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Post by sandbachhatter on Jan 4, 2016 9:48:36 GMT
Hope this works from my phone. Your host this week is Archie:
I've decided to not include living people to avoid defamation proceedings and musicians because it's not their fault that they're crap. That lets Rio Ferdinand, Robbie Savage and Radiohead off the hook.
So, first up we have the Rover Car Company. Not content with manufacturing cars specifically for elderly men who wear a hat when driving, they also produced the Range Rover, the most pointless car ever built. Mind-bogglingly bad for the environment and used mainly as school transport by women who know that they're going to hit something.
Next is Rabbit Food, AKA lettuce. Tastes of nothing and particularly odious when used as a garnish for hot food. A complete waste of space and effort in food preparation and simply a mechanism for charging extra for a basic sandwich or plate of fish and chips.
Finally, I give you Red Bull. Apart from being a disgusting drink (cold coffee FFS), the makers sponsor 2 of the most boring and ecologically unsound sports in Formula 1 racing and some kind of stunt flying.
Over to you guys.
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Jan 4, 2016 10:50:24 GMT
Having read the more detailed descriptions, it's Rover cars for me - but with specific reference to Range Rovers used as 'cars about town', and, most especially (from ongoing personal experience), for the school run.
Don't really embrace the concept of high-energy drinks as a deterrent for sleep - but, in fairness, have never tried Red Bull neat, so can't comment on it particularly well. And am having to grit my teeth and not hate Rabbit food, whilst at least trying to eat a tad more healthily this year!
Good choices, archie.
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Post by countyfan on Jan 4, 2016 11:47:10 GMT
I love a good salad and eat it all the time so there's no way I can put rabbit food into vault and I drunken many a Vodka and redbull and Jager bombs over the years so that also cannot go into the vault either. That leaves me with Rover cars, I never owned one before they went bump but as a kid remember the big rovers being the police cars of the time (don't know the model) and used to quite like them as a nipper so I have no other reason to put Rovers into the vault than I like the other 2 more!! Besides, they are technically in the vault already as they don't exist anymore!! haha.
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Post by marketharborough on Jan 4, 2016 11:56:10 GMT
Rabbit Food - no taste - no nutritional value - no enjoyment - straight in the vault!!
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Post by gazz on Jan 4, 2016 13:55:52 GMT
I get where you're coming from on the Range Rover thing, archie, and I totally agree - but I have bigger fish to fry in this particular thread. Health nuts and their rabbit food can stay, it just means more Pizzas and Kebabs for the rest of us! Now, to the real fly in this particular ointment... Red Bull F1 Red Bull Air Race Red Bull Cliff Diving Red Bull Soapbox Race Red Bull X-Fighters... I'm sure I've missed a few more out too! Although I do like the X-Fighters, it's the whole 'Red Bull' thing that irritates me, they get everywhere. They're (to coin a Jim Royle phrase) "like sh*t in a field!". I wouldn't mind, rather than just wake me up and give me an energy boost, that shite not only tastes horrible, it also gives me headaches like you would not believe. Be gone, Red Bull-sh*t, and never darken my door again! Great choices, archie!
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Post by sandbachhatter on Jan 4, 2016 14:11:36 GMT
I'm torn when it comes to Red Bull because, although I can't stand the stuff on it's own, I am partial to a Jagerbomb once in a while. Even more, I agree with Gazza's sentiment about them taking over the world, but when my friend and I did our 'Bondathon' at Law School, they sponsored us and sent a free crate of the stuff.
Rabbit food has its place I guess.
So, bearing in mind my commute takes me through Alderley Edge twice a day, Range Rovers being driven by useless footballers wives it must be.
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Post by countybenno on Jan 4, 2016 16:14:45 GMT
I have no problem with Rabbit food or red bull really so for me will have to be Rover, not only did I have one a few years back and was a bag of crap forever breaking down but also because of the Range Rover drivers who think they are something just because of the pollution causing gas guzzling things that they drive.
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Post by countyfan on Jan 4, 2016 17:03:46 GMT
Im confused? (not hard I know!), Is Archie referring to Rover cars or Range Rovers? I was under the impression it was the old Rover cars that went bump around the turn of the century?
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Post by Epworth Hatter on Jan 4, 2016 17:29:43 GMT
I'm going for red bull. Can't bear the stuff.
I may look at bit like a salad-dodger following my christmas excess, but I am quite partial to the odd bit of mixed leaf on my plate.
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Post by archie on Jan 4, 2016 17:32:15 GMT
It's a BOGOF, cf. Try cars with the brand 'Rover'. Rover 4x4s were crap in the 90s as well and the Chelsea taxis have just carried on the tradition.
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Post by gazz on Jan 4, 2016 17:35:10 GMT
Im confused? (not hard I know!), Is Archie referring to Rover cars or Range Rovers? I was under the impression it was the old Rover cars that went bump around the turn of the century? He's referring to the 'Rover' brand's production of the Range Rover, matey.
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Post by another_ruined_saturday on Jan 4, 2016 19:10:20 GMT
i once dropped a rather lovely young lady off at heathrow, and was so knackered driving back up the M1 that i had to stop and buy some red bull at the services. ever the cheapskate, i got two cans as they were on some sort of offer for two. i drank one and started driving. was still nodding like f***. drank the other. still nodding like f***. pulled off at another services and slept in the car for three hours or so. on the one occasion i needed it (i was properly knackered), it didn't do what it said on the tin.
lettuce. only edible if doused in something that makes it less healthy, like dressing, mayonnaise, or burger... rocket might at least taste a bit peppery, but it's like eating nettles. i'd rather eat john nettles than a mixed leaf salad to be honest.
rovers. the chelsea tractor is a genuine abomination of modern society. as archie alluded to, the drivers need the height and the armour because they're likely to clip stationary objects or lollipop ladies. what's the point of 4WD if all you're going to do is park on the zig-zag lines outside a school in a city's suburbs, flashing your f***ing hazard lights while you wait for emily to finish ballet practice?
AND i bought my grandad's rover 214i off him in 2001 and i dread to think what it would have been like without the injection. the last car i've had that didn't benefit from power steering, and it had all the handling grace of a torpedo-crippled aircraft carrier. additionally, the lovely, flash, drop front cd player i put in it was removed violently (following the smashing of my passenger window) while i was watching county lose to walsall on a tuesday night. AND it was the least reliable by far in a long line of unreliable cars i've had. hateful. satan's own car. into CHIVE with you...
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Post by gazz on Jan 4, 2016 19:30:12 GMT
AND i bought my grandad's rover 214 i off him in 2001 and i dread to think what it would have been like without the injection. the last car i've had that didn't benefit from power steering, and it had all the handling grace of a torpedo-crippled aircraft carrier. additionally, the lovely, flash, drop front cd player i put in it was removed violently (following the smashing of my passenger window) while i was watching county lose to walsall on a tuesday night. AND it was the least reliable by far in a long line of unreliable cars i've had. hateful. satan's own car. into CHIVE with you... Brilliant!
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Post by sandbachhatter on Jan 8, 2016 20:24:21 GMT
Rover cars go into the vault.
Maccy is your host next week!
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Post by dudleyhatter on Jan 11, 2016 22:23:05 GMT
Whoops missed this one. Would probably have gone for Red Bull
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