Posts tagged funny
Are cars better than buses? Judge for yourself.
Jul 15th
All of the environmental advantages of taking the bus to work are negated by two things:
First, hundreds of freeloading pensioners, who ‘need’ to get their shopping at rush hour, taking all of the seats.
Second, drivers like these:
Dumb Parking
Jul 11th
If you are seriously, awfully bad at parking you’d better watch out, because Crap-Parking.co.uk has its beady eyes on you.
If you’re a selfish idiot and think you can park where you like and balls to everyone else, then this site is here to expose you. Anyone can park the car a little bit badly, and I expect we’ve all parked a bit further from the kerb than we’d have liked, or strayed an inch into the next space and said to ourselves “That’ll do.”
These selfish muppets, on the other hand have absolutely zero consideration, and presumably a matching amount of shame, as they brazenly park their cars like this:
So next time you see someone parking in a seriously dumb way, why not take a photo with your mobile and send it in, so at least they can be mercilessly mocked.
And how about this:
This not-so-smart parking warden’s Smart car is equipped with a retractable, 15 foot high spy camera, ready to take pictures of parking offences in the NCP car park. Unfortunately, the dumb driver forgot to retract the camera when he left the car park, caught it on the barrier, and before you could say cheese, he was the one caught on camera…
By the way, this post is the 200th post on the Fluxposure blog. I hope everyone is still enjoying it. Your comments are always welcome, and I’m certainly looking forward to writing the next couple of hundred – if you can bear it.
Flux Team Theme
Jun 27th
Once again, June is our month of fun here at Flux HQ, and one of the competitions this year was to come up with an Adrian Flux company theme tune.
Here is Richard Rowsell’s winning entry.
Don’t tut a woman driver…
Apr 11th
According to the esteemed Asia Insurance Review, researchers at Queensland University in Australia have found that :
A woman who is chided or criticised by her husband or male companion while she is driving is more than twice as likely to have an accident.
Apparently, 168 female students underwent a computer simulated psychological driving test. Half of the group were informed that the test would find out why men were better drivers then women, the other half were simply told the researchers were exploring the mental processes in driving.
Almost half the former group struck a (computerised) pedestrian who appeared suddenly, but only a quarter of the second group did.
The result of this – if women are bad drivers, it’s probably a bloke’s fault, hence womens’ car insurance is cheaper.
Yep, that must have been what happened here. After a quality attempt at parking, this lady is attempting to reverse out for another go.
Pimp My Paddy Wagon
Mar 17th
Clearly Brunstrom’s crew at the North Wales police have decided that if you can’t beat them, you may as well join them, and have kitted out a police van with thousands of pounds worth of plod mods.
They reckon if they turn up at cruise events in their modified Ford Transit (resplendent in classic Martini race colours and recently retired from camera duty) they can talk to the participants about road safety. Presumably once the laughter has died down.
Predictably, many people are mocking the police for this, but I think they deserve some credit.
OK, so it’s about as cool as your dad coming out clubbing with you, but at least they’re making an effort to engage with a culture that most police forces don’t even try to understand, much less care about.
The bottom line is, that if a single life is saved, the effort will have been worth it, and by running a modified motor themselves, they might even learn a thing or two.
If any plumbers out there feel inspired enough to kit out their transit van, you know where to come for modified van insurance.
Insurance Claims Question – what do you think?
Feb 20th
Here’s one for those of you sitting insurance exams…
Is this situation covered on the truck insurance, home insurance, breakdown policy or the bridge owners’ public liability?
They’ll probably leave it there, where an estate agent will describe it as
“a charming bungalow in a unique location, river views, good road access”
Makes me glad that people don’t generally try delivering fully assembled houses on trucks in this country.
How to park a van
Feb 15th
If you’re a van driver as skillful as this, we’d love to give you van insurance.
Otherwise don’t try this at home:
Saudi Arabia legalises women drivers – are they sure?
Feb 1st
Apparently Saudi Arabia is about to legalise women drivers – Saudi is the last country on earth where women are not allowed to drive.
I’m wondering whether they might reconsider if they see this?
Seriously, though – men are just as bad as we showed recently.
Flux babe blooper
Jan 16th
Customer service boss and Flux Babe extraordinaire, Jenny, is probably going to kill me, so if I don’t post for some time, you’ll know why.
This happened at the French Car Show last year (I’m pleased to say we’ll be there again this year) and I came across it when I was sorting through the videos for the flux babes website.
Renault Megane – French in sense of humour shock.
Nov 9th
For Friday, here’s another one from the foreign adverts that are better than ours file:
Here’s Renault showing us something humourous – and this time it’s not just the ‘quirky’ rear-end of the Megane…