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I was thinking about Samsung phones the other day though actually and resolved to get the latest Nexus handset next refresh, get the purest form of Google's OS in a slightly smaller handset to what I have now... but then I remembered you can't expand the memory. Hmm, it's a first world dilemma!

Oops, wrong thread. My bad.

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Well, considering iPhones are probably the most useless phones on the market when it comes to media that's no surprise. I watch movies, tv and a LOT of YouTube on my phone. Plays whatever I throw at it, downloads torrents using the UTorrent app and easy to share media files with other non Apple devices around the house or at work. For that reason Androids are the ultimate smartphone multimedia devices.

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Professor Brian Cox. Can't stand that twat.

Not agreeing or disagreeing - but, why?

I just find him really smug and condescending. He's up there with Piers Morgan, David Mitchell and Victoria Coren in Brits who break the smug-o-meter.

They all deserve a Holiday in Cambodia, or to be more current, Syria, Sudan or the Crimea.

So you been to school

For a year or two

And you know you've seen it all

In daddy's car

Thinkin' you'll go far

Back east your type don't crawl

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I don't mind Cox. His enthusiasm is undeniable and he speaks about the known universe in a way which makes it accessible to my layman brain, often using very down to earth comparisons.

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Mr. shark hates some smug people and toffs.

Corrected.

I don't mind Cox. His enthusiasm is undeniable and he speaks about the known universe in a way which makes it accessible to my layman brain, often using very down to earth comparisons.

He's like a Newsround or Blue Peter presenter from the late 90s.

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Thick-as-pigshit drivers who accelerate and overtake you, only to end up at traffic lights about 20 yards ahead.

vaguely similar today with myself on my bike out in the sticks after six months off the thing and overtaken by this new VW Beetle grazing my elbow with his side-view mirror. I wish I could say I caught up at lights.

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Excruciatingly slow accelerators and dawdlers who cause tailbacks and leave drivers behind with no option but to overtake within tiny windows of opportunity out of sheer desperation to get to a destination that same day.

Lee - got his new car last Tuesday and has been beating the lights.

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Excruciatingly slow accelerators and dawdlers who cause tailbacks and leave drivers behind with no option but to overtake within tiny windows of opportunity out of sheer desperation to get to a destination that same day.

Thick-as-pigshit drivers who accelerate and overtake you, only to end up at traffic lights about 20 yards ahead.

vaguely similar today with myself on my bike out in the sticks after six months off the thing and overtaken by this new VW Beetle grazing my elbow with his side-view mirror. I wish I could say I caught up at lights.

Yes. The phrase 'getting nowhere in a hurry' comes to mind.

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I bet you're the sort of driver who does 30 in a 60 zone.

There's a difference between driving in a hurry and using the road efficiently. About ten minutes worth, which on my way to work is the difference between nabbing a parking space or not.

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I bet you're the sort of driver who does 30 in a 60 zone.

I drive a Kawasaki BN 125A7F 124cc and do 60 or 70 on the M11 or whatever when I need to. But for driving around London? Sure, you don't want to dawdle. I'm no fan of hesitant learners or eldery drivers stick to 15mph either, but that's not excuse for doing the opposite either.

There's a difference between driving in a hurry and using the road efficiently. About ten minutes worth, which on my way to work is the difference between nabbing a parking space or not.

Dunno how you drive, Lee. Just talking at cross-purposes here. I was referring to twats who use their car/bike as extensions of their manhood, and go from 0 to 60 just to show off. The Top Gear generation.

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So you get overtaken by cars on your BIKE? Oh god you're my worst nightmare!

Learner drivers I have plenty of patience for and I'll back off for them. We've all been there, after all.

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Not always in London. Depending where you are though. I find sports cars in London a bit funny, in places like Knightsbridge where you're not exactly likely to burn rubber. Quicker to walk.

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I don't know London drivers but I'm still struggling to see that as a good excuse! Bikers pretty much have full reign of the road, normally.

Normally, but as I said, there's the occasional bellend who thinks he's always got right of way. Especially round Hackney, where there's plenty of crackheads, gang members and teen racers.

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  • 2 weeks later...

When your standing in line to pay at the convenience store , some old guy gets his 50 lottery tickets checked , then buys other ones and picks out several of the scratching variety

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That's my roommate. And boy does he snore LOUD. He's woken me up at 4 in the morning a couple of times with just that. Terrible.

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