The TPU UK Clubhouse

[RCoon]

Johnny Cakes has been good to me. I've put over 40k on it last year. Spins like a top! Good car despite being a Yaris. Sum bitch has a timing chain in it!

Damn son, I do about 3K a year. 40K sure is pounding it.

 

[TheMailMan78]

Damn son, I do about 3K a year. 40K sure is pounding it.

Welcome to rural America. 20 minutes just to get to the grocery store. My job is two hours away. I used to go in everyday for a while. Now I work from home mostly.

Kinda pissed I sold the Mustang now. I sold it because of the drive. I don't do that anymore so I could have kept the damn thing lol.

 

[d1nky]

For "older" middle aged drivers, probably between £100-200 per YEAR. For brand new drivers, about £1500-2000 a year

You still driving Johnny Cakes?!

fixed as thats whats just been quoted for me

 

[Sir B. Fannybottom]

Damn son, I do about 3K a year. 40K sure is pounding it.

This is what annoys me bout you brits. Your cross country trips are just going a town over for us North Americans.

 

[the54thvoid]

This is what annoys me bout you brits. Your cross country trips are just going a town over for us North Americans.

Why'd you think we 'lost' the war of independence? You thought we wanted those damn trips to the post office? Hell no, if the triangulation of work - pub - home isn't commutable on foot it 's not worth it (or it's London). And London isn't British. It's Bankish.

FTR, wife and I just bought a Seat Ibiza FR with a 1.4 Turbocharged engine. Fairly rapid and because of fangled VW technology our road tax (when we pay it) is only £20/year and insurance is cheaper for us both than it was on my old Susuki Swift.... Still can't figure it out.

 

[TheMailMan78]

Why'd you think we 'lost' the war of independence? You thought we wanted those damn trips to the post office? Hell no, if the triangulation of work - pub - home isn't commutable on foot it 's not worth it (or it's London). And London isn't British. It's Bankish.

FTR, wife and I just bought a Seat Ibiza FR with a 1.4 Turbocharged engine. Fairly rapid and because of fangled VW technology our road tax (when we pay it) is only £20/year and insurance is cheaper for us both than it was on my old Susuki Swift.... Still can't figure it out.

BS you lost because we kicked your asses. You even came back all emo and burned down our capital in 1812. Yer just damn lucky we didn't have a real navy at that time or Buckingham Palace would be a motel 6 right now

 

[the54thvoid]

BS you lost because we kicked your asses. You even came back all emo and burned down our capital in 1812. Yer just damn lucky we didn't have a real navy at that time or Buckingham Palace would be a motel 6 right now

It is a motel. Just for really privileged Germans.

 

[TheMailMan78]

It is a motel. Just for really privileged Germans.

Not American style Motel 6. Skeet on the walls and bodies under the bed. MERICA'!

 

[MilkyWay]

Imagine having to commute across the Atlantic if we still had the 13 colonies fuck that shit.

 

[TheMailMan78]

Imagine having to commute across the Atlantic if we still had the 13 colonies fuck that shit.

Imagine having to learn German if the US wasn't there in 41! It worked out the best for both you and us. Now our countries are like brothers from another mother!

 

[ne6togadno]

Imagine having to learn German if the US wasn't there in 41! It worked out the best for both you and us. Now our countries are like brothers from another mother!

 

[TheMailMan78]

lolol My grandmother on my moms side was a krout. That video is SPOT ON.

 

[ne6togadno]

lolol My grandmother on my moms side was a krout. That video is SPOT ON.

i may look dumb but what is krout?
i found more of it

cant see part 2 thou

 

[TheMailMan78]

i may look dumb but what is krout?
i found more of it

cant see part 2 thou

Sorry "Kraut"

 

[ne6togadno]

Sorry "Kraut"

that is the "problem" with "young" countries. everyone still knows where his grandma/pa came from. in my country for ~1.3k years (500 under ottoman rule) everything is bloody mess. you can hardly track more then 3 generations. to track more is possible only if you have famous (in one way or other) ancestors.
part 4

 

[TheMailMan78]

I can trace mine back to the 1600's here in the US. My dad's side were all Irish immigrants. They came over as "indentured" servants. Didn't work out for their owners. My family had a bounty on them until the revolutionary war. I come from a long line of trolls and wood folk. We have always had a slight authority issue. lol

 

[ne6togadno]

I can trace mine back to the 1600's here in the US. My dad's side were all Irish immigrants. They came over as "indentured" servants. Didn't work out for their owners. My family had a bounty on them until the revolutionary war. I come from a long line of trolls and wood folk. We have always had a slight authority issue. lol

400 still isnt too much in terms of history.
my country officially is 1.3k years old but territory has been populated 6k b.c. tribes came and gone, empires risen and felt. resulting mixture is unspeakable. nationality can be "recognized" only for families that came in last 200-300 years.

 

[the54thvoid]

400 still isnt too much in terms of history.
my country officially is 1.3k years old but territory has been populated 6k b.c. tribes came and gone, empires risen and felt. resulting mixture is unspeakable. nationality can be "recognized" only for families that came in last 200-300 years.

Turkish?

 

[TheMailMan78]

400 still isnt too much in terms of history.
my country officially is 1.3k years old but territory has been populated 6k b.c. tribes came and gone, empires risen and felt. resulting mixture is unspeakable. nationality can be "recognized" only for families that came in last 200-300 years.

We have 400 years here. I've traced back much further in Ireland. I talked to Tatty about it a while ago. My family is from southern Ireland. Tatty called it "Indian Country" which made me laugh.

 

[RCoon]

We have 400 years here. I've traced back much further in Ireland. I talked to Tatty about it a while ago. My family is from southern Ireland. Tatty called it "Indian Country" which made me laugh.

I'm from southern ireland, Arklow to be precise. Most irish people I meet are northern for some reason. My fathers side has always been irish, but my mother was born in Malta and lived in cyprus.

 

[TheMailMan78]

I'm from southern ireland, Arklow to be precise. Most irish people I meet are northern for some reason. My fathers side has always been irish, but my mother was born in Malta and lived in cyprus.

Mine is from Cork County from what I was able to trace.

 

[ne6togadno]

Turkish?

bulgarian

We have 400 years here. I've traced back much further in Ireland. I talked to Tatty about it a while ago. My family is from southern Ireland. Tatty called it "Indian Country" which made me laugh.

in middle ages when my country was ruled by ottomans it was verry comon ottomans to robe and burn down christian monasteries and churches so a lot of born/married/died records was lost.
but nothing was so destructieve as communist plague. they forced ppl to use as family name first names of their grandfathers so that old family names and memory are lost. when land property was taken from ppl official records was also burned.
worst thing that can happen to any country is communist to come in power. if you like your countries never let this to happen.

 

[d1nky]

jeeez am i nervous! cars being MOTd and got my driving test in an hour or so!

praying to the car gods

 

[RCoon]

jeeez am i nervous! cars being MOTd and got my driving test in an hour or so!

praying to the car gods

I found the test far easier than the theory, and I'm a pretty academic kind of guy. All the best. Also, note, drivers on A roads are massive douches when you're trying to join via the sliproad.

Prepare to spend money on your MOT as well!

 

[d1nky]

i blitzed the theory. didnt even practice the harzard perception and just passed that lol i know what drivers can be like. in bournemouth no one indicates, gives way, sticks to speed limits etc plus theres like a million pedestrians crossing freely and traffic jams.

ive spent the money on the car, everything should be ok apart from what i couldnt test.


humm dida dumm hiddaa dumm diaa dumm... chant to car gods!