I think the actual story here is more interesting than the joke, to be honest. Where did this happen?

From my understanding, the movie is pretty close to what actually happened.

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Given how limited the selection of electric vans and pickups is, I think this will backfire somewhat in terms of getting trades and technicians into the city centre.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannonball_Run_challenge

Are you sure about that second one?

Yeah, because we don’t particularly fancy being lectured by teenagers on the Internet.

The people saying it aren’t usually in the half they think they are, either.

“think of how stupid the average person is, and then think half of them are dumber than that”

So heavily overused.

I understand much of the technology we use today isn’t magic, but it may as well be with how much I understand about how it works.

I don’t think you quite grasp what Arthur C Clarke was going for with this one.

Yeah, this one annoys me no end. Especially as its used when workplace safety is concerned far too often.

If I were wrong, you’d be able to convince me that I’m wrong. We can keep going until one of us accepts that we didn’t have an accurate understanding of reality.

I had an ex like you.

I don’t get it.

She could be giving a large chunk of money to charity and still be worth that, for all you know.

Do you know for sure she doesn’t?

Having read the book some time before seeing the movie, I was pretty unimpressed with how much of the story was left out. Most notably the reasons behind Hal going off the rails.

2001 absolutely is a boring film though. Impressive on a technical level, but very slow burning, and there is so much that they don’t bother to explain to the audience that the books actually cover, for example Hal’s reasons for going off the rails.

So? She’s one of the most successful musicians in history, of course she’s got some cash.

Electrification rebate?

I’m trying to remember some of them, or find a photo. I can’t remember what model of vehicle they were though.

Where I live, we get a number of used vehicles imported from Japan, and for a while it was trendy to have English slogans on vehicles.

They frequently made little sense, I imagine our ones look the same to them.