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Old 22-02-2005 | 04:51 PM
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Aero is probably the 2nd hardest engineering degree, I'd say Electrical Engineering would be the first because you can't see what you're talking about, you have to imagine it ALL

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Old 22-02-2005 | 04:54 PM
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Yeah I mean You had to get AAAAB in 5 highers, I got AAADD and got into do chemistry easily

My Mate is taking music with elecy engineering says its pretty hard
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nick was that when a mars bar was 10p and 5 pence for a bus ride in the toon for under 16,s and cossie,s hadn,t even been thought off,just think when the 500 was new it was the same price as an average house in uk,think about that 2day

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Old 22-02-2005 | 05:15 PM
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Hi
When I started driving in 1962 petrol was 4s 2d thats 21p a gallon or 4.6p a litre.
However I can remember pre Suez Crisis (1957) when Petrol was 2p a litre.
Unfortunately I was on Ł196 a year (apprentice) so it was still very expensive.
Old 22-02-2005 | 05:49 PM
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yes our petrol has over 80% tax belive it or not we have some of the cheapest pre tax petrol lol. Fookin Government eh?

I think u lot over the pond should be about the same to stop all that gas guzzling un fuel efficent cars, and save a couple of flowers! Ok maybe im not a fine one to talk as my cossie is erm not street legal on emissions
Old 22-02-2005 | 06:54 PM
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Forget that......PAVE THE PLANET

One World, One People, One Great Big Slab of Asphalt

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Old 22-02-2005 | 07:01 PM
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Originally Posted by STUCOS
nick was that when a mars bar was 10p and 5 pence for a bus ride in the toon for under 16,s and cossie,s hadn,t even been thought off,just think when the 500 was new it was the same price as an average house in uk,think about that 2day

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Were they as much as 10p! If only the cossie was worth as much as an average house now eh!!

You dont fancy one of those autoart sierras do you me and my mate have block bought a few and we have one black one left but it is Ł60 due to sharing the postage costs! let me know !!

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Old 22-02-2005 | 07:06 PM
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Pave the planet

One world 4% of the world people i think = 25% of the worlds emissions.

Im no tree hugger far from it. But to be honest i think things have to be done to level it out a bit as we will soon be sorry
Old 22-02-2005 | 07:18 PM
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im sure it was 46p a litre when i started out and Ł10 would give me 3/4 of a tank in my mk1 XR2

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Old 22-02-2005 | 07:46 PM
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Trees are renewable resources, so what's the big deal

Cut down some, plant more....treehuggers tend to forget the 2nd part of the equation when they do all their dumbshit protesting
Old 22-02-2005 | 07:50 PM
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yeah but Americans if you don't mind me saying, are mostly pig ignorant, not talking about you as you obv have a good education and have made your political decisions. But most people will know what i mean, most Americans don't know or care abou the worlds problems

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That comment is not nationality specific

As you get older, you'll figure out that a single person is smart, yet a group of people is dumb.

It probably doesn't make sense now, but give it time.......

People who stand in front of bulldozers on private land (not theirs) to protest clearcutting SHOULD get run over....they're tresspassing AND being stupid all at the same time.
Old 22-02-2005 | 08:20 PM
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well, I would say in my experiances of the states, and also Americans over here that it is 80-90% chance.

I am not one for standing in front of Bulldozers to fight trees being cut down. Its more standing up for my own (and people like me)'s working rights..

Hippys cause nothing but problems IMO.

maybe Marx had a point
Old 27-02-2005 | 01:21 AM
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Cheapest I remember was 49p a GALLON..!!
This was probably mid to late 70's
Old 27-02-2005 | 09:04 AM
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I used to have a photo of me with my first car and in the background you could just make out the Gulf sign with unleaded at 42.9p. That was around 1993/4. Nearly double that at the same garage now.

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