It's not about how tough you are at all. It's a situation where you can only win with fear rather than violence. It doesn't take any great skill or will on the part of a mob to take down a man with any weapon short of a full automatic simply by sheer weight of numbers. Unless you can panic the crowd into running off,…

Yes, there are laws against carrying an offensive weapon. When it comes to actually moving something that might be an offensive weapon, in most places what matters is whether it's ready for use, whether it's reasonable to be carrying it the way you are, and so-on. If you have a carving knife in the bin on the driver's…

Maybe not. The dealer's got some nice publicity out of it, so might have been generous on the trade-in.

True. Sticking to road legal cars? I think even a Honda Beat or Suzuki Cappuccino would be preferable.

Come to think of it, what's the single worst car imaginable for the airport run? A GT40 has to be right at the top end of the list - not only is it a two seater supercar with no room and immensely valuable, but it's also particularly low and hard to drive slow.

Yeah, just think about it. No power windows, no power seats, no stereo even, and just look how tiny the rims are. Add the Ford badge on the front and non-cognoscenti will just think it's some tired old hooptie.

Yeah, I wasn't being entirely serious there. I think the Ford badge wouldn't be the first thing you'd notice about a GT40.

All of them. It's hard to think of a coupe which wouldn't be great as a shooting brake.

Pick someone up in a Ford? No thanks, I don't want to look cheap. Sure, we all know what it is, but to non-Jalops it's just a Ford.

Yeah, that was the one I meant I'd never heard before. Bit of a WTF-did-he-just-say moment until I did :)

"If I wanted to drive 150mph in an M5 (on a closed circuit, of course)"

"I wish ISPs would realize this as well because it's irritating to pay for "12Mbps" Internet service which tends to average half that in real-world use."

Friend of mine had a cat come for a ride with him once. Must have climbed inside whilst he was loading the car and hidden in the back or something. It jumped out and surprised the hell out of him a bit later when a few of us were in the car. No harm done, except he continually had to explain why his battered old…

Not sure which of these it was I was thinking of:

I agree, it's a bit inconvenient. Better than them mugging old ladies or something, though. Cost you, what, a couple of hours of your leisure time to sort out? That puts it on a par with egging your house, or some such - douchebag, but not exactly the kind of thing that makes you have nightmares.

I had to look that one up. Never heard it used to mean that.

He pulled out in front of an oncoming semi. I don't need to know anything else to know this particular young driver 'drives like shit'.

"which in the UK is like saying one's mother frequents truck-stop bathrooms in a halter top."

*Whoosh*

Oh god. I'd never seen that site before. I think I might be going to hell.