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Kopite

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  1. Were the logs and poles from famous trees?
  2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-13873091 Should stop a few shots at least
  3. Can I have a refund please? Order was paid for 6th Feb and still nothing has been received.
  4. Yep and that would be justified. Webber gave him plenty of space and as Brundle said, Hamilton understeered off the kerb.
  5. I'm not Hamilton's biggest fan but I think he was driving fine, he was just faster than Button at that point. With his idol being Senna, it's understandable as to why he's wanting to get to the front ASAP, part of being a racing driver I suppose By saying that then it means Button was cutting Hamilton up and it's ok as he was going for the racing line. The racing line for the next corner was to go to the left but Hamilton was about to cruise up on that part of the track, he doesn't have to yield to allow Button to take the line.
  6. Remember being on the train from Newcastle to Middlesbrough once, 3 hours in total. It's 30 miles! Hate trains at the best of times but would hate to rely on them every day for work. In the winter snow a couple of years ago when the roads were too risky, I was having to get the 7:28 train to get to work for 9:30am 25 miles away.
  7. Some have been listed already so i'll say The Dark Knight
  8. Happy birthday dude
  9. Many don't like it, but i like the Stereophonics cover of "Best of You"
  10. Only reason someone here would do it would be to claim compensation when their hair went grey or when they got their next cough
  11. Disgusting people on that show, definitely needs more regulation on who works there
  12. Air quality has a lot to do with it as does air conditioning which i mentioned earlier. I don't wear contacts or anything but i have an air con on all day in the test room and i can feel my eyes hating it too, no way i could wear lenses in that room. Usually dryness is caused by tear quality rather than quantity. Would be worth going to all of the consultations (should all be free) but pressing the problems you feel with lenses and asking them about your tear consistency (usually it's lack of the oily layer which allows evaporation). Also bare in mind you WILL need reading glasses when 43+ if they correct all of your distance vision (accommodation reduces, called Presbyopia)
  13. Yeah like any cosmetic operation, name and statistics on the team doing it - incident rates of night problems, left over prescriptions, discomfort lasting a long time. The thing to be wary about it the terminology, a lot of places won't say dry / irritates eyes for life is a complication - they expect it to an extent. Same could be argued about night vision problems. Bare in mind that that's the same as going for an eye test routinely and finding no change. You'd also have to check whether it's EXACTLY the same or just no significant change. If one eye has changed by -0.25DS then more often than not we'd say no change but that is enough to drop an eye from the smaller lines to the one above it. When we were taught, it used to be 5 years of no change and no short sighed people under 25 (as they're still very likely to change). The eye ball burning smell is true, yummy Just before I get moaned at - the reason I don't like laser surgery generally is because a lot of the problems come to us, whether it be the follow up after cares or routine eye tests and people can get very abusive / unreasonable about it. Night vision for example, they expect a pair of specs or some eye drops to instantly fix it and even after explaining what the issue is, they say you can't do your job or that they don't believe it and is often becomes an argument. If i needed glasses it might be different but there's a reason a lot of opticians and ophthalmologists wear glasses still Back to the OP - Branners, what issues were you having with contact lenses? Reason for asking is that a lot of people that can be intolerant to lenses would experience more severe symptoms post laser (some wouldn't obviously, depends what the issue us)
  14. There's no harm hammering the lubricants (eye ones ) Sometimes if it's a bit irritated then a bit of corneal swelling can still affect night vision, so keeping it moist can sometimes help a bit.
  15. More than likely the laser, it's the same way plastic might discolour when heated. I don't know any remedy at all to be honest, corneal transplants usually have a similar issue due to the surgery involved as well. On the other hand, different people just have different contrast sensitivity levels and it does drop with age like most things. It's just not measured routinely even though it's probably one of the most important things with daily life.
  16. Sounds like slight corneal transparency loss dropping your contrast sensitivity. Quite a common occurance but then contrast sensitivity is never measured in an eye test. Had a taxi driver who was 6/4 (equivalent of 20/12) in each eye which was amazing but he couldn't drive on a night any more as his corneas were a bit too hazy so he didn't feel safe. The clinic said the operation was a success, he lost his job. I just always say it's Russian Roulette - sometimes it's just luck of the draw
  17. I'm not gonna say too much about it as i've lost friends over it (A lot of opticians do aftercares on behalf of the laser companies so it has no affect on work regardless of what people say) How come you couldn't wear your contacts big man? What was happening? Regarding the use of drops after it, sometimes none are needed, other times they're needed for life. Comes down to how sensitive do your damaged nerve endings get during the op and is the irritation always there resulting from dry eyes especially with the presence of air con etc. People respond differently and it's purely individual.
  18. If a house ever needed a nuclear bomb on it...
  19. My fuel pressure has already started playing up, i'm running twin walbros in the tank with an aeromotive FPR. Car hadn't been used in a longwhile, was fine when coming out of the covers and having the mapping checked with Michel in the passenger seat, all was good. As the engine load builds the FPRs leaned off and fuel pressure dropped, it could do this whether on positive boost or not. On idle, the FPRs would be up and down between 11 and 16. Now it seems to be fine, holds fuel pressure and AFRs are fine. We were thinking faulty pump but reading the above, i'm not so sure now. Got some new pumps in case the problem returns
  20. Not sure if it's classed as a step up in a lot of people's opinion as it's plastic like Gaz said, but Corvette Z06/ZR1 and twin turbo the bugger
  21. I've been told today that the supplier is away until the 19th, i've given him a week to sort it out
  22. Sorry to see it go, one of my favourite cars, mean looking mother. If you need a Supra fix, you can have a blast in mine anytime
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