Less than 24 hours!

[Piamed]

Still at the stage of trying to impress the mahal...... Huh...???

We all done it.....

Keep up the good work....

I just love shopping. And I guess I don't need much so try to justify it by buying stuff for the misses as she hardly has much as she has only been here for 10 weeks or so. I love her modelling them for me :-)

Go with cash only, fixed amount. Don't bring the cards.

I'm sure that she is worth it.

Post a picture of your car too, would like to see it.

Cheers

Good idea buddy. I think I have bought enough now and especially stuff that is future proof. :-) See the car below mate!

I once picked up a new company car and had an accident within 15 mins of leaving the office!!! This one was my fault though, I ran into someone who stopped at a crossing and I didn't, I think I was distracted by some of the new toys on the dashboard. Some time later I was the manager and responsible for sourcing vehicles. A salesman ordered his new pride and joy, something he had been after for ages, in a specific colour and with all the "right" badges and go faster stripes. He was due to travel south from Yorkshire to collect it the following day so I parked it under the security light in the yard where it could be observed by the night staff. Unfortunately it was also right next to the waste skip which spontaneously combusted during the night, having previously had some dodgy chemicals disposed of into it, which were not intended to be mixed. The car was a total write off and my phone call the next morning more than a little embarressing.

So sales guys don't have all the luck. It's amzing how many 'new car mishap' stories I am hearing about.

I used to work as a panel beater in the motor trade many many years ago and one of the firms I worked for used to do lots of work for a Volvo main dealership which was located about half a mile away. I used to do most of the accident damage estimates and one day I got a call from the Volvo dealership to come and give them estimates on three cars, one of which was a Volvo 360GLS which they thought was probably a write off.

After I got there, had had a quick look and confirmed their opinion that it was in fact a write off, the manager of the dealership told me what had happened. It seems the lady ower of the car had come to collect her brand new car and when attempting to turn right on to the main road from the garage forecourt, had managed to get herself hit, not once, but twice, first from the left and then from the right by the two other cars I had come to give estimates for.
Iain.

Wow! It seem they were determined tro get her.

[aposhark]

God has sorted it already, it will go in for repairs next week and I will have a replacement in the meantime.

"God" doesn't exist
We've been through this before

[Piamed]

"God" doesn't exist
We've been through this before

What am I going to do with you mate?

[aromulus]

"God" doesn't exist
We've been through this before

What am I going to do with you mate?

From pranged cars to a religious debate......

This is going to get interesting.....

Any football while we are at it....????

[Piamed]

From pranged cars to a religious debate......

This is going to get interesting.....

Any football while we are at it....????

Hahaha! It's amazing how threads deviate. Now that's an operative word! Hmmmn!!!

[Sconnie]

Newcastle United, not football just a joke. ha ha

[aposhark]

What am I going to do with you mate?

Stop talking about "God" (what is that???) all the time and discuss concrete facts and we will get along famously

[aposhark]

From pranged cars to a religious debate......

This is going to get interesting.....

Any football while we are at it....????

Bill Kenwright is on a plane to try to flog Everton FC.
He didn't prang his car going to the airport afaik but he'll be "praying" to the Mullahs and singing from the minarets if he gets a buyer.

Lies, it's ALL lies

[aposhark]

Newcastle United, not football just a joke. ha ha

The toffees and the barcodes should be at the top not the bly bottom

[KeithD]

Praise be to Cedrick....

[andypaul]

I remeber scratching my Raleigh Banana as i stored it the shed on the first day i got it

After that i took proper care of it as i could bear the sight of my Banana in pain

[benb]

Good idea buddy. I think I have bought enough now and especially stuff that is future proof. :-) See the car below mate!

Nice one mate! Its a beauty. what's the power output?

[joebloggs]

What am I going to do with you mate?

save him toks, looks like mission impossible thou

i use to work with a Libyan, he said he had to save me, so i wouldn't go to hell , he kept going on about evil genies who lived in the mountains,

crazy the things people have been conditioned into believing in

but we better not go there

[Piamed]

Newcastle United, not football just a joke. ha ha

Stop talking about "God" (what is that???) all the time and discuss concrete facts and we will get along famously

Hmmmn! I thought we get on famously anyway. Btw, why are you called the grandson of a shark?

Bill Kenwright is on a plane to try to flog Everton FC.
He didn't prang his car going to the airport afaik but he'll be "praying" to the Mullahs and singing from the minarets if he gets a buyer.

Lies, it's ALL lies

Hmmn!

The toffees and the barcodes should be at the top not the bly bottom

Oh my!!

Praise be to Cedrick....

I remeber scratching my Raleigh Banana as i stored it the shed on the first day i got it

After that i took proper care of it as i could bear the sight of my Banana in pain

Hahahahaha! On good form again andypaul! LOL

Nice one mate! Its a beauty. what's the power output?

Cheers mate!!!

Engine

Cylinders/valves 6/4

Capacity in ccm 2,993

Stroke/bore in mm 90.0/84.0

Max. output in kW (PS) at 1/min 145 (197)/4,000

Max. torque in Nm at 1/min 400/1,300

Power-to-weight ratio (EU) in kg/hp 8.4

save him toks, looks like mission impossible thou

i use to work with a Libyan, he said he had to save me, so i wouldn't go to hell , he kept going on about evil genies who lived in the mountains,

crazy the things people have been conditioned into believing in

but we better not go there

Oh no Joe, I really could not put a baby shark in the Save (Garonne), a river in southern France!!

[aposhark]

Hmmmn! I thought we get on famously anyway. Btw, why are you called the grandson of a shark?

Well, I didn't know apo was a grandson so I have learnt something today
Thanks.
I have been scuba diving many times around that beautiful little Apo island "near Dumaguete on Negros.
I didn't even see a shark there but don't tell anyone.

[Piamed]

Well, I didn't know apo was a grandson so I have learnt something today
Thanks.
I have been scuba diving many times around that beautiful little Apo island "near Dumaguete on Negros.
I didn't even see a shark there but don't tell anyone.

That is something Pia and I would love to do although neither of us can swim. Put my friends, who teach in Eygpt and Indonesia tell me that does not matter.

Pia loves sharks and even stroked one as it went by in an aquarium!

[joebloggs]

That is something Pia and I would love to do although neither of us can swim.

you can't swim and a filipina can't swim

mancs learn to swim b4 they can walk, a quick dunk in the ship canal by your parents and you learn quickly or if that don't teach you, primary school get you then

[PeterB]

I know quite a few pinays who can't swim. I taught Ruby and, although not very confident yet, I have taken her out of her depth.

[Piamed]

you can't swim and a filipina can't swim

mancs learn to swim b4 they can walk, a quick dunk in the ship canal by your parents and you learn quickly or if that don't teach you, primary school get you then

I know, it's so unusual. Especially for Pia as she lives so close to the beach and was there often before coming here.

My excuse has something to do with having an exceptionally high muscle to fat ratio. Actually, if the truth be known, I can swim a little (breaststroke) but only under water. I can't get my head up far enough to breathe - it's just bad technique.

I don't venture in the sea to often as I am so fearful that a lost shark will get me.

I know quite a few pinays who can't swim. I taught Ruby and, although not very confident yet, I have taken her out of her depth.

OO, me too. Was it hard to teach Ruby?

[aromulus]

I am deeply shocked.

I cannot understand how such a simple thing as swimming can be ignored and dismissed as useless by a lot of people.

Swimming is a fantastic way to keep fit, but apart from that learning to swim may save your life.

I do admit too, that I am not a great swimmer and tire easily, but then again I am 57 years old, and a smoker.
I do like to swim underwater, and I still manage a pool width and half before re-surfacing for air, and never used goggles in my life.
All my kids have learnt to swim through the various school programmes, and are rather proficient at it, so I feel confident about their welfare if they decide to take themselves to the baths.

I was raised in a seaside town in Italy, just south of Rome, and used to spend as much time as possible on the beach, the breakwaters, or the dock.
I failed a couple of high school exams for not turning up, I thought that the fishing was better.....

When I was there with Jet a few weeks ago, on a delayed honeymoon, zillions of memories flooded back into my mind....
So as we went into the clear and clean water, I acted my shoe size and not my age.....

[KeithD]

God would have given us fins and called us Dolphins if we'd been intended to swim

[PeterB]

OO, me too. Was it hard to teach Ruby?

Not really - I just started with simple 'floating on the back', with a little support from below. After a while you find that you can remove your hand and the pupil will continue to float for a few seconds - just repeat and build on this.

I learnt to swim when I was 7 y/o and have swum regularly in many parts of the world.

Back in UK I was going to the local pool once a week and swimming 80 lengths (2kms) in an hour (and walking 1 km each way, there and back). Unfortunately that has stopped here in Phils - I only swim when we visit our beach.

[andypaul]

God would have given us fins and called us Dolphins if we'd been intended to swim

Didn't we evolve from Sea creatures?

[joebloggs]

Didn't we evolve from Sea creatures?

well the British royalty are alien lizards, so the great David Ike says

i was forced to learn to swim at primary, secondary school and even college

but I agree with dom, everyone should learn, you never know when you might need to

[Alan]

I once had a car as well!

Al.

[KeithD]

Didn't we evolve from Sea creatures?

Only a fool would believe that!

[aposhark]

That is something Pia and I would love to do although neither of us can swim. Put my friends, who teach in Eygpt and Indonesia tell me that does not matter.

Pia loves sharks and even stroked one as it went by in an aquarium!

Most dive shops who put people through a scuba diving course tell their instructors to watch trainees as they complete some swimming.
Not all instructors do it though, I have met divers who have told me they can't swim a length at a swimming baths.
However, I think people who scuba dive and cannot swim are very brave people as the sea is quite frightening when you don't have any confidence in swimming any distance
Maybe Pia can hitch a ride with a friendly shark if the boat sinks
Actually most sharks are very friendly, but I always feel more alert when they are close to me in the big blue.
It is the small things that can be dangerous but I won't elaborate until you have passed your course
I wholeheartedly recommend learning to dive, it is a very relaxing thing to do in my experience

I used to dive at every opportunity when in warmer countries, but then I met Rochelyn and my priorities changed

[aposhark]

God would have given us fins and called us Dolphins if we'd been intended to swim

People have been to the moon and we weren't born with wings either.

[aposhark]

Originally Posted by andypaul
Didn't we evolve from Sea creatures?

Only a fool would believe that!

As an anticreationist, atheist and darwinist, I am fully behind this idea.

[andypaul]

Only a fool would believe that!

Swiming monkeys