JBChiangRai

I wasn't happy when MG did that with our new MG4

I don't have any music on my iPhone, I have a 64GB USB Thumb drive with all my favourite music on and play it set to random. I like Apple Car Play for the Navigation as it has all my locations stored, it's not a huge deal, I can live with the incar navigation system. I did wonder about that, I do have one, I will try it.

One slightly disappointing thing with the Seal. The two USB sockets up front only allow one for transferring data, so I have my music USB Thumb Drive plugged in that one. A 128GB memory SD card for the dash cam in the only other slot that can play music and the USB C slot can’t be used for Apple Car Play or Music. I can have any 2 of the 3 “Music, Car Play, Dashcam” but never all 3.

Homosexuality is not a mental disorder. All of the major medical organizations, including The American Psychiatric Association, The American Psychological Association, and the American Academy of Pediatrics agree that homosexuality is not an illness or disorder, but a form of sexual expression. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_and_psychology#:~:text=Homosexuality is not a mental,a form of sexual expression. The American Psychiatric Association and the American Psychological Association have suggested for many years now that there is significant empirical evidence supporting the claim that homosexuality is a normal variant of human sexual orientation

Then I agree with you. My son has been in a long term relationship for about 15 years now, I would say he is happy with his sexuality.

I think even today, a gay relationship is harder to keep going than a straight one. Promiscuity, lack of children, and many other factors make relations easy-in, easy-out. On your other point, both how you react to him coming out and how he happy he is are both important, they are not mutually exclusive. You are right, and it’s very sad. I wanted to fly my 2 sons and wife/grandkids/boyfriend to Dubai for a short break. Dubai being half way between Manchester and Thailand. My gay son refused to go on principle. They could have shared a room, but it would put them at risk.

I wouldn’t call Musk an idiot, he obviously is highly intelligent. In common with many genius’s, he lacks common sense. He doesn’t know when to keep his opinion to himself, he makes decisions on emotion and he doesn’t appreciate dissenting opinion in his workforce. His boards are filled with lackeys which means his companies lack any form of effective corporate governance. It’s a very dangerous situation for large companies to be in.

You are right, it does result in a lot of prejudice and it’s a hard life to live, most gay people spend the majority of their adult lives as singletons as relationships rarely last. What matters is not whether you are not happy with your son being gay, what matters is how you react to it. How would you react to it?

One this is for sure, the only prize @DudleySquat could be would be the booby prize. I would be horrified if one of my Thai daughters brought someone home like him.

It's not true to say that Toyota own the PHEV segment, only a few of Toyota ranges are hybrid and even fewer PHEV (only the Prius?). Mercedes on the other hand, offer a model in their major every ranges (C, E, S class) as a PHEV. The PHEV market share is actually tanking, not going up. Plug-in hybrids once dominated EV sales. Now their market share is tanking - ABC News The data I posted shows the market share of EV's is increasing, not decreasing. In the UK it has to increase to 22% of all models sold by a manufacturer this year or they will be fined 15,000 GBP for every model that missed the target.

The rate of increase has to ultimately decrease as the number of potential buyers gets lower because people have already bought one. What's important is that the market share of EV new sales continues to increase. That's the true measure of whether the "changeover" from ICE is really happening.

I don't know where you read that, but it's not correct. The USA Electric vehicle sales accounted for 7.9% of total industry sales in Q3, a record and up from 6.1% a year ago and 7.2% in Q2. As Cox Automotive has been reporting, higher inventory levels, more product availability, and downward pricing pressure have helped spur continued linear growth of EV sales in the U.S. market. EV sales have now increased for 13 straight quarters. https://www.coxautoinc.com/market-insights/q3-2023-ev-sales/ The UK

Keep an eye on the temperature of your adaptor, they "say" it's rated at 10 amp, I'm not so sure.

With that happening, at the very least, I would recommend PPF on your nose cones, it looks like it's going to be endemic.

There are 2 very good reasons why I believe showing homosexuality as normal on TV is a good thing. My eldest son who went to a public all-boys school (that means private in the UK) didn't feel comfortable telling his classmates he was gay, if portraying homosexuality as normal helps other kids with that then it's a good thing. He came out to his mother before me. He dreaded doing it and she did completely the wrong thing. She cried and said how disappointed she was and it was an aberration and he had just given her the worst day of her life. He was scarred from that. If portraying homosexuality as normal helps other parents deal with their children coming out in a constructive and helpful manner, than that is good thing too. When my son came out to me, I just said "Oh, I thought you wanted to tell me something important, it makes no difference to me, nothing you could do or say would make me love you any less, do you have a boyfriend yet?".

All wraps will protect the paint, though dedicated PPF is much thicker. I haven't checked, but I suspect the nose cone is plastic and in the post with peeling plaint, it's likely there was some oil or something else went wrong before or during the painting process. My Seal is going in on Monday to be wrapped and new alloy wheels are on order too. I will post photos after it's completed.

I think the technical term is Luddite.

Someone else already explained your ignorance on this matter and beat me to it. The statistics are of course per 100,000 vehicles so the number on the road is irrelevant. This was explained to you in your post last year, perhaps you know better than all these organisations, alternatively, you're just a fool, flat earther too perchance? I can make my mind up whether you are just ignorant on this subject or if there is something underlying. Can I suggest you change your handle to DUNTHINKIN ?

I sometimes wonder if evolution skipped some people

Oh! and you know this how? a facebook silly video of 2 old men laughing? There's very little queuing in Thailand for chargers, and you can book them in advance so there is no queueing Check the statistics, a vehicle with an ICE is between 14 and 120 times more likely to catch fire than an EV.

All cities have fast DC chargers, there are 3 fast DC chargers in MHS, most hotels now have Level 2 charging stations and if not you can plug in at your hotel with your granny charger, it's not difficult.

Oh! you waste time going to a fuel station? You have my sympathies, I haven't had to do that in the last 4 or 5 years.

EV's the sound of silence.

When it comes to EV's @DUNROAMIN you're ignorant.

This is a duplicate post by the same OP, the original being 2nd April 2023. It is pushing his evangelical anti EV opinion with false data. As was covered in that original thread, multiple sources of statistics including the US Gov't, put fires in ICE vehicles about 14 times more likely than in an EV. A simple google search will tell you that the source of this video in an anti CCP outfit and funded by Falun Gong, its videos are clickbait. There are many members here who are buyers of BYD vehicles, myself included, I have yet to hear of ANY being unhappy.