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My boss is a fan of weird, old French cars. The weirder, older and Frencher, the better. He regularly comes to work in one of these: Or occasionally, when it is working, one of these: When he bought that one, we all had to go out into the car park to look at it.

It's more of a non-interest than a dislike, but spending hours in an office with a load of people whose only topic of conversation is talking about cars is slowly turning it into the latter.

I wouldn't have thought of houseplants as being a hobby, but I guess it does take up a fair amount of time, and it is really addictive. Everytime we go to the garden centre, I have to stop myself from buying another one. We had our bathroom redone just before lockdown, and in my head, the finished look was a Victorian style filled with houseplants. Unfortunately, I've found since then, that the window just doesn't let in enough light, and so all the plants I started off with have all slowly migrated closer and closer to the window to survive (with my help, they aren't sentient).

Oh I don't think you're the weird one. The people who think that the desire to have kids reduces with age are weird!

MASSIVE disappointment from me, with a thread title like that.

Who is telling you this? Surely for most people it is the other way around - when you are young, you don't want kids, but as you get older you change your mind.

That looks pretty good. Interesting to focus on someone other than a bridge crew for once.

Pfff. Best ever member...where is Bowser57 now though eh? I demand a recount.

Best open world game I'm choosing to ignore the 'city' part of this, since my favourite open world games are so large, they operate across an entire country. Just Cause 2 I play a lot of open world games - they're my favourite genre. I absolutely love the feeling of freedom to go anywhere, do anything. And nothing exemplifies that feeling more than the Just Cause series.

Yes.

Wow, reading that 10 year old thread was a blast from the past - so many old members who don't post anymore. For whatever reason I didn't post in that one though, so i can't re-post my answer. However, currently: My forum name is bob, but that isn't my real name. I took it from this Blackadder episode. I am 33 years old. I am 5 years married, and live in the West Midlands Wife is currently 5 months pregnant We both went to Warwick University, where we met I have a degree in Engineering, and a PhD in fluid dynamics I now work for an engineering consultancy who specialise in automotive suspension design I do not like cars I recently became a vegetarian My main hobby is travel, but have been unable to do so recently (for obvious reasons) and will probably be unable to do so in future (for reasons listed above) I have two guinea pigs - a fat one, and a long one

Amazing! Lock the thread.

It was a pity at the time, because he was a real genius when it came to computer issues. I thought he got banned though...

Wasn't there a guy called AppleDniB or something? Zatoichi? That pervy dude Offerman? Jayseven? Rizz(lygloves)? Jim? Tim? Bim?

I was discussing this with my wife, and initially, I was like: But after having thought about it, sitting in a cinema, apart from other people, while wearing a mask, while touching nothing, is far safer than potentially going to a restaurant or bar, where you would have to remove your mask, touch cutlery and glasses etc. Still don't know when i'm likely to do either, but when our cinema open up again (big up the Vue super-cheap tickets massive), i'll definitely consider it. It will probably be the last time i get to go to the cinema for a while anyway.

My wife and I lived like students for years (because we were) and so got into some pretty frugal habits. We've since both got above average paying jobs, but haven't changed our lifestyle all that much. We bought a house that was well within our means, and therefore end up with a sizable chunk of our what's left over at the end of each month. However, we've just been chucking it all into ISAs which are better than nothing, but not really properly investing it. I keep thinking I should increase my pension percentage each month, because I can easily afford it, but it's far more exciting having a pot of potentially spendable money to look at.

Vehicle dynamics and suspension design.

Sorry @will' I don't watch Formula 1, I only have a mild interest because of my job. However, I'll go for: 1: Hamilton 2: Button 3: Coulthard 4: Schumacher 5: Hill

Favourite awful game This one's really hard.... it's hard to work out what an 'awful' game is. I thought about choosing one of the crap cereal box games I played as a kid, but I guess I'll go with: No Man's Sky By all accounts this game was a critical mess when it came out, mainly due to the disconnected between what it promised in previews compared to what was eventually released. I however, really enjoyed it. I loved the feeling of exploration, and tracking down all the species on each planet. It felt like a weird and wonderful safari. Since I 'completed' it and last played it, it's had many large updates, and supposedly plays much better. At some point I mean to fire it up and play it again, but I don't know if I ever will.

Infinite Monkey Cage is the only podcast I listen to with any regularity. Unless it's a World Cup year and Baddiel and Skinner have got one going...

Best town/village Another weirdly worded one (town or village, but not hamlet or city?) but I guess I'm going to go for this town: Not because it's the most exciting location in the game, but because it's where your adventure starts, and I've probably started this adventure many, many times. It's a bit of a weird town, to be fair. Only two houses, with one bedroom each, and a large laboratory. Where does Professor Oak live? Where does your or your rival's mother sleep?

I did not know that...I assumed it was just a VR version of the original game.

For real though, he doesn't seem to have tweeted since May, and his PS account isn't showing up in search. Anyone heard from him at all?

Does this mean they aren't making a VR version of this update? or just that the VR version isn't free?