Well since most of you seem to spend your weekends driving all over the country to ride a bike in said bangers then the chance of not doing much mileage is unusual.
I do 3,000 miles/ year. I do more than that on my bike.
I'm all for the environmental aspect, but I doubt that's where many of the haters on this thread are coming from.
You're confusing hate with scorn.
As for the 'need to get out more' comment, it was a joke. Now who's being 'po-face'.
The OP was a joke. When you had your tonsils removed, did they take your sense of humour out by mistake?
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footflaps - Member
I could afford to buy an X6 tomorrow (cash).
Oh, you are so 'man', <swoons>
ransos I said most not all. And I've still got my tonsils and my sense of humour, but I only tend to laugh at things that are funny.
[i]I'm hiring a split-screen one (old vw camper) next February to tour around New Zealand for a month. I'll let you know if my marriage survives... [/i]
ahem.
If I could afford to spend £50k on a car I wouldn't. I have better ways of pissing my money up against the wall.
If this thread is anything to go by, I'm glad I've never been to an STW orgainised ride.
They're easy to avoid, just look out for a car park full of X6s.
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ransos I said most not all. And I've still got my tonsils and my sense of humour, but I only tend to laugh at things that are funny.I'm hiring a split-screen one (old vw camper) next February to tour around New Zealand for a month. I'll let you know if my marriage survives...
ahem.
So everytime you don't find a joke funny, do you feel the need to point out at length how terribly mean the joke-teller is being? You're trying to infer something from the story that simply isn't there.
I doubt that the VW will be any worse on fuel than a modern, large campervan. I'd say flying to NZ is more of an issue, wouldn't you? 😳
He's not flying. He's going to float there on his inflated sense of self-importance. 🙂
[i]I doubt that the VW will be any worse on fuel than a modern, large campervan[/i]
And probably far worse than an x6 for example. All this 4*4 hating for fuel consumption reasons is a nonsense and an easy get out for the idiots who can't think for themselves. A sports car is far worse for the environment but you'll find plenty of 4*4 haters with a so called environmental conscience cooing over them.
I wouldn't say the original joke teller was being 'mean' just fairly immature.
And to raise a point you made earlier [i]it's disappointment that someone has gone out of their way to be as polluting and dangerous to others as possible, just because they think their choice of car makes them look good.[/i]
Why on earth are you hiring a split screen vw camper other than 'because they think their choice of car makes them look good'.
For the people saying "if I had £50k to spend I wouldn't spend it on a car", you may have missed the point the bloke may have a massive amount more than £50k and that was the equivalent to you spending £1k on a car.
[b]Stop Press[/b] There are some very rich people around.
Mr Agreeable - nice one 😀
Old, but very apt.
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He's not flying. He's going to float there on his inflated sense of self-importance.
You appear to have trouble with basic comprehension:
I doubt that the VW will be any worse on fuel than a modern, large campervan. I'd say flying to NZ is more of an issue, wouldn't you?
Sorry Ransos, got confused by all the recursive quoting. That was meant to refer to the Man of a Thousand Logins, not you.
And probably far worse than an x6 for example. All this 4*4 hating for fuel consumption reasons is a nonsense and an easy get out for the idiots who can't think for themselves. A sports car is far worse for the environment but you'll find plenty of 4*4 haters with a so called environmental conscience cooing over them.
I'm perfectly capable of thinking for myself, thank you. Fuel consumption is a problem, the danger to pedestrians and cyclists is a problem, the amount of space they need for parking is a problem. I don't think I've ever cooed over a car in my life. I prefer bicycles.
I wouldn't say the original joke teller was being 'mean' just fairly immature.
A point that the OP has already acknowledged, so why are you making such a big deal about it.
Why on earth are you hiring a split screen vw camper other than 'because they think their choice of car makes them look good'.
I need a vehicle to get around, and somewhere to sleep. So I need a campervan. Out of the choices available, I like the VW the best. I'm not concerned about how it makes me look.
All this "£50k is a crazy amount to spend on a car" is a bit ironic coming from people who spend thousands of pounds on bicycles.
Sorry Ransos, got confused by all the recursive quoting. That was meant to refer to the Man of a Thousand Logins, not you.
I retract my dig at you!
All this "£50k is a crazy amount to spend on a car" is a bit ironic coming from people who spend thousands of pounds on bicycles.
Kind of. I'm not opposed to people spending £50k on a car (if they want to incinerate their money, it's up to them), but an X6? What are they actually for? It wouldn't seem to fit any criteria you might have when choosing a car - e.g. practicality, economy, performance or looks.
ransos I thought people only hired old vw campers for the image thing. Is there another reason I'm missing? I wouldn't have thought they would be the most fuel efficient way to get about. I could be wrong of course.
[i]All this "£50k is a crazy amount to spend on a car" is a bit ironic coming from people who spend thousands of pounds on bicycles.[/i]
In fairness we also laugh at people who pay thousands for a BMW bicycle 🙂
ransos you do seem to be getting hung up on this whole x6 thing. But to indulge you - practicality - well that depends what you need it for as not everyone buys a car like that to stick a load of stuff in the back, economy - no better or worse than any other car of that ilk, is it? performance - 0-60 in around 6 seconds isn't exactly slow. Looks - well we live in a country where people are free to like different things - just because you or I don't like it doesn't mean others don't.
Can we give up on the whole x6 thing now please.
ransos I thought people only hired old vw campers for the image thing. Is there another reason I'm missing? I wouldn't have thought they would be the most fuel efficient way to get about. I could be wrong of course.
Well, I needed a campervan, I liked the look of the VW, it has enough space for 2, it sounded like a bit of fun, so it fitted the bill. I wouldn't have thought people buy them for image reasons - they hardly scream "I've made it"! I can't imagine they're much worse on fuel than a larger, heavier modern campervan, plus they are conserving resources by saving the materials needed for a new vehicle.
A bloke in the paper the other day bought a Ferrari last year as an investment for £700k and sold it bake to the same dealer for £100k profit, the dealer then sold it for a £50k profit. Not a bad pen1s extension.
[I]I wouldn't have thought people buy them for image reasons - they hardly scream "I've made it"![/I]
Image isn't all about saying 'I've made it' in monetary terms though ransos. To a lot of people it's all about thinking they look cool and so others say 'oh he's really cool he's got a vw camper' for example. Nothing wrong with liking classic cars though, I've got one myself.
£850 000 for a car Dobbo ? You sure you don't mean £85 000? Or is the world crazier than I thought?
lol at £85k for a Ferrari. mugsys_m8 your seeing it as '850k for a car' rather than as an investment. I wouldn't imagine the owner will nip down to tesco in it.
The numbers weren't far out, the profits were correct!
A BUSINESSMAN has made £100,000 profit in less than a year by selling a rare Ferrari which he never even drove.He snapped up the 2004 Enzo from UK supercar dealer Tom Hartley for £625,000 last year as an investment - then sold it back to him for £725,000.
But Tom still made a £50,000 profit by flogging the motor - a favourite among collectors - to a British businessman for £775,000 within a WEEK.
No doubt he'll pay capital gains on his £100k 😉
Image isn't all about saying 'I've made it' in monetary terms though ransos. To a lot of people it's all about thinking they look cool and so others say 'oh he's really cool he's got a vw camper' for example. Nothing wrong with liking classic cars though, I've got one myself.
I can only speak for myself. I think they're nice - I like the retro style (I have two retro mountain bikes as well) but I wouldn't know what other people think about them.
[i]I have two retro mountain bikes as well[/i]
And your bemoaning the impracticalities and performance of an x6! 😉
I love old cars to but I wouldn't take an environmental stand point on them being more environmentally sound. If you're hiring then a modern vehicle that'll do 30 odd to the gallon as opposed to 20 odd to the gallon must be better. And as you're hiring then the environmental aspect of production can be discounted.
And your bemoaning the impracticalities and performance of an x6!
My old bikes are extremely practical - one is my commuter because it'll take guards and a rack. Try that on a modern mtb! Neither of them have much technology to go wrong, and are inexpensive to repair if they do.
I love old cars to but I wouldn't take an environmental stand point on them being more environmentally sound. If you're hiring then a modern vehicle that'll do 30 odd to the gallon as opposed to 20 odd to the gallon must be better. And as you're hiring then the environmental aspect of production can be discounted.
You can't discount production - if there was no demand for hire, then the hire company wouldn't buy them. Modern campervans are bought new, whereas VWs are used. I'm not claiming that the VW is particularly virtuous, but that fuel consumption is only one aspect of a vehicle's environmental and social impact.
Ah so you're using an unrestored original split screen vw then? That'll be an interesting journey.
The bikes comment was qjoke, lighten up fella.
BlingBling - Member
The guy in the X6 couldn't give a flying f@ck what a couple of ugly w@nkers in lycra riding bikes think, beleive me
Except he clearly did, as demonstrated by his reaction.
And when he got home, he'll have found that his big expensive car hadn't made his penis larger or his wife prettier. And cried.
as my cronies and i, alighted our respective vehicles, having been for a Stonking pizza and a pint, at the pizza and a pint pub on the..... west[?] end of llanberis, we wandered passed one of them there new fangled Ragely Ti's
"how silly" i say
"i agree, its a jumped up sarcin surely?" says another
"i would like a bike as impractical and expensive as a Ti HT please, but would like really ugly welds" cooed a third.
as said fellow pulled off, i also happened to remark "a singlespeed too, what a nichemonger" (as it was one of those gearless waste of spaces)
we smiled to ourselves, however as he spun out down the road and flicked his angry fingers after taking them off the mary bars, we were forced to crease over with laughing.
oops, probably wouldnt have been so rude if we'de known he was a Mleher.
tee hee!
......perhaps you had to be there? but thought i would share anyhoo
Ah so you're using an unrestored original split screen vw then? That'll be an interesting journey.The bikes comment was qjoke, lighten up fella.
It'll be restored I'm sure, but that takes fewer resources than building a completely new campervan.
I didn't take your bikes comment to heart!
[i]And when he got home, he'll have found that his big expensive car hadn't made his penis larger or his wife prettier. And cried. [/i]
I bet he didn't, I would bet he went back to his nice home whilst the op went back to his squalor.
Except he clearly did, as demonstrated by his reaction.And when he got home, he'll have found that his big expensive car hadn't made his penis larger or his wife prettier. And cried.
By the time he'd driven off he'd have forgotten about the losers getting into their economical bangers after eating in Pizza hut with the only thing to look forward to being going home to their 1 bedroom flats and bashing one out to the kays catalogue.
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U R saD an ur thread iz sad-racen.
Clearly one or two STWers have sex wees over X6s, clueless double standards, ego chariot geeks mock the successful, immature man full of hate Jealous? midlife crisis p***ing in the wind, penis compensator, small man syndrome, spiteful little man, Thatcher's spunk children, touchy, where do socialists think the money comes from? Look! It's like a cock but smaller!
Great TAGS 😆
Nobody liked my parody of the OP?
Took me 30seconds that did 👿
Imagine seeing someone riding through town riding an expensive DH bike, with aero carbon road rims, 18mm slicks, twin 203mm discs front and rear, full face helmet and race pyjamas. and motocross boots.
You’d laugh, and you’d be right to laugh. If he got angry at you for laughing, you’d be right to laugh harder.
You can defend his right to spend his money how he likes, you can praise him for his contribution to the economy, even if you don't know if he's a doctor, banker, owner of a clamping company or a drug dealer.
But you can still laugh at him for choosing to spend a decent amount of money on something that does nothing particularly well except attract attention.
[i]But you can still laugh at him for choosing to spend a decent amount of money on something that does nothing particularly well except attract attention.[/i]
Having driven an employees x6 (who I'm clearly paying far to much) it does travel from a to be reasonably well, in comfort and at a reasonable pace. It didn't particularly attract attention when I drove it but then again neither myself nor my employee live in a slum.
Not everyone wants to drive clapped out mondeos you know.
What did you thinbk of it when you drove it nedrapier?
[i]You’d laugh, and you’d be right to laugh[/i]
I don't think morally that you would be 'right' to laugh, justified perhaps but not 'right'.
nedrapier, it's not even close to being the same thing.
Nobody is defending him, maybe they just have a different opinion to you?
i think this'll beat anything on the road
if it doesn't blow up first. 😆
It's a bit close. the X6 has elements of different styles of car, and combines them in a way that doesn't allow those elements to be optimised.
And if there aren't posts defending the X6 driver, there are certainly plenty attacking the OP, which amounts to the same thing.
I posted because it seemed to me that the OP was laughing at the driver because they thought he had a bad car, but then was being flamed because people thought he was jealous of an expensive car.
Before you asked whether people liked your "parody" I wasn't sure whether you were attacking or defending the OP.
So you haven't drive one then nedrapier.
Does everythig in your life have to be so black and white?
Does everythig in your life have to be so black and white?
racist
I'm quite surprised the OP still has teeth left after verbally abusing an innocent bystander who happened to have a BMW.
Go to Blaenau Ffestiniog tonight and call someone there a fanny.
Who cares what the car was that kind of attitude will get you hurt.
I mean it's not like he bought a bike based solely on the type of metal the frame was made from regardless of it's ride qualities or suitability to his normal riding style now is it 😉
I mean that's jut so stupid nobody would ever do that 😉
ber-limey! I haven't driven one, they might be really nice for all I know. That doesn't really matter.
There are some criticisms about the concept of the X6. Some will say they are valid. Some of those people may be the kind of people who have a bit of fun at other people's expense.
It does not necessarily follow that they must be jealous of those with the funds to buy an X6.
But this thread has gone to 4 pages because some people assumed that it did.
I tend to be a shades of grey person, but I like to think that if there is black or white, I don't fill it in with whatever shade of grey I go looking for.
wow tag overload!
[i]But you can still laugh at him for choosing to spend a decent amount of money on something that does nothing particularly well except attract attention. [/i]
[i]ber-limey! I haven't driven one, they might be really nice for all I know. That doesn't really matter. [/i]
Indeed, why let the facts get in the way of a poor argument.
I'm just trying to get a feel for what words are acceptable in tags.
Sex wee, penis and cock appear to be ok, but spunk is a bit too spunky apparently 🙂
[s]I'm sure I saw spunk before[/s] spunky was in the tags before.
Indeed, why let the facts get in the way of a poor argument.
Why let the bulk of a post get in the way of you posting about the first line?
[i]Olly - Member
Hello to you, X6 owner, saturday night in llanberis.
as my cronies and i, alighted our respective vehicles, having been for a Stonking pizza and a pint, at the pizza and a pint pub on the..... west[?] end of llanberis, we wandered passed one of them there new fangled X6s
"how silly" i say
"i agree, its a jumped up 1 series surely?" says another
"i would like a car as awkward and uneconomical as a 4x4 please, but would like no bootspace whatsoever" cooed a third.
as said fellow pulled off, i also happened to remark "and an automatic too, what a fanny" (as it was one of those stickless waste of spaces)
we smiled to ourselves, however as he REVVVVED off down the road and flicked his angry fingers out the open window, we were forced to crease over with laughing.
oops, probably wouldnt have been so rude if we'de known his window was open.
tee hee!
......perhaps you had to be there? but thought i would share anyhoo [/i]
That is exactly the same kind of attitude the car drivers who throw bottles at cyclists have. We are better than you. We dont belong to your inner circle so we will abuse you types. Absolute gimps the lot of you. I wish it had been some local druggy gangster who proceeded to get out and 'put a cap in yer ass'.
Seriously, you have no right to complain when the next numptie takes a dislike to your wierd bike riding attire and throws a can of coke at you when he drives past in a puff of smoke.
Well said TheLittlestHobo.
nedrapier referring to the x6 you said 'something that does nothing particularly well' then said 'I haven't driven one, they might be really nice for all I know' To me anything you said after those comments isn't worth reading.
That is exactly the same kind of attitude the car drivers who throw bottles at cyclists have. We are better than you. We dont belong to your inner circle so we will abuse you types. Absolute gimps the lot of you. I wish it had been some local druggy gangster who proceeded to get out and 'put a cap in yer ass'.
Are you saying an X6 is the kind of car that a drug dealer would drive?
Seriously, you have no right to complain when the next numptie takes a dislike to your wierd bike riding attire and throws a can of coke at you when he drives past in a puff of smoke.
That's assault, surely? Saying someone's car is a bit shit isn't quite the same.
I'm glad to see the silly distinction between banter and physical assault has finally been removed.
miketually - I am not saying anything of the sort. I was giving that example as if it had been that way i can pretty much guarentte our beloved hero would have gone from the big man he thinks he is to a trembling snivelling little oik. Ok, i will change it to "I wish it had been some 6ft6 doctor who has just heard that his wife and kids have died in a horrific car accident involving a cyclist and who is also a body builder with a black belt and ex marine" Is that ok??
Yes it is assault Mike. But the mindset is the same. If i choose to abuse someone verbally without provocation i dont think i have much of a moral highground if someone throws abuse my way. Just because my level of abuse is different from theirs.
You did actually read the OP?
You know the bit where they realised that the window was open?
I.e the banter wasn't intended to be heard by anyone else.
I'm pleased to note that the littlesthobo hasn't lost his sense of perspective.
And that condones abusing someone that they know sod all about other than what car he drives?
It harks of school yard bullying imo.
Yes it is assault Mike. But the mindset is the same. If i choose to abuse someone verbally without provocation i dont think i have much of a moral highground if someone throws abuse my way. Just because my level of abuse is different from theirs.
I have said nasty things about people in cars before. I shall remember not to report any assaults I may receive.
And that condones abusing someone that they know sod all about other than what car he drives?It harks of school yard bullying imo.
Since when did banter with mates, about something that doesn't really matter, that is inadvertantly overheard, constitute abuse, assault or bullying?
Can someone update me. Is it a racist issue yet?
Then i will not include you in my imaginary list of hypocrits off this site miketually. I await your report from your hospital bed when you are recovering from your assault where you find yourself being able to understand why those people kicked seven shades of poo outta you for no reason. They just didnt understand you 😉
Rumour has it the X6 driver might have been a gypsy, or welsh.
Or the littlest hobbo sells X6s for a living.
not the worst looking car i've ever seen
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you like what you like at the end of the day, and i wouldn't mind being able to blow 50K on a car - to be fair on the driver, sounds like you were being a bunch of pretencious cocks, its all very easy to take the pi55 out of BMW drivers, next time try to be more original
(for arguments sake, i drive a ten year old volvo estate and couldn't give a prize **** what anyone thinks of that, it's drier than a bicycle)
I like that top car, what is it?
What confused me most in the op was this comment [i]as said fellow pulled off, i also happened to remark "and an automatic too, what a fanny" [/i].
My mind boggles.
[i]Since when did banter with mates, about something that doesn't really matter, that is inadvertantly overheard, constitute abuse, assault or bullying?
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Calling someone a fanny. Dissing something that is obviously something the owner cares about etc etc. Yes i do class it as verbal abuse/bullying.
What do you call it? Banter? Is racism therefore banter between friends if they all have the same opinion or only racism if someone of ethnic origin overhears it?
Dobbo, I think it's a Rover 200
Is racism therefore banter between friends if they all have the same opinion or only racism if someone of ethnic origin overhears it?
Yehhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaa, racism is finally in the thread. 😆 Mental, it took longer than expected but there it is in black and white.
best.thread.eva
[i]Calling someone a fanny. Dissing something that is obviously something the owner cares about etc etc. Yes i do class it as verbal abuse/bullying.[/i]
Just for the record, for future reference so to speak.
Could you confirm that you believe this driver was 'bullied' by these people, not that you think there could be formed some tenuous abstract argument about bullying, but that you believe he was genuinely bullied?
Dobbo, I think it's a Rover 200
The Rover 200 sure is a fine looking car, I'd be willing to pay up £40k possibly up to £49k for one of those beauties, no more mind.
What do you call it? Banter? Is racism therefore banter between friends if they all have the same opinion or only racism if someone of ethnic origin overhears it?
Taking the piss out of a car is now as bad as racism? I'm off to report Top Gear...
I think he was abused. He obviously wasnt happy at what they said so someone could deem it to be bullying. A group of people giving abuse to a single person.
Dobbo, rather than joke about the question try to answer it.
I just know if I went to deepest Surrey or Cheshire they'd be loads of X6. In your face, unpratical, shouty. Me I'd buy a 7 seater X5 in a heartbeat if my wife could lift a kids bike on top. 3l diesel engine does plenty to the gallon and goes like the clappers. Whats not to like.
Too many small penises...