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I thought it had more to do with Herbie love bug. They were VW's weren't they? Kind of round, nut shaped. Still large in comparison to our boys.
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There’s nothing “big” about Volkswagens. It’s simply that the word Volkswagen (for the Baby Boomer generation) is associated with The Bug, a slow, dull, basic car, which whilst beloved by many, is humorously associated with bumbling hippies and broke-... students and college professors during the ‘60s, is thought of as a kind of funny sounding name.
Interesting fact: The Volkswagen Bug, built for years in Mexico, is super popular, to the point of cult status down there. So much so, that in Mexico City (where I love to spend my winters) I have frequently seen young Mexicans wearing t-shirts with the Volkswagen logo, only upside down so that it makes an “M”, as in Mexico.
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I think the problem here is age rather than vernacular/not being a native English speaker.
To people of your generation (and mine and several others on here obviously) Volkswagen was synonymous with the original VW Beetle/people’s car which originated in the early mid 20th century, but continued for a very long time, with manufacture continuing in Mexico iirc for a significant period after the demise of the car in the rest of the world. That car indeed had an appropriate shape to lead to the idiom.
Many developments in recent decades of course, now VW Audi, a reverse takeover by Porsche etc and they are now a manufacturer of high end sports cars and luxury cars as well as Golfs and the like, and even the retro more recent Beetle wasn’t nearly as ball shaped, and I am sure VW is no longer synonymous with the original Beetle for younger fans..
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Is Mexico city what you call your basement?
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Notice how he judges everyone. He has a perfect little stereotype for all groups.
Interesting fact. You are a small minded racist. I’m sure the closest you’ve got to Mexico City is Taco Bell
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Got the far quit blocked on tapatalk.
I highly recommend that small step.
This is judging.
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It makes me smile every time you judge people. It’s just you, projecting your unhappiness.
You should try riding a motorbike sometime. Motorcycle people are happy people
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Fact. Anyone that stereotype’s a group of people is a racist
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Haven’t blocked him myself. In days of yore before I wised up, I felt compelled to refute every nonsensical jibe by the various trolls that passed through here. Which is precisely what they want. It’s the only way they have of measuring their own importance. Even if every single member of this forum told Twatty that he was a unwelcome presence, he would continue in the same vein, because not being liked or invited in to any social circle is his “comfy chair”. It’s all he knows. I suppose if I were some compassionate Buddha type, I would feel something akin to pity, but I’ve come to where I love watching trolls turn themselves inside-out flailing away, hurling increasingly insipid insults that never land, in vain hopes of getting a rise out of someone who just doesn’t give a ..... Kind of like the Black Knight in Monty Python and The Holy Grail, where the knight has lost all his limbs and continues to hop around in a fit of rage, deluding himself in the belief that there’s some outside chance of somehow bettering the guy who just cut off all his arms and legs.
A useful feature that forums like this could use, would be not an “ignore” button, but rather a cloaking button that makes your posts invisible to trolls.
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You are more patient than I.Haven’t blocked him myself. In days of yore before I wised up, I felt compelled to refute every nonsensical jibe by the various trolls that passed through here. Which is precisely what they want. It’s the only way they have of measuring their own importance. Even if every single member of this forum told Twatty that he was a unwelcome presence, he would continue in the same vein, because not being liked or invited in to any social circle is his “comfy chair”. It’s all he knows. I suppose if I were some compassionate Buddha type, I would feel something akin to pity, but I’ve come to where I love watching trolls turn themselves inside-out flailing away, hurling increasingly insipid insults that never land, in vain hopes of getting a rise out of someone who just doesn’t give a ..... Kind of like the Black Knight in Monty Python and The Holy Grail, where the knight has lost all his limbs and continues to hop around in a fit of rage, deluding himself in the belief that there’s some outside chance of somehow bettering the guy who just cut off all his arms and legs.
A useful feature that forums like this could use, would be not an “ignore” button, but rather a cloaking button that makes your posts invisible to trolls.
Reading content about a sport I enjoy is why I am here.
I don't enjoy reading toxic, personal insult.
Would rather not visit.
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Hang in there Gov’nor… these guys come and go. This is by far the best place for discussion of MotoGp. It’s just a fact of life, when something is golden like honey, it’s bound to attract the occasional house fly.
