smashed up porsche

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

I'll have you know there's nowt wrong with a Robin Reliant. My first 'car' was a Supervan Mark III and I bought it for the princely sum of ?15. Oh I wish I'd hung on to it now - for ?44,000 I could dine at the Chandelier twice.

[citizenED]

Sheepishly have to own up, I bought a Porsche on Saturday....

just a Matchbox one, mind.

citizen

[Jeremy]

jonsuissy - you should ligthen up, nobody is suggesting that your friend deserved to get his car vandalised.

[jonsuissy]

Jeremy

As someone who is fairly new to these Internet Forums, I?ve learned a bit over the last 24 hours.

? People do not read each other?s postings properly (I count myself as guilty here). We just skim read them and make up our minds about what that person is saying. We are influenced by what everybody else is saying on the forum about a particular posting and comment on that other posting without having actually read it properly. (I realise that most people on this forum wouldn't condone smashing any car up, the point I was trying to make was that we should not go around calling people we have never met ?cocks? and ?flash gits? ? and he really isn?t by the way)

? I think that some people make postings just to wind each other up (Fair dos, I?m doing it in the office at the moment with some Aussies over the Rugby ? and will probably live to regret it!)

? People feel a little braver behind a keyboard ? I assume most people would never dream of using words like ?cock? and ?flash git? to total strangers in a pub. Similarly, I myself feel quite at liberty to doubt the parentage of other drivers whilst I am behind the wheel of my unassuming little motor.

? These forums allow us to dehumanise situations and we forget that the object of the discussion is a human being. Maybe it?s someone who left school after O Levels, worked hard for years building up a local business employing local people, and now feels able to enjoy the fruits of his labour in whatever way he feels without actually harming anybody. Maybe it?s not.

So, Jeremy, the forum reflects life. We don?t listen to each other, we wind each other up, we feel brave when we don?t have to face people and we forget that guy opposite us on the train in Dulwich wearing a Man Utd shirt is also a human being.

My word it?s 10.30 and I need to get on with some work

Jon

:)-D

[Nero]

JS - GPWM. N

[mockney piers]

Guerilla Pimp Well Made?!?!

[Brendan]

jonsuissy Wrote:

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> ? People feel a little braver behind a keyboard ?

> I assume most people would never dream of using

> words like ?cock? and ?flash git? to total

> strangers in a pub.

We have monthly booze-ups so that people can put faces to names.

They are very congenial affairs.

[Brendan]

Gun Powder With Mustard?

[mockney piers]

Good point while munging there Brendan.

People tend to be a little less in yer face after turning up to the drinks as that anonymity goes, plus we've discovered what a thoroughly decent bunch we all are.

You should pop along to the next one Jon. George Canning next friday.

[Alan Dale]

Great to see someone argue for the right of people with no 'A' levels to own a Porsche without fear of inverted snobbery.

I suppose the point is that people without A levels will be the victims of snobbery and that if they also suffer inverted snobbery then that would be disproportionate and therefore they are entitled to some sort of double victimisation relief.

It's a cause that is rarely championed. Good one Jon.

[jonsuissy]

So that's Alan Dale in the Wind Up category then:)-D

[macroban]

> Maybe it?s someone who left school after O Levels, worked hard for years building up a local business employing local people

Can't be many of these left in the new East Dulwich.

[mockney piers]

"double victimisation relief"

Sounds like some sort of advertising jargon.

Is this leading up to a product placement AD?

"Suffering from both snobbery AND inverted snobbery?

Then get double action Dale Reiki Relief.

You don't even have to leave the comfort of your own room

just give me a postcode and I'll heal you from the Silver Buckle"

[*Bob*]

Jon,

Internet chat forums are are not the same as a drink down the pub. You may get a few less manners, but you may also get a bit more honesty and provocation - otherwise they would be as dull as dishwater.. no-one wants to read recommendations for plumbers all day long, do they?

Would I march up to a man who just got out of a Porsche with an '07 number plate and tell him he's a 'flash git'? Of course not. Would I think it? Yes, I would. Incidentally, if a good friend of mine turned-up one day in a brand new Carrera, I would have no hesitation in telling him he was a flash git and a cock. He'd tell me piss off and then we'd go to the pub. You can't possibly tell me that someone who has spent that much on a motor vehicle hasn't given a moments thought to what it might say about him - and hasn't already decided whether he cares a hoot or not?

As Sean says, we (all of us) judge other people all the time, and those judgements are made based on information available. If the information changes, we may revise out opinions. Your pal may be a wonderful human being and were I to discover it, I would revise my opinion to that of 'someone who is a wonderful human being - but who has a terrible taste in cars'. If we became good friends, I'd then be at liberty to tell him that he was a flash git and a cock, at which point he'd tell me to piss off and we'd go down the pub.

... and the capital of Namibia is Windhoek

[Alan Dale]

Very earnest *Bob* but you're not telling Jon anything he hasn't already deduced.

[*Bob*]

Alan Dale Wrote:

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> Very earnest *Bob* but you're not telling Jon

> anything he hasn't already deduced.

You're right, of course, Alan. Let me edit my post... hang on.

[ed_pete]

Admin - can you lounge this thread it seems to have strayed from the original topic.

[Alan Dale]

Grass.

[jonsuissy]

Alan

I like it, I'm warming to you:)-D

Jon

[SeanMacGabhann]

*Bob* edit of his post has made me laugh loudest this week (after I realised why it was there natch)

And if *Bob* did sound a bit earnest... jeez how often does that happen!

[Administrator]

And at this point I move you all over to the Lounge to carry one your conversation it's no longer an East Dulwich issue. There are some rather nice nibbles in there for any of you that are a bit peckish.

Lounged

[lofty]

-- moved topic --

[*Bob*]

jonsuissy Wrote:

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> Alan

> I like it, I'm warming to you:)-D

> Jon

This forum can sure be a strange old place sometimes.

[Alan Dale]

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> And if *Bob* did sound a bit earnest... jeez how

> often does that happen!

More and more. He's going soft.

[Brendan]

Who is earnest?