Voyager was ace - it doesn't even deserve to be considered alongside the other Shit Trek series'. Good ship, good situation, OK aliens, great crew (OK, except fucking Neelix), lovely girls.
He said it was 6000 lbs, right? That's 2.724 tonnes by my calculations, stick an American behind the wheel and that's 3 tonnes right there! Sure, I don't know exactly what an Integra weighs, but I'll bet it's around 1250kg tops - our second car is a Mazda Xedos 6 which weighs less than that - and it's got a V6.
I enjoyed your idiotic wank fantasy, though - particularly the idea that you'd "Dino'd" it and how large your torque figure is (yet you never mentioned your clutch or gearbox mods...). A 3 tonne car with 600 hp? Sounds like a 1 tonne car with 200 hp could crush it to me...
"What could you do with two or three extra hours a day, 10-15 hours a week??? Read books. Watch films. Learn to play guitar. Study a martial art. Spend time with friends. Take a class at your local college. Write poetry. Play with the dog. Play volleyball. Volunteer for some cause you think is important."
I'd probably take you more seriously here if you weren't (like me) wasting your time at Slashdot instead of saving the whale (or whatever) that would obviously be a better fit for your ambitions.
Yep, it takes about half an hour on the train to Marylebone from Amersham (though it's NOT reliable or comfortable), 45mins to CG. Unfortunately, I commute to work with my girlfriend (who works in Camden), so replacing the car with the train for us would mean spending somewhere between £15 to £20 per DAY, where we currently put around £35 worth of fuel in the car per WEEK for the same result.
The train doesn't even compete it is SO expensive, and you still need a car to live the rest of your life anyway!
I used to have a ONE bedroom flat in Great Titchfield St in Westminster - it took me about 15minutes to walk to work. That flat cost slightly less than my current 3 bedroom house in Amersham, though it does take me an extra 45mins to get to work...
still, they collect the rubbish 2 or 3 times a day in Westminster...
I live in Amersham, and it takes me about an hour each way into London in my car each day (I work in Covent Garden). I don't really see any problems with this kind of commuting - I don't need to get up particularly early (I need to be in the office by 09:30, so I leave around 08:00) and I usually get home at around 19:15.
I've considered teleworking (possible for maybe 30% of my work), but I ENJOY London and all it's facilities, I don't want to be stuck in a small town (even a nice one like Amersham or Marlow) all of the time. You've got to ask yourself, what would you DO with that extra 2 or 3 hours? I'm pretty sure I'd just waste it myself.
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oh do fuck off
What the fuck are you jabbering about? Muppets don't have ANY muscles, let alone special "spinning" ones.
We?
Oh come on, it's not like you've got any friends, is it?
I hope it's not fucking ANYONE, it might get annoyed at the disturbance.
What the fuck kind of crapulous spellchecker let this one through?
Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot that the Slashdot editors don't actually USE the cocoaspell service that's part of the OS on their shiny Ti books.
Voyager was ace - it doesn't even deserve to be considered alongside the other Shit Trek series'. Good ship, good situation, OK aliens, great crew (OK, except fucking Neelix), lovely girls.
It's Star Trek for people who hate Star Trek!
Why aren't you dead yet?
it's DEFINITELY you fucking moron
I will, if you want.
He said it was 6000 lbs, right? That's 2.724 tonnes by my calculations, stick an American behind the wheel and that's 3 tonnes right there! Sure, I don't know exactly what an Integra weighs, but I'll bet it's around 1250kg tops - our second car is a Mazda Xedos 6 which weighs less than that - and it's got a V6.
THERE'S NO REPLACEMENT FOR BIG DISPLACEMENT
yes there is, it's called supercharging
I enjoyed your idiotic wank fantasy, though - particularly the idea that you'd "Dino'd" it and how large your torque figure is (yet you never mentioned your clutch or gearbox mods...). A 3 tonne car with 600 hp? Sounds like a 1 tonne car with 200 hp could crush it to me...
"an actual sports car, ala Z06, Dodge Viper, BMW Z8,"
these are NOT sports cars, they are GTs (except the Viper, which is just a bad joke).
you fucking twat
"I never understood why people work in London"
:-]
Then you've obviously never really SEEN London
"What could you do with two or three extra hours a day, 10-15 hours a week??? Read books. Watch films. Learn to play guitar. Study a martial art. Spend time with friends. Take a class at your local college. Write poetry. Play with the dog. Play volleyball. Volunteer for some cause you think is important."
I'd probably take you more seriously here if you weren't (like me) wasting your time at Slashdot instead of saving the whale (or whatever) that would obviously be a better fit for your ambitions.
Or, indeed, the Amyl Nitrate I was subjected to continuously all the way from Trafalgar Square to fucking CROYDON.
Yep, it takes about half an hour on the train to Marylebone from Amersham (though it's NOT reliable or comfortable), 45mins to CG. Unfortunately, I commute to work with my girlfriend (who works in Camden), so replacing the car with the train for us would mean spending somewhere between £15 to £20 per DAY, where we currently put around £35 worth of fuel in the car per WEEK for the same result.
The train doesn't even compete it is SO expensive, and you still need a car to live the rest of your life anyway!
laugh it up, you'll probably fing 25 towns in the USA that are named after them...
"Give me trains any day - you can read, sleep, finish that last minute report"
And what magic railway would this be? Cars win every time for me.
What about IP traffic jams?
shitty boroughs don't count - no-one wants to live in Streatham or Tooting.
Don't forget, that average salary is a pretty meaningless number. The MAJORITY of people earn significantly less.
I used to have a ONE bedroom flat in Great Titchfield St in Westminster - it took me about 15minutes to walk to work. That flat cost slightly less than my current 3 bedroom house in Amersham, though it does take me an extra 45mins to get to work...
still, they collect the rubbish 2 or 3 times a day in Westminster...
I live in Amersham, and it takes me about an hour each way into London in my car each day (I work in Covent Garden). I don't really see any problems with this kind of commuting - I don't need to get up particularly early (I need to be in the office by 09:30, so I leave around 08:00) and I usually get home at around 19:15.
I've considered teleworking (possible for maybe 30% of my work), but I ENJOY London and all it's facilities, I don't want to be stuck in a small town (even a nice one like Amersham or Marlow) all of the time. You've got to ask yourself, what would you DO with that extra 2 or 3 hours? I'm pretty sure I'd just waste it myself.
I was talking about their English skillz