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WOMAN = singular. WOMEN = plural. Even BBC news reporters cannot get this right in written content any more. How hard can it be?

This is brilliant! I love a 309 and am looking forward to seeing more and more progress on these two. You know all these people with decrepit cars on their driveways and when anyone asks about them the answer is "I'm gonna get round to doing it up one day"? Well you, sir, have gone and done it!

Some fantastic stuff on this thread! That DeSoto....OOOFFF!

Is that a ratchet strap holding the bay window in place? Good grief! That reminds me of a tiny junk shop just outside Wolverhampton on the A460 that I've mentioned on here before, the sign read "Everything: All goods bought and sold" and still had the old pre-1995 "Phone Day" number next to it. Last time I went past would have been in the late 2010s, and the place never looked open but there was sometimes a light on, and there was all manner of junk piled almost floor to ceiling.

Not nearly as bad as the dirty water that comes out of a blocked-up washing machine. That fucking STINKS. Was in Germany at the weekend, did the same thing in our hired VW Tiguan - I had it up to 100mph a few times.

Is every trade or business in your area run by Dominic fucking Chappell or something?

Making me grumpy early yesterday morning was driving from Birmingham to Oxford on the M40 in very heavy rain, and about one quarter of the vehicles I encountered had no lights on at all.

I spotted a red MG6 the other day and was reminded of this thread. How's progress?

From what I see of her, she's too fucking thick to understand what the punishments mean. I recently saw the TG episode where she was the SIARPC, and she blatantly couldn't understand a single word Clarkson was saying to her.

Write back and say "It is quite obvious that you and everyone else just plain don't want me living here, so please find me an alternative and pay for it."

"OK boys, set your nightsticks on Whop!" "Errr...mine's stuck on Twirl."

I know the owner of that TR2 - it's not "rat", he just thinks it looks cooler unwashed! He's got quite a collection of pre-war and other classics he's restored over the years, and has bangered a few more as well - will see if I can get him on here. (edit) Also, what is the red crewcab pick-up?

On similar lines - when you take something such as an exhaust pipe off a car, you "remove" it, not "delete" it. And something going vaguely sideways is not "drifting". (A guy on my Facebook says stuff like this all the time and shares unintelligible chavspeak "quotes", he likes to think he's some hard-man "gangsta" but is really a silly little chav-boy who lives with his mum and if ever he tried to act hard in front of anyone would just be laughed at and melt quicker than an ice cream in July.)

I've always called it the Bentgayer. Similar to the Range Rover Vulgar, the Rolls-Royce Cunnilingus and the Lamborghini Urinal (or Anus). They changed it to MR-S in French-speaking countries for that very reason.

Because some people would nick a bag of dog shit if they had the chance.

Sorry to be my usual blunt self, but tell the self-entitled spoilt brat she can sod off and sort things out for herself. That's what I'd have got if I had her attitude. And probably my glasses smashed too.

Was in the 'spoons at New Street yesterday, was quite good by their standards and very quick lunch service.

For god's sake, instead of telling all of us this, tell it to THEM. Or fucking let me do it, which they will certainly know about! (As an aside, when my sister was between residences she lived back with me and my parents for a year, and the entire household HAD to revolve around her all the time, and our mum always took her side in everything - it was like living with a new baby at times. After several months I had had enough of it and properly blew my top at both of them, and it worked. I think doing the same will work for you.)

I'm getting very close to asking you to DM me your sister's address so I can go round and give her the biggest bollocking ever which you should have done years ago.

On the subject, this one is round the corner from my place.. Pic from Streetview nearly a year ago - it's not moved since that was taken, and is looking decidedly more decrepit now. I thought it was dumped at first, but then I noticed there were various bits of furniture and bedding in the back and I thought someone might be living in it. It appeared in the background of a photo on the local town's FB group so I asked what was going on with it, and got a rather rude answer from (I assume) the owner which included the words "it's a camper conversion". I don't think it is, the back of it's just full of random shite where the seats should be, so I reckon he's using it as storage. (edit) As an aside, this is the state of the road opposite it - which for some reason they refuse to repair!

So do you have to make two trips to pick up both Big and Volvic? You can't drive both at the same time. Sorry if I'm being thick.

If you're driving a Voveco, what's happened to Big, or have I misread?

That certainly doesn't look like any Volvo I've ever seen before. Good to see you back too, I love this thread.

It's been a while since I have seen something that has genuinely shocked me. HOW THE FUCK are they not dead??

Not a mystery, but just covering my lack of military vehicle knowledge here - this is currently moving the unexploded WWII bomb in Plymouth. What is it please?