New "UK" plate required from 28th Sep, wtf

[Pickman's model]

I shall leave my GB sticker on the car, it's one on a blue background with yellow stars. One day it'll be right again.

yeh when the stars are right and great cthulhu rises from his slumber in r'lyeh

 

[Saul Goodman]

I like the county name in Gaelic

I have nothing against it as a voluntary aesthetic, but a legal requirement?

 

[danny la rouge]

over here you have to have IRL on the left of the plate

Yeah, but that’s so other drivers know it’s not just an internet car.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

There's a special place in my heart for personalised plate wankers.

My favourite ones are those where they’ve clearly tried to spell a name but can’t afford to actually have the correct combination of letters, so numbers get used instead. Just… why.

 

[Saul Goodman]

My favourite ones are those where they’ve clearly tried to spell a name but can’t afford to actually have the correct combination of letters, so numbers get used instead. Just… why.

Me, me, I know the answer....!!! Is it because they're wankers?

 

[Saul Goodman]

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

https://twitter.com/shitnumberplate?s=21

 

[skyscraper101]

At least you dont have to put up with the nonsense we have to put up with in Ireland. I guess this must be for people who forget what country they're in, but over here you have to have IRL on the left of the plate beneath the ring of European stars... Oh, hang on a minute, are we now gonna have to get new number plates with one fewer stars???
Anyway, our number plates show the county in which the vehicle was registered. Its represented by the letter or letters in the middle...eg. DL = Donegal, TS= Tipperary South, KY = Kerry, D= Dublin. But its also a legal requirement that the county name is written at the top middle of the plate... in Irish!!! ... Why???
Some cunt got paid from taxpayer money to shit these regulations into existence.

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I always thought the county stuff was kind of stupid in like it’s an immediate identifier for ‘out of town’ people or put another way a great target for inter city beef. France has similar with numbered ‘departments’ - never a great idea to be a Parisian car in Marseilles when it all kicks off over the football. Glad it’s not a thing in the U.K.

That said, I wish the U.K. would allow black on white rear number plates like in Ireland/France.

 

[moochedit]

I always thought the county stuff was kind of stupid in like it’s an immediate identifier for ‘out of town’ people or put another way a great target for inter city beef. France has similar with numbered ‘departments’ - never a great idea to be a Parisian car in Marseilles when it all kicks off over the football. Glad it’s not a thing in the U.K.

That said, I wish the U.K. would allow black on white rear number plates like in Ireland/France.

I think recent uk plates do have an area identifier. First 2 letters are area and the 2 numbers after are year.

 

[Saul Goodman]

I think recent uk plates do have an area identifier. First 2 letters are area and the 2 numbers after are year.

I think there was always an area code on English number plates. As far back as I can remember at least.

 

[skyscraper101]

I think recent uk plates do have an area identifier. First 2 letters are area and the 2 numbers after are year.

I think there was always an area code on English number plates. As far back as I can remember at least.

Oh for real? I never realized this. What problem does this fix exactly?

Better hold on to my personalized 5KY 101 plate then.

 

[Flavour]

Most countries don't even allow personalised plated. It's mostly the English speaking countries plus a handful of others

 

[souljacker]

I think recent uk plates do have an area identifier. First 2 letters are area and the 2 numbers after are year.

Yep, Reading is CK. My current car is OU so would have been initially registered in Bristol

 

[moochedit]

Oh for real? I never realized this. What problem does this fix exactly?

Better hold on to my personalized 5KY 101 plate then.

More info below. No idea what the reason is. It only identifys where it was first registered though, not where the owner lives now.

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[skyscraper101]

Most countries don't even allow personalised plated. It's mostly the English speaking countries plus a handful of others

The best ‘British’ plate I ever saw was, ironically in America.

 

[mx wcfc]

I think I’ve posted this pic before, but as we are on the subject………

 

[pogofish]

So the days when I rode around Europe and Ireland with a small saltire and SCO plate on my bike/panniers are gone?

Any police interest I had was to talk bikes/visiting Scotland and what a good idea it was that I had a big arrow sticker below the clocks to remind me which side of the road I should be driving on.

 

[dessiato]

yeh when the stars are right and great cthulhu rises from his slumber in r'lyeh

I can hope, can't I?

 

[Saul Goodman]

I think I’ve posted this pic before, but as we are on the subject………

Is that what happens when you fall from grace, you get to drive a Seat for your sins?

 

[purves grundy]

Have you encountered many civil servants? It's not like their days are generally spent doing socially useful work or anything

Depends. I know a fair few civil servants in DFID (before it was killed) who were taken off genuinely valuable activity and seconded to Brexit BS like this. Very demoralising.

 

[Saul Goodman]

civil servants

genuinely valuable

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Jimmy White seems to drive past BB2's school at afternoon collection a couple of times a week, even though he doesn't live that close to here, so dunno why. But the tasteless prick has a white Bentley Continental with CUE 80Y as the plate.

 

[purves grundy]

Some fucking good DFID projects in Myanmar suffered as a result of manpower being directed elsewhere. But yeah, guffaw away.

 

[Pickman's model]

Jimmy White seems to drive past BB2's school at afternoon collection a couple of times a week, even though he doesn't live that close to here, so dunno why. But the tasteless prick has a white Bentley Continental with CUE 80Y as the plate.

if you have the hump with any snooker player and their choice of car it should surely be stephen hendry, who drives a psychedelically painted motor in homage if you please to john lennon

 

[Aladdin]

I like the county name in Gaelic

So do I

And of course it doesnt mean the car owner lives in that county

I know someone who was born in Mayo but lives in Kerry. When they get a new car they register it in Mayo and get a reg with MO on it.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

if you have the hump with any snooker player and their choice of car it should surely be stephen hendry, who drives a psychedelically painted motor in homage if you please to john lennon

That's as maybe but at least he has the decency not to drive it through the town where I live...

 

[skyscraper101]

if you have the hump with any snooker player and their choice of car it should surely be stephen hendry, who drives a psychedelically painted motor in homage if you please to john lennon

Either this is total bollocks, or he's so embarrassed by it, he's managed to wipe out any photographic evidence from the internet.

 

[Pickman's model]

steve davis is by contrast something of a tankie, seen here with his lada

 

[existentialist]

I think recent uk plates do have an area identifier. First 2 letters are area and the 2 numbers after are year.

UK plates have ALWAYS had an area identifer. In the days before and up to ABC123Z (and the various permutations), the first two letters designated the issuing local authority.

ETA: that's not strictly true. When it went to ABC123Z, I think they'd stopped issuing registrations locally, but they carried on using an approximation of the same letters even though the registrations were centrally issued.

 

[dessiato]

I think there was always an area code on English number plates. As far back as I can remember at least.

There was. JV and EE were for Grimsby, JO was for Oxford. There were many others of course. For example NEE 801G means the car was registered in Grimsby, during August 1968 to July 1969.

I used to have an I Spy book which explained these.