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Rather than sit here doubting myself and how I might react in one of these situations, I'd rather be doing something about it. We can adapt to things out of necessity and there's strength in numbers. I'm not talking about going solo toe to toe with a knife wielding maniac. If I or another member of the group could absorb the attackers attention just for a couple of seconds (this is where protective equipment would shine, mostly forearm protection) then someone else can grab him. Maybe I'm talking bollocks and I should shut up and fade to the background like we all do, time and time again and wait for others to take the lead.

I'm not far.

Condiments are fine. I make my own bbq sauce and it blows the **** out of any you can buy. Onion chutney too. With a hint of cinnamon. Only problem with it is the fact it reeks when cooking. I don't think someone is a poor cook if they feel the need to add sauce. It's just down to personal preference. For instance, if I make a cheeseburger, I need something tangy on it because they're quite fatty and greasy. Tang cuts through that. Sauces can and do enhance flavour even with the most well cooked and pure of foods. Steak.....with peppercorn sauce, for example.

When I make chilli, it definitely tastes better the day after.

very easy to say this at a keyboard when the fight or flight and shock kicks in an adrenaline is pumping you wont be thinking your naturally instincts will take over and thats when you will find out what your brain wants to do, I mean im guilty for saying im sure i would here a car doing 70mph racing across a bridge fast enough to do get out of it ways, but after watching the CCtv from New york there is very little chance you could do anything in the time frame you dont have that 10-20 seconds a movie give you to come up with a plan this might come across as im talking down but its not meant to be its late and i have had a drink. The average person doesn't know how to fight and go to any lengths to avoid one. It is hard at first to override your natural instincts to duck and cover your head or turn away from an attacker or lift your knee towards your stomach at the same time as sort of crouch. When I used to go boxing it was really strange at first to not sort of, cower, if you will. And it leaves you open to attack. Once you get over it, it's much easier to think straight when you're under attack and form a strategy while deflecting blows. I'm not just being a keyboard warrior and loudmouth. I have a fair bit of fight experience and not just inside a ring sparring. Fight or flight can be overcome with rational thought. I'd be willing to retrain and train for specific circumstances and weapons. I'm not talking about just getting tooled up like a footie fan and looking for trouble. I'm taking about being well trained members of the community willing to assist under their own time and own funding to defend those who can't or don't feel able to.

If I can take the brunt of an attack rather than families, women and children, elderly, by being a visible target then I would if given the tools and knowledge to weather it. I don't think that it'd turn into gang warfare if the people recruited were genuinely trying to defend the community. I'd like to think I could spot a thug that was just out for violence. I only suggest these things because, after seeing these attacks where no firearms are used and people did fight back, why can't we preemptively train for it? If I'd have been there, I genuinely feel that I'd have confronted one or more, despite their knives. One on one, they'd have to be very good with a knife to quickly catch me out with it and if they didn't then my legs are longer than their arms. And if you're in a group and are all trained in unarmed combat and deflection such as Aikido, then that Jihadi has no chance. Stab/bullet proof vests Arm protection Anti-blade gloves Self defence proficient You become an extremely hard target for someone welding a knife. Just my opinion and ideas.

I love your car Snjur and you're a good guy. But im not down with your BBQ food lol.

Perhaps as a community WE should be making a stand. Instead of suggestions, we actually take it upon ourselves to learn, in selected groups, to tool up with defensive items such as, stab/bullet proof vests, advanced self defence and unarmed combat abilities that are particularly effective in deflecting attacks and incapacitating very quickly. We rely on the government and the understaffed, under equipped and probably demoralised Police. I'm sure volunteers would be plentiful given the cause. I know I would volunteer. It'd bring communities closer too. Have community meetings and those who don't volunteer can still be useful by being eyes and ears. I'd very thoroughly relish "incapacitating" a confirmed Jihadi, too. Or am I dreaming, given the nature of the country we reside in which, let's face it, loves to disarm and pacify it's public?

I can't get with this mentality at all mate. No offence. Accidents happen. Disasters happen. Loss of life is a horrible thing. Murder on any level should never be tolerated and it should never become un-noteworthy. I'm not sure I'd want to be around when it is just accepted and unworthy of emotion. There are millions of drivers and millions of cars. Accidents happen every day. And if it's of a particular nature, it usually makes the regional news. Just my opinion.

Recipe: 2x lamb shanks 2x 400ml coconut milk 1x jar of red Thai curry paste (if you can find massaman paste it's even better) 1x tin of diced sautéed onions Chopped frozen mixed peppers to taste small tub of double cream All in a Casserole pot. Mines a 3.5L one. 160c 3.5hr or keep checking until the lamb is SOFT. I'm gonna have it with sticky rice. It's hard to find sometimes though. But I have some. Usually in the World Food section. Egg noodles are good too.

Maybe it'll be a sticky

Making Thai lamb shanks tonight. Slow cooked. Need another hour at least yet. So much fat in lamb and coconut milk!

How you getting on NB? Further on I hope and definitely not stuck in a rut over her. It might still take a whil, I know. But it'll happen. With me, it clicked the other day. I got an email from her asking if I wanted to go to the cinema. I hadn't heard from her in 4 months maybe. I got my inheritance money in May. It dropped that I'd mentioned it to her, saying I'd put it into the new house we'd moved to. She did invest a bit of money in my house and other bits and pieces which I agreed to pay over time because I'm a fair person. When I confirmed I'd recieved my inheritance she wanted to know how much and that I should give it to her, as well as sell my Z and give that money to her, too as well as cash I earn in the future. I'm a bloody student! Apart from my Z I'm not splashing on anything. This is my future I'm securing. Anyway, I've had a couple of months of a serious illness which I haven't mentioned on here but she knows about it and I was actually in tears in her front room the other week talking about it and half of it was that and half was me pining for her after seeing her again. Not a single word of compassion. No arm around me. No hug. Nothing. And magically I felt so, so, so, sooooooo much better a day or two later. I've literally just felt revitalised like a thirsty wilting flower that's just got water and nutrients. I feel released in every way. I know and hope that you'll feel this soon mate if you haven't already. My life started again. I look forward to the future.

It's exasperating. There's no solution. We just have to take it because we can't profile a whole race. It's like handguns. Blanket ban because of a couple of nutters misuse. That can't be applied here. It isn't fair to do it because they're not all the same. How can there be a solution? The only definitive solution is another crusade or ethnic cleansing but they're absolutely preposterous and make us no better than Hitler. Is talking to them out of the question? Do we think they'd leave us alone if we left them alone? Open up a dialogue.

I've heard stories of wheel spacers just falling off. Scary, as I have them on mine.

In my opinion, the Z doesn't need lowering. I feel that it has a good balance of handling and ride comfort. I've had 3 cars to date that had aftermarket springs on. Only one of them had a matching spring and damper set. The other two, just lowered on springs. My God were those two horrible to drive on our roads. The one with matching dampers was still firm but they really compensated for the the springs. No "BANG....BANG!" whenever I drove over so much as a wet paper bag. It really is a horrible sound and feeling when you just add lower and stiffer springs. Almost like you have house bricks for suspension. With the matching set of dampers, there is a gradual feeling when you go over bumps. The dampers really do dampen!! Shock horror! All that said, I don't know how the Z feels when it's lowered on springs only. Maybe the standard dampers can keep up. I'm sure someone on here will be able to confirm or dismiss my opinion on this matter. I'm curious to know. Perhaps I may be persuaded to fit springs on mine, too. Like everyone says, much cheaper than coilovers. But only if ride quality isn't sacrificed. Like someone else said, with the wheel spacers, side skirts or diffusers and a front lip, it'd look a lot lower then. Pair all that with 19" wheels and you're goal is achieved and with no sacrifice to ride quality and ground clearance. The lower profile tyres on 19s may make the ride a touch harder, though. But a bonus is better handling due to less flex in the tyres sidewall I hope that whatever you go for, your daughter is very happy with it.

No progress on swapping to a 24 hour gym? Well, I know where there is one. I could go there as I'm definitely a night owl. But really, I shouldn't allow myself to get into "night shift" mode. Although maybe it'll be good to go late and enjoy the peace and quiet and lifting. Sort of like a sanctuary. Light some candles and turn the lights off and listen to some Tibetan singing bowls!! Ommmmm

That's a shame as it sounds really good in the description.

My gym is a bit lacklustre too. They moved site recently and the new place is a bit smaller than the last.I wish they'd put a sauna and steam room in. It's always rammed, too. Amy time of the day. It's only open 9am to 9pm too.

Remember that, with coilovers you can adjust the height to your own desired drop. Also, with adjustable damping you can really tweak the settings. Ride height is as simple as turning a big nut that's on the damper and damping is adjusted very easily too. Set your desired firmness. Why does she want to lower it? For aesthetics? The Z is very low to begin with. What really made a visual impact for me was adding wheel spacers. The wheels then filled the arches much better and the car just looked more squat and purposeful. 25mm rear and 20mm front. I'd personally go for coilovers, lower it a very small amount and set the dampers to be quite soft. Our roads are terrible and a jarring ride would really get tedious. Banging every time you go over rough, uneven and badly maintained roads. You end up constantly scanning the road surface and dodging even small holes in the road and speed bumps. I'm going to fit them to my Z, along with thicker anti roll bars to eliminate body roll. Just my 2p worth!

And mod I've not even been aware of, let alone that it's such a good one, too. Will try and get polyurethane tyranny and engine mounts based on this review. I bet eliminating gearbox and engine movement will really make a difference to the feel of the car.

I've always found this a problem too. Slender guys can get a skinny fit shirt and it looks great. No problem. I get a skinny fit shirt which fits my chest and shoulders, but tent like around my middle. Makes you look fat. Even muscular guys like, say, Chris Evans can just get on off the shelf shirt. These guys with an athletic and lean figure can get away with it. They're straight up and down. My chest has always been wide. In one sense it's good. I can have quite a lot of belly before its noticeable because my chest hides it. I'd never have a figure like Chris Evans no matter how much fat I lost. With regards to cutting. It's very easy. What I do is get big first. I don't deliberately bulk but I just lift weights and stick to maintenance calories. Really fires up your metabolism. Best off doing this over winter from say October to April. I dare say you'll lose fat anyway and if not you definitely won't put any on. But you'll gain a lot of muscle. And muscle requires calories to build and maintain. Come April, start taking 500 calories a day off maintenance and if you can, do an hour light cardio before eating anything in the morning. Make sure it's just light cardio. Incline walking for example. Have a protein shake afterwards. No carbs until lunch. It might be difficult for the first 2 weeks but soon enough you'll love early morning cardio. You'll lose fat very quickly this way. Hit the weights on the evening as normal.

Love how this car is shaping up. Must be one of the best in Europe. I could only hope to have mine like this.

Woah. Careful. It's "wholemeal" and "non wholemeal" Racialist!

Lol as a minority at school, "we" got called allsorts. Real mouthfuls.And our mothers would get dragged into it too! "you white son of a b***h mother f*****r I bummed your mum upside down a thousand times, chita gora mother f****r I'll knock you out!!!" And we just took it. At least they were creative lol. But surely the solution to you getting abuse isn't just giving someone else abuse? I never abused anyone. Where did you get that in my post? It's odd how lefties can spot and imply injustice where there is none, lol. Perhaps even giving an account of experiences should be quashed if they're not a glowing positive reference? Anyway, no, we just kept a low profile! Stayed off their radar of wrath. Doesn't always work though. One of my old friends from primary school was murdered in Glodwick which is/was a no go zone for whitey and he was just lost and passing through. Sorry, I really wasn't intending to suggest you dished it out. I meant that if someone is getting stick, hurling abuse (un-PC or PC) isn't the way forward. No its not the way forward. But such is our nature as humans. Right or wrong. I, for one, don't like to harbour rage and vengeance because it just consumes you. It's much better and much healthier to let go of it. If I think someone's a twonk, regardless of colour, origin send faith, then they're a twonk. It crosses all cultures and religions. That's how I operate as an individual. Not because I'm told to by law. Sometimes I have politically incorrect views, but on the other hand some things I'm far more PC about. It's not so (no pun intended) black and white.