njee20

1) it wasn’t his car

Apparently he and Rodas shared the same storage space for their many cars. There’s a video somewhere.

cozz – Member

I think its a great shame that our countries flag is being associated the lazy racism (and football)

I can’t stand football, and people wave the flag about when we are losing at some world cup or another.

Yet often the same people don’t display the flag on St Georges day, (which should be a national holiday)

I find it strange that in ENGLAND people make a bigger deal of St Patricks Day then they do St Georges day.

Having lived in the USA for 3 years, they have huge national pride, its a shame we seem only to have it when associated with football, and at all other times its often regarded as racist !

Consider that your countries’ flag was the backdrop for genocidal slaughter and atrocities all over the world in the name of imperialism and you might understand why other nationalities, and people of different ethnic backgrounds living in the uk dislike it, or at least see negative connotations.

I’ve got this big lump of stuff on my front door step so generally ride out. But it’s nice to go for a drive to somewhere further afield.

DezB

Excellent! I’m going to enjoy it more now!
I’m confusing him up with someone else… who could it be..?

Gary Oldman?

I know sometimes I don’t know how I cope with it all

Think of the children.

shaggy – Member

It’s not great but I’ll keep watching. Oswald and Gordon make me think it might get better.

The Jim Gordon character is the main thing it has going for it. I find the Penguin just completely at odds with some of it, the Riddler too. Of all the Batman villains they had to foreshadow from seventy years of comics they had to go with the ones from the 60’s tv show.

I mean tonight the main story concerned what was essentially a satanic/occult serial killer ritually murdering teenagers. Something that wouldn’t have been out of place in True Detective, then you have Cobblepot hamming it up …

jam bo – Member

any reason why not to use in the car?

I think it’s to do with the reflectors not being designed for them. So they end up looking like shit and dazzling everyone.

Sean would get ye

njee20

The Porsche that killed Paul Walker was on 15+ year old tyres too.

Have you seen his car collection? He had several warehouses full of cars. It’s not hard to imagine how something like changing the tyres on one of them might have slipped through the cracks. Combined with the fact it was his friend driving, and the common consensus that the GT is a total animal to drive and you can see an accident waiting to happen.

Fatality not involving stupidly fast car fails to make point that stupidly fast cars kill children.

waihiboy
its always baffled me why people spend sh*t loads on a fast car,

You don’t necessarily need to spend shit loads, but if you can afford a fast car why not have instead of some soul destroying horrible piece of shit. People spend a lot of time in their cars, might as well be a nice place to be.

surely it would be more fun to have a boring car for day to day use that can tow a trailer.

then…. spend your cash on a track day car, where you can really speed!

That’s a good question. I think my mountain bike is my track day car. For want of a more crude analogy. Even if I could afford a car just for the track the time and money taken to prep, transport and maintain it would eat into my mtb time too much.

The other thing to consider is first off, the appeal of a track day isn’t to speed with impunity, it’s to explore the limits of your car somewhere safer. And if you want to you can take pretty much any car. So if you don’t mind abusing it, your silly expensive daily driver can also be your track day car.

molgrips
Should be obvious.

It’s 3.5 isn’t it?

molgrips – Member

Yeah of course – why do you ask such a stupid question?

Because I’m wondering where the line exists between a paragon of driving excellence safely overtaking two cars at once and a “nutter” over taking five cars endangering lives, risking it all, pissing people off and killing imaginary children.

nickc

Music for people that don’t like music

Troll.

mudshark

Are Nirvana metal though?

Cleverly repackaged for a different generation. Alice in Chains were much more of a heavy metal band than nirvana ever were. Better in every way too.

molgrips
No, I do – I just deal with it, rather than going mental and risking it all to get by whilst not caring who else I piss off.

So you don’t go mental. I’m guessing you have performed an overtaking manoeuvre at least once in your life? Have you ever over taken two cars at once?

Do you think that your ability to overtake without risking all, going mental and pissing everyone else off is a skill that’s is unique and special to you, or do you imagine it’s possible someone else might posses similar judgement?

molgrips

I don’t need to imagine that, happens all the time. I relax, wait, and when it’s safe I go. Doesn’t take long.

molgrips
40mph grannies (who annoy me as much as they do you)

I thought you didn’t get annoyed? Don’t you just go into some kind of sanctimonious, pontifical “Zen Diesel” state? It’s probably a frame of mind us child murdering, kitten stomping, road jihadis wouldn’t understand unless we spent fifteen years waiting patiently behind a Mondeo.

LS – Member

From a purely technical point of view it has to be Heaven and Hell or Mob Rules. Take the metal band and add the metal singer and you can’t lose

There’s just a lot of weak songs on those albums though. Having said that, Heaven and Hell, Children of the Sea, Sign of the Southern Cross…great songs.

Kryton57

This is half my point. That, songs recorded on pizza boxes, living in the loft of a music store, actually female orgasms taped on a hidden dictaphone by Axl (used in Rocket Queen IIRC), Slash’s near death experience… Would they even be able to get half of it throught the censors? Vis a vis a watered down rockumentary which just doesn’t do the band justice…

As far as anyone knows there’s no one attached to produce or direct, so the style of the finished product could be anything at this stage. Most of what you’ve described is standard fare for tv now, never mind film.

Ro5ey

Wrong as well as boring then

How are AC/DC metal ??

They are definitely more of a hard rock band. Angus would tell you they’re a rock and roll band. But If you can’t count their music alongside metal then you might as well rule out a lot of other bands – Maiden, Priest, Dio, GnR etc etc etc…..even Sabbath to an extent, none of them really “Metal” in the current sense of the word. Just classic rock.

Back in Black is the best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal/ Classic Rock album of the 80s.

jekkyl

Aren’t they known for their copious consumption of cocaine every substance known to man? Wonder if that’ll be in the movie.

I would imagine so.

Kryton57 – Member

Really? Do you think the current teenagers of our world can relate to the grimy reality of the GnR period either with the band or socially in the UK?

There are plenty of teenagers who aren’t into pop. Rock and metal are huge genres all over the world. They just aren’t that cool or mainstream accessible.

DezB
I beg to differ. I know the 3 singles, but never heard any of the rest of the sub-Zeppelin nonsense.

I don’t really rate them that highly but I enjoyed a couple of their albums. But sub Zeppelin nonsense? Really? That’s the best you could come up with?

The Thin Red Line is a great film.

I’ve watched hundreds of films over the years now and every time I try and decide what the most aesthetically beautiful film ever produced is, I always come back to this.

Just for visuals I would have to say Baraka or Ran. Or maybe something by Yang Zhimou.

If your filming mtb races you’d be better off with a digital camcorder of some description. Battery life and capactiy will be limiting factors on DSLRs and Gopros.

It depends what type of results your aiming for but if you’re looking for something dynamic or professional looking a dslr will give you a lot more creative control than a gopro. However, shooting handheld trying to catch action on the fly it’ll suffer from rolling shutter.

An ideal set up would be something like a dslr, gopro and a camcorder. Camcorder static to catch all the action at a given point. Gopro closer to the action, dslr for gv’s and artistic cutaways.

very hard to communicate the real GnR story in the current world of teenage One Direction based angst, and won’t serve its potential purpose to highlight and extremely influential, successful yet short lived band of the late eighties?

If it’s done right, not at all. the band were absolutely massive and quite a lot of chaos about them that could translate well to the screen. if you’re out in a bar and anything from Appetite comes on everyone knows it, young and old. Especially (groan) Sweet Child o mine.

You might have issues depending on the shock and the tune. If I remember I had a guy about 17stone on a Monarch rt and he had to run it at the very max psi possible to stop it bottoming out everywhere. I can imagine issues might arrise from this. A firmer compression tune might be in order, or perhaps consider a coil shock as plan b.

stevied

The book is very good BTW

An intensely deranged guy at a campsite told me this for several hours one night at a festival.

I can’t find your legs!

FunkyDunc
These cars can do over 60 mph in 2nd gear, faster than you can legally go, so what do you do with the rest of the gears and performance, you just don’t need it on the road.

Fun cars are ones edover says, feel quick, give you feedback, and most importantly let you play with the limits of grip.

Power has no relation to what speed a car will do in a given gear. My wifes diesel Seat would do over 80mph in 3rd gear, most cars will (on a track or closed road). That didn’t render 4th and 5th pointless. I agree with edover there, no one is saying any different. Front engined, rwd, good power to weight ratio should = fun.

The Impreza and all these modern 4wd big bhp cars have so much grip that you have to be doing silly speeds around corners to get anywhere near the edge of grip, so therefore you can drive extremely quickly with very little skill being needed.

Since you mention imprezas they are relatively low geared. Low maximum speed for quicker acceleration. Closer ratios. The speeds they’ll do in any given gear is not that different from any “normal” car. They’ll just get to those speeds quicker.

Whilst I can understand why they wouldn’t be much fun, or very engaging for a champion rally driver, a mere mortal might get a buzz going round a 3rd gear corner in the wet, all four wheels spinning, under the speed limit.

Eat things that would make a billy goat PUKE!

edoverheels
This headlong march towards 300bhp hatchbacks seems pointless

Keep in mind ed that these aren’t exactly mainstream cars. I think there’s only something like 5000 Golf Rs produced. It’s a bit of niche (insert belt driven single speed 69er pun here). It’s not as if the world is crying out for these things.

FunkyDunc
Jim why has he contradicted me? He was saying the Impreza was dull/not fun. He could go around corners faster than the legal speed limit and not come close to the limits of grip. That isn’t fun, its dull… Unless you yourself do not know what a fun car is like to drive?

Maybe I’m picking you up wrong, but when you say x amount of power is pointless except for in a straight line and past 2nd gear, but your mate says he can go way beyond the speed limit and still have grip and control it kind of illustrates to me that the cars are useable beyond second gear, or in a straight line.
I’m not arguing that unlimited grip and power is fun,in the conventional driving sense just that it can be useable and nice to have.

Why are people so fixated about power? It’s pointless apart from in a straight line, and passed 2nd gear in these cars.

Mate of mine is an ex UK class rally champion. He has had access to many cars, including a super trick Impreza AWD. the Impreza isn’t his favourite car though, as he said it was dull because too fast, too much grip to be driven safely and have fun on the road.

Your mate just contradicted you. Assuming when he was driving too fast to safely have fun in his Impreza he was talking about other than in a straight line?

I really can’t see a Golf 4wd estate being ‘fun’ unless you enjoy beating Kev away from the lights in his Corsa. It will have very safe predictable dull handling with under steer… If you can go fast enought to get there.

I don’t think anyone is trying to make a point that the golf is going to be huge fun compared to say an M3. I said on page one that people don’t buy a car like this to live out their Ken Block fantasies, they buy them for useable all weather performance.

unovolo
Now if I needed a fast 4WD estate car(doesnt everyone?) I’d be on the look out for a nice tidy one of these:

And save myself anywhere between £10 & 15k on the Golf,plus its so much betterer looking.

It would be interesting to see how that played out over 5 years or so of daily driving. The Golf will most likely lose a lot of it’s value. Looked after, the Audi will probably go up in value. I think it would be luck of the draw, as to how much money you’d need to spend on the Audi though.

peterfile

Mrs PF works for Audi. I’ve been worryingly close on a number of occasions to picking up an S4 Avant but can’t work out what it is I don’t like about it. Was fast mind you.

Must be all the children who spontaneously drop dead when you purchase one. But for me I’d imagine it’d be the fact it’s not an RS6.

You would hope that the circumstances would be taken into account and the punishment would suit the offence.

Northwind – Member

And probably N+1 applies to guns too so I imagine I’d want an enduro gun and a fatgun too.

:lol:

You’re gonna need a road gun too if you don’t get to shoot your Enduro gun enough.

But concealed carry? Way I see it is, I’ll be wandering around in my normal everyday daze, thinking about boobs or what I’ll have for tea, and something happens that makes it a good idea to try and shoot someone in a hurry- and I’m not ready and I’m adrenaline crashed and full of doubt and nerves and it’s buttoned down and tangled up under my jacket and tbh I really don’t want to kill someone- up against someone who’s prepared and ready and already has a gun in their hand.

Imagine if someone started shooting in a cinema or nightclub full of armed people. i imagine it would be carnage.

Must be comforting for the guy who goes to read their meter.

The story that staggard me was the one from a few months ago where a 9yr old was given an Uzi at a gun range and she lost control and shot the instructor! I think the lunatics have taken over the assylumn on this one.

A colleague a while back was talking about that. Just to be devils advocate, to try and rationalise why she was even there, I compared it to me that growing up in a rural area which had exposed me to a lot of seemingly dangerous things at a fairly young age, not least driving a tractor, splitting wood, moving cattle about etc.

It all seemed perfectly normal at the time, and as best I can understand, Americans are similarly normalised to guns. Some of them anyway it seems.

willard – Member

The problem they have now is one of escalation. The crims know that everyone is likely to be tooled up, so they tool up themselves.

richmtb – Member

From the outside it looks absolutely crazy but America has so many guns that normal logic doesn’t apply anymore.

In a society awash with guns, their approach actually makes some sense on an individual level.

But its not really addressing the overall problem that there are far, far too many guns in circulation in America

That’s it I think. It raises the question, if you lived there would you own a gun? Would you carry a concealed gun? As soon as you start to think about it it’s almost impossible not to get stuck in a paranoid logic loop about the bad guy, and what he might do.

It’s exactly stuff like that which could get the whole scheme shut down for everyone if the media got hold of it on a slow news day.