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SubaruStephen:
"What's an asbo?" -every American.
The Seldom Killer:
Anti-Social Behaviour Order.
Back around the turn of the millenia the UK got very fixed on the term Anti-Social Behaviour. We had a long running stream of moral outrage in the media about kids with hoodies, neighbours from hell, lager louts, shaggalufians and all manner social ills that upset the social elite who felt the hoi and the polloi were horning in on their party. So naturally the Labour Party reverted to their lefty leaning trade unionist roots and started cracking down on the upstart proles.
Cue the ASBO, a toothless ticket to tell the great unwashed that they better toe the line or they'll be on the hook for a stern talking to. As night follows day, ne'er do wells got lawyered up and demanded the basic human right to grate everyone's nerves be respected and wee scally's got shipped off to EuroDisney for a couple of nights if they promised to cry off that their mam didn't love 'em nearly enough. Late night TV pundits spent hours deliberating how this set on the knife-edge between soft touch and cruel and unusual punishment.
These days ASBOs are trawled out in the silly season to cast a disapproving eye on unruly livestock.
Not a complete shower of legal shit though, it paved the way for a wider variety of legal Orders that are used to far better effect such as FMPOs, DVPOs and non-mols
Dalillama:
Here's me in a Gomez Addams suit, although I look nothing like John Astin and even less like Raul Julia:
--- Quote from: The Seldom Killer on 06 Nov 2014, 06:10 ---
No, the Ford ASBO was coined by Top Gear. Jeremy Clarkson used it to descibe a model of Ford Focus that had been released which was updated to fit in with the hot hatch market popular with young drivers, usually male. The particular model supplied to the programme was painted in a bright and garish shade of Orange.
Some opportunist knocked up some layover decals which became briefly popular with the aforementioned young drivers, usually male. A lot of models of Ford's could never be considered an ASBO.
As an aside I do still hold that it is illegal to drive a Mondeo unless at least one part of the bodywork is in some way held on with duct tape.
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Good to know; I've been reading the Rivers of London series (I heartily recommend same for fans of urban fantasy, btw), and the protagonist owns and drives a Ford Asbo, which I knew wasn't the actual designation (I do know what an ASBO is), but wasn't sure exactly what kind of Ford it was, other than a smallish cheap one.
Method of Madness:
Went to a party last night, borrowed someone's Lego Deadpool mask for this picture :mrgreen:
Metope:
It's father's day in Norway today! Here's a photo of my dad and I, taken roughly 25 years ago:
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