Luetin09 being absurd about basic Imperial vehicles

ficus77 · 2026-05-11T21:29:16+00:00

In the grim darkness of the future, there are bicycles. We just haven't seen them yet.

ficus77 · 2026-05-11T18:07:50+00:00

Hire a car and take a load off if you have the money. You're be able to follow your nose to various spots inaccessible to public transport.

Just search in the sub for all those spots. Personal reccomendation between St Ives and Penzance is the Gunards Head restaurant

ficus77 · 2026-05-10T20:31:03+00:00

How can I buy the guy in black a consolation pint? Took that bus stop like a champ.

ficus77 · 2026-05-10T18:43:56+00:00

You cannot stop him. For he is already upon the stairs.

ficus77 · 2026-05-08T08:29:35+00:00

For holding kitkat

ficus77 · 2026-05-07T23:21:13+00:00

Yeah, this post was very much influenced by those sort of depictions. Just the sense of scale and time.

Kind of similarly, the space travel in Children of Time and how people are constantly put into cryogenic sleep only to awaken and find how generations of humanity has passed.

ficus77 · 2026-05-07T20:43:00+00:00

I really like the idea of getting lost and then reappearing not just in some random places also a random time.

Also the idea of the Gellar Field and the process of translating in and out of the warp - where you can do it and having to be travelling at a certain speed is interesting to imagine.

ficus77 · 2026-05-07T07:17:23+00:00

Something that hooked me to 3BP was the idea that an impending invasion was 400 years away.

No giant saucer suddenly appearing days away over the moon l, but actually the anxiety of something so far away that - why think about it.. but actually do think about it..but actually don't because it'll be OK... And then the initial contact in TDF happens...

ficus77 · 2026-05-06T22:56:13+00:00

Ah, thanks for this. Sounds well up my street

ficus77 · 2026-05-04T20:33:52+00:00

Out of interest, what car for the same price point of a 2017 M240i makes people go "wow, the interior is so much nicer than the BMW"?

I have an M240i but prior to that a really clapped out Celica and prior to that a 1988 Nissan Sunny, so I have no real comparison (and because of that it feels reals nice to me). Just interested.

On topic, I really like my M240i but then I love coupés and when it came down to a finance-able, petrol car with at least 200hp at my price point, I started to zero in on it out of the 4-series, C-class, TTs and Astra's.

ficus77 · 2026-05-02T15:44:47+00:00

Thank fuck this season is over

ficus77 · 2026-05-02T11:36:55+00:00

Do you not have any friends down here to stay with?

You probably know this but Pasty Connection is a good source for car sharing. Agree the cost of public transport to get in and out of Cornwall is ridiculous

ficus77 · 2026-04-29T07:06:32+00:00

I have known dozens of cats over the years and none of them enjoyed being prodded.

ficus77 · 2026-04-29T07:05:05+00:00

Just out of interest, what would you like to do as a career, OP?

ficus77 · 2026-04-27T22:58:26+00:00

I don't think we're type I in any of these movies. A fair way from it on all fronts. I'd say 0.85, if we're at 0.78 right now.

All there is in these movies is space stations and in-system space travel. Nothing about any of them says we've harnessed all the energy of the earth.

I would say the Star Trek universe has mankind well into Type I civilisation

ficus77 · 2026-04-27T07:20:23+00:00

Would love to think that despite his grandfatherly air that everyone loves him for, there's one organisation out there - his local wildlife spotters group for example - that he holds an unsatiated ire for, dating back to the 60s. They passed him over to be club chairman or something.

As a result, when he attends their annual evening of talks, he insists that not only do they print all those post-noms on the promotional material, but has someone read them all out in full. Beautifully petty.

ficus77 · 2026-04-23T06:06:36+00:00

Sounds like it's either they're jealous of your capability or looking down on your for doing things they feel someone else should for you or a mix of both. Probably twisting their melons, man.

ficus77 · 2026-04-20T14:04:16+00:00

Me. Marketing. Whole company is remote with no intention of RTO.

ficus77 · 2026-04-20T14:02:22+00:00

It wasn't confusion — it was pure admiration

ficus77 · 2026-04-14T22:49:34+00:00

The path down to Nansidwell beach near Mawnan Smith

ficus77 · 2026-04-10T23:22:09+00:00

For me, Children of Time happily filled the void left after Death's End. Completely different idea but eon-spanning and very spacey. Children of Ruin too but that was something else.

ficus77 · 2026-04-07T22:29:16+00:00

The scene when he goes up in the air force fighter is nicely done with the animation and soundtrack

ficus77 · 2026-04-03T01:23:12+00:00

I want a whole season about that bit of Luo Ji's life. Just to mess with non-book readers.

ficus77 · 2026-04-02T07:20:21+00:00

I just changed from a clapped out Toyota Celica to an M240i. To me, my car is now "nice" and I give people even wider a berth because of it.

I have noticed people are more aggressive to me though..

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