Author Topic: People who park like fuds  (Read 286624 times)

Clare

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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #325 on: 24 March, 2013, 03:04:53 pm »

Quote from: BBC
... a car crashed and ended up embedded in a house in Suffolk.

and
Quote from: BBC
...a red Audi TT had left the road and crashed into the home.

Bad car, naughty car  >:(

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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #327 on: 24 March, 2013, 04:23:24 pm »
The house looks like it was made of cheese!
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Rhys W

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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #328 on: 24 March, 2013, 04:59:21 pm »
I was just about to post that one... no surprise that it was a bloody Audi TT.

Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #329 on: 24 March, 2013, 05:55:07 pm »
I was just about to post that one... no surprise that it was a bloody Audi TT.
I'm sure there is a very little "w" and "a" contained on every such car's badge. We all know they're there, save the driver.
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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #330 on: 24 March, 2013, 07:25:18 pm »
“There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.”
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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #331 on: 27 March, 2013, 11:39:33 am »
The Swedes have a new word for it:

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5. Fulparkerare, n.
Definition: Literally translating to "ugly parker," the word describes someone who parks his or her car in a particularly egregious or unlawful manner.
Used in an English sentence: "Whoa, did you really just double-park? Come on, don't be a fulparkerare."

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/03/ogooglebar-and-14-other-swedish-words-we-should-incorporate-into-english-immediately/274383/

Anyone want to fess up to being a Nomofob;D
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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #332 on: 27 March, 2013, 12:09:48 pm »
Not guilty, though I may occasionally suffer from the odd bout of  Attitydinkontinens ;)

Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #333 on: 29 March, 2013, 11:58:36 pm »
Not technically parking, but

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Rhys W

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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #334 on: 30 March, 2013, 11:55:20 am »
That's the one linked to a few posts above.

Looking at the damage to the parked cars and where it ended up, that red car's trajectory was something else.

mcshroom

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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #335 on: 30 March, 2013, 04:35:51 pm »
I'm assuming this isn't just for cars



Parking a modern gps enabled ship on rocks is fuddish, but to do so within a couple hundred yards of a lighthouse :facepalm:
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David Martin

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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #336 on: 02 April, 2013, 09:44:08 am »
And it isn't even a submarine.. They should have painted it in black and white stripes with a name like that.
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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #337 on: 02 April, 2013, 12:18:15 pm »
Black and white stripes? You need to explain that!
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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #338 on: 02 April, 2013, 01:33:23 pm »
If we're going to include marine parking misdemeanours ...
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rogerzilla

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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #339 on: 02 April, 2013, 01:56:51 pm »
A very, very short lady with whom I used to work has a very, very large Wilmslow panzer for a company car.  She is sufficiently incompetent at driving the thing that she once stranded it on top of another car in the car park and needed manual help to get enough wheels back in contact with the ground (impressive with a 4x4).

Another ex-colleague did the same thing when trying to park in the snow; managed to get the car (2WD in this case) astride a flower bed/rockery thing with the driving wheels spinning uselessly.
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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #340 on: 02 April, 2013, 09:45:04 pm »
Black and white stripes? You need to explain that!

What is black and white striped and swims?

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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #341 on: 02 April, 2013, 10:27:35 pm »
We actually had a few of those when Little was into fish keeping.  :facepalm: Still that was about three years ago, and just one of several species (all equally short lived in our tank, I'm afraid).
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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #342 on: 05 April, 2013, 12:29:19 pm »
The red arrow is pointing to Gideon, btw


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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #343 on: 05 April, 2013, 12:37:08 pm »
There is a bit in Christopher Brookmeyer's book All Fun and Games, about 4X4 parking spaces being specially marked with two parrallel yellow lines.
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clarion

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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #344 on: 05 April, 2013, 07:02:01 pm »
Gideon wins the thread.
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Kim

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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #345 on: 05 April, 2013, 09:39:57 pm »
Gideon wins the thread.

I think he cheated by having a minion do the tricky bit for him and then showing up to take all the credit.  They should stick to booking train tickets.

Feanor

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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #346 on: 05 April, 2013, 10:06:09 pm »
Perhaps I'm being a bit dense.

What has Gideon ( the arrowed dude ) done wrong in that photo?
And whilst we're at it, what has *anyone* done wrong in that photo?

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Kim

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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #347 on: 05 April, 2013, 10:10:09 pm »
It's a disabled parking bay.

Feanor

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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #348 on: 05 April, 2013, 10:13:16 pm »
And you can tell that none of the occupants of the vehicle qualify for that based on that photo alone?

ETA:  I'm perfactly prepared to believe they are just being fuds, but I'm just flagging up that we need to take care.  Things are not always what they seem, as you well know.  We have had several rants passim about how genuine disabled people get hassled because they don't 'look' disabled to Joe Public.

clarion

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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #349 on: 05 April, 2013, 10:17:30 pm »
Given that there's no Blue Badge, yeah.

Besides, that wasn't any part of his defence.
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