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Wicked, who was your instructor? We might have met, although I only just got back into it, last time I did it was 2002.

I'd recommend Muay Thai Boran for punching, kicking and elbows (good luck finding a Boran teacher- nearly everyone is just plain Thai kickboxing), and like Monghanroyal said Brazillian/Gracie jiu-jitsu for grappling. I'm doing Ninjitsu atm. its bloody hard but I love being a ninja, you get the black outfit and everything.

Bad language isn't allowed but widespread fraud is. Typical ebay, if you get screwed over they do 5hit all to help you after you've been robbed, and their subsidiary Paypal is just a big con designed to make people think they have some sort of consumer protection online when in fact its as useless as an inflatable dartboard. Its also perfectly acceptable to advertise charity concert tickets, but swearing, oh no!!!! something must be done about that.

These people also supply in car computer stuff: http://www.cartft.com/catalog

:eek: JFC thats horrendous!

'My dog ate it'- works every time :rofl:

No no no no no no no no no :nono: , you've all got it all wrong. Having a shower in the morning requires too much effort and co-ordination, so set your alarm so you've got half an hour reserved for your bath. Then when you wake up turn the taps on and balance them so that the water will run very hot. Then drag your still semi-comatose body into the bath, and simply lie there doing nothing- no effort required. In half an hours time the bath will be full and you will be wide awake, the high temperature will stop you falling asleep again as well as wake you up a treat, many times more effective than a shower and no scrubbing required. Only side effect is you often end up looking like a lobster.

I don't bear him much ill will personally, I knew my car was a lemon before I bought it, although listening to him talk up a car that wasn't even good enough for breaking was quite funny- 'Its very powerful mate' was about all he could say. I just feel sorry/annoyed for people who are going to travel a distance to come look at it only to find a bag o' shite waiting for them. Obviously he's had some trouble, thats why he's had to make the description more realistic.

http://atsearch.autotrader.co.uk/www/cars_search.asp?lid=search_used_cars_full&ukcarsearch_full=SEARCHmodelexact=1&miles=1&min_pr=2095&max_pr=2095&min_pr=2095&postcode=SL1%206AB&make=NISSAN&model=300%20ZX&locale=STF This car on autotrader was previously advertised with genuine 30,000 miles, it has now gone up to 50,000. That means in one month its done enough miles to nearly circumnavigate the globe? Its price has dropped by about £400 so at least the owner has taken into account the 'extra' miles its done. Also now 'Condition,need slight attention' so it looks like its not in quite as good nick as it was last month. The 'genuine' 40K car I bought off this guy a while back actually had 150K on the clock.

Good advice

Oh great, Norton. First thing- get rid of all of your Norton products and buy others I've always had a ton of trouble with Noton stuff, the virus killer they make causes 100 times more problems than it ever solves (in my experience anyway, I know people who swear by Norton). I'd advise right clikcing on the Norton icon in the bottom right of your screen, then de-activate the Norton firewall and try the sites again.

What happened when the sites stopped working? Have you opened any menus, installed any programs or changed settings?

Okeydokey, I'm trailering it tomorrow so I'll take a few of pics when we get it outside, there should be a couple on my camera already but the damn things eaten its batteries again so I'll have to find some when I get up.

You can have a 'work in progress' of mine if you want, its pretty fugly ATM. I can't post pics though so lemme know if you want one emailed.

I thought about that but the country would have to be fitted with the radio equivalent of catseyes to every road, the cost of installing a countrywide bespoke radio network would be astronomical. On top of that the network would have to be secure and encrypted to prevent car 'identity theft' and even then it wouldn't be 100%. The current mobile network is already overloaded as well as being not particularly reliable can you imagine what would happen if it had to handle 100million vehicles on top of all the increased data traffic from the next generations of phones?

Didn't you know? Incompetance is now a required skill in I.T, we had one technician fail to kill a virus after 3 tries. Another time I.T sent us a box of 40 DVD re-writers along with copies of Nero burning ROM, not really a problem until you take into account the fact we're supposed to be a high security area with no removable media allowed whatsoever, on top of that they were the very department responsible for writing and enforcing that policy in the first place.

I'd go for a single supercharger- lower charge temps, much easier to maintain and less prone to failiure than two turbos, although the recon interval is shorter than that of a turbo. Ideally I'd have one with a clutch so that it can be switched on and off.

Funny that Darling talks about 'Satellite Tracking', doesn't he realise that it only works one way? i.e. the GPS recieves signals from space to tell US where WE are. Is he proposing that a new satellite network is created that can recieve signals from our cars and feed them to a central computer? The Magellan system only works because it has a network of 24 satellites that rotate around the Earth to provide constant coverage, to cover just one country you'd need a geostationary satellite that by design has to be placed 36000 miles away from Earth. So Darling, you're proposing that every car in the country is fitted with a GPS reciever and also a giant radio dish capable of transmitting your whereabouts to the satellite 36000 miles away, this satellite would then have to handle the data traffic of every single vehicle in the country in realtime and transmit the whole lot back to Earth. Also what happens on sunspot days when satellite communications are screwed? Do you ever wonder why people criticise your transport policy?

Hampshire/Surrey border

I don't know anything about filler brands, I just buy anything that has 'filler' on the label. The cracking on my front bumper is so bad that I can't decide whether to patch it up with cellulose stopper or just buy another, the previous owner put the paint on so thick that stonechips look more like bulletholes. The back bumper is just a joke- the stonechip took ages but the smooth stuff I was able to blast off using an ordinary garden hose, I'm not sure any prep work was done at all.

Basically we have an electric fan in the office, we have removed the guard so that we can throw different things into the fan to see what happens, it also allows us to attach various things to the blades. During the incident the fan had been tipped backwards so the blades span horizontally and things were being thrown into it to see if we could bounce them off the spinning blades and into the hands of the person on the other side. Unfortunately the office manager threw something that was too heavy and ended up knocking the fan off the desk onto the head of someone who was doing 'ammunition recovery' just below it. The gash it made in his scalp refused to stop bleeding so he had to be driven to the A&E

I work as technical compliance for a major games company. Its kind of like being a fancy games tester only with a bit more paperwork. The best thing is we f**k about in the office so much that people have ended up in the A&E (an incident involving what we call 'the fan of death').

Im in the process of changing mine from red to white. I took the stonechip off using a rotary sander, on the metal it was easy but the stonehip on the bumpers is a right bitch, I found out they actually mould it with that horrible finish so I had to go through the paint and resurface the plastic underneath. For the rest of the outside I sanded it purely by hand, I found using a block would only sand little strips so I used bare hands and sandpaper- which gave me much better coverage. I took the bumpers and wings off so I could get into the joins and spray them properly then once that was done I could put them back and spray the whole lot in situ. Also I did the shuts and targas with cans, I used a car tarpaulin to make a barrier to protect the interior. The only thing I've left is the engine bay.

True, the graphics hardware isn't that special, its just two next gen Nvidia cards bolted together in SLI. What is special is the rate it can get data back and forth to that hardware as well as the transfer rate to the cell's subprocessor cores, its fecking ridiculous, it makes the 360 look like a wheezing dinosaur. (Btw. Im still gonna buy all 3 again). Interesting fact: Microsoft desgined the 360 with two Power PC chips, thats why the 360 Dev-kits only have 2 processors. When they found out about the PS3's capabilities they quickly added another in panic, even with 3 parallel processors the PS3 is still in front.

Ive heard the lights stand out and look different to a loft conversion, although with insulation they should be indistinguishable. Either way Im too paranoid to find out.