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Best Star Wars film ever, bar none. Utterly, utterly stunning. No nonsense of setting stuff up for more films, or trying to remake the originals, or trying to do anything other than just tell a really f*cking good story. Let's deal with the bad points first: The Cushing CGI was terrible, like really terrible. The Fisher bit was okay because it was so short and she didn;t move a lot. And that's it. That's the only bad points I can think of. The characters were so, so well written and portrayed by all. It didn't even matter that we had another film with another young British actress playing the grizzled angsty lead, not when she did it so much better than what's-her-name from Ep7. In K2 we had a robot that finally wasn't a whingy little b*tch, or sappy and lovely, but just a sarcastic badass that gave just enough comic relief without being a parody. Loved him so much, gutted when he died. The detail in the ships (oh man, when they flew over the star destroyers at close range!), when the billions of TIE Fighters came flooding out of the shield ring, the brutality of the fighting and the explosions as stormtrooper after stormtrooper was flung to bits... Just immense. I wasn't sure about the music in the first half hour, but everything just fitted together perfectly later on. The scene as the explosion came over them on the beach at the end got me right in the feels. AND VADER!!! PROPER FREAKIN' VADER! Menacing, deadly, evil as f*ck and a huge reminder of how good a bad guy the character is. Cannot wait to see this again. One of the best sci-fi films of all time, and the fact it pretty much has to stand alone as they cannot do a proper sequel makes it all the more impressive.

Sell it off and put the money towards a proper kit for your Zed.

Cruise control

Car is a 65 plate You're assuming the tracking was right from the factory, or that you didn't knock something out within the first week...

I agree, I quite like that bottom one too.

TYRES FFS FWD/FWD-biased turbo scrabble wagon? Sounds about right tbh, if you're a particularly aggressive on getting the power down.

It means you care. Nowt wrong with that.

It is indeed a thing of pure comfort wonderness, along with super duper supportability. Although I think I need to add a little more padding under my bony arse cheeks, so I'll just cut a little bit of foam I've got sitting around at home and try putting that under it first. What Cobras have you got in yours?

I think seeing a BMW use indicators regularly is more shocking than seeing it orange with a huge wing

Love the comment as I pull out of Goodwood :lol:

And it still looked better when you had it, even as mostly bone stock OEM But yeah, each to their own. Glass house stone throwers and all that

But aren't things supposed to look better after a makeover?

£20K buys a Cayman & £5K slush fund. Or an E92 M3. Or a TVR of some kind. Or a Supra and a big turbo.

Brave man, and I salute you and massively respect your decision sir! I've never done it myself (yet), but I've a mate who has done the same thing recently after being in the same job for at least 15 years, if not longer. It drove him to depression but once he left he's been a new man, and we think has now found himself an ideal job giving him more freedom and paying more, which is always a good thing. Sometimes you just have to make the jump because you know it's right. Good luck fella, keep us updated with how you get on.

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In fairness it's been quite warm though lately, winter tyres are no good above 7c as a rule and it's been well above that in the last few weeks. Well, in the south anyway.

Second hand set of OEM would be my choice, if one has indeed gone. Also I'd only replace the one, no need to do both.

Oh I agree, I'm a terrible individual

I didn't get that at first! Git

New Corsa 1L is £18K!

If it's only for the odd trackday, then just slap some 888Rs on and you're good to go. As others have said, take too much out and you lose the usability, which would be a shame. Then again, I'm happy driving fully stripped cars without a care in the world, so if you're the same then do it! Take out anything and everything you can

Sssshhhh, don't let the unions hear you say that, you'll be lynched!

It's nothing special, just an Oyster from 2001. Blue pearl face, stainless strap. 21st birthday present from my folks, so more sentimental value than anything else. I used to wear it a lot, but I just won't risk it these days. If I lost it, or it got stolen I'd be absolutely heartbroken. EDIT That's close, but the face is darker in real life and the bezel is slightly different. Smoother, I believe.

I really should get my watch (Rolex) serviced at some point. Not that I use it that often, and tbh I prefer my cheapy Sekonda anyway as it doesn't matter if I get drunk and fall over and scuff it then