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It was the most amazing thing, I had to play football this evening and we got to the field at 4pm to watch the game before ours and it was pissing down!! We went into the change rooms and when we came out it had stopped raining and didn't rain again for our entire game!! Gridiron is hard enough without it being wet and slippery!! We won!!!

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Hey it's not just Queensland drivers.I'm just south of the border(Tweed Valley) and wotcha know,cars in ditches yesterday.Happens all the time down here.I mean some of the roads are tricky but you reckon the locals would know that.Still go arse up though.

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Mel why ya car in the shop?

getting resprayed and having a gouged light replaced and the badge straightened

... this is all stuff the panel shop did to my precious car last time around, hopefully they get it right this time

i STILL have to take my car, after this, to another panel beater so they will reinstall my FACTORY OPTION fog lights, as current panel beater refuses to do it because they are "aftermarket" which is BS, they just dont have a f**king clue where to start =P

B&M Body Works at Bulimba on Lytton Rd. = BAD NEWS OK

CHUKD SOME FAT SKIDZ IN THE CAR LAST NITE WAS AWSOME HAHA LOL

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enjoy your stay while you were here?

go buy another commodore, that'll cheer you up

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being that it's against the law, yes

Not trying to sound stupid man. But you started this topic saying "yay rain, shame my car is in the shop" which I personally would have thought to be implying you would have liked your car so you could drive it on the wet roads. Which once again personal oppinion on this, I would like to keep my car off the roads when its wet... Yet you seem to now agree skids are bad...

I find that odd.

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hahahaha, I agree totally Mark, cept i dont find that having a certain burgundy r33 always gets the cops attention before they do me :(:D:D

but yeah, if u cant tolerate the other, more common style of driving that most skyline drivers do, maybe its time to change cars.. hell who doesnt enjoy driving in the wet, cleans ya car :)

Mel, i hope they fix your car correctly the second time, and good luck with getting te fog lights back

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ah, but whois on a 3 month suspension and who isn't :( well.. friday will decide, i did a silly thing and got caught, not going to do it again.. but if other people want to try things like that then it's not up to us to make their decision for them, tis a free country after all :)

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personally i think driving at irrisponsible speeds in traffic along our roads is alot more dangerous and deserves the full weight of the law as opposed to an innocent burnout at 11pm in a deserted industrial district.. but the law is the law and that's the way the cookie crumbles

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yeah, but if driving at high speed ona highway. with no one infront of you , and a wrx trying to race you who turns out to be a cop.. i think speeding is safer,

driving fast in a straight line is easy... taking a corner sideways in the dark is not :(

anyway we should really get back on topic

YAY i love the rain :)

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