{"id":13962,"date":"2024-04-04T11:07:52","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T11:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=13962"},"modified":"2024-04-05T10:18:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T10:18:31","slug":"asda-vs-asbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=13962","title":{"rendered":"Asda vs Asbo"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

British supermarket chain Asda<\/a> is well known for the lime green livery of its grocery delivery vans, as per the photograph below.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Photo credit: Asda<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n

However, there is now a serious rival to Asda’s dominance of the lime green delivery van sector. The vehicle below was spotted last week outside the Chelsea Inn at the junction of Chelsea Road and Bloy Street in Bristol’s Easton area.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\"Asbo\r\n\r\n
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Both Asda and Asbo are acronyms<\/a>, i.e. abbreviations formed from the initial letters of other words and pronounced as a word. Asda is a truncated version of the first part of its original name of Associated Dairies and Farm Stores , whilst Asbo denotes an Anti-Social Behaviour Order, a past form of sanction for naughty boys and girls which has now been replaced<\/a> by two penalties – the Community Protection Order (CPO) and the Criminal Behaviour Order (CBO).<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Note that the Asbo van is parked on the footway (which some refer to as the pavement (posts passim)<\/a>. Ed.<\/em>); how apposite! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

British supermarket chain Asda is well known for the lime green livery of its grocery delivery vans, as per the photograph below. However, there is now a serious rival to Asda’s dominance of the lime green delivery van sector. The vehicle below was spotted last week outside the Chelsea Inn at the junction of Chelsea […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3,17,15],"tags":[40,36,16,22,20],"class_list":["post-13962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-oddities","category-politics","tag-bristol","tag-comment","tag-english-usage","tag-language","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13962"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13990,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13962\/revisions\/13990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}