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( , Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Good weekend? Shit weekend? Mediocre weekend? Do tell, unless of course you have nothing interesting or amusing to say, in which case by all means keep it to yourself, thanks.
I walked along the canal to Angel this morning. Normally I get a bus then a tube to get there, and was interested to see that it's only five mins slower on foot. Now my buttocks and thighs ache. Nice mental image for you all.
Alt: Anything exciting happening this (short) week?
Alt alt: I read this morning that in Austria they are bringing in ‘alco-locks’ for the cars of convicted drink-drivers: a kind of breathalyser-activcated entry system. Despite the rubbish name that seems to me like something that should be on all cars. What do you think? EDIT I feel this way about speed limiters like they have on lorries - why on earth isn't the fitting of limiters to prevent speeding a standard practice in all vehicles? Why is it even possible to speed? The cynic in me wonders if the revenue from tickets is the answer.
Alt alt alt: Reply 'Yes. You are a cunt' if you are an active homosexual riddled with communicable diseases.
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Any body parts floating in the canal?
Alt: leaving daughter with a babysitter for the first time to take my wife out for dinner.
AltAlt: Yes. Good idea. Not something that you'll have to worry about seeing as you're too much of a Mary to learn to drive
( , Mon 2 Apr 2012, 8:49, Reply)
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No body parts, but a dead coot and some fairly extensive littering. Tsk.
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No fucking excuse.
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Is she likely to kick off and start throwing food? Or effect some kind of dirty protest if she is unhappy with the service?
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( , Mon 2 Apr 2012, 9:42, Reply)
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Yes a good weekend, I attended a thoroughly lovely wedding on Saturday and spent yesterday chilling and eating the best Thai food I have eve had.
Sounds like a nice walk, I wish I had that option.
Alt: not much, catching up with friends, packing for going away at the weekend.
AltAlt: can't see why not, although I'm sure someone will tell me.
( , Mon 2 Apr 2012, 8:50, Reply)
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His facial hair was pretty cool, not saying it's better than yours, not sure if thats possible, but it wasn't worst. He basicly had a thin line following his upper jaw line, is the best way I can describe it.
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Although he doesn't make clear whether it is the anterior lower jawline or the posterior lower jawline.
( , Mon 2 Apr 2012, 9:10, Reply)
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( , Mon 2 Apr 2012, 9:20, Reply)
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thanks to some hideous stomach bug that ruined my weekend.
alt: Wife is pissing off skiing leaving me to move house alone
altalt: infrigement of my civil liberties innit
altaltalt: Al- 4EVA IN R HARTZ www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-17580252
( , Mon 2 Apr 2012, 8:56, Reply)
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went for a walk around Glastonbury, and up the Tor. Then for a slog along Burnham on Sea's esplanade.
I'm completly fagged, and could do with four days off. What are the chances of that happening soon, eh?
( , Mon 2 Apr 2012, 8:58, Reply)
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The only German I know I got from Commando and Warlord comics.
( , Mon 2 Apr 2012, 9:09, Reply)
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10 over, 20 over even 30 over I can understand, sometimes you need to GRRRR ZOOOOOOOM past someone or out the way. The only exception to this should be registered vichales like MI5 people. It seems like common sense to me.
New Game of Thones is out ! OH BOY ! It's downloading now.
I saw the most awesome dog this weekend, got some really nice clothes, found a crepe place that is really good, did a bit of cooking, hooked up with Ma', worked more on my Srs Bzns Plnz, went to the park for a bit... generally I had a nice day. I like doing things on weekends, I'm going to stop wasting them.
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kann ich sicher sagen, du bist alle "fucking scheiBe" sind, und ich bin für immer verlassen
( , Mon 2 Apr 2012, 9:05, Reply)
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I can confirm his German is quite shocking.
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Danke.
(I am really stretching the limits of my German here)
( , Mon 2 Apr 2012, 9:15, Reply)
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It doesn't give you the appropriate sentence structure.
( , Mon 2 Apr 2012, 9:19, Reply)
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its probably better than my english, you bloody great bully :(
( , Mon 2 Apr 2012, 9:22, Reply)
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The great lumbering beast.
( , Mon 2 Apr 2012, 9:26, Reply)
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I'll hand myself in by gazzing the mods with my details and a full confession of my crimes.
( , Mon 2 Apr 2012, 9:24, Reply)
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Alt: All the excitement lies within the brevity of this working week.
Altalt: It would be simpler if all other drivers were banned altogether, giving me free reign over the roads. I guarantee to reduce the number of road traffic deaths (a bit).
Alt alt alt: The only active sexual behaviour I partake in involves just the one person, so technically is neither homo- nor heterosexual. Autosexual, perhaps?
( , Mon 2 Apr 2012, 9:16, Reply)
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work, a gig and some aimless wandering. I have the day off today secure and smug in the knowledge that it's really fucking busy at work.
( , Mon 2 Apr 2012, 9:22, Reply)
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Sorry, spent a good portion of the weekend with a Frenchman. I hear German, I panic.
( , Mon 2 Apr 2012, 9:36, Reply)
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There were high and low points, certainly.
This weekend I dunno what I'm doing besides going to the Horse and Groom on Sunday, which is fast becoming my regular night out haunt.
( , Mon 2 Apr 2012, 9:36, Reply)
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Were I not going to Winchester on Sunday morning I would propose a pint.
( , Mon 2 Apr 2012, 9:38, Reply)
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You need to get your priorities sorted playa. I'm down for the next three weeks and will be over that way more than regularly though.
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( , Mon 2 Apr 2012, 9:49, Reply)
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Just have them driven by computer and navigated via GPS. Why allow anybody to do anything at all? There are laws, people accept them because they're responsible adults, or they don't and are forced to live with the consequences.
( , Mon 2 Apr 2012, 9:38, Reply)
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Firearms should be able to be legally sold to any and everyone, by the same ticket. Making them illegal is just 'The Man' trying to control us.
Shut up, Clarkson.
*belms*
( , Mon 2 Apr 2012, 9:39, Reply)
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between treating people as responsible adults, that are capable of controlling a vehicle that may accidentally inflict injury and allowing people access to equipment that is specifically designed to kill people.
Shut up yourself, Monty "Straw Man" Boyce. You smell.
( , Mon 2 Apr 2012, 9:47, Reply)
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*tears off shirt outside city centre pub*
*gets cold, regrets shirt removal*
*cries*
( , Mon 2 Apr 2012, 9:49, Reply)
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I could get an extra hours kip.
( , Mon 2 Apr 2012, 9:40, Reply)
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How about a bed which sprouts wheels and smoothly transports you to work?
( , Mon 2 Apr 2012, 9:43, Reply)
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If we get into sprout-carving as a profession now we'll be ahead of the curve when the bed/car revolution comes.
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You know they all have those big piles of money to demonstrate how ludicrously wealthy they are? I show them this thing called a "gun" and I get them to put that money in a "bag". And then I show them a "clean pair of heels".
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A potential answer, what I've just thought of, is due to gearing. You need to have access to power in your top gear for overtaking on motorways etc. In order to have access to this power, your gear ratio needs to be relatively long in order to generate the torque necessary to accelerate. This will mean that there's still a relatively large amount of gear left and so your top speed is significantly higher than your cruising speed.
This is why a car's built with a much higher top speed than the maximum speed limit in your country, not why you don't have a limiter installed.
( , Mon 2 Apr 2012, 9:45, Reply)
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Had a pleasant weekend with much sitting in the sun drinking beer. I've been looking at flats near Angel, we could be tube buddies.
Alt: this week I have an exit interview and will be steadily increasing the desperation of my flat hunt.
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( , Mon 2 Apr 2012, 10:24, Reply)
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It's all about the transport links.
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Rent is a good third cheaper than Islington. It's also a bit shit but it's improving.
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Think overground rather than tube, its so much better bang fir your buck.
Is there anything you wanna live near? Such as resturants, shops, pubs, pictures (etc), and what money ballpark?
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I'd like shops and a pub and some where to eat within walking distance too. I've been thinking Northern line because then I also can get to Euston fairly easily for trips back up to Birmingham.
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www.b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1576090
Now, interestingly, if you look at the stats, it shows you an activity graph which shows that basically nobody voted on Sunday, and of the voting that happened on saturday, it occured at a rate of pretty much one vote an hour. Now, given that the poll only allows you to vote once an hour, that means some sad bastard has been logging back in every hour just to post a vote.
For a period of about four hours of saturday morning, that sad bastard was me, voting for options 3 and 1. So, who else was doing it?
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I also doubt you did so to click options 3 and 1.
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Especially since your attacks on me appear to have stemmed from nothing at all on my part.
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So there must have been around 12 votes, the truth is nobody gives a shit about this beyond pathetic little attempt for belittling. I geuss you could show how many offline b4sh outtings you get invited to compared to him despite you both living in north London.
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I'm HP Printer Ink circa 2006, and I think you're alright. You don't need no tinned tuna quality validation.
hp printer ink, per mil, was considered one of the most expensive consumable material around that time... Or one of them anyway.
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just because I didn't say thank you for a theatre recommendation or join your linkdin network.
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The only people on her in my linked in are those who relate to me on a professional level. Fuck letting you lot gain access to my work, no offence.
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This poll doesn't seem to have proved anything either way.
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Posh dinner thursday, party friday, drinks saturday, pub roast sunday.
I also made homebrew and it seems to be working, if slowly.
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it's meant to be about 18 degrees, and it goes down to 16 at night. Still the yeast is still alive so it's not that bad.
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but more slowly. But don't leave it too long or it will go mouldy.
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even at about 3 or 4 degrees. the process will just take longer.
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See, now that reads sarcastically too, but it wasn't meant to be. I really did do a proper laugh.
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How's the training going? I almost sign up for a 1/2 marathon the other day, but then i got scared
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and then I had a cheese and wine party on saturday night so I didn't want to do anything at all on sunday. It's starting to piss me off just what a time commitment it is, and that's even with me dropping back to a half marathon instead of a full one.
EDIT - I'm being contrite because I would hate for you to get very upset with me for being sarcastic on the internet or not thanking you profusely enough.
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What's the longest run you've done so far?
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next weekend is 10, then 10 the following weekend, then I'm gonna try twelve. Then I'm only gonna try 7 the weekend after that as it's the last big run before the half marathon.
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They fit them in California to the ignition if you have "three strike" DUIs.
Answer about limiters? becuase I can legally take my car to Germany if I want and drive it at 150, and a limiter would prevent that. There's also a common sense issue regarding overtaking but it's tricky to justify if people are going to be Nazi about speeding.
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Turns out that's a fucking useless defence in court, though.
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the mathematically possibility of this is lost on people
*totally made up number but it is certainly something over 50%
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but hardly anyone actually bothers to go and get training and any sort of advanced driver qualification.
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also the course is only 2 sessions maybe to practice some motorway driving etc that you can't do as a learner. this 12 years ago so i doubt it makes a jot of difference now
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and rally and track stuff, but I won't touch IAM qualifications because at least two of things they teach you are arguably bad practice at best and extremely dangerous at worst.
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no radio, no conversation - because distractions are bad. Horseshit. You need to be able to focus on different levels, certain parts of driving should be backround instinct. Excessive distraction is bad, of course, but if you need to focus that hard to drive and avoid accidents you shouldn't drive at all.
And they still teach passing the wheel, which is a lethal thing to do if you lose control of a car. Always one hand or the other locked at a fixed position, so that you can pull the wheel back to straight without thinking or looking.
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IAM say your hands should be in a fixed position relative to the wheel - 10 to 2 or whatever. If you don't want to die on fire in a hedge, hold at least one of your hands fixed ON the wheel.
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I love everything about cars including driving them quickly. I want to get a rear wheel drive car, but the way they behave isn't at all intuitive compared to front wheel drive. I don't want to not be confident in my ability to control the thing.
I also want start rallying.
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rear wheel drive cars ARE intuitive. It's front wheel drive that isn't.
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in a FWD car, that'll counteract the understeer, in a RWD car, it'll aggravate the oversteer.
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that in a modern RWD car there are enough gadgets on there to stop teh back end going all over the place... that said I did enjoy the icey conditions in mine... You do get used to it very quickly
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a lot of RWD cars have lift-off oversteer. Accelerating in a car throws the weight back, which often improves rear end grip in a RWD. Particularly true of things like 911s. Of course, if you hit the accelerator too hard you might make the rears spin, which does bugger up grip.
I guess it depends on how you got your instincts, though - I guess I was lucky in that my first car was RWD.
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and you lift off on instinct, the weight shifts forward and the back end goes out further, usually resulting in a spin.
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so should accelerate or ease off, it's so confusing
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yes.
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I reckon most people would only notice the difference if you were trying to do something a bit more taxing that driving up and down the motorway.
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you notice a BIG difference in snow/ice. and once when it was slippery wet and i was being a twat on a roundabout (although in my defence it turned out the rear tyres were bald).
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just sitting in the driver's seat is usually enough to turn your right foot gay.
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I'm looking at an AMG CL65 for shits and giggles at the moment. Pity I can't afford the fuel.
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player of the season for the mens first - broken thumb, mens seconds - broken ankle, mens thirds - stitches in his face etc etc. the women were unscathed. so either hockey is dangerous or men are worse at it?!
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damages more and harder to get out of the way.
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this makes me constitutionally incapable of either checking whether tyres are bald or changing them.
however, it means that men do it for me, which is great.
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However I'm basing my statement on mathematically measurable things like reaction times, car control skills and me not being the kind of mouth-breathing slow-witted prick that watches big brother.
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Id get laid every day if that was the case
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well, there are some rape ones, granted.
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