How to deal with snobbery?

[Pete-M]

Do you not know for £15 you can get Marks & Spencer cords now???

 

Dammit, last time I bought some they were nearer to £40. I haz bean riped of.

 

M&S cords FTW, btw.

 

[Des]

When buying unstable crotch Asda jeans do ensure that both front pockets can be pulled out, GR9 for elephant impressions, Gr999tastic for entertaining kiddies.

That whole ashamed to have an old car situation is a viral thing that's followed from the playground, where little shits can't possibly go to school without the right trainers. Anyone thinking that way should be left to it, they're losers in life. Us enlightened lot lack the low self worth issues that might drive the need to impress inferiors. Am I the only one who sees all modern cars as variously coloured blobs / potential obstructions, and the occasional one standing out from the sea of dross due to its 4 wheel driveyness, lifestyle designary or just plain offensiveness as a gauge of how deep the debt of the jerk within.

There are plenty of people for whom a new car makes sense, but looking at the sheer amount of pointless stuff clogging up the roads it's clear that the manufacturers have been exploiting the weak minded and selling them the automotive equivalent of chav trainers with lamps in them, I'm looking at you Audi with your faggy little fairy lights.

[ProgRocker]

I last bought a pair of cords when I was 18 during the Britpop era of the mid 90s. I gotta get me another pair when I go on my 'birthday shopping expedition' in 1.5 weeks time.

[Shep Shepherd]

 

Enough said

[ashmicro]

I gotta get me one of those stickers!

 

Anyone remember the council tip worker chap who found a brand new 32" Panasonic CRT telly? It had some sort of wedding gift card thing in the box! Some ungrateful git had dumped it, presumably because it wasn't a flatscreen.

[scooters]

cos of illness I have lost 10 inches round my waist since January...this meant all my trousers were far too big for me - even wit a belt tey woulf literally fall down I had been Olly and now I am Stan..

 

Anyway, I would recommend Sainsburies for cheapskate breeks -got s couple of pretty decent pairs of jeans at £14 a pair - button fly as well! They do the £4 Chinese Gulag ones but the £14 are pretty sdecent quality.

 

For true cheap bastard clothes shoping I recommend Dewhursts Impressions Factory Seconds Shop in Hartlepool. Dewhursts make many clothesd for M&S and Next etc and they sell the seconds off cheap at this shop.

 

I have a bi annual trip where I spend £300 which buys me 2 suits and enough casual clothes to trash with engine oil over the next 2 years.

 

Scooters Sartorial Tips:

You can get away with a fuckcheap suit if you wear a well cut shirt with double cuffs and some decent quality shoes. Folk wil look at the shirt rather than the nasty Aldi £40 suit.

 

Anyway, snobbery usually is an expresseion of social insecurity. Those who don't ever worry about it neither do it or are effected by it. Hell, the 2 aristorctrats I know drive horrible old sheds (a Volvo 240 mostly held together with labrador hair and horse oats and a really nasty Isuzu trooper that smells of silage) - your genuine aristo doesn't give a fuck what anyone thinks about him because ever since his mail wearing bully of a warlord ancestor grabbed all the land he could his family have never had to feel socially insecure. It's not a bad attitude to take in life and I think the vast majoity of us autoshitters fall into the category of treading our own path and not giving a hoot.

 

I feel like Gregory Peck in "The Big Country"

[Shep Shepherd]

I gotta get me one of those stickers!

 

I created it using a Dymo 'LetraTag' printing whatsit. It has to be re-done periodically, as the plastic that the tape's made from gets affected by UV, but it does the job i.e. it amuses people who drive older cars and infuriates people who have new cars on the never-never

[ashmicro]

Cheers for the tip, I have just bought one of Letratag machines on eBay.

[overheadvalve]

I wonder what area he is from? I could go out on a limb and say The guy needs an identity. He is probably short of mates and does not have anyone to look up to, no role model etc etc but really it would just be an excuse. Other types from near to that location will probably fall into the group of hoodies and c~rap music, we all know where that leads.

 

In the end he's a tosser, one post from the second page says enough, this one: 'Broken Britain that you even think this way'

 

It would be far far better if he was of a different attitude, like someone else suggested, fix it up, wash it, polish it. What a moron.

[maxpower]

Hirst. I must write of my displeasure at reading that you disapprove of my £4 denim trousers from Asda. I wear them because I prefer wind-up windows. Thus proven because the zip is shit and keeps displaying my bollocks at inopportune moments (when IS a good moment to display bollocks?) You can't go round telling people you think they are cheap just because you are the hub of fashion in W.Yorks! Honestly! If I could find a shiny brown suit that fitted off the peg at Asda, I would wear it.

 

£4 on a pair of trousers! you flash git

[eddyramrod]

Am I the only one who sees all modern cars as variously coloured blobs / potential obstructions, and the occasional one standing out from the sea of dross due to its 4 wheel driveyness, lifestyle designary or just plain offensiveness as a gauge of how deep the debt of the jerk within.

 

(Raises hand) No Des, you're not; there are at least two of us!

 

My stepson has just put up a pic of his new car on Facebook. Sadly, it is new, 61-plate. It's a Golf Blu-Motion in white. He's known me since before he could drive, and I've always had old cars. Where did I fail him? At least he's posed it in front of his house, the 1920s house I grew up in, which he bought from me after my parents died. He's done a lovely job of restoration/upgrading on the house and garden.

 

Sorry, drifting...

[mattblack]

Proper posh poeple don't give a shit... a few years ago we were on holiday in Somerset and went into a pub in Dunster for a meal. the only other people in the were an old-ish couple in scruffy 'gardening' clothes. When we overheard them talking it was obvious they were 'old money', looked like they'd had a day in the garden and decided to go out for something to eat. Someone who thought they were posh wouldn't have dreamt of going out with their designer gear and bling on...

 

I could picture them in a tatty Volvo 240 estate with a couple of Labaradors in the back..

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

the problem is that in the lasy 10 years car manufacturers have given up selling cars and instead sell finance.

 

 

You could be right. Mates in the secondhand car trade say things are a bit grim - trying to flog 2-3 grand stuff is a pain. This is made harder by the fact that auction prices for cars (even before you add the obscene buying charges) is just insane. New cars sales are very strong however - they're relying on the inate stupidity of the British Public (and they are, by and large, fucking idiots) to pay for shit on the never-never. The whole buying a new car thing is indicative of the Great British Public's sharp decline in common sense and taking any kind of responsibility.

 

Me - 16 year old 3 Series, 2 year old Nokia*, 7 year old computer, 99 year old house, 20 year old garage workshop. All owned L,S&B by my good self. If I need a new car for any reason, I'll ring up Enterprise and rent a new Astra for £30 or whatever.

 

 

 

 

*It's got a camera!

[Shep Shepherd]

Cheers for the tip, I have just bought one of Letratag machines on eBay.

 

I've had mine since 1999. I bought it from the Canterbury branch of Staples not long after it opened

[chaseracer]

...it was only when I met my wife that I realised that trying to impress her with the 306 was a mistake. She was much more interested in my 2CV! She also ran a very shite Citroen AX...

That AX was indeed quite spectacularly shite...

[RoadworkUK]

Saw a glimmer of hope today, when I caught two of my collagues discussing my car, one of the sentences I heard was this;

 

"...his car is worth less than what we pay in company car tax in a month, and it's quicker than mine!"

 

To his credit, one of the guys who's only been at the dealership for about a year never took a company car, still has his own 56 plate 3 series. OK, a long way from being autoshite, but he is apparantly planning a ten year old A8 4.2 Quattro for the winter. Again, not really autoshite. But we're getting closer.

[Pete-M]

OK, a long way from being autoshite, but he is apparantly planning a ten year old A8 4.2 Quattro for the winter. Again, not really autoshite. But we're getting closer.

 

Bloody good choice, too. Those things are pretty bloody good winter wheels.

[RoadworkUK]

Pretty spectacular all-year-round wheels IMO!