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+1 I'd love to do it, I really would.

Bloody hell, that's an incredibly misleading article.

Do it. Last of the great engines.

Have you read it?

Heh, even Jo commented the other day that it's a good picture and she agrees that it was the right size to go for. I felt very smug after she said that. It's not often I'm right. Well, not in her world anyway.

Can I be a bridesmaid?

Yeah, and you know how big the Kinect sensor actually is! Makes the Xbone look well-proportioned...

Done it . Dude, congrats!

The bit I think blew me away the most was when we were walking in the forum, and overheard a guide telling their group that this was the road that Caesar walked down when he returned to Rome, and that the stones we were walking on were the original ones. That absolutely blew me away. Astonishing the history there, it really is.

Just been discussing that with a mate on FB, good timing Bothers me not a jot, I'm on the internet so everything I do is recorded anyway. Unless I want to unplug fully then I assume that everything I say or do is out there anyway, makes life much easier and I can stop my subscription for tinfoil hats

I think Abbey were aiming for 1K out of their drag monster thing. You can go as fast as you want, providing you've got the money. I find big power to be a bit dull, unless there's some interesting engineering involved too.

I agree, Trevi fountain and Spanish Steps have history but otherwise they're just packed full of chavs and not worth spending time to find.

Only because I model myself on you

I'll still be an arsehole on that I'd love to see my own driveatar sometime, everyone complains about it!

Tbh, there's too much stuff in Rome to do in three days: We were there a week and there was plenty we didn't get round to seeing. I would prioritise the important things and then give them the time they deserve, then come back again for the rest.

Normally I'm a weapons grade version

Three days isn't long, but I would do the following: Day 1: Vatican & Vatican museum (possible to do both in one day, but don't hang around!) Day 2: Colosseum & Forum (Colosseum isn't actually that exciting, the Forum is incredible though) Day 3: Trevi Fountain (10 mins literally), Spanish Steps (again 10 mins), Pantheon, and then whatever else you fancy doing. Shops are nice, and I'd just take a break in the Piazza Navona for some grub. Relax, soak it up. If you really want to see more stuff though, go to the Castel Sant Angelo: It's huge! Also, while you're by the Spanish Steps go and have a look inside the Shelley/Keats museum. Sounds silly to do when you're there, but we found it to be one of the most interesting an curious things in the whole city. Probably take about an hour to do it all, but fascinating if you have any interest in English literature at all.

That's an odd size, what are they for?

I blame the previous owner

If it was driving as badly as you say, I'm amazed there was no CEL! Could've been a bit of moisture sat into one of the coilpacks too, which moved or was burnt off once you'd stopped.

Not sure I'd get a convertible in Dallas, with the heat. You'd spend more time with the roof up just for comfort! What's the budget? Personally, I'd get two vehicles so an older truck or minivan for the dull stuff, then something like a Miata or MR2 Spyder for the fun things. You'll get the V8 in the truck, and you'll have something nimble but different to the usual Yank fare with the latter.

Possibly yes, but the fuel would have to have been of the most horrendous quality for it to do that, and if it was you can be sure that you wouldn't have been the only person suffering there that day. Local news might even have picked it up, especially if it was the super unleaded that was shot and people in their expensive motors filling the tank right up where having their engines destroyed. If you had in your tank 70L of decent fuel and then put in 10L of, say, 87RON fuel, then I don't think you'd notice any difference. That's why I said it would've had to have been near enough water for it to suddenly become that catastrophic to run. When it was running badly, did it throw any CELs at all? Did you at any point pull over, stop the engine, then restart again? How quickly after you filled up at Tesco did the car then become responsive again?

Unlikely. It's not actually illegal to be racist, just to do racist things. I mean, I probably wouldn't state it like that, but if you said to the clerk casually, "Oh, I hope there's no cases with XYZ in it, I don't trust any of those people", then you're going to be excused pretty quickly.

Just turn up on day one and say you hate black people*. You'll soon get excused. *Or the Irish, or Europeans, or gay folk, or whoever.

And I wasn't being rude. Youd know if I was being rude, trust me.