Most cringeworthy thread you have ever read?

[TokyoSexwhale]

NRS said:

It was just an observation, not meaning anything bad by it...

See the thread in web feedback. The was a closure, reopening, lack of humour of something, someone got banned - I think, I lost the plot

Anyway, back to the cringe.

[jogger1976]

Personally, I thought the "How can Chris Harris possibly afford his cars?" thread was a new low.

Surely on a motoring forum, the contributors should have been congratulating the bloke for living the dream, regardless of the money involved? Only on Pistonheads could it descended into a highly personal, 25 page bh-fest/rant about car finance/Chris's (alleged) personal wealth.

[GTIR]

jogger1976 said:

Personally, I thought the "How can Chris Harris possibly afford his cars?" thread was a new low.

Surely on a motoring forum, the contributors should have been congratulating the bloke for living the dream, regardless of the money involved? Only on Pistonheads could it descended into a highly personal, 25 page bh-fest/rant about car finance/Chris's (alleged) personal wealth.

Sir Chris of Harris did lose it once when responding to those sorts of comments.
He said, and I quote, "Just sod off!"

I can only imagine his account was hacked.

[jogger1976]

GTIR said:

jogger1976 said:

Personally, I thought the "How can Chris Harris possibly afford his cars?" thread was a new low.

Surely on a motoring forum, the contributors should have been congratulating the bloke for living the dream, regardless of the money involved? Only on Pistonheads could it descended into a highly personal, 25 page bh-fest/rant about car finance/Chris's (alleged) personal wealth.

Sir Chris of Harris did lose it once when responding to those sorts of comments.
He said, and I quote, "Just sod off!"

I can only imagine his account was hacked.

Some of the comments after he'd published his Ferrari rant were bordering on libelous. One bloke called him out and effectively said he was taking backhanders from Porsche. Chris didn't take to kindly to it!

[NRS]

jogger1976 said:

Some of the comments after he'd published his Ferrari rant were bordering on libelous. One bloke called him out and effectively said he was taking backhanders from Porsche. Chris didn't take to kindly to it!

A bit like him effectively doing the same by mentioning the business etc of someone who crashed into him when racing and effectively saying boycott them? That said, I guess everything he says and does gets picked apart, so not always so easy to never make stupid comments etc. without them being picked up.

[GTIR]

I can't believe no one has picked up on his fake beard.

I mean just look at him, in this recent karaoke pic.

[jogger1976]

NRS said:

A bit like him effectively doing the same by mentioning the business etc of someone who crashed into him when racing and effectively saying boycott them? That said, I guess everything he says and does gets picked apart, so not always so easy to never make stupid comments etc. without them being picked up.

Absolutely. He certainly isn't afraid of telling it like it is, but once you put yourself in the public domain (internet or the real world) it's only a matter of time before you fk up and are shot down in flames. Just part of being human

[trashbat]

I thought I'd victoriously destroyed this thread, but apparently not.

Here's a joyful work in progress: http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

Not that it's a particularly lovely subject, but:

somebody said:

the father was foolish to call the police, it should have ended up with another unexplained disappearance...
I can tell you in all honesty that if I had come home to that they wouldnt have had any calls and a body would never have been found.
I also wouldnt have the slightest problem with my conscience..

[Justin Cyder]

Yes. I opted to walk away from that one as soon as the burning torch brigade turned up with their usual fkwittery.

Baryonyx said:

Thankyou4calling said:

No need for a long established legal system then. Just dish it out yourself! Sounds like a recipe for anarchy to me.

It sounds like you are permitting the child molester to go about doing as he pleases.

That's obviously what he's advocating.

[Amirhussain]

As soon as I saw the thread, I knew how it was going to turn out..

[Amirhussain]

Third post
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[Matt_N]

BrabusMog said:

parabolica said:

Yellowjack's posts in the Knob thread are getting worse and worse; liberal use of quotation marks to emphasise colloquial language and extensive text to explain how what he was doing wasn't in anyway baiting the situation, even though he posts there almost daily and every time, whatever happened is the worst example of driving ever.

I think he lives in Farnborough, I work near there and can assure that it'd have an obvious impact on your mental health were you to live there.

Ah Yellowjack, why use ten words when a thousand will do

[ManFromDelmonte]

In reply to the old PH favourite "what would be the first car you would buy if you won the lottery"

someone said:

Ferrari F40

And when I've realised I can't drive it very well, I'll pay Chris Harris some of my winnings to teach me how to drive it better.

I can't disagree with his choice of car, but does he really think CH would be the best guy to teach him to drive it?

[MajorProblem]

Surely you'd just join the Ferrari corse cliente program and say hey can I bring my f40 so Alonso can do a few laps with me?

[RyanTank]

ManFromDelmonte said:

In reply to the old PH favourite "what would be the first car you would buy if you won the lottery"

someone said:

Ferrari F40

And when I've realised I can't drive it very well, I'll pay Chris Harris some of my winnings to teach me how to drive it better.

I can't disagree with his choice of car, but does he really think CH would be the best guy to teach him to drive it?

Would you not just attend a few track days/tutor courses in regular to more exotic cars to build up an understanding of driving race inspired cars, then attempt same courses in the F40?
Instead of asking CH to teach you to drift it a bit, before you bin it at the first attempt at copying him!?


Or failing that, if you've won the lottery, tweet a few racing drivers offering to chuck some cash their way to teach you a thing or two?
Or is that too cringey?

[HereBeMonsters]

Or, you know, book one of the many, many, available tutoring sessions designed to accomplish exactly what the poster is wanting?

[H22observer]

The "New Tesco CEO on a pittance" thread has potential for cringe :


http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

The salary alone is 100x the salary of the shop floor grunts, but that still isn't enough apparently.

[illmonkey]

ManFromDelmonte said:

In reply to the old PH favourite "what would be the first car you would buy if you won the lottery"

someone said:

Ferrari F40

And when I've realised I can't drive it very well, I'll pay Chris Harris some of my winnings to teach me how to drive it better.

I can't disagree with his choice of car, but does he really think CH would be the best guy to teach him to drive it?

He would he learn anything with his head down in Chris' crotch?

[Amirhussain]

ManFromDelmonte said:

In reply to the old PH favourite "what would be the first car you would buy if you won the lottery"

someone said:

Ferrari F40

And when I've realised I can't drive it very well, I'll pay Chris Harris some of my winnings to teach me how to drive it better.

I can't disagree with his choice of car, but does he really think CH would be the best guy to teach him to drive it?

[parabolica]

Oh good lord

Disastrous in the knob thread said:

Squishey said:

Disastrous said:

yellowjack said:

The complete knob of a pipe smoking Laguna estate driving knob chomper yesterday.

Is calling someone insultingly gay what passes for insults on PH these days??

Do homosexual men actually chomp knobs? They may perform the act of fellacio on another man but in my experience of receiving fellacio (although, not from another man so maybe it's done differently) there is no chomping involved. So is that a homophobic insult?

Interesting question. I suppose it could be viewed as a double insult in the sense that you would be speaking in derogatory terms of someone who performs fellatio on men, and simultaneously suggesting their technique well, sucked, not to put too fine a point on it.

Does anyone ever call women 'cocksuckers' or similar??