beigemaster
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The GT43, modified with the roof buldge so that clarkson could drive it
Sweet! Now that really is my dream car!
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Ford GT40
Although because I'm 6'4 I doubt I would be able to fit in one
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Get f**ked.
I tried didn't I ? I tried bloody hard in-fact and spent a good few hours going through the brackets box looking for the right one after saying I had one, turns out the ones I thought fitted the light he had were slightly different to all the other Halfords brackets we have which are the same as Topeak ones, they just don't fit the rechargeable lights. Thats more than you did to help the guy out so wind your neck in.
I even went to Halfords with a couple of brackets to try them on a light there on my day off ! (I was going there anyway but it's the thought that counts)
Pashley- many thanks for trying. Wood- there is no need to make this a bitch thread. If anyone has any luck then that would be awesome, as I said before, I will pay up a bit more than just the postage as a sign of thanks.
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Hey all, Pashley26 didn't manage to get hold of one so if anyone else who offered is able to then let me know and I would be very grateful. Cheers
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Awesome, I'l pay you the postage and a little something for yourself for the trouble. PM me details to postage cost, how you want the money ect
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Can't really take a photo but there is a picture to light here Cheers
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Has anyone had any luck finding anything? Cheers guys
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Thanks for all the comments boys, Fixed Pants- no need to bother fannying around with ordering them in and all that jazz. If someone can just find one lying in a box then it just keeps it easier but I appreciate the offer. Since a fair few people think they will find one I'll just go with who finds one first then arrange post and payment ect. Thanks everyone for making the loss of a bike that little bit easier to deal with!
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A while ago I bought a Halfords Bikehut light set, the one that you charge rather than buy new batteries for about £30. Unfortunately, my bike was stolen and although I still have the light, the tw*t obviously made off with the bracket that holds the light on (the quick release one, similar to this one )
Rather than pay another £30 to get a whole new light set, I went down to Halfords to see if they had a spare one. The chap looked through a big box of odds and sods but with no luck and suggested I should try another Halfords. If anyone here works for Halfords and could get hold of a spare bracket for me, then I would be willing to pay up and be very grateful. Any offers?
Mods, if this is more of a For Sale/Wanted thread please feel free to move it. I just thought since it was quite an odd request I would it put it here. Cheers.
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Am I the only person who is getting a weird "Space Monkey Tyler Durden Fight Club Minions" feel about this thread? It all starts with funny pictures of home made towers and next thing you know you will all be blowing up various bank buildings to the tune of the Pixies.
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I don't think it's the road surface because a)I have driven on the same stretch of road before quite a few times (Dual Carriage way heading out of the city) with no problems and b)As I said before, it vibrates so much that you can’t even really use the rear view mirror because it's just a blur. Originally I thought it was ice that was caught up in the wheel arches rubbing on the tyres (from all the recent snow) but I removed that and it's still been playing up.
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First, I apologise for not putting it in the correct thread. Mods, feel free to move this if need be.
Second, thanks for all the feedback with relation to this. I will go through those standard checks tomorrow. If the wheels were out of balance, would the vibration only happen occasionally or would it be a constant thing? Just to give you an idea, out of about 10 hours of motorway driving (between 50-70mph) it has probably only happened for about 5 mins in total. So it maybe it goes off for 30 seconds every other hour.
Would the likes of Kwik Fit check the wheels and is that a general consensus that it should be a relatively cheap job. Again thanks for all the help.
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Ok, car details first:
2001 Ford Focus 1.6 Zetec 60K on the clock FSH.
Basically, when I've been driving on the motorway it sometimes will start vibrating and making a very loud low rumble, it sometimes vibrates so much that if you look in the rear view mirror the whole things is a total blur. The weird thing is that it's not permanent, may go off for a about 20 seconds then just go away again. I don't think it's coming from the engine because the noise doesn’t change when lifting off or applying the gas so guessing it's suspension or tyre problems, as I said though, it's odd that it just comes and goes so I don't see how it can be anything thats constantly going (if that makes sense). It only happens when going over 50mph and it does get noticeably louder when applying the breaks.
Any ideas at all? As I said, the car has a regular full service history, only 2 owners and has obviously been really well looked after so I don't see how it could be anything major. Don't really want to take it to a garage without finding out what it could be because I don't want my wallet to be destroyed.
Thanks for any help/advice/ideas?
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My friend took her driving test quite recently and they failed her because she began to speed up about 50 yards before reaching the national speed limit sign so avoid doing that. If your insured to, get out and practice as much as you can in a parent/friend's car, my instructor told me that the more cars you drive the better overall driver you will be and I think he was right.
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I think that he was being sarcastic and using an analogy of a country that does have the death penalty, and yet still plenty of murder, to illustrate that the death penalty doesn't work.
Correct. Two major problems with the dp.
1.Logical inconsistency. As someone mentioned before, you are punishing an individual for taking a life by taking a life. I know this may sound like I am being pedantic, but, the goverment/state MUST maintain the moral high ground or no one would obey it.
2.If you try and justify the DP from a detterence point of view, you become open to all the usual problems realted with detterence theory such as the "Sherriff and the mob" analogy. This is that if you only punish people to deter other crimes then you have no reason not to punish the innocent, as long as it puts people off crime. In fact, if you follow that line of reasoning then the state should be regualry putting people to death (even if they are innocent) because if they don't then the state seems ineffective and the deterrent effect of the law is diminished.
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Yeah bringing back the death penalty would really deter people and we would end up with really low murder rates, just like in the U.S.A
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What is TGS?
-People who are vegetarians on moral grounds and yet are quite happy to eat eggs that aren't free range. Ultimately, the chickens have suffered far longer by being kept alive to produce eggs rather than the relatively short time chickens who are raised for their meat.
-Moral vegetarians who are quite happy to eat tuna. I mean, have they seen the size of a tuna? How can that not be classed as an animal.
-Moral vegetarians who wear leather shoes. "oh yes I can't eat an animal as this is considered cruel but I'm quite happy to skin one and wear it on my feet"
-In fact, moral vegetarians full stop. I have ALOT more respect for vegans. If your going to do something, might as well do it properly.
-At work, members of staff who smoke and so are entitled to 10 minute breaks every hour while the rest of us who don't want to slowly kill ourselves take up the slack.
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The skills required to get a degree (especially if it's a good mark) are kind of self evident to an employer. So as you said, being able to commit to something but also the fact that a degree isn't like being in secondary school where everything is spoon fed to you and all you have to do is agree in the exam. You have to do your own research and your own work and therefore you must have the competence and self motivation that’s required.
I suppose now though since there are so many more people studying at uni, it has become more about where you got your degree from and how strong it was. So did you get a 1st at an established uni like Oxford/Cambridge or did you get a 3rd at one of the newer universities. Personally I'm not sure what I want to do once I graduate, I quite like the academic life so might even look into studying longer and getting a job in a university.
In order to keep on topic, I hate windy days when I'm on the bike
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What do you mean by "Doesn't mean anything?" Not sure I follow your next remark either really. Obviously that qualification is a vocational based qualification so if you know what you want to do for your career then that’s fine. I was referring to the thousands of people studying degrees right now who have no clue what they're going to do once they have graduated.
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What kind of job do you use Philosophy for anyway? Its an honest question, no sarcasm intended.
Is it like one of those things people do before leaving to go work in argos?
I could answer this question with a typical philosophy student tactic by responding with another question which is, with the exception of people who study medicine, nursing and architecture, who has any idea what there going to do with there degrees?
However, in order to avoid this annoying habit I would respond by saying pretty much anything I want to. The great thing about Philosophy is that it's not really a subject but more of a skill, being able to critically analyse various things and generally trying to think outside the box. Theres a good article in the Guardian here which discusses and summarises these points:
Lucy Adams, human resources director of Serco, a services business and a consultancy firm, says: "Philosophy lies at the heart of our approach to recruiting and developing our leadership, and our leaders. We need people who have the ability to look for different approaches and take an open mind to issues. These skills are promoted by philosophical approaches."Fiona Czerniawska, director of the Management Consultancies Association's think tank, says: "A philosophy degree has trained the individual's brain and given them the ability to provide management-consulting firms with the sort of skills that they require and clients demand. These skills can include the ability to be very analytical, provide clear and innovative thinking, and question assumptions."
Forgetting all of this though, most employers really only care about the fact that you have a degree and aren't too fussed in what you studied. The fact that you have the skills required to get a degree are all that really matters. Baring that in mind, I would rather study for 3 years a degree that I actually find interesting and not one which I think prospective employers will find useful.
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Dickhead posh philosophy students. Don't get me wrong i think philosophy as a concept is allright, but at my school the only thing it seems to teach is fancy words for stuff we all think about just as deeply anyway. Now this would be fine if they kept it to themselves, but in arguments/discussions they seem to find it impossible not to talk down to you and bring in these bullshit words when they know fully well you won't understand them because you don't study the same bullshit subject just because you think you're such a deep, creative thinker.
Those long beanies that people wear that hang off the back of their heads. The people wearing these generally seem to also be dickhead posh philosophy students, going for the scruffy art fag look. The whole 'deep thinking' vibe seems to go along with thinking they're rastas just because they smoke green every other weekend, ocassionally laugh along to bob marley, and wear hats that hide pretend dreads.
EDIT: Please note, that first point has no relation to Ben Rowlands on here
While he does use alot of stupid big words i get the impression he uses them to talk alot of sense.Philosophy as a subject/discipline has its own lingo just like any other. Should we talk about science without using words such as photosynthesis/osmosis/evaporation? Or, how would you feel if your mechanic told you "the funny push valve thing got a bit stuck in the funny long tube bit under the big block thing"
That said, as a Philosophy student I find myself disliking a lot of people on my course because they do feel they have a innate superiority and use terminology in order to seem more intelligent. This is kind of ironic because the whole point of Philosophy is to seek truth but in the clearest way possible, that’s why (in arguments) overuse of jargon which is not necessary is often frowned upon. For example, I could respond to your "Dickhead posh philosophy students" by saying "this is a blatant exercise of a fallacy ad hominem which completely over shadows your main points" Of course quite a few people will have no idea what that means because I'm being overly complicated. A much simpler way of putting it would be "by mocking the people who study philosophy with insults this distracts the reader from any real arguments you might have. They may think, well he's just taking a cheap shot there so why should I listen to him"
I think it tends to be people who first start who do this type of thing, most people get out of the habit when there essays come back with poor marks and phrases such as "this is unclear" or "what do you mean exactly"
I have no idea what you mean about the beanie thing as there doesn't seem to be any Sheffield students wearing them, they tend to wear flip flops in mid winter which is also very annoying.
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Rich kids who get everything paid for and never have to lift a finger in their lives. They can just sit around until mum and dad die and then squander money they’ve never earned on selfish, hedonistic bullshit. People like this rarely have an accurate perception of the value of money and the amount of work and effort it takes the majority of people to get it.
Completely with you there. Near where I live there are a lot of private schools and I often see kids being driven to school in Bentleys. I have nothing against money/wealth and the capitalistic system in principle. The bit I hate is how you can be born into a huge amount of wealth and have an immediate advantage over kids from poorer background who may have a huge potential to offer society but may not get the chance to develop and also have the a lot of the richer classes have this innate sense of superiority over the lower classes.
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-People who say "I'l give it 110%"
-People who say "At the end of the day...."
-People who spit
Just realised all of the above are linked to pro footballers which I have already put down.
R.i.p Intelligent Design
in Chit Chat
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This is of course based on the presupposition that evolution can not be an entailment or product of intelligent design. This discovery isn't going to change people's world views because the world views alter the view point on any evidence on this basis. Obviously, it seems flawed to not believe in evolution as at least a methodology to explain how we got here (hence getting rid of creationalism) but people will just take a step backwards with the argument. I.E rather than asking "how is life so complicated without a designer" they will just say "how is evolution and existence it self possible without a designer"