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To quote the namegiver of the Teddy bear again:
Quote: Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Let those who never have bitten off more than they can handle throw the first rock.
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Shows what a super car should be like, don't treat it with respect and it will bite back.
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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You cannae change the laws of physics, that's all. So treat yourself with some respect and get proper training before you go marauding through the countryside with such a toy.
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In this case it wasn't even being driven through the country but on the M1. How this could have happened at legal motorway speeds is beyond belief.
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That engine has a terrific torque and acceleration. Losing control is made extremely easy.
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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KennethKennedy wrote: How this could have happened at legal motorway speeds
That you think he was conforming to the speed limit on the M1 is beyond belief.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I see what you mean it would have been impossible to get to 70mph on the M1 during the day.
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While it's a myth that we don't have any speed limits at all, we do have long stretches where there is only a recommended speed of 130 km/h, but no limit. Strangely enougfh it's only the foreigners who can't live with that. Some go crazy and drive like there's no tomorrow, others (not looking at anyone who wears wooden shoes and usually drags a tulip and cheese container behind the car) crawl around as they are used to and hold everything up.
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Wanna bet he was playing with the traction control in the wet? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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My heart bleeds.
Actually, it's just pumping a bit faster due to laughing so much.
Guess his premiums are going up a bit.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: Guess his premiums are going up a bit.
Insurance group: 50.
My car is group 16, and I paid £227.70 this year, so how much he paid before this I don't even want to speculate.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Or what the excess would have to be, I suspect in the 1000's
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KennethKennedy wrote: in the 1000's
I'm kinda hoping it's in the region of 260 of 'em!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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The common insurance comparison sites wouldn't even quote for a £260,000 car, I know I tried, just for research purposes.  .com meerkat etc 
I would imagine it would have to be a specialist insurance company.
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Didn't Clarkson try to insure a Bugatti Veyron while driving one across France and find the same thing?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Your memory must be better than mine.
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Of course, none of us Hamilton fans would hope that the same thing happens to Vettel's Ferrari on Sunday...
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I've gone "off road" a couple of times, and none of my cars ever burst into flames.
I'm wondering about the exact sequence of events...
A) vroooom -> bumpty-bump-bump -> fwoof!
or
B) vroooom -> fwoof! -> AAAaaauuuggghhh -> bumpty-bump-bump
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Pity no one around had a dashcam - it'd have gone viral on YouTube. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Yeah, or nay? If so, which one and why? (Yes, I could just do a search here, but that would be late week's opinions)
Multi-device preferred.
TTFN - Kent
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Yay. I got Keepass KeePass Password Safe[^] as recommended in a post in the Lounge some time ago. Very easy to use across Windows and Ubuntu (with mono) and keeps improving. I manually sync database using FreeFileSync. I don't worry about other devices but: How to Use KeePass In Your Browser, Across Your Computers, and On Your Phone[^]
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Until you forget the password to that one. [Whistles innocently] 
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Not for me. I learn all my passwords by heart and usually log out of sites I don't use everyday.
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Yey, to LastPass. Simple enough to use, with cross platform support.
Occasionally OTT with some of the security requirements, and not sure it really gets having multiple concurrent devices in use but otherwise really like.
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