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Julio Cruz posted:car owners: poor (£13k+ to buy) My wife's dad was delighted when she managed to consolidate a bunch of loans for him. She of course was astonished to find out he was still paying off loans from about three cars ago, at a nightmarish dealership APR rate. He celebrated by going out and 'buying' another car. E: 154 is the name of the 3rd album by the English post-punk band Wire.
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Jan 18, 2024 23:27
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Julio Cruz posted:car owners: poor (£13k+ to buy) If you've got the spare time and spare energy to cycle to and from work then your job is more likely to be pretty cushy, making you more likely to be a moneyed kinda fucker.
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Jan 18, 2024 23:36
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Jan 18, 2024 23:38
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Skulker posted:If you've got the spare time and spare energy to cycle to and from work then your job is more likely to be pretty cushy, making you more likely to be a moneyed kinda fucker. well or you're an Ubereats rider and therefore on the poverty line
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Jan 18, 2024 23:40
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Skulker posted:If you've got the spare time and spare energy to cycle to and from work then your job is more likely to be pretty cushy, making you more likely to be a moneyed kinda fucker. Oh get hosed
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Jan 18, 2024 23:40
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really? 
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Jan 18, 2024 23:40
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Skulker posted:If you've got the spare time and spare energy to cycle to and from work then your job is more likely to be pretty cushy, making you more likely to be a moneyed kinda fucker. Nah, its the scooter fucks you're thinking of
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Jan 18, 2024 23:43
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This is a great grift
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Jan 18, 2024 23:43
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Julio Cruz posted:car owners: poor (£13k+ to buy) Not the norm but there are some bikes out there costing more than used car (electric cargo bikes mainly) Of course the cheapest bikes are to be had by breaking a combination lock and riding off with it and bike theft is absolutely rampant (and unpoliced) in any city with a big cyclist population.
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Jan 18, 2024 23:50
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Just the fuselage?
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Jan 18, 2024 23:51
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Z the IVth posted:Not the norm but there are some bikes out there costing more than used car (electric cargo bikes mainly) I'm comparing like for like
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Jan 18, 2024 23:53
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Skulker posted:If you've got the spare time and spare energy to cycle to and from work then your job is more likely to be pretty cushy, making you more likely to be a moneyed kinda fucker. In a thread with NJAN99 this might be the dumbest post. That's a heck of an achievement. Literally all you can extract from someone riding a bike to work is they a) own a bike & b) live close enough to work to ride.it there.
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Jan 18, 2024 23:53
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forkboy84 posted:In a thread with NJAN99 this might be the dumbest post. That's a heck of an achievement. They might renting that bike
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Jan 18, 2024 23:55
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Z the IVth posted:Not the norm but there are some bikes out there costing more than used car (electric cargo bikes mainly) Yes and some cars cost more than a large house, slightly irrelevant poimt
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Jan 18, 2024 23:55
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There were a few people who cycled to work at the supermarkets I worked at, kept the bikes in the warehouse. Just a function of whether you live close enough really.
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Jan 18, 2024 23:56
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I'm really struggling to find the logic behind someone owning a £200 bike being more moneyed than someone owning a £13,000 car. Many of my friends don't own a car because they can't loving afford one. They cycle because they have to and public transport is poo poo (and often unaffordable)
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Jan 18, 2024 23:57
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HopperUK posted:really? Where that leaves the UK - having paid Rwanda millions, defied international law and STILL having not shifted any refugees - can only be as hilarious and horrifying as any of this blighted isle's politics tend to be.
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Jan 18, 2024 23:58
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fuctifino posted:I'm really struggling to find the logic behind someone owning a £200 bike being more moneyed than someone owning a £13,000 car. Same rationale as working class meaning you have a regional accent, even if you're literally in charge of the country. Real working class people don't know what a cappuchino is also.
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Jan 19, 2024 00:00
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you know who else owned a bike? Several bikes actually. Boris.
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Jan 19, 2024 00:00
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e: That was a horrific mental image I just had. Ignore it.
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Jan 19, 2024 00:02
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Also plenty of employers do cycle to work schemes! I worked at a restaurant who did one in which they'd pay you X amount towards buying yourself a bike. Not sure why they did that given that there was nowhere to store your bike at said restaurant 🤔
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Jan 19, 2024 00:05
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On the subject of transport, I was looking at ways to use a sudden injection of dead-mum-gently caress-you-money in ways that won't throw a sledgehammer in my benefits.   This is the most decadent option so far while also being absolutely life changing at the same time
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Jan 19, 2024 00:08
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OwlFancier posted:There were a few people who cycled to work at the supermarkets I worked at, kept the bikes in the warehouse. Cyclists in the types of fantasies referenced earlier are generally percieved as having ridden in from the nice suburbs by choice, rather than underpaid deliveroo people working their second gig to afford a flatshare on the dodgy end of town. It's another disconnect from reality that only works if you imagine Britain is nicer than it actually is. Or probably they find cyclists annoying to drive around, and are backforming a reason to hate them.
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Jan 19, 2024 00:11
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fuctifino posted:On the subject of transport, I was looking at ways to use a sudden injection of dead-mum-gently caress-you-money in ways that won't throw a sledgehammer in my benefits. theres gotta be cooler ones than that
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Jan 19, 2024 00:12
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how the gently caress is black a bespoke colour
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Jan 19, 2024 00:15
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NotJustANumber99 posted:theres gotta be cooler ones than that You drive a Tesla 
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Jan 19, 2024 00:15
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I saw one of those once parked up at the lidl, wondered what the hell it was. Are they actually like cars or are they more like a mobility scooter with extra bodywork? I'd be terrified to turn a corner in one but I guess maybe they build them like forklifts. Bobby Deluxe posted:Which I think is where the mistake comes from - if you live in a city, that implies a certain amount of wealth because of how much housing costs in cities and larger towns, as opposed to having to live in a lovely barratt homes suburb and drive in via the kind of A-roads cyclists would be murdered by white van drivers if they so much as looked at. I think most people just lived on the shithole estates. I assume other towns have them. Granted on teesside it's more like grades of shithole all the way through.
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Jan 19, 2024 00:18
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OwlFancier posted:I saw one of those once parked up at the lidl, wondered what the hell it was. Are they actually like cars or are they more like a mobility scooter with extra bodywork? Standard class 3 mobility scooters with extra bodywork, so you can legally use them at <4mph on the pavements and <8mph on the roads.
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Jan 19, 2024 00:21
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fuctifino posted:You drive a Tesla er... yes. Which is very cool.
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Jan 19, 2024 00:24
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I think you'll find that fire tends to be very hot
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Jan 19, 2024 00:26
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this is in your budget
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Jan 19, 2024 00:29
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Honestly half of them lack the object permenance to figure the full amount. They see x hundred a month and figure they can make room for that. My wife's parents got divorced, sold the house and each went out and bought a brand new Ford Fiesta on finance, because apparently buying new is "the cheapest way to do it". Neither of them are exactly what I would call "flush with cash" but yeah, there's a particular kind of collective madness when it comes to dealing with money, and also with cars, and when the two combine, you get extra double madness.
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Jan 19, 2024 00:30
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dealing with old cars is also a ballache though. I would always recommend buying pickup trucks secondhand though. Not worth it to buy new.
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Jan 19, 2024 00:32
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I cannot get my head around paying more than like £10k for a car. Even that seems absurdly unaffordable to me.
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Jan 19, 2024 00:34
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I paid £5k for mine and I've had it about 5 years with no real issues, but they are horrible expensive things to run even with that in mind.
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Jan 19, 2024 00:37
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lolling at a mobility vehicle having a bullbar, for mowing down the pedestrians
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Jan 19, 2024 00:40
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I'm more aghast at it being five loving hundred pounds for it. Also if you don't get the optional internal handles are you entombed in it like a dreadnought?
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Jan 19, 2024 00:41
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Microplastics posted:They might renting that bike or have nicked it a good clue to this being the case is if it's a big lad pedalling along on a little child's bike w/ his knees coming up somewhere round his ears
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Jan 19, 2024 00:57
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fuctifino posted:You drive a Tesla imagining the new range of cybertruck mobility scooters. to die for, and by for i mean in
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Jan 19, 2024 00:59
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Angepain posted:imagining the new range of cybertruck mobility scooters. to die for, and by for i mean in why would you die in it?
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Jan 19, 2024 01:01
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