you're meant to wear a vest!

[Bollo]

Worst of it is, we have 2. Mrs Beanz has one just like it. I'm trying to convince her that mine is on its last legs a shiny new camera phone would make a nice present for her birthday next week.

My sister-in-law is the mobile equivalent of the 'Soup Nazi' in Seinfeld, so I am constantly kept appraised of the 'rubbishness' of my mobile. I think there's an inverse snobbery/anti-capitalist outlaw bent to having an ageing, scratched-up mobile made of valves, although I draw the line at living in a cabin and making bombs out of twigs and my own faeces and sending them to Steve Jobs........perhaps I'm going into too much detail there

 

[John the Monkey]

...although I draw the line at living in a cabin and making bombs out of twigs and my own faeces and sending them to Steve Jobs........

An attitude which does you credit, I'm sure we can agree.

 

[spindrift]

I don't think Tony ever used a cosh. A gun, yes. And ant killer on Joe Pantolgliano, a shotgun on Steve Buscemi and his fists on the black assassins. Don't recall a cosh.

 

[Sh4rkyBloke]

"you're supposed to wear a vest"

...yeah, and you're supposed to use a braincell, it seems we're all at fault today.

 

[John the Monkey]

Returning to the op, the unspoken subtext of such comments is, of course "...and therefore it's ok for me to drive like ****."

 

[Bollo]

I don't think Tony ever used a cosh. A gun, yes. And ant killer on Joe Pantolgliano, a shotgun on Steve Buscemi and his fists on the black assassins. Don't recall a cosh.

I seem remember that Mr S did give someone some 'physical advice' courtesy of his mobile early in season one, but I'm buggered if I can recall the details.

Returning to the op, the unspoken subtext of such comments is, of course "...and therefore it's ok for me to drive like ****."

Oooh, if you must. It's all part of the great in-group/out-group divide between people in cars and people on bikes (deliberately avoiding the terms 'motorists' and 'cyclists'). As a member of an in group, he feels he is expressing society's righteous anger towards a member of the out group. You can do no right, he can do no wrong. You're fair game.

 

[Origamist]

I seem remember that Mr S did give someone some 'physical advice' courtesy of his mobile early in season one, but I'm buggered if I can recall the details.



Oooh, if you must. It's all part of the great in-group/out-group divide between people in cars and people on bikes (deliberately avoiding the terms 'motorists' and 'cyclists'). As a member of an in group, he feels he is expressing society's righteous anger towards a member of the out group. You can do no right, he can do no wrong. You're fair game.

Nice segue - the brutalising Tony Soprano to Social Identity Theory in a single post...

 

[Bollo]

Nice segue - the brutalising Tony Soprano to Social Identity Theory in a single post...

Thanks O, I try. I try.