Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

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Skinny,

Those Bird and Fortune sketches are some of my favorite and still make me laugh even after seeing them dozens of times.
Although brilliant and funny, they are undeniably true.

Mnamreh,

I do mentor in an area that is one of my main interests. I tutor advanced drivers for RoSPA Advanced Drivers and Riders (RoADAR). This is voluntary work.
We are not as well known as the Institute of advanced motorists (IAM) but whereas to qualified for IAM you only have 1 pass level, whereas we have 3 levels, Bronze, Silver and Gold.
With IAM you also stay a member as long for as you wish to pay the yearly fee, without ever having to take another test, so in effect you could pass the test years ago and still call yourself an advanced driver say 40 years later, which to my mind is ridiculous, whereas with RoADAR you have to take a re test every 3 years.

What I am always amazed at is the very few people who ever show interest in advanced driving, when it has been shown that advanced drivers tend to save on insurance, fuel, wear an tear, but most of all have far less accidents.

With RoADAR you receive as many lessons as you require for free, and are only allowed to become a member on passing the test which costs 45 for cars, 54 for M/cycles.
Membership is then 22.50 per year and that includes that re-test every 3 years, with refresher lessons.


I presume as a none profit organisation, MoneyAm rules will not mind if I put the link to the RoADAR site. Some might find it interesting.

http://www.roada.org/

Sorry if this post comes over as a push for RoADAR, but having see so much carnage on our roads, road safety is something I feel very passionate about.

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Why didn't they ask Gordon Brown to save the Euro ? After all he did save the World not so long ago.

I guess this is going to re-open the seat up / seat down

argument debate!

:-)

Girls equal in British throne succession

Greekman

I once read that the Police use a lot of automatic car's because they were low on repairs compared to manual .

Hi aldwickk,

Never heard that one, although things might have changed since I retired in 2003.

Personally, I much prefer manuals.

Greek.

greekman

i had a shock when i went to my local boxing gym , there was a glamour modelling photo shoot being held there. i will see if i can post a photo.

aldwickk - I found 3 x CTRL and + helped :-)

Anyone feeling peckish ? Cornish pasty company puts grey squirrel on the menu

skinny

I have never tried that , so how do you get the size back to normal ?

CTRL and 0

Aids,

Are you the blond on the right?

No that's Stan , were are you ?

skinny

Why didn't you just use the zoom on the tool icon

Habit :-)

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N,

The size of what?