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General => General discussion => Topic started by: scarr89 on 10 July 2011, 20:27
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I'm a windows open music up loud singing top of voice for about 5 minutes man my self. What does everyone else do?
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take speed...keeps me sharp as a tack
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Smoke.
A lot.
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browse the forum, ye olde book of face and angry birds :smiley:
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browse the forum, ye olde book of face and angry birds :smiley:
Im guessing he means whilst driving?......
Personally i like to push my luck trying to stay awake
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on the way back from Milton Keynes the other night I was touching the cats eyes and rumble strips either side to keep myself in the lane as I was so tired... :huh:
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When I drove to Spain last summer it took us about 30 hours, 23 of them driving. Chatting to my girlfriend and regular stops for fuel (I'm talking 20€ or so) helped as it gave me a chance to stretch my legs, open my mind and get some fresh air.
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once when i worked 24 hr strate and drove home at 10pm on the m25 it was head out window music up loud! i fell strate to sleep when i got in to bed :grin:
when i went UD it was just one stop a red bull n drum and bass!
and when i came back from bournmouth after being on 24 hr call out all week, raving for 7 hours and driving 3 hrs home at 5 am a mcdonalds brekki at 6am sorted me out! :nerd:
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Eating apples seems to help me, I work stupid shifts mostly driving!
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Eating apples seems to help me, I work stupid shifts mostly driving!
Apple energy - nice :smiley:
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browse the forum, ye olde book of face and angry birds :smiley:
Im guessing he means whilst driving?......
Personally i like to push my luck trying to stay awake
I knew that! :laugh:
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Ill tell you what doesnt help, radio one after sort of midnight gets really trippy! i was driving back from glasgow once, left there at 7pm (after starting work at 5am!) to get back to reading, my intention was to stop in a hotel around manchester... but i got there...thought fcuk it, ill go all the way! got help up an man....by 2am i was pretty much tripping balls down the M40 an had to just pull in at Warwick services an literally went to sleep as soon as the engine went off!
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usually for me it's a drink by my side (normally lucozade sport so I don't have to unscrew the cap), few sweets (normally softmints or chewing gum), and some music I can sing to or sometimes comedy on BBC radio 4 (i'm 19 by the way :grin:)
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Still waiting for someone to say "I give the misses tonsils a poke with my pen¡s" or something.
For me, I try and look for things to distract me from the motorway, like cool buildings and stuff.
I do usually find, as with Luke, people talking on the radio, especially if it's funny helps me stay awake longer than music.
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get the gf to g1ve me a bl0wj0b
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once when i worked 24 hr strate and drove home at 10pm on the m25 it was head out window music up loud! i fell strate to sleep when i got in to bed :grin:
when i went UD it was just one stop a red bull n drum and bass!
and when i came back from bournmouth after being on 24 hr call out all week, raving for 7 hours and driving 3 hrs home at 5 am a mcdonalds brekki at 6am sorted me out! :nerd:
Great shout on the drum and bass!!
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I tend to find if you have a few little 30 second sleeps throughout driving that helps :smiley:
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Motorways: Vans on bridges and those friendly chaps in the cars with the extra lights.
Country Lanes and non-urban A roads: Badgers! Big F^&*ers them!
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Motorways: Vans on bridges and those friendly chaps in the cars with the extra lights.
Country Lanes and non-urban A roads: Badgers! Big F^&*ers them!
I hit a badger a few months a go, was already dead but still massive, even on its side! (Didn't see it until it was too late because of the mk2s spectacular head light system!
It was a cold night and I had the heaters on, not for long after I hit the badger! One of the most disgusting smells to have ever come through my heater vents :sick: Dead flesh and fur :sick:
Had to go to a jet wash at about 1 in the morning!
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I had to bury the number plate into the tarmac to stop for one once, the best stopped plodding, looked into my full beamed headlights, looked back to where he was going and plodded off, that badger owes me a pint for saving his life!
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i like to have a tommy tank :cool:
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i like to have a tommy tank :cool:
polish lorry drivers must really give you the horn!
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Motorways: Vans on bridges and those friendly chaps in the cars with the extra lights.
Country Lanes and non-urban A roads: Badgers! Big F^&*ers them!
I hit a badger a few months a go, was already dead but still massive, even on its side! (Didn't see it until it was too late because of the mk2s spectacular head light system!
It was a cold night and I had the heaters on, not for long after I hit the badger! One of the most disgusting smells to have ever come through my heater vents :sick: Dead flesh and fur :sick:
Had to go to a jet wash at about 1 in the morning!
Don't even talk to me about badgers! I was a passenger in a friends A4 when the car in front of us hit a badger doing about 60, the badger someone got air, sailed over the cars in front bonnet and roof came tumbling into the bonnet of our car and continued up the wind screen leaving a massive crack and blood everywhere...needless to say we nearly crashed!!
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I'm gonna read this thread, I've got to DRIVE to RAF Spadeadam on Wednesday :angry:
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driving 9 hours a day at work has me all prepped for long drives.
road rage keeps me awake usually
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I'm gonna read this thread, I've got to DRIVE to RAF Spadeadam on Wednesday :angry:
HAHA!!! Spade.. What a sh!tHOLE!!! Enjoy! Which way you going up?
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Drink copious amounts of red bull
Try and hit my speed limiter
Look for hot girls in Ka's, clios etc
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I'm gonna read this thread, I've got to DRIVE to RAF Spadeadam on Wednesday :angry:
Where the hell is that?! I'm based at Costa del Cosford, hoping for Odiham when I leave in Oct which is 30min from my Parents house!! :grin:
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Motorways: Vans on bridges and those friendly chaps in the cars with the extra lights.
Country Lanes and non-urban A roads: Badgers! Big F^&*ers them!
I hit a badger a few months a go, was already dead but still massive, even on its side! (Didn't see it until it was too late because of the mk2s spectacular head light system!
It was a cold night and I had the heaters on, not for long after I hit the badger! One of the most disgusting smells to have ever come through my heater vents :sick: Dead flesh and fur :sick:
Had to go to a jet wash at about 1 in the morning!
Don't even talk to me about badgers! I was a passenger in a friends A4 when the car in front of us hit a badger doing about 60, the badger someone got air, sailed over the cars in front bonnet and roof came tumbling into the bonnet of our car and continued up the wind screen leaving a massive crack and blood everywhere...needless to say we nearly crashed!!
Reminds me of my very first VW show..
Spent 3 days claying, polishing and waxing, driving up a B road in a convoy I seen the car in front do a quick swerve left then right then Blam I hit a pheasant, poor thing went through the front of the bumper, took out my indicators, fogs, underscuttle and archliner got itself wrapped around my brakes and got thrown out the back of the car in a mass of feathers , guts and blood.
I must say. I felt so sorry for the poor guy behind me as he was up for the show and shine!!
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I'm gonna read this thread, I've got to DRIVE to RAF Spadeadam on Wednesday :angry:
HAHA!!! Spade.. What a sh!tHOLE!!! Enjoy! Which way you going up?
Probably M40, M6 etc...
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I'm gonna read this thread, I've got to DRIVE to RAF Spadeadam on Wednesday :angry:
Where the hell is that?! I'm based at Costa del Cosford, hoping for Odiham when I leave in Oct which is 30min from my Parents house!! :grin:
It's all the way over Cumbria way, where the air is sooooo clean you feel refreshed to breath it. That's the only thing I like about it, the air is beautiful, really is.
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I'm gonna read this thread, I've got to DRIVE to RAF Spadeadam on Wednesday :angry:
Where the hell is that?! I'm based at Costa del Cosford, hoping for Odiham when I leave in Oct which is 30min from my Parents house!! :grin:
It's all the way over Cumbria way, where the air is sooooo clean you feel refreshed to breath it. That's the only thing I like about it, the air is beautiful, really is.
I have done FP training up there several times, I find the odiham comment quite funny.. Why do people sign up to move to a camp 20 mins from home? really...
Spades a proper out the way camp. I raced along hadrians wall for charity last year and we stopped off in Spade so I was ordering in pizza's each night.. God that food was good!!
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Am normally okay during the day - it's the night time driving that gets me. Probably because I've been awake all day and knackered.
Depends on how long it is. More than three hours and I'll stop for a breather and to stretch my legs. Which is why I try to keep the journey time down. :grin:
Otherwise - lucozade sport with caffeine, sweets like haribo/skittles - anything that doesn't need to be unwrapped. Gum and mints. Switch on/off the aircon. If there's no one around, slow down to 60mph and open the window. Play some angry/pumping music and whack the bass up. This is all for a short duration and then back to normal.