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I managed to run full pelt into a 1/2" steel guide rope for a massive gazebo type thing (it was dark and I didn't see it). It caught my leg near my groin and sent me tumbling. I had to pretend it didn't hurt as it was witnessed by 50 of my work colleagues at the time. I had a big purple lump that slowly moved down my leg, eventually turning my whole leg purple from my groin to just past my knee cap. If I was a metre closer to the tent it would have decapitated me! So you're not the only one to have done something very silly.

It seems to be a grey area as I've checked the HMRC thing and the words can be interpreted to mean that it's fully OK. It does feel wrong though as I am making money from it (only done it once so far though). The accounts department at my company consists of one woman who sits two desks away from me. I did use my company credit card to get a hire car and fuel and claim nothing but she had a moan that it was giving her extra work so I decided to do a Rambo (go it alone).

Am I allowed to get a hire car at my expense but still claim the 45p per mile? For example for one trip the cost of the hire car was £120 all in (including fuel). The expense claim (45p mile) was £200. Is this allowed? If not, it's a friend doing it, not me.

I tend to get a hire car rather than driving mine as it's cheaper and I often end up driving in a field. Are they just paying for petrol? I thought work travel was 45p per mile as it's supposed to cover wear and the increased cost of getting business miles cover on insurance. In these cars it covers petrol and a coffee at McDonalds rather than wear, but still a free coffee is nice.

I flash and wave like a madman if I see another one. Unless it's the 06 GM one in Fleet as the guy just ignores me

Took mine there, they did a really quality job at a very reasonable price so I can vouch for that!

Saw this yesterday, happy

I had a very similar experience. One of my friends is a girl. Oh and she works at an opticians and always used to go on about how much better than Specsavers they were etc. I went in for glasses and she handed me over to her colleague who deals with frames. I said similar to "I have no fashion sense, please pick something that doesn't look horrible" and she choose some frameless ones that I thought were good. I didn't look at the price as I thought it would be similar to ASDA where I can just pick things and pay at the end without worrying about it. It was only when I came to pay that I realised they were £530!!!!!!!! I didn't even know it was possible to buy glasses that expensive. The frame alone was £350 and they don't really have a frame. Anyway, it was my stupid fault for not checking and I didn't want to embarrass my friend by shouting "are you fu*** serious" so I just paid (I'm wearing them now).

Awwwwwwwww when I read the title I was hoping for a special "I am brilliant at cleaning" badge, something similar to: A bronze badge would be a simple wash, silver would add hoovering and gold would be the works (including dusting).

While we are on the theme of washers... Did anyone else nearly have a heart attack the first time they (inadvertently) used the head light washers when using the windscreen washer? I've never had them before and my first thought was that a huge plume of steam was erupting from the front of the car.

Be careful, my car was vandalised slightly when parked under a tree. I'm not sure why but some morons near me are apparently targeting only cars parked under trees.

My name is actually Andy but I thought Steve was closer to my real name than Susan. Makes perfect sense.

You're all mad

Funnily enough I did a very similar driving experience yesterday at Chobham Test Track and drove a Lamborghini, GTR and supercharged aerial atom in that order. Ignoring the atom (which was by far the best) I actually enjoyed the GTR more. Plus I could put my jumper on the back seats, which was nice. Here is a bit from one of them: Yes I await comments of how rubbish I am but the big scary man sat next to me shouted if I accelerated on corners and things.

Someone has scattered things over my car which have been stuck down with some sort of liquid, I assume it's a prank from last night (Halloween)? They seem to have gone to a lot of effort as the things they have left behind are quite intricate and are made from waxed paper or similar? I've checked the car over and thankfully there doesn't appear to be any damage but have gone around the whole car and so must have been at it a while. Has anyone else heard of similar? The car was left in Farnborough and yes I've reported it to the police. Image of the back of the car (worst affected): http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/802/vandals1.jpg/ Image of one of the paper things (this one was stuck to the bonnet) http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/408/vandals2.jpg/ It's so frustrating as my car was parked away from the road and so someone has been onto private land to vandalise my car

Does that key have a button for the horn??? That's amazing. I could have literally hours of fun with that if it is a horn button that can be used remotely.

Yep, I had the same problem with the Windows version, the Android one worked fine.

I very briefly caught site of the car on the other carriageway (I was too excited about seeing a new 350z in the area) and so it's not impossible that I was mistaken and it was a 350z and the same that you saw? I didn't see an orange one though. Mine is a 56 GM UK car, all others I've seen are either different years, colours or JDM. I will be beeping, flashing and waving though if I see another one so won't be too hard to miss.

I've given up with the 4 cars I regularly see in Fleet and Farnborough but this morning something amazing happened. I beeped and waved at a 53 plate grey JDM with Nismo bits on as I passed it on the A329 at about 7:40 this morning. I think the guy might have been half asleep though. At that exact moment a 370z was travelling on the other carriageway and we all met at roughly the same location at the same time OK it's not that amazing but was any of them someone from here?

It can be welded for £30 if you live in Farnborough! Although I gave them £50 as they fitted me in straight away. The broken exhaust made my weekend, I had what sounded like a full on race car and have some amazing videos. Definitely recommend it.

Symphony has already had a new shiny CV joint this month and so she will have to make do with welding I'm afraid. I need to make some vids tomorrow though and pretend I'm driving a Ferrari or something

I was coming off a roundabout giving it some mild stick and I was startled by a a very very loud bike that I could hear following me. I was extremely surprised as I am always aware of what is around me but I just didn't see this bike that I could now hear racing to keep up and assumed he was in my blind spot. Until I realised the noise was my car I pulled over to see if the exhaust was going to fall off and once I realised it wasn't I went for a rather nice drive as it sounds amazing . Anyway, I doubt the neighbours or police will like it so I need to get it fixed. Can this be welded:

How long before Apple claim to have invented 8 megapixel cameras and voice recognition and sue every other phone already on the market with these features?

Do you think the lights are bad? I feel guilty driving at night as they the brightest lights by far I've had on any car. On full beam I'm pretty certain you could melt things.

I had the same issue and had to argue with them that it wasn't an import. If I put my reg in Compare The Market it says it's a UK car, if I do it in Confused.com it says it's a Fairlady.