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Same here. The road into our village has to be seen to be believed.
People are sticking traffic cones in them as a warning, so people can weave around them instead of wrecking their cars.
Two emergency Ambulances got seriously held up the other day because of it.

Yes same thing happening round here.  Our country is literally falling apart at the seams. 

Same here. The road into our village has to be seen to be believed.
People are sticking traffic cones in them as a warning, so people can weave around them instead of wrecking their cars.
Two emergency Ambulances got seriously held up the other day because of it.

Potholes...

Planet killing soot chucker's should meet the same end as the dinosaur.

Nothing used to hear me up more when I was in the Battlebus - before DTM fixed it - of lifting then flooring the throttle, covering the car following too close behind in a cloud of soot.

I always used to chuckle


Wasn't half as much fun after DTM made the Battlebus work properly, but was a damn site quicker

Pah, for real fun you need to be running on WVO obtained from the local curry house. I used to larf my arse off when sat at traffic lights, looking in the rear view mirror, lip reading the driver in the car behind saying to their passengers " Whats that farkin smell ?"   
First time I took it for MOT he said, "Get that thing out of here. Its a workshop not a farkin chip shop. Come back when you have some proper fuel in the tank". 

I used to run my old Rover 216 on clean veggie oil from Costco, which at the time was almost half the price of diesel. 

It still pen and inked a bit though and once I was sat at traffic lights in Bristol city centre on a hot sunny day, when a Police car pulled up along side. Out of the corner of my eye I could see the coppers looking around and wondering where the whiff of chip shop was coming from. I was very glad when the lights went green! 

I saw on the TV about Robert Duvall, but strangely, no mention of Lonesome Dove. Seems to me, every time I watch a video on social media, there is always a clip of that show !!! I always thought it was one of his well known jobs

Until shop security is allowed to shoot offenders, no amount of technology is going to stop anything.

The above is definitely the answer.      

We know facial recognition is seriously flawed and there are plenty of documented cases where a completely innocent person has been arrested based on facial recognition.     If it worked it would be a useful tool to catch criminals but, there have been too many ‘false positives’, which seriously pisses off the completely innocent party concerned. False arrest results in a lawsuit, so the taxpayer has to cough up again.

“Several high-profile cases have occurred where facial recognition technology (FRT) has wrongly identified and led to the arrest of innocent people, highlighting significant flaws in the technology's accuracy, particularly concerning racial bias. These incidents often involve law enforcement relying on surveillance, leading to "false positives" where the system incorrectly matches an innocent person's photo to a suspect.”

Until shop security is allowed to shoot offenders, no amount of technology is going to stop anything.

Certain police forces in the UK are already using facial recognition.  The retail sector are also using facial recognition CCTV systems to identify those that have been found to shoplift in the past.  These systems will now spread, and frankly, why not?

Only those that have something to hide, or have been found guilty of crime should fear this.  If we have nothing to hide, and are honest citizens, these systems can only assist us, the police and any service industries, in keeping us safe and free from crime.  As a side issue, but a very important one, is that as a retired senior retail manager I know how much shoplifting / criminality on retail premises cost us, the public.  Losses are transferred onto the prices we pay, and staff lose their jobs because of the costs of criminality that business has to cover, and cannot.

Welcome to the 21st century

Planet killing soot chucker's should meet the same end as the dinosaur.

Nothing used to hear me up more when I was in the Battlebus - before DTM fixed it - of lifting then flooring the throttle, covering the car following too close behind in a cloud of soot.

I always used to chuckle


Wasn't half as much fun after DTM made the Battlebus work properly, but was a damn site quicker

Pah, for real fun you need to be running on WVO obtained from the local curry house. I used to larf my arse off when sat at traffic lights, looking in the rear view mirror, lip reading the driver in the car behind saying to their passengers " Whats that farkin smell ?"   
First time I took it for MOT he said, "Get that thing out of here. Its a workshop not a farkin chip shop. Come back when you have some proper fuel in the tank". 

I have been out, and driven, the new X900 a few times.

We all agree that a V12 would work nicely in it but, the 1000bhp is also pretty interesting