Youtube hearted comments of earthstick (@earthstick).

  1. A guy I work with hired one of these and got caught speeding on the motorway in the earlier hours at 122 mph. Said it was very easy to reach that speed. We told him when in prison the first thing you do is pick a fight with the biggest man you can find. Then you will be left alone.
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  2. You are absolutely right Godfrey, many of us know just what is going on.
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  3. Something I learned recently is that the £ sign before 1975, was written with 2 bars through the L. After Nixon closed the gold window and ushered in fiat currency, only one bar is written.
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  4. The 12C is a natural beauty. It has an elegant and flowing front that blends into a modern technological rear. Better IMO than the 650S, which has the front of a P1 welded onto the rear of the 12C. It looks like a cut and shut.
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  5. Saudi Arabia have not renewed the Petrodollar Pact. They are free to trade oil for any currency they like now, meaning the dollar is no longer essential to buy oil. Oil is the only commodity that can be remotely said to back the dollar. I think this is a mammoth turn of events, i.e. giant and extinct.
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  6. This is what will end the present monetary system of fiat currency. If you cannot spend your money then it no longer functions as a medium of exchange, and people will seek a new medium. The only card they have left to play is the tax card. The government only accepts fiat currency as a tax payment, that's all that will keep fiat currency required.
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  7. There's still time for a sharper, lighter Emira. The early Evoras were heavier and softer than the last ones.
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  8. We can be sure of, is that Graham Hancock is very entertaining.
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  9. The Defender is an icon of what Britain once was.
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  10. I know the Ferrari 400i came first, but it looks like a Rover 3500 from the 80's.
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  11. There's no hiding the Lotus influence on the Toyota 2000GT. The chassis looks remarkably similar to a Lotus Elan or Esprit.
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  12. If you can, start a garden vegetable patch, keep chickens, etc. Every bit helps.
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  13. He's looking a bit like my favourite landlord, Ed Dutton.
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  14. The costumes were fantastic - the soul food spiritual microwave skit was off the scale.
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  15. I'd take the whole thing apart. Refurbish what can be saved. Replace everything else and put it back together.
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  16. 11:22 I guess that's a testament to how good the Jag digital gauges look. He tells us they are real analogue gauges while they are flashing like a disco strobe due to the refresh rate being out of sync with the camera. Otherwise good review.
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  17. To be fair the fault with the immobiliser was Bosch.
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  18. I first saw sat nav in the digital dash in a Range Rover, I'm certain they did it first.
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  19. I think of the government pretty much as a protection racket, not much more than the mafia. When a bank or a company gets fined, it is because they were operating outside the law. The money they gained from doing so was ill gotten. But where does the money go? To the treasury. And who gets sentenced? No one. So it looks to me that the corporations are the workers who do the stealing and the government is the head of the criminal organisation.
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  20. I don't think the battery gives that range in real tests. More like 240 mile range. A 65Kwh battery would probably give 160 mile range. I think they should try something with better aerodynamics.
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  21. The spiritual microwave one is hands down the best. One maybe Ed will attempt to beat it.
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  22. Can't decide about these. First I kept an open mind and it looked like they had made a serious effort. But then the price was announced and I just thought it was too expensive and a bit of a yuppie mobile. Then it appears to have some offroad chops. Then it looks like other things might be more capable. Plus while the old one was unreliable it was fixable but this is not going to be reliable or easily fixed. But it has broader appeal. I dunno. For me it is as much about the brand image. If Land Rover is not the most capable offroader that can endure anything then what is the Land Rover image? They are not known for reliability, comfort, efficiency, performance. Just that they will go anywhere. Furthermore why is a luxury road going Land Rover necessary? That's what Range Rover is. Overall I think they have missed an opportunity. They could have married modern technology with up to date offroad mechanics to create something really next generation. What they really should have considered is an all electric offroader. That would have been a game changer.
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  23. I always liked these cars. The hatchback looks better.
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  24. I wonder how big London can get before Sadiq Khan loses a mayoral election. Think about it, he only gets in because London is full of migrants who vote for him. But if London expands it will take in more natives who will vote against him. Well whatever, London is their captial and they are spreading out from there.
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  25. You are a master of deadpan humour. If you need to make a few extra quid, I suggest standup.
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  26. That car looks quite nice inside and out.
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  27. How did it come to be badly aligned first? From the factory?? One rear wheel toe-in different to the other is extraordinary.
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  28. If head gaskets fail that consistently and then work reliably once fixed, then why did they not just fit them twice in the factory? 🤪😄
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  29. I always used to like the name Datsun, even though it sounds like a manufacturer of rust buckets. It's got a kind of working class charm to the name.
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  30. Chris Martin has done some good work, not only was he my boss for a time, but he also fronted a popular musical ensemble, now it turns out he is a wizz at cars as well. Is there no end to this man's talent?
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  31. There must be a reason why Aston Martin was absent.
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  32. Why don't our politicians have shoulders like Michael's?
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  33. If the car is a Bismerc, maybe the shade of grey is battleship grey.
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  34. I did hear about Toyota throttle-by-wire faults, and I have heard of the first Porsche Taycan sold in America catching fire, the Audi E-Tron that lets rain into the cabin, just not from this channel. But this is the only case I have heard of regarding this car.
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  35. I liked the quip about the MP4-12C and the printer. An MPG of 13.4 makes me think for many people this would be a hobby car. If you were about to do a long trip you might like to use it for the comfort and enjoyment but you would have to really consider whether it was that important to drop a ton on fuel costs.
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  36. Everybody knows, Bongo Bongo Land is inhabited by Oompa Loompas, and they don't exist either. So there is nobody to be offended. Besides it's a trivial compaint used to divert from the real issue.
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  37. There's another channel where the guy has a fleet of cars. Superspeedster Rob. He has a fleet of sports cars and they all have flat batteries or engine warnings and none of them work. The thing is, if you have so many cars that you can't drive them all often enough to keep them running then doesn't that mean you are not satisfied with them?
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  38. My guess about the original mini being made for so long and the car industry is that in this country we have bad managers backed up by bad politicians. Nobody does anything unless they have to and by then it's too late. If you work as a manager then make sure you don't fall into that category.
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  39. When it came out most reviews said similar things. It drove well but managed to be comfortable as well but the interior was a bit cheap and boring. Being a brand new car Jag looks to have put all the development money into the chassis and suspension. Leaving the interior under done. If they had to sacrifice something to stay within budget then the interior was probably the most sensible. After all, interiors get changed as often as underwear but the chassis is the foundation for all the following revisions. Apparently they have updated the interior for the new version. It's just a pity they didn't sell better from the start. The big reviewers in the car press don't even acknowledge its existence. My guess is their paymasters don't like it driving better than the rivals.
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  40. It might be a bit more special if it wasn't James Bond metallic with a black interior, like every other AM in Britain.
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  41. The American industrial military complex have no purpose unless there is an enemy. Dissolution of the USSR was a disaster for them.
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  42. You could swap the valve seals from the front and rear heads, then you would expect the other head to have the oil leak. Not really necessary because it sounds like you have figured it out. But what if the valves that are slightly undersized on the faulty head, not the seals that are oversized?
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  43. BMW chimes... Rolls-Royce if you are reading this, you need to replace the BMW chimes with the sound of Big Ben being struck. BONGGGGG, BONGGGGGG, BONGGGGGG. That's the sound of Britain.
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  44. I also read 50% of people with myocarditis die within 5 years. And if you remember, shortly after vaccinations, news articles started to come out saying that 300,000 people in the have an undiagnosed heart condition that they will die from within a few years. Trying to pass it off as an existing illness.
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  45. The Swiss supplied Hitler with weapons and troops at the start of WWII.
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  46. We can do expensive cars, luxurious or sporty, fairly well here. But we completely lack an affordable mass market brand. Jaguar, for instance, could not do a small electric car without all the leather and luxury gadgets. Because even though a more affordable car would be an option for more buyers, it would cheapen the brand. Rover could have offered cars to those buyers but they were run into the ground by crooks.
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  47. What about an XK8? Bit long - like a land yacht but beautiful looks, especially the first and second generation.
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  48. It's not what I would call a looker.
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  49. Can't is not a word in my dictionary.
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  50. More unsprung mass
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  51. Boris can tell you about the brakes on a Range Rover.
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