Rob

I'm sure that could be reworked into someting more suitable, maybe a large chocolate ice cream with angels flying round it, and the wafer cone disappears over her cleftal horizon.

Series 3 Landy, accept no substitute. Unless its an S2, S1 or a Forward Control, or a lightweight.

Thing is, and this is OT, although I fully subscribe to Building Regs with regard to safety, structure, drainage etc, for public health and safety reasons, I don't agree with enforced thermal performance. I know its supposed to be for "the good of the land" to prevent mass housebuilders building cheap-ass houses that cost a fortune to heat, but what if a homeowner wants an all glass extension or house and is happy to pay for their fuel costs? Its all tax in the pot. The latest Part L's are very restrictive and actually prescribe percentages of wall to glass, and IMO that's wrong and counter productive to good design. There are a few people who have built uber-eco houses that use no energy input at all, so why not trade off that energy to someone who wants an energy inefficient house? Our Govt is quite happy to trade carbon points for huge sums of money, so they have no argument against what I propose.

Actually, back in the real world, I remember buying some sheets of MDF from B&Q just before closing time and the staff were watching me open the supra and giggling, but they were gobsmacked when it all fitted inside. That's how rock and roll I get these days.

I wonder if there is a time limit before the DVLA take the number back as their own then. I once saw an old Landy pickup with a tree growing through it, on that farm near the Medway where the Wings West dealer was/is and it had a plate like 1 FG or something. I pondered the idea of offering to buy the wreck for a few hundred just to snag the plate and sell it on. But there was no way that landy would have had any documents, it had been there for years.

I remember picking up this young streetwalker, she must have been 14 at most. I was doing her up against the rear spoiler, from behind and then I started to strangle her. I felt so powerful and alive as I took her life from her, as if her very essence was passing into me as I passed mine into her. That feeling will live with me for ever. Do you mean that sort of thing, or just driving stories?

I just did it on my old Audi which was SORNed with no MOT. The fee to put it on retention is about £80, plus £20, then its £20 a year from then on. As you will have already paid the transfer fee in the first place, its then no extra cost to put it on a car in the future.

Fire regs, yeah, but for thermal performance it just smacks of too much interference if someone wants to improve the insulation in their roof only for their local council to say "no, you must improve it this much or not at all"

That would seem about right to meet part L (whatever bit) for an internal refurb. I can't help thinking its getting a bit intrusive of the Govt though to force someone down a particular path of expense if they just want to line out their own loft, for their own use. Hopefully you're right and the OP is not involving the Building Regs dept of the council.

Your love is history.

On the other hand, the Celotex and Kingspan boards give better insulation, which is why they cost more. I use 'em to achieve a thinner buildup when designing from scratch.

You'd rather be homeless than accept the benefits available to you in an egalitarian, welfare society?

If its cracked you'll need a new one of course. How old is the car? Old enough for a previous owner to have had a go at hammering away at the pulley, trying to get it off/on when he didn't know how?

Its still only a car. You don't have to run it ragged so you need new tyres every 6 months. I've been on the scrapheapo for nearly two years now. I SORNed the supra when I first lost my job, and after 6 months all benefits stopped. Who cares that I've paid some £250,000 in income tax and NI over my working life? Now with my wife self-employed and making enough to run two cars again, we stumped up the tax, MOT and insurance and have it back on the road again. Its only cost is fuel.

I was thinking, "oh no, another crap remake that didn't need doing" but now I've read its the story of the Norwegian's camp, I'm quite intrigued.

On a related note, if I use Audacity to try and recoed any sounds playing on my PC, the resulting mp3 file sounds well tinny and very quiet. I thought Audacity was the go-to software.

No I'm talking about building stuff now, for the future, just in case. That's the beauty of the zombie story, with vampires and werewolves its all based in the supernatural but the whole point of a zombie outbreak is that its never happened before...until it happens so it could be real...at some point. Although I did see something that said there couldn't be a pathogen that could kill and spread so quickly as to infect the whole world in a few days. They either kill quickly but don't spread, like Ebola, as you can't make it to the airport without your eyes bleeding onto the floor, or they spread worldwide but don't do very much like the common cold. Also if I'm running with my non-supernatural undead method, a zombies muscles still need the same oxygen carrying blood cells to work, so no underwater Z's and also a shot to the chest or an body-destroying explosion will take out zombies, without having to rely on headshots only.

Ahh, but there would not be enough to pose a threat. That's where World War Z goes wrong in the story about the chinese subs, where one sets down on the sea bed and is instantly set upon by underwater zombies. Its said you can fit the entire population of the world into Texas, so even if the whole world went Z and they all walked into the sea, they would be very sparsely spread out. Good point from TBourner about catching the virus though. The boat would be stocked with supplies so waiting just offshore to assess the situation before commmiting to a solitary life on an island would be a good strategy. The beauty of a boat like I describe is that it is a "sleeper." It can be modified by just its owner without raising suspicion, all he has to do is get to it intact when the outbreak happens. No one in the harbour would know about its true purpose. An underground bunker would be known to the builders that built it, they would be on their way there trying to save their own families and willing to kill you and yours to get in.

Was he shouting "Cuum by lad"?

Ahh, I've also thought long and hard about this, and I don't think anything land based will ever work. Either you'll be surrounded by hoardes of the undead until they are so great in number they pile up against the walls and can climb up and over, or you'll be fighting humans off who will destroy your defences just trying to get in. My idea is some sort of large sea-going barge, like the one Timothy Spall has, but with modifications for sail power and solar energy / wind energy for powering a de-salination plant. Fish and birds is the diet, with shorebound foraging for other things. Small vegetation can be grown onboard too. Depending on its sea-going abilities, and the weather, heading for an uninhabited Pacific island seems the best long term plan to me.

On a track by the Freestylers there is what appears to be a film clip, said in the style of Samuel L Jackson, but it defintitely isn't SLJ afaik It goes a little something like this... "I hear that you been f****** around with my woman" "Oh yeah, who that?" "Who's that? You oughta know who it is, you stuck your f****** d*** in her. I aint got to explain to ya who it is, all I'm saying, is ya better stop f****** around with my woman" Anyone know what that's from?

Ah yes, I wondered why all your friends were garage doors at first, now I understand.

Back then, I'd imagine you could get slung in jail for coughing on duty. Cripes, you get shot, actually executed, for falling asleep. "SILENCE, when you speak to han hofficer!"

Do you install garage doors?