Some would say fluffy dice are tat and wouldn't be seen dead in a car with one. I think there is a society of fluffy dice users on here though, who try and keep it secret. Is it because they're ashamed?
It's the first day of a brand new year, so let's make 2010 the year the backroomers all 'come out' and admit what's in their cars, what hangs in the windscreen, what sits on the parcel shelf and who has the fluffy dice?
I have a few ideas and I think I have narrowed it down pretty well.
My bet for the fluffy dice is between five regulars
Altea Ego
Fotherington Thomas
Armitage Shanks
Humph
or B308
Your secret is safe in here with us so admit it now!
I will confess that I have a genuine Anne Summers Bondage Bear sitting on the dashboard of the CRV. He's travelled all over the Country with me along with his friend Biker Bear in the lorry for years now and he's getting tatty, but how can I put him in the bin?
Over to you then, confession time!
And who's your candidate for the secret fluffy dice backroomer?
Pat
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I always saw my Mini van as a good candidate for a pink fluffy dice, when I was aged around 18. The windscreen was quite near to the action of course and I thought it might be disconcertingly near the face to have the things slapping back and forth - and risk snapping off the interior mirror.
Years later, I read The Dice Man and while never really able to go for `freedom` from the tyranny of choice - nevertheless, the notion that the seemingly, random process of a fall of dice - as a decision maker remains.
There are a set of crafted alloy dice, with red dots, in the Ferrari shop, at Meadow Hall - splendidly laying on top of their red velvet bag. Only £25 - but rather jangling on the nerves, perhaps if dangled from the interior mirror.
The perspective difference would be interesting though - small and hard - rather than big and soft - as in the fluffy dice of youth.
A parallel perhaps, to the shrunken walnut, encapsulating the concept of both - although perhaps inverted.
Happy New Year to all!
oilrag
Edited by oilrag on 01/01/2010 at 06:56
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>My bet for the fluffy dice is between five regulars
>Altea Ego
Oh dear. I'll take the blue lights off the front and put up a set of pink fluffy dice. Can I keep the us rebel flag spread over the rear window?
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Quite the contrary for me. I hate clutter in the car. Apart from stuff I need for work it is completely devoid of trappings. No mascots, keepsakes or stickers. Even to the point that I always remove any dealer stickers in the windows and replace any dealer advertising tax disc holders with a plain simple circular one.
Minimalism is so now dahlings.......
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Cluttering the car up is the job of my better half, but the cab of my lorry is home to three fluffy dogs, a hedgehog and a pink rubber duck!
Huffy duck comes from Belgium, has spikey hair, annd never fails to cheer me up.
No dice though.
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Some of the most makko blokes i know have various furry creatures lurking around their dash areas.
Used to carry a cute small mole with me for luck till someone masquerading as a mechanic nicked him.
The obligatory no smoking sticker gets removed and put on the one rear window out of sight line.
I once had to use another chaps truck for a week who was an avid Scottish football team supporter, across almost the whole roof were dodgy danglers!..wee footballers on short elastic ties, probably 20 or more of them and you could sense the constant ducking and diving of these things in your peripheralls..quite unnerving and i was glad to be out of the thing.
Nothing in the car to restrict view, and i too remove the dealers stickers immediately...hairdryer works well on long established ones by the way.
Never had dice, nor tempted to have the name of meself or current barryette across the screen.
Had a number plate in me truck screen with a sexist message for a number of years, most girls saw the funny side of it, but occasionally if looks could kill..
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Sadly, some recent threads would indicate a penchant for pink fluffy dice among some posters..... :-)
Happy New Year to all, BTW.
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I reckon Lud has something pink and fluffy hanging from his mirror, but I suspect they are the soft bits of some fool who mimsed once too often and became separated from them using a cunning technique he picked up from the Marsh Arabs in a little known skirmish in the fifties.
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Where did you hear of the Al-mimsa al-ghulichop technique Nsar?
:o}
Edited by Lud on 01/01/2010 at 12:48
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I fancy having one of those `nodding dogs` that used to be on the rear window ledge in the 1950`s saloon cars.
Be difficult to find it a position in the van, of course - but perhaps could be aligned on top of the instrument panel.
Better have it pointing out, I suppose. `I was hypnotized by my nodding dog` might not go down too well as mitigation on a mimsing charge.
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I'd like a bonnet emblem, a burlesque flying lady would be fun....decorated to suit one's particular taste, the girls could have their own version of the chippendales, the variations would be endless.
Even the dustcarts (sorry, refuse disposal vehicles) don't have various cartoon characters jammed in the grilles any more.
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Well, Oily, I have to ' come out ' now and confess to having a small brown nodding dog on the back shelf of the Jowett together with two cushions, each embroidered with a collage different dogs and a 1952 copy of the Daily Express.
Pride of place goes to a genuine Churchill nodding bulldog. However, I don't display him....remember the Garfield Liberation Front where windows were being smashed and the cats stolen ?
My own Garfield is tie-wrapped to the handlebars of the Honda for holiday runs.....complete with a helmet made from a plastic ladle, goggles...two Dowty washers and tie-wraps and a bit of cloth to make a scarf.....charity runs sometimes see my woolly Wallace up there as well.
The kids love 'em !
Ted
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Ted. I reckon you're one of life's good guys.
Martin.
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Ted. I reckon you're one of life's good guys. Martin.
Martin, I'm a Devonian...speaks for itself !
Ted
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Funny - I'd have said that the five people named by Pat would be the LAST people to have such things in their cars, given that they all write sensibly and coherently and no doubt drive accordingly. Peraps Pat was trying to wind them up - in which case fair enough!
To me the dolly-danglers (for dolly read dice or anything else hanging from the mirror) are the typea you see on Sunday afternoons: elderly man driving with 3 women - wifey, wife's sister and Bessie from next door - at 20 mph in the middle of the road. I won't offend any further by suggesting what car he might be driving but I have ideas.
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I was wondering about pink fluffy dice and screen-wash. If it were possible to achieve a sort of counterpoint of visual effect - in the deployment of pink or blue?
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I am in the "minimalist" camp, I remove all traces of dealer advertising as soon as I get a car, and like the inside of my car clean and free of "dangly distractions".
Edited by Old Navy on 01/01/2010 at 16:42
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I've got a nice string of fat amber Middle Eastern worry beads that click nicely. I've got, if I can find it, a beautiful Shi'a rosary too, 99 round beads and two lenticular ones, made of a lapis lazuli-like stone. One or both of those would look very Beirut-taxi hung from the mirror.
But like others here I don't really like dangly decorations in cars, so the beads can stay where they are.
Of course the Afar-style manhood trophies mentioned by Nsar are another matter.
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If one is going for bonnet mascots, I could be partial to a nice orginal Lalique one, lit from below.
this one. Spirit of the Wind
tinyurl.com/yk5xpmh
Edited by Altea Ego on 01/01/2010 at 17:04
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"....orginal Lalique"
'Lalique' sounds like a Peugeot 206CC. 'Orginal' we'll leave to the imagination.
Seriously, if you ever go to Jersey you shouldn't miss the church with all its glass by Lalique. Stunning.
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Plenty here to choose from!
tinyurl.com/ya7cezs
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Decisions, decisions. The blue or red flashing gear knob, at least it is an upstick not a dangly.
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"Decisions Decisions"
Rather beguiled by the Diamante wheel nut covers and perhaps a matching set of Diamante valve caps myself.
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Rather beguiled by the Diamante wheel nut covers and perhaps a matching set of Diamante valve caps myself.
I hope they are lockable!
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Sorry, Pat, I'm like Humph, can't stand clutter! Though if I drive No1 daughter's car it has Eeyore on the back shelf, and No2 daughter's has pink mats in the front... does that count?! :)
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Daughter bought an Estelle.
It had to have furry dice in it.
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I have a few ideas and I think I have narrowed it down pretty well. My bet for the fluffy dice is between five regulars Fotherington Thomas (snip)
Outrageous. Splutter. How dare you. You are fined a pint, to be had on the way back from somewhere.
I have no things dangling in the windscreen - no PFD, no little smelly trees, no rosaries, nothing - and no PFD, nodding dogs or WHY in the back (although there are a couple of umbrellas on the parcel shelf.
And who's your candidate for the secret fluffy dice backroomer?
You, sir - you! You!
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pda - is a Madam in the nicest possible way !
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My ex-wife bought me a set when I bought an Escort - she said I couldn't own one without them.
I was quite upset when someone stole them - they were attached to the car at the time.
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pda - is a Madam in the nicest possible way !
Great Scott! Get me a gin - and quickly too - please. Make that a large pink one.
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FT, you've restored my faith in the backroom having a sense of humour:)
You shall have that pint on the way home from somewhere!
Pat
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