Shall we take a look at your light hearted banter without anger or bitterness...
That's totally my opinion though on those guys who were driving in what's a pretty difficult place to drive. Furthermore, they're revving to intimidate other road users, speeding past them and slamming on, putting peoples lives at risk... Perfectly reasonable situation to reflect on as silly, in my opinion.
Light hearted, all German car drivers are idiots.... Red faced and funny to laugh at...
When did I say 'all'? See, this is where you're getting triggered and assumably personally offended. Don't, it's not personally intended to apply to you. I'm sure you've never driven your VAG product in that precise situation and aggravated passers by. As you're saying, not all of them are like that. I'm fully aware.
As we've now established, no one is buying a diesel Audi thinking they have a big sports car. How this reads intended or not is you being snide and contemptuous and condescending. definitely no essence of banter or joking.
Yeah, right enough, when has any joke in the history of humour ever been snide or contemptuous or condescending towards a situation/group/object? hmmm. You might not find it funny, but plenty of people do. And you don't speak 'for the people', you speak for yourself, and so do I. What we say isn't fact, nor does it have to be. It's opinion. (Seeing a theme here?)
Not sure when Vindictive and deliberate damage caused to someone else's car, then finding this funny, is "banter" and "light heartedness"
Yeah, they've deliberately placed it at a dangerous part of a busy fast moving road, funny that..
Seriously if someone smashed your new car wing mirror and then told you to get over it, its just banter, how would you take that?
As I've said before, if I parked it at a busy junction or blatantly in the line of passing traffic where under no circumstances should you do so according to the Highway Code, I feel like I'd have nobody to run and cry to... For about £20 there'd be a new one ordered and in a weeks time it'd be good as new. That's when driving a cheap Fiat is remarkable, not losing sleep at night over it.
This is the same exact attitude that people who key cars paint work adopt, I don't know anything about you, but you drive a fancy car therefore its fair game to damage your car.
As also already said, whichever kind of car it is is irrelevant. Could be a falling apart 106 hanging on for its dear life {un-fancy} and still treated the same way. Again, don't drive it like an idiot (and I'm sure you'll agree, someone parking in the situations I've described is idiotic without being unfair).
I bought a Volkswagen, therefore I am the target of your attacks, insults and comments, I were driving down your street you would seemingly have no problem causing damage to my car. Plenty of other people here drive skoda's or VW's Audi's BMW, Porsche, I don't see those people laughing along with you?
Absolutely not. Again, no intended damage. But if you were blocking the street and the only way I could get through was to squeeze through, damn right I would. But if you're a reasonable person, And I'm sure away from the keyboard you are, you'd have enough sense to park safely and not actively aggravate anyone around you unnecessarily.
This is in no way light hearted or banter, you're trying now to hide behind those terms but your words paint a picture of nasty, jealous and vindictive character or someone who has seriously misjudged the room.
You can interpret it the way you want to, and you're sure making a lot of assumptions / connections that I don't believe for one second. I don't think I'm misjudging this situation as much as you are by the sounds of where this is going..
You can't call all German car driver's idiots, when only a little way back in this very thread you took great offence to the possibility of being called an idiot yourself. very much a case of double standards, you're behaving like a bully behaves, makes nasty comments, looks for people to agree with them and when they get called out they where only "messing about" its just "banter"
This is an Internet forum. Grow up. You can call me what you want. I can joke about German cars if I want. You can take it personally as the owner of one if you want. I can't stop you. You won't get any different in any other kind of forum / community. There's always a butt of the joke / victimised group but it's probably wise to not personally weigh yourself down to take offence to it.
The thing here is no one is joining in your 'light hearted banter' so to continue posting this sort of thing in the future is not to joke but to get a rise out of people and cause offence.
Again, see it for whatever you want. I certainly would defend or stand corrected on anything I post, and always have something to say back. I have repeatedly said it's my opinion / viewpoint and I'm not telling anyone they're wrong. Yes, joking about German cars is playing to a stereotype. So are jokes about the colours of peoples hairs or lifestyle choices. That's how jokes work. It's when somebody like yourself gets, what's termed on the Internet as 'butt hurt' a whole big scene comes of it, hence the unfortunate vandalism to this otherwise good thread.
Either quit it, its not funny, or become a nasty little troll. the decision is yours.
