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

Where are you Pingu , US of A- right?

In the UK they let us drive a year earlier.
Not that anyone can afford to nowdays.I gat around town on a cyclewas foggy out today-too amny potholes toowhat an adventurous life i lead -risking my neck everyday

Good luck with the driving-its a nice feeling passing .

I'm in the UK, but I thought we couldn't learn to drive till 17. Odd, nevermind, I won't have enough time this year to learn to drive, even if I could. And I want to learn to ride a first, but my mum won't help pay for my driving test if its a bike test.

Yea 17 it is - wires crossed

You dont have to get a car to get a lisense-its an important bit of paper-you might get given a vehicle to drive for work-and you got more room a=plus a heater in the winter and even a radio/cd player-your girlfriend wont get wet-if its raining-and you can fit all the shopping in at the end of the week.

bikes sound fun though

Well you could get a moped now Pingu
Providing you took your CBT had had bike provision on you license.

Full Direct Access for bikes (to ride any size) costs over £500 so even if yer mum were prepared to pay I doubt she would for that amount! You can't do the DAS (direct access) until you are 21.
The 'normal' test restricts you to 33bhp for 2 years. If you hit 21 within those 2 yrs you can take the DAS and get a bigger bike.

But don't worry, I had the sort of the same thing. Refusal to pay for bike tests and only agreed to pay for car test if I paid for half. Which, as I was on about £30 a week at the time just wasn't an option.

My lessons and test cost me the grand total of 60 quid I think, just to rub it in!

Just make sure you get the provisional license with M/C entitlement

all sounds too complicated for me!

Still, I shall have to decide all of that later.

Had my english exam today, thought i ahd stuffed up the first question bu reading through I think I did ok. Only more exam to go now. Till later in the year at least.

Goodluck Pingu!

Thanks Lofty.

Well that is all my exams over for the minute. Physics was easy with only about two question where I think that I dropped marks. Biology and Chemistry I found very easy though. Hopefully the marks will be ok and then I can go on to do A levels.

Hi Pingu,

i'm ghlsd you think you have done alright!What subjects are you going to study at A level?

I meant i'm glad

Hopefully I shall be doing, Maths, Chemistry and Biology and Physcology as an AS level. Then for Uni I would like to do something with comuters but not sure yet.

Whatever you do after your A levels: Maths, Chemistry and Biology and Physcology; is relevnt to lots of things it seems.

Yeah that's the other reason i would like to take them, along with the fact that i like them. if i do change my mind then i will have a decent base to work from

Thats a good plan i think-picking something you really want to do: is important(just as long as they wanna pay you for doing it).


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See you my friend i am just going now, that game is fun-and unlike the other online ones wont eat up all your time(as londg as you dont let it)because it can be very simple and you can have your dose of fun in a very short psace of time.

Btw. are you still going to learn a programming language?

physcology?

What's that, studying how atoms think?

oops. Well it wasn't quite a good typo as yours though

Kirsty told me you physics joke about the atoms as well, the one about electrons

Can i have any particle in this one, or is it an in joke?

hey ? Is there a charge?

I would tell you the joke but i've forgotten it. let me see if i can find it...