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    What irritates you about motorbikers?

    There is a world of difference between being indifferent to a de-personalised "phantom" that exists as no more than a disembodied loud exhaust note and actually wishing specific harm on someone. When I hear a loud exhaust - car or bike - it does annoy me to the point where I am ambivalent to...
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    What irritates you about motorbikers?

    I think my meaning was fairly unequivocal? Of course I have spent years hoping that the riders in question would develop a social conscience and think "actually this loud exhaust may be giving me a little thrill bit it is perhaps just a teensy bit selfish of me to ruin the peace and quiet of...
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    What irritates you about motorbikers?

    No offence, but there is no logic in this statement at all; it's just a one liner that bikers trot out to justify their self-indulgent choice of exhaust. Here's why: The only time an exhaust sounds really loud is on full throttle / high revs. Whereas the only time your life is in danger on a...
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    Ferrari win malaysia gp

    Don't you rather just think that Bernie sits in a room looking out over a large private deer park (or something else equally detached from most people's version of reality) and says to his assistant: "Let Ferrari do well this year but keep the thumbscrews on McLaren for a while longer". I...
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    TopGear Getting Boring / Clarkson Fired

    A rather fanciful extrapolation, I think. For me, the reason I spend so much time discussing a programme I really don't like that much is that, unlike many rubbish TV programmes, which are - well - just rubbish, underneath the banality and immaturity that are the trademarks of Top Gear, there...
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    Germanwings

    The failure here seems to be not with the operational procedures on-board or with regard to airplane control, but with the vetting process that the Co-Pilot went through. We will have to wait to see if it was depression, mental illness or some other mechanism that triggered these actions, but...
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    TopGear Getting Boring / Clarkson Fired

    Perhaps VBH will get the post (no pun intended). That would be brilliant.
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    TopGear Getting Boring / Clarkson Fired

    Agreed - the silence from Clarkson is deafening - and disappointing.
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    TopGear Getting Boring / Clarkson Fired

    One of my main criticisms of Top gear in recent years is that watching it has very much felt a bit like being a voyeur at a boys' public school dormitory threesome. It was uncomfortable to watch them all stroking each others' egos. Not that I have any personal experience to draw upon in...
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    OBD When Buying a Car

    Considering that the papers regularly carry stories about how an extra key for the car is programmed by thieves simply tapping into the OBD port, I am not surprised that a seller would refuse you access to the port. I wouldn't let anyone plug anything into my car. I believe BMW owners have a...
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    Why oh why!?!?!

    Wasn't a Nova saloon called a Belmont?
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    Annoying people when giving you Reg No over the phone!

    Do you encounter the same problem with your other 688 cars as well?
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    w211 vs w212 whats the issue?

    The seat mechanisms are exactly as you describe. The 211 estate had a more comprehensive seat folding system (including hinged seat squabs) that resulted in a genuinely flat loading floor - unique amongst cars in this sector. The 212 just has simple folding seat backs, resulting in a far from...
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    airmatic issues

    Also had HK and it never missed a beat :D;)
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    airmatic issues

    My 10 year-old, 100K E-Class estate was fine - just needed a new pump at 5 years. And I frequently transported up to 500Kg in the rear. The luxury ride you get on air is worth it.
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