Its all about selling image.
The Libertines had/have an image the record company can sell. Their slacker/can't be @rsed image appeals to a certain demographic and is seen as a kick against the tightly controlled music industry. If that particular image appeals then chances are you will buy the music.
But then we all know that don't we?

A couple of years back I was working on a project involving Folk music, not the finger in the ear stuff, but contemporary folk music, and these musicians were simply astonishing in their ability.
They would just turn up and play, no Autotune or studio jiggery-pokery, all in tune and in time, complex harmonies and arrangements.
But they are pretty much unknown outside their locality and most of them have other full-time occupations and play for the love of the music.
Intelligent, entertaining, talented people but if they walked past you in the street you wouldn't notice them.

It doesn't happen solely during the hours of darkness. Round our way, it happens in daylight too

The only time I've ever seen Dogging was when on a video shoot. We arrived in the car park of some Abbey ruins at about 7.30am, car park was empty.
By 10.30 we'd finished the shoot, went back to the car and parked next to us was an old Mondeo and in the passenger seat was a fella going at it with a rather bored looking woman, he paused briefly to look at us as we loaded the vehicle, and just carried on. Odd thing was there were no other cars in the car park so why park next to another car?

Alfasud 1.5 ti cloverleaf, one of the best handling cars of all time.

Too true. So controllable on the throttle.

My first car was RWD, it was a Marina TC it had terrible handling.
My father had a 1981 BMW 3 series, that too was RWD and was awful.
My missus has a Chevette, RWD not much to note in the handling stakes.
Mk2 Escort Sport was excellent though.

My Mkii Golf GTI was superb, even better when the suspension was uprated and lowered, same goes for the XR3i I had.
Pug 205 GTI was no slouch either, or the XR2i.
And the 4 Alfasuds were simply amazing. All FWD

I thought the OP's query was about trying to avoid points/fine/ban based on the late arrival of the NIP, from the way I read it there was no question about guilt?
I presumed that had this late NIP not taken the points to 12 then OP's wife would have taken the FP?

and stopping at amber and red lights etc

Not stopping at lights as well as speeding?
Lucky not to have been banned ages ago.

I reckon I definitely hit 150 around here but I'm not sure now if it was a 30 limit – I can't remember what the sign said, it was a few years ago

If it was during the NW200 or similar then yes, OK, well done. If not then it was just stupid

anyone else notice all the people they showed on the BBC did well and didn't look that surprised about it?

That is because the BBC get everyone to open their results, find who did well, then open the envelopes again and look surprised when the cameras are pointing at them.

Re-fitted our bathroom last year.
Got rid of the bath, fitted a bigger shower, don't regret it at all.
Our bathroom is not that large, removing the bath allowed for some storage space to be built in.

Everyone knows WD40 is not intended for joints but seized nuts.
Tried it missus din't like the smell.

My worry is they'll say "here's a replacement for your Dell laptop (RRP £600)" and it'll be crappy £300 Micky Mouse Samsung with 'similar' processor, memory and HD. I'll say "thanks but no thanks" and they'll hand me a cheque but only for the £300?

That's the way they want it to work. You have to hold your ground and convince them otherwise.

I understand its to minimise false claims,a friends parents would claim for all sorts of stuff that wasn't damaged, when they fancied a bit of extra cash, insurance Co sent a cheque they were happy. That changed though when they claimed for a stained carpet and insurance Co sent round a fella to clean it!
Saves insurance Co loads too.

Insurance Co will have deals with suppliers and so get the replacements at a discount. If their suppliers do not have the exact goods they match as closely as they can.
Usually they are prepared to provide a cheque, but for a lesser amount that that of the value of the goods they have listed.

Turntable into Amp, Amp Tape Out into Line in on PC run Audacity.
Get the LAME Mp3 encoder and away you go many happy hours sat in front of the Pc making Mp3 files.

Black Face Mondaine Sports Chrono for weekends/going out. Understated with nice crisp Modernist styling.

Casio Waveceptor-Tough solar digital G-Shock for Work/Play. Accurate, tough, cheap.

Easy job, unless its a right old wreck and they are rusted in.
When you remove the old ones, count how many turns they were screwed in. Install the new ones with as near as you can the same turns. Tracking won't be all that far off.

I'm enjoying my 456 more than any bike I've owned at present. Great fun.
My brother has an Inbred, we ride the same terrain and both bikes cope.
He's running some 140 forks on the Inbred.

ooOOoo – exactly, the non musical info is nice to hear – reverb tails fluttering away etc, but these are not needed for the musical experience.

To cut through the crap on digital audio and music reproduction try reading some stuff by John Watkinson.

there is not much Musical info above 7Khz which is why a song that does it for you will do it over MW radio, low bit rate Mp3 or any other medium.

Over my home system there is a difference between CD and the iPod in outright quality terms. In the car none at all.

Play.com mp3 are at 320kbps, at least the ones I've bought are.

As far as I know you still legally to retain the CD copy even when ripped to digital

Technics SL1200/1210.
I've had Linn, and Rega as well as numerous Japanese belt and Direct drive TT and all sound unstable compared to the SL1200.
It is rock solid, stable and well isolated.

" if you don't want to **** me baby, baby **** off" by Janye County and the Electric Chairs.

I'd say its been done on post, and not very well either.

My LBS recommended I give their front mech a go on my On-One build.
So far it has performed as well as any SRAM or Shimano front mech I've ever run.

I've just recently qualified as a Gym instructor, they were very keen on Dynamic Stretches before and Static after exercise.

Dynamic stretching uses speed of movement, momentum and active muscular effort to bring about a stretch.
Unlike static stretching the end position is not held.

With Dynamic stretching you should aim to move the muscles in the plane in which the anticipated use of the muscles takes place, if that makes any sense?

Examples of Dynamic stretches are Walking lunges, high-knee skips, straight-arm twirling, jogging whilst bring your heels up to your butt-cheeks…

Dynamic stretches before exercise, Static afterwards. Hold the staic one for at least 30 secs

Possibly application of a "HDR" plugin in post

If my daughter asked a question we answered it as truthfully as we could, no matter what her age. Worked for us.
We were not that bothered about swearing either, consequently it lost (never had) its "shock" value and she seldom uses it.

Its not sexual content that particularly bothers me, sex is natural and something everyone hopefully ends up enjoying, its the fascination with "celebrity" and "fame" and that the only way for women to achieve anything and be noticed is to get their bangers out.

We told our toddler not to touch the sockets, or drink bleach.

I've never experienced chainsuck with Middleburn either.

I like my 456 very much.
It goes up quite well and down quite well too.
I have had quite a big crash and it did not break.
It was cheap.
I have found On-One very good to deal with.

Surely its worth keeping if its personal to you iresprective of its value.
Contact one the reg plate dealers, they will value it for you and deal with transfer if you wish.

Last episode of TG was little more than adverts for Cruise/Diaz latest film and the forthcoming Senna documentary.
I find "Star in a…." the most boring bit of TG, it's biggest attraction being an opportunity to put the kettle on.
There is enough fawining over celebrities on TV as it is.
As Homer once said " Celebrities, is there nothing they can't do…."

Touareg piece was dull too. Devoid of the usual TG humour and quite obviously more contrived than ever.

Veyron bit was interesting, I was impressed at how stable the car was at 200+mph. Mind you it should be at £1.6million.

Hereford > Llandrillo > Corwen > Holyhead > Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch > Bridgend > Tregarth > York

I recommend the 11-22 f2.8 as an all round lens for Oly 4/3.
Superb.

A 330i vs 330d is not really a true comparison either because of the turbo on the diesel.

A diesel needs a turbo to get any performance out of it.
Remember the days of non-turbo diesels? Dreadful dirty slow efforts.

Or, buy a Ltd company off the internet for £50 or so.
Then issue shares for £1 each (say to you and your partner).
Then the company gets the contract and is paid for the work, you then invoice the company as a sub-contractor for the amount of the contract. The company makes no profit and therefore pays no tax. You pay tax at whatever your rate is.
Leave enough in the company to pay for accountancy, advertising etc.

Onzadog – Most of my mates have had the snip.
Not one case of infection or any lasting discomfort.

Had it done 8 years ago, would not even describe it as minor discomfort.
Was back at work next day.

Mondaine, understated classic.

I remember the feature on the old TG, some beardy fella loading up a Citroen BX Estate with the camera crew flight cases to show how much it could carry and how the suspension self levelled – boring TV – all available in the brochure from the Citroen dealer if you were that bothered.

Three middle age fellas acting like kids with cars – good fun TV.

The current TG actually acknowledges the fact that a large proportion of people like cars for what they are, good bad indifferent and the various reasons people drive what they drive.