From: Brimstone on

"Chelsea Tractor Man" <mr.c.tractor(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 08:41:43 +0100, Brimstone wrote:
>
>>> its still a really bad piece of stereotyping of both working and middle
>>> classes.
>>>
>> In an article such as that there isn't space to deal with everyone
>> individually.
>
> theres no need to, neither is there any need to attribute regarding
> speeding as OK to one social class, which is nonsense.
>
I suggest you re-read the article, she makes no such attribution.


From: boltar2003 on
On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:00:51 +0100
"Brimstone" <brimstone520-ng08(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>"Chelsea Tractor Man" <mr.c.tractor(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
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>> On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 08:39:40 +0100, Brimstone wrote:
>>
>>>> then she is wrong to think working class people do not do that.
>>>>
>>> Indeed, but working class people tend to be more honest about their law
>>> breaking.
>>
>> Really? So you subscribe to these stereotypes.
>>
>I subscribe to the fact that most people are hypocrites.

Are you extrapolating from yourself then?

B2003

From: Nkosi (ama-ecosse) on
On 9 Aug, 14:38, boltar2...(a)boltar.world wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Aug 2010 14:13:55 +0100
> Chelsea Tractor Man <mr.c.trac...(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >On Mon, 9 Aug 2010 14:06:11 +0100, Chelsea Tractor Man wrote:
>
> >> ´Speeding is middle-class anti-social behaviour
>
> >the R4 presenter this am seemed quite keen on more 20s in town centres
> >offset by 80 on the motorways. Brake were very keen on lots more 20s and
> >thought you couldn't have 80 because the rare motorway accidents are often
> >serious.
>
> And once they hippies manage to get 20 enforced everywhere they'll
> start a campaign for it to be 15, then 10 eventually they'll want to make all
> local roads car free and you'll have to park your car in large municple
> car parks near A roads and walk the rest of the way.
>
> B2003

Don't blame "hippies" a lot of them have camper vans and are road
users.

Nkosi
From: Brimstone on

<boltar2003(a)boltar.world> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:00:51 +0100
> "Brimstone" <brimstone520-ng08(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>"Chelsea Tractor Man" <mr.c.tractor(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
>>news:11nma1s35mx1m$.wa5lai2f6rqg$.dlg(a)40tude.net...
>>> On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 08:39:40 +0100, Brimstone wrote:
>>>
>>>>> then she is wrong to think working class people do not do that.
>>>>>
>>>> Indeed, but working class people tend to be more honest about their law
>>>> breaking.
>>>
>>> Really? So you subscribe to these stereotypes.
>>>
>>I subscribe to the fact that most people are hypocrites.
>
> Are you extrapolating from yourself then?
>
No, but I'm including you.



From: Brimstone on

"Chelsea Tractor Man" <mr.c.tractor(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:01:53 +0100, Brimstone wrote:
>
>>> theres no need to, neither is there any need to attribute regarding
>>> speeding as OK to one social class, which is nonsense.
>>>
>> I suggest you re-read the article, she makes no such attribution.
>
> �Speeding is middle-class anti-social behaviour."
>
Try reading the rest of the paragraph, " ... Speeding is middle-class
anti-social behaviour. People think, 'we should be able to get away with it�.
They wouldn�t tolerate law breaking by somebody else but they do it
themselves without thinking. "