what car to buy?

You did not have to mention that. I know I am super smart and entertaining. We all in the States are like this.

In message , Pete M writes

Far from it, it's a Citroen AX. Bought it for the missus because you can't insure a learner on a group 17 car.

I'd have bought her a (slower) petrol one if I hadn't spotted the diseasel first. Anyway, this is just a purely practical proposition. If you need, for some reason, to run an undesirable old banger, it may as well be as cheap to run as possible.

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To be honest, the AX diesels aren't that bad, and the only diesel I'd buy if I were in a situation where I had to be a total tightwad would be a Xantia TD.

So at least you're a miser with a decent lil' motor :-P

Errr, did I say that? - I just said we where having fun, I could have been implying it was at your expense.

Your head must be bigger than your car, best get that Hummer!!!

Andy

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Ah - so /that'/s why they all drive such lardarse cars - they have to fit their egos in.

In message , Pete M writes

I've grown quite fond of the little shed. At idle it sounds like a tractor, otherwise it's fine. The performance is, well, adequate. It rides well and handles nicely, in typical French lift-off oversteer fashion. There's also a satisfaction to it doing something really well, even if that's only not using much fuel. It's also helpful not to be sticking quite so many miles on the Civic.

True :o)

I've said that, at some point, we'll replace it with a fun car, maybe an MX5, but my wife has named it, so we'll probably have to keep it until it dies.

Thounsands of years before the US became the greedy destroyer of worlds

- the one we *all* share - Iraq (then known as Mesopotamia) was a superpower.

Both our cars are diesel - more money left over for alcohol :-)

I've been called a lot of things in my time cheapskate, penny pinching miser has never been among them

Nik

Ermmm, no you won't :-)

Nik

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Well, now you have :-p

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:29:57 -0000, "Nik&Andy" said

So's mine. More money left over for the horrendous cost of Isuzu parts; back to petrol for me after this one.

With great reluctance, I'm inclining to Lib dems as being the least lying scum of the lot. Add in to that that the leaflets shoved through the front door so far have covered 4 parties with the count being..

#1 Tories.. Lots of nasty stuff about libdem and labour #2 some independant.. lots of nasty stuff about tories and lib dem #3 Labour.. lots of nasty stuff about tories and lib dems #4 Lib dems.. Things they want to do about stuff in our area.

Never mind which way I'd tend to vote in a fair fight, I'm inclined to vote for the lib dems for playing fair as it were. Those couple of pages should tell me why I should vote for X. Not tell me that Y and Z are crap.

Since there's so little to choose between all of them, I'm reduced to picking the one that doesn't resort to character assassination as a first stop.

I assume I'll now get examples of how lib dems are happily character assinating in other areas and have to find a new way to pick where my X goes.

WArwick

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That pretty much sums up what we've had, too. The tory one was particularly vitriolic, with loads of stuff about old grannies being beaten up by assylum seekers on drugs nicked from dirty hospitals by teenage mums.

Seen elsewhere...

The Democrats' mistake was in thinking that a disastrous war, national bankruptcy, erosion of civil liberties, corporate takeover of government, environmental destruction, squandering economic and moral leadership in the world, and systematic Administration lying would be of concern to the electorate.

The Republicans correctly saw that the chief concern of the electorate was to keep gay couples from having an abortion.

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Small men are often the most gullible.

ALEXB ( snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Not, of course, that Shrubya would *EVER* think of trying to tell little white ones or hide any details, would he?

He's a politician. It's an core skill.

We shifted to Shrubya now? Or Tony?

No, Alex, he's a politician.

Source please.

Proof please. After all your President's just been crawling around Europe trying to appease the French and Germans. Why would he do that if Europe doesn't matter?

G.W. disclosed his entire service record. I repeat, ENTIRE. It did not stop Dan Rather from producing a forgery to upset the election. It was clearly revealed next day that the document was a fabrication. Nothing new. It is the Dems way. Now a bogus memo with "talking points" is being circulated in the House allegedly on Terry Schiavo's case. Even NYT smelled a forgery. A newspaper which is a skilled forger itself could not digest the scam.