markbivvy Posted April 20, 2008 Report Share Posted April 20, 2008 http://www.petroldirect.com/index.htm fill yer boots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berettaman1 Posted April 20, 2008 Report Share Posted April 20, 2008 Ha Ha Ha, I believed it at first, Nice one Mark! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
col s10 Posted April 20, 2008 Report Share Posted April 20, 2008 the person above isdrunk or mad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tulkyuk Posted April 20, 2008 Report Share Posted April 20, 2008 Well done mark, Cheers for that - i've got 5000 litres coming in the next postal delivery Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
col s10 Posted April 20, 2008 Report Share Posted April 20, 2008 Ha Ha Ha, I believed it at first, Nice one Mark! sorry ron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CEREALTHRILLER Posted April 20, 2008 Report Share Posted April 20, 2008 It's not April 1st...can't be for real Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
col s10 Posted April 20, 2008 Report Share Posted April 20, 2008 oh yeah its real Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted April 20, 2008 Report Share Posted April 20, 2008 It's not April 1st...can't be for real Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-G Posted April 21, 2008 Report Share Posted April 21, 2008 http://www.petroldirect.com/index.htm fill yer boots. With petrol? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owenwill Posted April 21, 2008 Report Share Posted April 21, 2008 Vin Diesel 30p/litre Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob300w Posted April 21, 2008 Report Share Posted April 21, 2008 I had been wondering where to get further stocks of purple diesel, it's the only fuel that my Trabant GTXL likes. Order placed for 1000 litres. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted April 21, 2008 Report Share Posted April 21, 2008 "Ordering from us is safe and easy! Just enter the desired quantity of the fuel you need, and we'll package it up and send it to you in the post, first class, delivered straight through your letterbox. No hassle. No worries." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berettaman1 Posted April 21, 2008 Report Share Posted April 21, 2008 Ha, Ha Ha.! best stuff to buy??--- Specialist Fuels,!! have a read of that.!! Brilliant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boondougal Posted April 21, 2008 Report Share Posted April 21, 2008 i like the legal infomation.. Vin Diesel is a very entertaining actor, not a biofuel. good find that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boondougal Posted April 21, 2008 Report Share Posted April 21, 2008 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... Just in case you are an American, or possibly drive a car made by Suzuki (except for the new snazzy new Swift), we will spell the purpose of Petrol Direct out to you in simple terms. This is a spoof. A parody was going to send this to my girlfriend...but then i thought about it again...decided against it on teh grounds of not wanting to point out to her its not real... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Dog Posted April 21, 2008 Report Share Posted April 21, 2008 The poor old postman. Hand delivering 1000 ltrs of unleaded. Bet he's late that morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InGen Posted April 21, 2008 Report Share Posted April 21, 2008 haha good one PetrolDirect - The Facts16th September 2005 "Is it real?" and "How can I order?" are two of the most common questions fielded by PetrolDirect's team of customer service staff (of one person). The answers are "no" and "you can't", because PetrolDirect is a spoof site, partly a satire on e-commerce, and partly frustration about the price of fuel (or more accurately, frustration with people moaning about the price of fuel), and with a little bit of liberal tree hugging environmental comment thrown in. The site was created way back in May 2005, but in September 2005 it hit a nerve, pulling in over 50,000 visitors a week and the traffic is still growing. Most of that traffic has come from people who have visited the site and are now "in" on the joke, who then go and post onto various forums and message boards to wind people up. A surprising number of people fall for it, and many messageboard threads are very funny in their own right. The site is designed to be plausible to those who just skim it - but read more deeply and it gets increasingly silly. This gives a great opportunity for people on messageboards to call each other muppets. The site is the work of part-time humorist Conrad Longmore who is also the only member of staff who says - "PetrolDirect combines ideas that I had floating around in my head for some time. Eventually I just ran out of excuses not to do something with them." Some inspiration comes from a site called Spam The Engines - "that's a very simple and elegant site that was made a few years ago by someone else", and also Kittens Direct - "I'd love to see the owner develop that site". The fictional PetrolDirect can be seen as a sister company to the Slimeware Corporation, a site created in 2003: "that was a parody I created of companies that made a business of installing spyware and parasiteware onto people's PCs. When I created it I thought it was all pretty far-out stuff, but then the slimeware manufacturers actually went and did it in the end. I guess that perhaps someone will crack the secret of sending petrol in the post too!" So is there a deep and meaningful message to PetrolDirect. "Errr.. not really. It's just meant to be funny. Although it did enable me to have a rant about those people who moan about fuel prices and then drive a giant 4x4 down to the shops. Ultimately though the problem with fuel prices is that demand is outstripping supply, and it's a non-renewable energy source.. then you have to factor in the carbon emissions. Perhaps petrol at a pound a litre will make us think a bit harder about the issues here." What about the issue of fuel duty? "It's expensive, certainly, but in fact fuel in the UK is now not much more expensive that many other parts of Europe, simply because the price of oil keeps rising and the amount of tax stays more or less the same. Taxing fuel is also a simple and cost effective way of collecting revenue, and it's proportional to the amount you use the roads and the fuel consumption of your engine. On the other hand, the road fund licence is becoming increasingly obsolete as a tax-generating tool - perhaps this should be abolished, and instead cars should display a small insurance and MOT certificate in their windows". For more information please contact petrol@petroldirect.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo57 Posted April 22, 2008 Report Share Posted April 22, 2008 ****. You almost got me excited there! Panic buyers caused a half mile queue to my fillingstation on Sunday and Asda ran completely out of diesel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_colt Posted April 23, 2008 Report Share Posted April 23, 2008 SUPER LEADED PETROL!!! (Do they mean 5-star?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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