I’d love to have a little Kei car like a Copen.
I live vicariously through these guys out of Australia. They are constantly buying and working on mad little JDM gems.
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I lament the death of British culture… such humor is a prize, and we shall be the lesser should it disappear.
Of course I did grow up wishing I was British, but the point stands, regardless.
And to @tjkoyen – why not an original Mini?
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Dunno why but old Minis never really did much for me. Probably too far past my generation.
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Twansition Bikwing
Yes.
Is it just me or does the new Prius look a bit like the Evora? I kinda want one now.
Not that I’m gonna trade in the 911 or anything, but I do have some house renovations that need doing so I will entertain reasonable offers
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We may have to ask our Brit pals if that’s the case. I have found that with the advent of international programming being forced upon the streaming services, that Brit humor is alive and well. (Also our Nordic pals make good detective shows).
I particularly enjoyed “Last one Laughing” on Prime. The premise is simple…
Jimmy Carr gathers 10 popular UK comedians in a room for 6 hours and asks them to break each other. If you show teeth or laugh, you get a strike. 2 strikes and you are out.
Very funny if you like dry humor. These folks go hard to try to get Ayode to break and Bob Mortimer is a genius.
Also post 666. I don’t know what that says about Brit humor. 
@Alan_Dove @Richard_Jacques etc Brit perspective on your humor? Are the glory days past or are we in a new era of greatness?
In the “not famous” but someday maybe category, I have been following this young lady and her attempt to become the next Richard Attenborough. She’s magnificently British, imo…
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past the era of peak comedy in the UK. Last One Laughing, series 1, was good, but that was mainly because of Bob Mortimer. Ayoade is still very much a product of Chris Morris who was a product of Peter Cook. There is no new Morris or Cook in UK comedy any more.
Comedy now really finds itself on social media, and outside the gated community of UK media. The BBC and Channel 4, both very much arms of the state either via funding or ownership, have basically collapsed in terms of output quality. I look back on BrassEye and Day Today and wonder how on earth that was able to be broadcast.
We have some funny people, of course, Daisy May etc… but that explosive special thing about UK comedy? Nah… we’re not better than any other country really on that front.
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Just wanted to throw it out there that Peep Show is one of my favorite tv shows of all time, and I rarely get to reference it, so when British comedy pops up I need to mention that.
Not sure if the Brits like that show?
Peep Show is a British sitcom starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb as two dysfunctional best friends, Mark Corrigan and Jeremy “Jez” Usbourne, who share a flat in Croydon, London. Known for its unique point-of-view (POV) shots and internal monologues, the show follows their awkward lives as they navigate work, relationships, and adulthood, contrasting Mark’s socially anxious, conservative nature with Jez’s lazy, hedonistic one. Created by Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain, and Andrew O’Connor, it ran from 2003 to 2015.
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I shall binge this with Kate tonight and report back with Nj perspective.
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Look for Michael McIntyre’s send to all
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Oooh another suggestion to binge: thank you! 
I never digged Peep Show (tho was very popular), but before they made that Mitchell, Webb and Coleman (along with other comedians) did Bruiser which was a late night sketch show which I used to like. You might find some of that funny. Big Train is kinda similar. That was great. Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace is really good too.
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On a totally seperate note… this UK show is really good. It’s a bonkers conspiracy thriller from 2013 that is oddly prescient given our crazy timeline. It’s not funny, extremely violent, and dark but very good.
Also, a young Philomena Cunk? has a role in season 2.
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So I just saw that they are now opening the ability to sell product to 500sub min. (Oddly I almost just hit the previous 1k).
Should I sell Rebel Scum merch? @Alan_Dove is this a nightmare? Wanna do a hoodie design together? Rebel Scum by K1 Karting signature line?
I cannot stand that character. Her whole bit is she is just…dumb?
Agreed on that, personally dislike discomfort humor, but she is quite a talented actor/performer. She sort of stands out in the crowd, despite not being into Cunk at all.
In the context of Charlie Brooker’s Weekly Wipe, which the character first appeared alongside Barry Shitpeas, it makes a bit more sense. The so-called ‘dumb’ person making wise or funny observations thing is a big thing, though not unique, in British comedy. Exemplified by Karl Pilkington, though he’s a real bloke and not actually dumb, he’s just a weird genius.
The whole thing about the ‘dumb’ character is can highlight the absurdity of things that ‘smart’ people will often intellectualise. For example money is made up, and most people thing “yeah, but actually blah blah” whereas Cunk can come out with that concept wrapped up in absurdity.
Also Brooker ended up creating Black Mirror but his first TV thing was Screenwipe - a somewhat irreverent took at how TV is made.
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A thought, Cunk taps into the same nerve as Borat, just less aggressively. Not my thing but brilliant nonetheless.
If it’s uncomfortable they are doing something I should pay attention to.
https://gopro.com/en/us/info/mission-1-
Now we talking. New chip, bug sensor, way better image and low light.
AI stuff relevant given messing with it and race results:
Say what you will about whether artificial intelligence will one day be as smart as a human. It has already become a star math student. Last summer, A.I. built by Google and OpenAI correctly answered five of six complex questions at the International Math Olympiad, an annual competition for the world’s top high school students.
A.I.’s common sense, however, may still be a bit lacking. A few months later, Anuradha Weeraman, a software engineer in Sri Lanka, noticed that leading A.I. systems struggled to answer what was essentially a trick question that most people would find laughably simple. When he told various chatbots that he needed to take his car to a repair shop that was only 50 meters away and asked if he should walk or drive, the bots told him to walk.
The strange way that A.I. looks like a genius at one moment and dense in another is what researchers, engineers and economists call “jagged intelligence.” They use this term to explain why A.I is racing ahead in some areas — like mathand computer programming — while still struggling to make headway in others.
The term, which is widely used by the people building A.I. and analyzing its effects, could help reframe the debate over whether these systems are becoming as smart as, or even smarter than, humans. Instead, researchers argue, A.I. is something completely different: far better than humans at some tasks and far worse at others.
