you don't pay road tax

[caerau]

Does 'piss off' not count as swearing these days then?  Must be true that the only real one left is the c word

[Wascally Weasel]

Only time I got "You don't pay road tax!" shouted at me I replied "Neither do you" and the guy then looked really sheepish.

[Deano]

Someone did tell me the story of his response to being told "you don't pay road tax", which was to point out the driver's out of date tax disc

[padrig]

Has anyone tried shouting "It's not a hypothecated tax"?

It doesn't have the same ring as the usual string of one syllable words.

[mcshroom]

Only had it shouted once. Stuck with the simple 'neither do you' response and I don't think the cretin knew what to say to that so just shouted something incoherent.

[SlowCoach]

Someone did tell me the story of his response to being told "you don't pay road tax", which was to point out the driver's out of date tax disc

Think that might have been mine - it happened to me at the traffic lights half way up Claypath in Durham. I was sitting at the red light alongside a car whose driver was haranguing me for jumping red lights. When I pointed out the error of his ways about red light jumping (why else were we having this conversation whilst waiting at a red light?), he then jumped on to the road tax issue. That was when I noticed that his tax disc was 3 month's overdue...

[Basil]

Chuck 50p in loose change in through their window.
"Well, there's your refund for today.  Now eff off!"

[mattc]

Chuck 50p in loose change in through their window.
"Well, there's your refund for today.  Now eff off!"

I like that. Sadly most of these twunts are already passing you as they yell, so you only really get the chance to give a friendly wave and a smile (which pisses some people off exponentially).

BUT
I am now considering training the Club Run Choir to yell
woooooooaaaarghlllbar
in unison at them, so they know how it feels.

[Basil]

Chuck 50p in loose change in through their window.
"Well, there's your refund for today.  Now eff off!"

I like that.

*fesses up*
Not actually my original.

From either the previous, previous place, or or perhaps even earlier from URC or even Urban Cyclist.  Can't remember.

[devitch]

The one time I had someone yell it at me I just looked confused and replied "Shit, where's my car gone?" Sadly I couldn't see the reaction, I like to feel they laughed a hearty laugh and mentally score the match in my favour.

[Greenbank]

"No, it's a bike." is my usual deadpan answer.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Chuck 50p in loose change in through their window.
"Well, there's your refund for today.  Now eff off!"

I like that. Sadly most of these twunts are already passing you as they yell, so you only really get the chance to give a friendly wave and a smile (which pisses some people off exponentially).

BUT
I am now considering training the Club Run Choir to yell
woooooooaaaarghlllbar
in unison at them, so they know how it feels.

ROFLOL etc 

[Androcles]

I had the Road Tax Conversation at work a while ago.  I explained that it was abolished in the 1930s.  The response: "Oh, I didn't know about that.  When did they bring it back in then?"   

[bikey-mikey]

A guy coming towards me on a very narrow back lane used the 'get off the road YDPRT' line, and I pointed at his passenger and said "nor does she - tell her to get out NOW"

[Basil]

That's an excellent one that I hadn't thought of.
Thanks, it's now loaded and ready to fire.

[Toady]

I saw a Jaguar ad at a motorway service station this weekend, offering free something and three years free "Road Fund Licence".  It's hardly surprising that many people still labour under the misapprehension that VED is hypothecated when a term that was withdrawn 77 years ago is used like this.  I wonder why the advertisers chose this particular phrase, rather than something more accurate, or even the more common "Road tax".  After all, advertising bods think very carefully about stuff like this.

[clarion]

ASA?  They're promising something they cannot provide.

[spesh]

...advertising bods think very carefully...

ROFLMAO

Going by the adverts on the TV yesterday afternoon whilst watching the last stage of the ToB, it is my informed belief that most advertising bods have probably destroyed their critical faculties from ingesting way too much Bolivian Marching Powder or watching too much French TV and the adverts shown thereon.

In the absence of a "B" Ark, they are all first up against the wall when I lead the panzers down Whitehall... 

[Toady]

...advertising bods think very carefully...

ROFLMAO

Going by the adverts on the TV yesterday afternoon whilst watching the last stage of the ToB, it is my informed belief that most advertising bods have probably destroyed their critical faculties from ingesting way too much Bolivian Marching Powder or watching too much French TV and the adverts shown thereon.

In the absence of a "B" Ark, they are all first up against the wall when I lead the panzers down Whitehall... 

In the past I have worked with such people, I can report that they do think very carefully about such things as wording in adverts.  Of course, they don't use conventional logic for their thinking, they use an alternate utter cobblers style of logic.   But be sure that the words "road fund licence" will not have been chosen at random in preference to "Vehicle Excise Duty".  There will be a reason.  It may well be a bit on the nonsensical side, but there will be one.

[Wascally Weasel]

...advertising bods think very carefully...

ROFLMAO

Going by the adverts on the TV yesterday afternoon whilst watching the last stage of the ToB, it is my informed belief that most advertising bods have probably destroyed their critical faculties from ingesting way too much Bolivian Marching Powder or watching too much French TV and the adverts shown thereon.

In the absence of a "B" Ark, they are all first up against the wall when I lead the panzers down Whitehall... 

Right, can you and Mr Larrington:

a) Come to some agreement on just who is leading the panzers down Whitehall.
b) Get a move on.  These B Ark denizens aren’t going to kill themselves you know.  Well, rarely and not in enough quantities to be helpful.

[Androcles]

I saw a Jaguar ad at a motorway service station this weekend, offering free something and three years free "Road Fund Licence".  It's hardly surprising that many people still labour under the misapprehension that VED is hypothecated when a term that was withdrawn 77 years ago is used like this.  I wonder why the advertisers chose this particular phrase, rather than something more accurate, or even the more common "Road tax".  After all, advertising bods think very carefully about stuff like this.

The Mini dealership in Derby does the same thing from time to time

[Bledlow]

...advertising bods think very carefully...

ROFLMAO

Going by the adverts on the TV yesterday afternoon whilst watching the last stage of the ToB, it is my informed belief that most advertising bods have probably destroyed their critical faculties from ingesting way too much Bolivian Marching Powder or watching too much French TV and the adverts shown thereon.

In the absence of a "B" Ark, they are all first up against the wall when I lead the panzers down Whitehall... 

In the past I have worked with such people, I can report that they do think very carefully about such things as wording in adverts.  Of course, they don't use conventional logic for their thinking, they use an alternate utter cobblers style of logic.   But be sure that the words "road fund licence" will not have been chosen at random in preference to "Vehicle Excise Duty".  There will be a reason.  It may well be a bit on the nonsensical side, but there will be one.

It sounds posh, dunnit?

Think estate agent speak, e.g. 'the dwelling benefits from a kitchen'.

[Wowbagger]

I have just been involved in a minor skirmish on the Nissan Leaf (the leaf is currently zero-rated for VED) website about roads and who they are there for, mentioning that the original reason that roads were tarmacamdamed was as a result of pressure form the cycling fraternity.

Someone retorted "And they pay how much in direct taxation to build and use them? " to which a third party answered "About the same as us."

[delthebike]

Someone retorted "And they pay how much in direct taxation to build and use them? " to which a third party answered "About the same as us."

You need a sticker or bike jersey that says "My other bike is a Leaf! That doesn't pay tax either!" followed with a big  or  .

[Dave_C]

Try going into the post office and asking to pay your Vehicle Excise Duty. Then persist when they stare blankly at you. Even more blankly if ypu just say you're there to renew your VED. I did and the person behind the counter hadn't a clue what I was talking about. I showed them my veh docs and they eventually cottoned on and said, "Oh Tax Disk'. If the disk issuing people haven't a clue how are Joe public supposed to know.

But what read gets me is if you have ever calculated the cost per year of running a car these days, the fraction of the overall cost which VED is quite small.