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Gutted for you Sam, glad you're okay, mate. Must say, I'm somewhat impressed with you sympathetic lot too - a 21yr old stacking a 400hp single turbo after only 4 weeks experience driving his first Supra (first RWD?) would previously have been treated with a lot less sympathy in my time here. Good job, peeps!

£4,250?

Sorry - arguments is next door. It's being-hit-on-the-head lessons in here. Hmm - not sure. I don't think an MOT constitutes proof of roadworthiness - you can do all sorts of modifications to your car after passing an MOT (cats back out, anyone? ). On top of which, I'm not sure roadworthiness necessarily affects insurance claims, does it? Certainly you could be done by the police for having an unroadworthy car, but I don't think it matters for insurance purposes unless it was the direct cause of the accident.

The insurance company would laugh at them because an accident cannot be caused by this. Indicators are never considered to be a de facto indication of where a driver is about to go - you can never assume that the indication is correct, and incorrect signalling or lack of signalling will never be considered for insurance claim decisions, I believe.

TV adaptation of George RR Martin's Song of Fire and Ice. My favourite books ever! Medieval/fantasy setting but more realistic than your usual Lord of The Rings fare - all the murdering / raping you would expect! And the good guys usually end up dead (murdered / raped / etc.)! And after HBO put plenty money into Rome, and didn't shy away from the sex and violence, and George Martin himself was writing some of the episodes, I had pretty good hopes for it..

Annoyed that the writers strike has put the kaibosh on the completion of Fire, which HBO were originally intending to have done this year

As suggested, this is nothing to do with taxes. This is ASDA's own call. If you really don't like it, vote with your ££££, mate! Personally, I get annoyed with people who park in the parent & child spaces when they don't need to. When we had Adam in the infant carrier in the back of the Supra, you had to open the door fully to be able to lift him out. Totally impossible when trying to fit in a regular parking bay between two other cars - the Supra doors are friggin' huge! That said, I blame the supermarkets partly. Why do they put these parking spaces right by the doors? They were always going to get abused - if they'd put them further away, I'd be much happier!

Because on the way to "understanding it all", we might actually make life better and maybe even discover a way to haul our asses out of this limited-lifespan solar system and give us more time to work out the rest of it! If people hadn't bothered trying to understand any of it, a lot of the things that you rely upon today wouldn't exist.

Both are interesting fields, but the problem in modern times seems to be that so many paranormal scientists, physicists and theologists are all trying to make a name for themselves that the theories being produced and published are so far beyond anything that we could possibly experiment and validate that none of it is really relevant. Loads of people have come up with theories to "guess" at how physics, the universe, God, ghosts, etc. exist and work. In the distant future, some of these might be proven correct, but for now, it's just guesswork. That's why they're called "theories"! I mean, they still can't even explain how light works! Personally I like more immediate feedback. The "Exceptionally Simple Theory About Everything" that some surfer/physicist came up with in November is more up my street, 'cos it's liable to be strengthend or even disproved when the CERN Hadron Collider comes on line later this year (provided they don't create a black hole and destroy everything, of course!). I also like the idea of a unification theory anyway. If everything is built up of the same tiny little sub-atomic particles, why shouldn't a single theory explain how everything works?

Well it's all pretty meaningless as it's so hypothetical. All the multi-dimensional (10 or 11, AFAIrecall) suggestions like superstring theory and M-theory have zero grounding in observed experiments. In essence, there's no more proof that string theory is true than if God exists!!!

It's a good question. It's like the universe has a finite size - it has been expanding at a fixed rate since the (alleged!) big bang. So what is outside it?

"I don't know if I believe in God or not." Is an odd wording - it sounds like, at heart, one must either believe in God or not, but they just don't know yet. Whereas although I don't believe in God, I don't know for 100% certain that He doesn't exist. (I also don't particularly care whether He exists or not to be honest! - if He really exists, he doesn't appear to give a toss about me, so why should I reciprocate? ) I am a devout agnostic.

You're mistaken. I think blokes general prefer "skinny" to "fat", but I think you'll find you're in a very small minority choosing smackhead Winehouse over T&A Winehouse.

Ah, but they would be aware of what was happening anyway, as lettuces communicate via telepathy.

Maybe it was a Braveheart-themed wedding.

Interesting. Is this accurate? I guess it's when you take into account all the land required to produce food for livestock too....

Mostly (although I don't agree with your lettuce comparison). The problem is it makes no sense unless you take it to the absolute extreme, tibetan buddhist style (ie. ZERO harm to animals in your entire lifestyle, not just in what you eat. eg. watch where you walk to avoid treading on insects, etc.!). ie. it's true that going veggie means less animals get abused, but there are so many other things that people do where animals get abused indirectly, that it renders the few animals that get abused to bring meat to your table insignificant in the grand scheme of things. You think the mechanisms that bring gas to heat your spa, electricity to your HD-DVD-player and oil to fuel your sports car don't harm environmental habitats and are ultimately responsible for the suffering and deaths of animals and the extinction of entire species? Ha.

The best reason I've heard for becoming vegetarian was: "I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. It's because I hate plants." :D

Adam is 18 months now, and poo can be very strange. Sometimes he won't poo for a couple of days, then squeeze out the biggest poo you've ever seen. The look on his face when he's just standing in the middle of the room straining to fill his nappy is hilarious!

I've never tried it.

Love playing football. Don't really bother watching it.

Unlikely at 80, I would have thought. Especially if that was an 80-reading on his speedo (which probably equates to 75ish on the road).

Too true. The only people I know in regular employment who I would consider "wealthy" are the ones who are: a) "professional couples": ie. joint income > 60-80k+ b) late family starters: no kids until 30+ c) high on the property ladder: bought in the right place before 1995

Single conversion?