Put some aside for a house (actually, one of those nice flats in Cardiff Bay), a new PC, a Mazda MX5 (with some aside for a Ferrari later ), Sennheiser HD650s with amp, Playstation 3 and HDTV... Keep the rest and live off 30 or 40 grand a year. And turn my current Fiesta into a track car and take it racing.

Thanks very much

2580 is a ripoff btw

Quick question- does anyone recognise the music on this Richard Burns Rally video?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... lity%20prmm%200.5%20pr0.5

Lake/Peak District? I still have your(?) panorama as my desktop wallpaper.

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Considered Used?

Sometime in the future... £120 to £250 is too big a jump right now.

Thanks for the replies about the hybrid camera

Mcintyrej: I looked at the D40 but it's £300. I will move into DSLR photography at some point, but as a poor student the £120 Fuji's price/performance ratio is what drew me to it.

SamH: Hehe, don't worry- the looks of the Fuji are simply an added bonus and not the main reason I chose it

Strobe: You're absoloutely right, I realise lens changes are part of a dSLR's appeal but right now all I want is a wide range of shooting options without being tempted to spend even more on different lenses!

Nice car on its own, but I wouldn't want the FXO to turn into one of those slow, modern cars with more focus on knobs and buttons than driveability.

Not possible. Besides, - seems to be keeping himself occupied on the Oval Starters server right now...

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What I don't get is how the postmen expect the country to be sympathetic to their cause when their way of protest is by screwing us.

I'm in the market for a new camera and 'hybrid/bridge' cameras have recently caught my eye as an alternative to a pricy DSLR.

http://www.trustedreviews.com/ ... Fujifilm-FinePix-S5700/p1

This camera seems to be my perfect choice. The only advantage DSLRs have over this seems to be faster shots and even better picture quality, but they're hugely expensive, require different lenses and don't have video modes so I'm willing to take the drop in image quality. These hybrid cameras also have SLR-style looks and a huge range of manual options.

Because self-made transfers always have a sort of different-colour-to-the-shirt border around the edge which really gives it away.

The porn spam seems to be an unfortunate side effect of Youtube these days.

Sato ftw! Who else would drive out of the pits in flames and be lucky enough to have the rain put the fire out?

Best race of the season, easily

To the OP: Plug the hard drive into another PC and retrieve the data. Odds are, the drive is dying but right now all that's broken is the bit with Windows on. I've done this more times than I care to count, your data probably isn't lost yet.

Not much of a plot, but the usual brilliant Tarantino dialogue and the chase at the end made it plenty watchable. Oh, and the lapdance scene! Pulp Fiction is still best though.

Mmmm... HDTV... *goes starry eyed*

Good job, I always find it hard to make car stories interesting but you managed it. The level of technical detail isn't too much imo. Tidy up the spelling/grammar and you're there.

Mazda MX5?

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Rise of the Robots?

Damnit, I didn't even play the game as a kid but the box art gave me nightmares of huge robots coming into my room!

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How is this for a swindle?
A 'student' I know has:

A *VALID* *.ac.uk e-mail address
They are in FULL TIME education.
They have valid PROOF that they are a full time student..


So why da f*** cant they have this package??

Sorry, I don't follow. Why can't they have the package?

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Wow thats shocking, you'd get more than that on the dole.

What sucks in in Scotland and Wales they still have grants instead of loans AFAIK. And the govt. wonders why higher education numbers are dropping in England.

They give grants in exceptional circumstances. But these days the norm is a £2500 per year loan. They give £4k to people living away but that barely covers rent.

Porsche front, Ferrari back.

Cardiff for the capital of the entire UK!

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No Offence to anyone, but seriously. London deserves to burn. Like 14million people like there. Thats more than the populations of Wales, Nothern Ireland, Iceland , Norway, and the Isle of Man, put together.... in 1 CITY? London is not New York, but still, America is big enough to Harbour a city that big, the UK isn't.

Agreed. London is an overpopulated, polluted, ugly s***hole IMO. I don't see the appeal personally. I mean, there's not even one decent transport option (except the DLR, which doesn't cover much of the place anyway).

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Its the North South Divide. We have 2 different Cultures. Thats why, southerners think London is cool, whereas most people above the divide, seem to like Scotland and Wales more

I think you just found a southerner who much prefers Wales to London

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Now I'm almost a damn minority in my own country!

Are you sure you didn't mean to post that in the Daily Mail forums?

InSim (or is it OutGauge) causes the firewall to complain when using CSR and that's on the same machine!