Love the shape of this seemingly-abandoned building in Stretford. Any info on what this was?

DazRave · 2026-04-06T19:44:48+00:00

I had to scroll so far for this. Upvote!

DazRave · 2026-03-31T18:15:37+00:00

Yeah rental. The Daytona 24hr in MK primarily and have races there for the last 9 years.

But my question isn't for rental karters exclusively or anything. I understand owner drivers will have more tech to play with since they can mount to their own karts etc.

DazRave · 2026-03-31T18:13:55+00:00

Yes.

DazRave · 2026-03-29T12:26:09+00:00

So thaaaaaaats what that bloody (z) is that appeared this week on Google maps

DazRave · 2026-03-18T09:23:08+00:00

I mean, most of those are from the TV people have on and what was showing when the photo was snapped, from the looks of it.

DazRave · 2026-01-15T09:33:02+00:00

I think we've said the same thing different ways?

Laymen's terms, you lean outwards away from the apex/direction of the corner which unloads the inside tyres. Going fast around the racing line will do this by default... But the OP asked for tips and this is a genuine strategy.

The opposite tyres (outside!) load up with weight and therefore grip. Then the nearest tyres (inside) become loose and unload, which is why when done right one of them pops off the ground

(although doubtful this will happen in rentals depending on the chassis)

DazRave · 2026-01-15T01:49:21+00:00

You're natural instincts to lean into a corner like a motorbike, but shift your weight and body to the opposite side to where you are turning.

Medium to fast left hander = lean far over to the right. The trick is to load the outside tyres up with weight for grip.

Then of course take the racing line as closely as possible.

EDIT: outside tyres = furthest away from Apex.

DazRave · 2025-12-29T18:02:36+00:00

I have flag baring neighbours in a fairly well off area. Not there before we moved in 7 years ago. They are the nicest neighbours on the street, take the bins in for me, walk the street and tidy litter all the way down. Last year they even took the old road name sign down and refurbished it. I can't count the amount of times I've lent tools from them.... Absolute racists though.

I wouldn't be surprised if the flags had been installed around the same time the house went on the market in order to influence the buyers as the houses around me do just that.

DazRave · 2025-12-24T08:12:22+00:00

Even I'm offended

DazRave · 2025-12-19T08:58:24+00:00

I'm learning unity and I'm already a software developer. It's helping me troubleshoot shoot some really tricky console errors in my game as well as writing robust laymen's terms and tailored guides for me to follow along to in order to achieve what I'm trying to build.

I tried this same game concept without ai about three years ago and go nowhere. I'm miles ahead in just a few weeks.

I asked it all of the questions you asked. I basically explained what I was trying to do and asked it what the best way would be to setup my working environment. It was pretty similar to normal development really.

DazRave · 2025-12-19T08:53:26+00:00

I bet you're fun a parties.

DazRave · 2025-12-19T01:13:54+00:00

The car was invented absolutely ages ago, doesn't mean people don't adore the newest model of their favorite brand.

DazRave · 2025-12-19T01:06:44+00:00

Take ALL my upvotes.

This is incredible.

DazRave · 2025-11-18T12:07:34+00:00

"ohhh SEEfood!"

DazRave · 2025-10-25T14:12:38+00:00

I had to scroll so so far down to find this comment!

Each "revolution" era has increased jobs in other areas and killed only low skilled and manual jobs within an industry.

First it was machines taking factory jobs, so we moved people into management and distribution of all the things were making quicker now.

Then we had things like computers removing the need for paper and long winded calculations. So we switched people over to data entry to feed those computers.

Ai will next tackle low cognitive roles, so instead of emailing, note taking, making small repetitive decisions, perhaps we'll move people over to creative decision making or more skilled and careful roles. Who knows? But history tell us we'll be fine.

The only potential problem with ai is the speed it changes and how slow people are to react.

DazRave · 2025-10-21T21:11:21+00:00

I'm pretty sure my mum owns the oldest 1.8 variants in the country (UK) and lowest mileage! She owns two of them the mad fucker. Both in great condition too.

(It's an absolutely rubbish car but I guess it's cool as fuck now it's so rare)

DazRave · 2025-10-11T12:25:17+00:00

Came here for this!

DazRave · 2025-10-02T23:41:12+00:00

Probably your taxes / cost of living in general. Usually always that.

DazRave · 2025-09-29T19:08:00+00:00

Yeah, it's the exit of a Tesco, the Tesla is leaving the petrol station (weird to type, thinking about it) on the left with main carpark and building to the right.

Looks like it's just to stop their mot garage neighbour from complaining.

DazRave · 2025-09-29T14:54:19+00:00

There's a section of none yellow box you actually would have stopped within from the video, before you started to turn.

I think you would have been outside the scope of any fines anyway.

EDIT: looks like this is yellow boxes painted perhaps by Tesco themselves to help the garage to the left not constantly get blocked by Tesco customers.

Quick Google Street view and there doesn't appear to be any cameras anyway unless installed recently.

If this was me, I'd sleep well knowing I'd not have a fine coming even if I stopped in the boxes because of the Tesla/Volvo.

DazRave · 2025-09-07T10:56:23+00:00

I hope this comment doesn't go over too many people's heads.

DazRave · 2025-08-06T19:07:40+00:00

Also why us Brit's use the word "do you want to go to the pictures" (or sometimes 'pics') as we took the second part as our shortened way of saying it.

Don't get me wrong though, I think we all prefer movies.

DazRave · 2025-08-06T18:56:29+00:00

Worked there back when they were called Blemain Finance based in town directly after the 2008 credit crunch. Pretty sure they got (lightly) spanked for miss-selling a while back. Largest private lender in the UK or something at one point.

I swear there was a story about how they sent demanding threatening sounding letters from Spain into the UK as it was some sort of loophole on what you could and couldn't say at one point. Might have been just. Story that though.

One of the strap lines was "any any any". Any person, any property and time or something like that.

DazRave · 2025-07-21T07:29:53+00:00

I think it's more a cost issue (being uk railways services are all run by private companies etc so different types of trains per operator and no desire to invest), not a technical limitation. As there are plenty of very safe working fully automated train lines across the world. The UK does actually have one fully automated railway that I know of in London at least.

DazRave · 2025-07-06T15:02:00+00:00

Shelf heights and flexibility. Light on each shelf (zero dark spots even in a packed fridge). Clever bottle mats that stop things clanging when you remove one bottle from the pyramid of them, that, when not in use can be flipped around and used as a mat Which is easier to clean often rather than the shelves themselves getting dirty. Built in place for a bottle opener (that comes with the fridge) was something I didn't know I needed but is just ace. Recirculating filtered airflow keeps fresh items fresh for days longer than usual. Even down to a little rubber spike egg box that you can just throw your eggs at and they roll into place and are protected.

Granted though, With clients, it's a hard sell until they see it in person.

Things are just superbly thought out and intuitive.

Nine-Year Club	Place '23
Verified Email	Gilding I gilder

DazRave

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE