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Granted, but you're fired in the process and forced to work at a fast food outlet like MacDonalds. I wish my car wasn't damaged No-one corrupt that, please. I wish I was on holidays

Well, car's home and I'm happier than I was earlier. It really is 'minor' damage (I hope there's no additional damage ). The boot has a minor dint that looks like it could be panel beaten, however my brother wants it replaced. Bumper while only slightly damaged requires replacing being plastic. A tail light and possibly the exhaust/muffler. I still wish it didn't happen, and I'm hoping that there's only the physical damage present and nothing hidden like chassis damage. Truth be told I almost laughed when I saw the other car, a Corolla - I'm thinking 2000ish - which had the front end rather badly damaged. I'll hopefully have some pics soon. On a lighter note, my brother brought home his new car Damn it's nice.

That sucks. What kind of car? '95 Audi 80 Quattro Haven't seen the damage, but my brother said: "It's not that bad" Of course, he's only selling it because he just bought a 2001 BMW 540i, so who knows what that really means. At least it was insured, as was the other driver. Still, the car WAS close to immaculate No accidents, one or two minor dints that were barelly noticeable, caused by retards with shopping trollies. I'm going to go break something now.

Destiny's Way was one of those books, the first time you read it you love it. I did, and was happy that I bought the hard back copy. Second time around, not so grand. By the third time I was wondering why it went hardback As for Traitor, I've only read it the once and wasn't too impressed with it. Weird, seeing most other people love it. I should try and read it again some day.

Mad's correct, that these cars are mad lighter to improve performance. The heavier a car is, the more power and torque required to produce the performance of a lighter car. Therefore lightening improves acceleration, and to some extent top speed. It also improves handling. Less weight improves the centre of gravity (usually improved with some modifications as well), and there's less momentum to throw the car around with. Lightening the car is usually achieved by ripping out the non-essentials - all seats (racing seats replace the front two), carpet, additional body work, air con, cruiser control, abs and other weighted objects. Panel work is usually replaced with lighter materials, fibre glass, aluminium, Kevlar and more recently carbon fibre. Additionally, roll cages and strut bars are added to give the car's chassis more rigidity - and the roll cage is also intended to protect the driver in case of rolling over. Engines, too, are heavily modified. Freer reving, lightened fly wheels, heavy clutches, massive turbo's or super chargers, massive inter coolers, practically non-existent exists etc. Modern turbo engines are also over-fuelled to keep the idle high enough so that the turbo is constantly spooling. Most engines are rebuilt after every rally to keep them running. On a side note, modern cars that are built around the rally designs are often high maintenance cars - the Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 8 and 9's were high maintenance cars, in particular there was a 400hp Evo (2 litre engine with a turbo bigger than your head and more lag than some cars can rev) that needed to be serviced every 3000kms. Most of those small hatchbacks (chosen, because the small size of a hatch makes them lighter and more nimble than a larger car) looked like Renaults and Peugeot's. Personally I liked the Audi Quattro in its day. Then there was the Lancia Delta S4 - a crazy rally car. The only thing that was shared with the original road going version of the car (towards the end if their rally life) was the cabin. The rest of the car was made from roll cage style tubing and Kevlar. The engine was both supercharged and turbocharged. EDIT: And I just learnt that the car I bought off my brother, and was receiving tonight was just crashed into.

Granted, now you have to baby sit the children of the "no touching policy" while being lectured by their moronic parents. I wish for infinite knowledge

Granted. But the new post count causes another server crash deleting your profile and all your posts (including your stories and designs ). I wish I could fly. After family guy, is that such a bad thing?

Kids are so smart these days

Your wish is granted, but the wireless router on works for 2 minutes beforing dying and needing a reset (much like my own ). I wish for batman ... just because. @Tofu: Is this from the Petroglyph forums? I remember reading it somewhere... @Bruja: Welcome to the forums

Or for those who prefer Youtube. Robot Chicken Star Wars Special (part 1 of 3) Robot Chicken Star Wars Special (part 2 of 3) Robot Chicken Star Wars Special (part 3 of 3) Best Randomness Post Ever This'll keep me distracted from work for a while

The Thing returns Rob's marrage? Bambi meets Rambo Ahh... There's more than one green thing in therescrewed The new walkman Ahh, I think she got this wrong Now that's thinking! Cat hat

OOC: Ok, busy busy week for me now - so don't expect a post for a little while (hopefully not a long while). Ulic if you want you can post or wait for me - your choice. I'm thinking of raiding a world that folded to the Vong without a fight. They're being oppressed but there are a handful of cities still up and running - just swarming with slaves, and with people disappearing kinda quick.

Nifty laptop design

If I start playing Jedi Knight again, I'll have to grab that mod Tofu 1+1 = 103 ... right? Political correctness gone stupid

I think someone wants to move his post count back up At least it's not pointless spamming! Keep 'em coming Def, humour keeps me going in the morning

Hahah! That was fantastic J! I was a little worried before clicking that link with my parents in the room

Got some free time in my schedual to work on my rank! Can't let this fade away http://img357.imageshack.us/img357/3861/testrankvx3.jpg Much smaller, I've put it with the rest of my avatar and side details for comparison ... not as much help without the rest of the board though I'm still not happy with the 9 dots though, I think I'll try to make the metal backing lighter. LLF's NR logo are now sobber as well

No problems here, albiet I'm running things a little different: XP SP2, IE7, Avast! Virus scanner (also, Windows Defender running). My guess is that bit of Javascript is confusing the virus scanner, acting like a trojan and opening some back door maybe API related. You might check the AVG forums (assuming they have one) for similar problems Then the devil I be

Was a bit .. weird History of Photoshop Something serious

Nice J! When do you get time for work these days?

Gay Bomb

No pressure On a related note, a quick convo with a mate came up with the name - or rather military slang/nick name for the vessel - "battle chariot" or simply "chariot". Something for the grunts to say on the battlefield Now, however, I think that'll apply to all transports though No worries In some form of irony I almost posted my randomness stuff here too Thanks! Hopefully I'll get some basic textures going for it ... semi soon. Don't hold me to that

That was ... well, disturbing really. It just felt too human and too fake at the same time

Seeing no-one else answered it, I will. It was Nelson, at his house - referring to a poster on his wall, which he was showing to Lisa. The episode was the one were Lisa goes out with Nelson.

Yeah, it's a good drawing - and also a good comic: http://www.blastwavecomic.com/index.php?p=comic&nro=1 Oh, and I feel like I've posted this before