A nice car is just a penis extension?
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bluezedd said:
Yodafone said:
Never told them they just saw me looking and someone asked what I was looking at and then it went from there 
the usual office busy body stuff
Not bother by there comments as I get what I am happy with
That's rubbish they made negative comments about it. No doubt trying to dissuade you because they are secretly jealous or something. I usually try to show interest in workmates things if something comes up, even if it's not something I'm all that into. the usual office busy body stuff Not bother by there comments as I get what I am happy with
They did look at me odd for not taking the company car the options is for car costing up to 40k but needs to be diesel and the ones who do take the cars always get compliments about them being really nice.
Whilst I tool around in a 16 year car, only looking now as it's starting to feel its age and worried that it will let me down when I need it for client visits.
For me and few others we take the money option as none us really do much miles, as the car is more extra for us.
This old cliche comes from a perception that many men, in particular, buy expensive high performance cars primarily as status symbols with which they seek to impress people rather than because they are proper, genuinely knowledgeable petrolheads. Like all cliches, it may have some validity in some cases.
d sent me a magnifying glass!
Baldchap said:
Jaguar steve said:
Baldchap said:
I suspect it's jealousy.
The same mob will say people only like nice cars because they're keeping up with the neighbours.
Rather than jealousy or perhaps a dislike of shallow materialistic people who can't stop themselves playing the keeping up with the neighbours game maybe there's a understandable negative reaction to the way so many people tend to drive like arrogant Cocks and use a nice car as a means to brag about their wealth and success at every opportunity rather than just quietly and discretely enjoying driving one. The same mob will say people only like nice cars because they're keeping up with the neighbours.
I don't know if it's because said Cocks lack the necessary skills to make very reasonable progress indeed without anybody else even noticing or whether said Cocks are under the delusion that having a nice car somehow entitles them to do just what the fkuck they like when they're out and about.
Either way it's very much a everyday thing here in the status obsessed Loadsamoney Essex Badlands I'm afraid.
Jaguar steve said:
Cock in a Cock's car drawing attention to themselves by driving like a utter Cock? Sounds familiar to me.
I don't know if it's because said Cocks lack the necessary skills to make very reasonable progress indeed without anybody else even noticing or whether said Cocks are under the delusion that having a nice car somehow entitles them to do just what the fkuck they like when they're out and about.
Either way it's very much a everyday thing here in the status obsessed Loadsamoney Essex Badlands I'm afraid.
The majority of cock head drivers I see are very often angry men in old people carriers... always seems to be old Renault Scenics or Citroen Picasso’s. I don't know if it's because said Cocks lack the necessary skills to make very reasonable progress indeed without anybody else even noticing or whether said Cocks are under the delusion that having a nice car somehow entitles them to do just what the fkuck they like when they're out and about.
Either way it's very much a everyday thing here in the status obsessed Loadsamoney Essex Badlands I'm afraid.
My plan to buy a DB7 for my retirement is now the subject of much soul searching. Why exactly do I need an Aston? I don't really need one. Was I thinking of buying it for the right reasons? There are no Right Reasons. It's just vanity. Foo.
Thank you Penis Extension thread for spoiling that little dream.
Thank you Penis Extension thread for spoiling that little dream.
DickyC said:
My plan to buy a DB7 for my retirement is now the subject of much soul searching. Why exactly do I need an Aston? I don't really need one. Was I thinking of buying it for the right reasons? There are no Right Reasons. It's just vanity. Foo.
Thank you Penis Extension thread for spoiling that little dream.
I think treating yourself to an Aston for yourself, is very different from the types who buy a car to impress others, and will probably try to drop the car's name into a conversation or show off its keys...Thank you Penis Extension thread for spoiling that little dream.
Go and treat yourself
DickyC said:
My plan to buy a DB7 for my retirement is now the subject of much soul searching. Why exactly do I need an Aston? I don't really need one. Was I thinking of buying it for the right reasons? There are no Right Reasons. It's just vanity. Foo.
Thank you Penis Extension thread for spoiling that little dream.
Is it vanity? You want to be seen in it? Want to enjoy other people’s reaction to you owning it? If so, fair enough, your choice.Thank you Penis Extension thread for spoiling that little dream.
If it’s because you will enjoy the experience of driving it, taking pleasure from seeing it on your drive and looking after it, couldn’t really care how others perceive it.... that’s also fair enough and isn’t vanity.
Is certainly no harm being honest with yourself about why you want it. And I wouldn’t take too much notice of the (sometimes simply bizarre) opinions that pop up here.
Thanks for those. More to think about.
There's no Aston Martin heritage to the DB7. It wasn't Aston Martin carrying on the only way they knew how, it was Ford trying to make AML profitable with what they had. But, my word, it's a good looking car. The early one for me, please.
"So, why did you buy a DB7?"
"I couldn't afford a Henry Moore."
There's no Aston Martin heritage to the DB7. It wasn't Aston Martin carrying on the only way they knew how, it was Ford trying to make AML profitable with what they had. But, my word, it's a good looking car. The early one for me, please.
"So, why did you buy a DB7?"
"I couldn't afford a Henry Moore."
HealeyV8 said:
I'm probably wrong but I thought this comment originated around the E type as with is long rounded bonnet it was called a phallic symbol.
Yes, it's true. I owned my first E-type in 1967 and in those more chauvinist days often got shouted at. I've had my current one over 30 years and the same comment still comes up (sic!).
Diadigdav said:
Schermerhorn said:
I notice this in Britain alot. Envy of other people's success and their cars REALLY seems to be a thing here.
Definitely this. In my last job the two owners sold part of the company for quite afew million. Being car enthusiasts they decided to treat themselves including a F12, 488 Pista and Bently Bentayga. Some people that worked there acted so bitter about the fact they were able to afford nice things after building a business for 15 years!The car lovers there were just excited about being able to get close to them, ask questions and for some lucky ones get a ride in them.
Also as I've got older I've realised that many people fail the "true friend" test if you ask yourself "Would they be genuinely happy to see me succeed?". Unfortunately in most cases the answer to that seems to be no. Or maybe it's just me!
But most people seem to be more inclined towards only wanting others to succeed just that little bit less than themselves, otherwise it then almost becomes a kind of threat if others' success surpasses their own (however they define that).A good mate of mine ended up being very successful in the music business (famous too) and despite him always being very humble, almost reluctant to even talk about it, the number of his so-called friends who seemed to be constantly waiting for him to fail was really sad. I remember another lad from school who had zero success with women but ended up with a smoking hot (and apparently very nice) wife. A lot of his "mates" were constantly saying it would never last, almost willing his marriage to fail.
In my experience people who are genuinely happy for others are rare.
What do you non-British PistonHeads reckon? Are we mostly a complete ghastly shower of resentful b*stards and is this an exclusively British trait?!
What sane bloke these days, thinks that having a flash car will result in them `pulling'
What even less sane bloke, thinks that if it did, the type of woman it does let them `pull' is going to be a `quality' type, that really, really, really, loves them for their scintillating personality?
In the `old days' having a car of any sort. was a sort of means of pulling (especially if it was raining hard!), because most women did not drive or have a car back then, but now they do. (However many may remember the old Australian bush sport, of F**ck or walk)
For the less well heeled there was always the moped, but it made pulling much more difficult,
Bloke: I want to take you home!
Woman: Well you can`t because I am on my menstrual cycle.
Bloke: that's no problem, I`ll just follow you home, on me Honda 50!
What even less sane bloke, thinks that if it did, the type of woman it does let them `pull' is going to be a `quality' type, that really, really, really, loves them for their scintillating personality?
In the `old days' having a car of any sort. was a sort of means of pulling (especially if it was raining hard!), because most women did not drive or have a car back then, but now they do. (However many may remember the old Australian bush sport, of F**ck or walk)
For the less well heeled there was always the moped, but it made pulling much more difficult,
Bloke: I want to take you home!
Woman: Well you can`t because I am on my menstrual cycle.
Bloke: that's no problem, I`ll just follow you home, on me Honda 50!
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