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    Is this designed for the fast loading of passengers by scooping up a complete bus queue in one pass?  
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    Is this designed for the fast loading of passengers by scooping up a complete bus queue in one pass?  
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    Is this designed for the fast loading of passengers by scooping up a complete bus queue in one pass?  
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    GLWTS - an expression of sympathy offered when a member is rash/daft enough to offer his P&J (qv) for sale in this forum. Literal translation is 'This car is too far away/too little/too big/too new/needs too much work'* for me and I would not touch it with a bargepole even if it wasn't but the bigger fool theory might just apply here'
     
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    ** Note alternative use of the asterisk to draw attention to footnotes
     
    Shiters Syndrome - an irrational desire to swap an entirely suitable, reliable, rust-free and presentable but boring vehicle for one that only possesses the last of these attributes. See also dollywobbler
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    Justin Case reacted to Missy Charm in Are you going to have to change car because of fuel prices?   
    Unfortunately public transport, outside cities anyway, is often the preserve of middle class married men and twenty something singles as they are the only ones with the time on their hands to sod about with alternative means of travel.  The rest have children to look after, houses to manage, relatives to care for, shopping to carry and so on.  I'd love to have the free hours in the day to be able to use public transport to get to work, but I just don't. 
    Why the middle class married men?  Because they have wives and aren't, by dint of having commuting jobs, also the primary parent.  The boring domestic stuff happens as if by magic: there's a clean, warm house to arrive at; the kids are doing their homework and dinner is on the table.  Bliss.  Husband feels hard done to because he's had to spend an hour and a half sitting in a railway carriage reading a Lee Child novel, or more likely sending emails on his telephone, but it's no great hardship.  Not really.  It's not the same as spending those hours cleaning or cooking or, lower down the social scale, working a second job or taking over from husband or wife so he or she can go out and put in a late shift at the supermarket.  Those people haven't got spare time.  Every hour is filled.  Each minute matters.  The notion of sauntering out of the railway station, donning lycra and leisurely pedalling off into the evening because it doesn't really matter what time you get home is lunatic; they have to take to the roads because cars save time.   Cars are expensive, and they aren't ideal, but they do give hours back.  And what of the wives?  Left behind when the commuter leaves for his train?  They can't use public transport because their role is peripatetic: school to shops to soft-play to home to someone else's place to school; you get the idea.  Round and round, often in a Chelsea tractor bought by husband to protect his offspring thus arousing the ire of cyclist husband next door.  There's an irony, somewhere.  
    Unfortunately middle class married men are often in charge of transport policy and only have single twenty-something secretaries and clerical staff to talk to.  Their experience of these things is skewed.  
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    Justin Case reacted to Missy Charm in Are you going to have to change car because of fuel prices?   
    And then you get cars like this going up for not much more
    https://www.swva.co.uk/classic-car/bentley-r-1952/

    I've always had Fords, but that Bentley is an altogether higher class motor.  
    As for changing cars: no, that's not possible even if I wanted to.  Used car price inflation means the car I have now is worth more than it was a couple of years ago, but that doesn't really help me.  Sure enough I could sell it for a couple of grand, but then would need to buy another car and anything else in that price range is likely to be identical or worse.
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