Mincey

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I would like to moan about the lack of imagination and talent within the BBC. Apparently, there are moves afoot to bring back Big Break. That said, it would be more entertaining than all these in-vogue games with falling balls.

Proof it can be done (is Betsy Gen 10? She looks like it...) However I don't get the Change Layout button: ...and I cannot get the cursor to go into the main area: I guess it's no big problem really. I just get slightly vexed when things are not like Ronseal.

I often wonder whether I was Adolf Hitler or Attila The Hun in a former life and it's Fate's way of paying me back...

Does anyone else have a wife who knows everything, or am I just exceedingly lucky?

I am trying to get the audio screen in the main screen of the home screen. The manual states it is possible. Betsy is clearly in a petulant teenage mood tonight as she will not let me select the main (Nav) segment of the home screen for Audio, only the left two mini segments. I don't want the map on the home screen. I want Audio! I don't want to have to keep pressing buttons whenever we go out on a jaunt together to see what's playing on Spotify. Surely, it can be done? I know I can use Android Auto but until my wireless doofer arrives early next year I really can't be bothered to take my phone out of my pocket and plug it in to Betsy's USB port. First World Problems yes, but the manual gives a clear indication that what I am lusting after is entirely possible. Any thoughts, my learned chums, or should I give the old girl a serious slap on the rump? 20211218_172727.mp4

It's a shame that Covid has stopped me comparing Lexi to their Scheissewagen equivalents. My boss typically runs either an Audi or a Mercedes. He's never had a BMW - he isn't a complete fool, but whenever I went over to Europe on business (he's Dutch) he'd pick me up in his latest company car. His Merc was the first hybrid I'd encountered. I thought the dashboard was awful - looked like something out of a Fifties Diner. He has a new one now and he video calls me on Zoom/Teams from it, but I haven't been able to work out what it is yet.

Queue Captains: no, I was there before you, you miserable old harridan. And I only had a basket with three items in it which I would have paid for before you had finished unpacking your trolley. Merry Christmas to you too.

That's a good point. The typical American backside is larger than its European counterpart too, which may have some bearing on the matter.

What he says about the "bucket seats and hard ride" in the ES300h F Sport is not true. The ES F Sport seats and ride are significantly better than the IS F Sport equivalents. I don't think even Stevie Wonder would call the ES seats "bucket seats".

I think you're right there. Hopefully I'll not choose somewhere that insists on everyone queue up outside in the cold and drizzle to wait for their painful booster next time...

My 2019 IS300h F Sport didn't have fold on locking mirrors, but my ES300h F Sport does. Pick the bones out of that one!

Now I really do have something to moan about - @Phil xxkr has moaned more than me:

While I'm in a moaning mood for a change, can I moan about the Pfizer vaccine. I've had the AZ vaccine twice and on neither occasion did it feel like I had been repeatedly kicked in the arm the following day. I am not impressed at all.

May I moan about the Youth of Today and their inability to drag themselves away from their mobile phones? Betsy and I went over to Sainsburys yesterday and I lost count of the number of young people walking along in a daze, glued to their phone's screen instead of looking where they were going. I began to play a game - how close can you get to them before they realise that someone is on a collision course. With a loaded trolley, this is a very enjoyable game indeed I can tell you! Just give a little cough when the gap closes to about a foot (that's approx 30cms for our younger readers) and see the look of panic and terror on their faces when they look up to see a weekly shop bearing down on them.

Wise words!

Absolutely. Getting knighted for doing your job has always grated on me. Look at all the gongs which fly about after Olympics and World Cups. As you say, let them prove themselves as worthy recipients afterwards. Jackie Stewart wasn't knighted until 2001 - many years after his third title, years during which he did an awful lot for safety in motor sport.

I wish to moan about work-based self-improvement courses. I'm supposed to be on a "Managing Workplace Stress" course now. I'm far too busy - I've got reports to write, and they won't write themselves you know! Deadlines are deadlines and I can't waste my valuable time taking part in such wastes of time.

I'll second that. Many moons ago, I had a commute from Thetford to Peterborough and could either go down the A1 and along the A14 or go cross-country. The cross country route was shorter but took a little longer, but was less stressful as it avoided Cambridge. Anyway, I digress. One morning I was pootling along the back roads between Upwell and Downham Market when some fog came down. I was thinking what an utter bunch of clots the drivers coming the other way were, not having their lights on in such dismal conditions, when I realised that I too, was a clot. I moved the light switch from Auto to On and felt rather righteous.

I was behind someone the other night without their lights on and doing around 25 in a 40. I of course gave repeated flashes to try to alert the buffoon that they had no lights on but to no avail. Given the speed and lack of concentration, I did wonder whether Katie Price had borrowed a friend's Fiesta to get home from the pub.

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So the triggery squirty thing and four microfibre cloths make up the £25 then - I'm not sure whether to feel ripped off or not!

You've got me worried now...

I checked the instructions - a little late I'll admit, or was it a review? I'm not sure. Anyway, the upshot was, don't use it on the windscreen. I probably didn't buff my side windows and rear screen well enough, but they're very shiny now.