One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 2
Discussion
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?
private plate alone just hints at knobbery, but it's reasonably reliable. Private plate + attitude? Well that's 100% isn't it.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?
Private plate = 100% knob.
1. Want to disguise the age of your car? No-one is fooled. Get a newer car if that is an issue to you.
2. "But it's a good investment." There are better ones, and all it does is reveal your inner hidden knobbery to every road user. Spend the money on beer, petrol, or paying off your mortgage. Or the stock market. Or flowers. Anything but a private plate.
1. Want to disguise the age of your car? No-one is fooled. Get a newer car if that is an issue to you.
2. "But it's a good investment." There are better ones, and all it does is reveal your inner hidden knobbery to every road user. Spend the money on beer, petrol, or paying off your mortgage. Or the stock market. Or flowers. Anything but a private plate.
James McScotty said:
Private plate = 100% knob.
1. Want to disguise the age of your car? No-one is fooled. Get a newer car if that is an issue to you.
2. "But it's a good investment." There are better ones, and all it does is reveal your inner hidden knobbery to every road user. Spend the money on beer, petrol, or paying off your mortgage. Or the stock market. Or flowers. Anything but a private plate.
well # 1 it's illegal to make your car look newer so revealing your own prejudices there. As for #2... if you had 'MAG1C' then it'd have been a 'lovely little earner'. I suspect most people don't view it as a safe investment (or indeed any investment at all)1. Want to disguise the age of your car? No-one is fooled. Get a newer car if that is an issue to you.
2. "But it's a good investment." There are better ones, and all it does is reveal your inner hidden knobbery to every road user. Spend the money on beer, petrol, or paying off your mortgage. Or the stock market. Or flowers. Anything but a private plate.
alpha channel said:
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.
auto lights seem bamboozled by fog... wonder if thats the reason?DervVW said:
auto lights seem bamboozled by fog... wonder if thats the reason?
I've seen quite a few people driving around at night without their lights on (M40 / M1) because their DRLs are on and their dashboard is lit up. It's usually a woman and I usually don't stick around to see if they cause a crash ...TheAllSeeingPie said:
DervVW said:
auto lights seem bamboozled by fog... wonder if thats the reason?
I've seen quite a few people driving around at night without their lights on (M40 / M1) because their DRLs are on and their dashboard is lit up. It's usually a woman and I usually don't stick around to see if they cause a crash ...- Puts hand up*
Whoops.
irocfan said:
well # 1 it's illegal to make your car look newer so revealing your own prejudices there. As for #2... if you had 'MAG1C' then it'd have been a 'lovely little earner'. I suspect most people don't view it as a safe investment (or indeed any investment at all)
Jimmy Tarbuck had COM1C, so he was obviously seeing it as an investment...I see the private/vanity plate thing as less so knobbery, and moreso "more money than sense".
I can't quite get my head around some of the explanations for them given here, it seems some people are terrified of Joe Public knowing that the owner is doing something, and that the only way to prevent Joe Public knowing this is to put a private/vanity plate on the car.
"I don't want people to know I drive an eleven year old car" - if you're terrified of someone knowing that fact, don't drive an eleven year old car!
"I don't want people to know I change my car every few weeks" - don't change so often then!
"I don't want people to know I drive a new car" - don't buy a new car then!
If you have the private/vanity plate because you like it, great, but it makes no sense to me to try and justify it's existence with the above comments which have been found in the past few pages of this discussion. Either accept that people will think whatever they think over your choice of car, or don't do that thing you're scared of - trying to hide these facts with very expensive pieces of plastic is just crazy.
I can't quite get my head around some of the explanations for them given here, it seems some people are terrified of Joe Public knowing that the owner is doing something, and that the only way to prevent Joe Public knowing this is to put a private/vanity plate on the car.
"I don't want people to know I drive an eleven year old car" - if you're terrified of someone knowing that fact, don't drive an eleven year old car!
"I don't want people to know I change my car every few weeks" - don't change so often then!
"I don't want people to know I drive a new car" - don't buy a new car then!
If you have the private/vanity plate because you like it, great, but it makes no sense to me to try and justify it's existence with the above comments which have been found in the past few pages of this discussion. Either accept that people will think whatever they think over your choice of car, or don't do that thing you're scared of - trying to hide these facts with very expensive pieces of plastic is just crazy.
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.So who exactly do you think you're hiding the car age from here ?
If I hired your financial advisor and he turns up in a Porsche Cayenne, I don't need to look at the plate to tell you how old it is (within certain bands). So he's basically hiding nothing from me. Sure I might not be able to tell if he has a 2010 one or a 2011 one... but value wise there isn't any real difference.
If my mum hires him, she's just going to see him in a nice Porsche and she isn't going to have a clue either way.
His private plate is fooling nobody.
Steering the thread away from private plates, and back to general knobbery for a moment...
I went out for a mountain bike ride today. A quick blast of the Army XC Championship lap in Minley Woods was planned. Now a really quick lap is about 23 minutes. My quick lap is just over 38 minutes. Today I was out on it for 1 hour 17 minutes. Why? f
king knobbish dog walkers. At least I'm presuming it's thickos belonging to this social group. They have dragged branches across the XC trail in many places, causing danger to riders.
Bear in mind that this is MOD land, and the MOD and the ACU (Army Cycling Union) sanctioned the design of the lap, yet these "oh! mind my precious pooch" and "hey! careful! don't you know how much Fido cost? He's a pedigree you know" twunts like nothing better than to walk these bloody st-machines on fast, twisty sections of the track. About 90% of them have no visible means of collecting the dog's turds, nor a lead on which they can rely for some control over the stupid animal.
Now they appear to have fired the first salvos in a war against riders. Broken glass, large stones, and large broken branches have been placed on fast sections, usually at turns or technical stuff. It isn't the Army/MOD, because they tend to grub up the entrances to the twisty stuff and tape them off, and they aren't stupid enough to sabotage their own training area, because a)it would risk injuring their own personnel and b)I know for a fact that they've had to pay compensation out in the past where they've used less than ideal methods to close off tracks without putting up warning signs.
So I binned off my fast lap, and tidied things up a bit on the trail, but if this continues, something will have to be done about it, and heaven help them if I catch them in the act. They'll find they've started a war they aren't going to win, and they'll have bitten off far more than they can chew. Why they do this I cannot understand. There are areas of the training area that are far better suited to dog walking, and far less attractive to MTB riders. I've got no desire to get into conflict with these dheads, but if they insist on walking dogs on the BLOODY OBVIOUS!!! mountain bike race venue, then there is bound to be conflict sooner or later.
I went out for a mountain bike ride today. A quick blast of the Army XC Championship lap in Minley Woods was planned. Now a really quick lap is about 23 minutes. My quick lap is just over 38 minutes. Today I was out on it for 1 hour 17 minutes. Why? f
king knobbish dog walkers. At least I'm presuming it's thickos belonging to this social group. They have dragged branches across the XC trail in many places, causing danger to riders.Bear in mind that this is MOD land, and the MOD and the ACU (Army Cycling Union) sanctioned the design of the lap, yet these "oh! mind my precious pooch" and "hey! careful! don't you know how much Fido cost? He's a pedigree you know" twunts like nothing better than to walk these bloody s
t-machines on fast, twisty sections of the track. About 90% of them have no visible means of collecting the dog's turds, nor a lead on which they can rely for some control over the stupid animal. Now they appear to have fired the first salvos in a war against riders. Broken glass, large stones, and large broken branches have been placed on fast sections, usually at turns or technical stuff. It isn't the Army/MOD, because they tend to grub up the entrances to the twisty stuff and tape them off, and they aren't stupid enough to sabotage their own training area, because a)it would risk injuring their own personnel and b)I know for a fact that they've had to pay compensation out in the past where they've used less than ideal methods to close off tracks without putting up warning signs.
So I binned off my fast lap, and tidied things up a bit on the trail, but if this continues, something will have to be done about it, and heaven help them if I catch them in the act. They'll find they've started a war they aren't going to win, and they'll have bitten off far more than they can chew. Why they do this I cannot understand. There are areas of the training area that are far better suited to dog walking, and far less attractive to MTB riders. I've got no desire to get into conflict with these d
heads, but if they insist on walking dogs on the BLOODY OBVIOUS!!! mountain bike race venue, then there is bound to be conflict sooner or later.yellowjack said:
They have dragged branches across the XC trail in many places, causing danger to riders.
It gets a lot worse if left unchecked. At some trails I used to ride at, which were a well known MTB centre in Nottingham (on forestry commission land), some nimby kept putting up piano wire across the trails apparently in an attempt to stop bikers from using them. It stopped very suddenly though, oddly enough after an organised night ride by the local MTB club.Heading towards town today I saw the flashing blues of an ambulance coming the other way in a stream of traffic. Me and the umpteen cars in front of me all headed over to the far left and stopped, leaving plenty of room for the ambulance to use the centre of the road.
SUV driver behind me decided that pulling out to pass me and the other paused traffic would be a good idea, in spite of a rather conspicuous ambulance gradually filling his field of view. The ambulance won of course, SUV man just managed to get out of the way at the last minute. Knob.
SUV driver behind me decided that pulling out to pass me and the other paused traffic would be a good idea, in spite of a rather conspicuous ambulance gradually filling his field of view. The ambulance won of course, SUV man just managed to get out of the way at the last minute. Knob.
Brigand said:
I see the private/vanity plate thing as less so knobbery, and moreso "more money than sense".
I can't quite get my head around some of the explanations for them given here, it seems some people are terrified of Joe Public knowing that the owner is doing something, and that the only way to prevent Joe Public knowing this is to put a private/vanity plate on the car.
"I don't want people to know I drive an eleven year old car" - if you're terrified of someone knowing that fact, don't drive an eleven year old car!
"I don't want people to know I change my car every few weeks" - don't change so often then!
"I don't want people to know I drive a new car" - don't buy a new car then!
If you have the private/vanity plate because you like it, great, but it makes no sense to me to try and justify it's existence with the above comments which have been found in the past few pages of this discussion. Either accept that people will think whatever they think over your choice of car, or don't do that thing you're scared of - trying to hide these facts with very expensive pieces of plastic is just crazy.
Not even that. IT CAME WITH THE CAR! No money was spent purchasing it. I'd have to spend money to take it off. As stated already (hence the caps).I can't quite get my head around some of the explanations for them given here, it seems some people are terrified of Joe Public knowing that the owner is doing something, and that the only way to prevent Joe Public knowing this is to put a private/vanity plate on the car.
"I don't want people to know I drive an eleven year old car" - if you're terrified of someone knowing that fact, don't drive an eleven year old car!
"I don't want people to know I change my car every few weeks" - don't change so often then!
"I don't want people to know I drive a new car" - don't buy a new car then!
If you have the private/vanity plate because you like it, great, but it makes no sense to me to try and justify it's existence with the above comments which have been found in the past few pages of this discussion. Either accept that people will think whatever they think over your choice of car, or don't do that thing you're scared of - trying to hide these facts with very expensive pieces of plastic is just crazy.
Think you need better things to worry about, like an ISIS terrorist kidnapping you or your family. Who the hell cares why I have a "PRIVATE/PERSONALISED NUMBERPLATE"? Interfering, busybody, judgemental knobs that’s who.
Fully agree with the legal aspect, anyone who alters their car (in whatever modification they make) to make it illegal is a knob!
Waste of time debating the matter since nobody is going to change their minds so just accept it is like Marmite (love/hate) and get on with life
I guess if you hate personal plates then you live in a house just big enough for your needs, drive a car that is adequate, dress in clothes that are unbranded etc etc as someone else might look at those things and think they are an unnecessary accoutrement.
If someone wants to spend money on something, then live and let live..unless they then use that thing illegally.
If someone wants to spend money on something, then live and let live..unless they then use that thing illegally.
cootuk said:
I guess if you hate personal plates then you live in a house just big enough for your needs, drive a car that is adequate, dress in clothes that are unbranded etc etc as someone else might look at those things and think they are an unnecessary accoutrement.
If someone wants to spend money on something, then live and let live..unless they then use that thing illegally.
On the subject of clothes, my preference is for high quality and frequently bespoke. BUT, in the interest of good taste, I prefer to have the label on the inside. I don't feel the need to flaunt these things at everyone I see. I'm sure you can see why I find private plates to be somewhat vulgar displays of wealth. But hey, if your ego needs it, go for it and enjoy If someone wants to spend money on something, then live and let live..unless they then use that thing illegally.
And please, don't take this so seriously! Some people like to be 'flash' whilst others prefer subtlety. Neither is 'right' or 'wrong'. But, if you flaunt wealth, some people will judge you for it. That's just the way life is.
DavidJG said:
And please, don't take this so seriously! Some people like to be 'flash' whilst others prefer subtlety. Neither is 'right' or 'wrong'. But, if you flaunt wealth, some people will judge you for it. That's just the way life is.
I quite agree with this, but like the poster JagXJR I purchased a vehicle with a private plate on it. I didn't particularly like it but I certainly didn't feel like I had to pay to get rid of it and get an age related plate just so some random blokes wouldn't think I was displaying vulgar taste as well as my "wealth".Gassing Station | General Gassing | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff