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Aye fair comment JP, hence why I said take the risk. I would rather take the risks that you pointed out vs the risks briefly mentioned in my post, we could argue the toss about which are more likely but I think its sensible to leave it there. I guess personally having lived in Europe, Asia and the UK maybe I like the idea of some sort of economic integration.

I think I despair about the idea that we leave and 'take control' and that people do not want to understand what that entails. The idea that there is switch that gets flicked in the summer if we vote leave that does this is ludicrous. The idea that we could be in a free market and 'shut up shop' in terms of immigration is equally ludicrous. What makes me fear for my child is growing up in a paranoid and isolated society with some sort of island mentality. Sure immigration is something that needs to be looked at and current process is probably not suitable, but that is better achieved being part of the EU I think. The idea of 'shutting up shop' to immigrants and all the negative economic and social connotations that come with it don't bare thinking about. So fine, we 'shut up shop' and in response EU puts 10% levy on all our imports and exports, which pushes up prices from manufacturing, agriculture to food stuffs in Tesco. Are you willing to take the risk that your child will have to pay more for food, power, cars? That their disposable income could potentially be much worse off? If so then fine.

When we were in the anti-natal classes one couple were planning on a 6 month round world trip 3 months after the birth of their first child, and they did!

Well done matey, the 'difficulty' does go up and down and different ages bring different challenges. It is funny but I found I just couldnt stop watching my son when he was a baby, just watching him sleep, it all sounds odd I guess but until you have been there...

...and you can just about fit an SMD and a Humpy in as well, who says its not practical

I would imagine there is very little swing left in the voting, it just seems like one of those things where 80% of the leaves will shout leave till they are blue in the face even if someone pointed out the errors in all their 'facts' they will shrug their shoulders and just say leave regardless - same for stay. There may be a few that are open to being pursuaded but I doubt its many.

I still hanker for a VX/Elise, just getting in, settling yourself down, key in, hitting the starter button and the whole car fires up - you really can imagine you are about to tear off into the distance on a race grid when in fact you are nipping to the dry cleaners to pick up some washing. You sit low down, engine revving inches from the back of your head, legs horizontal out in front of you, all the feedback from the road coming through the wheel...takes some topping! Shame you didnt have these thoughts a couple of years ago could have popped over for a spin in the VX!

Its a civil war, although 'terrorists' exist in the country and are part of the conflict, it was born out of militia vs the government - the legals I imagine in terms of taking sides in some way must be a bit more difficult to deal with. No Big Uncle Sam invasion is possible as far as I can see?

Wuss! I used to jump into my VX220 to nip to Tesco's all the time and at 40 years old

Exactly what Dan said - there is a mixing of issues here, Syria is a war zone that our press kindly shields us from the realities of because its suits us, there is a serious and genuine humanitarian crisis going on. Hundreds of thousands of civilians who just want to get on with their life, dead, crippled or injured. Then there are people that are genuine work migrants, then there are a tiny minority who are after the benefits (of which there multitudes more that are British born-and-bred but have never paid a penny in income tax either). The press will group them together and the pro exits will shout 'control our borders' but with no plan of how to actually do this (or even try to work out the bureaucratic cost which no doubt everyone will be up in arms about when it starts totting up into the hundreds of millions to implement) - there are probably a dozen steps to any implementation of a policy, but people only look at the first one i.e. control the borders, then ignore the implementation, cost, impact on social wellbeing, humanitarian issues, foreign policy, economic relations, change in legislation, trade rules...the implications are massive.

Yes I agree on the 'salesmen' Farage love or loathe him talks a good game on the EU and immigration (although probably has the fiscal knowledge of a small plant hence the reason why he is a protest voters dream but someone you wouldn't let near actually running anything) - Boris is a complete farce and people vote for him because he is a bumbling Mr Bean type character. The sticking two fingers up is often in business terms the worst thing you can do. Burning bridges and all that in business is well known to generally leave the finger flickers in a much worse position financially and frowned upon by the masses, it helps to have some friends out there sometimes...

Yeah a few hundred quid for a full set?

Aye its quite a nice compelling video isn't it I mean according to that nothing could possibly go wrong in an exit As you mentioned, some of it is clearly made up as previously discussed, although not heard the bit about the spurious stuff at the end in ditching the pound etc. Didn't realise that had been agreed...must have missed that government announcement That all said, on a serious note, it does bring out the Brit in you, its a much better video than previous rubbish that has been banded around.

Ah the beauty of reading too much into a pro brexit newspapers own biased reporting of data - wonderful So, just tackling a few things in turn. If you locate the Telegraphs actual report, you can see it has no balance and that they are trying to sensationalise one or two countries out of kilter results. They highlight France and Italy in there, but not Germany? Why is that? Its because 60% would say they don't need a referendum - a rather large majority over those saying yes they need one. Same story for Hungary, Sweden, Poland and Spain who are the others listed all roughly 60%-40% Again the vote to leave %s, highest for France and Italy, but more than two thirds in Poland, Spain, Germany Hungary all would vote to stay. There is huge danger in taking as read a newspapers 'interpretation' of research data. I notice that they didnt even state who they spoke to? I am assuming that they were residents of the eight countries featured in the charts showing the above two stats? What about representation from the other 20 countries (19 excluding the UK)? How can you state 'Europes people share rage' when in fact in most measures only two of the eight countries featured actually show that, and that the whole of Europe is not even represented? It then mentions that Italy Poland India(?) South Africa(?) US(?) think Britain would do better? By how much was this found? Where did India US and SA views come from I thought we were talking about Europeans. If I were to interpret the results it would simply say: 1 - 6 out of 8 countries spoken to in the research would prefer not to have a referendum 2 - Any country that did hold a referendum would most likely see a stay result, with the exception of Italy where there is not a significant difference between the stay and leave options 3 - A third of EU people in the survey felt Britain leaving the EU would make no difference to the EU 4 - 40% think that it would have a slightly negative effect Sorry I know that sounds boring, but hey the difference between interpreting data and writing a news article eh

And they have an AK47 with full auto

I reckon someone could do it in 5?

Ultimately learn to look after yourself and pat yourself on the back for even the smallest things. Work on your self-esteem, recognising your strengths, accepting your deficiencies (we all have them), accept we all make mistakes its how we move on from them that really matters, surround yourself with the right people at the right time to get what you need out of life right now.

I guess it would, but they could also drive it up onto the back of a truck and drive it off without doing any damage to the car or having to circumnavigate an alarm in public.

Bushes everywhere, I recently replaced gear linkage bushes which improved the throw a touch, but enough for it to feel that bit tighter when switching gear.

Just drive off boost in the last few minutes of your journey, and wind down to a gentle cruise until you stop. Note that from what I have heard, turbo timers would invalidate your insurance as they leave the car active whilst you are not in it.

I am not a doctor, or an expert. However I do believe we all have the capability to slip into depression, it is a real thing that is physical and present as Husky mentioned above. Ironically I often find people when depressed mention how well other people are doing and are always comparing, Facebook can be a bitch for this. However when I have had extended lows, just talking with people, openly, opens them up too and you get a sense of perspective that allows you to start dealing with it. Often seeing just the superficial stuff of other people makes you feel inadequate and isolated, talking all your feelings through with people from friends, to professionals will help, I think.

I remember watching this vid over and over when hunting for an R33

More speakers in - this time some 6.5" Alpine G-Series into the rear quarters. Absolute pain to do, took nearly two hours, had to remove the back seats completely and pull out the interior plastics to get to the old speakers. Anyway, news ones fitted and boy does it rumble now

No doubt next he will be asking us to build a moat around the UK...

Gotta be a couple of squillion at least