BRAINS!!!

[bellinghman]

I think I'm turning into a zombie this afternoon. My brain is totally shutting down, and I think I need a fresh infusion of nice steaming brains before anyone's going to get any more work from me.

In other news, we finally went into Cambridge to see PotC III last night. This (the experience, not the film) was not as usually fun as normal for two reasons. Firstly, while in the restaurant half an hour beforehand, the fire alarm went off, and the entire block, including the cinema, was evacuated. We were finally allowed back in some 40 minutes later, at which point, we had barely time to pay up before hitting the auditorium.

Secondly, shuffling zombie hordes of Marillion fans had just left a gig at the Junction when the film finished. Since it was (a) a sell-out gig, and (b) Marillion fans have a fairly high car ownership rate, this meant a frightening queue for the pay machines in the car park, and then a 15 minute queue just to get out of it. As the tickets had been paid at the machines some time beforehand, they were re-expiring before the cars reached the barriers ...

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[oldbloke.livejournal.com]

One of the Uni car parks has incredibly narrow bays. 50% of the cars that use it have dints from other cars' doors.
We recently used a car park in Barcelona that had a pretty tight exit, not helped by being in an unfamiliar car of course.
My boss's boss has a Porsche, and has to take the ramps in the car park here _very_ carefully to avoid grounding.
There was a brilliant bit on Top Gear once where they had loads of trub getting a supercar out of a car park in, IIRC, Paris.
[That's enough car parks. Ed.]

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

The bays in the Clifton Way car-park aren't that bad - tthey do have a decent width. It's the ramps - they seem barely wider than the bays.

Back when I still had the Audi A4, that would ground quite easily. The Broadway Centre carpark in Ealing had a spot that I always had to be careful with. Mind you, our driveway was also a problem for it - if I had any passengers, I'd have to tell them to get out before I reversed in.

This was also the car that, on circumscribing the Ring of Kerry, I had to get used to being overtaken by white vans, since I daredn't go above 45, the road was so bouncy. Happily, the new MG-ZT has normal ground clearance, and has yet to ground anywhere. Why the Audi had lowered suspension, when it was a surplus work vehicle, goodness knows.