Augustus Windsock

Been lurking around Twitter/X for years, mainly using it as a source of news or getting a feel for how many people there are out there who express dangerous or utterly stupid opinions. Some times it seems like our society is being an utter sweet. There are lots of lovely….

@MttRbnsn Excellent. I’m going soon, and also booked in the factory tour.

SQUEE! I am at the #Porsche Museum in Stuttgart. Last time I was here, seven years ago, I took about 78 million photos in this place. Can't promise that won't happen again... 50to70.com/2019/03/20/the…

@GeoffBuysCars Is that the nob who was comparing a Defender unfavourably with a leccy van and a Golf recently? I started to reply to him but I thought a mute was a better use of my time.

Only a bloke would use the term 'a proper weapon'. Tweets by James, the girls are just for marketing, eh? Why can't you engage instead of just posting passive tweets...? Also, isn't a weapon a good thing? And define acumen, exactly...? Degree educated and experienced in the car world? Not good enough?

@AutoPap All those extra badges were status symbols in the 1980s sales rep hierarchy. 😂

How many fonts are too many 🤔

@PlinthBotherer5 In Newport East houses Ringland and Alway. Basically “Benefits Street”

Newport East is a particularly strange one, there's plenty of work in a nicely commutable distance of that area at least. How has this happened

Another predictably disastrous map for Wales. There's no occupational reason why 30 year olds should be in particularly poor health

@paulmcc93417139 @WonPeople Me too. Something so small just utterly ruins the sleek line of the car.

@AugWindsock @WonPeople That really pisses me off.

Phooor XJRs 6.0 litre manual. What a machine! At #bicesterscramble today.

@MattTakeThree “First to see will buy”.

Idly browsing for a more suitable car. What's your biggest turn offs on adverts? For me so far: * Smoked or 4D plates * Chinese tyres * Fault lights "but drives fine" * Doncaster or Bradford location * Advert in Slavic * Priced at £2k over average Fire away with the rest

@exRAF_Al I grew up in Neil Kinnock’s constituency and I used to regularly drive past Glenys’s MEP constituency office. That family have had their snouts in the trough for 40+ years while pretending to be supportive of the working classes.

When people ask, why did Labour fall in Wales, they should look to Steve Kinnock in Port Talbot. He was bunged £25,000 last year to spend time in the Napa Valley instead of the Afan Valley, he slated the Tories for stopping the winter fuel allowance then voted for exactly the same thing and after his time at the WEF, he worked for a management consultancy that advised Tata how to transition to Green industrialisation (and was parachuted into Port Talbot to finish the job by closing the steelworks in ‘his’ town, alongside Labour in Cardiff Bay). In addition, when he was needed by Steel workers the most during their struggle over their pension, he went AWOL. This is why the Labour brand is so toxic in South Wales, and this is why Labour is going to be eradicated across this fine country.

@johnny_raku @david_stillwell Fair enough. £40k over inflation against a £440k purchase over 23 years isn’t the massive growth that the OP was implying though. That’s not to say I think the asking price is realistic, just responding to the suggestions of high growth.

@AugWindsock @david_stillwell It's a bit over inflation

Found it on RightMove... She feels entitled to £410k profit.

@TransRoofKorean @Sargon_of_Akkad @AcademicAgent_X Yeah I think you’re right that it’s more for power saving. It still makes screen savers a bit redundant, and I miss the old familiar ones. I remember when everyone in the office had the animation from the Guinness advert. It’s must have been about 1994/95.

How come there are no screen savers anymore then?

@Sargon_of_Akkad @AcademicAgent_X Modern monitors have their own sleep mode, or can be put to sleep by PC settings. CRTs were on permanently as long as the power switch was on.

@AcademicAgent_X Leds don't burn like crts

I find it mind boggling the number of times you tap on the profile of someone who has expressed some odious political opinion to find that they are a CEO or a lobbyist for a special interest organisation you’ve never heard of. It’s an entire industry of people just pushing agendas and contributing absolutely nothing productive to our country.

With enough funding, anyone can start a think tank and name it something like “The Centre for British Thought”. Then it can be quoted on mainstream TV. “A poll by the Centre for British Thought, shows 90% of the public support unlimited immigration.” The left are doing this loads

@therealGDJ @MarcherReborn I’m going to log off social media for a month after the election because all the Nationalist accounts are going to be utterly insufferable.

@MarcherReborn Some of our lot should be banned from voting…

Latest MRP poll predicts a near total wipeout in Wales for Labour. The Welsh have been voting for Labour for over a century, and unless your surname is Kinnock, it’s highly unlikely that you’ve benefited from it in any way, shape or form

@ShamiKalra I would have said that a smaller one would be ideal for my kitchen, but when I looked at the dimensions it’s not as big as I thought from that image. Ideal. Ordered. 👍

Bloody hell…just checked and nearly 50 sold. You lot are wonderful ❤️

@BFraggles @DouglasCarswell Sounds more like a fart in the bath. 😆

@DouglasCarswell It sounds like something a Zulu screams while running at your trench with a spear.

Oliuwadamilola Ogunyankinnu

Just booked this. Looks like a lovely day out.

@TiredCant1 @AutoPap @SimonCarGuy Agreed. Smaller wheels would look better but they probably need to be bigger to house bigger brakes. Also, somebody has been naughty with the number plate on that original S1 to make the K look like an R. 😉

@AutoPap @SimonCarGuy Honestly it would look better with smaller wheels imo

Encore bringing London to a standstill @SimonCarGuy

@miriam_cates @ReemAmirIbrahim A 20-something on minimum wage isn’t a net contributor, and is also likely to be in receipt of benefits if they have dependents. They aren’t paying enough in tax and NI to cover the services that they use themselves, they certainly aren’t paying for anyone else’s pension.

@ReemAmirIbrahim 💯

Is the state pension really so 'meagre'? Let's take a look... The basic state pension is just £12,547 a year. But... Only around 15% of pensioners rely on the state pension alone. The vast majority have other income from private pensions etc., which is exactly how our system is designed to work (and why the UK has generous tax breaks for pension contributions). The small proportion of pensioners whose only source of income is the state pension are entitled to other benefits in addition, including pension credit, housing benefit and council tax support. A pensioner with no other income, no savings, no disabilities, no care responsibilities and rent of £800 per month is entitled to £401.55 a week in benefits including state pension, which is £20,881 a year. For comparison, a full time minimum wage worker has an after tax income of £21,364. Unlike a pensioner, a full time minimum wage worker is not entitled to free travel, free prescriptions, a winter fuel payment or senior citizens discounts. £21,000 a year is not a lot of money. But the very poorest pensioners have similar incomes to low-wage workers. Given the greater costs faced by those who are working, it's perhaps not surprising that working age adults are now more likely to live in poverty than pensioners. And at the other end of the scale, one in four pensioners are millionaires and still receive the basic state pension, paid for by current tax payers (including those on minimum wage). No one (definitely not me) is suggesting that the state pension should be reduced for the poorest pensioners. But pension spending now accounts for half of the UK's social security budget and, given the urgent need to cut government spending, we must consider reforms like means-testing and scrapping the triple lock.

@HBrubanter When I was house sharing in the early 2000s our usual activity once home from the pub was to put on Sin Cities on Bravo to see what Ashley Hames was getting up to in places like Prague. They don’t make telly like that any more!

Back in the day, before streaming services, I lived in a houseshare. We had Sky TV with all the channels, and at any time of the day or night, we would do the 'Hitler Test'. Search the channels and look to find a program about Hitler or the Nazis. We always found one.

Five shows to get to know me 1. Father Ted 2. The Fast Show 3. Shooting Stars 4. The World at War 5. Nazi Megastructures