...when you use this site? and why do you visit it?
Are you sneaking in from your workplace? at home? whatever?
and do you come just for a general look, to share an interest? or to learn something?
Just wondered
(told you I was bored this afternoon)
PS I'm at home, registered for advice and decided to stick around for a while and be nosey!
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At home - no time in work, sharing an interest and stress busting!
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Well I'm self employed and work from home so I give myself the time off to frequent this virtual coffee shop.
Decided to re-prioritise my life after losing my first wife 4 years ago so work when I want (not very often nowadays) and do other things the rest of the time - including popping in here from time to time when I'm feeling lazy or when I've something to share with my virtual friends.
Nice to 'meet' you BTW Hootie.
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Funnily enough I've only recently realised how much I've changed because a few days ago an executive I helped out last year contacted me offering a lucrative contract to provide outplacement services to a number of people he's sadly having to make redundant over the next few months.
Once upon a time I would have jumped at the chance but now home, wife (#2) and kids (2) come first and I didn't think twice about turning it down. Life's too short and we're a long time dead after all !
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Nice to meet you too :) Nice to meet you all!
True, big changes or events in our life can often totally change our outlook. Glad to hear that you're happy now and coming through what must have been a terrible time.
Anyone wanting lighthearted stress busting can try my silly thread, it might make you come over all creative! LOL
(sorry, shameless plugging, but I just thought it might be fun)
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Recently back from work, taking my regular look at HJ's site to see if any new bargains materialise. Taking my time to consider the right next car after a bad (Alfa) experience. Inevitably involves a wander into the back room to see what advice and gripes are happening!
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"Life's too short and we're a long time dead after all"
Ah but life will be the longest thing you ever undertake,
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"Life's too short and we're a long time dead after all" Ah but life will be the longest thing you ever undertake,
So make the most of it, no one ever lay on their death bed wishing they'd spent more time at work (bet ya?)
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You're right of course PU but too many people take life far too seriously when they don't actually need to. I feel sorry for those to whom fate has dealt far worse cards than mine and who have to put up with all sorts of carp just to make ends meet and survive.
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I am still quite young at under 40 but really, for me, lifestyle is more important than being the owner of lots of things. And I know several millionares and there lifestyles quite well. So I work part time mostly doing things that I enjoy (mostly) so that I am never over stressed etc.
Anyway, I've already had plenty of real advice from other B.R.s
I like being at home and around the cats and so on...
Actually, half the time it isn't going to make the slightest difference what type of car you run, it's just the other half when the differences come into effect. If you know what I mean.
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At home, always check at 7am, 1.15pm and most evenings when I've not much to do :-)
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Living in Tauranga, New Zealand, and check the site throughout the day from work (I'm a nerdy software developer).
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Ft.Lauderdale Florida and I usually check in around this time while at home or much later when at work. Why is someone from Florida checking a UK automotive website?, because I am migrating there very soon and I am trying to learn as much about UK motoring as possible. Still have a long way to go though.
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I am trying to learn as much about UK motoring as possible. Still have a long way to go though.
Trancer: Look up:
www.travelfurther.net/index.htm
"So you want to drive in England?
Read on for some general guidelines and tips for driving the UK."
www.travelfurther.net/dictionaries/driving.htm
His "fun-stuff", "jokes" and "English-American" dictionary is fun too.
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Thanks for the links eMBe. I already know some of the more basic things mentioned, and I have driven quite a bit while there on visits, but having not had proper training (yet)I am lost on others. Such as why so many different names for pedestrian crossings and who on earth came up with the names for them. Its bad enough there is a Zebra (or is it Zeh-bra?), which I can understand because of the black/white stripes, but now there is a puffin, a pelican and a toucan and neither of them look remotely like birds to me.
What I am more interested in is car ownership and operation. Simple things like how to buy a car. Yes, I know I should get a V5 (which I guess is like a title here)with it, but I don't even know what a V5 is supposed to look like, does it actually say "V5" on it?.
Basically, things I take for granted having done them for the past 15 odd years are now completely foreign to me.
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>>>> What I am more interested in is car ownership and operation. Simple things like how to buy a car. Yes, I know I should get a V5 (which I guess is like a title here)with it, but I don't even know what a V5 is supposed to look like, does it actually say "V5" on it?. >>
trancer:
As I do not wish to hijack hootie's thread, perhaps you should start a new thread asking for the information you want. But in the meantime, do look at HJ's FAQs, How to Buy/sell pages and also
www.dvla.gov.uk/welcome.htm
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At home, always check at 7am, 1.15pm and most evenings when I've not much to do :-)
7am Dave? That's a bit keen!
I'll be at home, flitting from one forum to another. Am also self-employed - just as well really, in this heat. If I'm going to be stuck somewhere without air conditioning, I'd much rather be at home than in some nasty office.
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Work part-time from home so visit it whenever I feel like it.
Usually something of interest to read and sometimes something I want to contribute to.
H.
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Generally when using this site I am sitting at my computer! Anyone any different?
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I work from home for a big co and access the site TOO MUCH. I hate it when I'm out and about for a day and have to catch up with a pagefull of new threads or posts.
I also moderate a Le Mans forum. So my first hour each day is spent flipping between the two catching up. Back at lunchtime for more (or earlier if I'm bored) and so on. Often I get to the end of the working day and (yet again) make a resolution to NOT visit the site tomorrow. It never works.
Broadband connection doesn't help as (usually) access is very fast, so I just "pop in to get the updates" all too often. If I had to dial up I would visit less often.
I come here because it is a good site with interesting views, and the level of moderation (which I have criticised in the past) ensures that it is never hijacked by the unwashed. Sometimes I have something to contribute, but mostly it is learning or laughing.
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Generally when using this site I am sitting at my computer! Anyone any different?
Reminds me of a questionaire thing that went around by email,
Q. What is on your mouse mat?
My A. The mouse.
And I wasn't being sharp, it was a blonde moment.
(true answer is a plain black pad, a calculator built in, and a pen holder - it was free)
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The Back Room has very recently been barred by my employer. Not the whole site, just this bit of it :(
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Why, WS? Although I suppose if you're barred you won't see this anyway!
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It's categorised as a 'chat' site and therefore incompatible with business use.
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Well, some of you will probably gather that I used to access from work (as I posted about every 3 minutes from 9-5) but since setting up my own business, I've banned myself (for the simple reason I'm nowhere near a web-enabled pc before about 10:30 each night).
Didn't I say I was going to bed 45 minutes ago? May as well stay up at this rate!
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Sitting at home in sarf london, nursing a fractured wrist caused by a blind car driver knocking me off my m'cycle, (motoring link here).
As soon as I've posted here I'm off to paint the bedroom, as my wife says 'you've still got one good hand!'
Is that a whip I hear being warmed up in the background?
John
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but since setting up my own business...
So what path did you decide to go down then No Dosh?! Is it motoring related? :)
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Self employed, laptop permanently set up for internet which I glance at when the main Mac is 'thinking' or printing etc...
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Parked in my office, bored stupid; usualyy look at the site when I've a spare 5 minutes (ie about every half an hour!) Now the kids have finished for the summer there's much less work to do, so can actually read more of the treads!
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In the office at lunchtimes, and when I can at other times of the day, mainly if there are interesting threads on, or I've posted a question.
Try to look at least once a day, but internet use is observed (by the boss wandering round (though he's normally talking about sport anyway)).
Don't look at home as having spent all day on the computer fixing other applications the last thing I want to do is look at one at home!
Chris TD
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