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I like that site alot.

Motorsport. As a whole.

Touché. Edit: Take a load of lemons to the zoo, have a go and film results?

There is a non citric lemon?

Doing so would cause the cat to run away from itself.

Sweet, cheers mate Il have a look

I would happily pay that, but nottinghams too far away After somthing to fiddle with really, learn more about the workings of an engine (Im a firm beliver in learn by doing) and then maybe drop into a VW which I am yet to buy/decide on. Would be perfect. Just too damn far away

What would you be after for one of these gti engines? EDIT: after looking up nottingham on the map, dont worry. Lol

If anyone has any interest I have a 6n polo FS totally mint, 47,000 miles '98 on the R no rust atall totally sound, slight dent on drivers wing, otherwise very good. Never driven by me (so not ragged ) One female owner before it was sold to me, so two registered owners. Its a 1.6 8v CL with a CD player in it. Gearbox etc. all fine, comes with de-badged grill (original included). Only reason Im selling it is because of the stupid price of insurance with Mods, and the fact I already have a 1 litre corsa which to be honest (having to fund driving myself) is far better on insurance. Being a Mint car, with a very good milage Id like £1300 for it, but Im open to offers. Doubt there will be any interest on here so I didnt make a FS thread in classifieds, worth a try though, all advertisments good advertisment I guess. For any budding modders, they do look good, and dont have that chavvy image (the reason I bought it ) If you are genuinly interested, Il get you some snaps.

Appendicitis

Welcome to a world of fail.

Hmm. Had to go to bebo to fish these out. Snowed a fair bit a couple of years ago, not really childhood but meh, its the only one I can think of at the moment what with all this talk of snow. Incase you cant work it out, its a massive penis made of snow, beats the shit outta an average snow man. Some bloke even came with his daughter to take a pic of it while she shouted, "Dad look they made a snow monster!"

Too true.

I wasnt talking about your car lol, mainly that venom one/the scene in general. You go on the forums, and everyones talking about being different. Everyones f**king euro, hows that being different?! Ooo well you get the odd ratty car, thats f**ked up also. Theres a passat near me, nice car, slammed on some BBS' and hes taken an angle grinder to the bonet and roof and f**ked the paintwork/body work totally for no good reason. To look good the whole thing will need a skim with filler and a re-spray. So f**king pointless. Thats providing that its not been left raw so long that its rusted through and totally f**ked. Annoys me alot. I love VAG stuff, but I think the modding scene is shit.

f**king euro. Cool as it looks, tyre stretch is clearly not practicle. Also, I dont get the hype around ronal turbos or similar looking rims, look pretty wank IMO.

Did everyone miss this pretty epic burn?

I think simps' is orange? Im pretty sure the pics he posted of one before he got it were orange, which may suggest it is orange, since he may have found a green one if it was green... I personally dont like it, Im sure its a great car in terms of practicality etc. but being a (slowly) developing petrol head its too large/ugly/modern for my liking. Not to say that if I was given one for free I wouldnt willingly accept...

Fail. NS capital, or suburban.

Having a fast metabolism makes building muscle hard? f**k. I kinda want to bulk up abit and tone up, not to body builder extent but Im a skinny little shite at the mo, and Id quite like to build up abit. Whats my best bet at building mainly arms/ chest up, bearing in mind with my car etc. I now cant afford gym membership or anything similar really in the form of a home set-up.

Hmmm, I dunno about catching up, wev done a few assignements and stuff, not that it would be impossible if you have a decent knowledge of cars already, so far its pretty basic stuff. If not its a fair old wait till september to get back on the course, but it would deffinatly be worth it! You can then choose the one, or two year course, or depending on what qualifications you already have a possible foundation degree. Although when I was intervied I was told with my AS levels I could have possibly gone straight into the foundation degree, but was advised not too. You could also try for an aprenticship, wer in a great area for it with lots of F1 companies, pro drive, and many other big companies all around. Although, as Jon said above, its tough times for the industry at the moment. with the current recesion. So It might be worth doing the 2 year, or the 1 year and then then an aprenticship, or even uni! it will give the industry time to sort itself out abit, maybe. Best bet would be to give them a ring, explain your situation, maybe say your willing to catch up on assignments etc. and you already have a very reasonably knowledge of cars. The assignments are really not too hard, if you really go for it your looking at 1-2 evenings tops. Il try and find you the number for them.

Seriously, on a scale of 1 to TGS, do you know how gay you are? Thats right, TGS. In other words, VERY, VERY gay. Edit:

Dan, you dont live very far from me, Im sure you could get onto my course in bicester, especially since you can drive. You can even get petrol money in the form of benefits not loads, I think its about 60quid a term, but still, its not to bad considering the good old eco corsa uses about 1/4 or 1/5 of a tank a day there, including missions to tesco to get food. so 60quids 2 tanks, so a couple of weeks worth of college comuting. Its only 3 days a week too

Seriously. What is this new engine out of?!

No, I am genuinly going for the education, I can get pissed and have sex here, now. I just dont want to go t uni with the idea it will be a great laugh, and Il get a decent qualitfication from it when in reality you either go out and have a laugh OR study alot and do well. Im currently totally torn between applying for an aprenticship with someone like prodrive for next year, or holding out and going to uni. Basically If uni is jst going to be like a more difficult version of college, with tons of work, and little play, then I would probably go for the apprenticship. However if I can go to uni have a great laugh, get drunk, generally enjoy myself on 4 out of 7 nights a week rather than 2 a week at home AND get a qualification that MIGHT get me a better job. The problem is that the motorsport industry seems to me to look on experience almost as much as it does a degree or similar. Unless its F1 or somthing, but I dont think I could hack doing that. Its a stupidly difficult decision I hear rumors of people like aston martin not hire-ing any one that hasnt been to uni and got a degree unless its for the production line or similar, and I hear all the time that when people get you CV they will bin it if you dont have somthing that others dont, I imagine alot of people get a degree. Then again, I look on the prodrive site and see vacancies for aston race tecnichians, and the required education etc. is secondry education, and then it says, "aprenticship prefered" aswell as any other work expereince, no where does it say the word degree. Basically I cannot work out wether an aprenticeship would be as good for me as uni. Uni: Debt, possibly a laugh? and a degree Aprenticship: payed education, no debt, possibly less of a laugh?, experience and a way into the industry. Basically I need to speak to somone in the rally, touring car or similar industry and see which is prefered, if there is a preference, experience or a degree. I get the impression the degree is very F1 orientated (airodynamics, thermodynamics etc.) which possible apply less critically in the lower forms of racing. (of course it still applys, touring cars run spoilers, splitters, diffusers etc. to make the stick to the road, but F1 is clearly more orientated around the extreme thechincalitys) So yea, in some ways Im wondering if uni isnt quite the massive drinking/sexing/degree gaining experience its made out to be then maybe im better off getting an aprenticship, having weekends free (no more shitty homebase work) and going out living it up at the weekends. Its highly possible that I have just repeated the same point about 7 times in this post, with much rambling.

Cheers guythsss. Iv just started to draft it up. On the payment note, I was thinking that maybe if i dont mention pay, or the lack of it, it will come down the there assumptions as to wether I get paid or not. I was considering if I get no replies from this letter to slightly re-write it and add in about doing it volentarily, as that may then make it slightly more appealing to them... The only real issue with this is that in doing this placement I will be working on a day which I could be working at *cough*Homebase*cough* and earning money, which I kinda need to run my car to get to college/the placment Im applying for. Its tricky. I guess Il have to take on more hours on a different day.