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Well the young bit fucks me then.

There is definitely an issue but if you look at that battery pack, made it slightly smaller, so say a 300km range instead of 400-500km, there is potential to slide it out one side and slide a replacement in. It would require implementing a system that could lift/move the battery pack, a faultless contact system or plug - maybe not to dissimilar to what electric forklifts have used for 40 years, also there would need to be a quick lock system to stop any movement of the battery pack because with inertia any movement would be problematic. Maybe a deadman system where unless all locks are secured there is no power. If we can build retractable field stadiums, surely we can build electric vehicles with remove/replace battery packs. But the main reason it won't happen can be summed up into two words - betamax/VHS. It's all about da profit man.

Fuck off.

fyp

And that's great for all you civilised folk but here where you have towns, not cities, towns 400/500km apart or where it is not uncommon to drive 1000km in a day, electric vehicles are not viable, well at least not until manufacturers make the battery packs changeable, so you can just swap and go. But we all know that won't happen because they will all have different size batteries or different volt or different connector plugs because in our capitalistic society, it's not to their benefit to collaborate on a unified system, that might benefit more than just themselves. Btw most contemporary cars that meet Euro 6 emissions are producing such a small amount of greenhouse gases that they aren't the problem, it's all the shite being tooled around in the 3rd world countries or the shitty engines that governments like Australia and the US allow in to keep prices down (they run on 91 octane fuel and don't even make Euro 4 spec). If everyone drove a Euro 6 spec vehicle, the greenhouse gases from cars would be a small fraction of what it currently is.

Fuck who can afford either of those these days!

Not to go all Q-Anon and Trump supporter but the move to electric vehicles in many ways is just pushing another problem down the road. With current electricity generation around the world there are still ridiculous amounts of greenhouse emissions being produced. Plus the whole mining and processing of lithium is fucking toxic (to the environment and not including the slavery issues of it's mining in Africa). Lastly they are still really trying to work out how to dispose of dead/used lithium ion batteries and not have them leech their toxic chemicals into the environment. But Elon doesn't like talking about this stuff. It's also the reason Toyota are working hard on getting a hydrogen combustion engine to work,

Definitely in this country where there are long distances between what little infastructure we have for electric vehicles. Fine if you never leave the city but a trip an hour of two in an direction from a metro and you're going to be pushing a big scalectrix until you find a powerpoint or an extension cable long enough.

Lets get Bezzo involved and make it a no holds barred, three way cage fight, in a sunken submersible; next to the Titanic and whatever the gameboy controller sealed coffin was called?

Fucking music industry is full of grifters, from the top down. Feel sorry for those that have lost out on tickets, hope someone in that lot is pissed off enough and has enough clout/influence to take the promoter to the cleaners.

Sirens is an absolute breastfest, with the Body Macpherson, Kate Fischer (former g/f of James Packer media mogul heir) and Portia de Rossi before she turned for Ellen, all parading about starkers! The movie you are thinking of Fist, with young Winslets boobage is an early Peter Jackson film, before he moved to Hobbiton with RobinRobin, called Heavenly Creatures. Like Gazza suggests, please do your own research. FYI Kate, as an older beauty, also got them out, repeatedly, along with the stunning Evan Rachel Wood's perfectly perky pair, in the miniseries Mildred Pierce - if you haven't seen it, it's highly recommended for both bosom and entertainment. Obviously you've not been trawlling the cricket thread Fist, as I got larrikin out a couple of days aho and waved it about!

Job done I see.

Fucking told you, mark my word, this is dead in the water because pissy kegs has got involved. Should have stuck to the cricket thread. Ice man, lol.

Too much pixelation for that to be the owner of the chinese mouse.

Called it above. Makes nooooooooooooo sense for a 26 year old to go to Saudi, unless!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Aren't you meant to be fucking things up in the transfers thread!

That pair are the main reason I struggle to give a flying fuck about the national team (I have to deal with it for work, so I know more than I care too), they should never have been allowed back in. Being related to Doug Walters, it actually makes our family sad that the team is filled with cunts like Smith and Warner. Australian cricketers are suppose to be larrikins like Doug, Merv, Warnie, not cheating wankers.

Hopefully Elon snuck on after the Harrogate pulled out and no one has noticed yet.

Seconded, he was definitely better as a pesky chihuauhua.

You're all looking at it from a very one sided perspective (understandably) but whether they are cunts or not, the Australian team would have just blocked their way to a draw if all your "what ifs" had actually happened. We currently retain the Ashes, all they need to do is draw every match and they retain the urn. England have to try and turn the screws otherwise they will get nowt. BTW regarding Smith, his head is filled with the fact he is retiring from test cricket, most likely at the end of our summer, so it's possible he is distracted.

Like Bazball!

And look at your success rate with that! Probably best you keep your soggy kegs out of the transfers thread until after Sept 1.

Only if it's HMHM's brown sauce!

There were a few reasons, main one was a lack of international broadcasting deal, next was the foreign player limit, I think it was two and the local players level of skill was so far off the imports, even the Australians that played their weren't impressed, that the football was terrible. Lastly covid. All these players going to Saudi might be for merely their league's exposure but hopefully someone involved with it all has the sense to have spoken to those at NUFC, with the smart thought of certain players, Neves for instance, being loaned straight to the toon for the next season or two. Take that FFP.

I've just seen Swans are touring the UK in August. If you haven't seen them before, I urge you too. @Alex and the rest of you in Newcastle, they are at the Boiler Shop 15 August. @Blastronaut Saint Lukes in Glasgow 16 August. @PaddockLad @spongebob toonpants August 11 St George's Church Brighton @Meenzer August 24 at the Troxy. Just one thing, TAKE EARPLUGS!!! I've seen Sonic Youth, MBV, Einsturzende Neubauten, Godspeed You! Black Emperor and NONE of them are as loud as Swans.