Well obviously I'm 5'10 with the figure of Kelly Brook and Katherine Jenkins rolled into one. And the sofa's brown.
Was reading avidly until the 'rolled into one' bit... (*)
(*) Please feel free to delete this if it's deemed contrary to the diginity of the office of Moderator.
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Great post - getting some strange visuals now when I look at posters names!
I'm 37, 6ft and work as an IT Manager (none of those facts are related so why I put them together I'm not sure) Currently driving a Megane 1.6 but hope to change that very soon (what a pile!). Wife drives a 1.2 3 cylinder Polo which on paper sounds kak, but I find a great little car to drive.
Interests include (very) Heavy Metal music, beer (real beer) and cars. Used to service my own cars but due to time restrictions, dodgy back and apathy have resorted to buying newer cars and hoping for the best.
Living in the North East I endure the misery of the Western Bypass and Tyne Tunnel which I allieviate with lots of CDs crammed full of MP3 tracks. Most of these CDs are scattered around the car making it look like and explosion in HMVs stockroom.
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Couldn't resist posting, after reading the BRs' posts so far. My name describes my job, though it will soon be out of date, as I'm rapidly heading towards the time of bus pass, free prescriptions, PO pension (if Gordon has left me any), and the like. It's 35 days to go now, but I'm not counting as I do enjoy my job really. I'll probably stay at work longer and save up for a Volvo or something.
FWIW I'm a little over 6'1", and almost 16 stone, and almost 60. Can't quite believe that bit. Tramping the streets doesn't keep you trim, as I've proved by counter-example.
Current car is a Vectra 1.8. It's a very good car despite what people like Clarkson think. It's comfortable, can carry lots of things, like grandchildren, double mattress to the tip, goes quite fast enough to lose my licence, and is reasonably good on petrol, at 36-38 mpg. It also has a woman called Cleverclogs, who lives in the car, and tells you the way to go, usually getting it right, and is easily controlled by a six year old granddaughter if her mother, my daughter can't work out how to progam the thing.
I've had three very nice Mondeos, and some pretty awful cars as well. Perhaps my most unusual car was the 1935 MG PA (complete with Ford s.v. engine), which my one time boss, the late Chief Constable of Northamptonshire, John Gott, said must not leave the station yard until it had better tyres. There was a difficulty with that, as I had to go to Northampton to get a tyre, and quietly went to get it when the coast was clear.
I've also had a lot of motorcycles, old Brits then BMWs and Japanese. I have been recovered, with the bikes, once from Devon after a BMW club do, when the gearbox fell to bits, and once in Yorkshire, when the clutch splines sheared. Both were BMs. I never had to be rescued on a Brit or Jap bike.
I come from a motor industry family, way back. My grandfather had two garages, one of which has evolved into a chain around Northampton, but it was originally Griffin and Kingston, in Northampton and Spratton, near the town, my grandad being Ralph Kingston who died in 1942. His brother Phil ran a village garage at Blakesley in South Northants, before retiring in the 1960s.
I like driving, but there is so much traffic now it can be difficult to get away from the traffic.
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As for me I drive the superb Rover 75 tourer I'm 63 and a miserable old F..t who drives too slowly and keeps to speed limits when I see the signs . No stereotypes here then ,
John.
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What happened about talking of weight and hair..........well?
VBR..MD
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Indeed back on topic ! (mmmm topic)
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Yes - back on topic or its binned.
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It was on topic. "You.. Describe yourself posting...."
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Now, describe yourself - am posting from Frankfurt with a hangover after the annual lad´s night out (goose dinner), but it was worth it, what a night.
Currently drive an old but faithful ´99 Astra estate, which has been a cracking buy for us. Looks like new after its annual clean :-)
The Barchetta had to go with the arrival of BabyBarchetta in Dec 2005. BabyBarch #2 is due Jan 6. As if life wasn´t complicated enough.
Still trying to pluck up the courage to get an Alfa 166 ´for the weekends´.
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So BM, whats so special about march/april? I know in the spring a young mans fancy and all that, but you are rather regular. Birthday perhaps?
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..So BM, whats so special about march/april?....
Don´t ask me. As far as I can remember we weren´t even in the same country at the time of conception, so I am going to be having a close look at the DHL delivery driver next time I see him.
Seriously though Mrs Barchetta doing well, although a bit fed up of being pregnant. And she´s looking forward to getting out of the designated driver duties (motoring link).
BTW, why is there ´ulla´ at the bottom of your postings these days? I´ve missed something.
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Jw's WOTW - I have tickets for the 22nd at the 02 arena - Ulla is the cry of the martians,
BBD got it.
So the Astra will be steeping up in its BB carrying duties then. Seems to be the right car at the right moment,
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"I have tickets for the 22nd at the 02 arena"
Was that the prize? Are you taking me?
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Nathaniel! Nathaniel!
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>Are you taking me?
I would rather you drown in red weed Beth
One appeared above Big Ben, Ulaaahhhhh!
Better than a petition against Fuel tax, zap the government with martian death rays
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i come to this site for the motoring stuff....and don't bother with any other sites, be they motoring or otherwise
so in theory, i ought to be agreeing with those that don't want the 'mission creep', of a thread like this to spill over into anything else
but... do i mind if one of the contributors airs something important to them and helps themselves through it by sharing it...no i do not.... once i've read the post once i'd know not to bother again if i didn't like it
this was the same with the chap who had both his cars go with a nasty aggravated burglary (motoring element admittedly) or even the demise of The Growler (whom unfortunately i hadn't read, because i hadn't found this site then).
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>>or even the demise of The Growler (whom unfortunately i hadn't read, because i hadn't found this site then).
All is not lost. If you wish to read series of " Letter from the Colonies" then....
Try the forum search ( top right) and put in "growler" as the author, "letter" as the subject,
"discussion forum" & " >year"
I hope you enjoy them as much as many on the forum have.
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To all of those who posted lovely, supportive comments, thank you. I didn't know you had it in you. ;-)
All discussion about what went before is now gone, further comments will be deleted, feel free to take it to email, etc etc.
Back to the topic in hand...
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I've finally been sucked in to this thread, simply because it's become so intriguing given I wasn't paying attention and now there's a load of empty posts and some hints that it might have been exciting and slightly fractious.
Anyway, as of the weekend, I'm 32, 5'11", about 11 stone 4 and while not too bad, don't get to do as much exercise as I'd like. I try to get mountain biking, climbing, mountaineering or walking most weekends if I can. Founded a company developing medical imaging kit about 18 months ago with four colleagues, and have just recently got venture capital backing for it.
I'm sitting posting this in my home office on a desktop, although I spend more than 50% of my life haring around the place as I'm in charge of the clinical side of things. I head to Munich later today to talk to collaborators there.
Cars: drive a diesel Honda Accord Tourer, mostly chosen for work but actually pretty ideal for my life in general. Bought new at facelift, so all bells and whistles apart from sat nav..
Previously have had a Citroen Xsara VTR (3 years, 46-90k with probably about £1k spent on repairs in the period), Citroen Saxo 1.1 (5 years, 17-96k, reliability excellent and a hoot to drive on twisties, shame a chav image developed), Peugeot 405 1.6 (4 years, 82 - 146k, drank like a fish, always in the garage, disaster all round really) and a VW Jetta mk1 1.1 (80k - 120k, had so little power anything above 60 was a real challenge, but probably for the best as brakes, grip and handling all highly suspect).
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i refuse to be drawn in to this thread.....doh!
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I'm 33, single, have short cropped hair through necessity rather than choice, have all my own teeth (except one that got removed unexpectedly when I fell over after drinking one too many port and lemons) am rather too short for my weight and live in Southport, Lancashire.
I work as a coach driver for a small local independent company and drive a 2000 Vectra 2.0CDX.
I tend to only post sporadically but when I do it is on an HP Pavilion ze5600 (so the little sticker thing under the screen says) in my front room. Handy for telly and music but not handy for beer. Must get a mini-fridge.
Cheers
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