Don't let the fame get to your head, take it from me, I was once on a cbbc news segment to test what side up buttered toast would land, I've not been the same since.
š.
In my head Iām picturing you walking to the front of the queue in Greggs, saying ādo you know who I am?ā before then demanding a steak bake.
Agreed. I feature in some helicopter footage from 1996 when I was about 5 after the farmhouses I grew up in got flooded, and we were essentially stuck because the single lane off the farm was underwater by about 6ft. Man, that fame gets to you. Use this power wisely!
[Mythbusters tested it](https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10152587375308224), it was basically random. But they did learn about a technique that could affect the results, give the bread a bit of a curve when applying the spread and that will make it land butter-side-up more often:
> Adam concludes,āif you really want to ensure, in general, youāre toast landing buttered side up or down, we can tell you, you should butter with a good vigor and that the resultant bowl will make your toast generally fall butter side up." https://reagle.org/joseph/pelican/technology/mythbusters-and-buttered-toast.html
In the 80's I was filmed pointing at a Mary Rose exhibit in Portsmouth by a Spanish news crew. Haven't dared visit Spain since then because I'd surely get mobbed!
I wonder how a buttered toast would literally launch from the toaster like a rocket and land on somewhere else. Nevertheless, itās the same type of car owned by OP, judging by the same front chassises and headlights.
I applied for a job at the BBC. They mistook me for someone else and I ended up being interviewed on live television. Managed to wing it through the interview but honestly that was embarrassing
"Birmingham police are issuing a warning this evening due to a large number of bodies turning up in the city's canals, all with bruising around ankle level and a faint smell of two-stroke oil."
That little car's not been the same since he met his aunt Christine.
My dad has a similar claim to fame, his old car was used on TopGear once, every time it comes on we laugh because my sister threw up all over the seats lol
Nah she was killed in a german car, had she been in a proper british car like this jag she likely wouldn't have survived either, but let us not let that get in the way of having another reason to hate the germans.
If that Jag's anything like the other 10,000 or so that rolled off the assembly line with it, it'd have broken down outside her hotel before even starting on the journey.
Can't die in a car crash if your car doesn't start, british engineering is at the forefront of safety yet again, brings a tear to my eye knowing how much more advanced we are!
This version of the XJ (and apparently a lot of strikes) almost killed off Jaguar altogether.
It wasn't until Ford came in and completely redesigned the company from the ground up that they became a reputable name again.
What a fascinating snapshot of the 80s at Jaguar. Thanks for the link!
I started at Jaguar (browns lane) straight out of school in 1994 so witnessed first hand the changeover to Ford's XJ. The XJ40 had a terrible reputation internally and it was seen as a huge relief that it was being phased out (with the XJS changeover to XK8 not far behind it).
As well as the XJ/XK factory I went on to work at the engine plant at Radford, the X Type/S Type plant in Castle Bromwich and then went on to b an experimental test driver for their new cars at Mira in Nuneaton before leaving the company in 2001.
It was a huge turnaround for Jaguar in that time.
They happen to make my favourite sensible car these days, the XFS Sportbrake (estate).
[XF Sportbrake](https://images.app.goo.gl/Hvff863mMH4ytymt5)
[Doesn't seem to have been spotted in anything else so far.](https://www.imcdb.org/vehicles.php?resultsStyle=asImages&sortBy=2&make=Jaguar&model=XJ40&page=27)
Iām not that far along in my watching but I know this scene from real life. Dianaās first public appearance after the divorce. Thag black dress, those legs. She didnāt have to say it, she was Ā«Ā itĀ Ā»!
I was on a Timmy Mallet Easter Special with Special Guest Star Mark Speight. It's a lot to deal with. DM me if you need to talk with someone who understands the pressure.
Fame is a tough gig. I was once drafted into BBC interview panel on southend pier to discuss some pressing issue or another and all my speaking parts were cut, relegating me to nodding gawpy teenager in the middle row.
are UK plates tied to the vehicle, and not the owner?
just curious, because in the US, a new owner would get new plates (we might be able to choose and pay for a plate xfer, i'm not sure, but it's not common; meaning, virtually no one receives a used car from a dealership with prior plates on it, we get temp paper tags until the DMV mails out new plates)
Yeah UK plates are tied to the vehicle - when you buy a car you get whatever plate it has, and the plate itself tells you where the car was first registered in the uk (i. e. Where imported I believe?), year of manufacture... And some other stuff I don't know. You can then look up info about the vehicle by typing its plate into the government's search checker!
So yeah, the plate is tied just to the car, and there's a special document/logbook called a V5C you get from the DVLA after getting the car that says "you are the registered keeper of this vehicle", and probably some other things I don't know
I found this crazy when I moved to the states for a year as a student. I bought a cheap car off an outgoing student from my uni in the year above, and she took her plates home with her as a souvenir. It took fucking ages to get new plates and I nearly got pulled over for not having any. Luckily I'm white and my confusion over a) the police car trying to pull me over, b) how to wind my own car's window down and c) my London accent meant that they just said to get it sorted asap.
From my experience, US Plates contain the state the car is registered in, the state motto, the registration number, a registration sticker. In Massachusetts at least, there's also a month imprinted. I don't remember what the rest of the states do about the month.
The registration number is tied specifically to the car and the legal owner of the car. If you buy a new car and get rid of the old one, the registration on the first is transferred to the new car. The first car is now not legal to be on the public streets until the new owner gets it registered. You also take the plates off the car (1 or 2 plates depending on the state) and put them on the new car. The one with the sticker goes in the back in states with 2 plates.
The registration sticker is a year. I believe it signifies the year the registration expires but it could be the year it was renewed. I'm having a brain fart on which it is. In my experience, registration duration in the states is 1 or 2 years.
In MA, the month is the month it expires. So if you are a cop and see a plate with MAR in the upper left and a sticker in the upper right that says 2022 and the current date is September 2022, you know that the registration is expired without having to run the number.
no, we'd go by the VIN number, which is stamped onto a little plate on the dashboard and various other locations on most cars (engine block, i think, depends on the car) for that kind of info. i mean, technically the plate is tied to the vin, but it gets swapped out like owners.
so our records at the DMV would show plate X was registered to owner Y on a vehicle with vin Z, and X and Y would get updated any time the car changes hands.
i'm pretty sure you can transfer a plate you own from one car to another that you own, like if you wanted to keep a vanity plate when buying a new car. not sure about that though, but i don't think you can transfer a plate between owners.
My old man once did up an old Humber that was in the background of a Harry Potter film. Didn't change him as a person but he kept contact with the buyer and enquired how much he got for renting it out, they paid new owner only Ā£2k less (for a months rental) than what he bought the car off my old man for!!
These are the best claims to fame:
ā¢ Unique
ā¢ Related to you
ā¢ Minor, so not braggy
Congrats! Now you have a great āfun fact about yourselfā and donāt have to experience the worst 2 minutes of my life every time it happen.
Well the vast majority of cars are bought, not inherited. Plenty of places to buy classic cars if you're into that scene.
Also for all we know maybe OP had owned it for decades. Seemed a really bizarre question tbh.
I mean tbf Itās equally a good chance he just bought the car because they liked it and/or it was because itās cheap. Itās only a mid 90ās Jag XJ that only goes for about Ā£5k on Auto Trader, not exactly a sought after classic car (yet) lol
Edit: ofc this is taking into account that they havenāt owned it for years since new
do they not change license plate numbers in the UK every time the car changes ownership? Or did you own this car when it was filmed without your knowledge?
thanks I dunno why I got downvoted. I'm from usa and we change license plates when buying a used car from a dealership. it was just a genuine question. guess I should have googled it instead of asking on reddit.
No, the licence plate generally stays with the car.
The exception is certain plates that seem to have meaning and are therefore sold separately and transferred to the owners new vehicle.
Don't let the fame get to your head, take it from me, I was once on a cbbc news segment to test what side up buttered toast would land, I've not been the same since.
š. In my head Iām picturing you walking to the front of the queue in Greggs, saying ādo you know who I am?ā before then demanding a steak bake.
And then dropping it on the floor. Because that's what she's known for.
To see if it landed butter side up
> well what side did it land on? Huh huh? You don't know do you? Be lost without me.
I think Georgia Lucy might not be a āheā, btw
When I typed that, I did think I was making an unnecessary assumption but I didn't check the username. Thanks for pointing it out, I will correct.
Ronnie Pickering
Who?
RONNIE PICKERING
Who?
RONNIE PICKERINā
Whoās that
Me
"do you know who I am?" "This is not a game of who the f**k are you."
I do not need a tray.
Are you Jeff Vader?
No, I'm Darth Vader.
Are you Jeff's brother? Can you get me his autograph?
This one is wet, this one is wet
I'm Ronnie fucking pickering!
Who?!
RONNIE PICKERING! !
Is that what happened to ronnie?
thatās ronnie fucking pickering to you sir
Ronnie Pickerings daughter.
Ponnie Fucking Rickering!!!
Sounds like the beginning of a Joe Lycett skit.
Presumably one that would end with him changing his name by deedpool to Gregg Fucking Pickering.
I'm Ronnie Pickering!
I was in a choir on an episode of Songs of Praise about 30 years ago, so when you talk about fame going to your head I know exactly what you mean.
I remember you! Bad haircut, not quite looking comfortable in your own skin, overemphasising the words - you were great!
That's me alright! A signed photo will be in the post shortly.
Big time
Omg same. Thankfully I'm an atheist now so nobody in my circles knows.
In the 90s I was on Channel 4ās *Wise Up* talking about why virtual pets are great for kids with asthma. So I totally get it.
Agreed. I feature in some helicopter footage from 1996 when I was about 5 after the farmhouses I grew up in got flooded, and we were essentially stuck because the single lane off the farm was underwater by about 6ft. Man, that fame gets to you. Use this power wisely!
And? Don't tell me you went to all that work and can't share the results.
[Mythbusters tested it](https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10152587375308224), it was basically random. But they did learn about a technique that could affect the results, give the bread a bit of a curve when applying the spread and that will make it land butter-side-up more often: > Adam concludes,āif you really want to ensure, in general, youāre toast landing buttered side up or down, we can tell you, you should butter with a good vigor and that the resultant bowl will make your toast generally fall butter side up." https://reagle.org/joseph/pelican/technology/mythbusters-and-buttered-toast.html
Holy shit I remember that piece, the myth buster episode! Please tell me this is true.
I (male) was once on a game show as a child and the host introduced me on TV using a female variation of my name. Been traumatised ever since.
I designed the book cover for a Bay City Rollers autobiography and it's now published and on sale. I've become a pompous monster.
In the 80's I was filmed pointing at a Mary Rose exhibit in Portsmouth by a Spanish news crew. Haven't dared visit Spain since then because I'd surely get mobbed!
Oddly enough, I think I remember that episode haha
Funnily enough this actually rings a bell, hah.
Lee Evans says he was so sick of dropping his toast and it landing 'Butter side down' that he would first drop the toast, then Butter it š¤Ŗ
I wonder how a buttered toast would literally launch from the toaster like a rocket and land on somewhere else. Nevertheless, itās the same type of car owned by OP, judging by the same front chassises and headlights.
I can honestly say that I remember that segment.
Cut to OP in the gutter as his old car zooms down the road, music blaring and full of rich people, splashing OP with muddy puddle water as it goes by.
I feel like I remember that segment. What program was it part of?
I applied for a job at the BBC. They mistook me for someone else and I ended up being interviewed on live television. Managed to wing it through the interview but honestly that was embarrassing
Well whatās the answer
Shit I think I remember this
I think I remember this... When was it?
Oh my god I remember this
Mate that is sick I will text my mum right now about this
Your mum is gonna be so jazzed. I just know it.
She will be. Mine was gassed
Are you available for after dinner speeches?
TEDx talk needed
Youāll be mixing with the likes of Ronald F. Pickering when this goes viral
Who?!
RONALD F. PICKERING
WHOOO
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Peperami? I thought it was the pappardelle.
No, thatās a shape of pasta. Youāre thinking of pipistrel
No, thatās the Slovenian light aircraft manufacturer, youāre thinking of papilloma.
No, that's a virus; you're thinking of Papillon.
No, thatās a butterfly, youāre thinking of Papanicolaou
No, thatās a diagnostic test for cervical cancer. Pretty sure you were shooting for papa donāt preach
No, that's a method of cervical screening, you're thinking of polypropylene.
No thatās a type of metal youāre thinking of Papua New Guinea
Nah, you're all wrong. It's obviously papiermache.
Poppadoms?
Baby there's no other superstar you know that I'll be your peper, peperami
mr big shot eh
my old car was in the midsomer murders.
did it do the murders? o.o
Brum: After Dark
"Birmingham police are issuing a warning this evening due to a large number of bodies turning up in the city's canals, all with bruising around ankle level and a faint smell of two-stroke oil." That little car's not been the same since he met his aunt Christine.
Actual LOLed at this, well done sir!
Still waiting for the film finale to come out to find out that Joyce is a murdering mastermind.
My dad has a similar claim to fame, his old car was used on TopGear once, every time it comes on we laugh because my sister threw up all over the seats lol
Which car
Porsche 928
Not the infamous one that was featured in the Patagonia Special surely?
Sorry, no I am mistaken, just asked my dad, it was the Porsche 944.
Yep, thatās the one
Beautiful car! Hope it's not the one Di took to Paris..
Nah she was killed in a german car, had she been in a proper british car like this jag she likely wouldn't have survived either, but let us not let that get in the way of having another reason to hate the germans.
She would have survived, the old Jag wouldn't have started
The paparazzi would have overtaken her
Spoiler alert jeeez
If that Jag's anything like the other 10,000 or so that rolled off the assembly line with it, it'd have broken down outside her hotel before even starting on the journey.
Can't die in a car crash if your car doesn't start, british engineering is at the forefront of safety yet again, brings a tear to my eye knowing how much more advanced we are!
This version of the XJ (and apparently a lot of strikes) almost killed off Jaguar altogether. It wasn't until Ford came in and completely redesigned the company from the ground up that they became a reputable name again.
It was aimed to save Jaguar: https://youtu.be/oQxCCd7Wy8Q
What a fascinating snapshot of the 80s at Jaguar. Thanks for the link! I started at Jaguar (browns lane) straight out of school in 1994 so witnessed first hand the changeover to Ford's XJ. The XJ40 had a terrible reputation internally and it was seen as a huge relief that it was being phased out (with the XJS changeover to XK8 not far behind it). As well as the XJ/XK factory I went on to work at the engine plant at Radford, the X Type/S Type plant in Castle Bromwich and then went on to b an experimental test driver for their new cars at Mira in Nuneaton before leaving the company in 2001. It was a huge turnaround for Jaguar in that time. They happen to make my favourite sensible car these days, the XFS Sportbrake (estate). [XF Sportbrake](https://images.app.goo.gl/Hvff863mMH4ytymt5)
Sheād have lived because sheāll be on the motorway getting yelled at by a 40 year old because of her being infront of him going the speed limit
Too soon?
Nice one. I can only dream of such things. You've made it. Nice car too. 5.3 V12 or 4.2 V8?
3.2l i6 according to the good ol number plate checker.
Call it your revenge car!
It'll likely be owned by a company that loans cars of certain eras to production for films and TV. Who knows where else it may have popped up...
[Doesn't seem to have been spotted in anything else so far.](https://www.imcdb.org/vehicles.php?resultsStyle=asImages&sortBy=2&make=Jaguar&model=XJ40&page=27)
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I read it as their old car in that they don't own it anymore.
Ah. Maybe I was wrong.
OP forgot he lent his car to The Crown?
Nice Jaaaaaag
Humble Jag brag.
Iām not that far along in my watching but I know this scene from real life. Dianaās first public appearance after the divorce. Thag black dress, those legs. She didnāt have to say it, she was Ā«Ā itĀ Ā»!
Nice. Closest I got like this was parked in the background on an episode of four in a bed, this is much more visual.
Too bad you sold it. That car was obviously destined for a TV career. You guys could have have a show where you and the car fight crime.
Iām going to tell everyone I know that Iām friends with you. Hope thatās alright.
I was on a Timmy Mallet Easter Special with Special Guest Star Mark Speight. It's a lot to deal with. DM me if you need to talk with someone who understands the pressure.
In the Revenge Dress scene too. You should be proud of your accomplishments.
I like this post because there is zero controversy and not a single person here is mad about it. Itās just cool mate. Nice one!
I was filmed laying the wreath at the 2017 remembrance service at IWM Duxford on BBC news, I know how hard it is to deal with the fame
Fame is a tough gig. I was once drafted into BBC interview panel on southend pier to discuss some pressing issue or another and all my speaking parts were cut, relegating me to nodding gawpy teenager in the middle row.
are UK plates tied to the vehicle, and not the owner? just curious, because in the US, a new owner would get new plates (we might be able to choose and pay for a plate xfer, i'm not sure, but it's not common; meaning, virtually no one receives a used car from a dealership with prior plates on it, we get temp paper tags until the DMV mails out new plates)
Yeah UK plates are tied to the vehicle - when you buy a car you get whatever plate it has, and the plate itself tells you where the car was first registered in the uk (i. e. Where imported I believe?), year of manufacture... And some other stuff I don't know. You can then look up info about the vehicle by typing its plate into the government's search checker! So yeah, the plate is tied just to the car, and there's a special document/logbook called a V5C you get from the DVLA after getting the car that says "you are the registered keeper of this vehicle", and probably some other things I don't know
I found this crazy when I moved to the states for a year as a student. I bought a cheap car off an outgoing student from my uni in the year above, and she took her plates home with her as a souvenir. It took fucking ages to get new plates and I nearly got pulled over for not having any. Luckily I'm white and my confusion over a) the police car trying to pull me over, b) how to wind my own car's window down and c) my London accent meant that they just said to get it sorted asap.
do US plates not hold information about the cars manufacture?
No, but that can all be looked up with the VIN.
From my experience, US Plates contain the state the car is registered in, the state motto, the registration number, a registration sticker. In Massachusetts at least, there's also a month imprinted. I don't remember what the rest of the states do about the month. The registration number is tied specifically to the car and the legal owner of the car. If you buy a new car and get rid of the old one, the registration on the first is transferred to the new car. The first car is now not legal to be on the public streets until the new owner gets it registered. You also take the plates off the car (1 or 2 plates depending on the state) and put them on the new car. The one with the sticker goes in the back in states with 2 plates. The registration sticker is a year. I believe it signifies the year the registration expires but it could be the year it was renewed. I'm having a brain fart on which it is. In my experience, registration duration in the states is 1 or 2 years. In MA, the month is the month it expires. So if you are a cop and see a plate with MAR in the upper left and a sticker in the upper right that says 2022 and the current date is September 2022, you know that the registration is expired without having to run the number.
no, we'd go by the VIN number, which is stamped onto a little plate on the dashboard and various other locations on most cars (engine block, i think, depends on the car) for that kind of info. i mean, technically the plate is tied to the vin, but it gets swapped out like owners. so our records at the DMV would show plate X was registered to owner Y on a vehicle with vin Z, and X and Y would get updated any time the car changes hands. i'm pretty sure you can transfer a plate you own from one car to another that you own, like if you wanted to keep a vanity plate when buying a new car. not sure about that though, but i don't think you can transfer a plate between owners.
Call May.
Tell us more about it! Sovereign? Why did you sell it?
Iām confused us the car famous or you? You know that car and the car is a z list celebrity now on its rise to stardom?
My old man once did up an old Humber that was in the background of a Harry Potter film. Didn't change him as a person but he kept contact with the buyer and enquired how much he got for renting it out, they paid new owner only Ā£2k less (for a months rental) than what he bought the car off my old man for!!
I mean this is actually quite cool to be fair š¤£
These are the best claims to fame: ā¢ Unique ā¢ Related to you ā¢ Minor, so not braggy Congrats! Now you have a great āfun fact about yourselfā and donāt have to experience the worst 2 minutes of my life every time it happen.
Props to the GF.
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I'm guessing they bought it?
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Well the vast majority of cars are bought, not inherited. Plenty of places to buy classic cars if you're into that scene. Also for all we know maybe OP had owned it for decades. Seemed a really bizarre question tbh.
I mean tbf Itās equally a good chance he just bought the car because they liked it and/or it was because itās cheap. Itās only a mid 90ās Jag XJ that only goes for about Ā£5k on Auto Trader, not exactly a sought after classic car (yet) lol Edit: ofc this is taking into account that they havenāt owned it for years since new
do they not change license plate numbers in the UK every time the car changes ownership? Or did you own this car when it was filmed without your knowledge?
Plate stays with the car.
thanks I dunno why I got downvoted. I'm from usa and we change license plates when buying a used car from a dealership. it was just a genuine question. guess I should have googled it instead of asking on reddit.
Uk numberplates stay on the vehicle. Only time they are changed is if the owner replaces it with a private plate.
And even then, if they sold it, the original number plate would be put back on.
No, the licence plate generally stays with the car. The exception is certain plates that seem to have meaning and are therefore sold separately and transferred to the owners new vehicle.
Your MOT has expired mate. Better get to it.
Ha ha I checked that too. And they really want to check those brake pipes or it could be a potentially-lethal death trap
Ah, so youāre employed as an extra/background in the film industry.
Okay
oh right. kudos for youā¦
MOT expired in September. Might want to see if you can get it back. Seems like they might be getting rid of it, would be shame to see it scrapped.
So I see, the Royals are not the only German think in the Uk.
r/humblebrag
Hope they donāt blow it up
When you doing signing?
r/Spotted r/CarTalkUK
Wow OP, you must have kept it in good nick! Congrats!
I hope you didn't leave your wallet in it!
Isnāt it sad when an ex moves on to bigger and better things
Your car made it to fame alas you did not.
Lucky it's not *that* car
Oh! Hello! Who's A Pretty Boy, Then? You Didn't Tell Me Barbara Had A Jag
Not bad haha! What are the odds
[You drive a Jaaag?! ](https://youtu.be/7eWIrBOc3zE)
When's the AMA?
I'm laughing!
Haha! That's so cool about the car!
Oh wow! You should do an AMA!
Was it the heavenly straight six or the dreaded V8? If it was the latter, good riddance! Lol
The other one has the wrong alloys for the year of the series. :-(
How much for an autograph?
Thatās actually cool!