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[muzzer]

Hi thought I whould share this with everyone.
I work as a printer for a large direct mail company.
and have  just had to print a job for the ramblers society.
That realy made me go off on one, the heading went like this
THE IRRESPONSIBLE USE OF 4X4S IS THREATENING YOUR ACCESS TO THE COUNTRYSIDE.so join and stop the destruction.
at the bottom is a ps please join the ramblers today and stop 4x4s in our tracks.I tried to throw a spanner in the works but it did'nt work.
thay just made new plates

[The Ant Hill Mob]

To stop getting s**t like this through the post, just join the mail preference register (type 'mail pref' into google and it should take you to the correct site).  There is also the telephone preference service, which will stop you getting telesales calls.
Make sure you get the correct spelling (mail, not male), as those d**n pictures of the chippendales take some deleting!!

Maybe the govt should put mega tax on bobble hats & hiking socks when purchased together?

[Colin 009]

THE IRRESPONSIBLE USE OF 4X4S IS THREATENING YOUR ACCESS TO THE COUNTRYSIDE

This is true for everyone.

[bezzabsa]

BAN THE BOBBLE HAT
think i'll get that made up for on the back of the widow ;)

[Big-G]

BAN THE BOBBLE HAT
think i'll get that made up for on the back of the widow ;)

Put me down for one as well

Iwas also thinking of:

"yes its a gas guzzler and i am proud of it"

[clbarclay]

Irrisponsible use of 4x4 is a problem, however at no time have i heard of ramblers etc. admit that there is such a thing as the reponsible use of 4x4's off road (or any other vehicle).

Which makes them as bad at spin as any govement you care to think off.

[Manicminer]

One thing that the 'Bobble hats' don't mention is that they drive 150 - 200 miles in their Mercs and B*W to get to the countryside in the first place.

[Stormin]

Yeah! and sit for hours on the M6 between Lancaster and Preston. :lol:  With engines running of course. :roll:

[Range Rover Red]

Not to mention the ones that turn up in the Land Rover and get the bobble hats and boots out, then leave the LR cluttering up the pub car park for the day while they disappear out up Derbyshire or wherever :x

[Lee_D]

Not to mention the ones that turn up in the Land Rover and get the bobble hats and boots out, then leave the LR cluttering up the pub car park for the day while they disappear out up Derbyshire or wherever :x

I didn't think you had a bobble hat?  

Lee

[yer auld aunt nelly]

And one,two,three think of agincort and a big V please.I realy cant be arsed
 to even care what these T%*T,s are on about,because what the govenment is gonna ban farm utility vehicles and rural access.Not realy because any govenment that talks about limiting 4x4's and stopping green lane access is also gonna have to find a new way of getting around rural england.

[defuzz]

i don't think its especially clever that to be proud of being a gas guzzler, if we start claiming that then we deserve to get taxed off the road.  By all means be proud of what you drive and don't let us get trampled on (or rambled on_ because of its guzzling but if people think we drive what we drive BECAUSE it guzzles gas, its not doing any of us any favours.

[EvilEd]

We pay to drive "Gas Guzzlers" every day. If my beast uses more fuel (Which it does) then I pay the government a fortune in tax. and that they don't want to loose, Budget put Road tax up £20, that's not even half a tank! no, it was there to appease the bobble hats and that's all. they think they have won, but I can still go get an nice new 4x4 and it'll cost me half a tank of fuel a year extra. so what!

Go look up the CO2 figures for:
BMW M5
BMW 760
Jag xk8
Porsche 911GT
http://www.parkers.co.uk/choosing/specs/data.aspx?model_id=1303&id=32425
Merc SLK AMG 55 http://www.parkers.co.uk/choosing/specs/data.aspx?model_id=1233&id=27944

Until they go off the roads, then 4x4s are not going to be hit either! Green lanes is a whole different problem, and legal use is likely to be hit by bad press, my local MP is for banning 4x4s on green lanes because he has had complaints, we have no green lanes, it's all illegal use of bridal paths and things like that. Useless halfwit MP, yep, did he listen to the errors of his ways.. Nope. This is what we are up against.

Move to France :)

[Berliner Beer]

I like my bobble hat. (i dont walk in it though) Just drive my landy whilst wearing it. We should take the bobble hat as our own. May be a mud club bobble hat?

[old joe]

how about this

4x4 owner and proud sticker and T-Shirt with a mud splat at the same time

because i am proud to drive a 4x4 & proud to be part of this great club

Dazza

[blacknight]

I seem to remember parts of the Three Peaks route in the Yorkshire Dales, which is a long distance hike, having to be re-routed due to the amount of erosion caused by hiking boots. A path that ended up many, many times wider than it's original width.
This is just one instance, no doubt this has also happened in other parts of the country.
Why does this happen? Only one logical explanation I can see, that is that the path is so muddy from hundreds of walkers pounding these paths on a weekend that they have to deviate so far off so they don't get their designer boots muddy.
In fact it ended up with the National Park enlisting the help of a Army Chinook helecopter to airlift materials up to these paths to repair them, but even now, after many years, some of these paths are still closed!
Do you ever hear of ramblers taking responsibility for this - NO THEY DON'T.

[Manicminer]

The Snowdonia National Park spends a fortune every year airlifting materials to rebuild footpaths eroded away by people's footwear.

Only 5 years ago there was a stink that the bobble brigade were wandering off the paths and making their own parallel 'ruts'.

[Range Rover Blues]

Stop 4x4 in OUR lanes, selfish b****rds! just shows the typeical attitude of those winkers, not prepared to share even 5% of the public rights of way in this country.  Makes my blood boil.