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mercalia wrote:MAN OF STEEL is the best Superman film?

Right up until the stupid fight at the end.

CGI has a lot to answer for...

And yet despite far larger motors going at faster speeds, massively fewer pedestrians and cyclists are killed. Yes there is a drop in people cycling, we know this, but there is massively greater exposure to offset that in the absolute number of vehicles and driven miles, Average speeds have dropped...

Are you asking me to prove it? It is my judgement that they made genuine mistakes, because they are people I know well enough to make that call. My own mistake was genuine so I know it can easily happen. I think you're being overly defensive. I've no reason to believe it was anything other than a m...

I know a few people who have been fined for making genuine mistakes, harmlessly, in Cardiff. Not speeding. I had one myself for doing a right turn that, apparently, was forbidden. I didn't see the sign. Fair cop. But the road was empty and the turn, though wrong, was a safe low speed one. A warning...

Drivers have got worse, lazier, double-declutching is no longer taught for example They might only have to learn more theory to pass the test, then promptly forget/ignore it Double de-clutching was a mechanical necessity. These days completely pointless, why would you teach it? Modern cars handle s...

The railway museum in York is very good, I enjoyed reading the comments, many praised the museum and bleated about expensive parking for vehicles, plusminus Havnae been to York for a while, but I thought it had a train station with quite good services :wink: Yep and right next door to the museum to...

seems I am destined to be the grump on here. Me and a mate saw the trailer for Mars Attacks - both fans of the director and thought it looked brilliant so trotted off to see it as soon as it was released. Both thought it absolutely awful and as the lights came up I think each of us had a feeling of...

I would argue that a lot of modern junction design only works if you have prior knowledge of it before you arrive. Loads of junctions near me where I see noobs struggle with whilst the locals and those familiar under and overtake, tooting as they go. A lot of elderly drivers may well not be able to ...

Not risk the hair of one British Citizen, supportive of the UK rule of law, to return her to this place ... She has made a hard choice as a child and has publicly reinforced that hard choice as an adult .... Her choice .. do we want her among us ? It's an interesting idea that not letting her back ...

PH wrote:It’s hard to compare with an article I haven’t seen, but the Guardian haven’t just done anything, the link is two decades old...

Good old internet, where information comes to stagnate.

I'm waiting for Tony Heart to die again. He dies at least once every couple of years.

Genuinely interested,where's your sources,can you point me to a good read on it all? Not easily. It's a fast moving topic with lots of research being published all the time so most of what I know comes from New Scientist articles - there's pretty much an article on it every other month. If you have...

well maybe one factor Sony didnt consider was which filter to use - Most cd players these days have quite a few choices including the standard brickwall filter, that are needed to remove the spurious nasties that standard cd produces as part of the conversion process. My Old Sony cd player had 4 ( ...

I do actually - Roksan Xerxes turntable that cost an arm and a leg, the cartridge a modest £300 or so. With Audiolab 8200cdq preamp/cd spinner and 2x120watt 8000M power amps. And the cds/LPs I cpmare are almost identical even down to the recording faults decsions clearly heard When I worked at Sony...

Scientifically, it's now understood that there is more genetic diversity within Africa than between non-African humans. the deepest splits in the human family aren’t between what are usually thought of as different races—whites, say, or blacks or Asians or Native Americans. They’re between African ...

I must start a thread for unfunny 'jokes' like that one :( Reminds me, somehow, of the tale of Augustus in Struwwelpeter - the little boy who refused his soup five days in a row, and on the fifth day had starved to death. You don't catch cold - let alone flu - from being held up for a few seconds i...