Quote from Mackie The Staggie :

and Jenny (my weak point is ginger ladies)

are you sure your not gibbs ?

not to mention zeva who although she's not my normal type has a certain charm, just rather scary if you upset her

Quote from Migz :

Well thats because the iphone isnt designed for someone who wants to be taking pictures all the time, the iphone is more like a PDA. A phone like the Sony Ericson C902 is for taking photos.

exactly which is why im not interested plus a phone is also for making phone calls and O2 are sh~t round here for coverage and their nearest 3g coverage is 25 mins away.don't get me wrong, i'm not one of those who knock it just because they think it's cool to do so, the iphone has a lot of good features and if it was on a network that provided reception (not even bothered about 3g) i probably would have one and carry a camera as well but at the moment the iphone fails for me on its core ap, making and more importantly recieving bloody phone calls without having to be in a specific location.


did i mention O2's service is carp round here ?

Does my girlfriend have the right to play with my S2 ?

only if she lets you play with her 2

Quote from tristancliffe :

If you have to go to Goodwood, buy some 'period' clothes and get to the Revival meeting.

according to my step daughter i've already got the clothes

goodwood is a bit of a drag for me but i'll be revisiting the pagean tof power in july at cholmondely http://www.cpop.co.uk/

good fun, a chance to see some nice cars, bikes, boats, helicopters and tanks (?) and see some old friends from when i lived near there

Quote from MAGGOT :

I think NCIS actually has a few references to some of Mark Harmon's older shows (he's the guy that plays Gibbs, right? I can't recall off the top of my head).

NCIS is one of the few shows on TV I actually like, and watch if I'm at my folks' place.

i cant help thinking that they have hit a winning formula with NCIS, mark harmon (voted sexiest man in the world in 1980s) and david mcallum ( most fan mail ever recieved by a tv star whilst he was in man from uncle), talk about nailing the middle age and older female viewing figures.

helps of course that its well written and has a nice line in humour mixed in with some dark story lines.

only reason i mentioned it is that on moday night on the BBC's one show david mcallum was being interviewed and a lot was made of his "man from uncle days".

by chance that night on FX channel's rerun of series 2 of NCIS gibbs was asked what duckie looked like when he was young and replied

" Illya Kuryakin"

a simple line but great writing

no

sorry but iphone has a couple of serious issues for me, namely i like to take photos so the fact i have a camera with me in my phone is important. and even the new version of the iphone just anounced is less than half the quality of my current phone's camera. also in the UK the iphone is with O2 which is really usefull for me as they have no coverage where i live, where i work or where my girlfriend lives.

thats the trouble with offers, there's always a better one appearing soon. thing is if you wait for the better offer you'll never get anything as you'll always be waiting

Quote from 5haz :

I can see there being a scandal similar to the 'MP expenses claims' scandal in F1 somewhere down the line.

think of the size of duck island mclaren could put in the lake at their HQ or is that a moat?

it'll be interesting how people make sure the costs are allocated properly, both ferrari and mclaren have road car operations that use the same facilities to some extent.

dont have much hope for hamilton doing anything this race unless they've made a big step in sorting their problems. at least now its apparent why he was so slow in turkey, apparently the rear downforce stalls above a certain speed and effectively means that they have less rather than more downforce when they go faster than this point. hence at T8 in turkey, hamilton cornering speed was 9 mph slower than the force india. the problem is that the stalling could be caused by almost any single aero part of the car and with the restrictions on testing etc it's going to be a nightmare to solve. the good news of course is that once it is found and solved the car will become substantially faster.

what i find interesting is how on earth they came up with this figure and expect teams to be able to benefit from the proposed breaks on rules when you have force india saying it will amount to a 33% cut in their expenditure and williams saying they will have to lay off 350 workers to meet the target. williams and force india aren't big teams by todays standards so what chances are there of the new teams running to a similar standard of engeneering to what we currently see ? or are we going to se teams trying to save money and then pullint out of races because of simple parts breakages / shortages etc.

also cosworth seem to be making a big point of stating that they haven't confirmed they will be in F1 next year despite the new entrants naming them as engine supplier

i don't normally like races being decided by fuel but that was a brilliant finish

Quote from ACCAkut :

LOL at the Corvette team pulling the car in garage, not to repair, but to clean it Commentary: "They're quite proud team ya know"

I remember the works porsches at daytona coming into the pits to change all the body work they could to make them clean for the finish, washing the rest and replacing all the decals before going out for a formation 1 2 3 finish.

also one year at le mans they had a perfect run for the lead car until at the last pit stop all the comentators got excited as they stopped and raised the rear bodywork. after making sure they had been noticed, they lowered the body work, turned and bowed to the crowd before sending the car on its way.

mind you in those days you could have decent size pit crews on the cars without going into the garage, think their record for the 936 was fill tanks, change driver, wheels and front brake pads in under a minute !

cant help feeling that it was typical french car driving with the peugeot and the audi with the steering problem appeared to have had its PDI by our local dealership

eurosport 1 and 2 alternates

had a really strange dream last night, hamilton was challenging button for the lead at silverstone with murray walker comentating when they all stopped whilst a giant dog sniffed the cars with murray's voice going supersonic describing it

result of watching an advert when i've had a few to drink

Quote from boothy :

Knockhill + Legends = best combo ever.

someone should send them some footage as they always seem to be brilliant on motors tv.

of cours eif they're going to scan a track for legends they may as well do the track the european distributor uses as a base as well, nothing to do with it being my local track honest

maybe prodrive and Dave Richards are paying the price for being a touch critical of the FIA over how the WRC is run and the media rights

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interesting idea, 2 doors on right side, 1 on left and 2 rear doors equals five in total. i suspect that would only count as a 4 door but if it didn't whats to stop a company making a mad car where a 2 door shell has the drivers door modified to open like the RX8's doors and for the passenger door to also have a gull wing element? that would be 5 doors in a 2 door shell

havent watched there for about 20 years, keep saying i'll make an effort as i miss it.

Quote from JO53PHS :

So now I can test drive my flashing plantpot prior to purchase

now thats a line you don't hear very often

Quote from JO53PHS :

As far as I know somebody is making a combined harvester pram

team wurzel ?

Quote from deggis :

(Must be photoshops)

two more examples of bloat creaping into car design, i know they have to meet pedestrian safety regs but if you look at either of those next to their 1990 s equivilent, its amazing just how much larger they have become. put a mk1 golf next to the latest one or the new scirocco next to the mk1 or 2 and its like looking at two different classes of car. the one thing that really p*sses me off is that cars like the scirocco are trying to project themselves as sporting cars and trade on the names herritage yet that very sportiness is compramised by their weight and bulk which requires more power and computer trickery to overcome which add even more weight. i was following a new car last week on a dual carriageway (sorry cant remember which model , may have been a mid range seat) and was struck by the fact that it wa almost as high and wide as the mk1 discovery it was passing.

traditionally we europeans have always laughed at the size of US cars yet as they're getting smaller ours are getting larger. in case anyone feels im picking on vw group i'd also say try putting a new clio against the original renault 5 or a new astra against the original mk1. each replacement model has been slightly bigger than the one it replaced, partly due to reg changes and partly due to needs of marketing so the customer can feel they are upgrading every time with more equipment etc. like eating a box of chocolates, each individual chocolate doesnt add much to your waist line but over the years repeated boxes of chocolates result in your wasteline becoming larger and larger. its like discovering that the slim 18 year old you fancied now wears size 18

Quote from Greboth :

I like the advert but I am going to say a bad thing Am I the only person who doesn't like the look of the Audi R8?

no i dont like its looks either, to me the front looks like a few different styling clues forced to work together, the side vents look clumsy and the differing colour vertical that is used to make them a feature just makes the car look top heavy, the glasshouse profile if you take that vertical away look like a homage to a 911 as does that of the TT and overall the car looks like a bloated TT ( in fact given how cars grow generation by generation its a good bet the TT in 2025 will be about the R8s size)

it's a cracking car though and no doubt far more capable than a ferrari but ferrari's look more refined (and i will be the first to admit i don't like ferraris ) but to be honest the R8 reminds me of the detomaso pantera in the 70's, a car that was as quick as a ferrari but with no heritage and little delicacy , or the vector where technology and huge power meant it had to be better no matter how it looked.

what will be interesting if to see if the R8 and its succesors will stay at its current pricing level (assuming they continue ) or will they follow ferrari and lambourghini and become relativly more expensive, when i first got interested in cars the 308 and the 911 were fairly evenly matched on price, today the same cant be said for their direct succesors, the f 430 and the er 911