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Old Mar 29th 2017, 1:24 pm
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Originally Posted by dbd33
You can't get vanity plates with your name on them in the UK.
That may be the case but this thread started off in NS Canada and vanity plates.
From the NS website

Certain slogans will not be approved:

bulletWords or symbols socially unacceptable, offensive, not in good taste, or implying an official authority
bulletCharacters in a combination that would create identification problems such as - OO1IUV or 8B2Z38
bulletDots, dashes, or other symbols ( ! @ # $% & * ( ) + = ? / : ; , . )
bulletCombinations assigned to other types of licence plates:

I guess YID ARMY would be banned in NS
https://novascotia.ca/sns/rmv/registration/personal.asp
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Old Mar 29th 2017, 1:31 pm
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Originally Posted by bats
I almost see what you're saying but if she was drunk enough to pee her pants then sent that drunk enough not to make a decision you might not otherwise?

What about the signing contracts comparison that I made?

The judge clearly wasn't impressed by the taxi driver and his actions.
There is a famous case in English law where a person signed a contract without having read it (L'Estrange v Graucob). It was held to be valid

There is loads of case law regarding the defence of non est factum (not my deed) but I don't believe that that would be relevant to your example.

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It does amuse me with the liking for private number plates herein the UK with plates vaguely looking like something familiar... WEN13Y. I think that this was supposed to look like WENDY... but didn't
Some of the plates probably cost more than the cars themselves. Having said that - we had X1 PUP and X2 PUP in the UK- now there is a surprise these however didn't cost a lot. Life goes on and it all seems a tad chavvy to me now.
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Default Re: Man's surname too offensive for NS Car plate ...

Originally Posted by Former Lancastrian
That may be the case but this thread started off in NS Canada and vanity plates.
From the NS website

Certain slogans will not be approved:

bulletWords or symbols socially unacceptable, offensive, not in good taste, or implying an official authority
bulletCharacters in a combination that would create identification problems such as - OO1IUV or 8B2Z38
bulletDots, dashes, or other symbols ( ! @ # $% & * ( ) + = ? / : ; , . )
bulletCombinations assigned to other types of licence plates:

I guess YID ARMY would be banned in NS
https://novascotia.ca/sns/rmv/registration/personal.asp
And, if I'd had YID ARMY as a plate for 25 years and Donald Trump sexually assaulted Harry Kane shouting Yiddooo! I'd expect my plate to be banned. Without the Presidential assault YID ARMY is just a racist reference to football hooliganism, it's not offensive in the same manner as putting Trump in the mind of bystanders.

Mind, if the player known as 2CV was the victim of Trump's unwanted attentions, I don't know if the vehicles themselves would be banned or if they could just be renamed. Hillarys seems a fitting name.

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Originally Posted by Stinkypup
...we had X1 PUP and X2 PUP in the UK- now there is a surprise
I wonder, if one transported cats would Pussy Wagon be okay. I mean, it's just cats right?
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Originally Posted by BristolUK
I wonder, if one transported cats would Pussy Wagon be okay. I mean, it's just cats right?
Too many letters wouldn't be allowed if offensive or not.
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Originally Posted by dbd33
"Snowflake" used in this context rather gets on my tits. It's desperately trendy, like axe throwing or riding a mountain bike or waxing one's moustache and yet used by people in Canada who are not even living in Vancouver. It's especially lame as it deliberately seeks to suggest weakness, a tendency to fall at the first hurdle, traits exemplified by the Pussy Grabber in Chief rather than by his opposition.
Well, that's exactly what "snowflake" is intended to suggest, surely. But even an unreasoning Trump-hater like you ought to concede that he is a tough cookie and the very opposite of a snowflake. That's why you hate him, I expect.
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Originally Posted by Gordon Barlow
Well, that's exactly what "snowflake" is intended to suggest, surely. But even an unreasoning Trump-hater like you ought to concede that he is a tough cookie and the very opposite of a snowflake. That's why you hate him, I expect.
I don't think he's a "tough cookie". I think he's a blustering weakling. He can't, for example, get his Muslim ban nor his removal of healthcare into effect. He won't get his wall built. He's not a man who gets things done, he's just someone who shouts a lot and runs away when people shout back. It's absurd for his supporters to have developed an insult that so defines their leader and to aim it at anyone else. Shame it's too long for a plate really, I might replace my vanity plate.
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Originally Posted by BristolUK
I wonder, if one transported cats would Pussy Wagon be okay. I mean, it's just cats right?
I don't that would likely happen in our vehicles, we are not exactly cat lovers - Derek the budgie already worries about the bald eagles and ospreys swooping past his window
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