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Share something interesting about yourself

I’m perhaps not the best person to start this thread as I don’t really have anything interesting to share, but I thought this would be a good way to get to know each other a bit better.
The best I can do is that I have driven a Lotus on Lotus’s own test track where some F1 drivers like Senna have driven.
I’m sure people can beat me. I’m looking forward to reading your posts.
The best I can do is that I have driven a Lotus on Lotus’s own test track where some F1 drivers like Senna have driven.
I’m sure people can beat me. I’m looking forward to reading your posts.

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I have had my hair shaved off once for charity
I was awake for the surgery to amputate my leg and could see it all in the reflection from the overhead light
a few weeks later I had a blow out and broke my bike and my collar bone. Also my belongings went missing from a hotel I was staying in. However, it wasn’t all bad because I’d taken out a really cheap five pound insurance cover and I claimed and received ninety pounds! Things can always be worse you see.
I must say @janer1967 your leg fact was hardcore. I'm not sure I could have watched and I admire you for being able to.
I'm still thinking about my interesting fact, I'll be back with it when I've thought of one
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Once i looked up i couldn't stop looking it was mainly where they were making the stump if you get what I mean
I am a bit weird I like watching medical procedures but never thought I would watch my own
I bet it was very interesting being in the Morgan. That is not too much of an insult that his conversation was less interesting than the car, in my opinion it would be hard to find a conversation more entertaining than one of those beautiful cars
I hope you drove the Bentley legally i.e. on a private road
Your last story made me laugh haha! Good quick thinking.
I must say I like how you are able to talk about something so serious as if it is just a light topic if you get what I mean. I have family who were in the police and NHS and it is common to get through those jobs by making light of very dark moments but to be able to do so with your own situation is very impressive. Sorry I don’t mean to sound patronising.
I agree it is very interesting watching medical procedures, including your own!
It wasnt my first surgery awake I had toes off b4 the first time i was a shaking mess
I like to share my stories to give a positive message to others and it wasnt the surgery more the rehab and getting used to being disabled
I agree with giving a positive message
When we got down there It was like being on the set of a bond film. We had board a small train to get us to the many corridors of offices and entered without being stopped into many of them and roamed around freely.
Finally we met a secretary and after a little chat she gave us tickets to go into the main hall to witness them debating. A place we only normally see on TV. She also gave me a flag that has flown over the Capitol building.
It is something I will never forget and was a once in a lifetime experience.
In case you're wondering how she did this. She is American and (Sassy)
Interesting fact about me... I've applied for a guide dog.
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I hope you get the guide dog @Chloe_Scope!
(I wasn't including @chiarieds in that comment lol!!)
Too much traffic and too many speed cameras around to risk it nowadays, but I have done 'the tonne' myself...in a modern car it's not really any different to 70 due to the comfort and refinement we're all used to now. Quite worrying really as you can easily creep to 90 on an empty road without noticing!
I bet a Bentley was incredibly refined at 100mph as they are designed for high speed touring across continents.
Strangely in my current, modern, car it is very hard to speed on the motorway without knowing it. The car has 6 gears but you can very comfortably be in 6th gear at 40mph - in fact it tells you to change to 6th at about 38-39mph if driving casually. What this means is by 70mph it's actually revving quite a bit so it is not hard to keep your speed down to 70. I don't really know why they geared it like that, I would have thought you could gear 6th gear a bit "longer" (I think that's the word for it) so you only change up to 6th at maybe 60mph+ for better fuel economy on the motorway. I'm sure they did their research, though, and the car is very economical anyway.
Sorry, I went a bit off topic haha.
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Knocked a chip of bone off the back of my patella. Long story. Only discovered 20 years later!
Hope you get guide dog soon!
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*in the school nativity.
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