Have you got a personalised number plate and do you wish you hadn’t?

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Marydoll

*David*, we know! 😉

And I knew you knew😉

David, we know! 😉

Dinahmo

David49

Purplepixie

No. I just think they are so vulgar. Look at me syndrome!

Yes Pixie it it “look at me”.
In exactly the same way cosmetic surgery, pumped up lips boob jobs, tattoos, red hair, extreme dress, extreme behavior, jewelry, designer clothes, is a statement of individuality.

Many of the above I would term vulgar and they would cost a lot more than personal plates.

I take umbrage at red hair being linked with the other "statements of individuality". Red heads get a lot of stick these days, especially children. At least we don't go grey - I'm fading gently to a pale strawberry blonde without any artifice.

My comment about red hair was not aimed at natural redheads but the dyed bright red, sky blue pink colours, if that isn’t “look at me” what is !.

Dinahmo

David49

Purplepixie

No. I just think they are so vulgar. Look at me syndrome!

Yes Pixie it it “look at me”.
In exactly the same way cosmetic surgery, pumped up lips boob jobs, tattoos, red hair, extreme dress, extreme behavior, jewelry, designer clothes, is a statement of individuality.

Many of the above I would term vulgar and they would cost a lot more than personal plates.

I take umbrage at red hair being linked with the other "statements of individuality". Red heads get a lot of stick these days, especially children. At least we don't go grey - I'm fading gently to a pale strawberry blonde without any artifice.

At 69, I still have my red hair, no longer carrot, but multiple shades of Titian.
People think I have paid a fortune to get it like that. A bottle of dye has never touched it. 😉

It defines me! It is a statement my individuality. 🤣

David49

Purplepixie

No. I just think they are so vulgar. Look at me syndrome!

Yes Pixie it it “look at me”.
In exactly the same way cosmetic surgery, pumped up lips boob jobs, tattoos, red hair, extreme dress, extreme behavior, jewelry, designer clothes, is a statement of individuality.

Many of the above I would term vulgar and they would cost a lot more than personal plates.

I take umbrage at red hair being linked with the other "statements of individuality". Red heads get a lot of stick these days, especially children. At least we don't go grey - I'm fading gently to a pale strawberry blonde without any artifice.

Years ago I knew a lady who had BRA38. This moved to every car that she bought.

Cars mean little to me, apart from making life easier, so a personal plate would be wasted on me. If it has wheels and works, I’m happy.
My DD however, is a car person, loves her car, really looks after it and has a personalised plate with her initials.

I haven’t mentioned that I read somewhere they are considered Non-U or common (Nicky Haslam, tongue in cheek?).
I’m happy if she’s happy and it’s of no import.

Thank you.
What I took from your post was that all the adornments, along with private plates and red hair are vulgar.

Marydoll

David I am confused, were you trying to be ironic/ facetious/ amusing in your response to PurplePixie?
It did not come across that way.

I’m saying that private plates are no different to any other adornment we choose to have, you may like or hate them but many choose to have them.

We have had a personal plate for 25 years I bought it for my husbands 50th birthday, but it is not a name or initials, it is a sport that majority would not think about but one that my husband and I have represented Great Britain at so it means something to us personally and is easy to remember.

So if the letters go by the size of the city or town in Germany, how come Hanover is H, yet Hamburg, being 3 times the size, is HH?

Hamburg, along with Rostock, Bremen and some other coastal ports, are proud members of the Hanseatic League and all have added the H to their registration numbers: HH, HR, HB. It's a fascinating subject. The Hanse is still a thing, dating back to the Middle Ages. It was an association of trading ports, similar, I imagine, to the Cinq Ports in Southern England.

David I am confused, were you trying to be ironic/ facetious/ amusing in your response to PurplePixie?
It did not come across that way.

When people write posts containing total nonsense, of course it is irritating. It ruins good discussions.

Ooh I touched a nerve there, sackcloth and ashes was sarcasm, are we all supposed to like the same minimalist choices. Many of us dress to impress, make up, jewlery, hair dresser, clothes that get noticed, nice house, it’s all vanity.

You all do it, I hope, I do it as well, my reply was an answer to Purple Pixie calling “Vanity Plates” vulgar - common, like them or loathe them they are not common

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David49

Purplepixie

No. I just think they are so vulgar. Look at me syndrome!

Yes Pixie it it “look at me”.
In exactly the same way cosmetic surgery, pumped up lips boob jobs, tattoos, red hair, extreme dress, extreme behavior, jewelry, designer clothes, is a statement of individuality.

Many of the above I would term vulgar and they would cost a lot more than personal plates.

So you would have us all dressed in shades of beige with our clean scrubbed faces devoid of make-up and something like a hijab wrapped around our heads so that anyone with naturally flaming red, or blonde hair could not show this vulgar attribute?

Shuld I remove my wedding and engagement rings, such vulgar items, and flaunting the fact that I am married?

Exactly what would you describe as extreme behaviour and extreme dress? Perhaps coming out on the streets and demonstrating anti-racists beliefs and support for a local mosque when it was threat from the Far Right hooligans, or perhaps the lady I saw at the weekend, who must have been well into her 80s, was going round a stately home in a loose light cotton dress, waisted, with long sleeves and a mid-calf skirt, but it was a good strong orange. it looked lovely - and so elegant.

As for designer clothes, are you confusing designer clothers with clothes with brand logos? Really good designer clothes are very discrete only giving their origin away by their impeccable tailoring. Is that really so vulgar?

What a dreary world you must live in if you live by the tastes that can be inferred from the above post. You would no doubt be at home in the land of The Hand Maiden.

David49

Purplepixie

No. I just think they are so vulgar. Look at me syndrome!

Yes Pixie it it “look at me”.
In exactly the same way cosmetic surgery, pumped up lips boob jobs, tattoos, red hair, extreme dress, extreme behavior, jewelry, designer clothes, is a statement of individuality.

Many of the above I would term vulgar and they would cost a lot more than personal plates.

The high moral ground - sackcloth and ashes for all, no enjoyment or frivolities, no individuality

Make up your mind David49.

The high moral ground - sackcloth and ashes for all, no enjoyment or frivolities, no individuality.

For goodness sake we are discussing a thread about car licence plates, vanity plates, let those of us without vanity standup and be counted.

MissInterpreted

I often wonder how some people on here breathe - the air must be so thin up there on their moral high ground...

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MissInterpreted

I often wonder how some people on here breathe - the air must be so thin up there on their moral high ground...

I do like your response.

I have to say, I would find it exhausting maintaining that moral high ground.

I often wonder how some people on here breathe - the air must be so thin up there on their moral high ground...

David49

Purplepixie

No. I just think they are so vulgar. Look at me syndrome!

Yes Pixie it it “look at me”.
In exactly the same way cosmetic surgery, pumped up lips boob jobs, tattoos, red hair, extreme dress, extreme behavior, jewelry, designer clothes, is a statement of individuality.

Many of the above I would term vulgar and they would cost a lot more than personal plates.

They harm no-one! There are worse things happening in the world.
I bought mine, cost £100, about twenty years ago, not to show off, but because the plate exactly matched my initials and I like quirky things.
Cronic ill health means my life is very restricted, with little pleasure in it.

You come across as rather judgemental, David -- and what I choose to do with my hard earned money is my own affair.-- 😉

P.S I have red hair too, but it is my own colour.😂

I have one which DH bought for my 60th a couple of years ago. I'd wanted one which related to my football ⚽️ team forever, and apparently he'd been looking for the right one for quite a while. I was more than overjoyed with it - a definite investment although I'd never sell it. I've also got past the stage of caring whether people judge me ..... 😄

They can be good investments. We have one that has increased from £3K to £12K in 7 years.