Real Life MMD: Should I keep schtum over damaging neighbour's car?

John_Pierpoint

"Anybody seen in a bus over the age of 30 has been a failure in life".

Copy that into Google and have some fun.

As they say you can judge someone by the company they keep.

It goes well with "There is no such thing as society"

Carry on wrecking the planet but be careful where you park some "eco terrorist" might write something rude on you vehicle, if it "shows out" too much.

Me I've just got to pedal to the station and buy a ticket with my "Senior Card".

Anybody know when the Raleigh bike factory closed down - It is now the business studies faculty of the University of Nottingham. My bike must be 40 years old. You will never believe it but one of the "ferals" round here tried to steal it. Thank goodness it was not a £25K car they had a go at.

Mind you this is a sign of the times - some people don't realise that the world HAS changed:

Professor Yang Fujia was formally installed as The University of Nottingham's sixth Chancellor on 4 July 2001, the first time that a Chinese academic has become Chancellor of a UK university.

He is a keen advocate of a global approach to education, making him the natural choice for Nottingham. Renowned as the man who introduced the concept of the knowledge-based economy to China, he places strong emphasis on the internationalisation of education as a vital element of the knowledge era.

A graduate in physics from Fudan University in Shanghai, Professor Yang was appointed Lecturer and then Professor of Physics. He was President of Fudan University from 1993 until 1999.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fudan_University

Sounds a bit like the Eton/Oxford of China

fattybumble85

elvis86 wrote: »

To all you bitter (I imagine, poor) people who seem to have this weird idea that anyone who can afford anything nice deserves to have it wrecked by others, I ask;

If, once you've managed to get a better job/pay off your DMP/get off benefits/sort out whatever is making you poor (and bitter), you manage to save up and decide to treat yourself to something nice, are you honestly saying that you would fully expect and approve of someone else coming along and wrecking it??

I really can't comprehend your (bitter, jealous) logic, that people with nice things should expect them to be trashed?

Well said. I cannot believe the bile and plain old bitterness on these threads. How dare anyone have a car that they take pride in! I can only hope I never reach such depths of resentment.

olliedog

I would hate this if it happened to me, and be very angry at the person who had not owned up to it.. What would you feel like if someone damaged something you thought the world of and then did a bunk? You could try asking your sister to go halves, but it seems as though you were in charge of the child at the time.

John_Pierpoint

I suppose the most valuable things in my life are my children and grandchildren.
However there is no way that I would buy them a £500 baby stroller - that might somehow ingrain in their little minds that a metal tool with 4 wheels, has some intrinsic value greater than the value of its use and the things it can do.

Eg what is the purpose of a 150 MPH motor car in a country with a 70 MPH speed limit?

What does it say about the person who owns it?