Shiter Of The Year

[oldcars]

Trophy needs to be a gaffer taped up mondeo bumper. Nice and big, like on the top gear challenges. Not sure how i would vote as there are so may great folk on here.

Also when i first read this i was going to vote for North Berwick, as the bogs at the parking near the chippy are spot on, but once i reas it again i saw what it was all about.

[sierraman]

What is the qualification for this trophy?

 

Something like putting yourself into financial difficulty and remortgaging your house to restore a 1984 Talbot Solara. Or the wife leaving you after collecting a Montego Clubman on your anniversary.

[Cleon-Fonte]

I quite liked it when this was the one forum that didn't feel the need to grade its members and their contributions.

[Pillock]

I quite liked it when this was the one forum that didn't feel the need to grade its members and their contributions.

You'll never make the top ten with an attitude like that, laddo. I'm putting you on an improvement plan.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Depends, if it's based on the threads resulting from the insanity then Datsuncog has won it with ease. His posts are a world above any of the so professional journalists on here. Which probably explains why I've not bought a mag in years, everything in them is written to make it boring even if it's an interesting subject.

 

 

Seconded.

[BorniteIdentity]

I quite liked it when this was the one forum that didn't feel the need to grade its members and their contributions.

 

Tough shit, mate.  

 

Like it or lump it. you've got a Daihatsu Sirion.  

 

 

Something as brave as that deserves a nomination.  Stick me down for Cleon as the inaugural winner.

[Cavcraft]

Not sure to be honest. Might cause issue if people become popular on a forum for unpopular people. Honoured to be mentioned, but I reckon the Thread of the Year competition was about as competitive as we should get. That was a good crack, and the best thread won.

 

Would personally agree with this.

 

Last year's TOTY was great, so many difficult choices due to the level of great threads we had. Would humbly suggest winning that is also a reflection on the person who typed it, as well as all the others nominated.

[alf892]

I think we should have a Shiter Of The Year Award, for being the most dedicated, and slightly unhinged shiter/Shite Hero. IMHO Bournidentity and Dollywobbler are in the running, BI has been trying so hard to save the unloved, with a couple of sad near misses, and kudos for him dusting himself off after the Mondeo thread, and now sadly the mega mile Alditaxi, and DW for the utterly hatstand bathchair on wheels thread, plus a possible overseas collection in the not too distant future.

 

What do you peeps think? 

It is the kind of thing the committee of a one make car club would come up with..........before awarding it to one of their own

[vulgalour]

I suspect a large iron E would do as a trophy.

[tooSavvy]

^^^ no proper shiter would settle for less than an F

[AnthonyG]

The prize* for winning the Shitefest quiz 2012 was a Fiat Panda steering wheel cable-tied to a piece of brown skirting board.

 

I took it home as no one else from the winning team wanted it. Was in my parent’s garage for a while, no idea were it is now they’ve moved at least twice since 2012.

[DSdriver]

^^^ no proper shiter would settle for less than an F

OK, a shite E with the bottom bar broken off

[Parky]

Winners get a Ghia badge, runners up get GL badges, and all nominees get a sticker with "Popular Plus" on

[drum]

The danger of people feeling their contribution to the forum is being judged might stop them contributing. Nor should we be worrying too much about the quality of our writing, like it's a piece of English homework. I hated English and I hated homework.

 

I picture Too Saavy or hairnet hunched over their typewriter, throwing scrumpled up balls of paper over their shoulder, rewriting them to get that depth of meaning yet efficiency of words, before hitting submit.

 

Let any element of judging the greatness of a shiter's adventure be left to the current nods of approval which sometimes come via a 'like' or a complimentary reply.

[Pillock]

Winners get a Ghia badge, runners up get GL badges, and all nominees get a sticker with "Popular Plus" on

Can I be Special Edition?

[Parky]

Of course! You can be a Clio Be Bop

[alcyonecorporation]

hhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[Des]

Stop the fucking bus a min, judge the best chap based on a load of old flannel on the internet???? Get out in the real world you freaks, book a village hall and do some real trials, points system, who can down a pint of diesel fastest, snort a line of Datsun Sunny bell housing dust, retrieve a sump plug from a washing up bowl of hot 20W40 treacle with your mouth, that kind of crack. Base Maestro and AVAS knuckle tattoo for the winner, trendy £150 haircut and a years supply of tights booby prize.

[robinmasters]

No thanks. Competitions is divisive.

 

Whoever wins, there'll be another group who think the winners taste in cars is too modern/too old/too expensive/too cheap, that they don't do enough of the work themselves, that they spend too much/too little on it, they modify cars/that they leave cars standard, etc etc.

 

We all know who's threads we like and who's we don't.

 

People start getting too concerned about how their posts will be received, they may well stop posting. We've seen it happen before.

[Noel Tidybeard]

maybe this year it should be a posthumous award

[Cleon-Fonte]

Tough shit, mate.  

 

Like it or lump it. you've got a Daihatsu Sirion.  

 

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Something as brave as that deserves a nomination.  Stick me down for Cleon as the inaugural winner.

 

Fair play. The Sirion's so far up the shite scale I tried to roffle it and only 'sold' two tickets,.

 

I look forward to receiving my trophy in the post

[sierraman]

I think were all winners by sheer fact we are up at midnight discussing obsolete cars that were marginal when they were current.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Winners get a Ghia badge, runners up get GL badges, and all nominees get a sticker with "Popular Plus" on

Yay I already have that sticker!

 

 

 

Think I've got a Ghia badge knocking about too.

[tooSavvy]

Drum

 

"..I picture Too Saavy or hairnet hunched over their typewriter, throwing scrumpled up balls of paper over their shoulder, rewriting them to get that depth of meaning yet efficiency of words, before hitting submit.."

 

That Saavy smacks of/sounds like Scurvy, m8

[inconsistant]

In 1995 my russet brown 77 Clubman Estate won the Aberdeen Mini Owner's Club trophy for 'Grubbiest Interior'.

Proud moment.

[Skizzer]

Not a fan of the idea personally. There’s a perfectly good like button to express our joy and support for each other on a post-by-post basis, and we have enough difficult choices to make in life already, such as which MOT fail point to put gaffer tape over first.

 

But mostly, this place is all about being a loser by other people’s standards, as expressed through the medium of motor vehicles. There’s no place for winners here.

[xtriple]

I am going to have to say I am against this idea... but only because no one has nominated me   Of course, if they had I would be all in favour, I'm despicable I am!

[Noel Tidybeard]

i nominate that eejit who bought a big green bentley money pit and tries to run it as a normal mota :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

 

 

 

 

 

* i claim my £5 off xtriple

[xtriple]

i nominate that eejit who bought a big green bentley money pit and tries to run it as a normal mota :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

 

 

 

 

 

* i claim my £5 off xtriple

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[tooSavvy]

eejit.... Gr9.

 

Ever since first catching 'Ballykiss Angel'.