What is new in your little world?

Post by **Doombrain** » Tue Nov 03, 2015 11:32 pm

Shaped eyebrows.

Post by **PhoeniX** » Sat Nov 14, 2015 5:44 pm

Decided to have a ~2/5th life crisis and be the boy-racer I never was. Bought a rather nice ultra-rare Clio 182 off a friend. There were only 525 of these Trophy editions made, with 500 in the UK and are regarded as one of the best ever hot hatches as the first 30 seconds of this video confirms

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If I suddenly stop posting here I've probably wrapped it around a tree.

[youtube]BTTI-aMKn60[/youtube]

.. I'm waiting for this to be the next Golf GTi saga

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Post by **Doombrain** » Sat Nov 14, 2015 5:52 pm

Cracking cars when they run.

Post by **Whiskey 7** » Sat Nov 14, 2015 10:32 pm

Re: What is new in your little world?

PM yesterday a group of my classmates met up for a few drinks and a feed and our 42nd 'gathering'. I am not calling them 'reunions' as that seems to imply a party, balloons and getting dressed up, speeches and stuff.

The next 'reunion' is planned for our 45th year, then I suppose our 50th

Post by **PhoeniX** » Sat Nov 14, 2015 11:32 pm

Doombrain wrote:Cracking cars when they run.

I'm assured the F4R is one of the most reliable Renault engines.. we shall see!

My mate owned it for the past five years and I'm not aware of any major issues anyway.

Post by **Whiskey 7** » Mon Nov 16, 2015 1:13 am

I have some relatives staying over soon and they're from England.
We have made some plans and we're so looking forward to the catch up over the next few days.
No doubt, lots of food and drink added to the good company, it will be nice

Post by **scared?** » Mon Nov 16, 2015 1:14 am

Sounds dreadful... Gl hf...

Post by **scared?** » Mon Nov 16, 2015 1:15 am

YourGrandpa wrote:If LawL were here.

OWNED...

Post by **Flex Donkey** » Mon Nov 16, 2015 4:21 am

Gramps missed me, how cute.

Post by **Don Carlos** » Mon Nov 16, 2015 5:15 pm

PhoeniX wrote:Decided to have a ~2/5th life crisis and be the boy-racer I never was. Bought a rather nice ultra-rare Clio 182 off a friend. There were only 525 of these Trophy editions made, with 500 in the UK and are regarded as one of the best ever hot hatches as the first 30 seconds of this video confirms .

If I suddenly stop posting here I've probably wrapped it around a tree.

[youtube]BTTI-aMKn60[/youtube]

.. I'm waiting for this to be the next Golf GTi saga .

I smashed a 172 cup around Spa a few years ago. Wonderful little car and one of the best days of my life

Post by **PhoeniX** » Mon Nov 16, 2015 9:39 pm

Don Carlos wrote:I smashed a 172 cup around Spa a few years ago. Wonderful little car and one of the best days of my life

Haha awesome. I live 20 miles from Donnington Park, might have to get a track day booked

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Post by **ToxicBug** » Wed Nov 18, 2015 1:43 am

HR informed me today that I've been with the company for exactly five years. I'm getting a third week of vacation (two weeks per year is the legal minimum) effective immediately and this watch (the other choices were Citizen AT4110-55E and Tissot T055.471.11.057.00).

Feels kinda weird considering I'm only 28. Oh well, I like what I do there.

Post by **Whiskey 7** » Wed Nov 18, 2015 5:21 am

Nice watch ToxicBug

As to employment leave entitlements over my working years, I have always enjoyed 4 weeks annual leave and 17.5% leave loading on the 9 to 5 jobs and while on the 24 hour shift work I got 5 weeks per year and 20% leave loading. Seems I was and am still a lucky bastard

Post by **PhoeniX** » Wed Nov 18, 2015 10:24 am

The company I work for gives us one extra day for five years of employment, lol.

We do get 28 days statutory holiday here though if you work full-time.

Post by **Whiskey 7** » Wed Nov 18, 2015 8:31 pm

I forgot to mention, on top of the above we score 10 individual 'public' holidays throughout the year

Post by **seremtan** » Wed Nov 18, 2015 9:49 pm

i get about 5 1/2 weeks of holiday, excluding public holidays

feels good man

Post by **Don Carlos** » Wed Nov 18, 2015 10:11 pm

I get 30 days, plus public holidays, plus I buy another 5 days and this year I will be carrying over 5 days...

Post by **Don Carlos** » Wed Nov 18, 2015 10:13 pm

PhoeniX wrote:
Don Carlos wrote:I smashed a 172 cup around Spa a few years ago. Wonderful little car and one of the best days of my life
Haha awesome. I live 20 miles from Donnington Park, might have to get a track day booked .

Let me know if you book one - I might meet up with ya

Post by **Doombrain** » Wed Nov 18, 2015 11:11 pm

45 days plus public and sell back 5 which gets me about 2k.

Post by **Whiskey 7** » Thu Nov 19, 2015 5:29 am

Whiskey 7 wrote:I have some relatives staying over soon and they're from England.
We have made some plans and we're so looking forward to the catch up over the next few days.
No doubt, lots of food and drink added to the good company, it will be nice

It was so nice to catch up. Yes, a little too much food and wine of course.

We took them on a scenic (tourist) canal cruise stopping off for lunch at the tavern. After a great feed we returned on the same cruise boat. Yesterday off to the local markets, not quite local being 40 minutes away. Nice

The sun burning down bought a colour to their fair skins

They're off home soon. We will see them as they board their aircraft home at 1am in a couple of days.

Post by **PhoeniX** » Thu Nov 19, 2015 11:21 am

Looks like I actually get 35 days holiday, not that I get chance to use them mind.

Don Carlos wrote:Let me know if you book one - I might meet up with ya

The 32mpg I've been getting the past week means I might not be able to afford to drive it there

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Post by **ToxicBug** » Thu Nov 19, 2015 3:28 pm

PhoeniX wrote:Looks like I actually get 35 days holiday, not that I get chance to use them mind.

Don Carlos wrote:Let me know if you book one - I might meet up with ya
The 32mpg I've been getting the past week means I might not be able to afford to drive it there .

You have 7 weeks off plus statutory holidays? How come you can't use them?

Post by **PhoeniX** » Thu Nov 19, 2015 11:11 pm

That's 35 in total.

There never seems to be a good time to take them due to various projects we have on - I end up using them all up towards the end of the financial year when my manager forces me to (he keeps telling me throughout the year to take some days off..). I do always use up all my holiday days.

Given the choice I'd probably prefer to work the holiday days and be paid instead but we can't do that

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Post by **Doombrain** » Sun Nov 22, 2015 7:59 pm

I've worn out my drive chain, so bought this!

http://flowmountainbike.com/tests/teste ... -11-speed/

Post by **Whiskey 7** » Sun Nov 22, 2015 8:54 pm

Wearing out drive chain takes some effort

You must do hours on that bike.

Me, I stripped down my old PC and gave it a clean of sorts. I reinstalled* all the 5 HDDs tidying cables as I did. I had to read up on the old DOS commands for unconditional formatting to erase all personal data. Lastly I installed W10 and now ready to sell it on.

* I removed the 2 SSDs for the new one.