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Post by chipbutty on Jun 21, 2018 10:58:43 GMT
The way I de-chunked and (IMO) the best way of keeping it off is intermittent fasting with religious calorie tracking.
I don't eat before lunchtime and 80% of the time I don't bother with lunch - I save all my calories up for the evening.
This means I don't have to have stupid little portions of tasteless cack and can allow some badness in my limit.
As long as you keep protein reasonably high, there is zero impact on strength training or athletic performance.
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Post by chipbutty on Jun 21, 2018 10:01:58 GMT
Smashing
I am going to pretend I haven't seen the wheels
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Post by chipbutty on Jun 21, 2018 9:59:57 GMT
Peanut butter and jam on toast (can't have either in the house or it's a 3 hour toast-athon until the deliciously glass jarred evil is depleted).
Ben and Jerry's (pretty much all of the proper flavours - none of this fro yo muck)
Banoffee Pie (I have to avoid the in laws for Sunday lunch as they always make a huge one that ends up being given to me).
Pistachios - Cost Co sell what can only be described as a small bucket of de-shelled, roasted and salted pistachios. I cannot buy these, I have to buy a small bag and the shells slow me down.
Tyrells vegetable crisps - annoyingly, despite being root veg, they are just as calorific and fat laden as normal crisps.
Scones with clotted cream and jam - I have this every time I drop into Grasmere on a monster lakeland trek.
Wispa bites and giant cadbury's buttons.
Sweet chilli humus
Those MS&S mini chocolate rolls they sell in tubs...
Basically - life as an ex-fat cnut is a long list of stuff I can't have in the house (otherwise it gets inhaled in minutes).
Even when I was rowing competitively - it's impossible to out train my appetite.
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Post by chipbutty on May 8, 2018 16:31:41 GMT
A significant factor in what makes a car feel it's age is something that is difficult to get some quality data on.
As a car ages, it's structure is subject to significant load during day to day use that weaken the structure, by which I mean the metal and the spot welds (extremes of temperature and climate, daily suspension loads and the odd massive pot hole, vibrations and loads from the powertrain, etc).
I do know that early carbon fibre tubs (such as that used on the update EB110) would lose 30% of their structural strength just through ageing alone (10 year period). I am not a materials engineer, so I don't know how steel or aluminium compares - but I would expect that the body shell of a 5 year old car is noticeably less rigid than when it was factory fresh.
If this is the case - you can change all the suspension bits and pieces you want, the car will never drive or feel like it did when it was new.
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Post by chipbutty on Apr 20, 2018 17:42:54 GMT
Totally agree, it's the first chance I've had to really lean on the car and throw it about.
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Post by chipbutty on Apr 20, 2018 17:38:27 GMT
An evening with Machine Head in Lausanne No support bands, just 2 and half hours of supreme metal, jaw dropping command of their instruments and epic song writing. Considering these guys are 50, I don't know where they get the energy, I was fooked just watching and I blew my throat out singing along. The new album is divisive but they still kill it live and make me want to jump around and break stuff.
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New M5
Apr 20, 2018 12:52:15 GMT
Post by chipbutty on Apr 20, 2018 12:52:15 GMT
I prefer the Benz as well - sound quality, looks, interior.
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Post by chipbutty on Apr 20, 2018 12:51:21 GMT
Might be, but it's after the petrol
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Post by chipbutty on Apr 20, 2018 12:35:56 GMT
Thankfully the six banger diesel remains in XF (for now).
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New M5
Apr 20, 2018 10:31:23 GMT
Post by chipbutty on Apr 20, 2018 10:31:23 GMT
and yet in some you tube half mile races (the Carwow one), the E63 S was ahead from 0 to 150 mph plus
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New M5
Apr 18, 2018 9:43:09 GMT
Post by chipbutty on Apr 18, 2018 9:43:09 GMT
and a metric fuck ton of power.
4wd or not - anything that can do 60 to 100mph in 4.2 seconds is silly quick.
I think 0 to 150 mph was recorded as 17.8 seconds - which is equally mental.
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New M5
Apr 18, 2018 8:43:27 GMT
Post by chipbutty on Apr 18, 2018 8:43:27 GMT
Autocar road test 0 to 100 mph in 7.5 seconds Christ on a bike.
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Post by chipbutty on Apr 13, 2018 19:42:20 GMT
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Post by chipbutty on Apr 13, 2018 16:06:08 GMT
You can't really compare an early build XE S to the current 380 ps model you will have driven. The 380 ps cars had some exhaust tweaks and other details improvements that make the overall package much nicer. You also have to consider that in terms of build integrity, you really don't want the first year's production of any brand new model (and the XE was totally and properly brand new). Finally - in control pro is eleventy million times better than in control touch and I would expect it to have a bigger impact on used car desirability over time. I don't know what your budget is - but 380 ps models with ICP are circa £40k - with the exception of this car. Ignore the hideous black wheels - you can have them re-painted or buy some others. used.jaguar.co.uk/search#/details/2846504This is baaad asssss... used.jaguar.co.uk/search#/details/2847599This is a reasonable price - although I am not sure on your stance vs poofy interiors used.jaguar.co.uk/search#/details/2810184
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Post by chipbutty on Apr 12, 2018 11:29:23 GMT
I couldn't remember the time, I just knew it was 11 point something so I played fast and loose with the word " smidge "
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Post by chipbutty on Apr 12, 2018 10:57:21 GMT
But it still managed to hammer it's way to 100 mph in a smidge over 11 seconds..
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Post by chipbutty on Apr 12, 2018 8:03:49 GMT
I understand the " positives " of DCT/DSG/PDK et al - but the positives don't seem especially relevant to the torque laden beef cakery of a super saloon.
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Post by chipbutty on Apr 11, 2018 19:56:06 GMT
Leather dash and suede headliner was a £5k individual option, so not many of the cheaper ones I have seen have that option and it makes a big difference.
The power is appealing, but the engine note is remarkably plain and uninspiring. I also wouldn’t be cock a hoop about a DCT box either, gimme a manual or a proper slusher.
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Post by chipbutty on Mar 29, 2018 7:50:44 GMT
Very nice piece of work with the body mods - real shame it's not the XF that's had the treatment.
I can also see some soft grain leather upgrades in place of the standard pleather and it looks like the instrument binnacle topper is now wrapped. Every little helps
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Post by chipbutty on Mar 28, 2018 16:55:56 GMT
The band is (in part) named after the car. Although the main reference is the fact that Pantera is Spanish for Panther, the fact that a car the drummer had seen was called a Pantera sealed the deal (because it was a cool as fuck).
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Post by chipbutty on Mar 22, 2018 18:26:45 GMT
I love those wheels, but the silly low pro stretch tyres ruins the look (IMHO).
It must go like a shit house rat up a drainpipe though.
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Post by chipbutty on Mar 22, 2018 18:12:03 GMT
Very nice
How did you square the desire to go " non german " when the usual suspects appear to be much cheaper on a like for like funding basis ?.
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Post by chipbutty on Mar 7, 2018 14:33:14 GMT
There is one cat D for £32k, one manual for £34,950 - everything else is £37500 and above.
IIRC - The 1M had a dip 2 years in (although I take the point re: limited volumes).
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Post by chipbutty on Mar 7, 2018 11:08:49 GMT
That Peter Vardy deal is the one that piqued my interest.
I wouldn't bother putting more down than £1k - £498 a month is cheap enough as it is. I would hope at 4 years it's worth a good deal more than £23k. Even if it isn't and you end up giving it back and walking away, £520 a month all in is a fair price for a new M missile.
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Post by chipbutty on Mar 6, 2018 22:01:03 GMT
Some interesting deals are available (assume they are not selling that well) and 1M coupes values have gone silly
Given the M2 is just as special as a 1M (bespoke bodywork to accommodate period M3 suspension, uniquely modified six pot with unique components rather than just a tune, manual gearbox and universally good press reports), I am sensing a potential man maff depreciation proof opportunity.
It’s also one of the few new cars that I really like the look of.
In 3 years time when the new M2 is a 4wd 4 pot turbo with a DCT, a manual M2 in long beach blue will be a very covetable machine.
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Post by chipbutty on Mar 6, 2018 15:20:13 GMT
Has anyone driven a manual M2 ?
Are they as awesomely brilliant as they look and sound ?.
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Post by chipbutty on Mar 6, 2018 15:07:13 GMT
Just out of curiosity - why are you singling out Jaguar for " price gouging " ?
It looks like they are pricing to two levels:
1) Comparable fully electric vehicles 2) Comparably priced premium brand offerings
Metallic paint on that £68k Cayenne S = £749 2 inch wheel upgrade (19s to 21s) = £2,445 to £3,540 Partial leather to standard leather = £2,331 or £2,750 for two tone etc etc etc
Porsche well and truly lead the pack when it comes to option pricing and the standard specs are especially miserly.
How an I-Pace monthly compares to a GC 440i is largely irrelevant - they are completely different vehicles operating in completely different segments. Your BMW pricing is flattered massively by the substantial discount and subvented financing that BMW are having to support the car with to shift the required units.
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Post by chipbutty on Mar 6, 2018 14:02:09 GMT
I cannot imagine anyone orders a base Tesla or Cayenne S either - but I am trying to keep the comparisons as close as possible to illustrate a point.
Options don't have that much impact on the GMFV - so we may as well use similarly priced base spec cars.
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Post by chipbutty on Mar 6, 2018 13:59:56 GMT
Not sure what the point is - Jaguar have aligned to the closet (read only) competitor that currently exists and have made sure the I-pace compares more favourably on positioning (save for the finance rate - which Tesla are clearly subventing the crap out of).
Also not clear what the point is - Jaguar have launched a brand new car in a tiny market and are guaranteeing 52% retention at 3 years and 30k miles. I've just configured a Porsche Cayenne S (£68,330) and the quote for 36 months and 30k miles on a £7,000 deposit is based on a GMFV £36,694 (54% of list).
So - you can apply that comment to most £65k - £70k cars, they are all expensive to finance (unless the manufacturer hides a 25% discount in the manufacturer deposit contribution).
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Post by chipbutty on Mar 6, 2018 13:43:16 GMT
Run again to be sure:
Base I-Pace
£7k deposit 10k per annum 37 month agreement
GMFV = £33,003 = 52% of £63,495
If you set the term to 36 months, the GMFV goes up £33,640 = 53%.
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