sharkfan

In these days of knife carrying loons you make your decisions based on all the priorities in your life; to suggest I'm not man enough suggests you feel you are so well done to you. I know enough, have seen enough, and value my peace enough to make different decisions than you. I didn't say I popped his tyres, it was perhaps a factor that he nearly crashed into me almost without realising it as well as tearing across an amber light in such a hurry to get away from me. If you get in a car and don't realise you have three flat tyres then I think your powers of observation are already putting everyone at significant risk including pedestrians and yourself.

I've turned very anti-confrontational in my old age; the last guy that cut me up a few years ago scaring my daughter and flashing the V's at her, had some unfortunate luck a few days later with not one but three punctures on his brand new Jaguar. Shame.

I've never seen one organised since moving here three and a half years ago; the nearest was Portsmouth but the organiser of that one upped-sticks to Canada with his pair of E28's.

Sorry, I call bollocks on this story then. There have been 10's, if not 100's of thousands of BBC employees over the years of many, many different political persuasions and many different points of view, and if there had been portraits of Lenin, Stalin and Marx, which you stated as a fact, then someone, somewhere at some time would have mentioned it - there is absolutely no evidence of this that you can produce and none that I can find either. This isn't a personal attack so please don't take it that way, but perhaps as was suggested you were mistaken as I am fairly sure that should there have been those specific portraits it would have noted, remarked upon and remembered.

Any evidence of the Communist Portraits in the BBC yet?

I'd be interested in seeing images of this - I have my doubts but please prove me wrong.

This time, yes. Previously, unhappily, no.

Eclectic car meet today...

I'm not sure that decrying the BBC as 'fake news masters' whilst living in a virtual dictatorship is a very stable platform for the argument.

Nice solution - do you get to hear much of the bass through the wooden floor? This is the uber -rare OEM solution... https://forum.bmw5.co.uk/topic/72766-was-there-a-factory-subwoofer-for-e34/ http://www.realoem.com/bmw/enUS/showparts?id=HK42-EUR-07-1995-E34-BMW-540i&diagId=03_1241#82839405960 I went for something a little more obvious but it sits where the uber-rare OEM Touring subwoofer was sited...

Neither of the Alpina versions in your first post look anything at all like the genuine items - just rubbish imho.

Decisions... decisions...

My September 2000 pricelist* has the following for E39 Tourings; 520i, £25,210** 520i SE, £26,850 525i, £27,070 525i SE, £28,490 525d, £27,070 525d SE, £28,490 530d SE, £31,395 530i SE, £31,395 540i, £41,950*** A year 2000 Alpina pricelist gives the following for E39 Tourings; B10 3.3 Manual, £37,950 B10 3.3 Switch-Tronic, £39,950 B10 V8, £56,950 I have the 2001 Sytner B10 V8 Touring demonstrator which was specced up from £56,950 to £74,000**** *All prices are on the road inc VAT. **A basic 520i Touring at £25,210 could be specced up with well over £20,000 worth of options without BMW Individual options ***Even at £41,950 with a very good spec there was still well over £10,000 worth of options to add to a 540i Touring without going into the BMW Individual programme. ****My car hasn't got double glazing @ £680, integrated rear child seats @ £260, ski-bag @ £150 (although I have one to retro-fit), retractable load floor @ £375, tyre pressure control @ £280, and probably a few more obscure options.

Watergate took three years so things appear to be ok timewise; you haven't commented on the 9000 falsehoods - do have an opinion at all? Trump's scrutiny is somewhat bought upon himself by doing all the things to excess he criticised the previous incumbent for (golf, holidays etc), failure to keep his promise to reveal his tax returns like all recent Presidents have, his strength in belief in the word of the Russian President over his own security services, his uneven responses to shootings, rally deaths, etc, his unquestioning belief in the word of both the Saudi's and the Russian's over their State sponsered murders in other Sovereign countries, and probably a few more things. As well as commenting on the 9000 falsehoods, what may i ask do you think are the 'great things he has done for the USA' ? Genuinely curious as to your opinion thanks.

I'm not sure those who are attacking the truthfulness or otherwise of the Press OR Trump quite realise the extent to which Trump appears to lie. The Washington Post started a Fact Checker in the days following his Inauguration attendance claims to attempt to verify or correct some his claims; as of today, 775 days later, they have found over 9000 examples where he has not told the truth. Now if you; a. Believe that is normal for any Politician, why on earth do you vote at all or post at all about Trump, or any politician at all. b. Believe that all 9000 examples are false, then you must believe Trump has only told the truth. c. Believe that the answer is somewhere inbetween then there are still 9000 examples of either the press OR Trump lying either way. I can understand the broadly held belief that Politicians lie sometimes, and that papers and the media have a bias sometimes but please, those that are attacking the press or defending Trump, how do you square the argument where there are over 9000 occasions in less than 800 days where the truth is subject to question? In regard to the 'No collusion' status of Trump, and perhaps in no small part due to the 9000 contradictions of truth to be resolved, there are now nearly a dozen convictions or admissions of guilt by those close to Trump, and Congress has now sent out a further 80 subpoena letters requesting information under oath about Trumps affairs.