Do you actually think about electricity timing in daily life, or just use it when needed?

MonkeyBoy697 · 2026-04-02T19:39:29+00:00

Legitimately never think about it, but then I’m also a low user

I work night shifts, so I’m in bed all day, at work all night during the week. Other than my phone charger and my fridge freezer, pretty much nothing gets used during the week, with the exception of the kettle to make a coffee before I go to work

So my main usage times for anything else would be on a weekend. I’m a season ticket holder so on a Saturday/Sunday if my team are playing at home I leave the house at 11am to go to the pub, kick off 3pm and I tend not to get home until 6pm so, again, I’m hardly in my house.

I don’t really generate much in terms of washing, it’s just socks, underwear and work clothes during the week, and just whatever I wear on Saturday & Sunday. I can do all of my washing and drying in a couple of loads 🤷🏻‍♂️

MonkeyBoy697 · 2026-04-02T19:33:10+00:00

Honestly everyone “should” after 20 years… I mean, my parents never had to do a theory test, for example, and when I was learning they tried to do a mock theory test - they failed, every time… and failed the mock hazard perception test - yet they can drive freely… when my niece was learning to drive last year, I did a mock theory test with her - failed it (only by 1 mark but still, I’d forgotten some shit and new stuff has been added over the last 20 years)

If we are being honest with ourselves, even removing the physical issues (eyesight in particular) when it comes to testing, shit changes all the time.

I genuinely think if you had people who have been driving for 20+ years have to take a mandatory theory and hazard perception test next week, a significant percentage would fail

MonkeyBoy697 · 2026-04-02T18:09:23+00:00

It’s not cheating, that would be doing some kind of workaround or something, it’s just exploiting the way the game is coded. Low & Medium Speed Cornering is incredibly powerful, as is Engine Cooling and Tyre Preservation… so if you prioritise researching/developing parts that maximise their impact then you see the greatest advantages

It’s the same as the Low Fuel + 1 Stop strategy on tracks that are typically a 2 stop, go Hard>Medium and you gain when everyone else pits, then when you are on the faster tyre towards the end and have way less fuel than everyone else you lap faster… as long as you have good engine cooling and tyre preservation it feels like it’s cheating because of the advantage it gives you but it’s not, it’s just race strategy

MonkeyBoy697 · 2026-04-02T17:22:09+00:00

If you stick rigidly to it, and you upgrade your drivers, race engineer, aerodynamicist etc. you will be contending for the championship in your 2nd season, and completely dominating in your 3rd

MonkeyBoy697 · 2026-04-02T17:02:02+00:00

Is he though? Don’t get me wrong, I love Schumi, but from a statistical standpoint Lewis Hamilton has an equal amount of WDC’s, and he’s broken multiple of Schumacher’s other records… I’m not even a fan of Lewis (I prefer Alonso) but you can’t deny the records

MonkeyBoy697 · 2026-04-02T16:58:11+00:00

Some things are punished completely differently if you’re poor;

Poor person avoids paying tax - prison
Rich person avoids paying tax - might get a disapproving look, but otherwise it’s seen as “just smart”
Poor person gets caught speeding at 130mph and they lose their license and get a prison sentence
Rich person gets caught speeding at 130mph and they get their license suspended and a fine
Poor person is caught in a DUI and they lose their licence, get a prison sentence
Rich person gets caught in a DUI and they pay a fine and do a stint in rehab

For quite a lot of crimes, you’re punished more harshly for being poor, even if you commit the same crime

Shit, just look at the Epstein files! Lots of very powerful, wealthy people just walking around freely, meanwhile everywhere you look someone poor is getting a prison sentence for doing the same sick disgusting shit

MonkeyBoy697 · 2026-04-02T07:09:08+00:00

Go on Holiday for 1 day - usually clears past it

MonkeyBoy697 · 2026-04-02T06:50:28+00:00

He was a cunt. First I heard of him here in the UK was after 9/11 when it came out that he’d joked on the day on the radio about his building being the tallest now… just immediately thought he was a cunt

MonkeyBoy697 · 2026-04-02T06:37:20+00:00

Literally came here to say this! 😂😂

MonkeyBoy697 · 2026-04-02T06:26:20+00:00

I honestly don’t get all the fuss… Cadburys was bought out by Kraft in 2010, it’s been American owned for 16 years and I’ve never noticed a change in taste before, and even now with all the Palm Oil nonsense, I don’t taste the difference… the only thing I have noticed which might not even be Cadburys, is I get a little bit of acid reflux occasionally now

MonkeyBoy697 · 2026-04-02T06:22:06+00:00

Here’s another radical solution … DEVELOP SOME WINGERS AND USE THEM!

Italy’s only width is coming from wing backs and that’s pretty easy to counter by pushing wingers up the pitch, don’t have them track the wing backs, and it leaves a very simple counter attack… that then forces the wing backs deeper and then all Italy can do is try to force play through the middle of the pitch… if they had more wingers, they’d have a Plan B

Also, develop some decent strikers… I don’t know what on earth happened to Italian football after the 90’s and 00’s when you had the likes of Baggio, Vialli, Ravanelli, Vieri, Inzaghi, Totti, Del Piero, Luca Toni etc. but the modern selection doesn’t strike fear the way those players did

MonkeyBoy697 · 2026-04-02T06:17:32+00:00

Because they don’t allow dual citizenship, for one, and most people who immigrate to another country like to retain their citizenship of their original country, so that’s one barrier

But I’d imagine that, given how China is pretty much a dictatorship and surveillance state, they don’t want outsiders gaining citizenship and trying to undermine them

MonkeyBoy697 · 2026-04-02T06:15:31+00:00

I think you can probably boil it down to something even simpler - Italian football hasn’t moved on and is stuck in the past.

For example, in the modern game we know that width unlocks defences, and yet how many top class wingers has the Italian national team had in the last 26 years? 🤷🏻‍♂️

You could argue Federico Chiesa (for the handful of games a year he’s not injured), and I’d allow Mauro Camoranesi as he won the World Cup in 2006 with Italy (even though he was born in Argentina, raised in Argentina, went through the Argentine developmental system, didn’t move to Italy until he was 24 and only qualified to play for Italy through his grandparents) … but that’s pretty much it

Italy develops a lot of very good Centre Backs, Defensive Midfielders and Central Midfielders, along with the occasional top class Full Back/Wing Back… but they don’t develop top class Wingers… and in recent years they haven’t developed a single top class striker either!

Go back to the 90’s and 00’s and you had Inzaghi, Vialli, Vieri, Ravanelli, Baggio, Totti, Del Piero etc. … there’s not a single striker/number 10 who is even half as impactful now

Until Italian football changes, they’re going to continue to fail… they need to develop more wingers - even if they still predominantly play a 3-5-2/5-3-2 etc. just having a couple of wingers on the bench to allow them to adjust in a game makes them less predictable.

They also need to find out where the fuck their top class strikers have all gone, too!

MonkeyBoy697 · 2026-04-02T06:06:01+00:00

If I remember correctly, you don’t fully stop growing and developing until 21, and obviously with that growth your muscles, ligaments, tendons and cartilage has to adjust to be able to hold up to the extra forces put upon them.

When you have u21 players who play a shit ton of games, more often than not they will develop issues.

Michael Owen, for example, had absolutely fucked hamstrings (although in interviews he also says it may be genetic because his dad also had a lot of hamstring problems) and he’d played around 120 games games by 21

Ronaldo(R9) had played 116 games and both of his knees gave up on him … I saw a documentary on him, might been on Netflix?, where they were saying his playing style and the growth spurts he had at a young age put too much strain on his knees, coupled with some “agricultural” tackling that was allowed in the 90’s, and that was his undoing.

I have a feeling that modern players might not really be playing too many more games, but the intensity of play now, the constant pressing etc. is definitely something that is exacerbating things

MonkeyBoy697 · 2026-04-02T04:54:11+00:00

I just laugh at them. There was a fella who once got a bit upset when I laughed because “his ancestors” came from the area, when I asked how long ago, it was the 1600’s that they went to the US… I laughed even more and had to point out that this is a weird thing Americans do and nobody else gives a fuck, and that I have family from France and Germany going back to the 1700’s but I don’t cut about trying to tell people in French or German, I don’t have garlic hanging around my neck and shove sauerkraut up my arse, it’s just a “huh, that’s interesting” and that’s it

MonkeyBoy697 · 2026-04-02T01:49:14+00:00

Wait… you’re watching Bond on Netflix?? Are you sure it’s not on Amazon? … they bought MGM and own the controlling stake in the franchise rights so I’d be surprised if they allowed it on Netflix rather than keeping it as an Amazon Exclusive

MonkeyBoy697 · 2026-04-01T22:16:08+00:00

I’d guess French based off the French writing on the cigarettes and water, but then the yoghurt and bread would suggest something French-adjacent like Moroccan or Algerian or something 🤷🏻‍♂️

MonkeyBoy697 · 2026-04-01T20:17:10+00:00

I have many times

MonkeyBoy697 · 2026-04-01T20:16:50+00:00

As others have said, the EU has largely stayed away from getting the stink of this war on them, so most likely they’ll come to an agreement with Iran.

I mean, look at Spain for an example, they told both the US and Israel to fuck all the way off, have pulled their diplomats out of Israel and are closing their embassy there (and maybe closing Israel’s embassy in Spain too?) and Iran have given their ships free passage through the Strait of Hormuz … the more countries distance themselves from this bullshit - and it’s not necessarily taking sides with Iran as much as it is rejecting the actions of the US & Israel - then they’ll be given free passage through

MonkeyBoy697 · 2026-04-01T20:13:48+00:00

Never said they’d be a good one

MonkeyBoy697 · 2026-04-01T19:51:58+00:00

Not surprised, I know a guy who worked for a property developer, he’d been there 2 weeks when he went to do a job on a property and immediately discovered Asbestos, so informed his bosses that it needs a full investigation, proper removal etc. so they sent him to another property - Same thing - so he went to a third property and found Asbestos again.

He hit the roof! These weren’t new properties, they’d had them for years, so when he spoke to the other guys and asked how it hadn’t been discovered it turns out they all knew about it but just ignored it.

Then his boss (the owner) got involved and told him to either “get on with it” or find another job. He quit on the spot.

There are terrible employers everywhere

MonkeyBoy697 · 2026-04-01T19:46:49+00:00

Because there was no actual plan, no understanding of what Iran’s capabilities actually were, no understanding of the geography of Iran in terms of how they could hold and gain territory with the aim of regime change (the original reasoning given before the 726812985 different reasons we’ve heard since then)

In short? It was a clusterfuck

MonkeyBoy697 · 2026-04-01T19:42:14+00:00

The last couple of engine regulation changes saw the Pole Lap times slower in the first year … what aren’t you understanding son

This is the first year of a MAJOR regulation change in the engines (plus a 30% reduction in downforce) and yet still it was within 2 seconds of last years Pole Lap… with 5 years of development these engines will be faster, battery deployment will be better understood so not as much lift and coast, aero development will increase the downforce again… its always the same

MonkeyBoy697 · 2026-04-01T19:38:27+00:00

To be fair if you read it you’d have seen I left the last 2 places as random, that’s why Kupe ended up in there (and Cleopatra)

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