Something up with youtube? I can't get any to load, nor can I get any of my subscribed videos to load.

Over here, the DSi and the PSP are both $169. I just bought my daughter a DSLite for $129.

You guys pay a pile of money for a stupid little hand held DS and your xBox is extremely cheap. xBox here is still $400, way too much money. The large consoles should be the ones that are $169 and the hand held junk should be dirt cheap.

Quote from senn :

Remember this?

Yes, but post Comodore 64 as the C64 was my girlfriend's sisters computer, my girlfriend and I bought our first computer with GeoWorks on it, of which Geos for the C64 was the predecessor.

Quote from kingfag :

Or real model flying with video goggles:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... Urtpc&feature=channel

It's an Esky lama coaxial helicopter, very easy to fly. And it's cheap, about $80 ready to fly.

Tis what I meant. Flying RC with video goggles.

Quote from greg_slideways :

Just bought a 88 civic, 1.5L 5spd.

http://s194.photobucket.com/albums/z44/greg_slideways/Civic/
(Picture album)

The story goes, this car was left at a freinds house and abandoned, he decided he had enough of it so asked anyone if they wanted it? I said I would give him $500 for it and now its mine! All I need to do is get an abandonment title, and im set to start cruising!

I saw "88 civic" then clicked on the link without reading any more. I thought after looking at the pictures, "I hope you didn't pay any more than $500 for that heap...." then read the rest of your post.

Quote from Shotglass :

i was cinsidering using the space for a oil temp and pressure gauge just to be sure the engine wont die on me

It's a Toyota, probably the brand to least worry about the engine dying on ya.

Use to fly a little beginner pusherprop until it nosed in the ground once too many times. I need to get some proper radio gear before I jump back into it again. That AM stuff on the RTFs sucks.

Flying from your back porch rocks.

What I would love to do is the virtual flying with video goggles.

Quote from DarkTimes :

There is no justification or reason to own a car, and if you think you have one, you're deluding yourself.

Ok, here you go.....

Me: My justification to own a car is to get to work.

You: Just walk or ride a bike to work.

Me: I live too far to walk or ride a bike. Nor do I want to walk or ride a bike in -18 F temperatures in 24 inches of snow for 20 miles in the winter and walk or ride 20 miles in 105 F temperatures in the summer.

You: Move closer to work.

Me: Housing costs are far to great to move closer. Cost would be why I live where I live. If one can barely afford where they are now, how would you expect one to afford somewhere where the cost is twice or more as much.

You: Get a job closer to where you live.

Me: There is no where closer. Work is in town, whether that town is 20 miles south, 20 miles north, 20 miles east, or 20 miles west.

Any more DarkTimes? I'm having fun arguing with you

Car much bigger than person
Person has right-of-way over car
If car hits person, person damaged very badly, car very little

Even though a pedestrian has the right-of-way, don't you think it is wise for the pedestrian to pay attention and not just blindly ignore the car thinking "I have the right-of-way, I am an indestructible pedestrian.."

I don't care if I have the right-of-way or not, I know that if I was to be hit by a car, it would hurt. Therefore I pay attention and watch for traffic before crossing a street no matter who has the right-of-way.

You can't compare like this. My car is strictly a work commuter. I have driven the same road, the same speed, the same way, and the same 20 miles to work and 20 miles home for 2 years now. I fill up with fuel at either the Exxon down the road from home or the Exxon near work. I put about 10,000 miles on the car per year, so 20k miles for the 2 years. I can get anywhere from 20 mpg to 26 mpg on any given tank. That's a difference of $0.10x per mile at 20 mpg and $0.80x per mile at 26 mpg. $0.20 per mile difference driving the exact same route the same way every day.

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Damn this is extreme, just fill your facking car up and drive. Your as bad as my grandma walking around Asda trying to get all the reduced deals.

I agree. What's even worse than your grandma walking around Asda trying to get the deals is people who drive all over the place to different stores to save a few pennies on an item. You can easily put an extra 15 miles on the car, which for me would be about $1.50 in fuel, just to save $0.05 on a loaf of bread, $0.15 on a gallon of milk, and $0.03 on a pound of lunchmeat.

Last edited by mrodgers, Sun 8 Mar 2009, 03:57.

Perhaps as in, don't recommend an Opel or similar, something available in the US.

If you want absolute reliability, find yourself a Toyota pickup truck from the pre-Tacoma models. Something with less than 120,000 miles and the 22RE motor and you have reliability for years to come, even longer if you change the oil sooner than every 50,000 miles.

Toyota pickup truck maintenance schedule:

Rancho RS5000 shocks on all 4 immediately
Front brake pads every 50k
Rear brake shoes every 150k
Centerforce clutch or Toyota heavy duty clutch replacement at 150k
Change oil whenever you feel like it.

Should be good to go with that maintenance schedule. Stick some BFG rubber on it when you get the Ranchos and you will go anywhere your heart desires.

Ha ha! You all have fun cleaning your sensors. I'll sit here happily shooting and shooting my superzoom while you clean, hehehe.

Quote from th84 :

I remember 'C is for Cookie' By the Cookie Monster. And yes, it is good enough for me.

Geez, how old do you people consider a 'child'?

I thought the same.

This definitely beats out "C is for Cookie".

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

Charity = **** off.

Especially organised charities such as this one, and the one with that stupid Pudsey bear..
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To be honest, and I know I'll probably get shouted at by someone for saying this, but the "western" (modernized) world is in enough shit as it is. Most people are losing their jobs/taking pay cuts etc, meaning people can't feed their families or/and live a comfortable life with some luxuries.

And yes, I've read your mind. You are thinking "Well these starving Ethiopians can't even afford to eat or to go to school, everyone deserves equal rights".

Well, do they? I mean, if I was kicked out of this house (wouldn't surprise me), what charity would I get? Being a British citizen would mean **** all. I'd either have to live on the streets or hope another member of my family would put me up temporarily.. If I moved to Africa the whole world would run to donate to homeless kids.. (and I'd be included in that, if you see what I mean)

Now, the WHOLE WORLD decides to chip in and help a bunch of people in Africa, which, pardon me for being rude/stereotypical/ignorant, are very unlikely to get anywhere in life anyway, (or they wouldn't have gotten stuck in the hole they were in) with money that we as a Global Economic Enterprise don't have ourselves.

It's not the charity part that gets me so much, often if there's a little box at the Supermarket or a lady collecting change at the exit, if I got 20p or something I'll chuck it in there. What does get me is what some of these charity things have become, such as Red Nose Day, Children in Need and the like.

We have thousands of children in our own countries that are being abused, beaten up, malnourished, harassed by their parents. Do we help them? No, not in this way. Sure, we have things like NSPCC but do they get millions and millions of £/$ from global contribution efforts? I think not..

Now, I realise I may be ranted a bit by now, but to me it just seems that the world at large hasn't got it's priorities right.. what's so special about these 'charities' that deserve them becoming so annoying for a a couple of weeks or so, when we have plenty of charitable issues in our own countries that get, comparitvely, no attention.

You sure you don't live over here in the US?

Starving kids in Africa? You mean in 30 years since they were bugging my parents to donate to "feed the starving kids in Africa" they can't learn to grow food? Sure, go donate $5 or whatever currency. $4.98 goes towards "administrative costs" and the other $0.02 goes to the starving kid. That'll help him.

Want me to donate $5 to feed a kid for a week? Fly my fat ass over there and I'll hand the kid my $5 myself, that way I am sure he gets it.

Not a big fan of too wide of an angle here, but those indeed are good. The 3rd shot appears that maybe you were changing the focal length while taking the shot? And the last one is very sharp. That's my biggest problem with equipment right now is sharpness, it's even more of a problem I think than the limited aperture range with my cheapie camera.

And thanks for the votes. It's not a real photo contest unfortunately, basically just a popularity contest of who can beg more people to click for the vote, LOL. I do have not only family, but a collection of friends on some sim racing forum (if you call them friends, muhahaha) and folks on a photography forum clicking votes for me, hehe.

I live on a dead-end road, so I think I'd be the official drag strip.

Just tried Scawen 6 times.

Results:
Can't remember the first one
Osama bin Laden
Bill Gates
The Google guy
Osama bin Laden again
Daniel Negreanu (world poker player)

LOL

And I got Scawen listed on the last 10 games played! Whoohoo!

Edit: You guys have been saying he is NOT internationally famous? He is with us!

Last edited by mrodgers, Thu 5 Mar 2009, 01:55.

Cool, my photo is up on the site now. You all can feel free to click that link and vote for my phote! Hehehe

I remember Dad bringing home a big stack of these huge sheets of cardboard for us kids. We spent an afternoon cutting them into strips for roads and "painted" them up with magic markers with road lines. We had roads all over the house for our Hot Wheels cars.

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

at the last pictures.

However, yes - These are real pictures.

I'd have a pet chicken so long as I could make it stay yellow and fluffy.

But once they are past the yellow and fluffy stage, they are quite tasty!

We had 10 yellow fluffy little chickens. After the yellow fluffy stage we ate 5 of them and ate the unfertilized offsprings of the other 5

Spiderman - correct
Dracula - correct
Jeff Gordon - wrong (it guessed Mike Modano, center for Dallas Stars, NHL)
Sydney Crosby - correct

Quote from danowat :

To me, life is all about risks, you risk your life everytime you step out your front door, into your shower etc etc, so I definately wouldnt let it stop me going somewhere I want to go.

Yup, I too live with risk every single day. I don't have time to eat breakfast then take a shower, thus I bring the toaster into the shower with me and make my toast for breakfast. Livin life in the fast lane...

http://www.usatoday.com/news/o ... /2004-09-21-speeder_x.htm

140 mph over the 65 mph speed limit

I don't have that many anymore. I have kids, so of course there are some floating around the house. My youngest confiscated my small leftover collection. My rubber tired AC Cobra is now destroyed from the sandbox.

I use to have the "68 Custom Camaro" of which I had heard that was the very first Hot Wheels car produced. To think that my parents spent hundreds on the little cars and my collection today would have been worth thousands and thousands. I had them in a very large box in the garage when my parents decided they needed to be given away because I was too old to play with them. They gave away a fortune for nothing.

Now it all starts to make sense of why you Brits think all our roads are straight and flat. Interstate-80 running through Illinois is quite a wide, flat, and straight road with it's 4 lanes in each direction. 8 lanes is a lot of road .

I just submitted to my first photo contest. It's just for a toy company and they want photos with bubbles in it. Here's the other entries so far - click.

I guess I have to wait until mine is approved as it's not listed yet. First prize is $1000 gift card to Target, in which they have a selection of Nikons up through the D300 and a lesser selection of Canon XT and XS.

I don't normally toss photos of my own kids up on the net, but here is the one I submitted of my youngest Emma....



And since I have my youngest one out there now, may as well show off my photo skills with my oldest Lauren....