Fuel Strikes

[Bagpuss]

I always go for a pump on the filler cap side, because the long hoses aren't long enough if your car is a proper three-box saloon with a boot - the hose rubs the dirt off the boot, and the nozzle can only be got into the filler by holding it upside down.

It's probably OK if you've got one of those little hatchback things that girls drive, though.

It works with large saloon cars, and you dont have to have the nossle upside down unless you park miles away or have a gargantuan car. I did it yesterday in a mondeo sized car when there were long queues but empty pumps.

Peoplesoft it doesn't matter if I was wrong about most foreign cars having the pump on the drivers side, many do, but the point I was making is there is no need to queue for ages for a pump on the filler side.

I was trying to be helpful, but at times like this I wonder, why do I bother with this anally retentive site?

[OwlHoot]

I always go for a pump on the filler cap side, because the long hoses aren't long enough if your car is a proper three-box saloon with a boot - the hose rubs the dirt off the boot, and the nozzle can only be got into the filler by holding it upside down.

It's probably OK if you've got one of those little hatchback things that girls drive, though.

Or a Jag like mine, with the cap on the top surface of the boot.

Driving with about a thimble full of petrol left yesterday, and panicking about others panicking in cheap garages further afield, I filled the brute to the brim in the most expensive garage in the country, in Chelsea (£1.40 a litre), and ended up forking out £95

[pisces]

I disagree with almost everything you post. You know **** all about anything. To make matters worse, you try and sound authoritative which makes you out to be an even bigger tit when you're proven wrong.

Next question.

United fan TBH. There are none worse.

[NickFitz]

It works with large saloon cars, and you dont have to have the nossle upside down unless you park miles away or have a gargantuan car. I did it yesterday in a mondeo sized car when there were long queues but empty pumps.

Peoplesoft it doesn't matter if I was wrong about most foreign cars having the pump on the drivers side, many do, but the point I was making is there is no need to queue for ages for a pump on the filler side.

I was trying to be helpful, but at times like this I wonder, why do I bother with this anally retentive site?

Doesn't work with an Orion, at least not at Sainsbury's

[BrilloPad]

The bad news is I've just bought the farm down the road...

Will you move your local pikeys to there?

[BrilloPad]

I disagree with almost everything you post. You know **** all about anything. To make matters worse, you try and sound authoritative which makes you out to be an even bigger tit when you're proven wrong.

Next question.

I do wish you woulod not be so obtuse - why not say what you think?

[RichardCranium]

I do wish you woulod not be so obtuse - why not say what you think?

Obtuse? Did you mean 'obscure'?

[BrilloPad]

Obtuse? Did you mean 'obscure'?

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/obtuse

2. not sharp, acute, or pointed; blunt in form.

I just want Churchill to say what he thinks!

[RichardCranium]

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/obtuse

2. not sharp, acute, or pointed; blunt in form.

I just want Churchill to say what he thinks!

So you want him to be all pointy like a needle?

I still think you have the wrong word.

[BrilloPad]

So you want him to be all pointy like a needle?

I still think you have the wrong word.

What is the right word for Churchill?