Quote from Intrepid :

You aint lived until you've seized a 2-stroke at 20,000rpm

I was testing my old TKM one day when some guys turned up with theirs for the first time and did not know to choke the engine. The weather and track length suggested to me that a TKM could do 10-12 laps in a stint before needing to be cooled.

So 15 laps into his first stint I was following him down the main straight when I saw his spark plug "launch". for a moment there Britain had a space program! And would you believe that he chucked another spark plug in and the thing started first time. But i've no idea where the plug landed, possibly Harlow town.

I think to sieze an engine you've got to have neglected it's servicing schedule, and I want to win too much to have ever let that happen .

Quote from peterules :

+ 2 Stroke rules!

Aye! I havn't driven one since the late 90's back in TKM and before that Formula C but from my recollection every drive followed a pattern where the first few laps where always like "OMFG I cant believe how fast this accelerates, i'm scared!"... before settling in to "haha, FUN FUN FUN!" ... and finishing on "Blue Flag ****tard!".

There you go TVE: http://www.daytonamax.co.uk/

Together with Club 100 it's the fastest arrive & drive kart racing in the UK. Owner driver is not for me anymore - because it also involves getting a van or trailer/tools and some help getting it from my shed to the road.... I can do a season of this for half the price of a kart and I get to go all up and down the country trying out lots of cool tracks i'm yet to have a go at.

Quote from The Very End :

You thinking of the airplane simulator we were searching for on monday?

No no, it's a type of go kart. If the test goes well I might do some racing.

I can't afford to compete a full season just yet, but a couple of races here and there is viable .

Something I had not realised before, the BBC will still be covering the other races with a highlights program.

So all is not lost.

I left so pumped that I've gone and booked a test in a DMax 125 as a prelude to competing.

I should probably have checked my bank balance before I did that.

Quote from Crashgate3 :

I do get really, really annoyed with - mainly adverts - on TV that depict the stupid-man-and-his-immensely-practical-wife, that may as well have her turn to the camera and shout 'HAHA MEN ARE SOOO STUPID HAHAHA'

No matter what the budget is every television advert is very carefully crafted to appeal to a specific target audience. If the advertisement annoys you then it clearly isn't you that is being targetted. Advertising follows social trends and is reflective of them - it rarely leads trends in social ethics because there is no money to be made in that sector.

I wonder how many men have to keep a constant eye on their glass when out on the town, and have to throw their drink away and replace it if they need to use the bathroom before finishing it?

The difference is that violence against women is so indemic and so commonplace that women are constantly on the guard against it. We do stuff all the time to reduce the risk that we are put in during our daily lives. I suppose you would call it doing "Due Diligence" to protect ourselves, that if we didnt do we would then be considered to have "deserved it" for "being stupid".

I suspect that most men do not think about their safety so pro-actively, or if they do there are fewer circumstances in which they take action to ensure their safety compared to women.

I deplore domestic violence, no matter who the perpetrator is, and I agree that men are on ocassion unfairly pressumed at fault. However I also understand that there are many cases where men are at fault of violence.

Domestic violence is not really gender keyed, the first set of results I found when searching for this article was 20% of cases are perpetrated by women in 2006 (I actually expected it to be higher).

However, in cases of violence that are not domestic... ( I dont have stats to hand, but it doesnt take a genius to figure out it's going to be slanted toward one gender ).

When you remove the word "domestic" I think you find the route cause of the social attitudes on violence between men and women.

Remember this isn't the system fighting you - the law applies itself evenly, but rather the expectations of the people within that system - people like you and me. Was it the law who said the man in the first story of that reddit link above got taken into custody, or was it the policeman making a judgement call? (and what other factors contributed to the policemans judgement in that [one-sided] story?).

So sure when men are the victims sometimes people might get the wrong end of the stick when making a first assessment, but that isn't the full story, and neither should it be the end.

I'm a cheapskate, as much as I love the BBC I do not have a telly. A television does not fit into my lifestyle.

iPlayer does and I use that extensively, but the law says I don't have to pay for it - I just have to live in Britain, which I do.

I'm not bothered about having to pay to use iPlayer, I would.

However the cost of getting a TV, TV licence AND a basic Sky package PLUS the sports (football) channel package just so I can watch F1 is a no brainer, i'm simply not going to pay that much to watch a season of F1.

Television isnt a part of my life, television shows are - but I use on-demand services and televisions cannot offer that.

So for me, an avid fan of F1 who hasn't missed a Grand Prix since Brazil 1984, this deal spells the end of an era. When F1 goes to Sky I simply wont be watching it any more.

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Quote from amp88 :

Incidentally, I'd be interested to hear what you have to say (or what you've been told to say) about mother Theresa.

I can't speak for Rhygin, but i'm already on record for My Views of Mother Teresa.

Quote from jasonmatthews :

Looks like KayJay to me

It's hard to tell your pray apart when they wizz past like the stars visible from the cockpit of the Millenium Falcon...

Quote from three_jump :

I hope you realise that this ain't vic?

I do now!

...Following on from the pre-meeting discussion T.V.E. decided to make good on some of his promises.

Quote from The Very End :

Alltho I looked like I were going to rape someone by staring on them

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When gamers do karting

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Quote from Intrepid :

I think most people would consider themselves left of centre economically and socially. Nothing unusual there. Younger people tend to be more left-wing in that sense, until they've spent a life paying taxes which don't amount to much, hence why right-wing types are older.

You are almost correct. There are more liberals in the younger generation, this is because many older people have older fashioned views.

Quote from Rygin :

I wish people would educate themselves about M. Gandhi, he was not a nice man.

I am tired of this man being held up as being more than what he was to some Indian people.

I don't know of any sexual perversion, other than his weird fashion sense, but I don't think he was any more racist than other people in similar political positions in that era so I don't judge him on that.

Instead I judge him on the terrible failure that he was, the seperation of Pakistan from India was a terrible mistake because it has led to conflict and it was Gandi who let that happen - even though he himself knew it would lead to the situation we are in today.

I also think it was stupid for Pakistan, you only need to look at the comparable economies and social morality of the two nations to see the effect of antidisestablishmentarianism in action after only 50 years. It stands as a shining example that going too far to the right will leave your country well and truly ****ed.

I'd hardly call that analy raped TVE, I used the smallest butt plug in my collection.

Quote from ACCAkut :

nah, no problem. I once wrote you a pm somewhere round January asking about the meet.

see this is where you went wrong because I'm not actually your mummy.

Autocomplete and high residual alcohol content in my body have hacked my account and are making illegible posts with it.

Bunch of sleepy wooded here, I'm sad in the kitchen on my lonesome with a copper waiting for sign of life. I never heard this lot so quiet, they're not even snoring.

I'm gonna be sat here on my lonesome a while more and then the whole lot gonna leap out and shout "surprise" or something.

This weekend has been awesome.

So sad your being daddy Der Butz and not being awesome with us in Wales, maybe next year?

Acckut, sorry - you're the last thing on my mind . I honestly don't recall - but it was invite only this year anyway.

This year has been brilliant, Jason + wife really have done another magnificent job. Thank you so much guys.

Still don't remember you passing me Jason, maybe the race vids will clear the drunken haze

Quote from Intrepid :

But then again it's left-wing economic thinking that meant all the chronie bankers were bailed out, governments ran up massive national debts and put utter faith in fiat currencies, none of which are 'free market'. So left/right/left/right... it's all nonsense. If you think 'capitalism' is to blame for this mess you so far wide of the mark. It's far beyond that.

The bail out wasnt a "bail out". It was a "robbery". A few days after the American bailout, the terms of which read "My mate at Goldman and Sachs does not need to ever disclose where the money is spent" Goldman and Sachs executives commissioned 6 new Lear Jets.

The concept of a bailout was rushed through the American senate in the 2 weeks before Bush's presidential term came to an end on the previso that "we need to do it now and we need to do it urgently or the American economy will crash" - leaving no time to ask the necessary questions like 1) Do we nee to bail the banks out? 2) Are we even in a crisis?

It wasnt a bail out, it was a robbery perpetrated by a president at the end of his tenure. That's why the terms of the bail out ensured that no future decision could overturn the rule that the banks did not have to disclose where the money went.

This was not done by a lefty politician as you claim, but by George W. Bush, who as you can see on the political map above, is one of the most right wing politicians to have held an office in a major state in recent times.

So dont go blaming the bailout on the left, most lefties are already wanting a piece of Bush's face on their palm over the whole affair as it is.

Quote from P5YcHoM4N :

I am also more left wing than I thought, I've always put myself as slightly right wing.

Thats OK, left wing politicians have been having a similar problem for years :P.

Quote from Intrepid :

So everyone thinks their Noam Chomskyesque Socialist Libertarians. lol Which of course is a fallacy, it don't work.

And the right wing fascism that you extole has left the Western world all daisey fresh and lovely hasnt it?

Economic -5.75
Social -6.97

Left wing liberal tree hugging lesbian reporting for duty *salutes*. Let's go burn down some council offices...

Saw this thread pop up in my user control panel and thought it time to revisit how much i've achieved.

I havn't done the new game, the ideas and passion for it is still very much there but I don't think it will happen this year. My computer is still rubbish, so I still cant play LFS and so i've not taken the LFS broadcast league ideas any further either. Again it's still something I would like to do, "when the time is right".

I did go overseas again, in fact I did it in January by going to Amsterdam for some shopping in the sales. I've also got a trip to Germany penciled in for the end of the year. Ireland, Italy and New York will have to wait .

I still havn't decided whether to return to karting or not. I'm not quite in the position where I can afford it although I am out of the financial quagmire that plagued me in 2010. If things continue to improve then 2012 might be the year that sees the trophy collection finaly growing again.

A healthy payrise did happen, and the firm I work for is growing from strength to strength and i'm confident that i've been a large part of that success, so i'm going to keep at it and hopefully the next few years will bring the rewards I deserve.

So all in all, it's been a good year. I also moved house, and I love it here in the East Midlands. I've got beautiful views, a shorter drive to work which saves me £150 a month in diesel, and a medieval dungeon cinema in the making underneath my house.

Roll on the rest of the year, things are on the up.