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Ah, but Stonie, those brights are too bright, hence why I dip beam a lot in those sitations when a car is coming the other way.
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I might just have an inferiority complex about the whole thing because my car lights aren't very bright. Embarrassed

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I didn't have very bright lights on my car either, even when I raised the angle to the highest, so I used the full beam a lot on country roads at night.

I also hate those neon lights that boy racers use... I also hate to hear thud thud thud coming from the speakers at traffic lights.

Traffic Light Music, I call it.

When I have a car again, I might just have to blast some Absolute Zero really loud when I stop at traffic lights. LOL
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Try playing Zappa's "Billy The Mountain" at high volume in traffic jams... you don't half get some strange looks

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Points: 211 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 06 2007 at 07:27
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Try playing Zappa's "Billy The Mountain" at high volume in traffic jams... you don't half get some strange looks
or singing along to Sheik yerbootie Embarrassed
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Points: 1497 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 06 2007 at 17:09
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Try playing Zappa's "Billy The Mountain" at high volume in traffic jams... you don't half get some strange looks
 
You should try playing "The Laughing Gnome" outside the Tewkesbury chip shop at 11:00 on a Saturday night.  Confused
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Points: 7003 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 06 2007 at 17:43
Originally posted by Geck0 Geck0 wrote:

I didn't have very bright lights on my car either, even when I raised the angle to the highest, so I used the full beam a lot on country roads at night.

I also hate those neon lights that boy racers use... I also hate to hear thud thud thud coming from the speakers at traffic lights.

Traffic Light Music, I call it.

When I have a car again, I might just have to blast some Absolute Zero really loud when I stop at traffic lights. LOL
 
Bloody chavrolets with their neon blue lights under the chassis and about 7000 quid's worth of Paddy Hopkirk styling on the body of an untaxed, uninsured, no-MOT insurance write off that would be worth about 75 quid if you tried to flog it through auto trader and it's not like they even play half decent techno/drum and bass/whatever the hell they call it these days is grime or dubstep who gives a toss and all they do is drive aimlessly but very dangerously from one drive through McFriggingDonalds to another in the desperate hope that some 17 year old girl dripping bling with a room temperature IQ and the voice of Vicky Pollard will cop off with them and procreate the rancid little subspecies AngryAngryAngryAngryAngryAngryAngry!
 
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Originally posted by Syzygy Syzygy wrote:

Originally posted by Geck0 Geck0 wrote:

I didn't have very bright lights on my car either, even when I raised the angle to the highest, so I used the full beam a lot on country roads at night.

I also hate those neon lights that boy racers use... I also hate to hear thud thud thud coming from the speakers at traffic lights.

Traffic Light Music, I call it.

When I have a car again, I might just have to blast some Absolute Zero really loud when I stop at traffic lights. LOL
 
Bloody chavrolets with their neon blue lights under the chassis and about 7000 quid's worth of Paddy Hopkirk styling on the body of an untaxed, uninsured, no-MOT insurance write off that would be worth about 75 quid if you tried to flog it through auto trader and it's not like they even play half decent techno/drum and bass/whatever the hell they call it these days is grime or dubstep who gives a toss and all they do is drive aimlessly but very dangerously from one drive through McFriggingDonalds to another in the desperate hope that some 17 year old girl dripping bling with a room temperature IQ and the voice of Vicky Pollard will cop off with them and procreate the rancid little subspecies AngryAngryAngryAngryAngryAngryAngry!
 
I feel much better now.


Paddy Hpkirk!? You insult the great man by asociating him with such scum, he knew how to drive a real Monte Carlo rally, not like these simple little affairs that the drivers do today.


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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 06 2007 at 19:26
Originally posted by Heavyfreight Heavyfreight wrote:

Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Try playing Zappa's "Billy The Mountain" at high volume in traffic jams... you don't half get some strange looks
 
You should try playing "The Laughing Gnome" outside the Tewkesbury chip shop at 11:00 on a Saturday night.  Confused


Or maybe even The Laughing Policeman. Wink

Ah, not one of David Bowie's finest moments, is The Laughing Gnome. LOL


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Originally posted by Syzygy Syzygy wrote:

Bloody chavrolets with their neon blue lights under the chassis and about 7000 quid's worth of Paddy Hopkirk styling on the body of an untaxed, uninsured, no-MOT insurance write off that would be worth about 75 quid if you tried to flog it through auto trader and it's not like they even play half decent techno/drum and bass/whatever the hell they call it these days is grime or dubstep who gives a toss and all they do is drive aimlessly but very dangerously from one drive through McFriggingDonalds to another in the desperate hope that some 17 year old girl dripping bling with a room temperature IQ and the voice of Vicky Pollard will cop off with them and procreate the rancid little subspecies AngryAngryAngryAngryAngryAngryAngry




A fine rant, sir - exactly the kind of thing this thread was set up for; full-on, no nonsense, undiluted bile.

A bit rich coming from a scouser, though...



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Points: 2664 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 08 2007 at 08:59
Things currently peessing me off and need to get of my chest:

1. Corridor Gangs: About 5 or 6 in a line in front of you, walking slow as hell, this happens in college, the gits have no consideration for people who actually want to get somewhere.

2. Bums: hanging outside Tesco, with their "Oh look at me I'm so effing cool and hard, yeah and I'm with my cool friends" sort of kids, bumming around in a big gang shouting, swearing and messing around, are these human beings???, well they are not hard or cool, just a pathetic idiots who THINK they're great and big and cleaver AngryDead

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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 08 2007 at 15:05
Originally posted by PROGMAN PROGMAN wrote:

well they are not hard or cool, just a pathetic idiots who THINK they're great and big and cleaver AngryDead


...or indeed clever

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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 08 2007 at 15:07
I thought some law had come in about 5 or more years ago about groups of more than 3 people loitering around?

Fat lot of good that did. Ermm
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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 08 2007 at 15:31
Originally posted by Geck0 Geck0 wrote:

I thought some law had come in about 5 or more years ago about groups of more than 3 people loitering around?Fat lot of good that did. Ermm


It was repealed after Avon & Somerset police tried to arrest 90,000 people at the Glastonbury Festival for loitering within tent.

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90,000 people in one tent?  Ewwww.., still that's nothing compared to a Gartenised Fart Tm.

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Animated sig pix are the thingy that pee's me off. And, even worse, enormous sig pix that take up the whole screen when it's just a one-line reply like "I agree".

I do admit, though, that bunches of kids mouthing off outside shops is annoying. I'm just becoming an old t**t, I guess.

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Unbe f***ing lievable. Am I now being forced to give Jeffrey Archer money via my TV license fee also ? Way to go, bloody BBC. Angry

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[QUOTE=The-Bullet]Unbe f***ing lievable. Am I now being forced to give Jeffrey Archer money via my TV license fee also ? Way to go, bloody BBC. Angry [/QUOTE]
 
Reminds me of a poem I once wrote:
 
If I was on television
I'd be forward and upfront
If I could speak to the nation
I'd call Jeffrey Archer a ....
 
Well you can probably see where it was going. I can't remember all of it, but there were verses dealing with his latest book (But nobdy gives a ....), Archer getting plastered (What a total ... ) appearing in a farce, weighing anchor, having a luxury flat and so on.
 
I wrote to the BBC and offered to read it - I though it might go down well on Terry Wogan - but for some reason they never got back to me. Perhaps my poetic vision was too subtle for them. 
 
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Points: 7003 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 08 2007 at 19:21
And another thing AngryAngryAngryAngry
 
Apparently Dream Censoreding Theater are releasing another Censoreding album - I mean for Censored's sake it only seems like 5 minutes since Censoreding Octavarium came out and every other thread on the Censoreding forum was devoted to that Censoreding, Censoreding total Censoreding squandering of talent and electricity and then the CensoredCensoreding live album and then the Censoreding DVD and then the Censoreding live album with orchestra and then the Censoreding DVD of that as well I mean don't those guys ever take a Censoreding holiday you'd think they could just Censored off to Barbados for a decade or so and wait for Yes and Metallica to release some more material for them to rip off but what really Censoreds my Censoreds is the way that every Censoreding note of music they ever Censoreding fart out gets about eight Censoreding trillion 5 star reviews, half of them before the Censoreding thing has even been released.
 
OK, I'll say no more about it and I hope that DT's numerous fans thoroughly enjoy the latest release from their heroes. The CensoredCensoredCensoreds!
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