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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 01 2007 at 12:27
The days of an old Guinness beer mat sellotaped to the windscreen are long gone...

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Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

The days of an old Guinness beer mat sellotaped to the windscreen are long gone...
 
 
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Hang on... is it a car over 25 or 35 years that is exempt from car tax?
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^^^ 25 years... but I think they've done away with that little scam, now.... being as most of the cars that were over 25 years of age were a) environmentally unfriendly, and b) owned by posh people who could afford the tax in the first place...Ermm
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Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

The days of an old Guinness beer mat sellotaped to the windscreen are long gone...
 
Guiness?? I think my Dad's used to be Worthington E....LOL
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 01 2007 at 14:15
Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

^^^ 25 years... but I think they've done away with that little scam, now.... being as most of the cars that were over 25 years of age were a) environmentally unfriendly, and b) owned by posh people who could afford the tax in the first place...Ermm


I've never seen a posh person driving a Ford Cortina or a Capri! WinkLOL
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Points: 20943 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 01 2007 at 15:49
Originally posted by Geck0 Geck0 wrote:

Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

^^^ 25 years... but I think they've done away with that little scam, now.... being as most of the cars that were over 25 years of age were a) environmentally unfriendly, and b) owned by posh people who could afford the tax in the first place...Ermm


I've never seen a posh person driving a Ford Cortina or a Capri! WinkLOL
 
I appreciate there are exceptions James, but the majority of old cars are owned in batches as a hobby by reasonably well off types, who take them to a ralley at Blenheim Palace for the afternoon, on August Sundays...Wink
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Points: 1497 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 01 2007 at 16:27
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Sadly, the legend of Jim's buttocks will take a good while to erase from my memory banks...Ouch
 
It takes far longer to erase from your sofa!Confused


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Originally posted by mystic fred mystic fred wrote:

Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Originally posted by mystic fred mystic fred wrote:

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Watch it Steve, those computers will be after you!
 
................. COMPUTERS..?? Shocked
 
 
Yes, the DVLA computers. The ones that stand on the bridges over the motorway when you drive underneath in your car with it's OUT OF DATE TAX DISC! (Oops, sorry, I hope they're not listening to this thread). Have you not seen the ads?
 
 
out of date tax disc spotter......
 
 
 
Cry
 
 

I assume the long bit is the laser gun that melts your car if the disk is out of date.
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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 02 2007 at 03:48
Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

Originally posted by Geck0 Geck0 wrote:

Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

^^^ 25 years... but I think they've done away with that little scam, now.... being as most of the cars that were over 25 years of age were a) environmentally unfriendly, and b) owned by posh people who could afford the tax in the first place...Ermm
I've never seen a posh person driving a Ford Cortina or a Capri! WinkLOL

 

I appreciate there are exceptions James, but the majority of old cars are owned in batches as a hobby by reasonably well off types, who take them to a ralley at Blenheim Palace for the afternoon, on August Sundays...Wink


Not necessarily - Vicky had a 1968 Morris Minor for just over 5 years which was tax exempt & always passed it's emissions test with flying colours; we took it to a rally once & left soon afterwards (pretentious w+++ers, the lot of 'em), but Vicky used that car every day - the only reason it left us was the sub-fram eventually succumbed to Morris Minor disease - terminal rust!

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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 02 2007 at 03:51
Originally posted by Heavyfreight Heavyfreight wrote:

Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

  
Sadly, the legend of Jim's buttocks will take a good while to erase from my memory banks...Ouch

 

It takes far longer to erase from your sofa!Confused


Neil has never got over the weekend he fitted our Leslie 145 to my Hammond (mild in the evening + fried breakfasts the next day)

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Points: 211 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 02 2007 at 07:52
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Originally posted by Heavyfreight Heavyfreight wrote:

Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

  
Sadly, the legend of Jim's buttocks will take a good while to erase from my memory banks...Ouch

 

It takes far longer to erase from your sofa!Confused


Neil has never got over the weekend he fitted our Leslie 145 to my Hammond (mild in the evening + fried breakfasts the next day)
 
I do seen to remember an incident where Neil dropped one in the car on a Friday night & we could still smell it when we left on Sunday !
Oh well if you can't beat them- join them - I currently have a campaign to drop on in every lift where I work LOL
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My wife - the delicate English rose...

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I bet you both fart under the duvet as well.
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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

I bet you both fart under the duvet as well.
 
no doubt with the condition that the first person to lift their headout from under the duvet loses.....
 
I'm beginning to wonder about the levels of social integrity and sophistication the Grey Room appears to be collecting....Confused
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Fetch..........The comfy chair!!!
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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 02 2007 at 12:37
Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

I bet you both fart under the duvet as well.

 

no doubt with the condition that the first person to lift their headout from under the duvet loses.....

 

I'm beginning to wonder about the levels of social integrity and sophistication the Grey Room appears to be collecting....Confused


Absolutely not - any claims thus implied are made with a large dose of irony to satirise the children in the neighbouring room.

Why, if we were to in any way glorify, or find amusing the simple act of flatulence, that would make us extremely shallow and immature people indeed

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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 02 2007 at 12:38
Go on - pull my finger!

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Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Go on - pull my finger!
 
I don't know where it's been....Wink
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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Fetch..........The comfy chair!!!
 
oh no... not the comfy chair....Shocked
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