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I like the dark interior on the seal

I saw a metallic pink BYD Dolphin this morning, it reminded me of a Honda Jazz. I love the colour, not many guys confident enough to choose that colour I think.

I fitted a 36,000 BTU single phase Fujitsu cassette unit, More expensive than Daikin and Mitsubishi but you get what you pay for, it was the only one that would reverse cycle and heat. A few years ago in Chiang Rai we had more than a week where the temperature hardly broke 11° C Just make sure whatever you buy is inverter.

I have some concerns over the marketing of the Atto 3. I think there are differences not indicated in their spec sheet. Unusually, there were 3 EV's following each other in central Chiang Rai last week. first 2 cars were Standard & Extended range Atto 3's, and lastly me. The horizontal lightbar on the standard range didn't appear to be lit, it could be because he didn't have his headlights on, I couldn't see the front. The other day I saw a standard range and the horizontal lightbar on the front didn't appear to be illuminated. I am also concerned that the performance figures for both cars are identical and yet according to the spec sheet they have the same power motor but different weights, this doesn't add up.

I took my 20 year elite out at the age of 62, I figure I won't reach 82 and if I do, I'll buy a 5 year or whatever is on offer.

Hardly scaremongering, pragmatic and calculated risk/reward planning.

Agreed. I view believers in modern religions with the same incredulity that I would someone believing in an Egyptian or Roman god.

In my view it is explained by the passage of time. The odds of that spark are infinitesimally small in one year, but we are talking billions of years, it just needed that one spark to create life, every living thing is descended from that.

Or more likely, he is fictitious Able & unwilling makes him unworthy in my book. Are Ra, Osiris & Isis any less likely than any other god?

I had an expensive new car wrapped in clear self-healing paint protection film in Chiang Rai. Also available in matt, matt PPF is a far better option than factory matt paint which is practically unrepairable. It’s worth doing on an expensive new car if you plan to keep it a long time. After 2 years the car was still in showroom condition despite the usual motorbikes scraping past. An hour in the sun and the film repaired itself, none of the usual halos. I don’t think I would do it for a colour change, and I think you should redo it every few years or the glue hardens and it is difficult to remove potentially damaging the car. I paid 70,000 for the entire car and it involved quite a few warranty visits to my home to replace a few pieces.

The retirement extension is long overdue price increase, were it not for Covid, I think that would have increased already. The befit of buying an Elite Visa is if you buy the right one it may outlast you. I bought the 20 year (Superiority) 4 years ago, the piece of mind it gives me is priceless.

I wouldn't use the word "magic", I prefer the word "science". I reserve the word magic for illusions like parlour tricks and religion.

I tend to align myself with Stephen Fry. if there is a god then he’s an evil capricious god and I want nothing to do with him. I would ask him to explain bone cancer in children. I am amazed seemingly intelligent people cannot break free from the legacy shackles caused from the imprint of religion in their childhood. It’s all dogma and nonsense.

I watched the first couple of minutes and then dismissed. It as another anti EV rant..

Again, a claim not backed up evidence, please give an example. Secular democracies get changed though voting if they don't deliver what the populous wants, a religious government is there to stay and has no checks & balances.

MG and BYD have learned from Tesla's battery issues and have addressed it with their own approach to battery repair/replacement. MG does replacement by module and BYD do something similar with their blade batteries. You will probably never need to replace the entire battery pack until end-of-life, probably over 300k kms.

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The Gen.2 MG4 is out in the UK. Larger wheels and nicer aero covers, 3rd headrest, roof is now body colour, new software with bigger buttons, one pedal driving option. The dealers also have the X-Power versions as demonstrators.

That explains 3 religions, what about the other 11,997 I suspect more people have worshiped the sun as a god than any other religion

Beyond the 5 senses is where God works in your imagination. You're welcome to try and give factual evidence of your experience. I repeat, there is absolutely no evidence for any god.

To me "faith" means believing in something with a complete lack of evidence to support it.

I think you can say almost every religious government is bad, you can't say the same about secular government.

You only need to look at any Muslim Governed Country e.g. Iran to see why having a secular government is vital.

Which of the 12,000 or so gods are we talking about? If we banned teaching religion until kids became teenagers, religion would disappear in a generation. The shackles from the imprint of religion on the very young developing brain are very difficult to break free from in adulthood. I suspect the reason why intelligent people turn away from religion is they look empirically at the complete lack of data. If we are talking about the Judaeo-Christian god, there is no evidence to support that religion.

It's fairly easy to spot who posts confused/sad/haha emoticons, if you are there when they appear and you see who is reading the topic, a pattern tends to emerge.