Car (or bike) Chat!

[Marco]

If I was 14 and had been given the 'car', I would have been delighted.

It's very difficult to design 'city cars' to look stylish. Perhaps the Italians might be able to do it. But to have the ability to park in tight spaces and not take up too much space, they will all tend to to look squat and boxy - and hence ugly.

Well, the answer's easy... Don't live in a city, thus be able to drive something half decent!

Marco.

[Marco]

When I was fourteen I was delighted to get a club biscuit. You'd have to be an unimaginably spoilt teenager not to be delighted with it.

My old man had a shop full of them, including almost every other biscuit, sweet, crisp, lolly, ice-cream, you name it, so I wouldn't have been 'delighted' to get one!...

Marco.

[Pigmy Pony]

When I was fourteen I was delighted to get a club biscuit. You'd have to be an unimaginably spoilt teenager not to be delighted with it. It's just way uglier than it needs to be. It looks like someone has nicked the wheel trims for a start.

Look at the front of it. It looks like the car everyone would be driving in some sort of awful Orwellian future.

It has the surprised look of a car that's had "a banana in the tailpipe"

[Pigmy Pony]

My old man had a shop full of them, including almost every other biscuit, sweet, crisp, lolly, ice-cream, you name it, so I wouldn't have been 'delighted' to get one!...

Marco.

Ah, that explains your shape

[Macca]

Municipal dustcart circa 1955 - that's what it looks liken to me. The Messerschmitt at least has some design flair

[Macca]

It's basically a rip-off of the Zundapp 'Janus' from the 1950s. Only uglier and with missing wheel trims.

[Marco]

Ah, that explains your shape

Lol - there's nothing wrong with my shape, and you've seen pics of me when I was younger, and a slim, sexy stud when I had access to all those goodies on a daily basis, not to mention all manner of chips and fried foods!

Marco.

[Pigmy Pony]

Lol - there's nothing wrong with my shape, and you've seen pics of me when I was younger, and a slim, sexy stud;) when I had access to all those goodies on a daily basis, not to mention all manner of chips and fried foods!

Marco.

Yeah but these things have a way of catching up with you eventually. And if you're thinking of posting a current pic as 'proof', be sure to include a known circular item in the photo, like a football, as I know you're a whizz with photo editing. A football that looks like a stood up rugby ball would be a dead giveaway

[Marco]

Lol - there exists no catalyst to cause any such 'catch up'.

If you've read what I've written here on the subject (many times), you'll know that we (as in my parents and I) only ate fish and chips once a week, on a Friday.

Sweets and other forms of sugary snacks or crisps, ice-cream, etc, were strictly controlled/rationed by my parents [as they didn't want me turning into a wee fatty, such as is sadly all too often seen now among youngsters], so I never binged on crap

As I've said before, all that stuff was to sell to Brits and make pots of dosh from, in order to send me to prep school and generally keep me in the manner I was accustomed to!

Having enjoyed a healthy diet from day one of gracing this earth, is one of the reasons why I'm a healthy bastard now

Marco.

[Marco]

That would be a Messershmitt

Del's always wanted one of those in red, as she thinks it's cute (calls it a 'dolly car'), as it's got what looks like a wee face on the front (the bonnet looks like eyes and a nose, and the reg plate a mouth)

She's not having one, though!

Marco.