Chewie

So you recommend buying now, then let the bank get nationalised and all share dealings getting frozen? Not too sure that's a good idea. Are you some kind of merchant banker?

Do not buy any bank shares. Many will get nationalised and then you've had it. The best thing to do is sit back and wait - YEARS! Guidelines and regulations will be in place to control the banking industry from irresponsible lending. The government will float the banks to get back the money it used to bail them out. That's when you buy.

I'm really concerned about the size of your garage. My little bedroom is bigger than that! LOL!!

You drove down Hatherley Lane at about 5.10 pm. Can't you read English. ROAD CLOSED and the barriers in across the road was a big clue LOL!!! [GRIN][/GRIN]

Most heart rate monitors strap around your chest to pick up the heart beats. good for posing down the gym. Really pointless unless you have a heart condition or really do push yourself to the max limit. Go on anything more than a 100 m run and they all end up around your waist.

Are you on a budget? If so go for the Gixxer. The Ducati running will only bite you on your a*se. Also buy anything less than a 1098 and you'll be the equivalent of a Boxster driver, that bloke who couldn't quite afford the real thing.

Tread mill calorie counters are okay if accurately calibrated. Calorie or metric joule is a unit of work energy which is simply your mass times distance travelled. Where it goes all pear shaped is for so much work you wil perspire so much water. Currently training for the London marathon I know I lose 2 kg on a 2 hr run. The trouble is not all of it's water. The body breaks down muscle glycogen, fat and even muscle. A good indication of how good your workout is the colour of your p*ss because this is all bits of you being flushed out after being used for up energy. As a workout, fast interval training is good and is more CV beneficial than plodding at a slow steady rate. I quit running with heart rate monitors. The keep getting on your tits.

Christ! He must've tied a plank across his a*se to stop himself falling in.

My brthday is indeed on the 14th Feb. Never had a problem getting a table for a dinner bash. I've got 15 showing up tomorrow for a mega chinese buffet bingeing bloatfest. And I'm paying for it.

Duhh... Are you a girl?

That's worse than civet cat poo coffee made from beans that have been fired out of the back end of a civet cat. Then there's the mouth watering thirst quenching chicha. Great drink until you find out it's made from the saliva of South American women chewing on corn, rice and yucca plant and gobbing into vat to ferment. [sHOCK][/sHOCK]

Bone dry over in Glarssthahshire oooh arrr.

AutoCad! Yer avin a larf! Can you travel back in time?

The OEM sunroof was a ghastly Heath Robinson contraption. There wasn't much space between the roof lining and the shell to conceal the sunroof mechanism so they put it all on the outside, two massive sliding rails. It leaked continually when some chavs jumped on it and bent the roof.

I like the way the guy with his last dying breath managed to conjure enough strength to give you the bird. I say he got the moral victory coz you were too chicken to stick around and to administer the coup de grace.

I had one from new back in the 80s. The differential packed in at about 80K. It overheated. I had to drive it once at 45 mph from Gatwick to Swindon with the heater full blast and all the windows open to keep it cool. Otherwise brilliant car. Worth no more than 10p.

Company car!!? What you should've done then was get in the Audi. Slowly ease it up behind your missus's Mazda and use it as an overpriced wedge up her rear end. That'd stop here sliding.

My guess is you were deliberately targeted. Nobody walks around randomly with a can of black spray paint in their pocket. If it was kids doing a bit of graffitti they would have done a better job than that. I reckon it's not jealousy but a neighbour you may have p*ssed off. Got a loud zorst? That's normally what annoys most people. I get loads of complaints about my motorbike but nowt they can do as it gets locked up.

Do your CBT and then get on with a DAS straight away. You can do it all in a week. CBT is just a morning and you wonder what the fuss is all about. If you can ride a bicycle you can do a CBT. It's only valid for 2 years. And really do you want to ride around on a 125s or a restricted bike when all your mates are on 1000s? DAS will be done on 500s or 600s. Do it!

Well I didn't get a brick through the window so I'll go and finish off clearing the drive. Don't you hate it when people only do things by halves. LOL!!

Some plonker in a Fiesta decided to use my drive to do a three point turn like as if the road isn't wide enough. I get this all the time. Problem for them was it slopes downwards towards my house and I hadn't cleared the snow. Well I'm not driving in this weather. They got stuck and couldn't reverse out. So the first I know is my living room is lit up by headlights and I can here voices outside. Thinking it was my mates I pop outside. The driver and his mate ask me to help push them out. I replied they wouldn't be here if they had kept to the road. And I was expecting visitors who would be blocking them in. "Sorry my dinner's getting cold." For 20 mins, I watched them clear my drive by hand, using the foot mats under the tyres, they managed to get back onto the road. Of course while I was munching my dindins. My neighbour came out and had a good giggle. I think they learnt their lesson. I'll probably get a brick through the window tonight.

Also after spending a lot of time riding motorbikes, you develop a paranoid instinct that all other road users including other bikers are complete uttah nuttahs and therefore should be treated with extreme caution.

An ex-girl friend never indicated. Her logic was it kept everybody guessing what she was going to do. Inevitably after 16 years driving like this she eventually did have an accident while going round a roundabout. A car pulled out onto the roundabout and she hit it. Amazingly she got off. How? She claimed she was indicating.

I think she's a babe.

Premium bonds get the thumbs up but you need to stick £££££s in to have any chance of winning a prize. Max investment is £30K. The odds of winning any prize was 1:24000. Do the maths and if you should win something every month if you've got at least £24K. But a few months ago they reduced the odds to 1:36000. Last month was the first time in ages I didn't win anything. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the the February draw. C'MON!!!