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SteveP
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by SteveP » 09 Feb 2007 11:58 am
A M R wrote:that doesnt look too diffferent compared to down here? i'd have thought it would have been worse/better than that oop north...
Well, you see - Birmingham isn't up North

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Chris_C
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by Chris_C » 09 Feb 2007 01:17 pm
I know that was a trolling at me... but I'm not gonna fall for it... ok, I will!
Via simple logic... Birmingham is not in the M40/M4/M5 triangle therefore is not midlands. It is above the point made by the triangle denoting the way norf faces.
QED Brum is Norf
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by sven360 » 09 Feb 2007 02:29 pm
Chris_C wrote:Tom, no one has winter tyres over here!!!
Speak for yourself, some of us have vast arrays of tyres much to the disgust of their better half
Plenty of knobblers on view when I open the garage door just no snow to use 'em on

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Chris_C
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by Chris_C » 09 Feb 2007 03:05 pm
Well, ok, granted. I wish I'd had a set yesterday, as I was laying out the codeboards for the route was getting a tad sketchy!!!
What knobblies do you run mate? Something else to think about if I ever do get Fake sorted for rallying proper.
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by d3k4y0 » 09 Feb 2007 03:58 pm

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by Nikdev » 09 Feb 2007 04:48 pm
In Norway we have had a lot of snow.. I love the 360 on snow:
I have also got some drift damages

Like when i killed my rear light
Went a little too wide when i slided across the bridge:
Its was more ice than ekspected, but i was extremely lucky only the glass was damaged:
But i am now in Mexico, i love the sun too

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by Nick C » 09 Feb 2007 06:06 pm
At Chris's request, for those of you who dispute it, the official map of England and oop North:
(apologies to whoever made the original map!)
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by A M R » 09 Feb 2007 10:05 pm
lol quality map!
other than me, who has seen that sign on the motorway which says 'up north' with a arrow pointing up? i thought that was pretty funny. maybe its a southerner thing...
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by redline » 09 Feb 2007 10:22 pm
sorry guys , that map is just sooooooooo wrong ,
where it says up North is almost directly over Milton Keynes and no way am I a fecking flat cap wearing, mushy pea eating ,ferret and pigeon breeding Northerner !!!!!!!!!!!
also it should be spelt OOP North
Watford Gap services is officially the edge of civilization as we know it lol
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by A M R » 09 Feb 2007 10:28 pm
^^ ah yes it usually says 'up north' or 'the north' on a few signs when im heading up to your area
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redline
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by redline » 09 Feb 2007 10:40 pm
and another thing ,

there are 46 junctions on the M1 and thats to Leeds
Milton keynes is near junction 15 thats 1/3 of the way up the junctions so theres no way we are oop

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by 1stRaven » 09 Feb 2007 11:16 pm
hang on, what are you saying about people who live up north?
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redline
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by redline » 09 Feb 2007 11:25 pm
1stRaven wrote:hang on, what are you saying about people who live up north?
lol , only that I am not one of them .
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by 1stRaven » 09 Feb 2007 11:27 pm
you sure your not?
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by Bilbo » 10 Feb 2007 12:00 am
shandy drinking southern ******'s !
we fight dragons and drink the water of life dont you know !!??
York is the south anyway

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