Phil-E30 said:
OP, despite the fact I have just criticised a remark you made regarding Burberry and tracksuits, I do agree with you. I make the point at the end of my reply to your post.
However, I include you in the blame, as I think what you said was arrogant. Your remark about the car and price bracket (above) backs this up, what do you think is going on? Are there some lower class citizens daring to post on your sacred board? If you sound up your own arse, you will get people's backs up.
But I did make the point that I feel as though the boards aren't as chilled and enjoyable as they once were.
I did make mention of the fact that I'm well aware of being drawn into it, and also aware that i can be a bit of a keyboard warrior.
I make no bones about it - I have been particularly harsh in some of my reply posts.
But, the key difference is I never actually start the sniping or snideness on any of the threads - i've just been replying to them.
and it's a very recent thing, as quite frankly, it's been grating at me for a while and I'd had enough of staying quiet (likely alcohol helped with that part).
I'd tried to word my reply so that I wasn't coming across and saying I entirely agreed with the price bracketing point. I used the word maybe right at the start, as I really don't know if that is the case. I don't think I ever will.
As for what I think, maybe I do believe there is a type of person that the z4 is becoming appealing to now due to the reduction in price, and maybe I do feel that type of person is someone I would rather not have posting here. That doesn't make me up my own arse, but it does make me opinionated - and those opinions are formed from my experiences..
There are a wide array of people who can now afford a zed, who couldn't before, and I've not got a problem with most of them.
I do have a problem with the small minority of 'nobbers' as I'd like to refer to them as. They've no respect for others, quite happy to insult and disrespect others, and seem to take pride in generally being a nob in regards to common decency - and I'm talking about out in the 'real world'. If they don't exist where you live, then I mean it when I say I'm happy for you.
Sadly, they are all over nottingham; driving whatever car they have around the inner ring roads, flat out regardless of traffic conditions, revving the nuts off their car in the public carpark of a residential area late at night. crashing into walls causing them to fall over and driving off without admitting responsibility. (this happened just this weekend in my normally quiet village.. the culprits were caught, both young lads bombing around in a modified Astra VXR, neither of which points came as a surprise)
I'm sorry to say that this all happens within 10 miles of my front door on a daily basis. you only have to read the local rag to see yet another story of some 'nobber' causing grief or antagonising someone for their own pleasure... and they almost always fit the very same profile.
There are people like that across all brackets of financial levels, but it's more commonly found in those with a little less to spend on a car than others.
I'm sorry, but that's how it truly is where I live.
I'm not rich. I've been on the dole. I've been nearly homeless. I didn't get my zed brand new. I don't dress in designer clobber. I don't fart champagne bubbles.. but I certainly don't like that type of person, and I'd much prefer they didn't bring their "real world" attitude onto a forum that I've gained so much information from and so many friends.
tis all.
) and they were really strict. Granted most of us on there were sharing information on technical stuff as most newbies were asking about head gaskets. But anyway, they had strict rules about swearing, no caps locks to be used, good spelling etc etc and mods would comment. They must have had too much time on their hands.