Majorette Corolla Altis and GRMN Yaris
Majorette distribution in the UK is patchy and random, Iโm amazed to find a normal Corolla Altis sat there. GRMN Yaris is also nice to see. Got both.
Majorette BMTA Series 1 and 2
Also since I went in the cupboard, I can grab that one Series 2 BMTA I already had and bask in the glow of full set completion for that.
Majorette Buriram United set
Complete Majorette Buriram United set. The Buriram TukTuk is weirdly rare, I was lucky to get it in a gift pack as a bonus. The rest of it is fairly easy to get, though one colour of the pickup took me a few days to locate.
The concept art for Wipeout 2048 by Darren Douglas is something else
I grew up with American culture, it seemed so cutting-edge and cool, dreamed I could live there. Some product being from America was almost automatically cool. Now I just want the place surgically removed from my brain. Iโve no idea if Iโm alone on this or itโs just me being a complete crackpot.
When the actions of a country repeatedly impacts on your life negatively and said impacts are in your face constantly, itโs hard to stay calm. Iโm at the stage where Iโm unpicking as much American cultural influence from my life as possible just so I donโt have to willingly think about the place.
I really donโt want to hate individual Americans as I know they didnโt all pick this, but I do think with full confidence that I genuinely hate the United States of America.
โDear American Embassy, please bar me from your country, do not write back to me with your weird stupid-sized paperโ
Wonder if I could write to the embassy and ask them to bar me.
Just thinking, I have made comments on social media that could potentially prevent me going to America. On that basis, let me take this opportunity to double down and say the President is a pathetic chump puppet with a deteriorating brain, also a creepy sex pest and a genocidal scumbag. That enough?
Iโve noticed with a fresh YT account it very quickly starts skewing things towards heavily right-wing nonsense almost no matter what you actually search for.
Majorette Farmhouse VW T1 and MAN TGS
Farmhouse ad
Some of the Thai exclusives are just one or two cars, hereโs the Farmhouse set. They sell bread and those shelf-stable pocket sandwiches they do at Tops. The use of a VW T1 is deliberate, they use one in ads (not a panel van though). The MAN TGS version is oddly rare so Iโve got an unboxed one.
Tomica Familia
Tomica Familia
Opened the Tomica BD Familia-323, very happy.
If you get the full 15, youโre allowed to drive a heavily overloaded Isuzu D-Max at double the posted speed limit whilst drinking a bottle of M-150 and looking at your phone.
Majorette Thailand Police
If you hated the 19/19 complete Thai Taxi set, then youโre just going to love the 14 out of 15 Thailand Police set (Series 1/2 Crime Police and Tourist Police). Just missing one G-Wagen that I think is probably exclusive to a gift pack (but I can get it).
Full 19 Thai Taxi Majorette set
With the orange one arriving in the post, Iโm now up to the full set. 19 of 19. Thatโs Series 1 (Bangkok), Series 2 (Bangkok New Colours), Series 3 (Phuket), Series 4 (Pattaya). Genuinely deranged behaviour.
Majorette Kerry Express D-Max and Orange Altis Taxi
Delivery from Thailand. Got the orange taxi (exclusive to an old 5 pack), completing the full set of 19 taxis and giving me automatic citizenship and 10% off Butterbear crisps at 7-Eleven. Also the Kerry Express D-Max which last time I checked was selling in packet for about ยฃ40 so loose is fine.
I saw a sign at a car show once that an acrylic sign made up that said โkeep your fucking hands off my carโ and just wondered why theyโd bother turning up at all.
Upside down crumpled twat
My favourite was this one.
Fascist leaflet
Actually, you just put it in the letterbox and ran off. For future reference, my views are โfuck offโ and โI wish heโd died in that plane crashโ.
I think child me finding out that gay people exist would have had considerably less immediate impact than learning that thereโs not just an Intercity 125, but an Intercity 225. I suspect my reaction was โOK. Can I have a micro burger?โ
End of the day, little kids are kind of stupid and things easily go over their head. If it didnโt and it resulted in a brief conversation where I found out about people being gay a year or two earlier, so what? If youโre scared of having that conversation with your kids, youโre a shitty parent.
When I was a little kid, in a household that was fairly sheltered but not really intolerant, I watched Police Academy and thought the Blue Oyster Bar men were just a cool gang of rough bikers who really liked dancing. I also thought Wez from Mad Max 2โs obvious boyfriend was just his best buddy.
(joke specific to anyone familiar with the on-street parking arrangements of Batley town centre and how much of a pain in the arse it is when you just want to go in Pound Express for a pack of batteries)
To be fair, I do very much like a good mix and drove myself absolutely nuts trying to obtain several saved Hi-NRG/Italo ones off my old dead computer (havenโt given up).
Peering over glasses emoji from the Jo Cox Foundation staff when they see me park my car in front of their office, on my way to Pound Express.
Speaking as somebody who only likes to listen to music as an entire album from start to finish, random music on shuffle really annoys me. I donโt even like radio much for that reason.
The Concorde: Airport โ79 is by far the best of the entire series and I will not elaborate on this opinion as I think the superior quality of the film speaks for itself.
Can confirm that my position has not softened, but has substantially hardened. I donโt really like the UK and Iโm not sure if I ever did. Even if Iโm not working, it just doesnโt fit with what Iโm really after.
This family reaction shot.
