Pink ‘girl’ zones?

[Omnis]

Will the lanes be painted red once a month, and then changed back to pink until it's 'that time again' next month?

Monthly maintenance.

Depends, some roads you just pay your whole damned life and they lead to misery, you feel like you're stuck in the car til you die. It fills up with hate and takes the hopes and dreams you started out with and dumps them onto blurred, passing verge finished McFlurry tubs. Even if you break down the car never stops.

Or should I keep the menstruation jokes up?

Yeah, we already ran the well dry on the menstruation jokes.

Time to pull the plug on this thread.

 

[Leicht]

So what would the speed limit be in these pink zones? Lickety-split?

What does lickety-split means?

 

[Omnis]

What does lickety-split means?

Quickly. With haste, etc.

 

[Coxis]

These threads are fun every once in a while. The other thread that comes to mind is the legendary "The "Thread" thread".

 

[RACECAR]

Saw the title and admittingly did chuckle abit. Saw the posts, nearly ripped my sides.

After the reading the article, the term "Misguided" seems generous given the questionable nature of this...whatever it is.

Where every "girl" is a 12 year old boy looking for a girlfriend!

...At least they sound like girls. Pink zone fraud!

That's a scary future I want no part of

 

[Omnis]

I hope people get my tampon jokes...

 

[Brutaka]

When riding on these roads make sure to always wear hub caps

 

[ildd]

Personally, I'd like a road set up like this:
Lane one- crazy people who go 100+mph on the highway
Lane two- for those who like to go 10-20mph over the limit
Lane three- for those who go at or 5mph over the limit
Lane four- for semi trucks, pickups with trailers, and those who go the speed limit

Unfortuantely I don't know how well my plan would work.

 

[Brutaka]

Personally, I'd like a road set up like this:
Lane one- crazy people who go 100+mph on the highway
Lane two- for those who like to go 10-20mph over the limit
Lane three- for those who go at or 5mph over the limit
Lane four- for semi trucks, pickups with trailers, and those who go the speed limit

Unfortuantely I don't know how well my plan would work.

Gonna be kinda difficult getting on and off.

 

[ildd]

Gonna be kinda difficult getting on and off.

Well obviously you'd have to get over, you just have to match the speed of the next lane.

 

[SniperRed3]

When travelling along rough pink girl zones be sure to check your rubber

 

[TenEightyOne]

I presume, as these roads "will" be in the UK, that instead of a hard-shoulder there's a cold-shoulder?

 

[SniperRed3]

I presume, as these roads "will" be in the UK, that instead of a hard-shoulder there's a cold-shoulder?

With marked friendzones

 

[kikie]

Will there be a pink insurance with special needs for driving women as well? Afterall, it's an insurance company who suggested the girl pinkzone.

 

[TenEightyOne]

Will there be a pink insurance with special needs for driving women as well? Afterall, it's an insurance company who suggested the girl pinkzone.

It's an insurance company only for women, statistically much safer drivers. So yes, that's what the whole advertisement is for.

Blimey, a shock to realise this is from 2006!? Time flies when you're a grumpy old drunk.

 

[kikie]

No more pink 'women' innuendos, jokes, insights and puns anymore.

Come on, someone must know something..

 

[SniperRed3]

Sheilas wheels have been dead for years. This is a joke

 

[TenEightyOne]

Sheilas wheels have been dead for years. This is a joke

In what way? I haven't seen them stop advertising or stop doing business? Surely the OP is proof of that?

 

[SniperRed3]

I haven't heard of them in years. I hardly live under a under a rock. I'm down with the cool kids.

 

[kikie]

Dead or not, it is still a funny story. Pink zones on public roads, would love to see how that is implemented.

We already have, kind of, pink or red zones.

 

[Robin]

I thought they banned female only insurers years ago because of some equality act?

 

[SniperRed3]

I believe they did.

 

[TenEightyOne]

I thought they banned female only insurers years ago because of some equality act?

They banned the use of gender as a factor in the calculation of policy costs, that doesn't stop companies offering packages aimed specifically at females.

I'm not sure what benefit that brings them now, but that doesn't stop advertising. If you can remain highly attractive to 50% of the driving audience that's still worth going for.

Small FAQ from Diamond, not much help...

 

[SniperRed3]

My girl cousin was insured on her first car for 500 pounds for a pug 106, If you just change the gender it goes up to 1500.

 

[TenEightyOne]

My girl cousin was insured on her first car for 500 pounds for a pug 106, If you just change the gender it goes up to 1500.

Even now? That's not supposed to happen anymore by law.

 

[SniperRed3]

Yeah, it's mental. You just plug info into a comparison site.

 

[Ellis]

For the record @Omnis I got your tampon joke. It seemed to have been missed but was jolly humorous!

 

[TenEightyOne]

For the record @Omnis I got your tampon joke. It seemed to have been missed but was jolly humorous!

Well done Ellis, very well done!

@SniperRed3, looking into it seems that Sheila's Wheels have always taken men, so to speak, its just that their policies are bright pink and the benefits are ones that are traditionally more favoured by female customers (eg £300 handbag cover, beauty treatment discounts, nail cover etc etc).

They may not be giving lower prices on the basis of gender any more but they're still a deliberately "girly" company.

If you find that you're still getting lower prices when you tell the comparison site you're a laaady then you should report them to the Ombudswoman.

 

[Ellis]

Looking into it seems that Sheila's Wheels have always taken men, so to speak, its just that their policies are bright pink and the benefits are ones that are traditionally more favoured by female customers (eg £300 handbag cover, beauty treatment discounts, nail cover etc etc).

T.

Its like the whole Yorky thing. They used to market the chocolate bar as only for men. Obviously this encouraged women to buy it more and men to buy it more because they felt it had exclusivity. It's just a bit of clever marketing.

 

[HKS racer]

So what would the speed limit be in these pink zones?

69 mph.

If you go backwards..
I guess it's 90.