What cheered you up today?

[Henk]

Yes, but if you know how much I needed it then you would understand.

 

[Maestro]

I finally bought my first car... Woohoo !

It's a 1997 Ford Ranger (Rear Wheel Drive, not 4 x 4) with 77,677 Kms. I gave them a $500 account out of a $6,370 bill. I'll bring a check to the car dealer on Wednesday... And leave with my fully paid car.

For our European friends that (may be) never saw a Ranger before, here is a picture... (Mine is green though.)

 

[GermansRGeniuses]

Booooo pickups (just not my type, you understand).

Congrats though!

 

[Maestro]

What's wrong with pickups ? They are though, can carry a lot of things and don't drink soooooo much gas.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

it looks stupid....

what cheered me up? laying a cable into my room so i'm now laying in bed on the laptop on the net yeah

 

[Gnomey]

Wireless >> Cable can sit anywhere in the house (or garden) and browse the web...

I am going on holiday for 2 weeks in a week (or maybe 2 depending on when I book the flights).

 

[cheddar cheese]

Pretty nice, We get the Ranger over here but its not very hardcore, we get small engines and uglier styling.

Well nothing had cheered me up until I just realised im 17 very soon...Counting down the days...And an Evanescence song from their new album which got accidentally leaked is awesome...

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

Wireless

too expensive so i've gotta sit at the end of a 30m phone line we got off the nice BT man for free......

 

[Maestro]

Pretty nice, We get the Ranger over here but its not very hardcore, we get small engines and uglier styling.

Yeah, it must be because of the thight European streets... You can't go in the middle of Paris (for example) with a full-size Ford F-150 (the biggest friggin pickup I ever saw of my life... but the one that works the best in the snow). But with a Yaris, you can.

 

[cheddar cheese]

Yup thats the main part, plus the Europeans dont really get the whole pick-up thing. I quite like them myself though.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

what the hell's the point in them? and what's wrong with smaller cars maybe the Americans could start using them?

 

[Gnomey]

Just get a wireless router lanc, there only around £20...

Booked my holiday flights

 

[pbfoot]

what the hell's the point in them? and what's wrong with smaller cars maybe the Americans could start using them?

Its a small pickup which is a lot more useful over here since I don't think you realize the scope of distances over ask Maestro how close he is to the next town or if he goes north when does habitation cease its a good vehicle that you can go fishing hunting to the beach whatever carry most everything you need and is cheap to run and operate

 

[Maestro]

what the hell's the point in them? and what's wrong with smaller cars maybe the Americans could start using them?

Their point is to carry a lot of things (or bigger things) in a single run... While you would need either many runs in a smaller car or to rent a truck.

Talking about rentals... I'm going to help my sister to move her stuff to her new apartment next Wednesday.

And why would we (because Canadians are like Americans on that point) start using smaller cars ? We got enough space to drive big cars.

And we need big cars. Think about it, in England, if you receive 10cm of snow, schools and maybe even airports are closed. But here, if we receive 30cm of snow, we still have to go to work. You'll never manage to get to work with a Mini in 30cm of snow.

Capiche ?

 

[Maestro]

ask Maestro how close he is to the next town or if he goes north when does habitation cease

Well, it's not that bad where I live. Northward, you got two town near mine (5 or 10 minutes in car)... Then you need to drive during 30 minutes to get to the next one.

 

[pbfoot]

its a little warm 37 and heres a pic of me diving into some nice clean fresh water in an old quarry at 3 in the afternoon cost $8. including fuel in europe I'd be beating people off with a club to get to the water

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

Just get a wireless router lanc, there only around £20...

Booked my holiday flights

where the hell've you seen them for £20? bearing in mind we can't but stuff on the net the receivers are like £20 the actual router's like £80! not worth it for the one laptop when i've already layed the cable...........

 

[Gnomey]

Overclockers UK Cable Routers

Overclockers UK Access Points

Those should help you...

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

not really but thanks all the same, like i said we can't buy stuff off the internet.........

what cheered me up, getting to use the jack hammer today, even if it is bloody hard work, and doing some more driving..........

 

[cheddar cheese]

lanc why dont you get your own debit card and buy stuff with that...