Front number plate deleters - are you one?
Discussion
yonex said:
DoubleD said:
To be fair, lots of private plates do look s
t and most cars look like chav chariots with the number plate removed.
Run of the mill stuff, I completely agree. But in the eyes of the number plate police all are not worthy. t and most cars look like chav chariots with the number plate removed. Its only the bodged up and misplaced plates that look horrible. Nobody seems to have an issue with legal plates.
It does get rolled out now and again as justification for all manner of visual horrors,
trails said:
DoubleD said:
Fair enough. I still think it makes you sound like a moron.
What an odd fellow you are...May I ask how old you are, perhaps you just haven't been around long enough to be familiar with the term so it's just a lack of experience?plasticpig said:
I would have thought anyone who doesn't have a front plate could potentially be at risk of prosecution for perverting the course of justice. If they get their picture taken by a camera van and they have no front plate then the car cannot be easily identified.
That’d be just awful. DoubleD said:
Well I think that you are odd for saying you deleted a number plate off your car.
That's strange as I've not said that, all I've said is the term has been used in the context of removing options from cars for many years and perhaps you aren't old enough to be familiar with it.trails said:
DoubleD said:
Well I think that you are odd for saying you deleted a number plate off your car.
That's strange as I've not said that, all I've said is the term has been used in the context of removing options from cars for many years and perhaps you aren't old enough to be familiar with it.trails said:
That's strange as I've not said that, all I've said is the term has been used in the context of removing options from cars for many years and perhaps you aren't old enough to be familiar with it.
Front number plates aren't optional, they're a legal requirement.So you can't delete them, you can only remove them.
Kuji said:
That fiction has been debunked a number of times already.
Its only the bodged up and misplaced plates that look horrible. Nobody seems to have an issue with legal plates.
It does get rolled out now and again as justification for all manner of visual horrors,
It’s not fiction to state that it’s nobody else’s business Its only the bodged up and misplaced plates that look horrible. Nobody seems to have an issue with legal plates.
It does get rolled out now and again as justification for all manner of visual horrors,
Those weirdos take pictures of number plates and (mass) debate each other furiously, the tension is electric in their hotbed of discussion 
Personally, I’m looking forward to the day when some meat head takes offence to a random punter taking pictures of his pride and joy.
DoubleD said:
Yes, but if you said to some one "look, I have just deleted my number plate off my car" they would think that you were rather odd.
That sentence is not the way the term is used though, only a fool would use delete instead of remove in that context."Front plate delete" is how I would expect to see the term used, perhaps in a list of modifications.
Last reply from me as we are chasing tails now.
Roo said:
Front number plates aren't optional, they're a legal requirement.
So you can't delete them, you can only remove them.
What you actually mean is you don't like the word used in this context; delete describes the same act as as remove it's just different syntax...the legality of the plate being absent does not require you to use a different word to describe the act, that's just your opinion.So you can't delete them, you can only remove them.
I'm out.
trails said:
DoubleD said:
Yes, but if you said to some one "look, I have just deleted my number plate off my car" they would think that you were rather odd.
That sentence is not the way the term is used though, only a fool would use delete instead of remove in that context."Front plate delete" is how I would expect to see the term used, perhaps in a list of modifications.
Last reply from me as we are chasing tails now.
plasticpig said:
I would have thought anyone who doesn't have a front plate could potentially be at risk of prosecution for perverting the course of justice. If they get their picture taken by a camera van and they have no front plate then the car cannot be easily identified.
Unlikely on the PCOJ charge.Later Scamera vans have cameras to the front rear and sides for this very reason.
Like the incessant rise of the average speed cameras, largely spawned by the Sunday speeding biker brigade morons.
yonex said:
Kuji said:
That fiction has been debunked a number of times already.
Its only the bodged up and misplaced plates that look horrible. Nobody seems to have an issue with legal plates.
It does get rolled out now and again as justification for all manner of visual horrors,
It’s not fiction to state that it’s nobody else’s business Its only the bodged up and misplaced plates that look horrible. Nobody seems to have an issue with legal plates.
It does get rolled out now and again as justification for all manner of visual horrors,
Those weirdos take pictures of number plates and (mass) debate each other furiously, the tension is electric in their hotbed of discussion Personally, I’m looking forward to the day when some meat head takes offence to a random punter taking pictures of his pride and joy.
Its not normal practice to bodge a plate, as seen by the low numbers on the road today.
Its even less normal to run around like a child calling everyone who disagrees with your weird/abnormal names because you cant win an argument.
Personally, I'm looking forward to the pictures of you acting like an infant because someone mentions within earshot that your plate looks naff.
I lost my front plate in a River in Iceland once. Funnily enough you can't get new ones there so I drove all round Iceland, the length of Denmark, Germany, Holland then Harwich to Dorset via half of the M25 with no front plate, no problems at all. I can now see how people get away with it, given it's a £30 fine on the infinitessimal chance you get caught.
Also 'Delete' is something you do on a computer, using it to talk about car parts makes you sound like a numpty.
Also 'Delete' is something you do on a computer, using it to talk about car parts makes you sound like a numpty.
There aren't many things I can think of that are a legal requirement to display in public on things that we own.
Car plates are the obvious one. Aircraft registrations? Canal boat registrations? A premises license (arguably not a public place)? Taxi license?
Do owners of the above routinely bugger about with those registrations, either tinting them, mis spacing, adding random dots, changing font style/size, adding humourous text underneath, adding a football team logo to one side, 'deleting' them entirely?
Also, if delete = remove, what is car speak for 'add'?
Car plates are the obvious one. Aircraft registrations? Canal boat registrations? A premises license (arguably not a public place)? Taxi license?
Do owners of the above routinely bugger about with those registrations, either tinting them, mis spacing, adding random dots, changing font style/size, adding humourous text underneath, adding a football team logo to one side, 'deleting' them entirely?
Also, if delete = remove, what is car speak for 'add'?
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