#209322 - 15/03/2004 04:54
What did you learn this weekend???
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pooh-bah
Registered: 06/02/2002
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Loc: Leeds, UK
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I learned that I can't do long drives in the car without my empeg, and I will have to do the install in the new car ASAP. I was thinking to myself that it wouldn't be worth it, how wrong was I.
If it wasn't for the bodged input into the head unit for the Karma, I would have gone nuts!!!!
What did you learn this weekend???
Cheers
Cris.
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#209323 - 15/03/2004 05:20
Re: What did you learn this weekend???
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pooh-bah
Registered: 16/04/2002
Posts: 2011
Loc: Yorkshire UK
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....That those wonderful folks at the BBC not only have the repeat of the last episode of the Classic Serial on the website, but the one before, so, if you had a few pints two Sundays running, you can still catch up - even better - if you missed even more, they have a complete synopsis.
If anybody wondered what happened to last night's begging post for episode 7 of the Pallisers, that's why it was removed.
So whereas I posted that the BBC is the best possible broadcasting solution in another thread, I now find them to be even better, and more thoughtful of their customer's needs.
Remove Linda Barker and they've got a world beater!!
If you want any help with the installation, just shout and I'll come round with: "Oh, no you don't want to do that, you want to do this"
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#209324 - 15/03/2004 05:30
Re: What did you learn this weekend???
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pooh-bah
Registered: 27/02/2004
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Loc: London
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Well Boxer glad you realised it, did you send your feedback to the review body?
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#209325 - 15/03/2004 05:42
Re: What did you learn this weekend???
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pooh-bah
Registered: 06/02/2002
Posts: 1904
Loc: Leeds, UK
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I have the dash board parts on order from Smart, £24 for a couple of bits of plastic!!!. The tell me there are none in the country, so I'll have to wait a few weeks to get them shipped from Germany. Which gives me plenty of time to come up with a cunning plan.
Hopefully, at the end it will look effort-less, I'm currently thinking of a carbon fibre back plate with the facia parts and sleds fixed to it.
It has to be done, a car isn't complete without an Empeg installed!!!!
I can't believe I almost took a trip to the dark side and didn't install it
Cheers
Cris.
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#209326 - 15/03/2004 05:57
Re: What did you learn this weekend???
[Re: tahir]
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pooh-bah
Registered: 16/04/2002
Posts: 2011
Loc: Yorkshire UK
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did you send your feedback to the review body?
I'm doing it! I'm doing it!! - I never write less than War and Peace on these occasions, you should see my piece on transport solutions in North Yorkshire!!!
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#209327 - 15/03/2004 06:04
Re: What did you learn this weekend???
[Re: Cris]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 10/06/1999
Posts: 5916
Loc: Wivenhoe, Essex, UK
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I learnt that letting your new cats outside for the first time after you've had them for four weeks is very stressful. Max galloped off into the distance...
...and didn't return for 45 minutes. Not quite the carefully planned, 10 minutes and then lure them in with dinner (as recommended by the re-homers).
Still, it was great to see them enjoying the outdoors finally. We'll be braving it later this week and giving them free rein, we are only letting them out once a day until then.
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#209328 - 15/03/2004 06:09
Re: What did you learn this weekend???
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Pooh-Bah
Registered: 13/04/2001
Posts: 1742
Loc: The land of the pale blue peop...
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i took the car to a trackday saturday
Learnt how to drive it round a track and it is bloody fast also learnt how much i have to learn befre i can even vaguely push the car to near its limits but i did spin off about 5 times.
sunday went drag racing in the wet 14.8 1/4 mile with terrible traction off the line. Not bad for a 1.6 litre engine
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#209329 - 15/03/2004 07:31
Re: What did you learn this weekend???
[Re: Cris]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 19/01/2002
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Loc: Columbus, OH
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What did you learn this weekend???
I learned that waking up at 6 AM on Saturday morning to do taxes really sucks.
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#209330 - 15/03/2004 08:48
Re: What did you learn this weekend???
[Re: andy]
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pooh-bah
Registered: 16/04/2002
Posts: 2011
Loc: Yorkshire UK
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We'll be braving it later this week and giving them free rein
Never be surprised or upset by the independance of cats: Dogs can't do without you for more than half an hour, cats can come in three weeks later looking as though nothing is amiss, I hate to think of the sore throats I've had over the years shouting round the village for missing cats!
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#209331 - 15/03/2004 09:00
Re: What did you learn this weekend???
[Re: Cris]
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carpal tunnel
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What did you learn this weekend??? FeardotCom might be the worst movie ever made.
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#209332 - 15/03/2004 09:03
Re: What did you learn this weekend???
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carpal tunnel
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FeardotCom might be the worst movie ever made.
Worse than Big Fish ?
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#209333 - 15/03/2004 09:05
Re: What did you learn this weekend???
[Re: andy]
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I haven't seen Big Fish yet. I can't imagine it's worse though. This movie really blew.
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#209334 - 15/03/2004 09:09
Re: What did you learn this weekend???
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carpal tunnel
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I couldn't say Big Fish was the worst movie I have ever seen, part 3 of the Matrix might have been worse.
It was definitely the most boring film I have ever seen, I very nearly fell asleep. My wife of course thought it was a great film. I think I just didn't get it.
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#209335 - 15/03/2004 09:35
Re: What did you learn this weekend???
[Re: Cris]
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That the maple trees in my yard can fill a 'Garelick Farms low cost 1G sap bucket' in just a few hours.
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#209336 - 15/03/2004 09:45
Re: What did you learn this weekend???
[Re: Cris]
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carpal tunnel
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What did you learn this weekend??? That I actually enjoy building computers for people. And some of them repay you very well...
And I thought Big Fish was a wonderful movie. Not the best, not Tim Burton's best, but very good. Not even possibly near the category of worst movie ever. That's a big exaggeration.
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#209337 - 15/03/2004 10:12
Re: What did you learn this weekend???
[Re: Dignan]
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I'm not sure of my thoughts about Big Fish. It definitely wasn't horrible, though. Feardotcom, on the other hand, is a laugh riot. My wife and I have never had so much fun making fun of a movie. It is truly awful. We came close, though, making fun of Final Destination, another hysterically awful movie.
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#209338 - 15/03/2004 10:21
Re: What did you learn this weekend???
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We came close, though, making fun of Final Destination, another hysterically awful movie. I didn't think that movie was nearly as bad as FeardotCom. Final Destination was entertaining (to me) at least even though it was a dumb movie.
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#209339 - 15/03/2004 10:23
Re: What did you learn this weekend???
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carpal tunnel
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Posts: 5916
Loc: Wivenhoe, Essex, UK
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I notice no one has tried to defend Matrix Revolutions yet...
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#209340 - 15/03/2004 10:25
Re: What did you learn this weekend???
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Registered: 20/03/2002
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When I used to have cats, letting them out was always very stressful. We lived on the edge of a canyon that was teeming with coyotes. Of the five different cats we had over 15 years or so, only 1 died of old age. I just never wanted to let them out at all, but seeing them so depressed about being inside all day was just as unbearable.
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#209341 - 15/03/2004 10:25
Re: What did you learn this weekend???
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Feardotcom, on the other hand, is a laugh riot. My wife and I have never had so much fun making fun of a movie. It is truly awful. Didn't see it or Final Destination, but Wing Commander ranks as one of my best experiences seeing a horrible movie. Of course that might just be because I saw with my sister, whith whom seeing bad movies is a lot like watching MST3K.
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#209342 - 15/03/2004 10:28
Re: What did you learn this weekend???
[Re: Cris]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31597
Loc: Seattle, WA
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I learned that cats will eventually find ways to work around those big plastic cone collars, to lick the very wounds you're trying to prevent them from licking. Cats are surprisingly flexible.
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#209343 - 15/03/2004 10:32
Re: What did you learn this weekend???
[Re: Cris]
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carpal tunnel
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I learned that the movie Clue (I got the DVD this weekend) apparently didn't show all three endings in theaters; instead different theaters ran different endings. Is that true? I can't imagine seeing it without the third ending.
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#209344 - 15/03/2004 11:06
Re: What did you learn this weekend???
[Re: Cris]
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Registered: 23/12/2002
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Loc: Winston Salem, NC
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What did you learn this weekend???
Seabiscuit isn't worth it's weight in Oscar nominations.
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#209345 - 15/03/2004 11:16
Re: What did you learn this weekend???
[Re: Cybjorg]
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What did you learn this weekend???Seabiscuit isn't worth it's weight in Oscar nominations And neither was Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean. Watched that for the first time this weekend and was definitely disappointed. I thought he was much better in Once Upon a Time in Mexico.
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#209346 - 15/03/2004 11:24
Re: What did you learn this weekend???
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Loc: Wivenhoe, Essex, UK
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I saw Pirates of the Caribbean this weekend, thought it was a good fun movie. It wouldn't have been nearly as good without JD though. His mannerisms are just wonderfully mad.
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#209347 - 15/03/2004 11:36
Re: What did you learn this weekend???
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I learned that i know way less than i thought about the US tax system, and that it's inherently setup for people who have enough money to pay someone to do the taxes for them, and squeek every penny out of it. There's no way the average joe "gets it" in a meaningful way.
But maybe i'm just young and dumb. I'll be paying someone to do mine for the first time this year... it's just way over my head. Actually, maybe it isn't... and i'm just too afraid of screwing it up.
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#209348 - 15/03/2004 12:13
Re: What did you learn this weekend???
[Re: JeffS]
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I learned that the movie Clue (I got the DVD this weekend) apparently didn't show all three endings in theaters; instead different theaters ran different endings. Is that true? That is correct. As I remember, the newspaper theater advertisements told you which ending the theater was showing, referred to as A, B, or C, IIRC, and this was before huge multiplexes, so the chances of them showing the movie on two screens was slim.
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#209349 - 15/03/2004 12:15
Re: What did you learn this weekend???
[Re: Cris]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 25/12/2000
Posts: 16706
Loc: Raleigh, NC US
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I learned that those trivia games in bars are (1) free, (2) linked nationally, and (3) pretty fun to play with your friends, especially if you trounce all the other patrons. At the same time, although they give you statistics nationwide, it still somehow takes forever for the data to be transferred to the web site or from a bar you don't usually play at. Maybe the first problem is just initially, though.
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#209350 - 15/03/2004 13:30
Re: What did you learn this weekend???
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Registered: 23/12/2002
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Hmmm, I enjoyed Depp's performance in Pirates. I don't think the movie would have been the same without the quirkiness.
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#209351 - 15/03/2004 13:41
Re: What did you learn this weekend???
[Re: Cris]
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I learned more of the story of Samus in Metroid, having played Metroid Zero Mission between calls at work.
Oh, and that working weekends still sucks.
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