tankplanker

I think you helped me crack it, i think it's saying that the person who looks like you but puts in more effort to their appearance on the regular is more attractive. That makes sense to me, and would be true in the main for most people, it's one of the most common things said to people who are struggling to find partners.

You could take negative connotations from that about that person being vain but really it should be on the cheater for being a fucking cheater.

Rashfords people been dropping hints that he would take a paycut if the right team, like Barca. Of course where he would actually fit into that squad is pretty comical.

Only reason we took him in January was a wage cut, and even then he still broke our wage structure big time.

I have no idea if Unai actually wants him and has a target wage he would sign him for, but I would hope that a wage of 200k a week would work for us. £40m to buy Rashford is a bargain and goes a long way to covering some of the extra wages over our approx. current ceiling of about £150k.

Rashford is worth extra investment in wages due to increased media interest leading to sponsorships, shirt sales, etc.

Would Rashford take that much of a cut? Start of the transfer window, probably not, by the end? Much more likely as what's the alternative? Rotting in the man united youth squad?

We have similar going on with Acensio, he's on about 200k ish and he's looking to move permanently, which means a paycut that he seems to accept he needs to take for first team football.

Is this before or after selling players like Rashford that the club wants gone?

If it's before then they likely to get somewhere around to £180m with the number of players they want gone.

If it's after then that's a joke as they adding what, £20m to the transfers out?

£180m is starting to approach the money needed, the squad needs 6 or 7 good players and that gets may be 6 at £30m.

£100m is likely 3 players, not going to pig the gaps at all.

Cunha is like £60m, Delap is £35m? Lol they fucked, Ruben should walk if these numbers true.

You mean you want to tax me on unrealized gains and assets? Totally unfair, even though I can leverage loans off them and then pay myself with the loan to reduce/avoid taxes.

While they aren't in immediate danger Toyota aren't as bulletproof as their best cars are as they have been suffering with persistent sales decline.

They are still committed to passenger car HEVs, which I see as nothing but a dead end now, commercial it may or may not work, but standard passenger cars zero chance.

I get that they want to keep the money making petrol station model going by replacing petrol with hydrogen, and that eventually you will be charging EVs at home with your own renewables for the majority, but its gone, give it up.

With this head in the sand mentality they are asking for the likes of BYD to steal their market share. It will be a slow death, ICE isn't going anywhere for a while now due to various extensions, but going it is.

Some of it is also that Max has had years driving the car that has a similar philosophy as they are evolutions of that Newey concept while some of his teammates are lucky if they had a full season. Very few drivers can just swap teams and be immediately world class level, see Lewis and Carlos this year, both of whom have masses of experience, some of Max's teammates have been comparative rookies or never were that fast in the first place (Checo).

Unai Emery's claret and blue army

I think this a pretty refreshing take from Pep, most managers would gladly just accept the signing of more and more toys given the size of budget available to Pep.

From a villa fans perspective we started the season with a psr enforced cull on squad size, and we have dropped significant points because of it. We had matches with midfielders having to play as centre backs and other matches with centre backs acting as full backs.

With a larger squad as we have had from end of January transfer window in February we have rallied because of new recruits and people returning from injury. If we had that from the start then how much further up would we have been?

Conversely we have had issues with Watkins/Duran and then Watkins/Rashford sharing the role of striker, it's hardly the days of United and their four strikers as its just two people at a time, but managing that even with ~60 games a season isn't always straightforward.

Biggest interest i have in this final is that if Spurs win i could see both managers leaving. Ruben would likely walk and Ange is almost certainly getting the boot regardless of result.

It's the equivalent of two drunks fighting at a chipshop in terms of actual football quality for a neutral.

Between us we have had zoe R1, Zoe R2, fist 500e, hyundai ioniq 5.

Pros, massively cheaper. We put about 500kwh in a month at about 7p per kwh. That's about 2000 miles (between three cars) a month for £35. No ICE is anywhere near that. Money saved basically pays for the two smaller cars.

Cost us best worked out over year, a lot of what about ism on cost based on only charging on expensive public chargers when vast majority of miles should be covered by cheap home charging. If it's not then I wouldn't be buying an ev.

Never bother with fuel stations again. EV charging at home or if out on long trip we charge while car is parked and we doing something else. The ioniq we charge at ultra rapid in about 20 minutes while eating on long journeys.

Fiat does about 140 miles, zoe 200 miles, ioniq about 280 miles. All actuals between charges not indicated max range with no headroom.

Cons, more effort for journeys as you have to plan charge stops for availability and cost. We can charge as low as 40p. Kwh and as high as 95p kwh. Only a moron who doesn't plan gets stuck with the latter in the UK. Charging when cost or timing is best is how to do it with EVs not a slavish adherence to charging when empty. The latter is properly idiotic and its as bad as not planning ahead. As is charging to 100% on public ultra rapids or any other expensive charger.

Not enough pull through spaces for charging while towing. We unhook, its a pain even with a motor mover for the trailer. Adds about 10 minutes per charge, max. Towing halves range typically. Anybody getting worse than that is driving fast with their trailer, as aero gets exponentially worse over 60 mph. It's noticeable with a large trailer even between 58 and 62mph on a GPS speedo.

Interestingly the AI stories are voiced by real people, ractors. That would now be one of the first things cut, see James Earl Jones

The truly pedantic way is:

• Coffee by volume not weight. It's particularly noticeable with espresso. Obviously ridiculous to do irl because it means doing the penny test each time
• Grind level needs adjusting throughout the day as humidity and temperature impact consistency. Also unless you freezing exactly one portion your beans off gas a little bit more each day, even in an air tight container as its not actually air tight
• Temperature ramp should be considered and if you need to preheat everything or not to impact it. You want a slight downward temperature ramp to avoid over extraction at the end to reduce astringent and bitter flavours

Obviously over the top for vast majority and pointless if you making dark roast beans, although over extraction with them is pretty rank. However if you have some expensive light roast then it can make a noticeable difference. Is that worth it to you? Who cares, how you like your coffee is how you like it, i don't even do the above