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In 4 months my car reaches 23 years old 10 years, just a young pup!

Most coaches go through an accredited training programme learning about basic psychology techniques plus coaching techniques like NLP, Transactional Analysis and the like. It well worth ensuring any coach is qualified and or has equivalent professional experience in coaching.

Thanks guys

Ha! I'm married with a child

I have none of this. My work colleagues often say how good it is I am so passionate about a hobby and some say they wish they were so passionate about what they do in their spare time.

Just sticking a poll out there guys, Life Coaching. This is something where a trained coach/facilitator spends usually an hour per session speaking with people to help them improve their confidence, set and achieve goals, tackle difficult problems etc. could be about careers, social challenges, financials, anything really that someone feels they need help tackling. Question is, what would you pay per session for that?

Saw a blue one on the M25 today, lowered, but looked fairly tasteful, said to the wife "sooo what do you think of those, same as a 350z four seats" she replied with various comments mostly along the lines that it looks like some cheap mercedes with strange eyes at the front. Looks like I am keeping the Celica for a while yet!

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Ha! Funny enough I have an ebay short shifter sat on the side I havent got the courage to fit on my own... Good mod though guys as always!

Dynos can show all sorts. In the US as hinted previously they can easily show over 300bhp maybe in Australia they undercook the numbers who knows. Important thing is to see what gains you make.

I don't think you need any research to know that a 350z forum is likely to have members on it that are into large engined two seat GT cars...! Its useful info that you bring to the forum GZ but its not going to convince people in great numbers that they should be buying EVs any time soon I am afraid no matter how many 0-60 numbers that get thrown about.

Plenty of point debating. I am sorry most people do not agree with your dystopian view of the future of motoring but I would expect that on a forum where people love the sounds and smells of their cars and love to try their hand at tinkering with engines endlessly. I don't think for any second that the future of cars is not going to be anything other than ICE cars but it doesn't mean people have to throw away immediately what they love doing now for silent running dull looking electric boxes, but if you read through the thread its clear most people understand why you and other EV owners happen to have an opposing view. As for energy production sure it will change over time, the politically motivated articles you post along with pro-renewables websites you post though are so biased it probably works against your argument more than for it - I certainly take any rubbish like that printed in the Guardian or Express with a pinch of salt. Clearly this is all very important to you so keep an eye on the pricing measures I mentioned as these are the only accepted ways of measuring the cost of production of energy (which even then they are flawed but its the best estimate) and ignore crap like some of those links about subsides etc.

Seen you a few times during the mornings on the way to work around 7:15ish - nice car although that exhaust could do with a bit of spit and polish!

Repairing wind turbines offshore is incredibly dangerous, difficult and requiring a lot of manpower and equipment - there are deaths associated with their maintenance each year.

Its a pretty poor chart - you do have charts which have data behind data where you layer each descending set of data on the one above (which is what I think Stu was referring to) but they are rare. I took it as a stacked chart but there is way too many legends which complicate the message - just group together all the areas that contribute under 5% and then you are left with fewer cuts and less distraction. A table of values and %s would have been a much better way of getting the detail over and a summary chart as described above would be better at giving a visual of the main message. I am not sure what qualifies OFGEM to be good at data visualisation anyway?

Look if you want to read politically biased crap then fine. Look up real data like LCE and make note. I agree renewable are the way forwards but your blatant ignorance of anything that contradicts your links to crap articles media does nothing but make your argument stupid. Ironically you won't see anything but batteries, which makes you more narrow minded than most people commenting on this thread. Any objective report into the cost of electricity shows wind farms are NOT the cheapest form of energy production, all these links to green happy energy sites are just pointless, but yes in the future renewable energy I think is the way forwards. And let us not forget earlier in this thread you stated that wind and solar is FREE which shows a lack of understanding in how energy is priced and sold.

Government regularly puts billions into wind turbines etc but doesn't make the politically motivated press.

Taxpayers fund a lot of the builds of things like windfarms, if for instance a £3bn build is initiated usually the government will fund at least a third of it, the rest is profits from energy companies going back into the development of the tech. Its amazing but a single blade on a turbine can be six figures and upwards!

Cost of fuel production is hugely variable month to month, it is not possible to simply state 'it is now cheaper' as next month it might not. The Levelised Cost of Energy (LCE) is the best attempt at measuring it, problem is that depending on each commissioning units political leaning (i.e. renewables commissioning the work will have a bias in what they report or how they compute the number) you will never get a truly objective view. You have to look at the cost of building, supplying maintaining and disposing of the equipment over the lifespan of its existence. Wind farms off shore have always been hideously expensive to set up for example but cheap to supply energy for. The problem lies in that prices vary hugely, especially when looking at anything gas, oil, coal driven as prices fluctuate massively over a course of the existence of the energy supplier. You cannot categorically state right now that this is better than that as you have to make all sorts of assumptions. Most objective reports show Nuclear is still cheapest (sorry but reports on renewable sites are not going to say that and will be selective in what they reference).

Jack it up and move stuff around see what looks loose/twanging etc?

Nail on head. As I mentioned further up, EV's are not 'clean' cars, they over the course of their lifetime should be 'cleaner' than the ICE but no you are not being good to the environment by owning one. You are marginally better than your ICE car owner, but you are no eco-activist. Do you own anything in your house made of plastic? Have you ever bought a packet of crisps and thrown the empty packet in a bin on the high street? There is a focus on CO2 as there should be, but we pollute in so many other ways I still believe that we will end up in some sort of Wall-E style future of a planet full of rubbish and lazy humans relying on technology and unable to function

" Their decision to have spawned another child while they were still pretty much kids themselves and then more along the line, thus ensuring empty pockets. Not my problem. I'll have kids when I'm ready and 110% know I can guarantee that kids happiness entirely, cemented, and give it the best in life. Not scrimping and scraping and arguing about money with my partner. I'm doing just fine at building that future and I'll be a much more rounded parent than a 19 year old. " So you are saying that they did it wrong, didn't do it at the right time, that you are doing it in a way that you can 'guarantee happiness' your way? OK I admit you are not saying it directly but the implications are certainly there. Understand that you have a few friends that are clearly struggling, they are not representative of the world at large though and I can again say another learning of being a parent is that there are no 'guarantees' around having children, about the health they arrive in, about even having them later in life at all and the lower success rate and so on and so forth. The idea that a 19 year old cannot be a rounded parent is such a sweeping statement about other peoples capability to be a parent - if you turn out to be half as good a parent as my friend who brought her daughter up from aged 20 then you will have done well. I apologise as my original post was clearly aimed at you, but it wasn't really, it was more aimed at society as a whole and how there seems to be a lack of empathy with what parents go through by non-parents. But of course I understand that, I did the same, but thats because I didn't understand. To lighten the mood, watch this, Michael McIntyre sums it all up perfectly https://youtu.be/j1cFt2tWsI4

Good stuff. Glad you are starting to have a look around and even better taking the time to look at forum owned cars.

Absolutely. Attitude is so hugely important. I think there are obvious things non parents can see, but its the less obvious stuff that non parents cannot recognise. For example babies crying on public transport, you can see people getting wound up because the parent 'appears' to be doing little to stop it. What they won't understand is that babies generally do cry, there is no on off switch, sometimes they cry for no reason and any offering of food, milk, toys etc. will not change that. Additionally, if parent get in a flap it upsets the child more and makes them cry more - but non parents tend to sit and huff and puff at the parents lack of activity when in fact that parent is massively stressed and desperately wants the baby to stop crying but just genuinely has run out of ideas and is desperately trying to stay calm for everyones sake. You do learn unbelievable capabilities of tolerance as a parent I have to say

Thats out of context. Yes you can be a bad parent by beating your kids, ignoring them, giving bad advice etc. but the context around that comment was not that at all, it was that there is no guaranteed approach to what makes a good scenario to being a 'good parent' and a subsequent correct upbringing for a child (whatever that means). Saving lots of money, security of your own house, trusted partner etc. can still all fall down around your ears when you have a child that then goes off the rails, as much as being a 19 year old single parent struggling by on a low income can bring up a very capable and happy child who goes on to run a large global business and changing the world.