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Brosnan for me... managed to walk the fine line between being serious and keeping the humor going.

just from personal experience - the Citereon C3, its like driving a blamonge thats being carried away by some ants. You don't get anywhere in a hurry no matter what you do with your feet, it'll sometimes stop on its own and it wobbles around so much that any taking of corners is more likely random chance than any driver input!

Looks a good buy to me! 74k is nothing on a scooby - and the rebuild sounds like it was done purely for power reasons rather than anything else. Insurance on it will be high with that level of mods but it'll be one hell of a beast!

having now read this thread all I can say is at least my initial comment back in the "Who's Who" thread seems to have paled into insignificance *phew*

yeah petite is good... and I'll definately agree that curves are good! no stick insects please! all though may I add... :wrthless:

Never say never but if you asked me right now I'd have to say no... not that my Octy is a BAD car - it has many, many decent qualities (although I must say that I have been very disappointed by the build quality). On the whole it has done what I bought it for and I cant grumble at the amount of car I got for my money but nine times out of ten I can probably find a car I'd rather have for my budget.

change doctors... some of them are proper useless! My old one told he that he "wouldnt have event bothered strapping it" as regards my then broken colllarbone. His only advice was "not to do any heavy lifiting". Told me if I wanted a second a opinon to go to A&E so I did. They were horrified at what he had told me! Also he completely missed my Dad's (ultimately fatal) brain tumor!

why stop it? sounds like a perfectly good outlet for natural suggestion to me!

Speaking as someone who knows the road in question there is nowhere where it is a 30mph limit and could be considered "safe" to do 91mph in a Galaxy. He is very lucky that niether himself nor anyone else are dead. He really should be going to jail for a very long time.

If you are after a nice drive or two I wouldnt go to IOM in the summer - the roads are choc-full of bikers who think they are in the TT, leads to a LOT of accidents.

Got tickets for sheffield

don't forget that IE7 is still Beta - hence there are quite alot of things it doesnt work with yet. Oh and don't even get me started on the security issue... Firefox has its fair share of big vulns - end of! (those of you using FF really want to get yourself upgraded to the latest!)

yup.. use goggles when I'm out snowboarding, they are (ahem) Oakley A-FRAMES in carbon with gold irridium lenses. I find them fantastic at cutting out the glare without runining your vision - oh and unlike my mate's bolle goggles they have never fogged on me either!

My aircon pump on my '00 Octy TDI is dead :( Essentially the clutch plate as disintegrated, being on a budget and with new pumps costing ~ £500 I've been looking on ebay and have spotted this: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SEAT-TOLEDO-AIR-CON-PUMP_W0QQitemZ4632270113QQcategoryZ100918QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem being as the Tolly is another VAG car on the same platform is it likely to be the same pump as mine? what about this? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VW-SEAT-AIR-CON-PUMP-PART-NUMBER-1HO-820-803_W0QQitemZ4632700168QQcategoryZ9889QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

I'm a bit of a sunglasses addict myself (although I do insist on losing them alot!) Currently I've got: Oakley M-Frames - In blue with red irridium sweep lenses and a pare of hybrid-s clears. Oakley Square Wires - In black with black irridium lenses (these are currently in the 'states with my friend who STILL hasnt posted them to me!) I've also got a pair of TOG 24 shades and some Old Navy ones.

guilty! guilty!

Just a couple of Stupid Questions: 1. i'm assuming a regular non-vRS octy would also benefit? 2. How easy are they to fit?

Sorry but I don't think that point 1 is particularly unfair - I'm not saying that I have a problem with any animal-tested products/medicines that they have used prior to forming the opinion. But while they are of the opinion that it is wrong to test using animals or to use anything that was developed as a direct result of animal testing then they shouldnt use those regardless of when they were developed. Its like turning vegetarian and then eating a hamburger out of the freezer becuase the animal died BEFORE you were a veggie.

quality... not often you see a truly original joke on a car forum

If it is World of Warcraft he is playing (and it'll be worth finding out) - how is he paying for it? (It's a subscription service). It's a game that can be quite addictive (for want of a better word) and being fairly immersive can offer relief from an unwanted situation in the real world and give them an alternative to turn to - particularly if he is playing on one of the realms where people role play and are strictly in character. It does sound like he is perhaps suffering from depression, and the ways of getting people to respond out of that are totally dependant on the person and why they are acting like that in the first place. Sometimes it takes a close friend/family member talking to them in a kind of "what's wrong" way - but it sounds like you and his (ex?)-gf have already tried that. So perhaps a bit a reality-shock might be the way to go. Cutting his 'net access in absence of payment of rent etc would be a good way of getting his attention, if you need any technical help in doing this drop me a PM - not to sound immodest but I spent four years at uni FINISHING both of my computing degrees and I have worked in the industry for two and a half years and one of my specialties is networking & security so I would at least hope to come up with something that will make him work to get 'net access back! And hey getting some meaningful activity out of him would at least be some sort of result! Sounds like your mum is having a real tough time - I know why she backed down over the food but tbh it was a mistake (and I know its a whole lot easier for me to say that when I'm not in her place and I'm not putting her down or having a go). Make it so that if he wants to eat the house food he eats with the rest of the house - you arent saying he CAN'T eat upstairs, but if he does he will have to go out and buy it himself with his own cash.

speaking as a scooby lover (and ex-owner)... I have to say LOL Also it will be sooo funny to see the scoobynet responses - they never can take a joke

Personally I am pro-(medical)-testing, and while I feel that anti-test people have their right to object to it I have two major problems with animal-rights protestors, 1. As long as you hold that view - stick to it, this means not using ANY substance or items that have been tested on animals during development (and I don't just mean what shampoo you buy - you can forget about penicillin and other antibiotics as well as just about any mainstream medicine in use today) 2. Stop the terrorist tactics (I hate to use the word as its such a "buzz word" these days but its the most accurate in this case) - threatening scientists, their families, attacking people, throwing acid at their property and them, stealing peoples remains etc is just plain evil. And don't even get me started on that morons who declared that :

I've got a theory.... what ISP do you use?

i love mine for the long m-way cruises, but round town or in heavy traffic its a bit obstructive of the gear leaver. As for the cubby hole my sunglasses and hands free kit live in it