People parking in child spaces drives me mad. The ones that really annoys me is the person who parks in a kids space but only 1 adult leaves the car and all the kids and 1 adult are still in there or park in the kids space with you "child" in their secondary school uniform.
People who can't park their fingers up their hole's thread..
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ALN
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I watched a lad park his fairly fresh mid ulster spec 3 series in a child spot a proceeds into the shop. Family beside returned a few minds later and the wains were pawing and leaning all over the car lol.
I generally avoid kid spaces after witnessing that.
My car lives in my back garden with my almost 2 year old has full access to it so that doesn't worry me too much. He's actually netter than my neighbours kids who used the bonnet as a slide when I parked outside for a while.
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My own kids respect cars and I trust them too but other people’s kids not so much lol.
Once my wee boy is big enough I’ll make sure he respects cars as I did growing up. Nobody respects cars anymore.
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Portrush this morning. 
I have a driveway, but its not used for the car (at present) we need to do some groundwork at some stage to allow it to be usable a the front. It is that narrow I can get the car in at present and can get the drivers door open, that's it and only if I park at certain places. Maybe not so much the case with new build driveways, but older houses tend to have driveways suitable to smaller cars of that era, and may not be as practical as it looks.
Asda Ards petrol station is a joke/nightmare. Only recently rebuilt and yet they managed to made it too narrow, too awkward to enter and exit and very poorly signed. Tried it a couple of times when it reopened and said 'never again!' 0/10. FAIL.
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Anyone parked at an Asda fuel pump is nuts, the quality of their fuel is shocking.
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Not the wrong way if that's the only pump free. I've 180'd into many a left pump space when there were none free with a pump on the right side.
The quality of their fuel is fine and meets the respective BS for petrol and diesel. It does not have the fancy additive packages of say, BP, but the base fuel itself is sound.
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Big deal, they meet “minimum standards”. That doesn’t mean it’s of a high quality.
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With you, used to run the wife’s lowly C-Max on Asda diesel, it ran like a dog, mechanic said to change, only use Circle K, Maxol etc and no problems since
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Fast forward 50 years, will they be taking about different brands of electricity and how you get more miles out of one than another. "I think you'll find that renewable electricity is much more self righteous than nuclear electricity etc"
Actually, those comedy conversations are happening already.
Actually, those comedy conversations are happening already.
Nor can you infer it's of low quality. It's the same base fuel to all pumps. If Asda's was suspect in any way, there'd be widespread coverage of it rather than anecdotes.
There's always stories of X told me their car runs better on this or Y hates that. That's all they are, stories. If there's anything quantitively that shows their fuel is somehow inferior or poor quality I'd love to see it. ASDA at least have never had any debacles like say, a trusted brand like Shell, who had to pull Formula Shell from the UK market.
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5th gear carried out a test on quite a few fuel suppliers years ago, Asda came out bottom of the pile.
I acknowledge that your average person driving an average car probably won't notice the difference, but I would rather put a quality fuel in my car, it makes no sense to me to put the worst option available in my car just to save a few pence.
Waits patiently for the "mines gas generated which is better than your steam generated electricity"Fast forward 50 years, will they be taking about different brands of electricity and how you get more miles out of one than another. "I think you'll find that renewable electricity is much more self righteous than nuclear electricity etc"
Actually, those comedy conversations are happening already.
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Ah the world acclaimed scientific research agency, 5th gear. Say no more.