So angry I could spit

[kenm]

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[goddardzilla]

I blame the Russians

Back in the early 1920's after the Revolution, the Russian’s formed a sneaky plan to destabilize Britain hopefully fomenting a communist state. Get England to change ideology, and you’re half way to the rest of the world. So the sneaky sods examined English society, saw the existing social problems and decided to seriously inflame the slowly but progressively healing “class division” wound, throwing their vitiol in; trying to stir up a Revolution.

They incited at union meetings, infiltrated the Labour Party, recruited future spies at Universities, created “one view” newspapers, and spun a utopian vision of their classless society - all proved later, to be a magnificent con job. A lot of British workers and Intellectuals bought into it. We are downtrodden: equal shares for all! He shall not have that classy new car!

Therefore, it was deemed wrong to aspire because all should be equal, so you shall not get ahead. They kept pressing the downtrodden button. Of course the whole unworkable mess blew up in their own faces in the 1980s. The “they’re not going to better themselves attitude” is still ingrained in some of the more senior English citizens. Rusky implantation.

Some individuals like myself faced the twisted ideology at the front lines in English University.The Basque separatists (they were Leftists against Franco’s Right-wing Spanish government and the reason communist leaning student newspapers “just appeared” around student union buildings). They tried to take over our student union, but couldn’t get elected (I was a more politically central, more verbally adept, and much more good looking candidate, than their overweight aggressive 5'3" swarthy Basque agitator pisspot candidate). If they had succeed it would have been agitation all round, student class wars, and student strikes for all. No thank you.

The vestiges of the Russians anti- capitalist, anti-success attitudes, still affect British society, but thankfully less and less so each year. Thank you Maggie Thatcher et al. British society would have gradually, albeit slowly worked, though the class inequities, but the Russians tried to make all hypersensitive to capitalism, demonizing bosses, financial success in general, trying to shame you from improving you lot/ increasing your assets. They were making success appear wrong, and trying to guilt people into making a stand against it. For sixty years they created the serpent - then just bloody walked away from it leaving it still writhing in British society! In true capitalist form I say it cost British society dearly - so let's sue the bastards!

[Murphy The Cat]

Bloody hell Zilla that's deep stuff !! However, one of my rules is that on forums I don't get into discussions about politics or religeon as it always ends in tears. Now that I've calmed down, I'm just going to put it down to experience and remember that thye dickheads have always been out there, it is just my turn to have them knocking on my door for a change. On a happier and lighter note. When I went to my dealer yesterday, he told me that he'd had a coiuple of people in this weekend that had seen a black one of those (pointing to the 300c) with a private plate and a fancy grill on taht looked bloody lovely and could they have some details please. I'd also spent a litle while talking to an old (75ish) bloke in my local town and he thought that the car was fantastic, but that for him it was just a little bit to chromey at the front and that he would prefer the original grill that the car in the adverts has. He had a BMW 5 series and he said he would look to a 300c for atest drive when he was replacing the Beemer because it looked so nice (& different). Cheerio MTC

[HealeyRick]

My dear Murphy,

Once again, I fly to your rescue. I've organized a nice little Cortina for you to drive for your clientele to see, whilst "Arnie" stays safely laid up in your carriage house:



On weekends, feel free to "Unleash the Beast"

Cheers,
Rick

[Murphy The Cat]

Originally Posted by HealeyRick

My dear Murphy,

Once again, I fly to your rescue. I've organized a nice little Cortina for you to drive for your clientele to see, whilst "Arnie" stays safely laid up in your carriage house:



On weekends, feel free to "Unleash the Beast"

Cheers,
Rick

I think that the Cortina would still be a little bit to flash for some people.

MTC

p.s. I like that dress your wearing - it sets off your new hair do well.

[Domenic]

Murph

I too own a business, i'm in transport and we have about 40 sub contractors that we deal with every day, and i too am very wary about what my recent purchase will do to how clients and drivers think of me. I'm from australia and my srt8 hasn't even arrived yet but i'm already contemplating getting a work ute to drive for work, something cheapish and unnoticable. But one thing that reassures me, i spoke to a client once about this very subject (when i was looking around, before i decided on the srt8), he said dom you are the owner of the business, i expect you to be driving a nice car, it will show you are doing well and your business is healthy, no probs, but if your salesrep came in driving an M3 now that would be a different story....Ever since that conversation i've felt ok buying this car. (sort of)

[Murphy The Cat]

Originally Posted by Domenic

Murph

I too own a business, i'm in transport and we have about 40 sub contractors that we deal with every day, and i too am very wary about what my recent purchase will do to how clients and drivers think of me. I'm from australia and my srt8 hasn't even arrived yet but i'm already contemplating getting a work ute to drive for work, something cheapish and unnoticable. But one thing that reassures me, i spoke to a client once about this very subject (when i was looking around, before i decided on the srt8), he said dom you are the owner of the business, i expect you to be driving a nice car, it will show you are doing well and your business is healthy, no probs, but if your salesrep came in driving an M3 now that would be a different story....Ever since that conversation i've felt ok buying this car. (sort of)

Hi Domenic

heres a few more things that should set your mind at rest. My previous car was a "traditionally styled" Rover 75 a car shape and design that had been around for quite a few years - in other words my car looked a traditional motor. Arnie on the other hand is a brand new, bang up to date, distinctive car that LOOKS like he costs 2-3 times more than he does. Where people got the wrong end of the stick (because they were either to lazy to look, or to stupid to check) is that with the new grill & meshes they though Arnie was a Bentley which would cost 5 times what Arnie did.

a Holden Commodore looks like a big piece of kit, and I would imagine that the step (big step) up to a SRT would not be as "in your face" as mine was.
Sadly there are arseholes taht we have to deal with in this world and it was just my misfortune to have a few last week.

I now park Arnie nose-in and i've had no further comments.

Also, I think that Australia (mabye) has a much more open mind as relates to LARGE & POWERFUL saloon cars.

I hope that I've put your mind at rest a bit.

MTC

p.s. a firm that supplies me with goods has recently changed it's reps cars from Vectra and Mondeo Estates to Jaguar X - type estates. They got a good leasing deal (better than both Vectra/Mondeo offered), a good image for the company, good spec for their drivers etc etc - in other words a good deal all around. However, due to poor feedback from some customers they are now having to downgrade their working cars again to vehicles that are a bit more mundane.
The typical comments from customers were on the lines of "I would expect the boss to have a nice car, but when the reps who won't find me a slightly better price on something (because they say that they can't afford it), drive up in a new Jag, it pisses me off"