How to park a 206

[STALLED]

Blame it on the COM2000

[steve_earwig]

Is it really that hard to find somewhere to park your car in Leeds?

If he'd hit that green box a lot of people would have been without cable tv for a while (better luck next time)

[Welly]

See all that strengthening underneath the 206 cos it's got no roof

I thought those green boxes controlled the traffic lights

[mjb]

I thought those green boxes controlled the traffic lights

Nah traffic lights are usually run from a grey/black box next to the lights. That's a telco box, used primarily for patching phone lines in. Not sure if cable tv/phone/internet uses those types of box too

[steve_earwig]

Ask a retired BT engineer
1. that's a modern cab, BT ones are usually ancient unless they get flattened or set fire to (I really enjoyed the short time they were using plastic ones )
2. it's got a lump of text on the end, cable companies usually have a code on theirs as opposed to BT's that just have a low number (up to about 65 unless it's an SCP, in which case it'll have a number, then a / then another number)

When I worked in Edmonton T.E. we used to get loads of reports of cabinet doors being left open and I used to have to build a job to get an engineer to go see. They were usually cable co.s, everyone else just forgot about them which I thought was a bit stupid so I found out the contacts for our opposite numbers in the cable co.s so we could pass it over to them, and they could do likewise. I still got the push though.

Not sure about the strengthening, although I don't doubt it has some, those bars across the underside are probably either the spare wheel carrier or it's got a town hitch (on a cabrio?)

[mjb]

could be to stop the roll bar ripping the car in half if it got deployed?

i am right in thinking that all soft tops must legally have a roll bar that pops up in a fraction of a second aren't i? or did i just imagine it?

[Welly]

Rag tops have to have stregthening underneth (normally along the sills to be fair) as they don't have the roof for strength.

*scuttle shake* I believe,

[Welly]

*scuttle shake* I believe,

Wasn't that a song by Roy Chubby Brown?

Nah - that was the "look at me one-eyed trouser snake" song

[Welly]

"I like my women like I like my chicken"

What? cold, dead, and goose-pimply

[Welly]

I like curvy, curvy is nice

[Nicodemus]

It's a cc now... Was an sw before it was parked