The Last Homely House
General => Council of Cobra => Topic started by: DáinIronfoot on December 10, 2008, 09:53:34 AM
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With gas prices dropping like a stone worldwide, I'm curious: what's the cheapest you're finding it where YOU live? Just a fun little survey for an otherwise slow day....
$1.579 near me, by the way. :up: Haven't seen it that cheap since college.
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$1.48
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$1.479
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well at least theres something good about economic downturn ;)
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Can't really contribute, becuase we do not measure it up in gallons, not to mention gas IS extremely expensive here.
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$1.559
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$1.459 and falling.
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I read somewhere a few weeks ago that the drop in cost of oil is due to several new discoveries of large oil fields which has convinced the drillers that there really is hundreds and hundreds of years worth of easy-to-access oil still left to us.
It's kind of silly to imagine a race of being going through hundreds of millions of years worth of liquid in a century.
Oh, and I'm pretty sure I saw $1.41 a few days ago.
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1.769
California is always more expensive. >:(
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Well stop living in a crazy state then. Come here to the Midwest and you'll be treated like royalty. All that money you didn't know you had becomes so much more out here.
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1.769
California is always more expensive. >:(
Well stop living in a crazy state then. Come here to the Midwest and you'll be treated like royalty. All that money you didn't know you had becomes so much more out here.
Heck yeah! a million dollar mansion here would go for the billions in cali.
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Its 88.9 pence a litre where I live, so about 4 pounds a gallon... $6
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wow. sucks to be you.
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Its 88.9 pence a litre where I live, so about 4 pounds a gallon... $6
Holy... :o Ouch My wallet hurts from here.
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It routinely costs me $70 to fill up my 1.8 litre 5 door Nissan Primera... in the USA it would cost me about $15
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A litre here would go for, roughly, 1.30 dollars. But of course, we do not get paid in dollars! :P
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$1.59.
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man, you all in England could start a business buying gas in the usa and selling it in Europe.
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Yeah costs me about 89 pence at the moment per litre which is dirt cheap for over here. Takes me £45 to fill my 1.8 toyota celica coupe and i get about 25 mpg.
So in your terms $70 like the Jord.
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1.8 liter, man, small engines. all my friends laugh at how small my eclipse's 2.0 liter engine is. but i still get 25 miles to the gallon. and i can probably still beat them in a race so...
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I really like the eclipse, shame i would have to buy it on import as its not a UK car.
Americans have an amazing ability to use a huge powerful engine and get a poxy amount of power out of it, the size of some of your v8s, would produce monumental power if they were made over here. (By the way this is in no way meant to start a war of nations, but i speaketh the truth if you check generally).
On average our engines are MUCh smaller than US ones but i wouldnt discount that meaning theyre slow.
Yes we have cars that have 0.9l! And 1.2 and 1.4 are very common engine sizes, which get around 60mpg at least, and even more for diesel, but our fastest cars dont tend to have much over 3 litres. The mitsubishi lancer evo produces anywhere between 300 and 400 bhp for a 2 litre.
This is a debate ive had before though. How much bhp does your 2 litre produce mm?
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I know what you mean lem0n I drove a 3.5 V6 when I lived over there and it was no faster than an average Saxo
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Unfortunately Jord the average Saxo is driven by a chav so it will probably be modded to heck and be fast as #$&*@! :D That or just make a loud noise for no reason! Hehe.
But i get your point dude :D Cheers.
mm, i wanna know what bhp your eclipse produces. Any ideas?
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Lol you may have to explain CHAV to the masses lem0n
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ok "bhp" that would be, something to do with horse power?
and chav while you're at it...
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BHP = brake horse power
CHAV = Council Housed and Violent
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A chav is a scally or a pikey. #$&*@!, these yanks wont get this. They wear stupid hats and silly tracksuit bottoms and lots of jewellery and pimp their rides and think theyre cool when theyre total scum and losers.
Anyway.... yeah mm how much brake horse power has ur car got. That is the true measurement of how powerful a car (in relation to the weight of course) not the engine size....
U any idea?
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HAHAHA trying to explain chavs to Americans... I have never found it easy. Sitting around in there done up Nova's and Saxo's, blasting up and down the road with BOOM BOOM BOOM coming out the stereo... sound similar to anything in the US?
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haha, ok, well, its hard to say how much power my car has. its a very old eclipse, '96 with 218,000 miles on it.
but i actually have no idea how to find out how what kind of bph it has.
any ideas?
and yes, we do have tons of chavs in america, they're usually part of the ghetto. but yeah, same deal, stupid hats (they don't take the stickers off) wear lots of bling (shiny jewelry) and pimp their rides and think they're cool. TONS of sub-whoofer blasts from their cars... haha
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Yeah, well...well...the metric system is stupid! HA!
For the record, I cannot STAND when people "pimp out their rides" and/or blast sounds that some call "music" (I call simply "noise") to every eardrum within half a mile. If I want to listen to that crap, I'll play it myself, thank you very much. No need to drown out my good music with your misguided attempt at sounding cool. Oy.
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you live in maryland too man, its worse up there. you should move to virginia, we're a lot more civilized.
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But I LIKE being a savage! :pirate:
Nah, I couldn't do without crabs and Old Bay. And Annapolis, my home away from home. Yes, some more distance from DC would be nice, but not if I have to give up my crabs, man!
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But I LIKE being a savage! :pirate:
Nah, I couldn't do without crabs and Old Bay. And Annapolis, my home away from home. Yes, some more distance from DC would be nice, but not if I have to give up my crabs, man!
dude, crabs are HUGE here. you forget that virginia has a huge part of the chesapeak too! man, where i live, the whole CULTURE is built on crabs and old bay! thats my favorite thing besides God. i actually believe that crabs ARE God...
not really, but crabs are everywhere here dude, you wouldn't have to give them up, you might even get more!
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Hmmmmm. :-k Maybe. My wife and I DO plan on moving someday, and Virginia has come up.
We shall see. Right now we need to save up for a place...without cutting out our crab budget. ;)
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I laughed hysterically reading those posts about crabs.
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yeah, the crab budget is at the top in importance, and the accessibility of crabs is also very important. you want to be as far east as possible without getting into the really hick areas. King George has the naval base, which means you could easily find a good job. plus the houses are cheap here, you can find a nice large house for a few hundred thousand. they also usually have a few acres attached, so that would be good for your little dwarf to romp around in. and learn to pick crabs....
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Menace, dude, unless you've lived around the Chesapeake, you just don't know what you're missing. I know they look like little monsters, but they are DELICIOUS little monsters! XD
I'd like having a few acres for me and the little Dwarfling. Perhaps in the not-too-distant future....
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DUDE Joe vs. the Volcano!!!! i LOVE that movie! have you ever seen this (http://www.mindspring.com/~waponi/)website?
oh, and i hate to be a pain in the grass, but the correct quote is: "They do look like little monsters or something, but they're GOOD little monsters."
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I know, I know. I was paraphrasing. Trust me...I know that movie (and its lines) pretty well. And I can relate to Joe's job. These lights...I can feel them sucking the juice out of my eyeballs. Suck, suck, SUCK...!
Anyway, back to fueling our vehicles. Unless there's some radical new way to turn crabs into fuel that I haven't heard about. :lol:
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you live in maryland too man, its worse up there. you should move to virginia, we're a lot more civilized.
No! We are plenty civilized thank you very much. :lol:
Anyway, gas is about $1.61 a gallon here and dropping like a stone. It's dropped about 5¢ every day so far.
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yes, i forgot to mention how we can fuel our vehicles by harnessing the power of one live crab...
where'd the crab go? DAIN! did you eat the crab?
me and my maryland friends alway jab back and forth about which state is better. maryland has a lot nasty spots because of its liquor stores. virginia has ABC (alcoholic beverage control) stores that sell it. basically they keep things looking nice.
that's why maryland isn't always so nice to drive through. speaking of driving, i like these new gas prices!
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Saw $1.43 on my way in to work this morning.
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yeah, there was 1.4something in town today.
and while i was in town, i stopped by to see my friends dad who sells cars for a living. (been doing it for as long as i can remember) he said a couple of interesting things:
1. after giving the year, engine size and all that, he told me that my eclipse would have between 140-170 horsepower based on its year, and that he would say it probably has 145. i don't know how this would translate into bhp. any ideas?
2. he said that the disparity between American and european cars in the amount of power is caused by 2 things. first, the emissions is stricter in america, so there is less airflow going in and less airflow going out. that alone is huge. on top of that though, the computer chip that controls the engine and its lift and whatnot, is tuned differently for each country depending on how citizens drive. americans have much different driving habits than you guys in the UK, so that takes out another chunk of horsepower. most people don't know that they can increase horsepower by changing their computer chip to one that responds differently and acts differently, and tells the engine to work differently.
and as for why we don't have .9 liter cars here is because there isn't much of a market for them. not until the gas prices get way up will we see real revolution of the auto market. there are still more SUV's on the road than economy cars. i'm just happy my eclipse gets 25-26 miles to the gallon, i used to have to drive my parent's minivan!
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Horsepower is your bhp, same thing.
My 1.8 celica generates 190bhp, just to illustrate how much bhp we get out of our 'small' sized engines. I can do 0-60mph in 7 secs.
I have no idea about the restrictions you face or why your ECU chips are modded so your cars are slow, but i do know that if youre gonna have such strict regulations then surely there is no point driving a 5 litre v 10 that does 3 miles to the gallon when you could have our 1.8 cars over here that will produce the same horsepower and get a million more miles to the gallon. It makes no sense. Why have a massive engine if you dont need to generate the power!? Crazy!
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I think there is a huge cultural issue here lem0n. Its almost taboo to drive a monster sized vehicle in the UK, and British roads really arent designed to have Suburbans driving around on them!
Having said that, I would love to have a Dodge Viper SRT10... but it aint fitting down any country lanes...
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I dont drive in country lanes though Jord, im merely saying whats the point in making v8s that produce naff all power just to conform to some crazy guidlines, when you could drive a lesser engine car which will make bugger all fumes AND give you good economy. No wonder USA is the largest consumer of fuel in the world if your average 'soccer mom' gets 12mpg from her 400litre, 20 cylinder beast that could be outrun by a 2 litre car over here. Makes no sense.
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I have absolutely NO idea what you're talking about, seriously, I had an easier time figuring out corvus and Apopatos talking in greek! :D
What can I say? I guess I'm an odd fellow, I wasn't crazy about getting my driver's license as soon as possible, I don't really know cars at all (basically what has a good cost-to-profit ratio here, that's about it) and I'm not really keen on driving, racing or whatever relates to it. I drive relatively fast, but that is mainly because I don't really care for driving, so I just try to get to where I'm going as fast as possible so that, well, I can be NOT driving! :P
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lem0n, this should help demonstraight how british and american cars are different.
plug your nose, and open your mouth. breath through your mouth. that's your cars.
now, with your nose still closed, put your hand over your mouth and breath. that's our cars. and our stupid emissions restrictions. you can't get good horsepower if you can't breath.
and we do have little cars, but there isn't much market for them. even my friends want to be able to throw 5, 6, or even 7 people in their cars. and most cars here are marketed to families, so you are talking suv's, minivans, large sedans. there are tons of families who have 7, 8. 9. 10 kids or more. my best friends have 9. plus, cross-country trips are a HUGE thing here. you get a truck or suv, hitch a 14,000 meter long camper to the back of it and drive from one side of america to the other.
there is a huge market for trucks here too. and we have trucks that get 25 mpg, but still, the bottom line is, americans and british have completely different needs. you probably don't see 23 trucks per day pulling trailers full of lawn equipment. you don't have a country that is 3,000 miles wide, and the other thing is that most americans could care less about horsepower. i hadn't even really thought of how much mine had until you brought it up.
and by the way, my car isn't fast for america, most minivans can outrun me if they want.
however, my car is loud for america... ;)
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Only people I have seen with trucks here are farmers. I loved driving trucks in Canada, and I totally agree with roadtrips! Although getting stuck behind the 50 million campers driving through the Rockies can be annoying!
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yeah, you get what i'm sayin' our cultures are born from the same ancestry, yet vastly different.
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I have a 1.3ltr toyota corolla and gas is like 1,15 per litre (that is in euro's -and like Lemon, that is dirt cheap here).....
Oh and talking baout caravans, I cannot imagine there is a country more fond of caravans than the dutch....
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Gas is now $1.59 a gallon. I've heard its going to go back up though. :roll:
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Saw $1.47 last weekend.
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I think there is a huge cultural issue here lem0n. Its almost taboo to drive a monster sized vehicle in the UK, and British roads really arent designed to have Suburbans driving around on them!
Having said that, I would love to have a Dodge Viper SRT10... but it aint fitting down any country lanes...
Try hauling a trailer around on the back of the Viper off-road in Kansas. Or carry lumber in the backseat.
Dang right about the cultural thing. Your cars wouldn't work over here any more than our cars would work over there.
That being said, I drive a relatively modest Ford Taurus that would probably work in both locations. It gets decent mpg, like, 21-22.
I think I've also come to the conclusion that Brits are city slickers. Guess you have to be in order to have that many people in a country that small. You oughta all consider moving to a country with more room, say, France?
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I think there is a huge cultural issue here lem0n. Its almost taboo to drive a monster sized vehicle in the UK, and British roads really arent designed to have Suburbans driving around on them!
Having said that, I would love to have a Dodge Viper SRT10... but it aint fitting down any country lanes...
Try hauling a trailer around on the back of the Viper off-road in Kansas. Or carry lumber in the backseat.
Dang right about the cultural thing. You're cars wouldn't work over here any more than our cars would work over there.
That being said, I drive a relatively modest Ford Taurus that would probably work in both locations. It gets decent mpg, like, 21-22.
I think I've also come to the conclusion that Brits are city slickers. Guess you have to be in order to have that many people in a country that small. You oughta all consider moving to a country with more room, say, France?
They tried that a few hundred years ago. Didn't work out too well. ;)
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Yeah, they got beat by a GIRL.
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Yeah, they got beat by a GIRL.
Well, to be fair, they DID eventually manage to catch and burn her....
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well the girl didn't do so well in the end, and then dubble checked the roasted remains for prove whether she was a girl....grose........;D 1066 was more succesful, but that guy wasn't really french.....
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1066 was the last time Britain was succesfully invaded, unless Gil-Estel feels the Glorious Revolution of 1688 was indeed a Dutch invasion of Britain ;)
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Well, we were hugely involved...;D...and sadly that 'small' interuption led to the huge rivalry between the protestants and Catholics in Ireland and other parts as well...:(
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1066 was the last time Britain was succesfully invaded
By Frenchies!
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NB, William the Bastard (Conquerer) was not French... he was a Norman.
And as for Joan of Arc, she repulsed us, not defeated us. Made it too expensive to maintain the war in France. As did Napoleon, therefore preventing us CRUSHING you in 1812.
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but he and his people lived in French for quite some time, since Rollo got Normandy in 911 by the French King....because he was scared of the normans...
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NB, William the Bastard (Conquerer) was not French... he was a Norman.
He was from France.
And as for Joan of Arc, she repulsed us, not defeated us. Made it too expensive to maintain the war in France. As did Napoleon, therefore preventing us CRUSHING you in 1812.
We're not idiots. You think we just arbitrarily decided to go to war without thinking through what was going on in Europe?
How do you figure our revolution against you in the 1770s, then? We beat you fair and square there. And you should be glad we did, because we've saved the entire world quite a few times since then.
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True, but Normandy was a semi-independent state from France, in the sense that France supported William so they didnt attack him.
Saying that makes it sound like Monaco or Andorra invading Britain lol
EDIT: NB, didnt you have some help... Dutch and French...
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EDIT: NB, didnt you have some help... Dutch and French...
Yeah...you kinda do have a long history of getting pushed around by the french.
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Well, I think he means that US has had quite some help from us in order to get free and independent.....So you were only returning the favor...and only after the Lusitania got shot or Pearl Harbor was attacked...:(
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William the Conqueror was NOT French.
Yes, he came from Normandy, which is part of modern-day France. But the Normans were not the same as the French. That's like saying that Italians are the same as the Roman Empire. Geographic correlation =/= same country/people.
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Those Normans were pretty busy...they even had a kingdom on Sicily....
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Norman Knights were famous even through the Crusades, quite some time after 1066
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Well, I think he means that US has had quite some help from us in order to get free and independent.....So you were only returning the favor...and only after the Lusitania got shot or Pearl Harbor was attacked...:(
Well...we do put our interests first over the rest of the world. Name a government that doesn't and I'll name a government that should be overthrown.
So anyways. Thanks Dutchmen, Spaniards and Frenchies! We couldn't have done it without you! We know that Yorktown was won by the French blockade. I consider it a fair trade, we fly the Stars and Stripes and you DON'T fly the Swastika.
BTW, I was trying to stir up the Brit/French thing even though I was pushing the boundaries of history a bit. And especially since some of my ancestors come from France (GASP! Now TJ won't wanna play MtG with me ever again...).
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I always thought you smelled like over-time garlic ;)
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This isnt really a petrol price discussion is it?
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It used to be...at one point...somewhere in the past. :-k
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Methinks it needs to be split...
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I'll be damned if I split a Topic in the Member's Lounge! :D
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I'll be damned if I split a Topic in the Member's Lounge! :D
Same thing here. :P
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I'll be damned if I split a Topic in the Member's Lounge! :D
Why? :D
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Well, this IS the "anything goes" section, so if things get carried away, and a topic gets spammed, it's up to the forumers in it to bring it back or do something about it. As long as it's not against Forum Rules (and spamming in the Member's Lounge isn't), let it be.
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Go FM I agree no over- mod the members lounge after all it is a place for conversation and conversation wanders as does my mind. What were we talking about???
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Everything, methinks.
Nah, we can't mod the member's lounge unless someone is being offensive or something like that.
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I find your petrol prices offensive to the rest of the world ;D
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We don't have petrol 'round here. We've got GASOLINE. :P
Anyways...it is pretty awesome. One of the perks of living in the greatest country on earth...and never being successfully invaded...
If we just started drilling in ANWR, things would be even better....
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We don't have petrol 'round here. We've got GASOLINE. :P
Anyways...it is pretty awesome. One of the perks of living in the greatest country on earth...and never being successfully invaded...
Though the Japs did bomb the #$&*@! out of us... :ow: Then we nuked 'em. :fire:
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Yeah, watch out world, we got NUKES! But it wasn't successful. Even the war of 1812 when we WERE invaded wasn't successful.
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and never being successfully invaded...
That's what YOU think!
[insert Twilight Zone theme]
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We were invaded by The Beatles during the 60s.... :roll:
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http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fnd0qg4I_MM
:lol: I love this video
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We feel too sorry for you americans to invade you.....;D
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We feel too sorry for you Dutchies to wipe you off the face of the earth.
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The sea will do it for you.....
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We feel too sorry for you Dutchies to wipe you off the face of the earth.
Ya know, NB, they were the ones who invented capitalism. I would think that you, of all people, would appreciate that.
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Yeah, the Dutch pioneered the use of armed merchants.
The Spanish never figured it out... :lol:
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We feel too sorry for you Dutchies to wipe you off the face of the earth.
Ya know, NB, they were the ones who invented capitalism. I would think that you, of all people, would appreciate that.
Yup. We've got no more use for you now. This Scottish dude took over where you left off.
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Back on topic, ladies....
Down to $1.49 at my local station.
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It was $1.37 until it went up to $1.49.
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$1.80
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$1.80
Holy Moly! $1.52
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It got down below 1.30 for a little while around here, but now it's back up to 1.49
I saw 1.45 in Eudora last night, though.
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$1.44
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$1.37.
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1.337$
jk. lol.
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$1.659 in Oregon. Hasn't gone much lower.
Heard that it was recently $1/gallon somewhere on Route 66.
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82.9 pence a litre! Finally cheap petrol! Bout time.
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euro 1,20 per litre...prices are going up :(
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82.9p how sweet the sound
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Dropped as low as $1.47 here, but on their way back up now.
Ah well. It was fun while it lasted.