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    #41
    Wouldn't get away with this today

    Deep down, let's face it, all of us hate foreigners.
    It's quite natural when one lives in such a beautiful and perfect country as our own to hate and loathe those greasy-haired swivelling toadies from Europe and beyond.
    What worries me is that sometimes this hatred is so deep down that many of us forget about it, and instead of hitting Frenchmen and letting Dagos' tyres down, we are buying garlic-smelling French cars and eating filthy chunks of Wop dough in stinking Pizza parlours.
    Now I'm not saying that we should go out and burn down the nearest Eye-tie, Chink, Froggie or Pakki restaurant – I think the army should be doing that – but if we are going to keep this lovely country of ours beautiful, clean and deeply religious, we must remember that the Young Bigots Club is only a phone call away.

    They will come round at a moment's notice and tread on packets of Gauloises and throw Grundig equipment down the lavatory. Remember, Tolerance is a great British virtue – let's not waste it on Yids, Polacks, Wops, Krauts and Arabs.
    Col. Sir Harry McWhirter M.C.C.,
    Chairman The Bloody Bigots Club 1937-93


    News from our branches:

    ASCOT: a very successful Young Bigots' Evening was held in the back room of the Duck and Prime Minister. A letter of abuse was sent to M. Pompidou, and a local hairdresser was burned.

    The CHELTENHAM branch of the Young Wives' Prejudice Club had a very successful outing to the Knorr-Swiss Factory. They did over £4,000-worth of damage.

    ESHER Town Hall was packed last Thursday for an illustrated talk by our local organiser, Mrs. Ursula Fforbes-Hhitler on 'Putting the Boot in on Wops', and our FRINTON branch have collected over 6,000 dead dogs for our Bulgarian Food Hampers. Well done.

    HOLIDAYS


    If you must go to the continent, here are some of the places to visit:
    The British Embassy, 35 rue du Faubourg St. Honore, Paris 8e
    The British Embassy, Friedrich Ebert Allee 77, BONN
    The British Embassy, Via Conte Rosso 25, ROME
    The British Consulate, Herengracht 460, AMSTERDAM
    The British Chamber of Commerce, Mesrytiyet Caddessi No. 34, Tepbasi Beyoghi, ISTANBUL

    Some useful terms of abuse to help you get the worst out of the countries you visit:

    ITALIANS etc: Greaseballs. Dagos. Wops. Candles. Spaghetti-eaters. Ice-cream salesmen. Eye-ties.

    EGYPTIANS: Gippos. Yellowbellies. Anti-yids. Sphinctas.

    FRENCH: Froggies. Bloody French. (N.B. The French are very easily insulted by the British. Almost anything will do.)

    GERMANS: Krauts. Boche. Sausage-eaters. Square-heads. (N.B. The Germans are an appallingly insensitive nation and therefore extremely hard to insult. Try setting fire to them or calling their Mercedes Volkswagens.)

    COLOURED PEOPLE: Best not to even talk to them.
    How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think

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      #42
      Originally posted by gingerjedi View Post
      I've had 1 German and several Japanese, the Audi was a nice motor with great styling and interior but it was a vanity thing, when one of the wheel speed sensors malfunctioned and Audi wanted £800 to fix it I came to my senses.

      All the Jap cars I've had do the job just as well and I don't have the niggling feeling of being taken for a ride by the dealers.
      TBF, reliable safety doesnt come cheap. If cheap is your basis for buying a car (nothing wrong with it btw), then, you should consider a Kia or Hyundai instead. Far better build and reliability (they dont offer 7 year warranty if they have to carry out warranty repairs) than Nissan despite what a survey may claim.

      IMO Nissan produce just about the most ugly cars there are juke, note, WTF, while toyota are cars for geriatrics.
      I couldn't give two fornicators! Yes, really!

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        #43
        Originally posted by BolshieBastard View Post
        TBF, reliable safety doesnt come cheap. If cheap is your basis for buying a car (nothing wrong with it btw), then, you should consider a Kia or Hyundai instead. Far better build and reliability (they dont offer 7 year warranty if they have to carry out warranty repairs) than Nissan despite what a survey may claim.

        IMO Nissan produce just about the most ugly cars there are juke, note, WTF, while toyota are cars for geriatrics.
        Most "cheap" cars nowadays don't compromise on safety and even the French ones which everyone knows are bottom of the pile usually have 5-star NCAPs.
        I would say its pretty hard to buy a really crap car today, whereas in the 70s, say, most of them were.
        The best car in the 70s was probably more unsafe than the worst one now - a point proved on some program I saw a while ago when they test-crashed a 70s Volvo estate and compared that with a modern Clio at the same speed. The Clio, because of the safety shell construction all cars use now, was considerably better than the Volvo and its inhabitants would have walked away rather than being seriously injured as in the Volvo.
        Last edited by sasguru; 26 July 2012, 11:45.
        Hard Brexit now!
        #prayfornodeal

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          #44
          Originally posted by BolshieBastard View Post
          IMO Nissan produce just about the most ugly cars there are juke, note, WTF, while toyota are cars for geriatrics.
          Agree on the Nissan. I like our RAV4 - quite fun to drive when the clutch isn't ****ed never driven anything else toyota.

          I quite like the look of the new Fords (kinetic design).
          ‎"See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."

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            #45
            Originally posted by BolshieBastard View Post
            TBF, reliable safety doesnt come cheap. If cheap is your basis for buying a car (nothing wrong with it btw), then, you should consider a Kia or Hyundai instead. Far better build and reliability (they dont offer 7 year warranty if they have to carry out warranty repairs) than Nissan despite what a survey may claim.

            IMO Nissan produce just about the most ugly cars there are juke, note, WTF, while toyota are cars for geriatrics.


            It was neither cheap, reliable or safe because of the fault.

            I go for 'quality' by engineering definition 'fitness for purpose' which usualy translate to value for money.

            Yet I still hanker for a 535d Touring.
            Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave Johnson

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              #46
              Originally posted by BolshieBastard View Post
              IMO Nissan produce just about the most ugly cars there are juke, note, WTF, while toyota are cars for geriatrics.
              The Juke is ugly, but the Qashqai looks good IMHO. The Nissan GT-R is a very nice car

              As for geriatrics..
              New Toyota GT 86 Sports Coupe with 2.0-liter Engine Officially Revealed in Production Guise [Updated] - Carscoop

              If you want and example of an ugly car, look no further than the latest BMW 1 series, it's like a modern day BL designed car.

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                #47
                Originally posted by ZARDOZ View Post
                If you want and example of an ugly car, look no further than the latest BMW 1 series, it's like a modern day Austin Allegro.
                I find BMWs to be either bland or ugly. Good looking Beemers seem to be limited to the sports models.
                Coffee's for closers

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                  #48
                  Fook me I'd heard of that, but only £25K? I'm having that!
                  And still have change to replace the missus Aygo.
                  Hard Brexit now!
                  #prayfornodeal

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                    #49
                    Originally posted by sasguru View Post
                    Fook me I'd heard of that, but only £25K? I'm having that!
                    And still have change to replace the missus Aygo.
                    Are you sure you can afford it?

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                      #50
                      Originally posted by AtW View Post
                      Are you sure you can afford it?

                      I've already made my money, I'm not struggling with a crappy software co. that produces nothing useful.

                      HTH
                      Hard Brexit now!
                      #prayfornodeal

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