GreatAlbatross

The price drop recently is making me suspicious.
Though it's still a good deal, so I may get a 5 anyway on payday.

Where I live, there is no restriction (other than the standard policed ones) on using amps etc.
This means on a 500m pedestrianised high-street, every Saturday is 6+ separate people making noise.
It gets unbearable, because while one in ten is actually half decent, the other nine are cranking the backing track up as loud as possible to get some people paying attention.

I don't live in London, but am I correct in thinking that TFL made people do auditions for busking spots on the tube?
That seemed to be a neat way to improve the quality. And did make me laugh the one time I had to wait just outside a station, then realised that the busker was playing the most well known 30 seconds from Wonderwall over and over.

I did...I want to say about 35 hours?

And I also supplemented with a g25 wheel/pedal set and ETS2.
Which helped more than you might expect (gear positions, clutch control, dealing with other traffic, blind spots)

G25 has been lent out to multiple friends to do the same thing too, so definitely paid for itself.

Theory, once you're paying attention to the road in general, isn't too bad at all. I paid about a fiver for month's access to a revision website, which had the material, and almost identical hazard perception clips.

You're allowed (iirc) 15 minors and still get a pass.

Minor issues are generally things that are mistakes, but mild enough that so long as you work to improve, the examiner is happy to pass you.

The same categories also have Major versions (1 fault fails the test) and Dangerous (1 fault halts the test entirely).

Control steering might be that OP had slightly sub optimal wheel technique, which meant they had a moment the examiner would have like to have seen both hands on.

Move off control might mean that they dumped the clutch a bit pulling away one time, and it wasn't smooth.

Awareness/Planning/Junction right could all have happened in the same manoeuvre (candidate hesitating at a junction, and pulling out after a car they could have comfortably gone before if they were more aware)

Progress: Appropriate speed can be missing that a speed limit has changed from 20 to 30, then accelerating when you realise.

I've still got the rap sheet from when I passed, and you can be damned sure after passing I was ironing them out.

I've genuinely considered moving there.

They have a radio station, and it's run by the chillest guy ever. Just playing tunes, and chatting between.

Seeing the photos, and having been around way too many deceased estate properties, I can instantly smell the whole place.
Damp, old plaster, manky carpets, and the bathroom that smells faintly of old wee and Imperial Leather.

Snip, Snap, Snip, Snap.

ICE can be a lot cheaper if you book ahead.
Non-ICE on the Deutschlandticket is a goddamned bargain, so long as you navigate the gotchas on the payment and recurring.

Or in a similar vein, the ship's cat has evolved into a suave humanoid with impeccable taste in fashion.

Was the MSP in the environment at the time?

That's really interesting. So what you're saying is, Germany sold more to the states than they bought, but the states were able to "keep" the money by marking off that Germany had so much gold.

And I guess now, Germany is concerned that the states may no longer honour that ledger.

And now we just wait for the inevitable US lift of the embargo, while conveniently forgetting to apply the tariffs.