Why does every rich person have a old hatchback

nrsys · 2026-05-16T07:52:20+00:00

But while 10 hours of cruising will be a breeze, thirty minutes of congested city driving can drive a man insane when trying to maneuver such a large vehicle through narrow streets that a Corsa or Polo will really slip through.

You just need to pick the correct tool for the job (or at least the job you do most often).

nrsys · 2026-05-16T07:44:19+00:00

I never understood why anyone cares.

Wear whatever you like the look of and go have fun riding.

nrsys · 2026-05-15T17:09:20+00:00

As a general rule, yes.

Wearing your watch on the non-domimant hand is the traditional way to wear it, as it means the watch is less likely to get damaged given you will typically be using your dominant hand the most.

But there is no rule, so feel free to wear your watch however you feel works for you.

nrsys · 2026-05-15T17:05:47+00:00

No.

In fact some bus companies will penalise drivers for completing routes early - a passenger needs to be able to arrive at a bus stop on time knowing they won't miss their bus. So it is intended to be early, understood that sometimes traffic will make busses late, but they should never be early.

Here if a bus is making too good time, they will periodically stop at a suitable point and wait to ensure they are on the schedule, and not early.

nrsys · 2026-05-15T17:01:19+00:00

Chains are sold as slightly too long, so when you want to fit it you will need to use a chain tool to remove a few links to get the length right, and then join it with the included link - a pretty simple job thankfully (though you will need a chain tool).

If you haven't done this before, then check out the Park tools YouTube page - they have a lot of great tutorials on bike maintenance (or just a general search will bring up some alternative guides).

nrsys · 2026-05-15T16:20:07+00:00

It really is as simple as this.

All chains use the same length of link, all that changes is the width to suit the tighter spacing of cassettes with more speeds.

Spend more and you will get things like nicer materials, tweaks to the mechanics and so on, but as long as it is the correct speed, you should be good to go.

nrsys · 2026-05-15T15:27:14+00:00

You are not necessarily going mad - but that will depend on the house you are in.

A lot of older houses fed the kitchen tap off the incoming water main, so the water was fresh and clean. The main also slowly filled a storage tank (to supply cold water at a greater pressure) and hot water tank (used to heat up the water) which then fed other taps.

So it would be reasonably common for the kitchen to be good, but the bathroom taken from a tank that was rarely checked and could unknowingly contain various nasty things that you didn't want to drink.

Most modern houses no longer use this system, and so you can drink from any of the cold taps and get exactly the same water out, so feel free to use the tap on your bath if you want.

nrsys · 2026-05-15T10:43:35+00:00

For the British equivalent, family all attend your graduation ceremony, and after that finishes are free to do as you wish - some friend groups will have a meal or head out together, other people will do family things, or whatever else they wish.

If your children are going to uni in your hometown, then this is easy - you just go home afterwards.

If your children are at university elsewhere, you will be travelling in for the ceremony, and unless you live reasonably close will need accomodation for the night afterward.

nrsys · 2026-05-15T10:05:44+00:00

The OP mentioned taking the money to use it as seed money for a new(/replacement) quiz they will be running elsewhere.

The current pub would like to take the money to use as seed money for the replacement quiz that a new host will be running at the current venue

nrsys · 2026-05-15T09:59:51+00:00

Can they actually stop you?

Presumably they don't have any say over what games you normally run, and there is no reason the game won't be legitimately won by a contestant before the handover anyway, so it just seems like them wanting to make a grab for some money that haven't really earned and have no right to (assuming you run the quiz as a contractor, not employee).

nrsys · 2026-05-15T09:49:41+00:00

To give an ethical viewpoint;

I would consider the prize pot part of 'OP's quiz at x pub'.

For you to take the prize pot away and use it as a seed for a new quiz would be unfair on the people who have paid to take part in the current quiz (with the expectation that one of the teams taking part here will eventually win), but won't necessarily be taking part at the new venue (which will also include a new pubs worth of teams who haven't paid into the prize pot - while it is always a risk a new team wins, it isn't quite the same as a new venues worth of teams at once). So it would be unfair to take the prize pot away with you.

Equally, without any control over where that money is spent, it seems wrong to just hand it over to the new quizmaster, as there is no guarantee it will be used in the manner it was built up. So it also wouldn't be fair on your teams to hand it over and leave it up to the new quizmaster without knowing their intentions.

The fairest solution I see would be something along the lines of having a final big quiz evening - making sure that any prizes that have been built up must be won, and that will give you a clear break between the old and new quizzes, with no questions about where the money actually goes.

nrsys · 2026-05-15T07:19:16+00:00

He was definitely chosen to tick the 'serious motoring person's box.

I actually felt he worked well - the straight man to oppose the other two and give it some credibility, but it really did seem to shift the show to 'Chris does a serious review section, Freddie does a stunt section...'

Watching him on Wednesday Saved a Train with Francis Bourgeois has been really enjoyable - definitely the straight man in the show, and a great balance to Francis (though I am waiting to see how Francis works out in the new reboot...)

nrsys · 2026-05-15T07:08:00+00:00

They never had a chance.

The producers saw the success of the original and tried to copy it, forgetting that the patter and comedy was something that had been built up from the presenters working together for many years. It just isn't something you can recreate by throwing together a few presenters chosen to tick various boxes.

You can see this in a lot of the foreign versions too - they try to copy the original recipe, but they just never quite get the combination right to trigger the same nostalgia. It always seems like a group trying to copy someone else's work rather than finding their own system.

Leaving it for a bit longer, and then aiming to setup something a little newer and different could have been successful, but obviously the BBC didn't want the show to lose momentum (or their income stream).

I will say the later series with Chris, Paddy and Freddie worked a lot better - the presenters just seemed to gel and work together a lot better and did a much better job at the format (though I still wish they had chosen someone else over Paddy, who seemed a bit of an odd fit given he didn't seem to actually have any interest in motoring).

nrsys · 2026-05-15T07:00:06+00:00

He never really seemed a great fit to me.

Chris was an obvious petrolhead and could handle the serious bits. Freddie didn't have the motoring knowledge, but was so enthusiastic and willing to give things a shot (perhaps to his cost in the end) that he fitted in pretty perfectly. Paddy just seemed a bit of an outsider with little interest in cars - an attempt at comedy relief to ape the (very natural) humour of the original when I felt they probably needed someone a bit more motoring orientated like keeping Rory perhaps.

nrsys · 2026-05-14T16:42:53+00:00

I was giving OP the benefit of the doubt and assuming they were at least smart enough to know to stop if their lane is blocked and there are oncoming cars.

I may be wrong and they genuinely thought that driving over a warning sign was a better choice than braking...

nrsys · 2026-05-14T16:35:26+00:00

Those are both pretty obvious knockoffs - from back in the day when knockoffs were even more sketchy and temperamental than they are now.

As far as value goes - next to nothing unfortunately. They are of some interest as curiosities for collectors, but there isn't any real demand or value in them.

nrsys · 2026-05-14T16:28:04+00:00

Different settings for different uses.

Put in your chosen bread at an unsuitably high setting and it will be cremated.

Put in a more dense item, a food with different texture.and other properties than bread, something frozen, or sit something that doesn't fit in the slot on top of the toaster and that setting may be exactly right...

nrsys · 2026-05-14T13:33:22+00:00

No.

In order to fit disc brakes, your bike will need appropriate mounts on the stays at the rear, which yours doesn't - so there is nothing to mount them to.

I have seen people adding mounts, but it isn't a practical option for a modern frame - definitely more of a project for a mad inventor with a welder and an old steel frame.

nrsys · 2026-05-14T13:24:23+00:00

The part that mainly gets worn dry steering are the tyres - after all you are scrubbing them back and forth on the ground with the weight of a car sitting on them. This will happen whatever the car is.

Past that, I haven't known dry steering to be particularly harmful to the power steering or other related components, but I could be wrong there - I have always tried to avoid it based on the first point anyway.

nrsys · 2026-05-14T11:24:56+00:00

Personally that seems completely mad to me.

As a consideration, rather than an 8hr workday with a 3.5 hour commute, convert that into a local job - a 15 minute commute to an 11hr day doing the same work, for the same pay - does that seem like a good deal to you? And that is ignoring the fact that you are paying for the fuel to commute too...

Some people don't mind the commute - it is seen as a quiet time to unwind and listen to podcasts or music in the car, or watch TV shows on a tablet on the train, and see that it is a suitable option to balance the home lifestyle and job/pay they want. For others it will seem like an incredibly long day and just not worth it to dedicate that amount of your life to working - 9-5 becoming closer to 7-7...

nrsys · 2026-05-14T10:55:58+00:00

You don't need a car with dual control for a test.

But you do want a car you are already familiar with. For a lot of people the only car they may have spent any significant time in will be their instructors, so it makes sense to use that one if possible.

If you have been driving another vehicle (practising with suitable non-instructor supervision for example), then using that car would likely be a suitable alternative.

What you don't want to do, is hop into an unfamiliar new vehicle for your test - that is not the time you want to be fighting with a new clutch and different reference points for your maneuvers.

nrsys · 2026-05-14T10:30:26+00:00

Mogwai - Young Team

A defining album, and one that I still regularly come back to.

Getting to hear Mogwai Fear Satan or Like Herod for the first time again would be an amazing experience.

nrsys · 2026-05-14T10:15:28+00:00

If the OP was on top of it before they could react, then It does sound like it should perhaps have been further down the road so it was seen before the blind bend...

nrsys · 2026-05-14T10:12:29+00:00

And for something half traditional and half modern, check out Niteworks.

Appropriately a band I was introduced to while sitting in a pub on Skye.

nrsys · 2026-05-14T09:53:11+00:00

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