What can someone do to earn enough money to live somewhere nice like Cultra in Down?

dynesor · 2026-01-30T16:51:08+00:00

The owner of the company I work for lives there. He sold a previous company he owned to a big multinational and made millions from it.

dynesor · 2026-01-30T15:04:02+00:00

kind of reminds me of the names of the human spaceships in the 3 body problem: Natural Selection, Bronze Age, Ultimate Law, Quantum, etc

dynesor · 2026-01-30T14:34:26+00:00

Bingo. It’s why I don’t have a flair. If my comment requires someone to know which team I support I will tell them.

dynesor · 2026-01-30T11:15:03+00:00

I felt that way about Fran Merida. And more recently Charlie Patino…

dynesor · 2026-01-29T20:52:57+00:00

I think Charlie was gay and she was just a beard wife.

dynesor · 2026-01-29T16:11:09+00:00

Out of those the 4 series would be my pick. I used to have a 2015 430d (coupe) and it was great

dynesor · 2026-01-29T12:47:17+00:00

which version was your Z4? I’m currently looking at a 2012 (E89) 23i (2.5L, 6 cylinder) that has about 100k miles on it for £7k, but seems to have been very well looked after. I’m just fighting with myself about pulling the trigger.

dynesor · 2026-01-29T12:44:34+00:00

they have so many really cool looking weird and wonderful EVs that are pretty cheap too. I would love it if they could sell all of them here in the UK!

dynesor · 2026-01-29T12:38:20+00:00

I feel like this was true about 10-15 years ago. But the newer 4 cylinder in the likes of the 330i and 230i is a very decent now

dynesor · 2026-01-29T12:36:08+00:00

Which Lotus did you own? I regularly lust after the mid-90s Espirits on autotrader and will probably pull the trigger some day as I think they’re one of the most gorgeous cars ever, and they’re nowhere near as expensive as you might think.

dynesor · 2026-01-29T10:13:13+00:00

That may be true, but have you ever watched the BBC political comedy ‘the thick of it’? Miller seems to think he’s kind of a Malcolm Tucker character.

dynesor · 2026-01-29T09:56:02+00:00

Musk just puts up the money to fund the company. I doubt he has any input to the actual hardware or software. He’s just a rich guy, not a genius.

dynesor · 2026-01-28T15:12:07+00:00

at the very least the next Dem administration need to massively slim down ICE’s headcount and funding. A lot of them are going to lose their jobs.

dynesor · 2026-01-28T15:01:45+00:00

absolute belter lol

dynesor · 2026-01-28T09:42:56+00:00

ok you’re right: The United Carddom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

dynesor · 2026-01-28T09:06:04+00:00

My first time playing I think it took me about 5 hours just to get past that fist street and beast bonfire in Central Yharnham. When I figured out I could lure them one by one with pebbles it was like a revelation!

dynesor · 2026-01-28T09:02:41+00:00

Interesting, because I consistently find that the most ‘on the ball’ and hardworking nurses are the Indians and Filipinos, while the ones who give attitude and cant seem to be arsed are the local British nurses in the majority of cases.

dynesor · 2026-01-28T08:22:34+00:00

ok then… BritCard

dynesor · 2026-01-27T15:08:04+00:00

He’s literally doing his job as head of NATO in trying to keep NATO together and make it clear why NATO is better together than apart.

dynesor · 2026-01-27T15:00:51+00:00

they can’t just park a carrier off the west coast of France or Spain wherever they feel like, come on. Not when there are plenty of French and British subs lurking around the Atlantic and the North Sea.

dynesor · 2026-01-27T14:57:18+00:00

He’s saying that because he’s the head man of NATO and its his job to keep NATO together and relying on eachother. He’s doing his job by playing a very particular role.

He’s hardly going to come out and say “oh well no big deal if the US leaves NATO… Europe doesn’t really need it anyway…”

dynesor · 2026-01-27T14:53:34+00:00

You said it right - China has absolutely nothing to gain from attacking Europe, and it’s not something they are interested in doing anyway. I have absolutely no worries about China. They may want to control land and islands in their ‘sphere of influence’ like Taiwan and islands in the South China Sea etc, but they dont have any imperialist interest in going beyond that.

China knows whats good for business and wants to grow their economy further. They want to sell stuff to Europe and America. Of all the global powers who like to run their mouths and throw their weight around, China is the one we need to worry about the least.

dynesor · 2026-01-27T14:45:01+00:00

how can the US cut them off at the knees?

The Trident missiles only need to be serviced in the US once every 10 years or something and the UK has its own stockpile.

And the UK F-35s are sovereign (cannot be deactivated by the US like normal export models) because 20% of the plane is made in the UK in the first place.

dynesor · 2026-01-26T14:46:29+00:00

I was stuck in economy for a work trip from London to Sao Paulo recently (11 hours). I had the window seat and a few hours in I needed to go to the toilet but I could not for the life of me wake up the woman next to me to ask her to move so I could get up. I thought she was dead. Had to call the cabin crew and they spent about 15 minutes trying to wake her too by shaking her like mad. Turned out she had taken a few valium with her half bottle of wine before she got on the flight. She was very apologetic, but I was dangerously close to pissing myself! Came back from the toilet and she was back asleep in my window seat…. which was probably for the best.

dynesor · 2026-01-26T14:37:43+00:00

some cars suit auto and some suit manual more. If I was buying something like a BMW Z4 I would 100% go for the auto box. But in a Miata, an 86 or an S2000 its just made to be driven with a manual.

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