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srebbe64

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13,021 posts

266 months

Saturday 22nd January 2005
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Why am I asking the question? Well, I was with a client the other day and I noticed he was a bit of a petrolhead (I noticed lots of car pictures on his office wall). I mentioned that I've got a Tiv for my weekend pleasure and we ended up chatting about Tiv owners.

He's a Ferrari fan and he reckons that Tiv owners are often referred to in the same vane as members "real ale drinkers" - middle class, middle aged and slightly eccentric!

When I consider myself, I'd say that I'm middle class, middle aged (40) - but I don't think that I'm eccentric. But, there again, a mad man doesn't think he's mad!

ntel

5,051 posts

269 months

Saturday 22nd January 2005
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Mid life crisis hit last year, so it was either a new woman or a new car. I went for the new car because it was cheaper

So yip, I'm middle aged at 44, probably middle class, and a bit mad.

antonyj

5,254 posts

310 months

Saturday 22nd January 2005
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Just 32 , so not middle aged.
Had the car for 2 years, and as for real ale?

Guinness all the way

wintrading

190 posts

309 months

Saturday 22nd January 2005
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Drive a griff, do not work. 40 years old. no wife got girlfriend of 22. Lots of work but i can keep up, barely. Sounds like mid life crisis. But i love it no crisis at all.

Guillotine

5,516 posts

293 months

Saturday 22nd January 2005
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40

lager, please...


can't afford a ferrari, if i could it'd be a 360 -stradale.

so, he's nearly right!

wintrading

190 posts

309 months

Saturday 22nd January 2005
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I can afford a ferrari. I got two of them. But who cares. I never use them. I use my vw golf TDI red i because it is more convinient. TVR is a car you can use. Cars are not so important anyway.

dickymint

29,048 posts

287 months

Saturday 22nd January 2005
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wintrading said:
I can afford a ferrari. I got two of them. But who cares. I never use them. I use my vw golf TDI red i because it is more convinient. TVR is a car you can use. Cars are not so important anyway.


Well give me one of them

wolosp

2,337 posts

294 months

Saturday 22nd January 2005
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srebbe64 said:
He's a Ferrari fan and he reckons that Tiv owners are often referred to in the same vane as members "real ale drinkers" - middle class, middle aged and slightly eccentric!


And what does that make Ferrari fans?

I'm just driving a car that I have longed for and worked bloody hard so as to be able to realise my dream.

Me.... real ale drinker? - yup
middle class? - no place for social categories in my eyes.
middle aged? - can't deny that!
and slightly eccentric? - yup




>> Edited by wolosp on Saturday 22 January 18:19

madbadger

11,752 posts

273 months

Saturday 22nd January 2005
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Just 28 so hardly middle aged. And still single, so I feel even less middle aged not having to talk about babies and cushions.

Otherwise I like a nice real ale, don't pidgeon hole my class and certainly don't consider myself the best person to assess my own sanity.



>> Edited by madbadger on Sunday 23 January 18:11

Corin Denton

8,762 posts

297 months

Saturday 22nd January 2005
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Hmmm,

Middle aged - 32 so no.
Middle class - don't like the pidgeon holeing of class, you are who you are, I find people who aspire to a certain social stature obnoxious and deluded with grandure generally.
Real ale drinker - Red Stripe is the weapon of choice for me.
Eccentric - Hmmm, yep could well be to a certain degree, love thumbing through the walls of old vinyl records with a good glass of 'cab' bit of a John Peel scenario going on.

raceboy

13,890 posts

309 months

Saturday 22nd January 2005
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Well I think I blow that demographic out the water
31, but had the TVR since I was 26, I hope I'm going to make it past 60 so not middle aged
Unemployed dole boy, so call me whatever class you like
And the fizzier the lager the better, and if no ones looking I'll even down an AlcoPop

wedge girl

4,688 posts

268 months

Saturday 22nd January 2005
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Babe



















Oh ok back to the real world, young single Mum with independant means.

k.k.

397 posts

267 months

Saturday 22nd January 2005
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Is 35 middle aged? Only if I die at 70 so can't tell yet! Neither British, nor a beer/ale/lager drinker. Scotch, Vodka and red wine - all the way! Class? Yes, got loads of it (of course I do, I drive a Tiv!) but it's not upper, middle or lower! Eccentricity?? I certainly hope so (well at least that's what my mates said when I decided to buy a Tam instead of... well anything else!).

redleicester

6,869 posts

274 months

Saturday 22nd January 2005
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Chim at 26, Cerbera at 27....... Christ only knows what'll I'll end up in by the time I'm middle aged.

A bit partial to real Ale tho

ajb

854 posts

272 months

Saturday 22nd January 2005
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Only a young un, at 23.
Probably middle class
defiantly eccentric.
Real ale ??? whats that then ?

If i had enough money for a Ferrari ..........I'd buy an Aston Martin
.

>> Edited by ajb on Saturday 22 January 18:21

Corin Denton

8,762 posts

297 months

Saturday 22nd January 2005
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ajb said:


If i had enough money for a Ferrari ..........I'd buy an Aston Martin
.


Good line.

basil brush

5,609 posts

292 months

Saturday 22nd January 2005
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Single, 35, what's middle class? I don't know about eccentric, but I've been called a subversive by an ex-boss. I bought my car from a middle aged ish guy who'd moved on to a 355 spider.

griffophenia

1,107 posts

273 months

Saturday 22nd January 2005
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Hi Im just MAD!



Phil

_dan_

2,392 posts

308 months

Saturday 22nd January 2005
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29, no class what-so-ever!!

Average job, no house, huge ammount of debt!

19yr old long term girlfriend.

Enjoy a good few beers (lager!!) like anyone else.

Wouldn't really call myself eccentric! Just love my car!

jeff miles

162 posts

260 months

Sunday 23rd January 2005
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hey you kids - there's no need to woory about profiles and stuff. TVR drivers go on for ever. Approaching my 63rd birthday and the only problem I've got is trying to decide whether to upgrade the 400 or trade up to a 500 and then upgrade