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Absolutely bonkers IMO but many do it, but why. I just can’t get my head around why anyone would go to the bother of giving an inanimate object a name.
Maybe I’m thinking too much about this as it’s probably just a bit of fun but I just don’t get it.
Please enlighten me ?
The only person who got all his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe.
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It’s just a fun thing to do….it’s all tongue in cheek.
I’ve had a Peggy, a Priscilla (which became Psycho) and currently have Rocky. I suppose for us, it’s easier than saying “No, not that Peugeot, THAT one”
Back when I was changing manufacturer and model pretty much every time, it was less needed, although we still have some issues over Astras, so we have original Astra and Ebay Astra to differentiate between the two.
I had an Austin Maestro many moons ago, it was called the Silver Bullet ?
I haven’t gone so far as to name any of my cars yet, but I used to speak encouragingly to both my Astra GTCs when e.g. they wanted to stall pulling onto a roundabout or started to ‘run out of puff’ going up a hill. (And Yes, I know those problems were really down to me being in the wrong gear) I’d also pat the dashboard when I thought they’d done particularly well. Those cars had their own ‘personality’ – the first (black diesel) was a steady puller, while the second (green petrol) was often rather frisky.
Don’t have that faux ’empathy’ with my current Golf GT, though. It’s . . . a perfectly good car, but it’s just a car.
I haven’t named any of my scheme cars and won’t, but both my Landrovers are named, the 63 series 2a is Ade from it’s number plate and the 98 Defender 90 is named Joe (Joe 90 which was one of my favourite tv programs when I was a kid)
Why. Every time I said to the missis I was going out in the landy she would ask which one.
Fastbike that’s why I got married, so I always had someone to blame lol.
I had a Mk4Golf Gti back in the day that was called Jessica
never named a car before or after Jessica , never knew anyone called Jessica
Just happened naturally lol
nicknames are just fun, tongue in cheek for me, back in my younger more sociable days I can think of a few nicknames from girls that have been bestowed upon a certain inanimate ( now obsolete ) object ?
but this being a family show I shall leave that there lol
When life hands you melons...,
Make melonade!Same Winston mines has been called magic wand, footlong and vlad the impaler from my female friends. Those were the good old days down the social club and round the back of it lol
I’ve never named my cars, but my dad did when my sister and I were young. The fact that I still remember them must mean something.
Before I was born there was Phoebe, a 1955 MK1 Ford Zephyr (659 FBE).
When I was born there was Jane, a MK2 Ford Consul. Next was Sadie, a 1965 Ford Corsair.
Minky was that one’s replacement, a 1967 Corsair
In 1970 my dad went all European and bought a Renault 16 which my sister named François!
Then in 1974 he got a MK3 Cortina XL called Sevvy (SEV418M).
So to answer Brydo’s question, maybe it’s about memories, especially from our younger days.
“why anyone would go to the bother of giving an inanimate object a name.” Well, Brydo, there are quite a few “inanimate object” vessels out there from dinghies to aircraft carriers which are blessed with names. Similarly, railway loco’s.
Nissan used to save us the trouble of thinking up a name with models called Sylvia, Laurel and a few more
@mike you nearly made me choke on my tea ?
By the sounds of Mikes nicknames , you’re lucky it was just your Tea you choked on ??
When life hands you melons...,
Make melonade!my vaux cavalier came up with a name all by itself just for me to call it, i called it “a pile of shit”
My wife had a Fiesta she named Robert, because it was a Red Ford ?
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Brilliant Mark ?????
The only person who got all his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe.
Anything i post over three lines long please assume it is an article lol.Paul the car needs cleaned so. Your cleaning the inside of “a pile of shite” when it’s the outside your away to polish a turd ? lol
The only person who got all his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe.
Anything i post over three lines long please assume it is an article lol.Brilliant Mark ?????
She also had a first generation Seat Ibiza, very unreliable, she had a name for that too, but it’s not something I can repeat on here buddy ???
Currently driving Seat Ateca 2.0 FR Sport TDI 190 DSG 4drive
Mokka E ultimate on order
DH called his second TT ‘Katie’ after Kate Winslet, because of the curves.
Human nature. I wanted something that made a statement about me, described me. Toyed with ‘Lance Strong’ then ‘Stud Bronze’. Finally settled on ‘Fosbag’ fat, old, stupid,boring, aggravating git.
Well, we are people. We like to name things by names or nicknames. I think this is a part of our nature, heh 🙂
A couple of years ago, in Toronto, my father bought Land Rover from another person. And when he was buying the car — the trader assured him that everything should be alright with it. However, the truth was more illusionable, unfortunately…
Speed gearbox, bracket pivot bolt and even window lifters on backseat were broken. I and my father drove to the service centers once a week because always something broke. And nobody could find a reason “why?”
In one of our “trips” to the Westminster Motors service center, which finally found problems we had –> helped to fix our car. And one of their service managers called our land rover a “behemoth”, because of its overall size and grey exterior view. And this nickname stayed with our car until we did not finally sell it.
I think that my father regretted very much buying this “behemoth” because of all the physical and moral and financial powers we put in it…
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