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  1. VelvetAcid

    People of Oxford (or just people who know the area!)

    The train station is west Oxford, the Oxford Brookes University is East Oxford so they are a fair distance apart. If you get the train it's a 2 / 3 minute walk to the centre of Oxford, you can then get a bus to Oxford Brookes which should take around 5 / 6 mins. If you drive aim for the...
  2. VelvetAcid

    3 best camera move scenes?

    Oldboy - The corridor / hammer scene.
  3. VelvetAcid

    New shows this September?

    Elementary is being shown on Sky Living and Perception is being shown on Watch, I've seen adverts for both over the last few days and they both start early next month.
  4. VelvetAcid

    Failed my driving test today

    It took me 3 attempts to pass. The first attempt I had 4 minors and it started to rain lightly, the examiner asked me to pull over and stop twice then on the third he asked me if there was anything I wanted to do and I replied no. He then asked me to turn my lights on and it was an instant...
  5. VelvetAcid

    Um err what? 10 most unlikely famous women we fancy

    I've no idea why Nigella Lawson is on that list. She could quite easily make it into my top 10.
  6. VelvetAcid

    Buying a house and estate agents

    We purchased our current house privately, we just took their solicitor details and passed them along to ours. The seller was happy and also removed the estate agent fee from our offer.
  7. VelvetAcid

    Buy to let remortgaging questions

    Put down a £20,000 deposit, get a mortgage for £90,000 and use your remaining £10,000 for the renovations? If you can't find a decent rate with a £20,000 deposit increase it and spend less on renovations or acquire a larger deposit. I suspect that it's going to be highly unlikely to get a...
  8. VelvetAcid

    insurance on mortgage question

    We took out a very basic joint life insurance plan along with our Mortgage which repays the total amount left owing if either of us die, it costs around £8 a month and reduces over the duration of the Mortgage. If anything critical happened to me I wouldn't want to leave my other half with...
  9. VelvetAcid

    Car to learn car mechanics on

    I'd love to do this with something like a Triumph Spitfire but I don't have a garage :(
  10. VelvetAcid

    This Forum. Why so basic?

    You've just answered your own question, why does it need any extra features if it's the 'biggest' forum you've seen?
  11. VelvetAcid

    *** The Official Diablo III Thread ***

    Zombie dogs are pointless at the moment, I'd replace them with Zombie Wall or Spirit Walk. I still use the Gargantuan in Inferno act 1, it falls quite quick to champion packs but I normally use it as a distraction. Swarm is very good however it's got such a short range it causes problems at...
  12. VelvetAcid

    *** The Official Diablo III Thread ***

    I'm playing through act 1 inferno on my WD and it's costing me 16k to repair my items, it's certainly not fun. I'm just attempting to skip as many champion packs as possible now.
  13. VelvetAcid

    Sky HD a tree and a horrible neighbor

    Grow an even bigger tree and put your Sky dish on top of it.
  14. VelvetAcid

    *** The Official Diablo III Thread ***

    They start going insta splat once you get past Nightmare, I've seen a few builds around which make better use of pets but from what I can see they only really work well if your character is over geared. Blizzard have said that they will be addressing the issue at a later date but at the...
  15. VelvetAcid

    Diablo 3 - best class?

    At the moment I'm playing a Witch Doctor, level 22 about half way through Act 2. I can't wait until higher level and the challenge increase with Nightmare / Hell, at the moment the play style is a little boring as it takes no effort to kill anything. Is that the same for all classes until you...
  16. VelvetAcid

    Which Slow Cooker

    I have a basic 3.5l slow cooker from Debenhams, it was reduced down to £15 in one of their previous sales: http://www.debenhams.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/prod_10001_10001_325003047297_-1 It has 3 settings: keep warm, low & high. I switch it on the morning and leave it running...
  17. VelvetAcid

    To buy a Cheap Corsa, or go for a lease?

    Going by the first post his insurance for a 1.0 litre cheap Corsa is £1800, I've no idea how much that will drop for year 2 and 3, but if you add the initial cost of the car, maintenance, mot & tax it's not such a bad deal.
  18. VelvetAcid

    Absurd 24 Month Contracts!

    No it wasn't purchased directly from Orange, with the various different 3rd party websites and various cash back offers etc it really doesn't take much effort to find a very good contract deal which works out cheaper than paying upfront and going sim only.
  19. VelvetAcid

    GAME lose another supplier

    The best parts of the company can be cherry picked and sold during administration, I guess it depends on how it gets sold but it would most likely be split up, a potential buyer also won't have to take on all the overheads of stores / staff / stock etc. You might end up buying just the brand...
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