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nihil
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No question - Fern Bay Green reversed. Its always been immensely fun, especially the back section: uphill from the esses, a small kink, then grit-your-teeth for the left turn in - get it wrong and you scrape that huge wall... I could go on, but you know the course. Its way more fun reversed than in the other direction. I'm happy with Fern Bay Gold in either direction: well suited to the GTi.

I know its going to be against the grain, but Westhill reversed too has always provided really fast and close racing for the GTi.

Aston Cadet is a banger racing track - only fun if you want to do full contact racing. Aston Club I could live with though. But I'd prefer any of the longer Aston circuits.... (except Aston National...)

Kyoto National is really good too.
nihil
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Fox hunting in the UK has never been about hunting, pest control, or any of those other excuses they use. Its a ritual reminder of who owns who. You should have driven right through the bunch of them, reminded them and their assembled collaborators that the majority of us see their moribund tradition for what it is.
nihil
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Quote from thisnameistaken :I always liked the Renault 5 GT Turbo. I don't know if it was any good or not, but I liked it when I was a little kid.

Used to have one of those... Most fun car I've ever driven, probably because of its imperfections. The turbo was very laggy and if you misjudged a corner, you'd find yourself in a space devoid of acceleration at the apex. Then, all of a sudden, a rush of movement would attempt to twist the steering wheel out of your hands as the front wheels dragged you tighter into the direction you were pointing them.

But keep on top of that and it was a great little car.
nihil
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Quote from t1ger :Your thoughts?


Is sending everyone time, place, date, and the centre's contact number a bit optimistic?

Anyway, I have my car back [still looking at the bill with a sense of existential despair....], so it looks like I'll be driving from South London. If that works out and anyone wants to share in a tank of diesel, let me know nearer the time.
nihil
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Quote from danowat :Just picked up on this thread,

Yeah, me too... haven't read the entire thread yet, but notice that the car designer is posting, so just wanted to say: Hello! Been watching the build on your site for a while now and loved being able to follow it from initial thoughts, through the CAD stages, and on to the tribulations of making it real. Thanks for all of that. As entertaining as it is informative.

nihil
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Guiness Foreign Extra Stout... Mmmmmm. Brewed in Nigeria and 8% alcohol by volume. Honestly, I can't drink in any great quantity these days, so I genuinely drink for the taste. This stuff really is better tasting than the bottled Guiness we usually get from the offy. Even when slightly warm...
nihil
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Quote from Viper93 :RWD =) RWD =) RWD =)

Ditto!
nihil
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Do you know what? I've seen a great deal of stuff in my time and have come to believe that I'm unshockable...


.....but my stomach just did a somersault.

I have to ask: is that story for real?!
nihil
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Nicely detailed (with the hand print on the rear three-quarter). Made me laugh, so no, not offensive.
nihil
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Quote from Vain :I don't use driver aids

At which point someone posts to request that the developers provide server scripts to determine whether someone is sitting in a room lit by a fluorescent tube or a genuine, heated filament light bulb. The quality of light is warmer from a bulb, but the low wattage of a fluorescent tube gives a significant economic advantage, and the poster would like to race against people in similarly lit rooms.
nihil
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Quote from Ian.H :

At least I'm consistent


Why do you give a toss?
nihil
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Quote from Vain :More LFS-specific:
At least two people will add that light bulbs are rice, and that only stupid drifters use them.

LOL - a twelve year old to post about wanting a halogen bulb for S3 and a middle-aged man to state that 60W omni-directional bulbs are what LFS is mostly used for and anything else is subjective exhibitionism and not in any way a true lighting method.
nihil
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Oh, and it also needs someone to post something long and startlingly illiterate in multicoloured fonts.
nihil
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Seven to argue that the current standard of light bulbs are not bright enough, three to claim they have "Change the light bulb please" bound to F6, five more to retort that they hate seeing these binds online, and a further random smattering of comments about how this is "political correctness gone mad!" and if they see a dim light bulb they'll gladly smash it...
nihil
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Quote from sgt.flippy :I wonder what would have happend if that convertible bug flipped!

Maybe this has been posted before:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWp-0TuY4Sk&NR

(...it's worth another post anyway), but watch the mini (no rollcage) get pulverised, followed by the commentators rather jaunty observations. They built 'em hard in those days! So I guess the cabriolet's passengers would have just dusted themselves down and thumbed a lift!
Adenauer Forst & Tumbling Beetles from the Seventies
nihil
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http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=640695539059738855

Great fun! Look especially for a Beetle that dumps its driver out of the door and into the gravel, and a cabriolet that tap dances through the gravel without dumping any of its full complement of passengers.
nihil
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Ugly. Really, really ugly....

If they were going to spend 8 million dollars, you'd think they might spend a little of it on design, rather than fleecing a few hard-up design students of spare ideas.
nihil
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Quote from Bob Smith :I bloody hope we won't be driving GTRs at AS National.

Don't even add AS national to the poll... Please....

Forgot to vote for a road car, would prefer RWD...
nihil
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Quote from Bladerunner :It qualifies as a cover, but it isnt funny...it's bloody great!!

Someone with more time on their hands than I have should do a multitracked version of all the Smoke on the Water covers on Youtube...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1Rbd1IYBMI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzVKy-ER5X4

Oh, there's loads of them....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcskbMviEwQ
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nihil
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Couple of classics:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mzHbY_ikoE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGSEFahc2ys

The Ramones playing Motorhead's R.A.M.O.N.E.S. (with Lemmy joining in... )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ponhgg5MnfM

Pure class....
nihil
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Quote from jamesrowe :
When the days come of battle when computers fly the planes, human errors will be a bit less in the battle field

I'm presuming the smiley means thats a joke, otherwise I'd have to respond that the words "paperless office" are completely inaudible these days due to the amount of paper that acts as sound-proofing in every office I've seen.
nihil
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Skull Alcoholic - Solar Anus

2CD collection - the first cd I shall be using as a coaster from now on, but the second.... Note to my neighbours: I shalll be playing this all afternoon. Louder each time.
nihil
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Quote from Gunn :I never said Hip Hop was good or bad, I'm not sure why you bring it up.
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Cause I later edited my post to signal that I'd re-read your post and seen that you make a differentiation...

I can identify musicianship in songs that I despise, but it is meaningless to me. I have no reason to appreciate it - there are lots of hard working people in the world and just because someone works to integrate various musical constituents, it doesn't make their music necessarily worth anyone's time.

Of course popular doesn't mean good. I am a fan of some of the most unpopular music on the planet (I listen to Merzbow the way some people listen to Erik Satie... Mind you, I listen to Satie quite a bit too). But even bad dance music is preferable to virtuoso, but dull musicianship.
nihil
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Haven't bothered reading the entire thread - the posts on this page give me a bit of the flavour....

I'll nail my colours to the mast here and say that I'm a vehement critic of US foreign policy and of the cavalier way the Bush administration approached this war. Its just a shocking example of ideology ruling, no... stamping all over rationality.

But all the same, I have to say that I feel for those pilots. I think they were let down in the field. From the video it was clear that they did everything possible to verify the target from their position. They clearly indicated that the target was a possible friendly, but were told that it wasn't possible.

Something broke between them and their ground support. That's where any investigation should be looking.
nihil
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(speaking as someone who owns a spring reverb that reputedly used to belong to Dave Gilmour... I know this means nothing, but neither do X years of musicianship qualify anyone as a critic... )

Quote from Gunn :
While Pink Floyd will never be everyone's cup of tea from a taste point of view, musically they deserve all the praise they recieve.

And all the criticism. Like you say, that Waters geezer did all the moaning and whining that you accuse Rap artists of and more. The Wall was tedious and pretentious and nearly responsible for getting me thrown out of a Norwich cinema for a public order crime. Once the mercurial Syd Barret left, Floyd only had a couple of albums left in them.

Hip Hop/Rap isn't as simplistic as you seem to think, (interesting to note that you differentiate between rap and hip hop...) but it is a genre. I grant you that... its dance music so consequently, musical novelty is a lower priority than booty shaking sociability. Its precisely this lack that makes later Floyd largely irrelevant. Watch out: contentious statement coming! Interstellar Overdrive is booty music.
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