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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.

4 hours ago, italian dave said:

Slightly off topic……does Revolut allow you to have your account in sterling, Euros, both? And to set up things like direct debits in Euros through the European banking system? It’s becoming an increasing problem doing that with the traditional banks since you know what. 

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.

On 25/04/2024 at 14:56, CodeRed said:

Revolut card is the way to go, keep your other cards in the room safe, load just what you need for the day onto the revolut card via the phone app .....and don't lose your phone!

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

13 hours ago, cityexile said:

Thinking in hindsight it but might have been better to just let the buggers go to the super league and have been done with it.

12 hours ago, BigTone said:

100% agree. Let them all **** off and allow British football to return to sustainable reality. You've got my vote.

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.

13 hours ago, Pickle Rick said:

Although in Bath, I enjoyed a meal at a the Coconut Tree. There’s a couple in Bristol as well.

Sri Lankan tapas-esq, so you get to order multiple dishes. Maybe 3 or 4 per couple. I think we ordered 5 though

The majority of the food is spicy, but wonderful. Every dish ordered was great.

https://www.thecoconut-tree.com/

And as for drinks, they’ve got a great cocktail menu. I went for a Yaka!

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

57 minutes ago, Robbored said:

The advert claims that it’s simply plugs into your tv and it gives access to all subscriptions including Sky Sports free of charge. As I said it seems too good to true and that’s why I’ve asked on here if anyone has any experience of using one.

Lots of posters know far more about the internet and tv technology than I do.

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 

18 hours ago, internetjef said:

Cracking gig , top pizza upstairs in renatos before , and unexpected highlight was being warm enough to sink a few beers post gig out on beer terrace. Summer is coming , happy days 

Just booked English teacher for November in SWX. Album out today getting great reviews 

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.

52 minutes ago, Kodjias Wrist said:

Which is why I don’t understand why he is still being given a platform. 

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.

Same vibes

That Saka penalty shout is a real tricky one, and yet again just shows how hard it is to referee a game. I think you can make a pretty decent case for both shouts in reality, but for me it's not quite a pen. Saka clearly looks for it and although Neuer is a bit daft with his challenge, Saka deliberately leaves a trailing leg way too far out.

As 50:50 as it is, I think it's a superb decision from the ref. The easy way out would've been to give it.

8 hours ago, And Its Smith said:

Use sky scanner and, if you are driving to an airport, take a look at 6-7 different airports.  If you live in Bristol you are less than 3 hours from Cardiff, Exeter, Southampton, Birmingham, Heathrow and East Midlands.  This year I am flying to Majorca from Exeter and for four people it was £700 cheaper than flying from Bristol 

Thanks for that, that's a great tip actually. Must admit I only really check Bristol, Cardiff and Heathrow.

27 minutes ago, Maesknoll Red said:

Lots to agree with here, but 8 straight years of Mercedes winning the constructors, with 7 individual championships (only 1 year really competitive, Bottas never was) was dominance on almost the same scale, the extra race winners were usually down to mechanical failure, or driver error like Spain 2017 when Rosberg and Hamilton collided and gave Verstappen his first win.

 

Yeah absolutely. As much as I say the current domination is worse (in my opinion of course), it's just a different level of the same shit. Even if the Merc years were 'better' on account of two teammates being able to fight it out, the problem is still there. The sport as a whole is just miles away from where it could/should be competitively.

2026 could genuinely be pretty exciting, and it's almost impossible to predict which team will come out on top at this stage. Here's hoping the regulation period as a whole has a few twists and turns though - a shake-up in 2026 is only useful if it doesn't remain the same throughout the whole regulation period.

Unless I have something wildly wrong, that must be 10 hours of football now without a goal for them? 

2 hours ago, bearded_red said:

I’d imagine a few of you would have seen Gab Sutton on Twitter, a completely harmless lad that tweets about the football league. 
 

The absolute ******* that used to manage Rovers decided to send him this… because he committed the grave crime of not having Paddy Madden in his team of the week. ******* pond life.

If he wasn’t so utterly nasty it would be amusing just how much he has lost the plot.

Ha, what a tragic little piece of **** that guy is. Completely unemployable, reduced to desperate attempts to stay relevant on Twitter. Deserves every last second of nothingness that the rest of his life will bring him.

20 hours ago, Maesknoll Red said:

Its not changed much in the last 15 years, a couple of seasons where the figures make it look more interesting, but some of that was just down to circumstance (crashes / reliability, rather than driver ability or car improvements).

Simple stats:

Year / Different drivers winning / Different teams winning

2010 / 5 / 3

2011 / 5 / 3

2012 / 8 / 5

2013 / 5 / 4

2014 / 3 / 2

2015 / 3 / 2

2016 / 4 / 2

2017 / 5 / 3

2018 / 6 / 3

2019 / 5 / 3

2020 / 5 / 4

2021 / 6 / 4

2022 / 6 / 3

2023 / 3 / 2

20204 / 2 / 2 - So far.

 

Which just goes to show, the last couple of seasons are producing - stats wise - the same results as 2014 /15 and not hugely dissimilar to many other years.

I think I've said it before, but I think the lack of competition at the front is the biggest issue here. Though not perfect by any means, at least in the Hamilton years you had his battle with Rosberg. During the Vettel years the rivalry with Webber was great. There were actually some title deciders at the end of the year.

At the moment there is just... nothing. And it's partially because Max is so good, partially because we have new rules that completely play into the hands of Newey (who is already the best designer in F1), and partially because Red Bull are and always have been pretty much a one-car team. That means the fastest team is miles ahead, and within that team there is little chance of any title battle.

Throw in the new budget cap meaning it's very hard for teams to catch up within a rules period and it's basically a recipe for having near enough the same sequence of cars in order from 2021 to 2025. Which is absolute crap.

While the budget cap is well intentioned, it's causing damage here and I'm not sure it's possible to rectify it before 2026. Liberty adding more and more races also makes year-end title deciders mathematically less likely. It's just all a bit stale nowadays.

Not always my thing but loving Kneecap at the moment.

49 minutes ago, redkev said:

If you look close enough though most following are from the great unwashed tribe or the sort of people you would see on these various marches that seem to be in Bristol every other week , 

A few of my mates were at this and they're about as far away from the 'great unwashed tribe' as you can get. This is a completely different crowd.

7 minutes ago, Lew-T said:

It all comes down to, again, that you like what you like.

If it isn’t for you, then there are plenty other things to enjoy. I’m not into drum and bass, but I don’t see any harm in this.

As long as they didn’t litter after themselves then crack on.

100% this. DnB isn’t my bag at all but it’s absolutely everywhere in this city, don’t see any issue with it whatsoever. Bristol being at the forefront of anything good is a positive in my book.

Pretty solid that to be fair.

Poor lad, really hope he's found. What's particularly weird is that although (sorry to say it) it's entirely possible he's sadly in the river, like a few others in recent years, his phone apparently pinged as active up on Granby Hill shortly after he went missing. Doesn't make all that much sense unless he's doubled back on himself.

Really good shout to make more people aware of this.

1 hour ago, Unan said:

Unrelated but they've created their site using Squarespace. A design agency building their own site with Squarespace is like someone claiming to be a gourmet chef but only knows how to microwave ready meals. Despite presenting themselves as experts in a craft that typically demands creativity and custom solutions, their choice of a drag-and-drop website creator suggests they might not possess the depth of skill or creativity they advertise.

That's a great spot. A 'design agency' paying a mass-market web design/hosting company what, £15pm to run basically a pre-templated website for them is laughable.