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    probably now is as good a time as any to exterminate humanity.
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    Just as well I didn't buy that yoke, I'd have to give it to my bird to drive it.
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    Wut... so has my yoke. A comparable car to the one I bought last year costs at around two grand more today. If you're buying a car you should probably be taking it out at least once a week. I think engines get upset unless they have some use. I kinda trust (for no reason really) Toyota / Mazda...
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    Lads, this thread still terrifies me. I bought the most boring, sensible car conceivable. A Honda Jazz, in lovely granny white. With a tow bar for some reason, which is interesting since it can barely pull itself up the hills around here. It's a bit of a step down from that insane Mazda3 yoke I...
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    They'll be reading their phone thinking... oh yeah, right, good point, I should be thinki... clunk.
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    If / when I get hit by a car next I'd say it'll be to do with them looking at their phone. Dunno what the story in Ireland is, but out here people space out on phones all the time. I'd almost prefer an aggressive asshole driver because he's probably at least looking through the windscreen of...
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    I know fuck all about cars, but... I think the hand brake has some metal mechanical business and possibly a cable between itself and the brake cylinders / lines, and this can get rusted and stiff. As in, if it's only your handbrake, it might be whatever mechanism does the ratchety / release /...
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    I'd assumed a lot of those yokes were cameras for keeping an eye on things. Or doin a bit of the aul shpyin. Over in Britland they love their cameras. A couple of years back the... I dunno FBI? Some gang of lunatics had a blimp, like a big fuck off blimp over by Baltimore for doing a bit of...
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    The whole gears on cars thing is stil a bit of a strange one for me. I couldn't drive a bike without a gearbox and clutch though, because i have some base need to brutalize momo bike gearboxes instead of touching the back brake. But momobike's bits are all in the right place. The gear lever is...
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    You know what. Fucking thank you ann post. OK. I'd really started getting in the habit of pulling away in 2nd, or third even. I'll stop that now. Fooking sending love heart emojis your way. I did know how traffic lights worked... but only because I drove bikes my whole life. Often there's not...
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    I bought a 2016 Mazda 3. In the US the smallest engine that comes with is 2.0L, and the fancy one is 2.5L. I remembered thinking, huh, odd, I thought reasonable sized cars got 2L, and smaller ones got 1.3, or 1.6 or something. Anyway, them's the options, picked one with a manual gearbox, and...
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    Yeah. I've no idea what Lexus is up to these days but I'm looking at yokes from 2004. They just seem solid. I don't want to seem simple, but how do you look at the chassis? Just crawl underneath with a torch and poke about? Or should I probably find a mechanic to give it a once over?
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    On my continuing "fuck I should buy a car since I'm now a middle aged cunt" adventures, I've veered off the Mazda3 track, and onto an Old Lexus with not that many miles on it track. The reason I want a car is because I need to haul little people around. I hate the bastarding things. I cycle to...
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    I almost bought a dodgy car yesterday! Warning story: In the used car place, looking over a nice shiny looking Mazda3. It's fooking BALTIC oot, like -10 with the wind howling around the place, my skin's already telling me to fuck off because I've wrecked it cycling all the time. I take the...
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