Dry roads, clear skies....

Obviously I'm not trying to answer for Champ, but test-ridden at least
the last three bikes I've bought (all from new, two of them in the Uk,
on in CH). I've also road tested (thinks) at least half a dozen other
top-range bikes over the same period.

Why do you think it's unusual?

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Never heard that. And Swiss people don't have anger management issues.

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I suppose I should give mine a going over as it's going in for it's
MOT on Friday. Thursday evening probably.

 

Aren't they just? They may shift like stink (though I've yet to see one
being punted with vigour) but how Porsche, of all people, can produce
something that the Spartans would have exposed on a mountain-top, eludes
me.

 

The Older Gentleman scribbled on the back of a napkin:

Because there are enough tasteless idiots out there who'd buy one.

It's the power of the brand, no matter what the sticker is attached to.

 

The Older Gentleman says...

I saw my first one of those today on the M6. By Christ they're ugly.
Like a cross between a 911 and an under inflated balloon.

 

We parked next to one in the supermarket car park last week. It had
blacked out windows. For a brief moment I *really* understood why
people key cars, then the normal (im)moral code kicked back in.
Porsche Cayennes desevre a place in the middle of a Venn diagram.

 

Is this a common sympton? Only I couldn't handle a gixxer thou and I'm
not sure I've got enough time to save up before the final decree comes
through.

Or was it at the 'split up' bit rather than the end? I bought the pink
thing just after the split.

 

'Cos when you're stuck behind one in traffic, you can't see round it, over it
or through it.

Everything about it says 'selfish arrogant tosser', and that's before you've
met the owner.

 

I'm with Champ on the irrational prejudices thing. But if you want an
attempt at analysis of that irrational prejudice then I'd start by
saying that they don't 'fit' into the landscape around them. The shape
jars.

 

I suppose it's a marking out of new territory thing. I'm sure back in
the old days you'd have thrown her out then widdled around the
perimiter.

Yes, that's certainly the male attitude. Only my husband did it before
we split up. Only not with a gixxer thou.

Mine was actually as civil as it was going to get until I started
divorce proceedings.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Lady Nina

<nods, grimaces>

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If they're the ones I'm thinking of then I don't really mind them. They
don't look hom in extremis as the chromey US pick up trucks with names
like 'Warrior' or some other cudgel like marketing ploy.

Having said that I could never ever entertain buying one and I also make
certain judgements about most Porsche owners.

So, erm, whatever.

 

And doubly so to the wankers that drive the fucking Humvees here.

 

Blacked out windows on any car irk me. They suggest so many possible
reasons, 90% of which boil down to 'I want to look important'. And
anyone who wants to look important badly enough that they'd black out
the windows of their car is suspect imo.

I don't like jeep cherokees either.

How much are they anyway? I did see a Lambourghini that looked pretty.
It didn't have blacked out windows though.

I've never really considered porsche owners.

Yes.

 

And we pay in so many ways. <not long now><breathes>

 

Lady Nina wrote

I see this, quite a lot as it goes and I think you should all be looking
inwards a bit but then again I shouldn't when I am pissed[1] because it
makes me all maudlin.




[1] I thought at first Verdi[2] was trying to poison me but once I got
over the taste I am happily on my way for the first time in less than a
month.

[2] He gave me the booze. I am convinced he doesn't like me.

 

Expensive lawyers?

I can't make my eyes swivel back in my head.

Does the slightly inhebriated Mr A mean a reflection on times past, an
opportunity to mark the end of a life stage, perhaps in a ritualistic
fashion such as happens at a liminal moment and all that?

It is here, it is now (but the prog made me do that)

What manner of alcoholic bevarage is sir imbibing?

 

Lady Nina wrote

that was then, this is a glass later.....

No.

I am unique among ukrm (afaik), in that I am a widower[[0]. There was
still love both sides in my marriage when it ended. I get a completely
different view of the way you lot operate than you do.

Chilean Merlot[1]. I cannot recommend it except as Plonk wiv a capital
perh with and additional bonus as a descaling agent for tongues.



[0] I assumed you knew, you seem to know every other fucking thing about
us all, going back quite a way.

[1] I think it was a raffle prize at the bosm, in which case the
procurement officer needs castrating cos it is shite.

 

I saw a *stretch* Humvee on the motorway the other day. A white limo
Humvee. I boggled.