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

[CountessDracula]

I cannot believe it

How about one for air rifles too?

not for long they have gone bust

i have a dog guard too

gosh no - that diesel is far too minging. Runs on methane

god I even have a 20 year old wax jacket somewhere

fuck i must get a 4x4 to go with my gun, dog, dog guard, wax jacket etc

what have I been thinking, thank you mn for showing me the light

Ahh. Im in Dorset. We dont actually live on a farm, but both sets of parents farm, one is a mixed farm, and one is a Dairy farm.

Unfortunatly the farms dont bring in enough money to support us, so we have had to find jobs elsewhere, but we still help them run the farms.

I think you'll be needing a new wax jacket CD

My parents are farmers and we come from a long line of farmers. My brothers are still farming. It is so demoralising now though.

RE-spect to the farmers! I have a big lexus 4x4 with blacked out windows, pimped up with blue neon lighting underneath. The beauty of it is, NO-ONE can get past if they're coming the other way up our narrow victorian road (that was actually built for those pony and trap wotchamacallits), and because of the blacked out windows, I just sit tight and ignore them until they reverse. I'm not going to reverse, am I? makes my dick smaller.

Wouldn't take it to the country though - might get covered with shit, and shit like that. And given a choice between a degree at liverpool University and Cosmetic Surgery, I'm definitely going toi click on the button for the motor.

Hang on a mo' - what's that Boden stuff? Is that any good?

dont forget your ifor williams

It's hard isnt it. You work so hard, all hours of the day for no return. Hopefully it will pick up one day.

frigging marvellous. There's me lactose intolerant and bloody SeaFrance go and show fucking coffee and cakes on their ad. How could you Justine how could you even think of it/

My brother had a nervose breakdown over it severalyears back and now are cnsidering diversifying. There's so much red tape and they are running on peanuts. My parents were relatively luckly they are now retired. My bros are less so.

funnily enough we have alexus with blacked out windows but no blue lights - well not any more

my 4x4 can swim

Swapped the lights for purple, Molotov? You can get gold chains now, that go round all your wheel arches.

class.

show off and you dont even have small children at school WFA!!!

pmsl blu

Well to be honest with you, my parents farm is in the process of being sold due to them going bankrupt, its a very sad time for us all. With the milk price at an all time low, and everything else being so expensive it just isnt working.

My other halfs parents are just hanging on, but are very stressed. Like you said, there is too much red tape. What really annoys me though is that its cheaper to import meat then it is to rear animals here!!

What chance have we got? We have the highest animal welfare standards in the world, and do things to the book, which costs so much, and yet supermarkets are importing sub standard produce, and really pushing the sales on it!

obviously what you need is the mother of all f&ckwit cars...the porsche cayenne...so good they named it after something from your spice rack

screams 'i have loads of money and absolutely no taste at all'

J&C'sM - thats really bad news about your parents farm.

CD - why do you have a shotgun? And do you have a licence? Am now scared about going to another meet-up in case you're wielding said gun...

yes my 4x4 has a spice rack - and a toilet seat with barbed wire decoration and shag pile carpets

you got a problem with that?

actually I saw it today she's not joking ;)

CD - we don't have to pay subs anymore. You still sending in dosh, regardless? Bless.

Sophable - good to have you back.

do you know why i particularly despise 4x4s?
because when people park them on the corner of the street they completely obscure the road. this is so dangerous it's untrue.

i drive a small car (in the city) and if there is a bloody great 4x4 parked on the corner then i actually have to go halfway out onto the road before i can even see if there is any oncoming traffic about to mow me down.

So, to all 4x4 owners, a plea. if you see a corner space on the road, stop and think to yourselves 'would the council give planning permission for me to build a sizeable hut here?'

if the answer is no, because it would force other drivers to behave in a dangerous manner, then just keep driving til you find a spot that your ludicrously large car will not be lethal in when parked.

as to their lethal-ness when moving, that has already been more than adequately stated.

to be fair, i would make the same plea to white van men but a. there aren't so many of them on the road and b. i doubt there are many on mumsnet.