Jasper
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| posted on 7/4/08 at 03:55 PM |
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Teenagers - don't you love 'em ...
So my 14 year old daughters 'tells' me - 'you know seagulls, well if you feed them chips then they explode'!! - yeah really,
bearing in mind we live in Brighton where seagulls eat chips all the time..... and I've never seen seagull guts all over the promenade
yet....
Then she remembered it was Bicarbonate of Soda - like that's similar to chips!!!!
If you're not living life on the edge you're taking up too much room.
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iscmatt
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| posted on 7/4/08 at 03:59 PM |
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hahahaha 
That would be a funny sight!
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Stuart_B
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| posted on 7/4/08 at 04:00 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Jasper
So my 14 year old daughters 'tells' me - 'you know seagulls, well if you feed them chips then they explode'!! - yeah really,
bearing in mind we live in Brighton where seagulls eat chips all the time..... and I've never seen seagull guts all over the promenade
yet....
Then she remembered it was Bicarbonate of Soda - like that's similar to chips!!!!
At least you got a daughter, if you had a boy, he would be in bed all day.Lol
black mk indy, 1.6pinto on cbr600 bike carb's.
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ditchlewis
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| posted on 7/4/08 at 04:03 PM |
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at present no i don't like teenagers the eldest 18 years old, bought a car 6 months ago (05 fiesta Ghia) using my credit rating, and
paying me for the loan £6.5K. last week he wrote it off.:mad worst still, he was on my insurance to get the quote down.
now, no car, no loan payments, no no claims bonus
ditch
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Stuart_B
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| posted on 7/4/08 at 04:06 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by ditchlewis
at present no i don't like teenagers the eldest 18 years old, bought a car 6 months ago (05 fiesta Ghia) using my credit rating, and
paying me for the loan £6.5K. last week he wrote it off.:mad worst still, he was on my insurance to get the quote down.
now, no car, no loan payments, no no claims bonus
ditch
but was it his frist time he has wrote a car of?
black mk indy, 1.6pinto on cbr600 bike carb's.
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graememk
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| posted on 7/4/08 at 04:09 PM |
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my dad wouldnt do that for me, but used to help out with the insurance cost.
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nathanharris1987
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| posted on 7/4/08 at 04:12 PM |
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yeh teenagers are a pain in the arse
i know, i was one a year ago but it's all changed now im 20... honest
wrote 3 cars off in 3 years and most the local police know my parents by their first names!
Learn the hard way, its the best!
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blakep82
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| posted on 7/4/08 at 04:15 PM |
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well, you say that, my mum who's clearly not a teenager, reckons that if you thread bits of bread onto a piece of string, a seagull will eat it,
then the sting come out the other end and another one will eat the string, and so on until you sting loads of seagulls together... really....
she honestly believes thats true
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Stuart_B
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| posted on 7/4/08 at 04:20 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by nathanharris1987
yeh teenagers are a pain in the arse
i know, i was one a year ago but it's all changed now im 20... honest
wrote 3 cars off in 3 years and most the local police know my parents by their first names!
Learn the hard way, its the best!
i have not even truned 17 yet, so do not know how many cars i will wrote off.hopefuly none.
stuart
black mk indy, 1.6pinto on cbr600 bike carb's.
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MikeRJ
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| posted on 7/4/08 at 04:58 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by ditchlewis
at present no i don't like teenagers the eldest 18 years old, bought a car 6 months ago (05 fiesta Ghia) using my credit rating, and
paying me for the loan £6.5K.
Personally I think it's utter madness getting a young lad a nearly new car like that. I started out with a £50 mini 850 (though they are worth
a lot more these days!) and paid for it all myself. It teaches them the value of money and they have to get stuck in with maintenance etc. Even £500
or so buys you something perfectly safe and useable now.
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Stuart_B
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| posted on 7/4/08 at 05:01 PM |
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I was going to buy a £300 uno to learn to drive in. (well my dad was) then go in to my indy.
stuart
black mk indy, 1.6pinto on cbr600 bike carb's.
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snapper
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| posted on 7/4/08 at 05:28 PM |
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Still trying to get my head around spoon feeding bicarb of soda to a seagull.
not as easy as it sounds.
I eat to survive
I drink to forget
I breath to pi55 my ex wife off (and now my ex partner)
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mistergrumpy
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| posted on 7/4/08 at 05:34 PM |
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quote:
Teenagers - don't you love 'em ...
No. Really, no
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phelpsa
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| posted on 7/4/08 at 05:50 PM |
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Teenagers are great!
Leave a packet of crisps and a coke inside the door in the morning and you dont have to see them all day!
Seriously though... best thing to do is let them buy their own car at 14/15. I don't smoke, drink, do drugs, loiter in parks, eat excessive fast
food etc. because I simply don't have the money! I do though have an extremely cool little car to run around in now i'm 17 
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stevec
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| posted on 7/4/08 at 05:52 PM |
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I've got 3 of them, never a dull moment
Steve.
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blakep82
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| posted on 7/4/08 at 05:55 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by snapper
Still trying to get my head around spoon feeding bicarb of soda to a seagull.
not as easy as it sounds.
break them up, put it in/on bread, they should eat enough bits of bread. seagulls are gready b@stards
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MikeR
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| posted on 7/4/08 at 05:59 PM |
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g/f has just given her sister her old ford ka. Its an idea learner car, i just wish she'd made her pay something towards it so she appreciated
the value of the car.
Then again she is working in the hospital part time as well as full time student to cover hte cost of insurance - its stupidly high!!!!
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Griffo
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| posted on 7/4/08 at 06:59 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by MikeR
g/f has just given her sister her old ford ka. Its an idea learner car, i just wish she'd made her pay something towards it so she appreciated
the value of the car.
Then again she is working in the hospital part time as well as full time student to cover hte cost of insurance - its stupidly high!!!!
awww, even for a girl with a ford Ka?
My insurance for my first/current car (ive had her 4 and a half years now) was £3200 with norwich union but as i had done pass plus that came down to
around £1800.
I can now insure 200bhp+ cars for around £1000. Its probably a good thing that I couldn't back then!
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blakep82
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| posted on 7/4/08 at 07:03 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Griffo
quote:
Originally posted by MikeR
g/f has just given her sister her old ford ka. Its an idea learner car, i just wish she'd made her pay something towards it so she appreciated
the value of the car.
Then again she is working in the hospital part time as well as full time student to cover hte cost of insurance - its stupidly high!!!!
awww, even for a girl with a ford Ka?
My insurance for my first/current car (ive had her 4 and a half years now) was £3200 with norwich union but as i had done pass plus that came down to
around £1800.
I can now insure 200bhp+ cars for around £1000. Its probably a good thing that I couldn't back then!
£1000?! how old are you? i'm 25 with a bmw 328 (was on a rolling road in 2000, showed 200bhp, don't know what its at now)
insured with elephant for £400
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Griffo
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| posted on 7/4/08 at 07:22 PM |
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not long turned 22, i havent actually checked if being 22 makes any difference over 21 though.
I only have 4 years no claims though as i drove my mums car for a few months first. i get 5 years in September i think.
Not trying to hijack the thread but...will i struggle for insurance on a ZX12R powered haynes roadster? (although i will probably be 30 y the time its
complete  )
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blakep82
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| posted on 7/4/08 at 07:24 PM |
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think 25 is the age where it changes. i was 24 when i got that quote, also with 4 years no claims. norwich union wanted something like £900 for the
same car, same details...
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ditchlewis
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| posted on 7/4/08 at 07:25 PM |
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We did not get him that car, he has a full time job and he is paying for it himself.
when he was 16 he got a scooter to get to college on, but he was knocked off and nearly killed one night
we got give a Nova by a friend of ours, he drove that for a while and then he decided once he had a job to get a car for himself. i got the loan
because they wanted 177% Apr. he pays me and i pay the loan. the car remains in my name untill it is all paid off.
the insurance well we were using direct line so he could build up his no claims bonus. that ended when he was number 3 in a 5 car pile up.
to his credit it is his hard earned that pays for the car.
just that he is so unlucky.
ditch
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Griffo
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| posted on 7/4/08 at 07:28 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by blakep82
think 25 is the age where it changes. i was 24 when i got that quote, also with 4 years no claims. norwich union wanted something like £900 for the
same car, same details...
yeah it does go down alot at 25, i think thats the age where you can drive pretty much anything you want.
Norwich union are very expensive IMO but they where best for me with the pass plus discount.
im still paying nearly £800 for my car now which is silly money for T reg rover 214. its group 7 i believe.
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Liam
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| posted on 7/4/08 at 07:36 PM |
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Blimey this is one reason to be glad i'm now an old man (28)! Under 300 fully comp for my 208bhp 3 litre Omega from admiral
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trogdor
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| posted on 7/4/08 at 08:00 PM |
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yeah i really wish i had passed my test when i was 17 not when i was 22 as my premiums are still pretty high, £70 for a 1 litre 4 speed 106. that is
with my wife as the main driver. with me as the main driver it was £120 a month!
however i only paid £175 for the 106, my wife has a £150 audi and i look after the cars. the audi has been trouble free but the pug has needed new
back brakes, coolant hoses and head gasket but doing it myself makes it pretty cheap.
my dad would never pay much towards me having a car, but he is very free with his time in helping me fix my cars! couldn't do it without him.
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