Little Eye On The Provinces

[Efrogwr]

I think that this fits here;

there's a new stationer in Brighton with a range of pens apparently chosen by its "creative curators".

[rogerzilla]

Car parked on road in Swindon.

https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/24325971.abandoned-car-can-stay-swindon-street-dvla-rules/

Local Karen is not happy.

[Jurek]

Car parked on road in Swindon.

https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/24325971.abandoned-car-can-stay-swindon-street-dvla-rules/

Local Karen is not happy.

The copy refers to the car as a Ford Zetec.
My understanding is that Zetec is a type of Ford engine.
No?

[Kim]

Car parked on road in Swindon.

https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/24325971.abandoned-car-can-stay-swindon-street-dvla-rules/

Local Karen is not happy.

The copy refers to the car as a Ford Zetec.
My understanding is that Zetec is a type of Ford engine.
No?

It may have scope-creeped to become a model in its own right?  Like C-Max did?


(Ob-rant about automobile molishers writing things on their cars that aren't the model name, so that when you try to report them for a parking offence, the DVLA database says no.  We had that with a Mitsubishi Barbarian, which I've since learned is actually a Mitsubishi L200.  You shouldn't have to be a petrilhead to complain about someone blocking a dropped kerb.)

[barakta]

Me thinks Karen and her neighbours shouldn't be driving if they can't park their vehicles on their drives around the abandoned car, there's clearly loads of space and it's not blocking the dropped kerb on either side. They sound like the sort of people who need a huge space and whine a lot.

[Jaded]

The daughter needs to learn how to drive properly too.

[Regulator]

Car parked on road in Swindon.

https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/24325971.abandoned-car-can-stay-swindon-street-dvla-rules/

Local Karen is not happy.

The copy refers to the car as a Ford Zetec.
My understanding is that Zetec is a type of Ford engine.
No?

It may have scope-creeped to become a model in its own right?  Like C-Max did?


(Ob-rant about automobile molishers writing things on their cars that aren't the model name, so that when you try to report them for a parking offence, the DVLA database says no.  We had that with a Mitsubishi Barbarian, which I've since learned is actually a Mitsubishi L200.  You shouldn't have to be a petrilhead to complain about someone blocking a dropped kerb.)

It is both the name of the engine and a suffix used on the name of the models (e.g. a Ford Fiesta Zetec).

[rogerzilla]

As opposed to the later Duratec, which is a rebadged Mazda MZR engine, Ford once having had a large stake in Mazda.  Ford kept using it after Mazda moved onto more modern engines.

[MattH]

Me thinks Karen and her neighbours shouldn't be driving if they can't park their vehicles on their drives around the abandoned car, there's clearly loads of space and it's not blocking the dropped kerb on either side. They sound like the sort of people who need a huge space and whine a lot.

And they complain that they have to back the car into the driveway, which you should really do anyway so you aren't backing out onto the road.

[Paul]

Car parked on road in Swindon.

https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/24325971.abandoned-car-can-stay-swindon-street-dvla-rules/

Local Karen is not happy.

She has been left wondering what has happened to the car owner. “Is he or she still on the planet?” said Brenda.

I think we can probably eliminate the rest of the universe from our enquiries, Bren.

[Kim]

Because we don't have a Little Eye On The Internet thread:

https://www.sciencealert.com/people-are-dipping-their-testicles-in-soy-sauce-so-here-s-some-science

[Cudzoziemiec]

This is in the local paper, so...

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/health/head-transplant-system-offers-new-9299227

[Regulator]

It's complete bollocks...

[Kim]

They seem to have taken a leaf out of the tech-bro playbook and are handwaving the fact that this isn't Star Trek in order to maximise venture capital.

Actually, it looks more like someone who likes making silly videos for clicks has had their work taken seriously by the Britsol Post.  https://www.youtube.com/@hashemalghailiofficialchannel

Welcome to the future, where everything is AI bollocks.

Transplanting a head onto a donor body such that the head remains alive and un-brain-damaged is within the realms of really difficult vascular surgery (I believe it's been done on monkeys, leaving the original head attached).  Reconnecting a severed spinal cord, let alone connecting one to a different body, is science fiction.  If you're not already quadriplegic, you would be afterwards, with a host of rejection issues.  That might be worthwhile for a tiny subset of patients, but YMMV.

[Cudzoziemiec]

They seem to have taken a leaf out of the tech-bro playbook and are handwaving the fact that this isn't Star Trek in order to maximise venture capital.

Actually, it looks more like someone who likes making silly videos for clicks has had their work taken seriously by the Britsol Post.  https://www.youtube.com/@hashemalghailiofficialchannel

Nice find! Though to say the Post is taking something "seriously" might be a misunderstanding!

[Jaded]

It's complete bollocks...

I don't think you are right.

Lee Anderson has already had two head transplants.

[Regulator]

It's complete bollocks...

I don't think you are right.

Lee Anderson has already had two head transplants.

But Lee Anderson isn't a sentient being...

[Cudzoziemiec]

It's complete bollocks...

I don't think you are right.

Lee Anderson has already had two head transplants.

But Lee Anderson isn't a sentient being...

Not exactly correct. He's conscious but has no conscience.

[Regulator]

It's complete bollocks...

I don't think you are right.

Lee Anderson has already had two head transplants.

But Lee Anderson isn't a sentient being...

Not exactly correct. He's conscious but has no conscience.

Lee Anderson is nothing more than a possessed Mr Potato Head.

[Efrogwr]

It's complete bollocks...

I don't think you are right.

Lee Anderson has already had two head transplants.

I thought that he's a brain transplant donor.

[Wombat]

Car parked on road in Swindon.

https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/24325971.abandoned-car-can-stay-swindon-street-dvla-rules/

Local Karen is not happy.

The copy refers to the car as a Ford Zetec.
My understanding is that Zetec is a type of Ford engine.
No?

It may have scope-creeped to become a model in its own right?  Like C-Max did?


(Ob-rant about automobile molishers writing things on their cars that aren't the model name, so that when you try to report them for a parking offence, the DVLA database says no.  We had that with a Mitsubishi Barbarian, which I've since learned is actually a Mitsubishi L200.  You shouldn't have to be a petrilhead to complain about someone blocking a dropped kerb.)

I think its a trim level.  I thought it was a daft idea, as it always meant engines, but then I noticed that you could get a Fiesta Zetec.  Ford seemed to have weird trim level names, when I bought a Ford (notaford really) Ka in 2010, which was the shittest car I have ever owned.

[rogerzilla]

TWO FOOT WIDE PIZZAS

https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/24341987.takeaway-making-2-foot-long-pizzas-opens-swindon/

The comments are, as usual, rather good.