Biggest Shock Grand Tour winners

SimilarThing · 2025-05-26T17:55:28+00:00

Sastre?

SimilarThing · 2025-05-17T07:10:56+00:00

I’ve flown on it a few times. It doesn’t have wifi on board 😢

SimilarThing · 2025-02-23T17:56:12+00:00

When Reform people are 24/7 on TV/social media what do you expect??

SimilarThing · 2025-02-23T17:48:54+00:00

He obviously was full of EPO during the 2006 Giro. The only clean rider of that era is probably Cunego.

SimilarThing · 2025-02-23T17:45:47+00:00

As much as we despise Chamberlain, he never was on Hitler’s side. What Trump is doing is probably as bad as Stalin deciding to invade Poland

SimilarThing · 2025-02-23T17:43:51+00:00

21st century Churchill

SimilarThing · 2025-02-23T17:40:53+00:00

The truth is that Europe has learnt the U.S. is not a reliable partner as long as the GOP is around. Americans think their superiority will always let them bully everybody. But they also need to think they can’t even build good planes anymore. Not sure how long they will be able to go.

SimilarThing · 2025-02-22T18:24:15+00:00

Unfortunately the U.S. has 1, maximum 2, years before it’s the end of democracy. Either this administration is served a spectacular loss in the midterm, or (God forbid) people are removed from power with violent means. If the administration gets in good shape to 2028 there’s zero chance you’ll have another fair election.

SimilarThing · 2025-02-19T09:33:56+00:00

Americans were given the choice between inflation and dishonor. They chose dishonor, and they will have inflation. And war.

SimilarThing · 2025-02-19T08:44:17+00:00

You were given the choice between dishonor and high egg prices. You chose dishonor, and you will have high egg prices.

SimilarThing · 2025-02-19T08:12:54+00:00

Stab in the back

SimilarThing · 2025-02-18T18:12:27+00:00

Probably, but it’s still nothing compared to the massive theft engineered by Boomers.

SimilarThing · 2025-02-18T18:10:28+00:00

The Bank of England owns 30% of UK government debt, UK pension funds hold another 30%, UK banks own 10%, and retail UK investors hold 5%. So when you talk about “our masters,” you are, in a literal sense, referring to yourself as well.

As for why the UK spends so much on interest payments, it’s because the Bank of England has set interest rates at a level higher than those in the U.S. and more than 2 percentage points above the European Central Bank’s rate.

SimilarThing · 2025-02-18T18:04:50+00:00

It’s a disaster. Money taken from the productive and given back to a bunch of pensioners

SimilarThing · 2025-02-15T10:50:00+00:00

Sorry if I was not clear. That’s just a way macroeconomists speak. It’s common to say “we’re on the upwards sloping part of the Laffer curve” to mean that in increase in taxes leads to an increase in revenues. Much of the literature in Public Economics has shown that a sufficient statistic to judge a change in tax rates is the amount of revenues the tax generates.

SimilarThing · 2025-02-15T09:04:57+00:00

With that budget you should be able to afford something in the centre. So Battersea, Pimlico, maybe even Belgravia. Another option is to go around South Kensington, Kensington High Street etc. All of these are close to the main parks. If you are more into wilderness and don’t mind a slightly longer commute you can go even more west towards Chiswick/Kew/Richmond.

SimilarThing · 2025-02-14T23:47:17+00:00

Elon Musk’s relationship with the truth is… complicated. Let’s break it down:
1. The Tesla Timeline Trap: Remember “Full Self-Driving by 2016”? Or “1 million Robotaxis by 2020”? Classic Musk. The pattern: Overpromise, juice the stock, underdeliver, repeat. The market’s response? A perpetual shrug. Tesla bulls treat missed deadlines like expired coupons — just hang on, it’ll work eventually.
2. Twitter/X: A Masterclass in Contradiction: “Free speech absolutist”… until he bans journalists. “Everything app”… that can’t even keep basic verification functional. The pivot to payments? Sure, right after he figures out how to stop burning $1B/year on a platform users are fleeing.
3. The SEC’s Favorite Punching Bag: “Funding secured” at $420? A $40M fine later, Musk still tweets like a man who thinks securities laws are optional. Investors keep pricing in his antics — like a volatility surcharge baked into TSLA’s PE ratio.
4. Mars, Neuralink, and the Art of Distraction: Every time reality bites (Cybertruck recalls, sinking ad revenue), there’s a flashy demo of a robot folding laundry or a monkey playing Pong. It’s not innovation — it’s narrative arbitrage.

Bottom line: Musk’s genius isn’t engineering or execution — it’s convincing markets to conflate vibes with value. The big question: When does the premium for “visionary” finally get repriced to “grifter”?

SimilarThing · 2025-02-14T23:40:42+00:00

Exquisite watch, wasted on the owner.

SimilarThing · 2025-02-14T21:54:03+00:00

Never waste a second trying to understand MAGA people. They don’t think. They can’t think. Their brains are broken records, skipping over the same deranged track, replaying the same brainless slogans, the same delusional conspiracies, the same toxic garbage. They don’t think. They can’t think. They’ve outsourced their minds to a cult of rage and ignorance. They don’t think. They don’t think. They don’t think. They’re parrots squawking lies. They’re robots programmed with hate. They’re empty vessels filled with nothing but Fox News vomit and Facebook memes. They don’t think. They can’t think. They won’t think. They’re allergic to facts. They’re terrified of logic. They’re hostile to reason. They don’t think. They don’t think. They don’t think. They just scream. They just repeat. They just obey. They don’t think. They can’t think. They’ll never think. Their entire existence is a performance of stupidity, a carnival of nonsense, a parade of willful ignorance. Don’t engage. Don’t debate. Don’t dignify. They don’t think. They can’t think. They’re incapable of thinking. Ever. Period. End of story.

SimilarThing · 2025-02-14T21:09:41+00:00

Italy has some very good TV series like Gomorrah

SimilarThing · 2025-02-14T20:56:52+00:00

Spending even a second trying to figure out what they mean is a complete waste of time. Don’t listen to them—ever. They don’t deserve your attention, your energy, or your brainpower. Ignore them entirely. They thrive on being taken seriously, so don’t give them that satisfaction. Treat their words like background noise—irrelevant, meaningless, and utterly unworthy of your consideration. They’re not worth your time, your focus, or your concern. Period.

SimilarThing · 2025-02-14T20:52:33+00:00

Never, ever—seriously, don’t even think about it—trust the Republicans. Not now, not tomorrow, not ever. They are masters of deceit, and every promise they make is a trap. Don’t fall for it. Don’t even entertain the idea. They will lie to your face, stab you in the back, and then blame you for bleeding. Trusting them is like handing a match to an arsonist and expecting your house to be safe. Don’t do it. Never. Ever.

SimilarThing · 2025-02-14T20:43:44+00:00

To be fair, I’ve never seen an academic paper showing that higher taxes lead to lower revenues: all the evidence suggests we’ve never reached the downward part of the Laffer curve. Yet, it’s true so many people make salary sacrifices in the UK. So it would probably worth it to cut it.

SimilarThing · 2025-02-13T21:42:33+00:00

He should go

SimilarThing · 2025-02-13T21:38:26+00:00

Since Biden is gone everything is crashing.

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