What C124PPY personalised plates have you seen recently?

[p1stonhead]

Brinyan said:

NO1 on an Bentley Bentayga, or whatever it's called. Made me cringe, don't ask why, it just did.

Seen that too in Weybridge. White one IIRC?

[Jaguar steve]

Liberated from the Real Good thread.



Apparently the owner is labouring under the delusion that plate does actually spell Mini Mee and posted it himself believing it deserves to be there...

Clearly even the basics of the English language have evaded him, but although it might take a while I'm sure most 8 year children in English Remedial classes throughout the country would be able to improve the Platees education to such a standard whereby he'd comprehend that you absolutely can't use numbers to spell words.

[raceboy]

Jaguar steve said:

Clearly even the basics of the English language have evaded him, but although it might take a while I'm sure most 8 year children in English Remedial classes throughout the country would be able to improve the Platees education to such a standard whereby he'd comprehend that you absolutely can't use numbers to spell words.

I'd beg to differ....most 8 year olds are capable of typing 5-3-1-8-0-0-8 in to a calculator, turning in round and proving numbers can indeed spell a word.
While the plate below is clearly not 'great' displayed how it is it isn't crappy either, it's just 'meh', and doesn't really spell anything....
I just assumed they were a fan of the New Musical Express.

[pinkstigsupercar]

[Jaguar steve]

raceboy said:

Jaguar steve said:

Clearly even the basics of the English language have evaded him, but although it might take a while I'm sure most 8 year children in English Remedial classes throughout the country would be able to improve the Platees education to such a standard whereby he'd comprehend that you absolutely can't use numbers to spell words.

I'd beg to differ....most 8 year olds are capable of typing 5-3-1-8-0-0-8 in to a calculator, turning in round and proving numbers can indeed spell a word.
While the plate below is clearly not 'great' displayed how it is it isn't crappy either, it's just 'meh', and doesn't really spell anything....
I just assumed they were a fan of the New Musical Express.

I agree yes, on the face of it it's very 'meh' indeed and hardly worth comment. What caught my attention was both the attention seeking narcissism of the Platee revealed by the act posting his own very nondescript plate in the Real Good thread and the accompanying assertion that it spells Mini Me when it very clearly doesn't.

Oh, and yes, of course you can use numbers on a upside down calculator display to give an approximation of the word boobies. But nobody in a million years would seriously suggest that's grammatically correct would they? in fact, rather like substituting letters for numbers or vice versa on numberplates that's rather juvenile, perhaps worth a giggle at break time if you've not yet reached a mental age featuring more than a single digit but really best left in the playground IMO.

[Brinyan]

p1stonhead said:

Brinyan said:

NO1 on an Bentley Bentayga, or whatever it's called. Made me cringe, don't ask why, it just did.

Seen that too in Weybridge. White one IIRC?

Yes, white. Nothing wrong with a bit of confidence, but such a set up has an air of arrogance, possibly......

[anonymous-user]

pinkstigsupercar said:

Bloody hell that's bad.

You're not telling me that could drive past a traffic police car and not get pulled, surely not!

[Gunk]

Kierkegaard said:

Bloody hell that's bad.

You're not telling me that could drive past a traffic police car and not get pulled, surely not!

When's the last you saw a traffic police car? There's none around that's why these bell ends get away with it.

I've wondered why they don't have people scanning the number plate recognition cameras on the motorway and then just send out a fixed penalty to the owner, that might stop it

[Jaguar steve]

Gunk said:

Kierkegaard said:

Bloody hell that's bad.

You're not telling me that could drive past a traffic police car and not get pulled, surely not!

When's the last you saw a traffic police car? There's none around that's why these bell ends get away with it.

I've wondered why they don't have people scanning the number plate recognition cameras on the motorway and then just send out a fixed penalty to the owner, that might stop it

Easy enough to work that one out. The DVLA have raised some £2Bn directly from the sale and transfer of numberplates since the early 1990s, so unfortunately that'll never happen as any significant crackdown on illegal number plates would adversely affect a major proportion of this very lucrative income stream. I doubt that apart from the occasional token gesture from either the BiB or a aware MOT tester - and that's all it ever can be judging from the relentless parade of the wretched things here in the Essex Badlands - nobody in authority would even contemplate it.

Take the positive from it though. Illegal plates mean It's remarkably easy to spot a Chav and very easy to identify the vehicle marques they favour.

[Shaoxter]

Gunk said:

When's the last you saw a traffic police car? There's none around that's why these bell ends get away with it.

I've wondered why they don't have people scanning the number plate recognition cameras on the motorway and then just send out a fixed penalty to the owner, that might stop it

Flame suit on, but is it really such a heinous crime to move the letters around a bit, as long as they're still recognisable by ANPR cameras? The Golf has taken it too far obviously, but a lot of the plates posted on here aren't really doing anyone any harm... if anything it makes it easier to remember the plate in case of a hit and run etc.

[Jaguar steve]

Shaoxter said:

Gunk said:

When's the last you saw a traffic police car? There's none around that's why these bell ends get away with it.

I've wondered why they don't have people scanning the number plate recognition cameras on the motorway and then just send out a fixed penalty to the owner, that might stop it

Flame suit on, but is it really such a heinous crime to move the letters around a bit, as long as they're still recognisable by ANPR cameras? The Golf has taken it too far obviously, but a lot of the plates posted on here aren't really doing anyone any harm... if anything it makes it easier to remember the plate in case of a hit and run etc.

Agreed the physical act itself is hardly the crime of the century.

But what grates long and hard and no doubt accounts for a lot of the popularity of this thread is the self centered attitude behind that act. It's an attitude clearly demonstrating either the Platee feels compelled by nothing more than his own attention seeking narcissism to deliberately ignore the legal standard and choose something that suits his or her own personal needs instead or in another scenario would quite possibly prefer to not be easily identified by a potential witness more accustomed to the correct format.

Illegal plates represent a fk the law mindset that's unfortunately all too common and there's no reason, absolutely none whatsoever, to assume that mindset stops at deliberately confounding or confusing the clarity and easy familiarity with the accepted format of registration pates either.

[Hol]

Jaguar steve said:

Liberated from the Real Good thread.



Apparently the owner is labouring under the delusion that plate does actually spell Mini Mee and posted it himself believing it deserves to be there...

Clearly even the basics of the English language have evaded him, but although it might take a while I'm sure most 8 year children in English Remedial classes throughout the country would be able to improve the Platees education to such a standard whereby he'd comprehend that you absolutely can't use numbers to spell words.

Apart from making my neck ache, I cannot actually see anything wrong with it.

He may be presumptuous in suggesting the reference to a Mini, but he hasn't (yet!) crossed the line by messing with the spacing, securing bolts and the standard font to (deliberately) make it miss read.

I am happy to be proved wrong, if the two 11's are two close etc, but personally, I think the test for any suspect plate is whether it fails an ANPR reader.

[Jaguar steve]

Hol said:

Jaguar steve said:

Liberated from the Real Good thread.



Apparently the owner is labouring under the delusion that plate does actually spell Mini Mee and posted it himself believing it deserves to be there...

Clearly even the basics of the English language have evaded him, but although it might take a while I'm sure most 8 year children in English Remedial classes throughout the country would be able to improve the Platees education to such a standard whereby he'd comprehend that you absolutely can't use numbers to spell words.

Apart from making my neck ache, I cannot actually see anything wrong with it.

He may be presumptuous in suggesting the reference to a Mini, but he hasn't (yet!) crossed the line by messing with the spacing, securing bolts and the standard font to (deliberately) make it miss read.

I am happy to be proved wrong, if the two 11's are two close etc, but personally, I think the test for any suspect plate is whether it fails an ANPR reader.

At least it appears legal - when the photo was taken anyway. Although I'd suspect if the Platee is pretentious and or deluded enough to assert that plate spells Mini Me when it's absolutely nothing even close to that I'm ready to bet it's not always been so.

A APNR readability test isn't robust enough. You'll only know for sure if it's readable after the event causing the vehicle to become of interest and if it fails then the Platee has escaped recognition whereas a plate fully conforming to the requirements is exactly what the both the APNR system is designed for and what everybody is familiar with.

Bottom line is there's only two reasons for fking about with numberplates. One is the Platee is a massive narcissistic egotist desperate to attract attention to themselves and perfectly willing to circumvent the law to order to do so, and the other is the Platee is involved in some activity causing him or her to be anxious to avoid recognition.

Just a few moments though about either scenario reveals an awful lot about misrepresented numberplates and the mindsets of those who display them.

[RC1807]

Escort3500 said:

I dunno - it was "SOKIN" wet when you took the pic?

[Armitage.Shanks]

Jaguar steve said:

Illegal plates represent a fk the law mindset that's unfortunately all too common and there's no reason, absolutely none whatsoever, to assume that mindset stops at deliberately confounding or confusing the clarity and easy familiarity with the accepted format of registration pates either.

You'd think the DVLA would stop aiding and abetting by offering them up to get big money at the auctions then. They don't, they know there will be some 'interpretation' so as they set the standard being a govt department they must have a similar mindset or choose to be blind to the obvious.

Standard font/size I can live with if the spacing is not too oblique. When you start adding black screw covers to show some artistic impression what it could say to Mr Magoo at 30 paces that's a hole different ball of wax

Edited by Armitage.Shanks on Wednesday 14th June 18:45

[pinkstigsupercar]

[AlexRS2782]

K1M X B on a Kia Sportage.

RUP X on a Range Rover.

Up close, the plate was R1 JPX with the 1 & J joined together to create a makeshift "U".

Edited by AlexRS2782 on Thursday 15th June 00:26

[Croutons]

I so wish I'd had a camera to hand when I saw C14 SHV on an ML.

It has "The" in italic font written before
"CLASH V" with nowt but a screw in the A to pretend it's OK... That really deserves to change..

[AlexRS2782]

PR0 4 SEC on a black Range Rover on the M3.

[Cliftonite]

SM10 TTS