Colin Lindsay Posted April 23 Report Share Posted April 23 I'm sitting here typing and some idiot is racing up and down the road in a car with an incredibly loud exhaust. Up and down, up and down, destroying the peace and quiet. What an ar&e. Just looked up as he passed by and it's a gold-coloured TR7 with the top down, possibly a V8 version. What a lovely car and a great exhaust note. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unkel Kunkel Posted April 29 Report Share Posted April 29 Ha! The really horrible noisy exhausts are only found on Pratmobiles or Super Pratmobiles We should perhaps regard that noise as a public safety feature - an early warning system to alert us that an immature sociopath, in charge of a potentially lethal piece machinery, is somewhere within a several hundred yard radius although we have yet to see them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnD Posted April 30 Report Share Posted April 30 Unkel, I fear you completely missed Colin's delightfully ironic tone. No blaring trumpet, he! John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougbgt6 Posted April 30 Report Share Posted April 30 John, I fear you in turn have completely missed UK's ironic tone! But you are correct, Colin doesn't play trumpet, he's into stringed instruments. Doug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Lindsay Posted April 30 Author Report Share Posted April 30 1 hour ago, dougbgt6 said: John, I fear you in turn have completely missed UK's ironic tone! But you are correct, Colin doesn't play trumpet, he's into stringed instruments. Doug Does Clarinet count? Though I fear blowing my own clarinet may have an unintended second meaning, but the TR was spotted by others with an elderly lady in the front passenger seat.... someone trying to cash in their inheritance early? "Let's go out in the TR and scare Granny to death". I agree with Unkel, it's a warning sign that we have a certain form of driver approaching, the audible version of the furry dice and blacked-out windows. "Much cry and little wool" was the old saying, you hear a car from miles away shaking the windows then along comes a 1 litre Vauxhall Corsa at 20 mph with a three-foot-tall driver trying to see over the dashboard as he's reclined the seat so far backwards... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteH Posted Friday at 06:22 Report Share Posted Friday at 06:22 Youngster, lives close by, has just obtained a Subaru, the one`s with the exhaust the size of the Mersey tunnel! it is to say the least "loud". Talking to his father, the car is a Grey Import and completely unmolested O/E. Japanese noise regs must be more lax than ours?. There used to be a TR (4?) around with an horrendousely loud system, haven`t heard it for a while though?. Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Lindsay Posted Friday at 07:02 Author Report Share Posted Friday at 07:02 We have an entire collection of them up the road, one lad has a large back yard and all the oiks for miles around come to have their cars modified, usually with hammers, and heat to lower the springs. As I'm at one end of a long straight and he's at the other, I get the end result bombing past at about 100mph, and in the opposite direction with the horns blaring as his mates like to let him know they're passing. They seem to have some kind of home-made monstrosity that goes up and down the road late at night, no lights and seemingly no exhaust either, and tears round the local village estates to impress the young girls. Some enterprising souls have put up home-made 30mph signs all along the road but I doubt they'll be respected. Every so often you see a pile of debris or a hole in the hedge where they don't make a bend, or you get the occasional fatal accident which is put down to a 'dangerous road'. It never seems to affect my Heralds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Truman Posted Friday at 08:48 Report Share Posted Friday at 08:48 A young ladat the end of our court who got his licence last year has some BMW variant with turbo and big noisy exhaust he screams down the court all the time one day he’ll hit something A good car now looks a mess with big splitters and wings, the latter don’t work until you get over 100kph shouldn’tcomplain the short time as a family we lived in the UK early 60’s we had a manor house with along drive mum could only go to sleep when she heard me bombingdown the long drive and sliding to a stop in the gravel for court, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnD Posted Friday at 20:50 Report Share Posted Friday at 20:50 On 30/04/2024 at 10:05, dougbgt6 said: John, I fear you in turn have completely missed UK's ironic tone! But you are correct, Colin doesn't play trumpet, he's into stringed instruments. Doug Yes, I did. Irony, irony, they've all got it irony. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris A Posted Friday at 21:18 Report Share Posted Friday at 21:18 23 minutes ago, JohnD said: Irony, irony, they've all got it irony. 'Infamy, infamy, they've all got it in for me' Carry on Cleo. Before your time John 😆 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougbgt6 Posted Saturday at 09:11 Report Share Posted Saturday at 09:11 Chris, I think John knows that and you've missed his ironic juxtaposition infamy irony joke. Doug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris A Posted Saturday at 10:35 Report Share Posted Saturday at 10:35 1 hour ago, dougbgt6 said: Chris, I think John knows that I know, hence the reference to him being too young. I also understand 'irony', it's like silvery but made from iron 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham C Posted Saturday at 12:34 Report Share Posted Saturday at 12:34 I thought irony was the act of ironing clothes. Graham Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnD Posted Sunday at 11:28 Report Share Posted Sunday at 11:28 If there's one thing I hate more than people not getting your jokes, its people who explain them. "Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it." Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Lindsay Posted Sunday at 13:11 Author Report Share Posted Sunday at 13:11 1 hour ago, JohnD said: If there's one thing I hate more than people not getting your jokes, its people who explain them. "Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it." Mark Twain I have to bite my tongue - or the typing equivalent - on FB everytime someone posts a completely self-explanatory cartoon and then someone explains it below in full detail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris A Posted Sunday at 13:35 Report Share Posted Sunday at 13:35 On 04/05/2024 at 14:34, Graham C said: I thought irony was the act of ironing clothes. Graham I don't know, I never iron anything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris A Posted Sunday at 13:36 Report Share Posted Sunday at 13:36 The chap in the photo is the king of . . . . . . . . . . OPPPS.. 24 minutes ago, Colin Lindsay said: I have to bite my tongue - or the typing equivalent - on FB everytime someone posts a completely self-explanatory cartoon and then someone explains it below in full detail. I know exactly how you feel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnD Posted Sunday at 13:55 Report Share Posted Sunday at 13:55 AI rules!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnD Posted Sunday at 13:59 Report Share Posted Sunday at 13:59 44 minutes ago, Colin Lindsay said: I have to bite my tongue - or the typing equivalent - on FB everytime someone posts a completely self-explanatory cartoon and then someone explains it below in full detail. There's a word for them - Americans. (With apologies to all our Cousins, chief among them Samuel Clements, James Thurber and Tom Lehrer, who can and do get a joke. But they have neighbours who need explanation) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Lindsay Posted Sunday at 16:03 Author Report Share Posted Sunday at 16:03 I posted a photo of our long-dead cat on a Cat-lovers FB group a while ago - the joke being that he was going to kill me for not letting him in, and the muddy state that he was in was the reason he was not getting inside again until clean - and the Administrator messaged me a short time later asking me to post a photo of him inside and happy, otherwise he had received so many complaints about cat cruelty, mostly from American members, that they were going to shut his page down. I realised they had completely missed the humour of my post and had to go find a photo of a long-dead cat looking happy to keep them satisfied. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris A Posted Sunday at 16:38 Report Share Posted Sunday at 16:38 2 hours ago, JohnD said: AI rules!! Al? He's the ruler of which country/state? 🤔 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnD Posted Sunday at 18:46 Report Share Posted Sunday at 18:46 AI rules? Always in the middle of the word, "ay" at the end. And HM got it wrong! Purple RAIN!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Lindsay Posted Sunday at 19:02 Author Report Share Posted Sunday at 19:02 Back in my day, AI was the man who put the hump in the cow's back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougbgt6 Posted Sunday at 19:59 Report Share Posted Sunday at 19:59 1 hour ago, JohnD said: And HM got it wrong! Purple RAIN!! You gonna tell him?!! He reads this forum ya know, who do you think Dave Clasper REALLY is?!! Doug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteH Posted Monday at 05:13 Report Share Posted Monday at 05:13 (edited) "He" would probably get the "Irony". According to a someome I met doing a survey, who had served with him, (Walney I think) he has a slightly warped sense of humour. Something you need in a Marine Environment, it helps preserve sanity. Pete. Edited Monday at 05:15 by PeteH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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