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Aug 4, 2009 12:08:59 GMT
Post by spunkymonkey on Aug 4, 2009 12:08:59 GMT
My only previous one was about 18 years ago - in a Yugo 45 ;D ;D ;D
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Aug 4, 2009 12:44:52 GMT
Post by howard on Aug 4, 2009 12:44:52 GMT
I'd get it framed!
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Aug 4, 2009 12:58:13 GMT
Post by spunkymonkey on Aug 4, 2009 12:58:13 GMT
Unfortunately, I have to send it back in order to incrimiate myself - but I might add the "in welsh" copy to Betty's history file ;D
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Aug 4, 2009 13:52:21 GMT
Post by Richard DAF Webmeister on Aug 4, 2009 13:52:21 GMT
You have to smile, but it's sadly indicitive of the state of this country (although I know that North Wales is notorious), where what was probably a perfectly innocent and minor error (5mph for sweet sanity's sake) sets the legal and prosecution of motorists by cameras into play agenda and ticks more boxes, whereas your deliberately antisocial/speeding/dangerous drivers tend to get away with their bad behaviour.
Is it any wonder that so many people want to leave... Still, things can only get better (went a song)
Still, you could always pretend to be Dutch and plead crazyness (No offence meant to our Dutch friends!)
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Aug 4, 2009 14:11:37 GMT
Post by spunkymonkey on Aug 4, 2009 14:11:37 GMT
I was driving a Daf - no need to plead Dutch to tick the crazy box ;D In all honesty, I knew I was slightly over - you come off a roundabout onto a straight piece of road, no side turnings, which changes to 40mph in about 200 yards. In Betty, the only way to reach 40 without upsetting people is to floor her off the roundabout and you just about make it by the sign. Guess others do the same & that's why the mobile camera was there. Must remember to leave those thoughts at home if I'm offered a speed awareness course in lieu of points
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Aug 4, 2009 15:40:55 GMT
Post by howard on Aug 4, 2009 15:40:55 GMT
Whilst being a law-abiding halo-wearing square most of the time (no parking tickets ever, no speeding fines etc etc etc), and one who recognises that those numbers are limits and not targets, I do have a bit of DAF-induced sympathy. There are hills in Bristol which a person of large stature (ie fat - ie me) in a small car (ie DAF33) struggle in unless they get a run up at. This can obviously involve speeding down them to get up the other side easier. There is a culture today where even if you do 45 in a 40 zone there will still be a queue of traffic eager to get by and gee you up. It's one of the reasons you can't seem to ENJOY driving like you used to. Remember the days not so long ago when Sundays were a pleasant jaunt on uncrowded roads? Now they're as busy as other times! Pah, I'll just have to move to Holland and avoid all the hills.....
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Aug 5, 2009 6:41:58 GMT
Post by spunkymonkey on Aug 5, 2009 6:41:58 GMT
Over here they just sit in a van with a camera out the back window and send you the (automatic) paperwork within 2 weeks, John. They only risk going near court if you challenge it. But you don't get to do that till the second set of paperwork. The first set is just a requirement for you to incriminate yourself by saying who was driving. Of course, a policeman who pulls you over and "has a word" can verify who you are at the time (and take all the circumstances into account) but that costs more than a camera and can't issue tickets at the same rate
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Aug 5, 2009 8:08:13 GMT
Post by pauldaf44 on Aug 5, 2009 8:08:13 GMT
Naughty boy. Go and slap your wrist!! lol
I am a goody 2 shoes as well and have never had a ticket. But I dont drive over the speed limit. I say sod the nutter behind if he wants a fine or to end up in a hedge he's not taking me with him. I have also noticed when im driving the DAF people give you a lot more leway they even let you pull away at junctions!!.
BAD BAD BAD Joe
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Aug 12, 2009 18:33:25 GMT
Post by spunkymonkey on Aug 12, 2009 18:33:25 GMT
Looks like speed awareness course it is ;D Still 60 quid (for 3 hours!) but keeps my licence clean so gotta be a plus there
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Aug 24, 2009 21:05:25 GMT
Post by dillyman on Aug 24, 2009 21:05:25 GMT
That was one of my old cars that you were driving so fast. I had hoped that you might have been the right person to look after her properly even if you do seem to have named her after my wife. Please be more careful in future.
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Aug 24, 2009 21:19:08 GMT
Post by howard on Aug 24, 2009 21:19:08 GMT
That told you - bloomin' boy racers!
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Aug 24, 2009 23:05:21 GMT
Post by spunkymonkey on Aug 24, 2009 23:05:21 GMT
Sian would like to point out that Betty is her car (not mine) and she's already told me off severely (when she stopped laughing). As a penance I had to wash her, cut the new paint, and polish her on Saturday. It only took 7 hours Yes, I know I still have to sort ou the rust above the bumper As for the naming, that was pure coincidence. It was either that or Boris ;D
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Aug 25, 2009 13:51:34 GMT
Post by dillyman on Aug 25, 2009 13:51:34 GMT
Looks lovely. Please may I have her back? Don't tell me that is my old red 33 in the background too is it? Surely it was past redemption when it went to that Welsh island wasn't it? Who the dickens is Boris? He's flown over my head I'm afraid.
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Aug 25, 2009 14:04:18 GMT
Post by dillyman on Aug 25, 2009 14:04:18 GMT
The nanny state prevails! In the last message I did not type "thingyens" - I typed "famous victorian novelist" by name, and it was automatically altered! What about that?
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Aug 25, 2009 18:40:07 GMT
Post by spunkymonkey on Aug 25, 2009 18:40:07 GMT
The censorship is because of a very poorly written profanity filter courtesy of Proboards. Luckily, none of the DOC members called Richard use the shortened version of their name - otherwise we'd have a lot of dafs owned by "thingies" ;D Here's a slightly more flattering view of Betty, about the same as the camera operators would have got as they clocked her: The possibility of Boris was because sian was trying to decide a name at about the time that Mr Johnson was making headlines for being about as, let's say, "unconventional" as a Daf! The red one, I'm afraid, isn't your old one. It was bought from Onne on here as a first car for Sian's daughter and is being got to a point we can trust it with her (and v.v. !) when she passes her test. Finally, no, I'm afraid you can't have Betty back - Sian would kill me at the mere thought. Apparently she's never, ever, ever going to need another car because I'm "not good for much but will keep Betty running forever"
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Aug 25, 2009 19:37:13 GMT
Post by dillyman on Aug 25, 2009 19:37:13 GMT
1. I'm so glad that Betty was not over the limit in the full frontal photo - unless a ghost was at the wheel!
2. What is the weird logo in the centre front of the bonnet? Surely not tin worm?
3. I'm sure that my Red Devil has now gone where the good n------s go. Sort that one out profanity filter!
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Aug 25, 2009 20:26:13 GMT
Post by spunkymonkey on Aug 25, 2009 20:26:13 GMT
The weird logo is a vinyl outline of Betty Boo, who she was really named after ( not by me!) As for the Red Devil, last heard of it was being bought by someone on EBay about 6 months ago with (I think hopeful) plans to recommission. You never know, it may yet resurface one day!
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Aug 26, 2009 3:43:04 GMT
Post by dafdaffer on Aug 26, 2009 3:43:04 GMT
;D lol i thought that was where the paint had peeled off lol ;D
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Aug 26, 2009 10:14:40 GMT
Post by spunkymonkey on Aug 26, 2009 10:14:40 GMT
Sian wasn't supposed to know I stuck it on there to hide that
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Aug 26, 2009 19:42:05 GMT
Post by Richard DAF Webmeister on Aug 26, 2009 19:42:05 GMT
More Proboards fun. I am just going to try an experiment to see what happens when I type in the well known abbrieviation for my name. Here we go... thingy.
Hehe. The Proboards censors don't appear to mind the (Never mind the) b***ocks.
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Aug 26, 2009 21:33:05 GMT
Post by kookiebrook on Aug 26, 2009 21:33:05 GMT
I noticed in my story about how I first got into dafs I wrote how the car had gone down a (local name for a ditch) spelt D*Y*K*E. thats dyke ..and found it censored ...what were they thinking....Paul33kb....
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Aug 26, 2009 21:56:04 GMT
Post by spunkymonkey on Aug 26, 2009 21:56:04 GMT
Given the story of the Little Dutch Boy I would have thought that mention of dykes would be almost de rigeur on a Daf site ;D
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Aug 27, 2009 9:37:17 GMT
Post by kookiebrook on Aug 27, 2009 9:37:17 GMT
Aah so it seems you can have dykes , but not a dyke , strange,..In Holland I think a dyke is a bank or dam rising up from the ground but in this area Lincs/Norfolk dykes are drainage ditches or channels , so what does proboard think of that ..Paul33kb...
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Aug 27, 2009 11:41:38 GMT
Post by spunkymonkey on Aug 27, 2009 11:41:38 GMT
It thinks that if you want to discuss whether a d[ yke is a mound or a ditch you have to know how the filter works - same if you want to discuss D ickens or be an informal Richard ;D
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Aug 27, 2009 13:55:43 GMT
Post by kookiebrook on Aug 27, 2009 13:55:43 GMT
I see , obviously you know how to get round it and I don't .,by the way thanks for the info re. the 66 book ...Paul33kb...
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Aug 27, 2009 14:08:47 GMT
Post by spunkymonkey on Aug 27, 2009 14:08:47 GMT
No problems with the info. For anyone called Richard, or with an interest in flood defences, if you put bold (or italic) character tags in the middle of a word it inserts a "blank" character and the filter doesn't pick it up. For example: D[b][/b]ickens Not that I'd encourage avoiding the censor but occasionally it's useful when Big Brother gets really silly
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Aug 27, 2009 14:25:43 GMT
Post by dillyman on Aug 27, 2009 14:25:43 GMT
What would the censor make of D-ck van D-ke? (Would like to do one of those little smile things but don't know how)! John the Bear can do big bouncy things too. Are they only for citzens of the great U S of A?
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Aug 27, 2009 14:40:11 GMT
Post by spunkymonkey on Aug 27, 2009 14:40:11 GMT
The most usual smilies are simple character combinations, Marcus. If you type a colon followed by a right-hand bracket - with a space before but not in between them: :) it will show on screen as As semi-colon and a bracket: ;) gives and a semicolon and a capital D: ;D gives ;D You can also use a left-hand bracket with a colon: :( to give As for John, the US of A always has to go one bigger. Personally I think it's a genetic thing but in this case it's done by using online images (similar to putting a photo in a post)
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Sept 4, 2009 7:45:33 GMT
Post by pauldaf44 on Sept 4, 2009 7:45:33 GMT
Want lots of speeding tickets do you? Im sure we can hand them to him if he wants them that badly!!
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Sept 4, 2009 10:10:25 GMT
Post by bettyskeeper on Sept 4, 2009 10:10:25 GMT
He'll have to get his own 33 then as he's not getting any more in mine ;D
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