One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 2

[rj1986]

m8rky said:

I had the misfortune to meet this limp handed fkwit once, the limpest handshake ever.I thought "knob" at the time actually.
Amazing that just over the Itchen is one of the most decent men to set foot in the Houses of Parliament.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2754252/La...

Great idea! Now let's combat obesity by banning cutlery.

[irocfan]

KFC said:

SimianWonder said:

Blown2CV said:

what do cherished registrations do though...

Mine makes an eleven year old car is really good condition not look eleven years old.

I don't think it does though. I couldn't care less about Alfa's so I don't know with this particular model... but anyone with an interest in them will know from looking at the car roughly how old it is anyway, as they'll know when it had a facelift or small things changed etc. Anyone with no interest in cars won't even be able to tell you how old it is whether you change the plate or not.

So who exactly do you think you're hiding the car age from here ?

there are valid reasons for an vanity/ageless/personalised plate. Our financial advisor doesn't want his clientèle to know he changes his car every few years (some people might take it the wrong way), SWMBO doesn't want people to think she drives a new car, my car came with the plate already in place and it's car appropriate

[Triumph Man]

rj1986 said:

m8rky said:

I had the misfortune to meet this limp handed fkwit once, the limpest handshake ever.I thought "knob" at the time actually.
Amazing that just over the Itchen is one of the most decent men to set foot in the Houses of Parliament.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2754252/La...

Great idea! Now let's combat obesity by banning cutlery.

I hate shaking somebodies hand when I land the hand wrong and end up with an effeminate half grip. I hope the shakee doesn't think I'm a wuss

However I suspect that the bloke above actually shakes like that. tt.

[JagXJR]

irocfan said:

KFC said:

SimianWonder said:

Blown2CV said:

what do cherished registrations do though...

Mine makes an eleven year old car is really good condition not look eleven years old.

I don't think it does though. I couldn't care less about Alfa's so I don't know with this particular model... but anyone with an interest in them will know from looking at the car roughly how old it is anyway, as they'll know when it had a facelift or small things changed etc. Anyone with no interest in cars won't even be able to tell you how old it is whether you change the plate or not.

So who exactly do you think you're hiding the car age from here ?

there are valid reasons for an vanity/ageless/personalised plate. Our financial advisor doesn't want his clientèle to know he changes his car every few years (some people might take it the wrong way), SWMBO doesn't want people to think she drives a new car, my car came with the plate already in place and it's car appropriate

People when asked always say my cars are much younger than they actually are, they are that well loked after. I don't tell people the age however, as rightly pointed out this defeats the object.

Nothing to do with ego or wealth, just a desire to keep the age to myself. Having spent over the odds on a low-mileage, good condition car and spending money keeping it nice - why not?

Yes it would not fool enthusiasts due to the shape and characteristics but I would hope these people don't judge on the year but on condition.

I could buy a new car if I wanted but would rather have three interesting motors than one boring new one. My choice. Don't appreciated being called a chav as a result however!

I don't drive them like a lunatic but if you are dawdling in my way I will come past if legal and safe to do so

[Hol]

STURBO said:

SimianWonder said:

Blown2CV said:

what do cherished registrations do though...

Mine makes an eleven year old car is really good condition not look eleven years old.

What's wrong with driving an 11 year old car? Why do you care what other people may or may not think. I just don't get that kind of thinking.

I only stick my private plate of over 15 years on my track cars and weekend toys. I have a wall in one of the lesser used rooms at home - that has track action pics of that same registration on my cars over the years.

I could of put my name on the car in rally type stickers instead, but I think they look cack.

All my daily drivers have always had the plate they came with, whether they were old mile munchers or brand new.

[jimmsy]

JagXJR said:

irocfan said:

KFC said:

SimianWonder said:

Blown2CV said:

what do cherished registrations do though...

Mine makes an eleven year old car is really good condition not look eleven years old.

I don't think it does though. I couldn't care less about Alfa's so I don't know with this particular model... but anyone with an interest in them will know from looking at the car roughly how old it is anyway, as they'll know when it had a facelift or small things changed etc. Anyone with no interest in cars won't even be able to tell you how old it is whether you change the plate or not.

So who exactly do you think you're hiding the car age from here ?

there are valid reasons for an vanity/ageless/personalised plate. Our financial advisor doesn't want his clientèle to know he changes his car every few years (some people might take it the wrong way), SWMBO doesn't want people to think she drives a new car, my car came with the plate already in place and it's car appropriate

People when asked always say my cars are much younger than they actually are, they are that well loked after. I don't tell people the age however, as rightly pointed out this defeats the object.

Nothing to do with ego or wealth, just a desire to keep the age to myself. Having spent over the odds on a low-mileage, good condition car and spending money keeping it nice - why not?

Yes it would not fool enthusiasts due to the shape and characteristics but I would hope these people don't judge on the year but on condition.

I could buy a new car if I wanted but would rather have three interesting motors than one boring new one. My choice. Don't appreciated being called a chav as a result however!

I don't drive them like a lunatic but if you are dawdling in my way I will come past if legal and safe to do so

I'll just pipe in and let you know that you do come across as a knob, and in my mind you're supporting his original thoughts on people with Chav plates.

[Hol]

Chav is actually gypsy slang for child. The proper caravan kids at my Kent comprehensive school in the late 80's used to call each other 'Chav' or 'Chavvy', long before it became mainstream,. or burberry related.



So, unless you are gypsy, or under 16, they you are technically not a chav. IYSWIM.

Edited by Hol on Monday 15th September 16:31

[SistersofPercy]

Hol said:

Chav is actually gypsy slang for child. The proper caravan kids at my Kent comprehensive school in the late 80's used to call each other 'Chav' or 'Chavvy', long before it became mainstream,. or burberry related.



So, unless you are gypsy, or under 16, they you are technically not a chav. IYSWIM.

Edited by Hol on Monday 15th September 16:31

It derives from the Romany word meaning child or precious one 'chavi' or 'Chava'
I do love useless facts

[irocfan]

SistersofPercy said:

Hol said:

Chav is actually gypsy slang for child. The proper caravan kids at my Kent comprehensive school in the late 80's used to call each other 'Chav' or 'Chavvy', long before it became mainstream,. or burberry related.



So, unless you are gypsy, or under 16, they you are technically not a chav. IYSWIM.

Edited by Hol on Monday 15th September 16:31

It derives from the Romany word meaning child or precious one 'chavi' or 'Chava'
I do love useless facts

oh - so not Council Housed And Violent then?

[Blown2CV]

SimianWonder said:

Blown2CV said:

what do cherished registrations do though...

Mine makes an eleven year old car is really good condition not look eleven years old.

except you already own a car that doesn't look 11 years old, apparently. The plate does nothing except hide the age. You seem to be assuming that other people really contemplate you and your car's existence a lot more than they do. Personally I'd just be happy that I have a well looked after car, not try and pretend that it's new.

[br d]

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Blown2CV said:

SimianWonder said:

Blown2CV said:

what do cherished registrations do though...

Mine makes an eleven year old car is really good condition not look eleven years old.

You seem to be assuming that other people really contemplate you and your car's existence a lot more than they do.

One of the more regular cries on the Chav plate thread is that "A good car has been ruined", which would suggest that other people are contemplating its existence.

[alpha channel]

The twerp this morning in a moonlight-ish silvery/blue three door Laguna (one of the last generation) who turned off his lights just as the fog got thicker (dropping visibility right down) and didn't put them back on. He ploughed past at least one HGV who probably got a rather nasty shock as a car appeared from nowhere.

[scarble]

The knobber who managed to roll his lorry on a wide straight piece of road, turning the entirety of Coventry into a car park.
Seems to happen about once a month. If you're going to drive a lorry, learn to drive a fking lorry

[BarbaricAvatar]

The stupid girl i saw yesterday making a right turn on a roundabout in her black Audi A4 Cabrio; stopping on the roundabout to encourage a Police car to pull out even though she had the right of way and there were no other cars in the vicinity.

Plod declined and followed her into the industrial estate. I hope she had more on her record than just being a complete idiot.

[irocfan]

I'll just leave these here....

http://bossip.com/639655/most-insane-face-tattoos3...

[JagXJR]

jimmsy said:

I'll just pipe in and let you know that you do come across as a knob, and in my mind you're supporting his original thoughts on people with Chav plates.

How so? You don't know me so perhaps you wouldn't mind explaining?

[ManOpener]

Women in strangely coloured Mini convertibles. They're generally pretty poorly driven as a rule but the one who tried to merge into my lane, or more specifically into the side of my car, without indicating and then went absolutely mental, waving her arms, honking and flashing her lights when I gave her a short beep to notify her that she was about to collide with me rather ruined what was a fairly nice, relaxed commute.

If you're enough of a tool not to see a midsized, bright red hatchback that's occupying not only an area of road less than six feet away from you, but an area of road less than six feel away from you that you're trying to enter, you should probably give up driving.

[Speedracer329]

Today I have been mostly having trouble with amateur psychologists who have such huge brains that they can, with just a single fleeting glance, tell everything there is to know about the person driving a vehicle with a (shudder) personalised registration plate.
Do you all need a micro freezer transplanted in your groin to stop your piss being constantly at boiling point because of this and equally unimportant issues that have absolutely nothing to do with you?

[DavidJG]

Speedracer329 said:

Today I have been mostly having trouble with amateur psychologists who have such huge brains that they can, with just a single fleeting glance, tell everything there is to know about the person driving a vehicle with a (shudder) personalised registration plate.
Do you all need a micro freezer transplanted in your groin to stop your piss being constantly at boiling point because of this and equally unimportant issues that have absolutely nothing to do with you?

Nope, definitely no requirement for such a thing. Like I said in an earlier post, there seems to be a correlation between private plates and bad driving. It's not a guarantee, not everyone with a private plate drives badly. But I definitely treat it as a warning, especially if said plate falls into the 'Illegal' category. Just that, a warning that there's an increased possibility of something stupid being done. It doesn't make me angry, doesn't make me want to hit anyone, does make me wonder just how stupid they have to be to think an illegal plate is cool, but definitely no anger. It requires far more than that to get me mad.

[scarble]

I have a chav plate. Came with the car and I did plan to sell it but it relates to the car not the driver and seems to have been with the car long enough that it's part of it's identity now and also it's not worth enough for the effort of selling it
But then I do drive like an utter loon so you're probably right

Also don't take myself so seriously as to get into a slagging match on the internet just because someone made some vague generalisation that might apply to me.