h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

remind *me* never to let you drive me or one of my lovely daughters anywhere in a rental car.....

So you quite into thrashing motor cars then Tac?

When I was younger, we used to organise night rallys around the country roads of derbyshire. Kind of a cross between a treasure hunt and a rally. You got time added on if you didn't get the clues. The first one I did, me and my little bro, in a 1100 ford fiesta came 2nd!! We beat older lads in 300bhp golfs. I was 17 and my bro was fifteen. Very satisfying.

A bit irresponsible, I grant you....

But road rallies are legal if properly organised, so what can possibly be wrong with them?

Nothing wrong with them but these ones weren't. we did it at about 12 midnight so there would be no one about. The police and local residents were not notified however. So not too responsible really!

That sounds quite amusing, and rather reminds me of an ex-friend who lives even closer to the middle of nowhere than I do. Of course, they didn't have road rallies, but they did do irresponsible things with their cars.

Great fun! Miss it now I am in the big smoke! My estate car doesn't handle too well though!

* dreams of her old Alfa *

Alfa Romeo? Very nice Light.

*dreams of ellusive TVR Cerbera*

*dreams of a Lotis Elise*

*Looks forward to test driving his mate's new Subaru Impreza Turbo. 300bhp!!!*

*Dreams of 19something Volvo*

Wait...that's the car we have, and it's not too cool.

Has anyone checked out the new 360 site yet?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/360/360/

yup

Has anyone joined it or are we already joined being part of h2g2<?>

I think we are already in. You can view your own space in 360. Looks a bit weird though.

Hm, might go investigate now.

And you can put a sitefilter on, so that stuff can be on one site but not the other... Not that I know how to, but I know that Ottox does--I saw him do it during the testing (and here, too, now that DNA is up...)

* wanders back in after another long and shameful absence *

Have you ever done the tail lights game?
In the middle of the night your mate drives his car as fast as possible around the country lanes of, say, Sussex. Whilst you follow him with your headlights turned off. Once you chicken out and switch them back on again you swap over as the lead car. Whoever lasts longest over the course of the night is the winner.

Have you ever tried russian roulette<?> Hm! Sounds similar!

There is this lane a few miles north of Chichester thats dead straight for about a mile or more. There are no buildings, turnings or anything on it. Put your foot down and you can go over the bumps and potholes at 100+ in (near) perfect safety