Pork Pies

If I said Pork Pie to you, what would you picture in your head?

A meaty pastry product?

 

Or maybe a hat? 

Or maybe a character from a popular 1980s sitcom set in a barber's?

Who I've just realised was called "Porkpie" because he wore a pork pie hat.

 

But probably not the newly opened 4.4 mile Melton Mowbray Bypass.

 

Which is now to be called Pork Pie Way.  Which explains the photo above that I nicked from that BBC News article.

 

The local people had a vote.  Which can be dangerous.  But they mitigated the danger by limiting the options to a select list.

 

So no chance of Bypassy McBypassface.

 

But PETA weren't happy.  The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals thought Pork Pie Way was "pig-demeaning", and urged the Reform UK-run council to choose Vegan Pie Way instead.

 

Oh dear.  I can be as Commie-left woke as the next person but that is ridiculous.  And imagine a Reform council going with that!

And remember, this isn't the first case of apt road naming.

Getting Cozy

The UK's top selling car in March was the Jaecoo 7.

The US's top selling car at the turn of the Century was the Little Tikes Cozy Coupe.

Click on that link for a very amusing article from Car+Driver.

Although I'm not sure of the picture they have chosen - it is a black lad serving a white girl.  Bit of racial stereotyping going on there I think.

The story isn't about car sales in the early 2000s though.

It's about how Little Tikes are now producing an EV version of the foot powered sit-in car.

It takes 3 AA batteries for the pretend charging unit to provide lights and "charging noises."

The commenters underneath the story seem to get the joke.

Apart from one tosser who states, "It's downright crazy to drag toddlers into the EV Car drama with plastic peddle cars, don't you think? It's more of a adult topic. Over the top on this, toy designers."

He's got 18 downvotes, zero upvotes and various comments basically confirming that he is a tosser.

And wrong. 

He also can't spell "pedal" and The Crazy Coupe doesn't have pedals so isn't a pedal car anyway.

Right, I'm off now to watch Driving Miss Daisy.

What a grey day!

Sad news from Cupra here.

And I say that as the owner of a grey car who has previously owned a silver car and a black car.

Although my other three cars were vomit yellow, cherry red and racing green.

The story states that this...

..is a thing of the past.  Cupra creative director Francesca Sangalli has stated that,

"Cupra is about neutral colour with a twist, and this is why we give much more importance to matt finishes and the very oily treatment of colour.  You choose a Cupra if you like the brand, and you choose the range of colours that fits with the brand and not vice versa. You will never find a red Cupra."

Damn shame given that we have now got to the stage where nearly all cars are monchrome.

"Broadening the range with more colourful hues risks losing the brand because you go with what everyone else does" 

So now she's going grey.

Like everyone else.

Apart from Fiat.