To be annoyed at people in large 4X4 pickups to complain that parking spaces too small

'tis true, there's no need

i didnt add my message to say you were an arsehole btw. just addressing the size issue. Personally i think you drive a 4x4 because you wanted that particular vehicle.

i think that people who drive 4x4s in the town are arseholes. nothing unclear about that.

not really trying to double my point , don't know why that happened

Thanks for the clarification, not that I'd be one to generalise myself but I'd say that perhaps not all 4x4s are as wide as other ones and some non 4x4s could be wider - just a thoguht since this issue is about thw width of cars. I couldn't get my children in a narrower car. I saw a Jaguar the other day which was a lot wider than mine and a Rover - would you still class me as an arsehole if I could afford a larger car like that but it wasn't a 4x4 or are you just generalising against everyone you don't know?

Thanks for the clarification, not that I'd be one to generalise myself but I'd say that perhaps not all 4x4s are as wide as other ones and some non 4x4s could be wider - just a thoguht since this issue is about thw width of cars. I couldn't get my children in a narrower car. I saw a Jaguar the other day which was a lot wider than mine and a Rover - would you still class me as an arsehole if I could afford a larger car like that but it wasn't a 4x4 or are you just generalising against everyone you don't know?

my mondeo will fit at a squeeze 3 cars seats. my friends renault scenic does too.

my dad drives a van and he's not got a fat arse....
-It's yellow not white btw

lol at the small car paranoia. a small car parked a bit badly might cause you some difficulties, a big wanky 4x4 hardly has to be parked badly at all to box people in because the parking spaces in this country don't fit them. BECAUSE the cars are supposed to be driven by wankers in (formerly) cheap gas country america and it is to our national shame that they have been so embraced in the UK.

Well I've got a 9 seater mini bus and I haven't got a fat arse.

Don't believe 4x4 is only car taking 3 car seats, what stages?

I have had to climb into my car via the boot before because of the crap parking of small cars adjacent to mine. My car's only a Galaxy rather than a 4x4, but the effect's the same if other people can't park properly.

ford and all dcs safely strapped in.

fucksakes, give me a minute to answer why don't you?

yes you are. i don't believe that a 4x4 is the only car you could have got. i have a honda jazz and so does a friend of mine with three children, so she must manage to accomodate them all somehow.

Aitch, come on now? I'd really like to know - or was it a bit of a generalisation possibly? Sometimes there are good reasons why people do things not just because they are arseholes.

Aitch, am I an arsehole because of my car or my choice to have 3 children and to comply with government safety guidelines for my children - please claify, just so as I know.

What do other people who have 3 children do then? I have a 4x4 ,but only beacuse it was the smallest - yes I do mean that- car that we could afford that would take 3 car seats in the back . It is still a bit of a squash but we can squeeze them in, any narrower and we wouldn't have them strapped in at all , forget safely. Just after we bought it and I was 8 mo PG with DD2 I went back to the car after shopping and couldn't get in because although there was a little bit of room I couldn't squeeze in. In the end I had to wait for someone to move - I didn't blame them, just the supermarket and all the 'parents' who didn't appear to have small children in the mother and child parking spaces.I am really careful to make sure my DC don't bash other cars when we get out but I have a problem often with the width of some spaces as I have to open the door wide enough to get DD2's baby car seat out every time. I do park as considerately as I can and also choose my parking places carefully. Incidentally I am working on the size of my backside - but it's difficult !!!

with the big cars, though, they might be parked properly, ie within the lines but they can't get their doors open without intruding on others' spaces. och i can't be bothered tbh. people who have these cars in the town are arseholes, plain and simple.

It doesn't matter if your fat or thin, you should still be able to park properly no matter what car you have.

maybe I just don't want everyone thinking I'm nasty beacuse I too have seen people and thought 'fat' in fact you caould be v. thin and I would still prob. think 'fat' if you were in my parking space

whatever, it was just not that relevant. and i love a 4x4 thread as much as the next girl...

I think it would have been unacceptable nasty to say it to her face or to treat her in a certain way because you felt she was fat, but I don't think Ripeberry is nasty beacuse she tried to post a humourous message on mumsnet and it backfired.

i think, icing, that the vast majority of people think that the fat-arsed thing was unaccetably nasty.

I don't think it's right either that last week, everyone was in uproar because of the whole racist/chinky think, yet it seems to be quite acceptable for someone to say 'Because, no kidding, she was a fat arsed lady, almost totally round, no wonder she can't fit in spaces.
God help her if someone blocks her in, should be a funny sight trying to crawl in the boot to move the car.' That is a very crual thing to say.