Or point to your Palace badge and tell her she's not fit to drive your car.

Does it affect me? No

Does it annoy me? Hell, yeah.

This is beyond ridiculous.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/64429137

BBC Indian Sportswoman of the Year nominees revealed...

Why?

In a sadistic way I enjoyed reading that.

I can't marry 3. with your previous comment of washing your hands of the situation.

Well, I can. I also have a latin wife, useless 'adult' kids, and an inability to rid my hands of the family dirty that keeps attaching itself.

I suppose it is all about getting viewers in Africa and India for BBC world.

But the simple reason is that I couldn't give a flying fucj about feckin Indian sportswomen on my main sports feed. In much the same way as I couldn't gibve a toss about English or European Womens' football or the annual African player of the year tripe they show (especially as Zaha has never ever received a nomination on that).

Anyone defending this latest nonsense is a virtue-signalling woke troll.

It's bollox, has nothing to do with British sport, and is just ticking stupid boxes.

I had a feeling you might say that.

Sort of reminds me of when I passed my test. I had been taking lessons with a driving school and the instructor said to me when I got back and told him I passed that he would drive back to the driving school and show me how to "drive".

He drove like a lunatic back to base, which was sort of funny as the guy was such a stiff shirt (apart from always taking swigs from a flask during my lessons - for medicinal reasons you understand).

I taught the younger 3 of mine to drive, all manual as well which is highly unusual in Aus, especially in their generation. One thing that got me, is the fact that they didn't seem to automatically know the road rules. I mean what the hell are they looking at when being driven along? I got the shock of my life with my youngest and only boy, when approaching a roundabout here in his early stages. Straight through it, he drove right in front of someone.. I had mentioned giving way to the right earlier. I just don't get how they don't know the basics, let alone have to reinforce them via book. (Highway code) It's got to be the bloody phones they permanently have in their mitts.

I reckon I would ace the theory - with appropriate study - I also reckon at 58 that I now have a phobia.

I am not alone. BBS luminaries wcb and El Aguila have also never driven.

I reckon you/they are lucky. Biggest slavery in modern day life, is being a driver in commuter traffic morning and evening in the middle of the daily jam. No amount of a great vehicle takes away from the tedium, life wasting drudgery of 'Having' to live that way. Getting driven by someone in that situation, where you can read, sleep or do other pursuits is beating the system. Well done mate.

Try getting from Northern Sydney to my gaff in the rush hour effing insane . Hour and a quarter from Newcastle ,two hours across Sydney. The youngest Mineagle now lives in London and loves not needing a car.

It's like being a prisoner I reckon.


Glad I've left that stuff totally behind.

Surely there must be a social media influencer/reality star/love island contestant that can be consulted about such things?

I can't see anything about it by browsing the BBC sport pages, are you perhaps seeing a BBC world service version?

This is the other bug bear, she's going to get free use of the wife's car (a battered old Ford Fusion)....however there has already been comments of using mine, which have been nipped in the bud.

Put one of those 'comedy' stickers on the car. Smell my finger, or something like that.

Excellent idea :lux:

They too busy on their phones

Yep.

I think it is down to me TBF.

They barely cover Latin America, at least the TV. USA, Africa, Asia, and the Ukraine war, and laughing at the Tories seems to be about 95% of their output.

Indeed.

However, your car was great when you did your recent Australian roadtrips, no?

Judging by your retraction of the 'washed my hands of it' comment Pete, I am taking your 'nipped in the bud' comment with a large pinch of salt. :afro:

I agree with you entirely, but I fear we don't have much control of these things. Eventually they get their way, and it is just easier to relent at the beginning and save ourselves the grief.

My wife has wanted a car for more than a decade. Mostly because her siblings all have them. She can't drive, I can't drive, and none of our three mid 30s kids can either.

I said I will buy a car when she passes her driving test, she reckons that I should get the car first so she can practice. And that is where we have been at for all this time. Chicken and egg. Actually that is spot on, because if I relent the vehicle will convert into a chicken coup. That's my best guess.

Of course, when I get extra miffed and mention that the answer is NO because she never finishes a life project, then we have the moody bollocks for a week.