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The Mad Rapper said:
I didn't suggest you were directing it at Robbie! I clearly stated 'the purchaser' didn't I?
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Your use of a full stop brought some ambiguity to your statement, it wasn't wholly apparent whether you were suggesting it was rude to "the purchases" or someone else.

In summary - I think people who buy new cars every 12 months are idiots, and lets just leave it at that for fear of this descending into a "I'm right", "No, I'm right", "No, what he said was right" discussion.
 
jamief said:
So in every thread, whatever the topic, someone can come along and post "it happens, life moves on", and that is supposed to contribute somehow to a potential discussion?
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Ok it wasn't phrased very well, but I certainly wasn't suggesting that these things shouldn't be discussed. My point is that purchasing decisions are often made with the heart and not with the brain. I've bought things that made no common sense but that I just wanted, full stop. I bet you have also ;).
 
Robbie G said:
Ok it wasn't phrased very well, but I certainly wasn't suggesting that these things shouldn't be discussed. My point is that purchasing decisions are often made with the heart and not with the brain. I've bought things that made no common sense but that I just wanted, full stop. I bet you have also ;).
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Of course I have... but nothing as big as a car, and mostly when I was a student! I just find it odd that he would do the double whammy of replacing his 12 month old car with a new one, and also get the exact same model. I mean I could understand if it was an Avensis to a BMW or something, but the same model?! Madness!
 
jamief said:
Your use of a full stop brought some ambiguity to your statement, it wasn't wholly apparent whether you were suggesting it was rude to "the purchases" or someone else.

In summary - I think people who buy new cars every 12 months are idiots, and lets just leave it at that for fear of this descending into a "I'm right", "No, I'm right", "No, what he said was right" discussion.
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The only ambigity is in your head!

I don't understand why you have such a bee in your bonnet about this, but we're all different.
 
I think almost everyone that steps into this thread can agree that they wouldn't have swapped out an one year old car for a new version of the same (assuming he didn't get some fantastic trade-in deal meaning he didn't lose out at all).

Surely everyone can also agree that optimal buying decisions aren't necessarily always down to the pure financials?
 
jamief said:
Of course I have... but nothing as big as a car, and mostly when I was a student! I just find it odd that he would do the double whammy of replacing his 12 month old car with a new one, and also get the exact same model. I mean I could understand if it was an Avensis to a BMW or something, but the same model?! Madness!
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Maybe you should ask him why then?
 
I'd hate to live near someone who got bent out of shape enough to avoid me, purely on the basis of my purchasing decisions.
 
Gaijin said:
Proper clear like? Like the crystal clarity provided with no punctuation or emoticons?

****, thats clear "man" :p
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The kind of clear that really doesn't need to be explained, unless of course some ridiculous pedant like yourself visits the thread, man ;)
 
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