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Appropriate number plate
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Posted 1 year ago #
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hexhamstu - Member
Does no one else think a personalised number plate is just a complete waste of money in every way shape and form?
They call them vanity plates in the states, which I think is a more accurate term.
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There's an ice cream van with BUY 99S on it.
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Does no one else think a personalised number plate is just a complete waste of money in every way shape and form?
Probably not much worse than the forum name you choose and how that determines the image you want to give to others.Posted 1 year ago # -
ernie_lynch - Member
Does no one else think a personalised number plate is just a complete waste of money in every way shape and form?
Not at all. It provides an instant recognition of desperately pretentious and insecure middle-class car owners. And the more tenuous and meaningless the "cherished" plate, and the keener the attempts to make a number appear to look like a letter, the more desperate the owner. It also provides me with an opportunity, if I so wish, to accelerate that little bit quicker when the lights change to green, and thereby make them feel that little bit more insecure about themselves.
No, on the contrary, I feel very smug and gain satisfaction knowing my reg irritates you immensely an annoys you so much that you feel the urge to race me. Money well spent!
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knowing my reg irritates you immensely an annoys you so much
Why would it "irritate" me ?
Quite the opposite in fact ...... desperately pretentious and insecure middle-class wallies amuse me greatly !
And haven't you noticed all those drivers chuckling to themselves when they see your hopelessly sad "vanity" reg plates
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i used to wash a car of a drug dealer with and his number plate was P1AYA
didn't know he was a drug dealer. but did pay me £20 a time to wash his car washed it 3 times a week. i was only 13.
that's how i payed for my bike!
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knowing my reg irritates you immensely an annoys you so much
Why would it "irritate" me ?
Quite the opposite in fact ...... desperately pretentious and insecure middle-class wallies amuse me greatly !
And haven't you noticed all those drivers chuckling to themselves when they see your hopelessly sad "vanity" reg plates
Well do you feel the need to race everyone else on the road with standard issue plates? No, so therefore my personalised plate rubs you up the wrong way, so much so that you have to try and prove you're a higher class of driver by racing at the lights.
Do you drive a nova? People like you make me smile too
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Well do you feel the need to race everyone else on the road with standard issue plates?
You don't read my posts very well, despite C&P them, I said, "if I so wish". Often it's the completely reverse, if I think they're up for it, I will let them accelerate on the green light, and then very slowly move off, before pulling up along side them even slower, at the next set of red lights. I also like to be overtaken so that a few minutes later I can filter through on an underused inside lane, and end up several cars in front of them, despite have travelled at half their speed. Generally I take great delight in letting **** act like ****, an experience which is only enhanced by them having "cherished" number plates
Edit : I didn't know that the W word was swear filter sensitive
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V14GRA is on an old Rav4 in sheffield. Not sure why you want to advertise your drug of choice though.
The Audi R8 down the road has V10 WTF, I'm assuming it is the V10 version....
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I used to work for Brita (the water filter people). One of the directors had H20 JUG
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I saw an Aston Martin with DB09 AMG. I quite liked that, it was enough to say "personalised plate" wihtout saying "pretentious ****"
Got overtaken once on the M40 by a Porsche with the plate TOO 5l0W.
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If I so wish still intimates your need to from time to time - obviously you're a far superior driver than me - should I have the misfortune to come upon you on the highway I'll pull over and punish myself for interrupting your journey. I meanwhile will still be happy with my cherished plate (and the fact it's now worth 8 times what I purchased it for )
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where i live theres a 1970,s mini with the reg naf 80x
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There's one near me, large flash white Merc. B 8 GAY
I've never seen the guy. Or his partner.
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T4ATE on my motor.
Saw VODKA on a black 5-series last friday, it was Lithuanian.
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i used to wash a car of a drug dealer with and his number plate was P1AYA
When I lived in Norf London aaaaages ago there was a car with tinted windows etc that drove round playing reggae and hip-hop loudly and stopping frequently along the back roads, presumably to conduct business, like the equivalent of an ice-cream van for stoners.
Reg plate: G4 NJA.
God knows how they avoided getting busted but they were at it for the whole two years I lived in the area, at the very least.
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CRA 1G on the Aston belongs to the owner of a BMW independent garage (CRAMAG) in Leeds. Bought the wife's car there and the Aston was outside. V nice.
Most don't work that well but I can see why people have them on expensive cars like 911s etc as it disguises the age of the vehicle to people who aren't car bores.
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Once saw two landrovers side by side at a scottish off road event...MUD 1E and LAN 1E. Liked that.
And at a Doune Classic event, way back, a guy called Campbell McLaren had his cars there. The registrations were XK 120, XK150, V 12 (on an MK3 E- Type) and then the cream of the crop...JAG 1 on his XKSS (D Type).
Pal has C8 SSY on his Sierra Cosworth that lives most of the year in a bubble !
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Saw a woman driving an Audi Q5 with the plate AR51 COW , i wonder if her husband bought her it??
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Saw "P1XEL" about 5 or 6 years ago, I think it was in Brum.
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051 by mtbdivagirl, on FlickrPosted 1 year ago # -
Sorry to dig this up but this afternoon saw 'ON A 911' which was on, wait for it, a 911.
Posted 11 months ago # -
I saw VODKA on the M1 last week,
Mind you in was on a foreign car mind you but it did make me laugh.
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I saw A2 WAT on a car years ago.
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Saw 2 GYS the other day
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There's a Mini Cooper convertible in Chelt with the plate A1RSE.
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I thought I'd revive this thread, as I took this snap recently and needed a home for it.....
Untitled by PeterPoddy, on Flickr Posted 9 months ago # -
BA57ARD on a beemer IIRC, Trafford Ctr a month or so ago.
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my mrs spotted the PU51 BAR one last time we visited the burgh she seemed genuinely grossed out by it.
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BO55 CRC
guess who's?Posted 9 months ago # -
Someone I work with has just bought a car which came with BT 11 OVE
I asked her if she was connected to BT but she wasn't. now she is paranoid everyone reads her plate as BT I Iove
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I once saw in chapeltown Leeds one on a range rover that said MR 5INGH being driven by an old white lady.
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