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[worldofceri]

What a pile of hysterical crap.

[alf892]

What a pile of hysterical crap.

it is just a form of SEO

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Wow,lead me to those £130 Cat D Mercs and BMWs that are new enough to plate as a cab.

[fordperv]

Omg someone think of the nuns and kittens

[darkfour]

Happy days, bid on and won a 2 barrel Carter BBD carb for the Dart last night. I've been after one of these for a while and most of them are V8 versions that require a small modification/fabrication to fit a Slant 6. This appears (a tleast according to the tag as it's an original Slant 6 carb). It needs a good clean and a rebuild kit thrown at it, but for $16 I don't think I can go wrong (unless the throttle shaft is worn). I've already got a 2 barrel intake that I picked up from a swap meet and now just need an air cleaner and the elusive transmission kickdown linkage.  

 

[dave21478]

While it is undoubtedly a load of sensationalist toss, its the kind of bollocks that ends up working against the shite way of life.

We all know its a load of wank, we all know a cat D can be as little as a paint scrape and cracked headlight, we all know that a properly repaired car is no less safe than one that hasnt been crashed, but upper middle class types who drive posh Mercs and Jags and Guardian reading mummies in leased X5s dont know this and believe scare-mongering articles because its on the internet and nobody ever lies or exaggerates on the internet. 

 

And then one day Sergei the taxi driver who has been driving for 19 hours straight in his repaired cat D looses concentration and parks it through some poor sods living room window. 

 

Then the press get the facts...its a catD - oh, the horror....a written off car back on the road....Mumsnet goes apeshit and then people in power read this sort of toss and think...hmmm....could maybe do something about that.....

 

Suddenly, new legislations to Protect The Childrenâ„¢ mean that all write-offs have to be crushed or some reactionary bollocks like that and our lives have just got a little bit harder.

 

 

 

It was the same scenario a few years back when that fud fitted two different types of calliper on each side of his landy and flipped it into a canal and drowned his kids - fucking tragedy for the kids, but the tabloids were frothing for days afterwards about banning DIY maintenance.

Remember its always one nobber who spoils things for everyone else.

[Pillock]

"All old cars, especially ones that have had to be repaired, are deathtraps" says company who make their money leasing new cars.

[DVee8]

It is all old news a mate of mine was buying and repairing 2.3D Sierra's and granada's as taxi's 20+ years ago.

[Ghosty]

It's all over.

 

The mother's put a deposit down on a Bini...

[cort1977]

While it is undoubtedly a load of sensationalist toss, its the kind of bollocks that ends up working against the shite way of life.

We all know its a load of wank, we all know a cat D can be as little as a paint scrape and cracked headlight, we all know that a properly repaired car is no less safe than one that hasnt been crashed, but upper middle class types who drive posh Mercs and Jags and Guardian reading mummies in leased X5s dont know this and believe scare-mongering articles because its on the internet and nobody ever lies or exaggerates on the internet. 

 

And then one day Sergei the taxi driver who has been driving for 19 hours straight in his repaired cat D looses concentration and parks it through some poor sods living room window. 

 

Then the press get the facts...its a catD - oh, the horror....a written off car back on the road....Mumsnet goes apeshit and then people in power read this sort of toss and think...hmmm....could maybe do something about that.....

 

Suddenly, new legislations to Protect The Childrenâ„¢ mean that all write-offs have to be crushed or some reactionary bollocks like that and our lives have just got a little bit harder.

 

 

 

It was the same scenario a few years back when that fud fitted two different types of calliper on each side of his landy and flipped it into a canal and drowned his kids - fucking tragedy for the kids, but the tabloids were frothing for days afterwards about banning DIY maintenance.

Remember its always one nobber who spoils things for everyone else.

Totally agree with this there is a gradual push in our society to make people think they can do less and less for themselves and that the only way to fix anything is to just buy a new one.  

 

Case in point child seats.   I saw a link to a Daily Mail story (I know) yesterday about how 75% of child seats are unsafe and they should only be fitted and checked by an expert.   It's only a child seat FFS, as long as the straps are threaded through the right places and the harness is tight around the child that's about all there is to it.   They would be better off trying to get the mums off their bloody phones when they are driving than worrying about the safety rating of their child seat.

 

Assuming my kids survive being driven around in dangerous cars possibly including Cat D write offs equipped only with lap belts I will bring them up in the shite way of life and at least try to fix stuff.

[gordonbennet]

Don't get me started on fuckin child seats, Jesus wept the size and weight of the things now, it's gone beyond funny.

''Oh Tarquin we have child now we must buy a 7 seater MPV the size of a bus.''    you need a bus to carry one small child.

 

Confession time.

No doubt i'll be flogged, purged by flame thrower and sent to the Gulag, because 30 odd years ago i used to drive a bloody DAF 2800 artic tipper offal carrier, and i used to take my little lad with me, i'd rope and strap a kiddie seat to the passenger seat using proper lorry drivers bloody knots and you couldn't have wrenched the seat out with a bloody JCB.

So heinous a crime was it that he now drives a tanker at the same place i work...will St Peter tell me to sod off or will i be sent downstairs for perma-rogering with a hot poker for eternity.

Imagine doing that now, the H&S gestapo would have a blue fit.

 

 

You wait and see, the next public enemy number one will be the driver of the Diesel car, too many bloody articles and references to Diesel particles in the popular propaganda rags, they're winding those same cunts up that thought drivers of 4x4's were Satans spawn about ten years ago.

[cort1977]

If it is confession time then I will admit to having an 8 seater mini van for only two kids but in my defence at least it's not a chevy suburban.

 

I will also admit to drilling the seat frame in the back of a VW van to fit an anchoring point for a child seat and also to drilling the floor of an Falcon estate for the same reason.   If I really put my mind to it I could have calculated the yield stress for those arrangements but by inspection I was confident that a 1/2" bolt and some big washers were more than adequate for the dynamic loads due to a 10lb baby and child seat.   Try telling that to the Mumsnet child seat Nazis though, I'd be tarred and feathered.  

 

It would have been OK if I had got it done at an 'approved child seat dealer' though.

 

If you want to be amused and/or enraged the comments on this piece are amazing.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2946284/Two-three-parents-putting-children-s-lives-risk-strapping-wrong-size-car-seats.html

[Skizzer]

Christ, I just read as much of that article and the screeching comments as I could stand, and that's 5 minutes of my life I'll never get back.  Fuxake.

 

I gave up when I got to the woman wailing on about how children must face backwards in special seats on aeroplanes, so they don't get hurt in head-on air crashes.

 

 

We don't have kids.  If parenthood turns you into someone like that, I'm infinitely glad.

[gordonbennet]

Dear Lord, i  just wasted 10 minutes of me dwindling live expectancy reading that utter fuckin drivel too, Bloody Nora.

[barefoot]

....me dwindling live expectancy.....

I laughed at that, then had a quick glance at the article.

 

Bloody Hell, my parents sat me on the slippery front vinyl bench of a seatbelt free Vauxhall Velox, do you think I should sue them before they pop their clogs?

[dave21478]

My dad was such a player tightwad that family motoring for the first ten years of my life was courtesy of a Vauxhall Chevanne with me initially in a plastic garden chair kind of thing tied to the half-height bulkhead and later just loose in the back on the floor.

[myglaren]

Christ, I just read as much of that article and the screeching comments as I could stand, and that's 5 minutes of my life I'll never get back.  Fuxake.

 

I gave up when I got to the woman wailing on about how children must face backwards in special seats on aeroplanes, so they don't get hurt in head-on air crashes.

 

 

We don't have kids.  If parenthood turns you into someone like that, I'm infinitely glad.

We have five kids and I am here to tell you that it is (hopefully) only a minority that turn into raving loonies.

Haven't read the article and the preponderance of Picassos, Jukes, Qasquies etc may give the lie to that - hell we had four kids + baggage squashed into Renault 4s, Hillman Imps and the like.

 

Did get stopped and severely spoken to for carrying 11 kids in a Volvo 265

[twosmoke300]

I was taken home from hospital after I was born in a carry cot wedged in the back of a mini van ! All downhill from that really

[gordonbennet]

Nope Barefoot, you should thank them profusely for bringing you up proper like, and for pete's sake tell them what i didn't tell mine....

 

One of the biggest regrets of my life (and by Christ there's been a few) is not telling me old dad just how much i loved him before he died (made up for that with me lovely old mum before she vanished too), and 20 years later i miss him still, always there with a kind word even if was to register disapproval or concern about something, the funny thing is that he's still beside me in spirit because i have to live up to his code of morals as if he's still there, Cheshire countryman through and through, whats right was right and what was wrong wasn't bloody right, no shades of grey there.

 

The great joy though is that my lad is gradually turning into me dad, he was the worlds most stubborn man, thankfully that stubborn streak missed a generation (me )...and is showing itself increasingly in my son who grows ever more stubborn as a bloody mule every day that passes.

 

Go on Barefoot, go and spill your heart to them.

[Skizzer]

We have five kids and I am here to tell you that it is (hopefully) only a minority that turn into raving loonies.

 

Indeed - no offence, like - I do have friends who are parents of young children and several of them are generally sane.

 

Top marks for 11 in a Volvo 265 - best I remember is being one of 6 in the boot of an Avenger estate.

[Inspector Morose]

Anyway, in other news, I might have agreed on a purchase in the not too distant future.

[gordonbennet]

I had about 8 grown ups in the 245 in a previous life, the village was cut off with snow drifts, mini bus had no chance of getting through so out piled all these poor buggers going home from work into the blizzard, i stopped and crammed em all in the old Volvo, 4 in the boot, we just went for it ploughed straight through all the drifts and got them and me home safely.

 

That seems like a story from another time/dimension, and it probably is, i wonder what would happen if the same circumstances happened now.

[bub2006]

I was born in 1987,was placed in a large wheel silvercross pram,into the back of a mk1 transit and strapped through the wheels to the passenger seat base.

[alf892]

When I was a kid if you travelled in the front your mum was trained to pin you to your seat with her arm.......and mums in those days were bloody quick.

 

You were in the shit if you were out with dad though as he would have to get rid of his fag first........this meant the best he could do was maybe grab you by the scruff of you neck just before you went through the screen

[Mr Lobster]

Christ, that DM article is quite something and as for the comments....!

 

I don't get quite why a child seat has an expiry date for any reason other than marketing and ensuring lots more sales. It's a big bit of moulded plastic so what on earth happens that means after five years it suddenly becomes unsafe?

 

Similarly, I don't get the frothing rage over kids being in the front either? Most of the time I do the school run then go straight to the unit and as there just me and Lobster Jnr 1 then he sits in the front (on his car seat obvs) I reckon this is better than him being in the back as he can jabber away and tell me stuff without me having to turn round and also lets him see what's going on.

 

And also (whilst I'm ranting about kids in cars) when we've been on holiday or any time when we've all been in the car for a decent few hours, a few people have told me how much I would have to have some DVD players to keep the kids happy. Bollocks. I managed quite happily without them and eldest (5) quite happily sits and looks out and invariably comments on everything he sees. I'd rather they had a look outside and see what's around and where they are going than glued to some DVD and fortunately they are ok with that.

 

A lot of parents treat their kids like they are both incredibly fragile and incredibly unique - I think they refer to it as Little Emperor syndrome in Japan where the child gets anything and everything they could wish for. I think that's also why people think they must have the latest / biggest / most NCAP stariest car to transport their precious darlings around and whilst I wouldn't transport mine is something knowingly unsafe, the day I buy a car based on its NCAP rating is the day I give up.

 

Don't get me wrong, I love my kids and they are great but some people seem to consider that once they have them their sole remaining purpose is to treat them like some deity rather than to bring them up as a well rounded individual.

[fordperv]

Like most shiters, as a tiny fordperv My dad used to ferry me around in cortina's granada's etc in 1980s technology car seat then when I was a bit bigger just in the seat and I'm still here to tell the tale, when I have kids they will travel in shite, mrs fp says that she won't change her taste in cars for a nipper either

[beko1987]

When I was a kid if you travelled in the front your mum was trained to pin you to your seat with her arm.......and mums in those days were bloody quick.

 

You were in the shit if you were out with dad though as he would have to get rid of his fag first........this meant the best he could do was maybe grab you by the scruff of you neck just before you went through the screen

My dad always puts his arm out if stopping in a hurry, even though seat belts were made legal a good few years before I was born, and I always wear one anyway cos it's just second nature now. He did it the other day when some knob biscuit wandered out into the road. Slightly annoying as I'd seen him start to walk and dad hadn't, and I wouldn't call his stopping that sharp tbh as the idiot dived back onto the pavement.

 

Did bring back memories of pre mobile phone ban, dad doing 85 rapidly approaching a roundabout in a manual, and transversely the roundabout with no issues whilst never removing the phone from under his ear...

[beko1987]

When I was a kid if you travelled in the front your mum was trained to pin you to your seat with her arm.......and mums in those days were bloody quick.

 

You were in the shit if you were out with dad though as he would have to get rid of his fag first........this meant the best he could do was maybe grab you by the scruff of you neck just before you went through the screen

My dad always puts his arm out if stopping in a hurry, even though seat belts were made legal a good few years before I was born, and I always wear one anyway cos it's just second nature now. He did it the other day when some knob biscuit wandered out into the road. Slightly annoying as I'd seen him start to walk and dad hadn't, and I wouldn't call his stopping that sharp tbh as the idiot dived back onto the pavement.

 

Did bring back memories of pre mobile phone ban, dad doing 85 rapidly approaching a roundabout in a manual, and transversely the roundabout with no issues whilst never removing the phone from under his ear...

[HillmanImp]

New arrival at Imp towers:

 

 

I went down to Sheffield as I need to order some springs wound for the Visa from there. As Volksy now lives down there I stayed at his overnight and got monumentally drunk. Come morning I had swapped the Shaguar for the Toyota.

[EssDeeWon]

Blimey I cannot remember wearing a seat belt until I was about 10, before that I travelled in the back of Dolomites, Granada's and SD1's and did not die once, and the SD1 was written off while I was travelling in the back un belted!  I feel the need to share this with mums net tossers but the thought of signing up to that place is awful.