Having one of these on the rear parcelshelf of your car...?
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Nothing screams homosexual like one of those ^
and there was me thinking that the OP was would be the low point of the thread...
I need one of them for the back of my rover
I need one of them for the back of my rover
I thought they came as standard with the Rover 200/800?
not as bad as a hi viz jacket rolled up as though they are a copper lol
Or still having your Glastonbury car park sticker in your windscreen 😡
I'm with Sancho. The Hi-Vis wannabes are the worst! 🙂
Nothing screams homosexual like one of those ^
Nothing?
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Mind you, you can't see what head-gear he's sporting...
thought they came as standard with the Rover 200/800?
I have the 75!
this is one of those "everyone else is less awesome than me" threads
Nope.
"Tango James" from down the road is tall, handsome, orange-tanned and aggressive.
He used to keep his degree certificate and his karate weaponry (those hinged sticks) on his dashboard.
A beanie shirley?
In winter I often have a pair of work gloves drying on the back shelf, I suppose it says C2 or worse.
A copy of the sun on the dash..
Starting threads like this?
Does anything say 'I am a ****' quite like...
....... a chippy Scouser?
A Tudor watch?
Does anything say 'I am a ****' quite like...Having one of these on the rear parcelshelf of your car...?
To fair loddrik it's not a question that you need to ask.
You appear to be perfectly able to make yourself look a **** without the need for extra props.
The only hard and fast 'arsehole rule' I know of it when someone tells you "I'm like marmite me, some people love me, some people hate me" they're mistaken, in truth everyone thinks they're an arsehole and half the population is willing to go out of their way to tell them so.
*Applause for MoreCashThanDash!*
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Personal number plates say xxxx to me or rally car stickers on an old Subaru
And there was me labouring under the assumption that I was universally liked and respected on STW.
Typical Scouser, then 😉
Yes. In no order:
- Personalised number plates. Give your vanity money to Cancer Research instead.
- Monogrammed shirts.
- People who wear their collars up on ill fitting polo shirts. Only Eric the Red will ever look cool doing this.
- Pale freckly people from the UK with polynesian or australasian inspired tribal tattoos.
Still trying to work out what the **** means. Is it milliner?
I saw a gold and black Bentley with personalised plates the other day. It had a gold and plastic ornamental tissue box on the parcel shelf.
Bolt on norks for the ladies and a flash car for the gent, both say the same thing.
All that hat on the parcel shelf means "Geoffrey Boycott's car" to me...
Not sure I get overly worked up by how people chose to keep the sun off their heads. Did something happen to you to make you feel the need to judge others for trivial items of sun protection?
There is a particular sort of 'chap' who likes to wear one of these with a linen jacket en route to a mediterranean holiday, especially to a desperately middle class destination like a Neilson club or flotilla. Great for people watching - always seem to look a little ill at ease and the first to complain (demanding a seat change on the flight or a room change in the hotel, rude to bar staff etc) - just seem to have an unwarranted sense of entitlement. Wife invariable turns out to have a drink problem and kids are a bit petulant.
My stw is in a judgemental mood today 🙂 any other stereotypes we need to get out. Did you hear the one about the scouse cabbie?
nothing screams " I am trying to protect my balding head from skin cancer" like one of those on the back parcel shelf ....
My farther died of skin cancer, on this bald head, despite actually being quite careful.
So you might like to think about it ....
It's certainly a lot less ****y than a baseball cap .... or a bandana, or a bula hat ...
clearly missing some driving gloves and a pair of ray bans. I would be surprised if a Nürburgring sticker wasn't lurking somewhere Come to think of it any stickers or bolt on external accessories probably fall under that category.
Pretty much anything that comes out of his keyboard.hopeychondriact - Member
I have one of those, albeit more strawlike and threadbare. It was my Grandfathers. When he died 5 years ago my mother and aunt cleared his house out. They took his clothing to the local charity shop. I asked them for his hat, not knowing it had gone. My aunt returned to the charity shop, finding it still there, and bought it back! Grandad was an avid gardener and, like myself, was happiest outdoor - he nearly always wore a hat of one type or another. This one was his sun hat and he wore it with a blazer.
I have a bald head and burn something terrible. I use his hat because:
1. It helps guard against burn or possible skin cancer
2. It reminds me of my grandfather.
I can't imagine that it looks 'good' on me, it's a little small and I honestly don't know the hat fashion rules anyway.
In the summer I keep it on the back seat of the car, just in case we get a dose of sun and I'm caught out. I guess that makes me a * according to fashionistas? I imagine if such people treat me like a * because I own it then maybe some kind of alpha-male game is being played out? I'm an unwilling contender inasmuch as I'll defend myself but not attack first.
A sign saying private hire on a car.
Fire in the hole.
Was expecting a thread about fatbikes. Disappointed.
- Pale freckly people from the UK with polynesian or australasian inspired tribal tattoos
Trumping this for me this year was a couple at our hotel in Crete. No idea what nationality they were, but the male, middle-aged, portly, balding with collar length white hair was spotted by my kids to have full sleeve tattoos at dinner one evening. A bit of a surreptitious closer looking showed that they were actually pull on sleeves.
Sorry, but is the OP venting about the idea/myth/truth/rumour that this in fact a coded message that says I'm a freemason/ex-cop/Orangeman/lizard to any member of law enforcement who might otherwise pull them for speeding?
Personalised numberplates say: "I'm vain and conceited and also stupid enough to waste money on my conceit".
The other one is the initials monogramme on the driver's door. More of a 70s thing really.
There is a particular sort of 'chap' who likes to wear one of these with a linen jacket en route to a mediterranean holiday, especially to a desperately middle class destination like a Neilson club or flotilla...
😆
I think I know just who you mean...I'm sure he's already posted in this thread.
Actually, I think I should get one of those. It looks perfect for stopping me getting sunburnt on my balding head.
Any recommendations?
I have one of these:
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How'm I doing in the asterix stakes? 😯
You think that's worse than a baseball cap with the initials of a city the wearer has never visited and a team that no player can be named or league position stated??
I find the aforementioned headgear is usually the mark of a 'right weapon' and a fairly decent indication of a lack of intelligence.
showed that they were actually pull on sleeves.
Every day is a school day on here. Pull on fake tattoo sleeves? 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 (repeat to fade)
I like a good cushion in a car.
Nothing says "home from home" better than a lovely crocheted mini scatter cushion (or two)
Does anything say 'I am a *' quite like...
....declaring that someone, who they don't know anything about, is a ** based on their choice of headgear.
I wear this when it's cold. Real rabbit fur. How many ***'s do I get.
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All that hat on the parcel shelf means "Geoffrey Boycott's car" to me...
Or the man from Del Monte.
*googles 'tattoo sleeves'*
Or the man from Del Monte
My father in law used to be The Man from DelMonte (the real one, running their UK fruit business...)
And did he generally like to say yes?
errrr, yes.
Just emailed you about that, matt.
And they say advertising-land is unrepresentative of real life. How wrong they are!
On the back parcel shelf of my car is a claw hammer, balclava and jar of Rohypnol.
In the boot is a plasitc groundsheet.........
On the back parcel shelf of my car is a claw hammer, balclava and jar of Rohypnol.
In the boot is a plasitc groundsheet....
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Ha ha, just realised he's wearing a similar ish hat! 😆
Loddrik - you kind of derailed your own thread. Nothing says cool more than Sam Elliott. And what's on his head there (at that angle) looks a bit too much like a fedora for my liking. All my preconceptions have been shattered.
I have no issue with hats. I like a good hat.
I have no issues even with hats residing on vehicle parcel shelves. Seems as good a place as any.
However; wearing a hat or other headgear whilst driving in a closed-roofed vehicle is a cast iron sign that the driver is a weapons-grade clown and liable to do something exceptionally stupid / dangerous in the next five minutes.
Anyway, REAL men don't have parcel shelves .... They have tonneau covers.
Ot let's take that a stage further and declare that real men just ride bikes.
Anyway, REAL men don't have parcel shelves .... They have tonneau covers.
Does this mean as an owner of a people carrier sans boot cover, I am even more 'the man'?
@malvernrider - well said.
I hate all people who generalise.
To take the OP up on his challenge, I give you...
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Nothing says "I'm a ****" quite like fly-tipping. What do i win?
Incidentally I recall some time ago when I used to own a quad bike, and I was driving my car towing the quad bike on a trailer back from a trip out to the wilds... I looked over onto the passenger seat where my motorbike crash helmet was and decided to wear it in the car for the remainder of the trip home. I turned a few heads, they may have thought I was 'The Stig', but it occurred to me that the safety conscious amongst us may well embrace this new habit. Have no idea if it is illegal. Smoking was certainly more difficult. The End.
84% of deaths of car occupants are caused by blunt force head trauma - well worth wearing a helmet.
Does anything say 'I am a ****' quite like..
[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-33861268 ]Doing a power wheelie past the cops[/url]
To take the OP up on his challenge, I give you...
Banksy's version of Manet's picnic painting?
Saved by the absence of a parcel shelf!!! Score!!!
Does anything say 'I am a ****' quite like..
Doing a power wheelie past the cops
Driving on as if nothing had happened would be a fair old contender though.
Does anything say 'I am a ****' quite like...
Posting a thread with this title? (INR4TS).
mind you I have my own hang ups, why do people name houses, put their name on their bikes top tube, or refer to nikrs, cars etc as "she"?
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loddrik - MemberDoes anything say 'I am a ****' quite like...
Having one of these on the rear parcelshelf of your car...?
Yes, you secretly yearn for a ladyboy although you are no homo ... 😯
globalti - Member
Personalised numberplates say: "I'm vain and conceited and also stupid enough to waste money on my conceit".
You think. Someone fancies a laugh for a bit. Canny enough to find a plate with value to more people than just him. Buys it. Say £60K?
Doesn't depreciate, he doesn't have to service it, tax it or insure it (someone can steal the plastic, but not the right to display it). And when he sells it, there's no capital gains tax payable on any profit made.
Not anywhere near as daft, wasteful and conceited as spending £60K on a car, is it? 🙂
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Is that for me?
To me nothing says it more than one of those massive stickers in the back window displaying the owners football club.
Usually in the wrong city or in the wrong area of the city.
Yes I would like a brick through the back window of my car please.
No it's my own personal plate. Get your own.
mrmoofo - in the light of your post. If anyone has experience of Picato (ingenol mebutate) then any hat will do, staw, baseball, flatcap (my favorite) or bobble hat. Looking or being a xxxx is a lot less painful.