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Them and my friends hand knitted hoover "cosy cover" given to her my her MIL?

they might as well all read "I AM A TWAT"

YABU

[shrug]

There are lots of thing I deem pointless. Some people will agree, some people won't. No doubt there are things you enjoy having/doing that I think are a pointless waste of money/time/effort

If we all liked the same things the world would be a very dull place indeed.

They have great advantages to other people, I know where my neighbours are as their cars are easily spotted when parked around town
<<nosey neighbour emotion>>

YANBU. I think they're a bit sad.

YANBU. I can't ever imagine being rich enough to think that a good use of my resources would be to get a PN Plate.

We have one. I was a bit mortified as my dh used my nickname & his age. Basically it added 10 years to me. Not impressed.

TheParanoidAndroid sums it up perfectly.

ParanoidAndroid I always think that, well actually 'I am an arse' or 'Look, I'm totally original and different and special'.

Ahhhh, i love mine, it says MUM Love it xxxxx

I sometimes see number plates which I know to be worth about £1k plus (minimal letters and numbers) on cars which are worth about £3k. I'm not sure what that is about.

Yep, pointless, people only buy them for vanity or to disguise the age of their car (who cares)

The only one I've liked was on an oldish but spotless Rolls-Royce parked on the drive of a run of the mill suburban housing estate.

It read R0 13 13 E R

They say "Look at me. I can't spell my own name'..... Or are there people really called Deb1?

Think they all really spell KNOBBER!!

Can see no point whatsoever in them.

I think they can look good on a business vehicle if they use the business name, but individuals just look like twats.

Twattish, self important with a serving of noveau riche to go with it

K 51UT! I followed an oriental person with this on his BMW last week, I actually went round the roundabout further than i need to as i couldnt believe the plate!

When my cousin got his pilots licence a few years back now, his dad bought him something along the lines of P1LOT ... tho it may be P11LOT? i havnt seen it, my mum called me tell me, he bought it.

I havnt got a problem with them myself.

It's just plain chavvy.

They certainly lack a little class.

Or what paranoid said.

I work right next to the law courts in Birmingham. In our nearest car park I spied a mercedes with MR LAW as the reg plate. May as well have said 'The berk in the merc' to be quite honest. Cringe.

They might as well say "I think I am too special for a bog standard numberplate."

Though that would be quite long.

My dad is 63. He has a private plate. He is neither a knob, nor a chav, nor a twat.

He has that plate because to him its symbolic of the hard work he's done over the years to earn the money it cost him to buy it. Its an achievement for him because he was so ill when i was little he nearly died, twice. That number plate is a visual sign to him that he survived, he pulled through and he gave his family things he never thought we'd be able to have.

Dont assume just because you dont like them that it gives you the right to call the people who do have them names.

OP, you may as well have entitled the thread "How to make some people very defensive and cross".

YANBU. I particularly at the ones which aren't readable anyway, but you know someone has paid out £££ for them.

My DH himself has nearly died, worked his ass off to get us in a better financial position etc etc...I really just dont see the need- they just seem to be about showing off 'here I am...' yes people may like them (perish the thought) but nobody can really argue there IS a point to them can they?