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Odd number of UK reg vehicles yesterday?

  • 03-09-2010 8:27am
    #1
    Saruman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,389 ✭✭✭✭


    Was there something going on yesterday that required so many UK reg cars to be on the Stillorgan dual carriageway?

    I came up from the Rock road (Blackrock) and while I was waiting to get on to it at the lights I noticed that not only were all the cars in front of me UK reg but the ones coming up behind me too. When I then got on to the dual carriageway there were more as well as a convoy of UK reg motorbikes.

    It might be just a big coincidence but for a while I felt I was in NI and the only Irish reg car.

    The funny thing is, they were not even going in the same direction. The bikes and some of the cars headed on South while I took the brewery road turn off to get on to the M50 and some of the cars came with me.


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  • #2
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,537 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    ferry just arrived in Dun laoghaire and they were all coming from/ going to it?


  • #3
    Banned Account
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,553 ✭✭✭Banned Account


    If the cars were range rovers it was probably a traveller funeral. If not, just another recce mission to see if there are any more counties we'd be willing to part with.

    Probably.


  • #4
    Saruman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,389 ✭✭✭✭Saruman


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    ferry just arrived in Dun laoghaire and they were all coming from/ going to it?

    Might as well have slapped me in the face.....

    That makes perfect sense to be honest, I did not think about it because I was not near there but it is not too far from the port so it could explain it.


  • #5
    Lando Griffin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,952 ✭✭✭Lando Griffin


    Its potato harvest time, they have come to steel our spuds.


  • #6
    Saruman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,389 ✭✭✭✭Saruman


    Nooooooooooooo They can take our women but leave the spuds alone!


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  • #7
    kfallon
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    At least they won't touch our swans :p


  • #8
    Lando Griffin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,952 ✭✭✭Lando Griffin


    kfallon wrote: »
    At least they won't touch our swans :p

    Sure a swan is just a good looking goose.


  • #9
    gurramok
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    Secret Brit invasion?


  • #10
    Feeona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,633 ✭✭✭Feeona


    'Odd number of UK vehicles'. I thought this was going to be about one of those mindbenders along the lines of twenty monkeys with twenty typewriters.












    No I'm not a monkey :p


  • #11
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    British Schools go back today. Probably all the "Plastic Paddies" heading home after visiting their grandparents.

    BTW OP, if a number plate is along the lines of NJZ 1234 it is a NI reg, if it is something like LJ54 PVL it is from the "Mainland" UK.


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  • #12
    R.O.R
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,712 ✭✭✭✭R.O.R


    gurramok wrote: »
    Secret Brit invasion?

    We've been here planning that on the quiet for a while now ;)


  • #13
    CarMuppet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 521 ✭✭✭CarMuppet


    R.O.R wrote: »
    We've been here planning that on the quiet for a while now ;)

    oh no, here we go again.... :)


  • #14
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    R.O.R wrote: »
    We've been here planning that on the quiet for a while now ;)

    Loose Lips sink Ships......:D


  • #15
    lfp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 115 ✭✭lfp


    Electric Picnic?


  • #16
    Sand Wedge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 226 ✭✭Sand Wedge


    Schools back. So all UCD students from north back up in dublin with their cars.


  • #17
    listermint
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,216 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    As above , Electric Picnic is on, most of the staff are UK based who travel to all festivals on both sides of the water.


  • #18
    furtzy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,464 ✭✭✭furtzy


    Maybe revenue set up a honey trap for Irish VRT dodgers.....offering them free UK citizenship :D


  • #19
    dobsdave
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    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    ...... if it is something like LJ54 PVL it is from the "Mainland" UK.

    Unless its someone from the north who has bought one form the UK 'mainland'.


  • #20
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    dobsdave wrote: »
    Unless its someone from the north who has bought one form the UK 'mainland'.

    or vice versa :)


  • #21
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    R.O.R wrote: »
    We've been here planning that on the quiet for a while now ;)

    we're already here...pretending to be Polish in a lot of cases...:cool:


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  • #22
    Matt Simis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,718 ✭✭✭Matt Simis


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    Loose Lips sink Ships......:D

    Love that poster. Here is another:
    loose-lips-sink-ships-1.jpg


  • #23
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,093 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    BTW OP, if a number plate is along the lines of NJZ 1234 it is a NI reg, if it is something like LJ54 PVL it is from the "Mainland" UK.
    G'wan outa dat, Sir! You don't say! Begorrah, we'd never be after knowing dat now would we, seein' as we're all so tick an' unobservant like. Top o' de marnin' an' it's fine an' well you're lookin', Sir.

    Patronise much?

    Not your ornery onager



  • #24
    ardmacha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,476 ✭✭✭ardmacha


    Perhaps the OP needed reminding that some yellow plates are Irish regs, although not 26 county ones, as he seemed to think that in NI he would be the only Irish reg.


  • #25
    Absurdum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,445 ✭✭✭Absurdum


    I saw an odd number of German reg vehicles yesterday, are they planning a kerfuffle on our lands?


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