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InductionRoar said:
4D numberplates
Ikea
Eurovision
Cigarettes
Tight trousers
Restaurants/bars that serve red wine at 'room temperature' irrespective of the season/weather
Musicals
My creaky driver's seat
TikTok
The erosion of the English language
Tequila
Tree sap
Adaptive throttles
Hipsters
What's a 4D number plate? Ikea
Eurovision
Cigarettes
Tight trousers
Restaurants/bars that serve red wine at 'room temperature' irrespective of the season/weather
Musicals
My creaky driver's seat
TikTok
The erosion of the English language
Tequila
Tree sap
Adaptive throttles
Hipsters
Sounds impossible...
A quick search and they are in fact just the chavvy raised 3D number plates.
Which ****ing bellend decided they would add the extra dimension?
...Someone who wouldn't understand the application of time in that regard if it smacked them in the face.
Edited by Dagnir on Monday 13th May 12:25
Dagnir said:
What's a 4D number plate?
Apparently, according to Halfords - there used to be "3D" number plates, which were flat 2D ones with shading to create a 3D effect. When the law was tightened up to prohibit those, people started selling "4D" number plates, which are 3D ones with raised letters.So, morons, basically.
Stick Legs said:
Hard-Drive said:
I'm currently rebuilding my Defender, in fairness it is 1986, so is built from proper metal rather than cheese. Yes it has it's flaws but a nearly 40 year old car that can drive up the motorway, do the school run, wade through water over its bonnet, or drive up a bouldered slope that's tough to walk up, it is quite an engineering achievement.
I don’t disagree.However the money being asked is bonkers.
Discoverys & Range Rovers do all these things but are comfortable and better at being a car and are worth less.
thepritch said:
I don’t think I this can be argued with :
Littering.
Just the height of laziness, and sheer arrogance that others will run round picking up s
t after you. No one want to live in a st hole, so clean up after yourselves. It’s not difficult.
Hate littering. When you see McDonalds bags lying by the roadside, clearly chucked out the car window, I just can't fathom it. Lowest dregs of society people who do that.Littering.
Just the height of laziness, and sheer arrogance that others will run round picking up s
t after you. No one want to live in a st hole, so clean up after yourselves. It’s not difficult. I've idly browsed this thread from the start with the nagging thought, 'well, I dislike many things, but can't say I actually hate a thing.....'
However, I'm just reminded of a conversation last week with the mechanic who is fettling my car. As we were talking, a wasp entered the workshop. A normal sized jasper, nothing out of the ordinary. The mechanic freaked out, which freaked me out as he is ex-forces and built like a brick sthouse. He was stung many years ago, and soon found out he suffers from anaphylactic shock.
So.
Wasps, for me.
Useless pieces of st that just eat, breed, and sting things.
Hateful.
However, I'm just reminded of a conversation last week with the mechanic who is fettling my car. As we were talking, a wasp entered the workshop. A normal sized jasper, nothing out of the ordinary. The mechanic freaked out, which freaked me out as he is ex-forces and built like a brick s
thouse. He was stung many years ago, and soon found out he suffers from anaphylactic shock.So.
Wasps, for me.
Useless pieces of s
t that just eat, breed, and sting things.Hateful.
thepritch said:
I don’t think I this can be argued with :
Littering.
Just the height of laziness, and sheer arrogance that others will run round picking up st after you. No one want to live in a st hole, so clean up after yourselves. It’s not difficult.
Some people (an increasing number even) are just selfish tLittering.
Just the height of laziness, and sheer arrogance that others will run round picking up s
t after you. No one want to live in a st hole, so clean up after yourselves. It’s not difficult. ts. Maybe I'm getting less tolerant but im increasingly of the view that it's no longer a case of "they walk among us", it's shifting towards "we walk among them"!
cherryowen said:
Wasps, for me.
Useless pieces of st that just eat, breed, and sting things.
Hateful.
I felt like this until one day Mrs. & I were sat in the garden, we’d had lunch and had some food sat on a plate.Useless pieces of s
t that just eat, breed, and sting things.Hateful.
We watched as a wasp landed, cut a perfect semi circle out of a piece of ham, flew off.
Another different wasp came back & repeated it.
We sat & drank wine as these industrious little chaps shuttled back & forth and in about 20 mins removed a bit of left over meat from the plate about the size of a drinks coaster.
They didn’t bother us at all.
Quite fascinating & I went & learned more about them.
Turns out they are just as useful as bees, without the added benefit of honey of course.
Stick Legs said:
cherryowen said:
Wasps, for me.
Useless pieces of st that just eat, breed, and sting things.
Hateful.
I felt like this until one day Mrs. & I were sat in the garden, we’d had lunch and had some food sat on a plate.Useless pieces of s
t that just eat, breed, and sting things.Hateful.
We watched as a wasp landed, cut a perfect semi circle out of a piece of ham, flew off.
Another different wasp came back & repeated it.
We sat & drank wine as these industrious little chaps shuttled back & forth and in about 20 mins removed a bit of left over meat from the plate about the size of a drinks coaster.
They didn’t bother us at all.
Quite fascinating & I went & learned more about them.
Turns out they are just as useful as bees, without the added benefit of honey of course.
ds on a Sunday afternoon, knackered after a long day/flight home from India. 
Stick Legs said:
I felt like this until one day Mrs. & I were sat in the garden, we’d had lunch and had some food sat on a plate.
We watched as a wasp landed, cut a perfect semi circle out of a piece of ham, flew off.
Another different wasp came back & repeated it.
We sat & drank wine as these industrious little chaps shuttled back & forth and in about 20 mins removed a bit of left over meat from the plate about the size of a drinks coaster.
They didn’t bother us at all.
Quite fascinating & I went & learned more about them.
Turns out they are just as useful as bees, without the added benefit of honey of course.
Yep. Wasps eat sugar. Wasp larvae eat meat (mostly insects, not ham) and excrete sugar. The wasps collect meaty food for the larvae and live off their excreted sugar. Once the queen stops laying and there aren't grubs to feed, the remaining wasps are unemployed and hungry and go freelance, which is when they stop being useful and become a nuisance. We watched as a wasp landed, cut a perfect semi circle out of a piece of ham, flew off.
Another different wasp came back & repeated it.
We sat & drank wine as these industrious little chaps shuttled back & forth and in about 20 mins removed a bit of left over meat from the plate about the size of a drinks coaster.
They didn’t bother us at all.
Quite fascinating & I went & learned more about them.
Turns out they are just as useful as bees, without the added benefit of honey of course.
Stick Legs said:
cherryowen said:
Wasps, for me.
Useless pieces of st that just eat, breed, and sting things.
Hateful.
I felt like this until one day Mrs. & I were sat in the garden, we’d had lunch and had some food sat on a plate.Useless pieces of s
t that just eat, breed, and sting things.Hateful.
We watched as a wasp landed, cut a perfect semi circle out of a piece of ham, flew off.
Another different wasp came back & repeated it.
We sat & drank wine as these industrious little chaps shuttled back & forth and in about 20 mins removed a bit of left over meat from the plate about the size of a drinks coaster.
They didn’t bother us at all.
Quite fascinating & I went & learned more about them.
Turns out they are just as useful as bees, without the added benefit of honey of course.
“Wasps eat flies, aphids, caterpillars and other invertebrates, making them an important insect-controlling predator”
https://www.buglife.org.uk/bugs/bug-directory/comm...
I can see why people hate wasps. Just like I hate spiders.
I find if I ignore a wasp they will (99% of the time) ignore you. We have hundreds buzzing in the garden right now, as they seem to love one plant in particular. The noise is incredible. As above, they’re good to have around, just like spiders
I find if I ignore a wasp they will (99% of the time) ignore you. We have hundreds buzzing in the garden right now, as they seem to love one plant in particular. The noise is incredible. As above, they’re good to have around, just like spiders
Horse flies however are gits.
We get loads in the summer. They really like me for some reason. Get bitten most years.
Hornets too. Thing with hornets is that if you ignore them they are pretty chill, much slower & more calm than wasps, but the fear factor of the sledgehammer sting does make you a bit wary.
We get loads in the summer. They really like me for some reason. Get bitten most years.
Hornets too. Thing with hornets is that if you ignore them they are pretty chill, much slower & more calm than wasps, but the fear factor of the sledgehammer sting does make you a bit wary.
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