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Weddings are amazing. I'd never been to one before, but it was my cousin's wedding in July. All held in a really amazing hotel in the Gloucestershire countryside. I somehow managed to drink three quarters of a bottle of Bacardi neat from the father of the bride's clandestine free bar, in...

Well, if you take those "twenty is plenty" adverts for example, there are two separate but equally insiduous suggestions at play: 1) it's not the duty of the pedestrian to make sure they don't walk into the road without looking, and 2) you would be driving down the road at 30mph and then...

What Vegeta said. :) Selecting an appropriate speed requires ongoing judgement - something a speed limit can never provide. Judging that appropriate speed is done by feel and instinct, not by looking at the speedo. If anything, the over-reliance on adhering to speed limits takes away from the...

As always. :) Of course it sounds crazy at first - the entire driving population is conditioned to believe that safety equals watching the number on the speedo. In reality, the speedo is the most pointless instrument of all. It tells you absolutely nothing useful and serves only to...

Both tyres simultaneously let go of the road in a bend, hence sending me flying into the tree, because the lean angle was too steep for the quality of the road surface (it was covered in fallen leaves, which were also wet on the underside, and I was too inexperienced to realise how dangerous...

Impact velocity is irrelevant if you don't HAVE an accident - and it should be relatively easy for a good driver who is willing to study and learn to avoid being involved in one. Besides which, impact velocity is almost always far lower than the free travelling speed, for two reasons. Firstly...

Taking highly complicated subjects and trying to reduce them into incredibly simplistic terms is stupid and highly inaccurate. I swear people are brainwashed when it comes to driving. For example, "every 3mph over the speed limit doubles your chances of a fatal accident" is quite clearly total...

I used to have to pass 15 of the bastards on my way to work back when I lived in London. Pointless during the day as the traffic's barely moving anyway, or if it is then it's just dangerous because the traffic all travels at the same exact speed and consequently bunches up to the point where...

Ouch. You gotta love how they put the cameras in all the overtaking spots. It's an utter pisstake. I got stopped on the M5 near Cullompton in May (you know how they hide up the slip road near jct 27? Well I forgot on that particular day) and they got me doing an average of 105mph...

Men and women are attractive according to very different criteria. Since you're not a man, it's not necessarily important that you aren't financially independent.

Yes ok on the mobile phone front, and the car thing really depends on where you live - but generally, it's a fairly good measure of whether someone is fairly sorted or not. Frankly, you're not really an adult until you've left home and paid your own way.

It's not about material wealth at all, it's about being self-reliant ie. being a man. Someone in their mid-20s who lives with their parents, doesn't have their own transport, a job or a mobile phone probably isn't very mature, nor are they likely to have a very interesting personality or behaviour.

In that case, the old have become young and the young have become the elderly. Being young is supposed to be about going out and having a good time and experiencing new things, not living a reclusive existence revolving around the internet. Also, what's with people who update their Facebook...

A projection that is both awesome and scary. Personally I think technology for personal use can be more of a curse than a blessing. A significantly higher proportion of kids these days than in the past have no social skills or graces, propensity for risk-taking or sense of adventure because...

Agreed. I'm just pointing out something far more critical to Rakurai's success (and everyone else reading this, for that matter) than small improvements to his already decent CV. Law of diminishing returns and all that. It will do no harm whatsoever for him to implement all of the CV advice...

Exactly. Also, with those jobs that are publicised on job sites and in newspapers, you will have a lot of competition. As with all openings which are whored out on the internet, the chances are, the competition won't be particularly great, but the sheer volume of applications means you are...

The resume is fine. What's going to help you land a job isn't making slight improvements to it in the hopes of standing out against 500 others, it's circumventing that ridiculous system entirely. Don't send applications for jobs - find out who the hiring manager is (do not under any...

They look good. I reckon you can get a lot more bike for a lot less money though. Something like a Honda CB500, they don't look particularly inspiring but with no biking experience it will feel unbelievably fast at first. I did my test on one, acceleration feels like your guts are being...

Ooh a bike thread. :D Yes, bikes are awesome. Just yesterday we had a glorious sunny/sometimes a bit cloudy day (a rarity on the west coast of Britain, I assure you) and I took the day off to spend a day out on the bikes with my cousins. Cheap photo op below :P In true...

No, I'm actually good at my job.