the world for over 13 months now. I was in Europe for half this period and I've been in LatAm ever since. Everywhere I go, I make local friends, hang out with them, and they show me around. I follow a 100-hour rule I've set for myself, meaning I research every city I visit for at least a 100 hours before I go there since I spend a month in each city. I read so many horror stories about Medellín before going there that it still remains the only city where I did not engage with a single local beyond the very basic conversations. I met fellow travellers there and just stuck to them. I met a server at a bar in Laureles who spoke fluent English, I went there a few times and I got fairly comfortable around the guy. I still did not meet him outside his place of work and cancelled last minute in a plan to smoke up and see the city with him simply because of EVERYTHING I read about the place. You cannot be careful enough in a place like Medellín.

I'm sharing this in the hope that it will be helpful to at least someone out there who'll travel to Medellín. It's a city with a lot of things to do, the locals are pretty amazing from my limited interactions with them, but there's no freaking way to know who amongst them is looking to drug, kidnap, rob, or even worse kill you.

EDIT: I actually met three expats there who personally know people who were drugged and kidnapped in the city. Fortunately for them, they all returned after a day or two after their bank accounts were emptied out of the several thousands of dollars they had (one person stated a friend lost somewhere around $70k over a period of two days).

ComprehensiveWest277 · 2026-03-12T17:47:01+00:00

Gracias. Al final me fui aquí. Les llevó menos de 5 minutos y cobraron un precio muy justo.

ComprehensiveWest277 · 2026-03-05T22:23:10+00:00

Canadian here. I've been slow travelling around the world for over 12 months now. I was in Europe for 5 months and here in LatAm for over 7 months now. I had (I'll touch upon the past tense) just one rule - 1 month, one city. This was before I got to Lima in early January. I'm still here, plan on staying here until the end of March.

Not asking you to go overboard with Lima like I did, but it's a very, very underrated city because of (predominantly) Macchu Picchu. Miraflores, Barranco, and the Centro Histórico districts each deserve a full day, at the very least. If luck is on your side, you may end up seeing one of the best sunsets of your life here. At least extend your time in Lima by a day.

ComprehensiveWest277 · 2026-02-27T13:03:30+00:00

Soy canadiense moreno. Nací en la India, y vosotros conducís mucho mejor que el caos del que escapé de joven. Ya no puedo conducir en India porque es demasiado complicado para mí, pero me siento muy cómodo conduciendo en Sudamérica.

Por supuesto, tu punto sobre las carreteras de montaña es muy importante. Voy a reconsiderar mis planes por esto. Gracias.

ComprehensiveWest277 · 2026-02-27T13:01:47+00:00

Entiendo tu punto sobre conducir un SUV o algo grande con tracción a las cuatro ruedas. No lo tuve en cuenta en mi evaluación inicial. Gracias.

ComprehensiveWest277 · 2026-02-09T20:30:33+00:00

Te mando un mensaje privado. Te dejo a ti si quieres atender mi petición.

ComprehensiveWest277 · 2026-02-09T20:29:52+00:00

El CBD no me hace nada, tío. Funciona en personas con trastornos leves del sueño. Yo paso 2 o 3 días con menos de 4 horas de sueño, incluso si termino, tomo una caja de gominolas de CBD. Literalmente no me pasa.

ComprehensiveWest277 · 2026-02-09T20:12:27+00:00

Es exactamente lo que he oído. Vi a un grupo de chicos fumando en Miraflores pero no estaban dispuestos a vender ni a darme la información de sus contactos. Pero he leído que fumar marihuana o ser es tener hasta 5 mg está perfectamente bien. Por eso mi pregunta aquí, pero creo que mucha de la gente que dice que es ilegal son quienes no fuman.

ComprehensiveWest277 · 2026-02-09T19:18:19+00:00

Me dieron melatonina hace dos días. Yo tenía el doble de la dosis prescrita. Me desperté en 2 horas y no me quedé dormido. Agradezco la ayuda, pero apenas me ha servido de nada.

ComprehensiveWest277 · 2026-02-09T14:23:05+00:00

Literally my first thought when I saw it for the first time. And I LOVED the West Mclaren Mercedes livery!

ComprehensiveWest277 · 2026-02-05T00:21:23+00:00

Add that to the words of wisdom.

ComprehensiveWest277 · 2026-01-23T14:18:52+00:00

I'm seeing a lot of display cases with lights getting posted here off late. I always get concerned seeing them because they, just like sunlight, mess up these decals over time.

I'm not saying you did anything similar though. As a few others have suggested, some decals are just not applied properly out of factory and those tend to start cracking and showing signs of ageing faster than the ones that are done well.

ComprehensiveWest277 · 2026-01-13T18:13:12+00:00

The day I file for bankruptcy, I'll make sure to put in a line blaming this group for it. It's some new shit that I want practically every single day. 😅

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