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iT LAD



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With winter approaching here is advice for driving in icy co

WOMEN
1, Sit in the car with the engine running and the heater on full for 15-20 minutes until the windscreen is completely clear.
2. Pull away nervously, screaming every time the wheels lose traction, sit as close to the steering wheel as possible and try to fight back the tears.
3. When reaching a gritted road continue to drive at no more than 11mph, preferably in 4th gear so that the car lurches everywhere.
4. Arrive at work leaving the car wherever it stops, enter the office and cry with other female colleagues about how frightening the journey was.

MEN
1. Start the car, scrape off the ice with a CD cover so that there is a 6 inch hole in the ice.
2. Accelerate wildly in an attempt to get the speedo reading 90mph while still at a walking pace.
3. When joining a vaguely gritted road drive as normal, weaving around any women travelling at 11mph.
4 Wind the driver's window down and turn the heater up to full to carry out an experiment as to whether wind chill can be beaten by the heater matrix.
5. Arrive at the work car park at a much higher speed than usual to enable a high speed handbrake turn. If possible blow the horn to alert other men to your feat of machismo.
6. Realise that you were going to fast for the conditions.
7. Exit the vehicle and inspect damage to your car, other cars you have collided with as well as damage to curbs/bollards/bystanders.

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I was expecting...

1. Buy a FFRR. Wink

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Fox wrote:
I was expecting...

1. Buy a FFRR. Wink


Laughing OUCH Exclamation

That was a bit wicked Fox!

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iT LAD - Rolling with laughter I liked that Rolling with laughter

When it last snowed (first time we have really had any decent snow since owning a Range Rover) I had the genius idea of seeing what it is capable of when driving it in the snow in the nearby empty Homebase carpark Very Happy and all in the interests of research you understand

Wink Lots and lots and lots of fun - nothing quite as exciting as doing a powerslide in 2.7 tonnes of your very own expensive pride and joy (20+ times) - well, until I gently clipped a kerb and scuffed my rear wheel that is Embarassed

Fantastic cars Thumbs Up

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is that yours on youtube then delamo? ... - .- -.




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delamo



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scarey wrote:
is that yours on youtube then delamo?


No scarey, I don't think so? - I haven't seen it! Neutral

But at 5am in the morning - a good few inches of fresh, untouched snow in a large retail car park I couldn't resist it Wink

Whistle All done in the interests of road safety awareness and practical enterta...umm...education you must understand!

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found it...

 ... - .- -.




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looks like fun....

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Laughing Laughing Laughing

Superb - no, it definately wasn't me (but it might as well have been) Wink

Edit - iT LAD - it is fun, it really, really is fun until... Don't worry it could be you soon - i have every faith in you Thumbs Up

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delamo wrote:
Whistle All done in the interests of road safety awareness and practical enterta...umm...education you must understand!


You'll be fitting neon lights, a loud exhaust and a couple of stripes over the bonnet and roof?? Whistle Laughing

James Thumbs Up

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Lookers Park Royal wrote:
...You'll be fitting neon lights, a loud exhaust and a couple of stripes over the bonnet and roof?? Whistle Laughing

James Thumbs Up


Laughing No - Part exchanging it maybe... Whistle

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You getting a new one Delamo...

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Question Whistle

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If you don't want to tell, PM me...I won't spell the beans...honest. Thumbs Up Laughing

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Wow delamo, a brand new one...

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iT LAD wrote:
...I won't spell the beans...honest


Shocked

You just did!

b...e...a...n...s

No not a new one...He will never fall for that - the 'almighty one' has met me Thumbs Up


...besides iT LAD, we need to get you sorted first!

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