Ed Donohue

@theashrb Nothing will change. Drivers will still drive half a mile for the school run, arrive early to grab a space and sit there with the engine running

Do you know the SCENES that we’ll be seeing across the UK if petrol hits £1.90/L????? Jesus.

@JeremyVineOn5 I can't use a screen at work without an annual assessment but can pass my driving test at 17 and never have to update my learning. 100% yes to retesting, think how much nicer the roads would be if you removed the bad drivers.

Should you retake your driving test every 5 years? New figures show that London and the South-East record the highest number of crashes in the country. Should motorists be required to retake their test to prove they’re still safe behind the wheel?

@gmiller Owner of several turbo 4s over the years, my current one reached 310k last week. Service regularly and let the engine idle for 30 seconds before moving or switching off and it'll be fine

Question for car guys: Over the last few years, many car manufacturers are switching from naturally aspirated V-6 engines to turbocharged 4-cylinder engines, given federal pressures to increase MPG and decrease emissions. Many of the classic V-6s last over 200,000 miles. Many of the turbo-4s will not, given their much higher operating temperatures, pressures, and complexity. Replacing an entire car more often involves a huge 'embodied energy' cost. Question: Does this switch to smaller, 'more fuel efficient' engines actually help the environment in the long run, if we take into account the fact that the smaller engines will wear out much faster? Is this an example of 'pro-environment' federal regulations being counter-productive in the long run?

@WilJay_1 308k miles on my daily, still runs sweet thanks to full service history from new and very little urban driving

High mileage is the most abused phrase in the used car market. Mileage only tells you how often a car moved not how it was treated. A serviced 150k mile car will outlive a neglected 40k mile car every time.

@elsathora Calstock is such a beautiful part of the world

I’m a proud Anglophile Growing up in Sweden people leaned towards UK or US culture. I was obsessed with the US (still am) but after moving to the UK I finally got it The history, culture, people, humour, nature, architecture, even the food. You won’t believe me but the UK has some of the best food in the world!! There’s nowhere else quite like it and I’m so glad I was able to call it home for a while

@fesshole Better than drinking great wine and having terrible sex I suppose

Met a gorgeous woman at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. We hit it off immediately and were really flirty straight away. Now while our spouses think we're at meetings we're in a Premier Inn drinking shit wine and having sex.

@itsme_urstruly Get rid of your TV, move to a walkable neighbourhood, sell your car, don't have kids

Can someone please explain to me how someone gets 8 hours of sleep, 10,000 steps a day, goes to work, maintains good hygiene, cleans their house, exercises, takes care of their animals, and has time for hobbies and socializing?

@anon_opin Pavement parking is a bigger problem than bikes and scooters on paths will ever be

Footpaths are for pedestrians. The clue is in the title. So stop riding your fucking bikes and scooters on them.

@JSMilbank And Henry is infinitely repairable with spares readily available from the manufacturer or third parties. I have examples at work dating to the 1990s (albeit in Triggers Broom format)

Crazy to me how Dysons cost £800, constantly need maintenance and often don't work very well, all whilst being built overseas by cheap labour. Meanwhile Henrys cost £110, never go wrong, are incredibly effective, yet are all built in Somerset. Makes you think!

@Hanx896 @marksuttonbike Higher fuel duty would incentivise shorter supply chains. Fewer lorries on the road and a boost for local suppliers would be two of the benefits

@marksuttonbike Most of the things people buy and consume are transported by lorries. So you want the price of everything else to go up to cover those new fuel duty costs?

@oldyzach Settlers II was peak Settlers, it refined the economy of the first game without losing the playability that was lacking in the sequels

Ye great ol' games 😎🔊 🕹️ The Settlers II, PC

@VronP7 @G_plus_C @NationCymru An estate car won't make up for the other shortcomings in the owner's life

@G_plus_C @NationCymru Why is is large ? No one is going to build new car parks just for obese vehicles so I suggest you downsize. Àn estate car probably has a bigger boot and will be more economical to run.

Cardiff Council is set to become the first local authority in the UK to introduce higher parking charges for SUVs and other heavy vehicles, in a move campaigners say will make city streets safer and fairer nation.cymru/news/cardiff-s…

@MuseumCommodore It would have to be Colonization, Settlers or Pinball Dreams

@We_OwnIt @CHinchliffMP @MartinWrigley The West of England main line from Waterloo to Exeter would be a good start. It desperately needs investment to run more frequent reliable trains

Lots of MP's want a railway that works for passengers, not profit. Alongside @CHinchliffMP, @MartinWrigley and rail experts, we co-hosted a parliamentary drop-in session attended by over 40 MPs. The government must make public ownership of the railways a success. @ABCommuters @christianwolmar @bringbackBR

@MuseumCommodore The Machine!

Who is the villain in the Commodore Amiga game Turrican II: The Final Fight (1991)?

@MuseumCommodore So many choices! Pinball Dreams, Colonization, Monkey Island 1 or 2, UFO Enemy Unknown, Stunt Car Racer, Turrican 2, Settlers would all be in my top 10

The Top 5 Commodore Amiga games of all time! Do you agree?

Top 10 U.K’s Everyday Worst People: 1/ People who play music out of their phone on public transport. 2/ People who let their children play noisy tablet games on public transport. 3/ People who scorch the grass in the park with their disposable BBQs. 4/ People who wild camp at beauty spots and leave behind their litter and broken kit. 5/ People who speed up late for school in their giant cars. Every day. 6/ People who pavement park. 7/ People who wear pyjamas to the shops. 8/ People who blow their sickly sweet vape smoke in your face. 9/ People who leave their dog crap bags hanging off tree branches. 10/ People who move in next door and immediately rip out the front garden and concrete over it.

@jenkszy @TheSolarShed @Tedisiek Long term average in my high mileage, lightly chipped ASZ Toledo is over 65. Can't beat an old TDI

@TheSolarShed @Tedisiek If you never put your foot down and drive slow everywhere, my 1.9tdi gets 50+mpg at 80mph

Filled the car up last night. Went to bed and just left it. £1.40 it cost, for 22kwh which about 92 miles. How does that compare with old fashioned diesel cars?

Well done UK, that's how it's done!

@anon_opin Quite the opposite. Mine was put there after my car was broken into. It has also helped prosecute a local dog walker who wasn't picking up 💩

If you have a surveillance camera on the front of your house I assume you're a drug dealer.