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1st half chat now open.

Well what happened..?

Cup of tea/beer/etc... time. And chat about that 1st half.

Hi peeps. Comments here please. COYR.

In your mind, just imagine a couple of outriggers on the back wheel. Then it would behave a bit more like a car. I'm sure you'd get the hang of that. There is a tiny difference though. I can't see that three-wheeler [the one with the handlebar tassles, just in case it's still confusing, matey] being capable of about 230 mph. Or 0-60 in about 2.5 seconds. Or having about 240bhp on tap either. I'm sure it would do well in the right hands though.

This is the 3rd thread about Paul Hart. Well done for makling it Saints related, David. The others are in General Sports and The Lounge.

Just up country, in Greater Manchester, a bloke stole a car while the woman who owned it tried to stop him. He ended up deliberately driving into her so that she was thrown up onto the bonnet where she bashed her head, before falling to the ground. She later died of her injuries in hospital. Apparently, a bloke has been arrested in connection with it. We can wring our hands yet again, and again, but that doesn't do anything, in the end, for the woman or her family, who have just had Mum taken away. But, apart from the obvious tragedy of the woman losing her life, you also wonder where the hell where the bloke's brains were..? Where was his humanity, his sense of value for human life, including his own. Because, now his life will take a far worse turn than he ever has imagined, if he has ever imagined anything. He will also have to live with the knowledge that he has stopped a life in its tracks. Of course I hope they throw the book at him. But it won't stop another person stealing a handbag, or a car, or a life. I wish it could.

Nah, neither could I. Don't really get into humour where other people suffer physical pain.

As Al and hamster have suggested, yes we did. The news and documentaries of the time just put you into that frame off mind. But I also remember taking up sailing as a healthy pastime, as skiing was killing my back, and the freedom feeling I used to get was fantastic. So in the midst of all the depressing news I, along with loads of other people, had found a way of coping with it. I suppose it was why events such as the falling of the Berlin Wall were so monumental. It was a visible sign that East-West tensions were finally being resolved.

Hmm, maybe we should just stay as we are for now. After all, I remember a certain Marek Saganowski being abolutely brilliant while he was on loan. But as soon as the deal was done the goals dried up almost completely. Yes, it was a lot to do with other circumstances too, but the transformation was like night and day.

I remember being in the process of changing jobs during the early 1980's, and the news at the time made a friend of mine suggest that I didn't bother taking up the new job as we wouldn't be around for much longer anyway. Thankfully, I didn't heed his advice.

Ocean's Twelve Well, tbf, I started watching it one hour into the action. Shame really as I thought the rest was pretty good fun. I suppose it helps to like this sort of slightly jokey, but smooth capering, all friends together, kind of film. Which, with this cast, I do. Hopefully, ITV will do their usual thing and repeat it endlessly, because I'd actually like to see the first hour, if only to hear Don Cheadle do his excellent blokey London accent, as Basher.

I can only suggest you look at a walkthrough to see if you've missed anything critical. Although you can do things at different times, the order can't change dramatically.

Did you flash your blacklight everywhere..?

It only opens when the button with the fish skeleton on the front is in th right position. BTW, just in case you don't have it right it's: OOOO OXXO OOOX OXOO Where X is a pressed button. Oh, you have to take the yellow gem out of the tray [bottom right] where the shells are, for the box to open.

Read up the thread.

Blimey, my timing is brilliant at the moment. Every time I come here, there's a new question. Holes in the wall under the plants. Have you been to the top left of the sideboard..?

OK, first have you looked in the bottom draw of the sideboard..? In there you'll find something that looks like the compass on the map on the desk. We all know N,E,W,S and where they on the compass. So take your newsense and tap that into the thing you've found in the bottom drawer. BTW, there's one more number inside a shape to the right of the stool under the sideboard. The shapes are important.

OK, I did it again. Where are you stumped..?

To me, the adoption of hybrid cars is going in the right direction, but a bit too slowly. I see Ponty's point, and I also see Ponty's bias in that he just doesn't want to lose the petrol/diesel engine, because of its characteristics. Hey, I'm with you there mate. My bike has all those beautiful characteristics in spades. I love the performance of the petrol engine and I would hate to see it go. Perhaps the adoption of alternative technology engines will allow us to drive the old petrol cars and bikes for fun at the weekend..? But maybe not. At the moment, my interest is in how much energy is required to separate hydrogen from oxygen on an industrial scale, and to what cost [any quick answers would be welcomed]. It is the lack of infrastructure that stops the hydrogen car storming to the front of the very short queue of technologies that are able to do the same job as the petrol/diesel powered vehicle, and in exactly the same level of convenience. Yet it does take energy to produce automotive fuels too. It doesn't pop out of the earth ready to make power. But the petrol/diesel car had no such obstacle when it was first introduced. There was literally no infrastructure then, full stop; nothing in the way, save the horse and the blacksmith, and he could turn his hand to anything else. Besides, the petrol engine saved that animal a life of drudgery. But we have an obstacle now - the oil based economies of the world, and the infrastructure that goes with that. So I suppose we're going to have to put up with the hybrid, not because it is a step in the right direction, but because it still needs fuel.

I think they're all kidding. At least I hope they are. :confused:

Proposing..? They're already doing it, with many more to follow. As a person who does a fair bit of sailing, I sometimes wish the wind would abate. Too often it finds a reason to get even stronger. I quite like tidal power too, but the environmental implications are an issue. And why on Earth we don't make as much use of rivers as we could is beyond me. There's free power going to waste with every raindrop. And it's about as low-tech as you can get, before it stops being tech at all. After the early promise of Salter's Ducks, back in the 80's, wave power is catching on again. There is a British company, called Polamis, that has a contract with EON to produce power from waves using their sea-snake design. They did have a contract with the Portugese and started commercially producing wave powered electricity in September 2009. But it broke down after a few weeks. It produced the same amount of electricity as one wind turbine.

No, that's the wrong bike Arizona. It's this one: Sorry if it was confusing.

How about having to collect gold rings, or ice cream cones, or sweets, just like Super Mario. But beware the green monster behind, ready to gobble you up at any moment. Seriously though, how about having a limitation on the size of the car, especially the width, so that they could overtake if they got the chance. Oh and fill in the gap between the wheels too, so the danger of cars coming together is reduced. Oops, sports car racing..!

Cheap Skiing Now that really is affordable. Though I suspect the apres-ski is a bit iffy.