I pay the road tax

[HLaB]

Not really a commuting incident. When I was on the outside of a chaingang (a really small one we only had 4 people) going a decent speed downhill, a car squeezed through the gap between my leg and a center island. I think I said effing tail as warning to the others. The car pulled in at the next opportunity, typical I thought and gave them the eye. Few seconds later, they reappeared and slowed down on passing giving me the normal abuse, the driver continually shouting over his passenger "I pay the Road Tax", my response the 3rd time, "well I pay more than you" (which is probably a lie I've a three door hatch back and this was a similarly sized hatch back) anyway that seemed to shut him up and to my amazement the passenger gave me a friendly wave and they drove off

 

[fossyant]

Ha....that will be my response too..... I pay over £1 a day for the use my car gets....

 

[upsidedown]

Maybe we need a shirt printing with

"These car owners do NOT pay road tax :

Seat Ibiza Ecomotive
Toyota iQ
Smart Fortwo CDi
Volkswagen Polo BlueMotion
Ford Fiesta ECOnetic

Please feel free to abuse them as you see fit."

 

[wafflycat]

No-one pays road tax.

 

[Dan B]

No-one pays road tax.

There was that chap who wrecked the Etape Caledonia. He presumably paid for road tacks

 

[upsidedown]

Road tax has one syllable in each word, so can be remembered by the pondlife.
Vehicle Excise Duty is infinitely more complex.

 

[purplepolly]

Vehicle Excise Duty is infinitely more complex.

Anyone can manage a TLA

 

[HJ]

Not really a commuting incident. When I was on the outside of a chaingang (a really small one we only had 4 people) going a decent speed downhill, a car squeezed through the gap between my leg and a center island. I think I said effing tail as warning to the others. The car pulled in at the next opportunity, typical I thought and gave them the eye. Few seconds later, they reappeared and slowed down on passing giving me the normal abuse, the driver continually shouting over his passenger "I pay the Road Tax", my response the 3rd time, "well I pay more than you" (which is probably a lie I've a three door hatch back and this was a similarly sized hatch back) anyway that seemed to shut him up and to my amazement the passenger gave me a friendly wave and they drove off

Train your chaingang to take a primary line on the approach to pinch points...

 

[Lizban]

Road tax has one syllable in each word, so can be remembered by the pondlife.
Vehicle Excise Duty is infinitely more complex.

Oh come on do you really go to the post office and ask for a vehicle Excise Duty Disk please (if you have a car)

Road tax and tax disk are handy terms for VED.

 

[Lizban]

Yeah... let's dumb down to cater for the barely literate.

Whilst we are at it let's remove every other handy little linguistic phrase,

Tax man no no - Collection Officer for her Majesty’s revenue and customs that's better!

Of course Road Tax and Tax disk and not wholly correct but we all know what they mean - don't see it as an issue.

(PS see previous huge thread on this not going to rehash it)

 

[snorri]

Oh come on do you really go to the post office and ask for a vehicle Excise Duty Disk please (if you have a car)

Certainly not, I buy it online.

 

[wafflycat]

The problem is no, we don't all know what they mean. There's a substantial number of muppets out there who take the term 'road tax' literally and use it as a stick with which to abuse cyclists. Such muppets need to have their ignorance corrected.

 

[Lizban]

The problem is no, we don't all know what they mean. There's a substantial number of muppets out there who take the term 'road tax' literally and use it as a stick with which to abuse cyclists. Such muppets need to have their ignorance corrected.

But using the 'you got the name wrong' doesn't educate them!

(Must.........Stop.........biting.........)

 

[wafflycat]

I don't tell them they got the name wrong, sweetie, I tell them the facts - there is no such tax as 'road tax' which is different to saying 'you got the name wrong'. Do keep up.

 

[Lizban]

Well you get longer to speak to them than I do!

As I said there is an earlier thread about this and whether drivers do actually pay a tax to use the road (AKA a road tax in the form of VED and fuel duty) - prob best to carry this on that thread rather than rehash.

PS haven't been called sweetie (even when it dripped in irony) for years - brightened my day