10 minutes ago, TomsFocus said:

Only thing I use from my wallet is a bank card & Tesco or Nectar card.  I've never randomly needed a stamp so keep those at home.  Same with the driving licence.  Not sure why you'd need a USB while out, unless you're intending to break into a high security compound and steal information like in the movies...  (And I don't have a significant other, let alone a picture of one.  )

I used to take my wallet everywhere a few years ago.  But then I also used to carry a few quid in coins as well...  Just swapped those from one pair of jeans to another for months before realising I hadn't used any cash in that time!  So stopped the about 5 years ago!

Interesting, I use 'cash' almost daily, coins & notes, and always for some big purchases as I find I can always negotiate a sizeable discount for paying with notes rather than a card. (No one likes to give more money to government than they need to, just ask he Chancellor!). The USB has a myriad of uses in that when seeing friends, or business contacts, I can download photos /files directly on it, yes, I know much can be emailed, but I'm old school, like cash, like having the data in my hand LOL

Even shopping in supermarkets, having £1 coins in that tiny jeans pocket is quite handy for a trolley! (I should clarify, the pocket is tiny, not the jeans LOL)

I'm feeling very inadequate now. Actually I checked my wallet and found I had put my national trust membership card in my wallet last week. See, a reason to have wallet on me. No cash, usb drive, and not putting a photo of my loved in my wallet. I'd be afraid the photo would come to life and start nagging me why Ive never got any money while we out. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

4 minutes ago, iantt said:

 No cash, usb drive...

Apparently the USB drive is one of the smallest usable ones you can get, fit's into a 'spare SIM' slot in my wallet LOL

 

That's so big, I don't know how you have the strength to carry it around, this is my 32Gb one 

1 minute ago, Mark-UK said:

That's so big, I don't know how you have the strength to carry it around, this is my 32Gb one 

 

I have one of those too, but don't laugh, in the last few months after putting it somewhere safe, I have misplaced it 🤣

23 minutes ago, StephenFord said:

I have one of those too, but don't laugh, in the last few months after putting it somewhere safe, I have misplaced it 🤣

The safe place I put my stuff that I can't find later must be as big as a warehouse 🤣

47 minutes ago, Mark-UK said:

That's so big, I don't know how you have the strength to carry it around, this is my 32Gb one 

Is that a euro? 🤔😂😂. Forgot what coins looked like. 

I was surprised the 'new' pound coins must have been out for at least 6 years now!   

5 minutes ago, TomsFocus said:

I was surprised the 'new' pound coins must have been out for at least 6 years now!   

So do we not use one  pound notes any more?. Learn something new every day. 😂😂😂😂😂

3 hours ago, Mark-UK said:

That's so big, I don't know how you have the strength to carry it around, this is my 32Gb one 

Well thank you! I have quite a few 'trinket' boxes and your posting gave me the motivation to search them all again, it was hidden under an SD card LOL I remember now why I stored it, was going to replace my wallet one because of bigger capacity, but the the molded thumb grip is much bigger than the one I have so it bulged inside my wallet... At least I know where it is now.

Just for comparison this is a core memory module from the computers I used to service in the 70's. It's 8K x 16bit (equivalent to 16Kbytes)

Hasn't technology moved on? I still find it blows my mind how much non-volatile storage can be squeezed into such a small space nowadays.

So is a ban in 2030 too early?? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

1 minute ago, iantt said:

So is a ban in 2030 too early?? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Yep, by about 30 years LOL

So when your dead and buried? Is that what your saying🤣

On 4/16/2022 at 9:30 AM, StephenFord said:

Interesting, I use 'cash' almost daily, coins & notes,

How’d you get on spending Bank of Ulster notes in rest of uk? Like Scottish notes but even more likely to be refused ? 

17 minutes ago, Alex.S said:

How’d you get on spending Bank of Ulster notes in rest of uk? Like Scottish notes but even more likely to be refused ? 

OMG LOL, that brings back memories! In the 80s & 90s, I use to commute frequently to England & Scotland, the number of 'discussions' I had with taxi drivers trying to persuade them to take NI bank noes as they insisted they weren't legal tender! 🤣 For a quiet life, I use to try & change my notes at the airport for proper English ones! 😀

31 minutes ago, StephenFord said:

OMG LOL, that brings back memories! In the 80s & 90s, I use to commute frequently to England & Scotland, the number of 'discussions' I had with taxi drivers trying to persuade them to take NI bank noes as they insisted they weren't legal tender! 🤣 For a quiet life, I use to try & change my notes at the airport for proper English ones! 😀

I live off the A77, the road to Ibrox or Celtic park every week for half of NI. We’d sometimes get Ulster fivers , they were hard to accept ….20s and 50s …forget it lol 

https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/357817/new-green-ncap-emissions-ratings-cast-doubt-electric-cars-green-credentials

Did you have input in this report @StephenFord 🤣🤣🤣🤣

For the most part people really don't give a damn which is greener, but which is cheaper to run.

It may have started with green issues but that is less important to a buyer now I believe, we are in a long term cost of living problem, it'll be the same with food, oh I only buy free range eggs to protect those birds will soon be replace by ***** hell those  caged chicken eggs are half the price I'll get those.

Some time back the press carried reports of interviews with the then boss of Polestar and even he was saying that EVs took years (I think he said 7+) before they showed an advantage over ICE, and that was assuming the electricity came from "green" sources.

That was just CO2 of course, the other part of the case for EVs was the reduction in local air pollution. Even that seems a little unclear. There is evidence that EVs, being heavier, offset some of their advantage over ICE by producing more particulates from tyre wear.

Recently, I've also seen reports that PHEVs are not proving as good in practice as they are in theory, depending on whether the driver can be bothered to charge it up.

I presume Toyota have latched onto this in discussions with the government on future investment at their Burnaston plant. They have apparently been trying to get clarity on what the criteria will be for hybrids which will be allowed up to 2035. They obvious have a vested interest as they are very into "normal" HEVs.

All very confusing for those wishing to do the right thing.

7 minutes ago, Eric Bloodaxe said:

Recently, I've also seen reports that PHEVs are not proving as good in practice as they are in theory, depending on whether the driver can be bothered to charge it up.

 

I'm sure I read once that something like 90% of Mitsubishi PHEVs were never plugged in, they were just bought to reduce tax (but the guy in our road does plug his in )

1 hour ago, Mark-UK said:

 oh I only buy free range eggs to protect those birds will soon be replace by ***** hell those  caged chicken eggs are half the price I'll get those.

I'm ahead of my time then, I have always bought eggs on price, my pallet can't tell the difference. I bought free range once, but they were reduced 🤣

1 hour ago, Mark-UK said:

I'm sure I read once that something like 90% of Mitsubishi PHEVs were never plugged in, they were just bought to reduce tax (but the guy in our road does plug his in )

Yeah, that's what they were referring to, I believe. Toyota's argument  with the government was that to get full benefit from a PHEV is dependent on driver behaviour (and like you, I suspect most are bought to reduce BIK taxation), whereas the Toyota hybrid system just works without user intervention.

I saw some other figures somewhere indicating that Toyotas had the second lowest corporate CO2 average across Europe, after Tesla, so maybe they have a point.

1 hour ago, StephenFord said:

I'm ahead of my time then, I have always bought eggs on price, my pallet can't tell the difference. I bought free range once, but they were reduced 🤣

I can't taste the difference between a lot of food stuffs( and I mean the same type of food but differing brands.) Same goes for alcohol. 

36 minutes ago, iantt said:

I can't taste the difference between a lot of food stuffs( and I mean the same type of food but differing brands.) Same goes for alcohol. 

That's probably because a lot of it is the same food just in a different package.

I had a mate who worked in a bakery and he said they made stuff for many firms, someone said but each firm has a different recipe, yes that true was his reply, we add a extra teaspoon of sugar in a 1000 gallon batch, it maybe a different but nobody will ever know.