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Oh, if only one of my mates was like you. Let me give you a brief context of his life so far, I think he's 35 right now so 22 when this started? 2004: Meets really nice girl, smart, funny, friendly, reasonably attractive. 2005: Dumps awesome girl, starts dating midget. 2005: Gets midget pregnant after a couple of months. 2006: Midget has kid, the day after the child is born she tells him she doesn't love him and wants him to leave. 2008: Meets seriously hot chick who is rude as hell. 2009: Sells really nice house he loved to buy even more expensive house, because she said so. 2010: Has child with Hot Girl. 2011: Marries Hot Girl in £40K wedding. 2013: Has second child with Hot Girl. 2013: Hot girl tells him she hasn't loved him since before she got pregnant, kicks him out of HIS house. 2014: Divorce. She has custody, keeps the house, takes most of his wages for CSA. She goes absolutely mental, screaming and claiming all sorts of random stuff. 2014: Sleeps around A LOT on TInder, meets horrendously filthy girl who is happy for threesomes and lesbian orgies. She is also a mother of 3. 2015: Marries Filthy Girl. 2015: Gets Filthy Girl pregnant. 2016: He pays for massive works on her Mum's house, which they're living in. 2016: She has kid. Kicks him out because (guess what?!) she doesn't love him any more. Moves boyfriend in the same day that he leaves, whilst he's still in the house. 2017: Hooks up with new girl, only met her once so no judgement passed yet That divorce is in the middle of being settled, but she's claiming he cheated on her (technically he did, but she was in the room at the time cheering him on!) and will no doubt take him for the rest of his cash. So he'll end up paying for the four kids he's had, along with the three kids she had with her other partner as of course they're now used to living in a certain fashion. Now this guy is possibly the nicest, gentlest, meekest guy you'll ever meet, but jesus f*ck does he make poor life choices with women He just needs to leave them alone, hell he could've bought a different hooker home every night for those years and been better off financially.

Lincs is doable though?

Yes,it's called driving without reasonable consideration for other road users, code CD20, up to £2500 & 3-9 points on your licence.

Hand on heart, a 997.1 Turbo is significantly quicker than a 997.2 C2S. That's not blurry, that's crystal clear

I'd totally be crazy cat man, given half a chance.

Miles too big, you'll be scrubbing half the writing on the sidewall when turning.

Every time you speed and get caught, you're an idiot. You're screwing over every other sensible driver. Cams and cops tend to sit either in 30/40 zones, or on boring motorways. These are either dull places to speed, or boring places to speed. Every time you get done you reinforce the fact that it's an easy money earner for The Man: If we all stopped getting caught, they wouldn't be able to afford to run the bloody things! Stop driving like knobs and getting caught, and be a considerate driver to the rest of us.

Have you not learnt yet that doing things in the cheap doesn't work for you?

Revup and HR interiors are significantly better, more textured plastics, silver trim, better placing of hazard button etc

The HR has better plastics than the DE.

*takes man card away*

HR a significantly better car, but the regular DE is just as much fun. Revup a nice compromise between the two. HR every day though, if you have the choice.

Aaaaaaand back on subject... Jumping350, I know this sounds daft but I'm genuinely happy for you if this is your outlook now on the whole thing. Cannot be easy at all, but that's a fantastically strong attitude to have, and it will help you so much.

The only time I may not thank someone is if it's dark and I'm in the BMW: Clearly they won't be able to see me wave, and I never flash high beam at night as it's blinding, and the HIDs don't revert to parking lights quick enough to make my standard dipped-parking-dipped acknowledgement that I normally use after dusk. I really wish people would do that more rather than flash their brightest possible lights at you at night. It's stupid.

Only time I've ever got proper mad was when that lorry drove into the front of the Bummer. Started calm, but by the end of the conversation I could've lumped the guy due to his attitude. My missus gets angry far, far more often than me. Like proper angry.

No-one ever drops £10K on an FI setup and says they don't like it. Ever. Even if they may secretly regret it. I'm with Evilscorp, I'd just buy something faster or different instead. An FI Zed is a hoot when it's working fine, but I don't think it's any more fun or impressive than a regular 350. Quicker yes, different yes, but not better. Given your car is stock, you really need to be doing suspension & brakes first. I think you'll be surprised just how good you make an NA 350 without dropping megabucks.

Honestly, I've no idea, I didn't look at him as we went past. I don't even know if he realised how much I'd slowed down by. This is brilliant advice On your other point, I've noticed a distinct lack of courtesy from people in the last few years, just a complete absence of a wave when you let them through or let them out. It's the older generation too, the codgers of the world. Young 'uns seem willing to say thank you, but the fogeys just blank you. That's starting to grate a little bit, I must admit.

This morning, on the way to work. Coming from traffic lights through a 40mph that goes into a well-sighted, long stretch of NSL. Three HGVs in front in the 40mph, accelerating slowly from the lights, definitely do not want to be stuck behind them all the way through the NSL section! Pull out, drop a couple of cogs, nail it. Except your car isn't as fast as you think, and there's a guy coming the other way doing 65mph straight towards you, and no chance of pulling in-between the lorries. The other guy brakes pretty hard, down to about 30mph, to avoid a head on collision. Tuck back in front of the lead HGV at the last minute, thinking "Ooof, I cut that a bit fine!". At least, I hope that's what the guy hurtling towards me this morning thought as I slammed the anchors on to avoid him crashing into me when he was overtaking No real drama though, I could see him coming, could see he wasn't going to make it in time if I carried on at speed, so I simply braked to give him enough time to complete his overtake and got on with my life. Now if that was the other way round, I'm 99% sure the person in my position would've been flashing like crazy and leaning on the horn for about 20mins, because some people just can't read the road and make a conscious decision to do something that might help someone who has made a simple error of judgement. Pretty sure everyone on here has carried out a dodgy overtake in their lives, usually when we're younger and a bit less aware. It does bug me that it felt like my actions would not be considered the norm, and that most non-keen drivers would simply carry on and make the whole situation more dangerous than it needed to be. Bit like those who get angry and speed up when trying to merge in turn.

My god, that wood interior! You must be a lot older than you look fella Great purchase, I didn't realise they were so rare either. Any car with a T-shaped gear stick like a jet fighter throttle is okay by me

It's just that women are worse. *runs*

It's just a car, guys. It's not an F1 or a LaFerrari, just park it wherever. Whatever will be will be, life's too short.

Not a cat in hell's chance the CTR that did that time was remotely standard. IIRC it was caged, stripped and on Cup2s, as well as being a pre-production special. Not saying it's not quick and that engineering hasn't come on in leaps and bounds, but on no planet would it be quicker than a GT-R. And looking at those times, why is a 997 C2S quicker than a 997 Turbo? By four seconds? Even assuming PDK to manual, that doesn't remove the extra 100bhp+ and 4WD of the Turbo. Nope, I'm calling shenanigans. Much like the shenanigans of the Huracan doing a 6'50" the other week.

Well I'm amazed, an Infiniti that doesn't look terrible at all! That's reasonably restrained considering it's a concept and their designs of late, I quite like that.

He said he was offered the chance to move to Manchester for a job, which would mean relocating from Newcastle. Graham said that might be the best thing he ever did,to which I wittily retorted that swapping Newcastle for Manchester isn't fair, intimating that Newcastle is a much nicer place to be than the sh*thole that is Manchester.