Quote from Leprekaun :

Hi. I need some help. I've just finished Gran Turismo 5 Prologue (completed all 4 classes). At the end, got a notification that I have a super licence and that I would be eligible to only purchasing the F2007 which is quite aggrevating and not get the actual car, even if I got all gold. So, what I'm asking is, is there an easy way to getting the F2007 without having to do 100 races to get the 2 Mil.?

wow. i thought i was the only one. you what you do to get the F2007. YOU KEEP RACING!! YAY!! Have a beer! on GT4, I worked my way up to 11,000,000 to get the 4 secret black race cars just by racing. It isn't that hard, and it can be fun.

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

What is Guacemole anyway?

And how did you find how great a Veyron is?

And you do online school? We were gunna get this over in Britain but they gave up/forgot about it IIRC.

:jawdrop:I AM SURPRISED! It's a mexican chip dip made from salsa, avocado, lime or lemon, tomatoes, and sour cream. It's hard to make, but it tastes SOOOOOOO good if you do it right. It does look quite nasty if you picture it to be puke, but don't. For some reason though, I want some more. Also, I love it so much, I eat it by the spoonful! Also, online school is pretty cool, but if you completely depend on your social life to be at a maximum level, you wouldn't want to do it. What is cool about it though is you can end your school day whenever you want! sometimes, I never even go on it's so easy, and the teachers don't even care if you don't sign in. It's pretty cool though, it just gets lonely.

Quote from thisnameistaken :

Mmm guacamole.

Mmm refried beans!

They look good i guess.

NOTE: DAMN! Double posted again!

Quote from Thunderhead :

Likes:
-The fact that my GF had given me a *very* nice gift.
-The fact I'll most likely have the same gift tomorrow.

Dislike:
- I broke the index finger on my left hand.
- My DFP is dead.
- I had my phone stolen.
- My apartment is infested with cockroaches. Despite keeping it spotless.

well, sorry to hear that your dislikes sound suckish, but at least you got that "gift" from your GF.

Quote from theirishnoob :

why was i late ??


why where you early.

lol! that is funny

Quote: My favorite movie line, "ERIC!!!! OH, ERIC!!!! You are a God!!!(bows down and a short pause) A God I say!!!(bows down again). - Kelso (Ashton Kutcher), That 70's Show.

Quote from theirishnoob :

movie cars are generally rubbish, except mr beans mini, that was awesome



Get a life Btw.

thanks for the nice reply . you made me feel better :thumbsdow

Quote from thisnameistaken :

In case this helps: When I left school Thatcher was still in power, and unemployment was about as bad as it is now, especially bad in West Yorkshire where I grew up. Although we weren't about to enter an enormous recession, I suppose. My parents were poor so even if they'd wanted to help me out with money they couldn't have, but I managed. I was poor, but I got by on my own when I left home at 17.

You can do it if you want to, but it will be very hard. Especially in the current climate. You seem like you're a diligent sort though, so if I were you I'd concentrate on just finding full-time work whatever it is, and finding somewhere to live. Go to the council and talk to them about housing you - explain your home situation. They should put you on a waiting list for accomodation at the very least.

It sounds like it's time for you to move out, to me.

sorry can't! im still 16. My mom won't let me get a job because she thinks I won't be able to keep it. stupid!! My dad says it will make me a better man. Hopefully. She won't let me get a permit, because she thinks if I see a nice car, I'll drive off the road and kill myself, or my family. She is eating herself up in her own fear! either that, or she ruins my life just to have a good laugh about it.

Ok, yet another thread i have made , but this one people may like. What was your favorite car in a certain movie you have seen? Mine is Eleanor off of Gone In 60 Seconds, then maybe Takumi's AE86 off of Inital D. Whats your fav?

NOTE: Please don't spam up this thread. I have posted shit threads lately, and I am terribly sorry. Let's keep it clean, and have some fun with it, okay? Also, don't say, "Great, another Grip Driver thread," or, "Post whore!" Or any of that please! Just do what Hyde does off of That 70's Show, chill.

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

Likes:

-Nothing

Dislikes

-Life.
-Monday.

I am double posting again, but I am so sorry. Hope things turn for the better!

Quote: guacemole anyone?

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

Likes:
- Redheads
- Redheads
- did I mention Redheads?

Dislikes:

- School Tomorrow
-It's ****ing snowing
- I just tried netKar Pro and didn't kill myself. In fact, I actually found it to not suck as bad as I thought, all it needs is more content and to not take 4 years per patch (at this rate, it will take 388 years for Kunos to release netKar Pro 2.)

dude, snow is awesome! Well, here in Colorado anyway
Likes

• had a snowball fight with my friends in 50 degree weather.
  
• Got all I my schoolwork done.
  
• Had two burgers (homemade BTW. Never had one in like 6 months)
  
• My parents are gone for the evening
  
• My brother is gone for the evening
  
• Found out how great a Bugatti Veyron is.
  
• Learned some new stuff
  
• And i woke up this morning
  

Dislikes

• My friend perposly dropped my soccer ball (which should be called football) on my Ferrari F40 model.
  
• Got a 71% on my final exam for Science
  
• Found a dead spider in my bin which is right beside me (still haven't removed it because i HATE spiders)
  
• Got 3 dead arms
  
• I didn't get to sleep in even though I do online school.
  
• My brothers still owe me money
  
• My friend spray painted paper in my room (and he is still my friend... weird)
  
• a snowball hit me extremely hard in the butt.
  
• got my iPod taken away for no reason (thanks to my mom)
  

My week has sucked! Oh well, next week will be better.

Quote: Thinking about positives in your life can make your life go smoother.

Quote from Riders Motion :

Hi,

Since I got my PS3, something have been annoying me royally. All the TVs here are big ass TVs with standard definition so I basically can't read anything on my cellphone in GTA IV and GT5: P doesn't look as good as it could be.

I want to get a HD TV 1080p that would fit nicely in my room without being too expensive. I tought 32'' was nice since you can see quite ok from a good distance and they are under 1000$ so that looks alright for me.

So, what brand / size / thing should I know about HD TVs?

go 50" my friend Zack, he has a 110"

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

:hide:

I decided to make this thread because I'm feeling quite emo at the moment. Maybe some of yew guys can help me get my head back on straight.. spare the ****ish comments, please. I'd rather you said nothing. I don't need it. I need help and support, I don't care if it's not on my side, but whatever the problem is, I need some help sorting it out.

Not to mention a general lack of money, which I guess is inevitable, I'm feeling pretty shit on a personal level. A rather un-easy ending of the relationship between my ex GF and myself have me down, and for some time. We've been living our own lives for the last month or so, but it eats me up every day. We don't talk anymore and I can't even look at a picture of her, or listen to any of the songs that we liked.

Secondly, things are pretty shit at home. My Mother and I haven't ever really gotten on, we just don't mesh, but normally it's a bearable relationship, but as of late everything has gone haywired. Some of you may know I was, basically, made redundant from a previous job. For the last couple of months I've been giving up 18 hours a week for a measly £30 a week, + an odd £5 bonus for 'good behaviour' and maybe £5 to cover 45 miles of riding. I have insurance to pay and other bits that I want/need, money to go out with and generally enjoy life.

To be told by my Mother (who herself doesn't work, she's disabled but that's not really an excuse) that I should go out and get a job, even when there are actually none about in my area (I've resorted to applying at Burger King, perish the thought...) to buy my own food (even when she's told me it's "very hard to get a job nowadays), because I'm no fan of micro-meals. (I say "well why don't you spend the £1.99 on something I'd actually eat.. and then that's when she goes on about get a job yourself.)

I was washing my bike and lost my temper with her rather unfair comments, so in my anger as I bolted out the garage door, spilt half of my bucket of water on the floor. I refused to clean it up unless she appologised for her bitchy comments. She refused, so I did as well.

Yesterday, I rang my Dad (who I normally get on pretty well with) because he was paying for the fitting a component to my bike, and asked if he'd call me back. He said "Yes in a minute". For 45 minutes I made the chap at the dealer wait before my Dad rang me back. Eventually, he did. I could tell he was in a mood, he got angry at the man at the dealer and then turned on me. In my absence, my Mother had decided to call my Dad and complain about my 'behaviour'. He threatend to cancel my insurance direct debit (which I'm paying him for anyway, he never helps me with money anyway). I'm at the point where, honestly, I couldn't care.

Mainly, this was because I once walked upstairs in my boots and some oil went onto the carpet (This was some time ago), and just that morning I had to run back upstairs to get my key. I had my helmet, gloves and boots on and I didn't feel like taking all 3 off, so I quickly ran upstairs (and my boots were clean, I used chain-cleaner and WD-40 to remove any oil from the sole the first time it happened). My Mother bolted out of her room to only bitch at me. I told her to **** off and went off to my crappy training course. I wasn't in a good mood.

Anyway, the thing that annoys me is that everything I do, my mother has to interfere in someway. She always checks up on what I'm doing, always has to know. Example, I went to have a piss at 1.30am (I'm normally up that time on a weekend/weekday where I don't have to get up in the morning), and she came out of her room and was like "What are you doing". She knows damn well that it's me (her excuse was that she was seeing if it was someone else) and then to get angry at me when I tell her to mind her own. I don't check up on her, I don't expect nor want the same from her. If it's of any difference, I have 3 older sisters, all of them in their 20's or 30's. I'm the only "son" that my Mum's had and even she'd admitted when I was a newborn baby, that she wanted another girl and "I had to accept that it was a boy", as I overhead on the phone.

I've told her that it annoys me, many-a-times, and yet she never listens. She interferes in what I'm doing and then I get angry, so I end up taking it out on her. She moves my paperwork (I lost my paper driving licene, MOT and proof of insurance for 3 days because SHE moved it without telling me) about at her own will and never tells me where she moves it to. I'm running about looking for paperwork only for According to her, I bully her. Which is bull, frankly. Most of this last week I've been over my freinds house till 8 or 9pm, then as soon as I get home I just lock myself in my room.

All she does is watch the Jeremy Kyle show all day while making cards for people, with a ciggarrette break inbetween episodes (she says she can't afford to pay the bills but I found 120 cigarrettes stuffed in a kitchen cupboard while looking for a pair of Scissors...).

What pisses me off about her is how she just bullshits everything. She used to swear to me alot when I was younger (13-15), and now when I say something, she has to spell it out and act like she never says any of those things. It just really annoys me, because everyone believes her because she's rather posh in her talking. She also once said to me, sometime last year, that I was "a disgrace as a son". She strongly denies saying this, infact she denies everything I said that she said. And everyone believes her. So there's no use talking to any of my family. All of my sisters hate me because of the shit she's told them. My Mum plays everything out, makes a big fuss of everything when she's on the phone to them. Like one of our neighbours is buying our Kitchen Table, and I said that if she (my Mum) rang me I'd take an early lunch and come back to help carry it across. She was on the phone at the time, but I didn't shout over her conversation, nor was I overtly obvious. She does it to me all the time, I manage both conversations. But not her. "JAMIE CAN'T YOU SEE I AM ON THE PHONE, HOW RUDE". And I was trying to help. My sister says something, and my Mum goes "Oh this isn't the half of it".

I don't have a family any more.

Now, I know that it's not all her fault, and I'm not saying it is. As some of you may notice, I become quite rude and insensitive. I'm not rude in person, at least to people I meet out and about, or my freinds, but I'll admit I'm insensitive. I don't care much for alot of things, like nature, people I don't "know". (That's not to say I wouldn't help a person I met in the street, but if they died don't expect me to attend their funeral..)

But anyway, I'm quite happy to accept some of the blame. As with most things, it's probably 50/50. Sometimes I bite at her, and other times, her constant watch gets me going. The constant "omg you have got oil on the garage door", (even though I've shown her that it'll all come off with some WD-40 without a problem..) She refuses to take any blame, and says it's all my fault. She plans to find me a flat or something (don't know how, I can't afford to pay it and she can't either) and I have a feeling after this, my Dad won't be all that accomodating anyway.

I know all of these issues are pretty silly. But it really annoys me because I can't get any peace anywhere. It's nearly always constant bickering and what not.

I'm completly different with freinds/work colleauges than I am with my parents. I don't open up at all to my Mum, and while I'm more open with my Dad, I wouldn't talk to him about a personal problem, and neither of them know about my GF. (nor do I want them to) It seems that, for a reason I don't understand, I care more about stuff when I'm away from home (i.e at my work placement)

My Dad is like a really good mate, not like a "Dad", if you know what I mean.

My Mum is like a.. well.. a mother. And a knat. Annoying and always there.

Is it wrong to say you don't love your Mum? Because I don't. Then again, I don't really love anyone anymore.

Sorry for the immense wall of text. I just needed to let it out..

(I'm 17 btw, I live with my Mum, parents divorced when I was 6).

Yeah, i know exactly how you feel. It sucks, doesn't it? my mom said she hates talking to me. My dad is a really awesome guy. My mom, well, once you meet her, let's just say you will end up in a phyc ward because of so much fury and anger. She always has to win every conversation. It's annoying! She always says, "Don't talk back to me!" I love her as my mom, but she can be a real pain. At least she makes really awesome guacemole.

Quote from 5haz :

It is impossible to not upset women.

LOL! my mom is that way. Here is one personal secret I have, though. I guess it could also be considered a fact.

• I have never had a girlfriend.
  

I have had friends that were girls, but never a girlfriend. Pretty sad, huh?! LOL. Here is one true fact.

• Gasoline doesn't explode. The fumes is what combusts.
  

Leave an open bucket full of gasoline for a little while, and throw a match in. Nothing will happen. My dad said that, and he has worked on cars for 40 years now. insane huh?

Quote from pb32000 :

This thread is why I could never run a forum.

really? anyway, what would you rather have on a car. a turbo, or a supercharger?

Quote: Personal preferneces can sometimes end up costing you. Some people just need to accept what you like.

the flying monkeys stoll my car mirrors.

Last edited by GrIp DrIvEr, Sat 17 Jan 2009, 02:47.

Quote from Kalev EST :

• Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down -- hence the expression "to get fired"
  
• The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
  
• "Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
  
• The largest number of children born to one woman is recorded at 69. From 1725-1765, a Russian peasant woman gave birth to 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets.
  
• The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
  
• The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.
  
• On average, people who use their right hand live 9 years longer than people who use their left.
  

WOAH! cool! these are awesome facts.

• all the way up to this year, Bugatti has had 135 Veyrons delivered to customers already. But, a total of 300 are to be produced for this year.
  

also, create a Veyron here http://www.bugatti-configurator.com/

Quote from zeugnimod :

Step to the side.

ding ding! you got it. another one would be you move, you avoid it, or get out of the way.

Quote from MAD3.0LT :

lol not another one
i knew someone that put a truck turbo on a 4cyl and used nos to spool it but forgot to hook up the actuator and it blew a hole in the side of the block about right after starting it and nosing it. i think the explosion destoryed the piston and the conrod went through the side of the block tbh



my job keeping crappy threads alive

well, did it hit anyone? like this video, a piston blew out of a bike engine.

WARNING!! IT IS GRAPHIC!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2GLrZSTsI8


Quote: If a truck comes towards you, what do you do?

Quote from bmwe30m3 :

Grip Driver.
Have you ever seen this button?

Quote from MAD3.0LT :

wow thats a awesome botton i want one :P

ps my fact is

I HAS 3 LEGS

oooo... double posted again. shoot!

Did you know the lead singer of the band "Rise Against" has two different eye colors. His right eye is green, and his left is blue. I had a friend that had that, and he also had no pupil in his blue eye.

Quote from Klutch :

More torque = Faster spooling afaik

its why putting a massive turbo on a V8 can work, where as putting a massive turbo on a small 4cyl has trouble spooling it.

wow! never knew that!

Quote: I have to learn to do what is called "chill." To do it, if someone is saying a bunch of senseless words to you, just sit back, say "whatever," and keep sitting there. After you learn that, next up is ass kicking.

♣ <---- i got that from a different website. just wanted to see if it would work.

Felt like digging the random facts thread out instead of making one, having everyone not liking it and sucking, and then have a huge commotion over it. So, my new facts are

Did you know that...

• The hardest thing to say to someone is, "I'm sorry."
  
• Bill Gates is so rich, that if there was a $500 dollar bill on the sidewalk, it would waste him time just to bend down and pick it up.
  
• The clothes and game consoles you have are actually made by children who have been enslaved by companies over in Asia.
  

One stupid one

Did you know that...

• I make stupid threads!!
  

OOOOOMMMMMG!!!!!!! Shocking isn't it?

Quote: Some people might not accept the way they are. So to make themselves better, they take out their anger on people who feel great about themselves. I find myself doing that at times

Quote from G!NhO :

PLEASE DONT POST .BMP IMAGES

jpg please

ok. otherwise, does it look okay or not?

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

So I got pissed off at my bike today, and as I was putting the seat back on (which is secured with a metal bracket which screws into place with a 10mm hex-headed nut), I wasn't really paying attention. I believe I have cross threaded it, or worse, stripped the threads completly..

It's as far down as it will go, by that I mean there's no gap between the flange thing of the nut and the bracket, however I cannot undo it, nor can I tighten it further. It'll spin, going from tight to loose in 360 degrees. It gets tight at roughly the same point and becomes loser at pretty much the same point. (by tight and loose, I mean the resistance to being turned, from being able to be turned by hand to requiring a socket)

My seat is on securely enough, however I now can't get it out because it just spins. I've tried using a pair of random pliers I found in a dusty tool-chest to twist and pull but to no avail (maybe some decent pliers may help). This is somewhat worrying because, firstly, I plan to remove the crappy power restriction which was fitted today, and secondly, access to the battery is under the seat, along with access to the engine and basically every other part you'd need to service.

I've attached an image to help clarify. Any help would be appreciated.

mmmhmm. sounds like you did strip it. Let me ask my dad. He is so filled with mechanic wisdom, that if he gave some away, it wouldn't matter to him. BTW, if your bike is your avatar, sweet bike man! Is it a Honda? Or Kawasaki? How about Suzuki?

Quote: Did you know that Bill Gates is so rich, that if he saw a $500 dollar bill on the sidewalk, he would waste so much time and money just by picking it up?

Quote from PAracer :

They don't have LFS on the island...

hahahahaha lol!

Note: I'm starting off by doing my own little quotes uder my messages now.

Quote: The saying goes, "Sticks and bones can break my bones, but words will never hurt me." That is false. One slip of the tongue, and you could be alone and miserable. Still, the hardest phrase to say is, "I'm sorry." Say that to others you hurt, and your life will be a lot better.