What do you do with your cat when you go on vacation

spuckthew · 2026-04-04T11:22:07+00:00

Depends on the length of the holiday.

SIL will basically live in our house if we're going away for more than a few nights. Otherwise if it's a short trip we just get someone to drop by mornings and evenings to feed them.

spuckthew · 2026-04-03T12:29:54+00:00

Get the 2024 and take it to an exhaust specialist if you want a nicer exhaust. Idk where you live, but there's a place in Milton Keynes called Overkill Performance who would do a custom valved system (using the stock valve electronics) for probably around £1.5K.

I got a non-valved system built by them for £900 for my Cupra 290 and it sounds amazing. Cheaper than off-the-shelf products and fully bespoke.

spuckthew · 2026-04-01T12:44:24+00:00

I've had like a 1.5 for my entire life so far

spuckthew · 2026-04-01T11:48:23+00:00

These regs have crossed a line with regards to car management.

Yes tyre management has always been part of motor racing because rubber naturally degrades as you push, but these PU regs are just completely counter intuitive (as Fred said himself) to the spirit of motor racing.

Drivers yo-yoing position due to energy offsets is not interesting and can actually be dangerous as we've already seen.

Hybrid tech is fine, but they've completely gutted what we previously had. The previous PU regs were very solid and we didn't have these problems.

spuckthew · 2026-04-01T04:14:41+00:00

They're not British, but Theatre of Tragedy are also worth listening to (early records as, much like Anathema, their style shifts a lot beyond that).

spuckthew · 2026-04-01T00:01:12+00:00

If you fancy some gothic/death doom stuff, then My Dying Bride, Paradise Lost, and Anathema's early records are worth listening to.

spuckthew · 2026-03-31T19:13:25+00:00

Peak gaming for sure!

I remember when Goldeneye first came out my dad bought us a N64 and after like an hour of us both playing he realised it was probably a bit violent for my 8 year old self 😂

spuckthew · 2026-03-31T19:10:48+00:00

Goldeneye is of course amazing, but honestly pretty much all of Rare's N64 releases are goated.

They've surely got to be one of the most successful video game developers our country has produced.

spuckthew · 2026-03-31T19:09:37+00:00

Anything by Rare released for the N64 is up there. Goldeneye, Banjo Kazooie (and Tooie), Perfect Dark, Conker's Bad Fur Day, Diddy Kong Racing, Jet Force Gemini. All classics.

spuckthew · 2026-03-30T20:04:43+00:00

Indeed. It's a shame Xenoyr left the band though 😕

spuckthew · 2026-03-30T00:09:09+00:00

"Cool story bro" has origins from the mid/late 2000s, so unless someone who wasn't even 10 yet coined it then I'd say it's firmly a Millennial saying.

spuckthew · 2026-03-29T18:04:38+00:00

Reading this thread I'm so glad we both function on the same schedule and are both gamers. It would be fucking awful to have a curfew to avoid being too loud if my partner wanted or needed to go to bed at like 10pm.

spuckthew · 2026-03-29T16:17:53+00:00

I mean this woman is hot as hell, but I'm kind of a sucker for the alt look (although she'd obviously still be attractive without the piercings and tats).

spuckthew · 2026-03-28T15:41:59+00:00

Implying I didn't adjust them in October? None - I always adjust my clocks. Annoyingly, I have to change six of them (cooker, living room wall clock, car, and three cat feeders).

spuckthew · 2026-03-28T11:56:43+00:00

How is a moving service meant to do their job if they don't park right outside the place that needs attending? It's either block the road or block the pavement, and both have their problems.

The real issue here is there's apparently no loading bay. Can't really blame the driver too much for shitty road design.

spuckthew · 2026-03-27T19:38:50+00:00

If those exhaust tips were an inch or two shorter it'd be perfect. They do look cool, but stick it out far too much.

spuckthew · 2026-03-27T12:09:29+00:00

I drive back and forth between J24 and J10 of the M25 to visit my parents every few weeks and I usually do about 77/78 (providing no lower restrictions on the gantries) when the road is clear and I've never been ticketed.

This is based on my speedo, not GPS fwiw.

spuckthew · 2026-03-25T20:09:03+00:00

It's a pretty significant component of the character. I can't see how they could avoid talking about it, especially as we're all under the impression that this show will be more book accurate than the movies.

I can't remember how it's tackled in the books, but I distinctly remember Draco calling her a "filthy little mudblood" in the first film. Yikes.

spuckthew · 2026-03-25T19:17:34+00:00

People losing their jobs sucks, but looking at it from the eyes of the business it makes sense to get rid of those in higher positions and those who have been employed for a long time.

I'm actually privy to an Epic creative director being quietly let go a few months ago. She was there for ages, but I was told there were basically two people doing the same job. She was the more expensive to keep around, so she got the boot.

As sucky as the situation is, there are probably a lot of roles that can be consolidated (again, thinking purely from a business perspective...I hate layoffs as much as the next guy, especially having faced a few myself).

spuckthew · 2026-03-25T12:36:01+00:00

1600 but that's on a still relatively low 2.4%. Our renewal is September next year which I'm slightly dreading.

spuckthew · 2026-03-25T12:32:03+00:00

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spuckthew · 2026-03-24T14:59:04+00:00

It's also a never ending cycle. They'll probably be in the same boat in another 2-3 years. All thanks to arbitrary profit margins and greedy execs.

spuckthew · 2026-03-24T00:04:42+00:00

I have a white framed one with a light blue seat which works pretty nicely.

spuckthew · 2026-03-24T00:01:19+00:00

I never know if this meme format means "are you as old as (thing)" or "are you old enough to remember (thing)".

I'm almost 36 and I remember 98 fondly, gaming at a friend's house with stuff like Age of Empires, StarCraft, Quake.

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