He touched my car

[addictfreak]

27 pages! FFs get a grip

 

[ianrauk]

27 pages! FFs get a grip

People have been getting a grip.... on cars

 

[growingvegetables]

And the sum total of the 27 pages? If so much as touching their cars really does wind the ****-****s up so much, then I am now sorely tempted.

After years and years and years of dingbats winding me up with their shockingly cavalier, dangerous, ignorant, and arrogant behaviour on the road which has endangered my and my kids lives, I kinda like the idea that something so minor in the grand scheme of things may induce terminal apoplexy in the terminally stupid.

Come on lads and lasses - you know it makes sense!

 

[Boris Bajic]

Quick check with all you car lovers, you wouldn't mind if it was a Prius would you?

I think there may be a tendency in some posters who are not in any way smitten by cars or open to their possible merits, to tar all motorists with the same brush.

I'm having a guess that the above quote was connected in some way to the notion that 'true car lovers' have disdain for the Prius and other hybrids.

Most CC members are drivers too. Most drivers have relatively little interest cars as extensions of the ego or mobile advertisements of net worth.

They get us from A to B, often with our families and luggage on board... dry, comfortable and relaxed.

Most of us can't tell a Prius from an Avensis from most angles. My wife (a keen driver) can't tell a Prius from an Avensis at any angle. She is also a keen cyclist and in good weather drives a hugely pampered but not-very-valuable 1961 roadster.

The broad disdain for hybrid and 'non-macho' cars is often a figment of the fertile imagination of those who choose to see all (or most) motorists as some sort of cult worshipping the camshaft.

We do not worship camshafts.

Far from it.

The camshaft is only a minor prophet. The true and only deity is a Citroen M35 experimental rotary car. All other gods are false.

 

[screenman]

Green! I dispute the fact about Jap laquer, what proof can you supply me with. By the way I have been working with the stuff on various Jap cars all day.

 

[growingvegetables]

I think there may be a tendency in some posters who are not in any way smitten by cars.........

That may be in infelicitous choice of phrase?

Given the (I'll grant you, small) proportion of drivers who have raised the Old Testament art of smiting one's enemies to the level of a serious art form?

 

[theclaud]

They get us from A to B, often with our families and luggage on board... dry, comfortable and relaxed.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

 

[Boris Bajic]

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Really, I enjoy travelling by car. Most people I know enjoy it too.

I'm a keen cyclist, but I find cars relaxing too, in a different way.

My eldest is also a keen cyclist and has just passed her driving test. I dare say my younger (keen cyclist) children will have a pop at driving when they reach the age. It really is a lovely thing to do - and can be quite relaxing.

I love to drive and I love to be driven. The latter is more relaxing than the former, but both are rather lovely.

I imagine most contributors to these pages are drivers and most of them enjoy driving and find it pleasantly relaxing in the right conditions.

I admire your Hahahahahahahaha at the thought of a relaxing drive, but I wonder why you feel the need to Hahahahahahahahaha at it.

What is it about driving that you find unrelaxing?

 

[Pat "5mph"]

I hate driving, but I love being driven on a long trip, reading the map, looking out for the street signs: I'm a great co-pilot, was told once

 

[screenman]

Must admit I was confused by theclaud reply. Maybe he will come back and enlighten us.

Still waiting for Green1 to reply to a question I asked earlier, why do people not back up their post when somebody questions it.

 

[youngoldbloke]

And the sum total of the 27 pages? If so much as touching their cars really does wind the ****-****s up so much, then I am now sorely tempted.

After years and years and years of dingbats winding me up with their shockingly cavalier, dangerous, ignorant, and arrogant behaviour on the road which has endangered my and my kids lives, I kinda like the idea that something so minor in the grand scheme of things may induce terminal apoplexy in the terminally stupid.

Come on lads and lasses - you know it makes sense!

I ride a bike, belong to a cycling club. I drive a car. Am I a ****-**** ? Am I terminally stupid too? Be intelligent. Chill out. Your attitude is not helpful. I live 10 miles from the nearest small town. Minimal public transport. Assist a wheelchair user. Car use is essential for us, and for many. Education for drivers around cycling is essential too.

 

[Boris Bajic]

That may be in infelicitous choice of phrase?

Given the (I'll grant you, small) proportion of drivers who have raised the Old Testament art of smiting one's enemies to the level of a serious art form?

I am utterly smitten by the thought of anyone posting online being comfortable using the word 'infelicitous'. My faith in mankind is partially restored.

You are quite right of course. At one level it is inflict.... enfilla.... unphalla... that thing you said.

But to me the word 'smitten' brings images only of that dreamy feeling of seeing one's sweetheart bathed in a slightly brighter light than those around her as she emerges from the tube station in the midst of a throng of commuters on a cold November evening.

Since the Bible ended (March 1473, I think) smiting has morphed in the Lexicon of Common Usage to slaughter and collateral damage. I am not smitten with either term. I would be interested (not is a good way) to hear Huw Edwards of the BBC telling us that UK Forces in some dusty Hell we are democratising have smitten twelve of the infidel foe, but I do not think that day will come soon.

Sorry for straying OT* but I was utterly smitten by the word 'infelicitous'.

*Off Topic, not Old Testament

 

[theclaud]

Must admit I was confused by theclaud reply. Maybe he will come back and enlighten us.

Still waiting for Green1 to reply to a question I asked earlier, why do people not back up their post when somebody questions it.

Boris is peddling a fantasy. Anyone who thinks driving (that's actual driving that people do every day rather the stuff pictured in car ads) relaxes people should have a glass of prosecco with us atop Ditchling Beacon and study the faces of the drivers as they pass.

Edit: And as for your last point, maybe they simply have other things to do...

 

[dellzeqq]

I am utterly smitten by the thought of anyone posting online being comfortable using the word 'infelicitous'. My faith in mankind is partially restored.

not humankind? What with people referring to a woman poster as 'he'........

 

[400bhp]

Boris is peddling a fantasy. Anyone who thinks driving (that's actual driving that people do every day rather the stuff pictured in car ads) relaxes people should have a glass of prosecco with us atop Ditchling Beacon and study the faces of the drivers as they pass.

Edit: And as for your last point, maybe they simply have other things to do...

Relaxing is probably the wrong word if talked about in absolute terms. Relatively speaking it can be, granted it is becoming increasingly difficult to do that in the UK.

I used to enjoy driving, had my performance cars in the past, still have a race car, but I increasingly dislike driving in the UK. I find it is stressful most of the time, mostly due to the traffic volume.

Yesterday afternoon - main arterial route in Manchester. Ridiculously busy. I was thankfully walking but is that what weekends are about for most people. No thanks.