am i the only one surprised by all the english flags flying from newish "foreign" cars
German/French cars with the flag - i could understand if you buy your car "previoiusly owned" but these are bran' new
patriotic or hypocrit = what?
I really must get a Pakistan flag and stick that on my car. In retaliation to the Asian taxi drivers round here with England flags on their cabs! Or maybe a Union Jack to confuse people. I can see the looks of, 'You've got THE WRONG FLAG ON YOUR CAR' now...
Mark W (s@o) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
You are Norman Tebbitt AICMFF Cricket Tests.
[sarcasm] I drive a Toyota Avensis and fly the flag for England and I have to admit that I feel like a scab for driving a foreign car whilst flying an English flag (despite the fact that it's built in England). Indeed, how dare people driving BMW's, Honda's, Fiat's and Renaults DARE fly the English flag! I'm never going to order a pizza, chinese or indian curry ever again!
Furthermore, I'm not going to buy Reebok, Puma or Adidas goods! In fact I'm going to go to my nearest British car dealer and buy a Morgan or Aston Martin (despite the fact that either will no doubt have many foreign parts).
In fact I'm going to go search for my nearest Rover dealer and buy a Mini. A BMW German Mini. [/sarcasm]
Better watch that shopping trolley Maxwell, it could be full of foreign food, bit unpatriotic!
In news:obJxc.355$ snipped-for-privacy@newsfe6-gui.server.ntli.net, Dave decided to enlighten our sheltered souls with a rant as follows
Er, if you want an English car, buy a TVR. Besides, it's as good an excuse as any other...
tasty though
"maxwell" decided it would be mildly amusing to write:
BEST SOLUTION:
Anyone moronic enough to fly a St. George's Cross on their car should be forced to drive a City Rover.
White Flag Man (in fact, Mr Two flags) with a swinging football thing the rear window nearly wiped me out today by lane changing without looking - me thinks the movement of the flags reduced his ability to sense the presense of me to his right. This also caused the car behind me (who was far to close) to discover the meaning of Volvo Braking....
It was a "British" car, a Cavalier...
The message from "Dave" contains these words:
Some of us never started!
The message from "Malc" contains these words:
Please sir - I've seen one with three. Both front windows and a centre rear aerial. Mind you - it was a taxi - which probably explains it.
That would be funny and people would probably crash into you as they're looking at the flag. It still probably doesn't justify wasting all the fuel on the extra drag though does it?
Am I right in thinking that they're illegal? Isn't there a law against having things hanging out of the windows?
To be honest, that notion passed my forebrain and out again within a few nanonseconds. I mean, how can you justify buying a "British" (English?) car these days? Your choices are Rover and the small sports car outfits. Hmmm, and how much is foreign componentry?
Tangent mode on/
And at the end of the day should we be nationalists or globalists? Surely one approach is blinkered short-termism and the other is forward-looking?
Jump forward 100 years - with Western Europe having lost most economic clout to the rising stars of India, China etc. All empires fade...
/Tangent mode off
Where we talking about flags?
A lot of places are selling the flags for £2 each..!
Wait until Euro2004 is over...head down to your local Poundland and buy the entire stock. They are currently £1 each in there which is cheap...they are sure to reduce them to 2 for £1 after Euro 2004 is over.
Wait for the next big international football event and sell your flags at £2 each!
You have quadrupled your investment! Easy money!
sPoNIX
So buy a British made car..at least then you'll be securing Bristish jobs.
sPoNiX
You missed the apostrophe on Renaults.
Maybe you can't get them at the local supermarket.
cheers, clive
Someone round my way got jailed for having an object hanging off the car he was driving.
Mind you, the object was a copper trying to arrest him when he drove off!
I'm sorry but why should I buy a mediocre or poor car? Where were you when we lost our electronics manufacturing? Buying Sony like the rest of us I'll guess. That's just the problem with our declining manufacturing base. If we'd got our shit together, instead of resting on our reputation as inventors of industrialisation, we'd still have manufacturing jobs in this country. As it is, many countries can and do make better products than us.
(Blether on about human rights as long as you like but I'll bet you like your clothes as cheap as possible too?!)
Subscribing to your recommendation just perpetuates the problem, and only safeguards those precious jobs for a few short years. Ever heard of market pressure? Well, apparently neither did our industrial heirarchy back when it counted.
Securing? I think you need to re-examine your understanding of that word. You mean "secure" as in "job for life"? Sadly, contracts that promise *that* are value-less when the contractee / employer goes bankrupt and is bought out by a competitor. I think we all bought British Coal too, fat lot of good that did for the miners.
And arrange some traditional British car insurance and secure the jobs of workers in Indian call centres.
Like it or not the world has shrunk, we are global economy.
Kevin B
Can't be, as it'd be such easy pickings for bottom-of-the-table-Humbershite-Police that they'd be issuing tickets from the speed cam video.
A ripper, as long as you are driving the right sort of car - a bentley would be good but I don't think my 406 could cut it!
Adam H
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