To chuckle when I met a family with matching personalised number plates!

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I certainly raised an eyebrow, and stifled an inner chuckle when I met this family...

OK so Mum, Dad, 20-something Son and Daughter have a car each, so 4 cars with 4 personalised number plates.

Say Mum is called Emma Sophie Lanchester, her number plate is:
FAM4 ESL

Say Dad is called Humphrey Charles Lanchester, his number plate is:
FAM4 HCL

Obviously these are not the real names and number plates but you get the idea! They all start with the same four letters, and end with the drivers initials.

Of course the parents have matching Range Rovers, and the two kids have an Audi each!

At first I was , but then I was at the things some people will waste their money on! AIBU?

Bloody hell. Imagine caring about this shit

People do have different interests you know. I suspect that many petrolheads are more tolerant of your interests than you are of theirs.

As interests go it's rather... limited.

My (horrible) neighbours all have private reg's because they like to portray that they're well off, so use it to hide the age of theirs cars! its really pathetic!

Personal plates don't make me laugh. I just think they're a bit wanky.

I think it was Kevin Spacey who had 2BE on one car and NOT 2B on the other. Not a big fan of personalised plates but I liked that.

My favourite local number plate is L1C LO. It always makes me smile!

I never understand this on mn, who cares? If you want a pp then get one and if you don't why would you care about them at all?
I don't have one but I don't think they are twattish either.

We have the utterly delightful PU51 LUV round these parts. I went to school with her son. Makes me feel a bit queasy

hopping, if nobody cared about anything and had no opinions MN would have about 2 threads.

I know a family like this, even the son in law has the personnel plate, they are the sort of family who would walk over you if they could and the matching personnel number plates seems to say it all for me eg. dicks

laughing here at the posters saying "its my money I choose what to spend it on",,yes and you look like a twat driving around

DH wanted a personalised plate so I got him one for a birthday present. It didn't cost that much, probably less than an i-phone. He returned the favour by getting me one.
I don't see it as very poncetastic - I don't think about it much really, tbh - but having a car with a special reg is no more poncetastic than wearing clothes that scream JACK WILLS or GAP or SUPERDRY or ... (which I don't do: if they want me to advertise their wares then they can pay me).

There's a car round here where the plate ends in FUD.

Imagine driving around in a fud all the time? I laugh every time I see it. But that's just me. Childish, silly, sneering me.

YANBU. I think it's horribly tacky.

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If I was being a 'dick', I might suggest you spend any surplus money you have on getting some spelling lessons - although as a 'twat', you probably wouldn't consider my opinion worth listening to!

I think it's more important to base my like/dislike of people on their characters, rather than their personal number plate or the way they spell.

Dh bought one many years ago - it was a joke that only we get - doesn't spell out any obvious words. However, it turned out to be our son's initials so after some years he bought another with our daughter's intials.

I don't particularly like them and would never have done it myself, but dh grew up with nothing - often not enough food - and I guess for him he means something that it does not mean to me. So, I put up with it.

If some of your are laughing at us, that makes me feel sad. You don't know me or dh. I would like to shrug it off and say I don't care, but I am the kind of person who does - too much. Wish people would learn not to judge.

There's one I see every so often around here which is GL05 RFC. No idea if it belongs to someone senior at Kingsholm, a player, or just a fan, but I quite like that.

I have one. I bought it when I was 20 - after I'd bough a 3 series BMW. I thought myself quite the 'chap'

I didn't pay much for it. I've probably outgrown it now, but I've sort of become attached to it. I should point out though that the numberplate actually spells my name (it's a 5-digit plate). My wife, who would usually think such thngs naff, says that it's the 'best' she's seen - so she tolerates it. We've had 3 offers for the plate - one of which from the director of a company that came to do some work at our house (after one of their plumbers mentioned it to him)

I find on the whole, people are usually fairly positive about it though I don't suppose the 'haters' would make themselves known and it's surprising the number of people who believe me when i tell them that it 'came with the car!'

Ha ha OP you would love us. We have personalised plates, his and hers brand new BMWs and.....wait for it.....a plate bought and retained for our 7 year old DD. Do I care what others think? No, I don't - our money, we'll spend it as we please

People can spend their money as they please; but that doesn't mean other people can't think it's a silly waste of money.

The British are car obsessed. Nowhere else have I seen Range Rovers and BMWs parked outside three-bed semis costing 200k. Not trying to be judgmental. But having lived in the US for a long time, the fancy car obsession doesn't seem as broad.

They are a bit much I think, scare the horses type thing. My father told me a story about a rather famous gentleman being caught at a smart brothel in Soho as there had been a burglary and the photo in the newspaper covering the story showed his Bentley with personalised plate parked outside.

The only ones I like are the LOO, BOG type ones on the vans for Pimlico Plumbers. Amusing and good marketing. Charlie Mullins is a plumbing genius.

My husband thinks they are a midlands thing. As you leave Oxfordshire and enter Warwickshire on the M40, apparently you start to see more and more. Would fit in with Harry Enfield's 'I am considerably richer than youse' sketch..

I am in the Midlands Texan. They are indeed everywhere.