Boyracers at petrol stations

Jim Bob Scratcher · 21-05-2016 2:06am #1

All lined up side by side, not buying anything in the place, but just beeping at random people going into shop. Why do they do this ?

DrGreenthumb · 21-05-2016 2:07am

it's because of the petrol fumes

My name is URL · 21-05-2016 2:16am

Jim Bob Scratcher wrote: »

All lined up side by side, not buying anything in the place, but just beeping at random people going into shop. Why do they do this ?

It's like the wild west, Sheriff Joe

Young fellas on horseback with nothing better to do than sit around drinking sarsaparilla and shouting at the patrons

PTH2009 · 21-05-2016 2:20am

The drivers bring the lads to the sessions and collects the girls after the nightclubs

Ruu · 21-05-2016 2:33am

Scientific name is Toolus Dickis. It's in their nature.

Kylo Ren · 21-05-2016 2:35am

Ruu wrote: »

Scientific name is Toolus Dickis. It's in their nature.

Read that in David Attenborough's voice.

Good times.

The Sidewards Man · 21-05-2016 2:35am

There they are with their LSD acting the big men.

endacl · 21-05-2016 2:44am

Jim Bob Scratcher wrote: »

All lined up side by side, not buying anything in the place, but just beeping at random people going into shop. Why do they do this ?

Same reason my dog barks at other dogs when he sees them through the living room window. He's not really sure why either. He just kinda has to do it.

Pavlovian response? Youngfellovian? Throughout the ages, insecure young men, unsure if their penises were within acceptable parameters, have attempted to make themselves, in the company of their similarly insecure young peers, appear as significant as they someday hope to be. The horn (Freudian, or wha') attached to their funny little fartcannons simply represents a technological aid to a behaviour thousands of years in the making.

Canis Lupus · 21-05-2016 3:27am

They're not boyracers they're car enthusiasts.... or something...

lawlolawl · 21-05-2016 6:39am

Jim Bob Scratcher wrote: »

All lined up side by side, not buying anything in the place, but just beeping at random people going into shop. Why do they do this ?

Because they are morons with nothing better to do.

[Deleted User] · 21-05-2016 6:45am

I find boyracers aren't the worst. Not exactly profound, not the quickest witted, usually badly dressed with tracksuits stained with chip fat. But for all that, not essentially bad fellows...just fellows who think Top Gear is thought provoking and challenging.

timthumbni · 21-05-2016 9:09am

Boyracers are hilarious. I especially like the ones who drive laps around car parks like they in a fecking Le Mans 24 hour race.

I do not like the chippy wrappers they fire out their windows though. For that they deserve an almighty slap.

Straight Edge Punk · 21-05-2016 9:12am

It's the screeching around roundabouts at all hours of the night I just don't understand

osarusan · 21-05-2016 9:15am

If you drive from Ennis to Kilrush or Kilkee, you'll see loads of tyre-mark doughnuts on the road where they've been doing their late-night thing. How many times do you have to spin round in a circle before you get bored of it?

mud · 21-05-2016 9:16am

This happens at a petrol station near me. All that is visible are pairs of eyeballs under caps peering over the steering wheels. They also leave their cars running for some unfathomable reason and think that they're being not at all obvious smoking joints when the smell is actually all over the forecourt. Ah rurality and its myriad facets.

lawlolawl · 21-05-2016 9:17am

osarusan wrote: »

If you drive from Ennis to Kilrush or Kilkee, you'll see loads of tyre-mark doughnuts on the road where they've been doing their late-night thing. How many times do you have to spin round in a circle before you get bored of it?

Depends. Exactly how much of an idiot is the person in question and how easily amused are they?

Car enthusiasts are sad cases. May as well be a toothbrush enthusiast.

Straight Edge Punk · 21-05-2016 9:17am

osarusan wrote: »

If you drive from Ennis to Kilrush or Kilkee, you'll see loads of tyre-mark doughnuts on the road where they've been doing their late-night thing. How many times do you have to spin round in a circle before you get bored of it?

Exactly the road I was thinking of with my post

timthumbni · 21-05-2016 9:19am

We actually get boy racers around here who are farmers sons and drive their tractors around car parks and park up in the evenings.

Trying to attract the ladies with a whiff of slurry. In saying that where there's muck, there's brass, or do they say....

Ursus Horribilis · 21-05-2016 9:20am

Ah but do they have road frontage? That's the burning question.

fryup · 21-05-2016 9:22am

when they're not looking...stick a banana up their tailpipe

NiallBoo · 21-05-2016 9:22am

mud wrote: »

This happens at a petrol station near me. All that is visible are pairs of eyeballs under caps peering over the steering wheels. They also leave their cars running for some unfathomable reason and think that they're being not at all obvious smoking joints when the smell is actually all over the forecourt. Ah rurality and its myriad facets.

Surely smoking in a petrol station isn't the brightest idea?

colm_mcm · 21-05-2016 9:23am

They should be in the pub.
The cheek of them socialising outside of the pub system.

timthumbni · 21-05-2016 9:23am

fryup wrote: »

when they're not looking...stick a banana up their tailpipe

Hello, Kenneth williams.

fryup · 21-05-2016 9:25am

fryup wrote: »

when they're not looking...stick a banana up their tailpipe

timthumbni wrote: »

Hello, Kenneth williams.

no, eddie murphy

mud · 21-05-2016 9:38am

NiallBoo wrote: »

Surely smoking in a petrol station isn't the brightest idea?

There's the pumps and then there's a wall for parking and that's where they line up.

Wibbs · 21-05-2016 9:42am

lawlolawl wrote: »

Car enthusiasts are sad cases. May as well be a toothbrush enthusiast.

All enthusiasts are "sad cases" for those judgemental souls not interested in what they're enthusiastic about. Gamers, hill walkers, record collectors, cyclists, anglers, stamp collectors, whatever. If someone isn't an enthusiast of something, they must be a boring fart to say the least.

As for "boy racers". Sometimes I do wonder about the age demographic on threads like these, because the responses can come across like a bunch of old folks on the bus moaning and itching to ring Joe when they get home. Where ye ever young and daft? Sheesh.

Archeron · 21-05-2016 9:42am

I don't mind them at all, some of the cars are class and it's nice to see someone keeping their old cars in such good nik. I saw a beautiful 1987 civic hatchback the other day, very cool car. On the other hand, I also saw a 1996 dynorod orange astra with lime green trim and purple lights underneath so it depends how easily offended your eyes are.

They do be in my local petrol station, but oddly enough you'd be more likely to see the local police drive in the forecourt in a dangerous manner than you would do the boy racers who seem to just like admiring and comparing the cars. Nice to have a hobby, God knows my hobbies would bore the tits off a bull, so to each their own.

CFlat · 21-05-2016 9:44am

I have a nephew, 20 yrs old, who's probably a boy racer. It wouldn't be your typical Honda Civic type thing but it has the low suspensions and it gives off a whirl type sound when it revs and I think it's chipped. He can take an engine out of a car, fix it up, and put it back in and he has never had any basic training as a mechanic.

As long as he doesn't think he's driving around the Nuburgring on public roads, I think it's a brilliant interest to have and I've never heard his mother say, 'if you're looking for 'Seany', he's down in the local'.

Canis Lupus · 21-05-2016 9:55am

colm_mcm wrote: »

They should be in the pub.
The cheek of them socialising outside of the pub system.

They should be playing GAA. That's all the socialising they need. Not going out and attaching pieces of plastic randomly to a car until it looks like something from Hot Wheels.

Stealthfins · 21-05-2016 9:56am

Back in my day they drove around in Vauxhall Nova's.

I remember visiting friends in Letterkenny and noticed the boy racers driving their Nova's.
In Clare puntos and civics were more popular.

It's all part of growing up for some teenagers and guy's in their 20's.

My dad had a classy escort during the mid 70's

He grew out of it,well actually I think he wrapped it around an ESB pole in Campile Co Wexford.

Leave them off they're there since cars were affordable,if you watch American movies sometimes you'll notice the teenagers hanging out in Diners with their cars outside.

kneemos · 21-05-2016 10:04am

Archeron wrote: »

I don't mind them at all, some of the cars are class and it's nice to see someone keeping their old cars in such good nik. I saw a beautiful 1987 civic hatchback the other day, very cool car. On the other hand, I also saw a 1996 dynorod orange astra with lime green trim and purple lights underneath so it depends how easily offended your eyes are.

They do be in my local petrol station, but oddly enough you'd be more likely to see the local police drive in the forecourt in a dangerous manner than you would do the boy racers who seem to just like admiring and comparing the cars. Nice to have a hobby, God knows my hobbies would bore the tits off a bull, so to each their own.

Probably not the police leaving half their tyres inbedded in every roadway in the country.

Don't get the logic in spending thousands on a ****box to make it virtually undriveable.Whatever blows your trumpet I suppose.

Boyracers at petrol stations

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