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I know he was born here but I have a feeling Norris grew up somewhere in Somerset. Given the links though I think it's fair to class him as Bristolian-ish! Definitely would be the first one to count - as you say Button is from Frome. Closest after that would likely be Mansell and Peter Collins who were from some way up the M5.

Another red in Aus

Crazy year was 1994. On top of the 3 crashes that weekend (not forgetting Barrichello), Wendlinger was put into a coma just a few weeks later, Montermini had a big one in Spain, and Lamy had an absolute massive crash at Bridge in testing, breaking a load of bones. It was an odd formula with the lack of driver aids that in reality took a couple of years to fix. It's easy to get pulled into the trap of believing F1 is all safe these days, but even then there hadn't been a fatality at an actual meeting in 12 years. 2 in 2 days was just crazy.

Smaller cars and V10's would be beautiful. I understand the need to try to push technology for road relevancy, but I'm not sure these cars really offer much long-term benefit for actual road cars these days. There is a rumour that he is pretty much done with F1, that it was only the side projects at Red Bull that were keeping him there, but who knows. Ferrari would be very interesting.

It's been some years since I used Revolut but yes you were able to convert on the fly - though even with Starling, etc there's no need to convert as such, as you're not charged any extras for purchases (in many countries at least). So paying in pounds makes no real difference. As for your second question, I'm fairly certain you can but I can't say I've tried it.

Yep Revolut, Starling, Monzo, any of the new so-called 'neo-banks' are great for travelling.

Yep I'm there now too. 80% of what is rotten in football would be instantly removed by having the top clubs gone. Genuinely, without the state-backed clubs and equivalents, the competitiveness of the English league as a whole would accelerate overnight. You'd be back to the 80's and 90's, the gap to non-league would not be so large, achievements like Wimbledon's promotion and Clough's back-to-back promotion/Championship win would be so much more possible. More than just 4 clubs would be able to win the league. Let them have their league and close it off. Sounds great to me. And the 'super league' wouldn't get a penny from me.

Coconut Tree is amazing. Tried Nadu the other day too which is very similar and also very decent.

Yeah that's basically a Firestick, Apple TV, Chromecast, etc. You plug them in and they give you access to all of your subscriptions, which you still have to pay for. They've been around for about 10 years by now I'd imagine. They're handy if you have an old TV with no apps on, or if you want IPTV or something.

For IPTV? Not at all. Just need to download particular apps and you're away. You can even run it on an Apple TV with it's locked app store.

Another top notch thread from RR

Did you get the DSP at Renato's? The guy who runs it has been doing it for some years out of old pubs and stuff trying to get it going I think, genuinely some of the best pizza I've ever had. Really need to get back there.

To be honest I think it's just going to be crap for a while. Even passing in 2009 it was only sub-£2k if you got Pass Plus as well. Biggest recommendations are to try all of the comparison sites (Compare the Market, Go Compare, Money Supermarket, Confused) - on all of them try with yourself as an added driver or your wife, or both (sometimes it's cheaper if you add both of you on!). Then if you have time just try to play with each filter, e.g. jobs can be quite subjective, some jobs could be described as Banking or Finance for example so try both and see which one comes out cheaper. Also sometimes car being parked on the road rather than on the drive can sometimes come out as inexplicably cheaper. I tend not to do it now so much but when I was younger I'd muck about with all of those and some of those little things would shave £30 off or so here and there.

Lounge's do a decent job, really don't mind them. Quite looking forward to seeing what they do with that work going on on Welsh Back by the Hole in the Wall. Supposed to be a food court of sorts with pop up restaurants and bars. Always thought Bristol could do with something a bit like Freight Island in Manchester, not that there is much space for it.

At least it's literally his only platform. Completely shunned by everywhere else, just a leader of idiots so daft they believe him. A complete loser.