EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

For balance, someone we know took a ferry and spent 3hrs queuing(sp?) for immigration to get off this island. Can't remember which port they used, but the family they were holidaying with took a later ferry on a different route to Dunkirk and arrived at their holiday place within 30mins of them.

https://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/uk-government-in-fresh-warning-it-could-suspend-elements-of-protocol-41576807.html

Probably bull to give the DUP something.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/apr/28/jacob-rees-mogg-delay-post-brexit-eu-fresh-food-checks-fourth-time?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Oven ready Brexit checks delayed again as no oven was ordered ;)

We'll have re joined before there ready for full import checks.

Oof why would you do that to yourself?

We did Chunnel at midday and it was fine getting there - we ended up crossing an hour earlier even after killing time at a services. There's 13mi of 50mi average zone but the truck park was empty. It was busier (the truck parking) on the way back but we still crossed earlier than booked and it was pretty chilled coming back.

Because my parents place is 850km or about 11 hours including charging stops from Calais.

Not sure what that means but I don't envy you the early crossing

It means, in order to arrive in a single days travel, which is necessary to minimise loss of my actual PTO spent on travel, I need a super early crossing.

It's roughly 14 hours door to door.

That's even worse. I'd ride that easily but driving it I'd need to rest my eyeballs somewhere.

It helps that the Tesla has good autopilot on motorways. Really takes a lot of the strain out of driving large distances. It's a long day though.

Three charges are good times to rest up too - probably 20-40 min stops each time. Roughly every 200 miles.

Musk is a cunt thread >>>

I'm not sure I'd be chilling out that much behind the wheel.
Software Eng innit. I've seen things...

At least the EU roads aren't as much of a shitshow as here though.

It's not like I'm taking a nap! It's surprising how much more energy you have after a long drive if you're not steering and modulating the accelerator / brake. Even if you're constantly monitoring the road / holding the wheel.

Musk is a cunt.

:)

I've got more used to using cruise control so I can move my feet around, which helps. My previous cars never had that. I guess having the ability to rest your arms would be nice and auto-brake for when you're taking a bong hit and don't want to worry about what's in front. :D

If I order books from Germany will they incur customs charge or do they count as 'documents'?

I use cruise control but I can't get used to the lane following feature in my car. I don't trust it so I feel more on edge with the car doing the steering than I do with me doing it.

As for the bong; no adaptive cruise control??

Adaptive cruise control alone is fantastic.

Next time I buy a car, imma get lane assist too.

If they even have cars when I get round to needing another.

I would have thought they aren't documents but books... So perhaps expect to pay the usual VAT rate, 0%, on books?

If they even have cars when I get round to needing another.

or they pull their finger out and finally sort out the woefully lacking laws regarding elderly drivers...

I bloody love lane-keeping on my car (although I’ve tried others which weren’t great) - I do the steering but it’s like with 10-pin bowling bumpers, if you get it wrong (tired, distracted, whatever) there’s a safety net, which in turn makes it a lot less taxing.

I don't trust it. It feels like the automatic parking function; witchcraft!

adaptive cruise control

I don't even know what that is.
I've only just come to terms with pushing a button on my keys to unlock the car.

Shots fired

When are people going to start fucking talking about having no one left to hire and get supply?? hospo, medical, retail, workshop, even fucking airline that other European countries don’t have that struggle.

Every time that gets brought up it's the "oh but the working class wages have gone up".

And that's enough for the Brexit believers.

But of course, due to pandemic end labour shortages wages in other countries have also increased, but they are not facing many small businesses already bankrupt due to customs hassle / companies leaving / companies not moving to the UK...

Wages gone up only cause there’s not enough people to hire and they’re trying to keep existing staff from leaving.

And the wages increase is very marginal, even when CEO earn an insane amount.
It gone up but so our hours and stress.