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, have a child 
, get married 
, smoke 
, drink alcohol 
, fight for your country 
but can't look at a fast car 
!!! What planet are these morons living on?(Planet Blair!) Please tell me that's a joke...
Then again, always said that Lax Power was a lifestyle magazine for w@nkers - now it'll be up on the shelf with all the other magazines for w@nkers when they realise what they can put in it.
Does this mean people are going to be banned from watching motor racing and rallying too? And I assume motor shows will be over 21-only too - don't want the littleuns looking at the nice cars - they might want to drive them, better pump them full of insulting 'speed kills' messages instead.
Blatant social engineering, killing off motorsport fans before they get a chance to engage their enthusiasms? I pretty much got into cars through magazines - otherwise I'd have listened to my Mum and turned into yet another numpty.
I sincerely hope this is a comedy reaction to the kaffuffle over that dismissed question to the PM the other day.
Then again, always said that Lax Power was a lifestyle magazine for w@nkers - now it'll be up on the shelf with all the other magazines for w@nkers when they realise what they can put in it.
Does this mean people are going to be banned from watching motor racing and rallying too? And I assume motor shows will be over 21-only too - don't want the littleuns looking at the nice cars - they might want to drive them, better pump them full of insulting 'speed kills' messages instead.
Blatant social engineering, killing off motorsport fans before they get a chance to engage their enthusiasms? I pretty much got into cars through magazines - otherwise I'd have listened to my Mum and turned into yet another numpty.
I sincerely hope this is a comedy reaction to the kaffuffle over that dismissed question to the PM the other day.
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Hi, i wondered if you could answer this one for me.
Is it true that Esure amongst others are preparing to ask the government to ban the sale of "fast car" magazines to people under 21, supposedly for "safety" reasons?
If this is true then dont you think that is a rather petty and pointless attempt at stopping people from having a free choice?
Why not stop them from seeing porn mags also in case it warps their fragile little minds?
The only ones with warped minds are the likes of the morons proposing these kinds of idiotic ideas.
Youre not morons....are you?
Road safety cant be improved by stifling peoples passions, in fact all youll do is put yourself out of business...i know id never use your services if this was to be proved correct.
Id also make sure that no one i know would use your services. Can you really afford to lose the business? Are your profits that high?
In fact i think i could easily start a campaign against you to do some damage with......what do you think of that?
Do yourself a favour and leave well alone.
We already have far too much of this "nannying" going on from within government and other organisations that want to make us all conform to their ideas of how things should be and all it does is get our backs up.
So, can you confirm or deny it?
Thanks.
Hi, i wondered if you could answer this one for me.
Is it true that Esure amongst others are preparing to ask the government to ban the sale of "fast car" magazines to people under 21, supposedly for "safety" reasons?
If this is true then dont you think that is a rather petty and pointless attempt at stopping people from having a free choice?
Why not stop them from seeing porn mags also in case it warps their fragile little minds?
The only ones with warped minds are the likes of the morons proposing these kinds of idiotic ideas.
Youre not morons....are you?
Road safety cant be improved by stifling peoples passions, in fact all youll do is put yourself out of business...i know id never use your services if this was to be proved correct.
Id also make sure that no one i know would use your services. Can you really afford to lose the business? Are your profits that high?
In fact i think i could easily start a campaign against you to do some damage with......what do you think of that?
Do yourself a favour and leave well alone.
We already have far too much of this "nannying" going on from within government and other organisations that want to make us all conform to their ideas of how things should be and all it does is get our backs up.
So, can you confirm or deny it?
Thanks.
I can see it now, bunches of under 21yo's hanging around suspiciously at the newsagents, asking older passers by, say would go and by a copy of Evo for me?
For gods sake you can drink @ 18yo, surely banning that would be a better step for society. I mean car magazine offer you achance to dream when your 18, and can't have anything else, what will they think of next? thought control.
Thank god I'm now 22
For gods sake you can drink @ 18yo, surely banning that would be a better step for society. I mean car magazine offer you achance to dream when your 18, and can't have anything else, what will they think of next? thought control.
Thank god I'm now 22
scary but knwoing this f**king government probably about to become law 
I'm surprised this has come from the insurance companies. However, it wouldn't surprise me if there was a lentilist source at the heart of all this.
Why? Think about it. When did you buy most car mags and drool over them? I'm slackening off now, but I've been subscribed to Classic Cars since I was 16 (now 21), and I used to buy, alongside it, at least two others a month. On some months I'd get Classic Cars, Top Gear, Classic & Sports Car, Classics, Kit Car and Practical Classics.
Why? Well, think about it - between the ages of 17 and 21 are when petrolheads are 'confirmed' in their status. Yes, you won't be able to afford more than a sh1tbox up to 21, but you spend those years eyeing up prices of nicer cars, surprising yourself with the value of classics and sportsters and generally priming yourself for a life behind the leather-bound, rather than plastic-moulded, steering wheel.
If the nazis who are trying to make an issue of this succeed in any way, their intentions will be clear - they want to stamp out a successive generation of petrolheads and convince them first that driving and cars are dull and exotica is unattainable so they shouldn't bother.
If there's one thing that kept me from getting uber-teen-depressive in those years sometimes, it was my car magazines, as they were a quietly aspirational way of convincing myself that there really was more to live for, especially when other 'adult' aspects of my life were failing spectacularly. Something to hang on to, and it worked.
These people want to get rid of 'car culture' and it's plain wrong. What if I said that, due to exploitation of workers in African mines no-one was allowed to buy jewellery unless they were stinking rich? Don't see any difference, personally.
I just wish we could bring about the end of the car-ignorance before it consumes us.
Why? Think about it. When did you buy most car mags and drool over them? I'm slackening off now, but I've been subscribed to Classic Cars since I was 16 (now 21), and I used to buy, alongside it, at least two others a month. On some months I'd get Classic Cars, Top Gear, Classic & Sports Car, Classics, Kit Car and Practical Classics.
Why? Well, think about it - between the ages of 17 and 21 are when petrolheads are 'confirmed' in their status. Yes, you won't be able to afford more than a sh1tbox up to 21, but you spend those years eyeing up prices of nicer cars, surprising yourself with the value of classics and sportsters and generally priming yourself for a life behind the leather-bound, rather than plastic-moulded, steering wheel.
If the nazis who are trying to make an issue of this succeed in any way, their intentions will be clear - they want to stamp out a successive generation of petrolheads and convince them first that driving and cars are dull and exotica is unattainable so they shouldn't bother.
If there's one thing that kept me from getting uber-teen-depressive in those years sometimes, it was my car magazines, as they were a quietly aspirational way of convincing myself that there really was more to live for, especially when other 'adult' aspects of my life were failing spectacularly. Something to hang on to, and it worked.
These people want to get rid of 'car culture' and it's plain wrong. What if I said that, due to exploitation of workers in African mines no-one was allowed to buy jewellery unless they were stinking rich? Don't see any difference, personally.
I just wish we could bring about the end of the car-ignorance before it consumes us.
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