Badgering

Revenge of the badgers in Gloucestershire?

Gloucestershire is one of the areas where badger culling has been extended - a stupid effort to prevent bovine TB with no scientific backing.

 

So the badgers are fighting back by undermining the roads there.  We are talking a three-month road closure.

 

And the law seems to be on their side.

 

Apart from the wanting them dead bit.

Glowing

My first car was vomit yellow:

That's not actually it by the way.  Mine was three years younger than that one but still had the dodgy bonnet.  It was a Triumph Dolomite just like that one - British Leyland called the colour Sandglow.

 

Here is a picture of me reflected in the not-so-dodgy bonnet of my current car.  Jaguar call the colour "Jaguar Racing Green.":

However, as you can see from the photo, it's looking a little Sandglow-ish.

 

BBC Scotland have explained why.

 

The sand has come over North Africa.  Making work for the British car washes.  Sometimes accused of employing illegal immigrants in slavery conditions.

 

I'll leave it to the Mail Readers to put 2 and 2 together and make 5.

Dazzling

My Easter treat this year, apart from a large Yorkie Easter Egg, was discovering I could get at the Car+Driver website again.

It is just a bit less than a year since I reported losing access to one of my favourite car sites - but now it's back!  I wonder if they suffered any advertising drop through reduced world-wide clicks?

I now have access to this story for example which shows the result of a 40mph crash-test on a Honda HR-V:

Not to be confused with their model for middle-aged women, the HR-T.

 

Sobering, isn't it?

 

Anyway, I now have no need to visit the Google-Translated version of the Spanish language Car+Driver site.

 

However, if I didn't go there, I may have missed this story about a German Porsche Panamera owner told to repaint his car:

The Police have responded to complaints from other motorists that they are being dazzled when out driving in the sunlight.  He is looking to contest this decision in the courts.

 

It is true, as mentioned in the article, that other people have gold supercars such as this one:

But they are probably all in Dubai - where everyone is used to the glint of gold all the time.

Supremely White

I used to regard myself as part of a group known as The Superwhite Army.

I don't associate with them any more.

But this isn't a Liam Neeson moment.

I mention it because of this BBC story about an American University professor who is annoyed that the California DMV won't let him have "COYW" on his license plate.

 

COYW stands for "Come on You Whites".

 

They say it is racist.

 

These are the "whites" in question:

The more observant of you will have noticed that quite of few of them are black.  Fulham Football Club play in white so are regularly referred to as "The Whites."  The prof, Jonathan Kotler, is an avid supporter and thought it entirely reasonable to have a plate with COYW on it.

 

I tend to agree with him.

 

I like his argument statement, "I pointed out that many clubs in Britain are known by their colour - the blues, the clarets. Nobody thought the Liverpool reds were communists."

 

Incidentally, I fell out of love with The Superwhite Army (aka Tranmere Rovers FC fans) when the team got relegated from the old League 1 at the turn of the Century.

 

Fulham are also doomed to relegation this season.

 

Meanwhile, here is a story about a white California Police Officer chasing a black girl down a street: 

A bit of a Logistical problem for Morgan

There is a very funny post being shared by the Gammons on Facebook.

Incidentally, did you know there is a Gammon Road in Wisconsin?

For those of you not on Facebook, the text is thus:

For those of you who are on Facebook, the comments from the Pro-EU group who have shared it are very good.

Not sure where we are going to find the £10 Trillion Pounds from.

Or what you are supposed to store in a Euro crate.

Or how buying existing houses will solve the chronic housing shortage.

I'm pretty sure that prisoners don't each have a PC and they only get daily phone calls if someone smuggles in a mobile up their bottom - not something I would advise a pensioner to do.

But I do like the bit about cows.

Meanwhile, it will be very difficult to buy British cars.  While it is true that cars are still currently being built in Britain, the Germans own Mini, Rolls and Bentley.  Meanwhile, Nissan, Honda & Toyota profits go back to Japan, Jaguar Land-Rover is Indian and Vauxhall is now French.

I don't see many over-50s (and I include myself in this) tearing around in BAC Monos or Ariel Atoms.

So that leaves Morgan!

They are going to need a bigger factory.