The G Man

Once this Covid mess is under control, from a medical point of view, standby for an unmitigated and persistent assault on any and all pension pots from the westminster government.  Just like they did after the financial crash, only two, three, umpteen times worse.

Best hide yer dosh under the mattress..............

9 hours ago, GranTurismoEra said:

 

Colour coded bonnet is more likely the Abarth version with 32 extra horses. I suppose the colour code is to differentiate them from the standard car. I saw a review on Autotrader claiming the Renault Zoe was quicker off the mark  but I digress

 

I think you get an LSD, Sportier suspension, Sports Exhaust, bodykit and some more extras. The MX5 is still faster apparently lol. The standard 124 if you want all the extras then its the Lusso Plus.

 

The Fiat offers something different being Turbo and a bit more road presence. The MX5 sounds and goes better.

 

You can get the Abarth and just wrap the bits to match the colour. 

The Abarth comes in solid colours as well, as in all one colour 

Mentioned elsewhere before, I’m actively looking for one of these.  My Mrs says the different coloured bonnet etc puts her of and looks a bit ‘aftermarkety’.  So probably a solid red or white for me if I commit.

Im assuming the fit and finish, being built in Japan (?) is pretty good?

I too, prefer the Fiat look against the newer MX-5, although @5’ 11”, I do comfortably fit the MX-5.  Just need to get off my ar5e and find one I suppose.....

1 hour ago, Bunning said:

I was concerned about this when I had my 350Z but i'm pretty sure they are all OK. The TFL website has a checker here you can use if you pop in your registration number:

 

Check your vehicle - Transport for London (tfl.gov.uk)

Just checked my 5.0 V8, no charge apparently

Ooft!  Love a good movie and rewatch loads, just a few in no particular order:

The Godfather Trilogy 

Heat

A Few Good Men

Most Marvel movies, with End Game being top

Top Gun

First three Star Wars

Saving Private Ryan

Bullit

Fury

Inglorious Basterds

Django Unchained (Tarintino)

In fact all Tarintino

Original Le Mans

We Were Soldiers

All The Presidents Men

Laundromat

Alien series

Deadpool 1 and 2

Safehouse

Equalizer

Batman (Christopher Nolan trilogy)

No Country For Old Men

Ron Burgandy, both

Bad Santa

Fargo

Burn After Reading

Three Billboards

All Daniel Craig Bond movies

All Sean Connery Bond movies

Unforgiven

A Bridge Too Far

Waterloo

Toy Story

Star Treck (Chris Pine lot)

2001 A Space Oddity

John Wick 1,2 and probably 3

Goodfellas

The Irishman

To Kill A Mocking Bird

All Mission Impossible

The Big Lebowski

Thunderbolt & Lightfoot

Fightclub

Zulu

The French Connection 1 and 2

Debbie Does Dallas (first porno movie I watched)

The Searchers

The Train

Gladiator

Moneyball

the List could go on and on.

Keep yer Stang, they are mightily fun, even on the narrowest of roads, Christ we even went up Glen Etive in September in ours 

Ive only did @ 2k Miles the whole of last year in it, obviously Covid restrictions didn’t help with planned Euro trips .

Yesterday, I just sat in it on the drive and ran it up to temp to defrost, started fannying aboot wi the active exhaust and the Lund N gauge and nearly killed the car    Luckily I managed to revert it back to the tune, despite my big fat goldfinger 

Im considering one of these as a ‘back up’ fun car, don’t know if it’s on your radar, https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202012227321289?postcode=ml92ap&model=124 SPIDER&sort=relevance&include-delivery-option=on&onesearchad=Used&onesearchad=Nearly New&onesearchad=New&advertising-location=at_cars&make=FIAT&radius=1501&page=1

that exact one in fact.

Ill keep the Stang till it’s a pile of dust on the drive, being a Ford, that’ll probably not be long   Owes me nowt, but the adventures we’ve been on in it have been marvellous and it still gives me a nice, comforting feeling when I ‘slip it on’.

IMO, best looking wheels on the planet 

Best Bond ever IMO, that said, he advocated giving wummin a slap and evaded tax, in his tax haven 

So drinking bleach and sticking a uv lightbulb up your erse doesn’t work?  Jeezo! I’m shocked 

After the other night where he was clearly oot his box on steroids, I think he should suffer a massive relapse and just shuffle off now.  

7 hours ago, Ekona said:

very restricted regime where no one mixes with other units. That’s helped a lot, it just makes the days very boring!

In my experience, restricted regimes and boring days are much, much better than “visors down, shields up” days, by a long way 

Trumps a knut, his kind will do anything to empower themselves with more money and influence (Supreme Court judge appointments,  a case in fact).  I don’t wish him dead, but I hope he gets it as rough as fluck.  “I like Presidents that don’t catch a virus”, just like he likes military men who don’t get captured, a total spunkbucket of a *****.

Anyway, back on the fence........

Hand me down iPhone 6 here, saving my money for a blower 

4 hours ago, Ekona said:

I didn’t forget anything. You’re right though, people were still joking around, and that’s been the bigger problem than anything else. We as a nation made everything worse because we didn’t take it seriously or understand the implications. Just like Brexit. 

Dan, I can’t forget your statement ‘Covid did US (?) a favour’.  Who is ‘us’, never did me or my family or the 70,000+ dead a ‘favour’, not in a brexit scenario, a healthy nation scenario nor in a NHS scenario did Covid ‘do us a favour’. That’s pretty perverse.

The only ‘favour’ Covid did was to temporarily let this band of incompetent scoundrels, off the hook, temporarily.  Covid is still here, brexit is inevitable, none of these things ‘do us a favour’.

As a father, a father in law, a brother and an uncle to 4 nurses, I asked them if they think Covid ‘did us a favour’, not in any shape, form or fashion was there a positive to that scenario.

Stay safe

9 hours ago, ilogikal1 said:

Quite right, how dare anyone treat a nation like adults?! he should definitely know better than to do that...

One needs to be an adult to understand adults, clownheid is less an adult as my 3yr old grandson.  This moron, masquerading as an adult, has shown toddler like tendencies when ‘appealing’ to “good old British common sense”.

Anyway, the gist of this thread revival is to gauge, given what we know now of this unmitigated disaster known as Brexit, to those that supported it, would you still support it and, what are the benefits?

Can supporters point to our ‘extra’ freedoms?  What ‘freedoms’ are we to look forward to on 01/01/21, that we didn’t have prior to 2016?

Bearing in mind, we now understand that the whole fiasco was brought about to allow the tax dodging rich avoid new EU legislation and was not about ‘ sovrinty’ that we already had.

Nismo Mk1 wheels, diamond cut wheels are gash, IMO

1 minute ago, Maggz said:

So what, now you expect them to be rational all of a sudden? 

Well, honestly, no, I want to hear them put forward why they think it’s right and, what benefits it’s bringing me and you and anyone else

5 minutes ago, DoogyRev said:

well he did catch "the vid" and survived 

Yes, with the help of some NHS personnel from the ‘colonies’, no doctor has congratulated his survival 

3 minutes ago, Maggz said:

We've not left yet. Only on paper but in reality nothing has changed yet and nothing will, at least until end of December. We should probably revisit this thread again in 2021 when we can actually have a discussion around customs as they are, prices, traffic, and whatever else.

All that's happened so far is Covid and politicians trying to get cheap points with "tough stance" on negotiations, that's about it.

Yes, I agree with that.  I’m trying to gauge the general feeling amongst those that broadly supported this nonsense.

1 minute ago, DoogyRev said:

From what I have seen he's done ok in my book

Really, do expand

2 minutes ago, Ekona said:

Nothing has changed because of Covid19. Ironically it’s probably done us a favour, as we’re now used to a crashed economy and proper leaving the EU post-transition won’t make a lot of difference now. 
 

Independence for other countries is as far away as it’s ever been, in my eyes. There’s no money to do anything, and ultimately no one wants to make themselves poorer when they’re already skint. 
 

Boris has done fine, not outstanding but I’m not sure anyone else would’ve done much better. They’d simply have made different mistakes. I do like Kier Starmer though, supports publicly the sensible decisions rather than just mock because he’s on the opposite side of the commons. 

A ‘favour’ 

Just now, DoogyRev said:

 

That’s probably what the people of Kent, England, thought Kent looked like before they overwhelmingly voted for brexshit

Just now, DoogyRev said:

The Kent you are thinking of ......

 

 

The Kent that I reside in . . . .

 

 

See edited post 

1 minute ago, DoogyRev said:

I live in Kent and only see a few logging trucks each week, can't say I have seen them parked up in vast numbers 

Not yet, in Canada +

Holy thread revival 

whats the thoughts now that we've left, good bad indifferent?  Anyone still entrenched in their support/opposition, is it a good thing, given what is understood now, is Irish unification and Scottish independence inevitable?  

Will Covid make the difference, will Covid produce the excuse,  will Covid give cover, will Covid be in play?

Will @Jetpilot come back and vociferously defend the position?  Will anyone explain the “extra” freedoms, will we ever be the same?  

Will IDS read anything, will Priti Patel order the Navy to sink refugee boats, without the MOD approval?

Do we believe that Boris Johnson is the leader he claimed to be?  Do we believe he has done a good job?

Was it right to open the pubs before schools, was it right that the furlough scheme is working?

Do we think that business premises should get government support as they are now, undoubtedly under pressure from those that work from home?

Can the people of Kent cope with vast lorry parks?  Can the cope with independence before sovereign nations?

just asking 

Just need the Mk1 front end now