Oh yessss!!! This could be good!! radio debate about 4x4's!

Best of luck. Be warned if they record the programme then they will edit to suit themselves (this can twist and backfire on you), if it's live then there should be a few seconds safety delay but most of what you say will be broadcast. Remember they have no scruples just an audience to please and sell advert time so anything goes with them.

Fortunately selling advert time is one thing they don't have to do - I don't know if you noticed, but he said it's a BBC local station - no advertising.

Good luck mate anyway.

P.

They have NOT met me yet then matey. I'll not take part in any kind of one sided 'boy whipping' as I'm no boy! They are the BBC BTW, they don't have to sell adverts!

My main point in my mail was the totally biased viewpoint about something he knows f*ck all about (not that I know much, but I'll have a go for the cause)

I would love a chance of giving someone who likes to put things down he knows f*ck all about a right good debate. I once had a go on TV demonstrating the new machines the Leicestershire constabulary where using to help drivers stop skidding (yeah, I know) they stopped me at Leicester forest services at 10am. No-one about apart from me, the TV crew & the radio etc. The Policeman asked me to have a go on this anti-skid machine. Oh-dear, it was terrible, like a bad computer game setup for front wheel drive cars on a wet road. I drove a rear wheel drive car, so as you know they don't really handle the same in any conditions & told them live on air it wasn't setup for the kind of car I drove. they got a bit pissy about it & I asked if they wanted to save lives, they shouldn't force someone to have a go on a machine without setting it up to the kind of car the drive! The point of the machine was to save lives in a skid! (only a powered skid, not a real skid as we know it)

I was almost famous for it!

Ta

Nige

BEWARE - Scum sucking parasites can twist things, please allow me to translate:

No large Pears?

" I'n not sure about over use of byways, but would you like an apple? I have two."

:-)

Lee D

Apart from requoting 80 odd irrelevant lines for a 1 line reply that would have been vaguely funny if you hadn't requoted 80 odd irrelevant lines, you mean?

Twas Wed, 20 Oct 2004 21:47:07 +0100 when "Nige" put finger to keyboard producing:

As for the pollution argument, I've not checked it out but I believe the biofuel my 110 now runs on has far lower polutants (is that a word?) than diesel and I was told that the amount of carbon (or something) that the plant absorbs from the air is 10 times the amount that the same number of plants worth of recycled oil burned in my engine produces, which is nice.

And my work takes me up and down rough tracks on bodmin moor and dartmoor so he can bugger off if he thinks I'm going to do that in a smart car or a bloody push-bike.

Regards. Mark.(AKA, Mr.Nice.)

In message , Mr. Nice. writes

And presumably this tosser, if he got into difficulties either out walking or in inclement weather would decline the assistance of any rescue service which turned up in a 4x4 to help him.

We've been through the arguments many times b4. footprint - smaller than your average salon height - no greater than an MPV - they're classed as Vans on M6 Toll Road. volume - less than a Volvo estate. pollution - same or smaller engines than in many cars. (Don't forget the smaller 4x4s Suzuki for example. Don't they start at 1.4 lt Mpg - ditto (also many large petrol engined 4x4s now converted to LPG) risk to pedestrians - greater reduction in injuries if standard bumper height on cars was raised, but the motor industry won't do that.

In news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com, Mother"

I'm trying to be tolerant, and understanding, and a reinvented type of bloke...

... but

WHY DO YOU HAVE TO QUOTE 108 SODDING LINES WITH A 2 LINE TOP POSTED RESPONSE???

I believe, being a tolerant, and understanding, and a reinvented type of bloke, that gentle hints are better than my old, previously documented, somewhat direct way of dealing with such minor issues.

?

slip of the finger pops !

heh

Twas Fri, 22 Oct 2004 20:14:06 +0100 when Mother put finger to keyboard producing:

Regards. Mark.(AKA, Mr.Nice.)

On or around Fri, 22 Oct 2004 22:11:19 +0100, Mr.Nice. enlightened us thusly:

Oi! Now you're doing it. In this group we prefer bottom posting, so please do as the romans do, there's good chaps. I don't want to KF you...

I must admit, top posting is very annoying, you can waste ages trying to decipher what the hell is going on!

Nige

So Nige was, like

Personally, I have no preference. Top posting is fine, as long as everybody does it. Bottom posting is fine, as long as everybody does it. It's only where they get mixed up that the trouble starts [1]. I always bottom post to this NG as a courtesy to the group. What does annoy me is where people can't be bothered to snip the irrelevant bits of a discussion, and we all end up with 10Kb posts with one (usually not very funny) line attached at the bottom. But we've all done it, by accident or from ignorance, so there's no need for a flame war - a polite reminder (thank you Austin) is enough.

[1] FWIW, and IMHE and all that, bottom posting is best when there is a logical argument to follow in the thread. For a group with a lot of traffic, and where you read the group regularly (ie you don't need to be reminded what posts are about), I actually prefer top posting, as it's quicker to read. JM2cW.

Totally agr

On or around Sat, 23 Oct 2004 13:40:42 +0100, Mother enlightened us thusly:

mind, the people who never finish what they're typing are pret

LOL!