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what the FUCK is that advert for 4x4s doing at the top of this page????

222 replies

CountessDracula · 10/08/2006 23:26

I cannot believe it

How about one for air rifles too?

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jasper · 10/08/2006 23:42

fail to see a problem
Some folk need 4x4s. Nothing wrong with advertising them to help those for whom they are appropriate for their needs to choose.

jampots · 10/08/2006 23:43

its another luxury car thats all.

Is it my imagination or do Londoners have a problem with everything?

As for the advertising, can't see why you'd have a say in it. I guess MOthercare adverts must be quite upsetting for someone who's struggling to conceive or has had a miscarriage.

JustineMumsnet · 10/08/2006 23:43

plse see new thread on site stuff re ads
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MistressMary · 10/08/2006 23:44

Freedon of speech but not freedom of selling?
Goodness sake.

jamsambam · 10/08/2006 23:48

i dont want to start a fight, but yes i am a memeber of freecycle, yes, i only buy veg in season and yes, i drive a 4x4. i live in a small village and i drive it on a farm. so there. dont assume, ask.

JoshuaandChloesmummy · 10/08/2006 23:50

I have a 4x4 and a shotgun. Shoot me now!

CountessDracula · 10/08/2006 23:52

I have a shotgun too
I am a member of freecycle, I have someone picking up a fridge tomorrow and I am picking up a wooden farm for dd on Saturday

I buy veg at the farmers mkt from local suppliers

I don't live in teh country so I don't have a 4x4
if i lived on a farm i would have one

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MistressMary · 10/08/2006 23:52

Yep our family have a 4x4 and we own two tractors and a lorry. We also own a farm.

MamaMaiasaura · 10/08/2006 23:52

k, my twopennyworth re 4x4's. I saw a landrover with personlised numberplate think it was LI5A or something. IT was flash shiny and quite pretty. Totally not used for the purpose of being a 4x4 (eg good for use in the countryside/farming communities (my uncle has one and famrland to boot) or towing large vehicles such as horse trailers. I made immediate judgements about the driver. MY view was that she was irresponsible and self obessed. bad of me, maybe. BUT a person hit by a 4x4 is at a far greater chance of being killed. The vision is obscured by such a high bonnet and small children are unnoticed.

IMO cars and school runs dont mix but there are many families who have to due to work commitments.

I like 4x4's as in proper landrovers used for the purpose they are built. I dont like the 'fashion ac cessories' or the huge cowbar things on the front purely from the point of view of safety and the fact that they are quite chavvy

I am a sad muppet with a little corsa btw so i could just be jealous.. but i'm not

CountessDracula · 10/08/2006 23:53

I am not remotely jealous I could buy 10 4x4s if I was sad enough

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JoshuaandChloesmummy · 10/08/2006 23:54

I have a 4x4 a shotgun and a tractor :p, and yes i need them all.

jampots · 10/08/2006 23:54

snort

MistressMary · 10/08/2006 23:54

Ok.

jampots · 10/08/2006 23:55

i had a 4x4 and have now part x'ed it for a pony and trap

JoshuaandChloesmummy · 10/08/2006 23:55

MistressMary- where do you farm?

WorldFamousAuthorMolotov · 10/08/2006 23:55

i have a 4x4 with red rugs and a shotgun that fires penne past

MamaMaiasaura · 10/08/2006 23:55

although LI5A could have had a farm or horses.. she just kept it immaculately clean (not sign of mud spray) parker outside townhouses.. maybe it is

what i want is a 4x4 but i want the counrtyside to go with it ..

WorldFamousAuthorMolotov · 10/08/2006 23:55

a

CountessDracula · 10/08/2006 23:55

past what?

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MistressMary · 10/08/2006 23:55

Wow not a penny farthing then?

MistressMary · 10/08/2006 23:56

Wiltshire.

jampots · 10/08/2006 23:56

no i would have to use rubber for the tyres i think which I felt was too unenvironmental

CountessDracula · 10/08/2006 23:56

can you pls observe the approved mn spelling for country

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Quootiepie · 10/08/2006 23:56

i have a 4x4, wax jacket and a dog guard. ooooh arrrr and hunter wellies daaaarling

jamsambam · 10/08/2006 23:57

sure its not a turbo deisel pony???

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