X10 is pure gash: the touchscreen keyboard is an unmitigated disaster, in-call volume is inaudible at best, Android 1.6, the SE Mediascape application plays all your music in alphabetical order rather than actual album order but won't let you create a playlist on the phone to sort it out, Moxier bloatware is an utter wankfest and it can't be removed. I could go on. It would be worth getting one just for the satisfaction you'd get from standing on top of the nearest tall building and hurling it to the ground so many, many hundreds of feet below.

If I had my time again, I'd go with the Galaxy.

Where is it cracked, and how badly? Could it be welded?

Alternatively, just buy one of the cheaper ones and make it fit with custom silicone tubes[/url]. If size in the engine bay is at a premium, MR2 Turbo intercoolers are pretty compact and go for about £80-£120 on eBay.

GT5 release date is 2nd November. I think I'll wait for that instead.

I've told you before. Money laundering, to be truly effective, takes place where there is no product, just a service. Hence my belief that all tanning salons are fronts for money laundering.

Serious answer: Pronghorn LT. They are PHENOMENAL.
They've gone bust now, so you should get a bargain if you can find one.

Kedgeree. Breakfast of champions.

Rather than following some list of instructions which will only serve to infuriate when they don't quite work for every parking situation, it's probably better for everyone involved if your o/h develops a sense of how steering in reverse affects the position and motion of the car. I therefore second the carpark & cones idea.

Not that the list of instructions is a bad idea, just that it's generally better if you understand *why* you're doing something, rather than just how to do it.

Derek Smalls.

Shrewsbury Town.

edit:

Mum's Sunday Lunch

£13K!

It's only a wee garden retaining wall. Does he do little jobs?

stanfree – ygm

Also, Shell/BP/whoever might be a bit of a non-starter if you choose to go down that route. A better bet would be to contact some of the oilfield chemical testing companies. Try Intertek, SGS or CoreLab, all in Aberdeen. These will be guaranteed to have some crude knocking about in the lab somewhere.

I may or may not be able to help. Offshore next Monday, and I'll be taking crude samples as a matter of course. Posting shouldn't be a problem as I'll have all the necessary containers, COSHH forms, etc., but you seriously need to consider if crude is the best thing to be handing round in secondary school. All sorts of nastiness is contained within, not least of all being its carcinogenic properties. There's also a very real danger of flash fires/"explosions" caused by static discharges, and I'd imagine that there is plenty of static build-up when 30-odd kids are all rubbing jumpers trying to see the black stuff.

As mentioned above, it would be much, much easier and safer to use black treacle, soy sauce, etc. to get the effect. Spray some WD40 in it to get the smell.

I wrote my car off last year, and despite losing 3 years of ncd my premium only increased from £450 to £600, and that's on a more powerful, more expensive car. Moral is, shop around. There must be better deals than you're betting at the mo. Don't take the prices churned out by comparison sites as gospel.

NOD32 is pretty good. Paid for, unless you keep altering your username/password to free trial ones. I've heard that lists of these are freely available on the net.

bigyinn – Member
Spun a car off the road into a hedge backwards.

MR2 by any chance?

I have:
– Performed at the Albert Hall Proms,
– Been arrested,
– Taken my old car to an indicated 155 mph before I bottled it, on a road that wasn't really suitable but in conditions that were. In theory it would have gone on to 176 mph. Not linked to previous admission,
– Won the National Brass Band Championships at Wembley,
– Been on the big screen, in "Threads",
– Flown a plane,
– Designed and developed the now "Gold Standard" method for detecting minute amounts of opiates in bodily fluids,
– Steered a ferry into Haifa, Israel,
– Cheated on someone I really shouldn't have (NOT my wife!),
– Tripped balls on peyote buttons 8O
– Turned down a photo op with Princess Diana cos my dinner would have gone cold (I was 5 though, so maybe not full-on treason),
– Settled down and grown sensible.

Pronghorn XC SW Carbon
Cube LTD Race

And I have my eye on a Titus El Guapo to be built up when I have some pennies spare.

Have you looked at the cones in your rear hub? I had something similar and the cones in the rear had come loose. The stress put on the hub when pedalling was causing some clicking noises. It sounded like it was coming from pedals/cranks/bottom bracket.

:|

Didn't see the Orange vid, but I clocked this: http://vimeo.com/12836863 8O

I think the hospital thing is a formality, as the force of the rocket propelled ejector seat compacts your spine. Hopefully this is the case with the guy in Canadia.

My buddy is a nav at RAF Leuchars, and he tells me of a guy there who's not allowed to fly anymore. He's ejected twice, and is now 3" shorter than when he joined up.

Is it me, or are a disproportionate amount of aircraft lost at airshows?

EDIT: thank **** your cousin's mate ejected 8O

OK, it's gonna be an unpopular choice, but I'm getting a lot of kicks from this at the moment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO_QntXc-c4

Also:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TteLSVxsCg

youcoulddoitifyoupumpreallyreallyquickly

Well I have Photoshop ready to go anyway so I may as well stick with that. Props to the eBay seller not formatting his laptop hard drive :D

I'm not a fussy "I need this to do this, and that to do that, and a secret button to swap between the brush tool and magnetic lasso" kind of guy, and I'm pretty arty anyway, so all I really want is to recreate my natural hand gestures and pressure. If I can do that with the Bamboo then I guess I'll be a happy camper.

And a ready supply of gunpowder comes from?

This place.

*whistles nonchalantly*

NanoCannons.com

Oh. Yeah.

Bugger. Missed it with my crappy internet connection.

Oh well. Got a Bamboo Pen & Touch for £38 instead. I guess I'll see what that's like. Cheers for the advice.

That's the one I'm watching. What's a decent price for those? Don't want to bid myself out of a deal.

I've got my eye on a wacom on ebay. do they all support pen pressure?

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The Police are automatically called to RTAs when the ambulance is called.

True, and they don't even breathalise you now. When I crashed the only way it's possible to crash in an MR2 (backwards and into a hedge) the ambulance was called cos apparently it looked so bad. The rozzers turned up about 5 minutes later, and the pin-prick test the ambulance guys did apparently gave my blood alcohol level.

I'd say that no beer is about as much beer as you can have before driving.

I do it. You have to treat yourself sometimes.

My worst one used to involve climbing a spiral tower in the middle of the desert, only to find that I was at the bottom again and watching a dolphin thrashing about in the sand, unable to breathe, then somehow immediately watching a tennis match between a giant and a fairy, except they were using sewing needles instead of raquets and were really trying to kill each other with the needles, and I was confused who to root for cos the giant went for brute strength and trying to bludgeon the fairy to death whilst the dairy was really, really weak but really fast and stabby.

Seriously. I used to wake up in a cold sweat.

Very slight camber. Having said that, I don't know what a large camber would be, so it could be huge. It doesn't sit flat, anyways.

Inconvenienced?

If you thought about it properly rather than venting your spleen at her choice of words, being made to appear as a prosecution witness against an extremely nasty example of African warlord, knowing full well that your testament would probably hang the bloke out to dry, and most of the world's media would be observing/transmitting you and your every word to his minions "on the outside", you'd probably not be too keen on being there either.

She should have been an anonymous witness.

Really wide boards are a bit clumsy to turn IME

That's why I use the Perfect 11. It's for size 10+ boots. And it's VERY easy to turn.

Another belter:
Ever been this drunk?

Tesco insurance here. Only a moggy, but it's £4.30 a month. Saved our asses 3 weeks before our wedding cos we had a £2k facial reconstruction bill after she headbutted a car. Policy covers up to £2500 per claim/treatment.

No point buying one. Your local bike school should be able to give you a bike to train/test on. It's generally £100 or so more expensive than doing it all on your own bike.

An oldie but a classic.