Millionaire Boy Racers

So daddy didn't buy you a Ferrari for Christmas?

Red_in_SE8 said:

cafcdave123 said:

So daddy didn't buy you a Ferrari for Christmas?

Are you the sad tosser who always starts discussions asking what train or bus you should take?

Yes that's me, are you the dick head that starts a thread because he's poor?

Sorry willmore but comparing Arab "scumbags" to nazi's is a load of shit especially when he's talking about bad driving!

Not exactly related but it's a pretty big problem in China too.

Show them my mk2 rs 2000 a real supacar

My old XR 2 I in red with pepper pot wheels would push all over all them super cars

Glovepup said:

I saw a lot of comments on twitter last night accusing the residents of being racist, some came across as pompous but racist? I'm sure it's ok to slate others when it's not happening in your backyard, yes I love fast cars but driving like that in London is insane and something needs to be done about it.

There was that one resident who did say some things quite close to the mark. Copper even warned him about it.

colthe3rd said:

Glovepup said:

I saw a lot of comments on twitter last night accusing the residents of being racist, some came across as pompous but racist? I'm sure it's ok to slate others when it's not happening in your backyard, yes I love fast cars but driving like that in London is insane and something needs to be done about it.

There was that one resident who did say some things quite close to the mark. Copper even warned him about it.

The comments were near the start of the show, I turned off half-way through as I was knackered.

colthe3rd said:

Glovepup said:

colthe3rd said:

Glovepup said:

I saw a lot of comments on twitter last night accusing the residents of being racist, some came across as pompous but racist? I'm sure it's ok to slate others when it's not happening in your backyard, yes I love fast cars but driving like that in London is insane and something needs to be done about it.

There was that one resident who did say some things quite close to the mark. Copper even warned him about it.

The comments were near the start of the show, I turned off half-way through as I was knackered.

As bad as the noise was and the reckless driving. I sort of found it funny it was annoying that bloke. He clearly had more of a problem with the fact that they weren't British rather than what they were driving.

Yes me too, but we can all laugh until something serious happens.

Yes quite clearly a lot of the residents were confusing road traffic incidents and events with culture and race - and the programme made them look exactly what they are; pompous NIMBY's.

Wherever there is a desirable area, people with money will flock. Think of the residents of Venice, Monaco even the Isle of Man - they 'suffer' a few months of the year where it's packed with tourists or the millionaire jet set fly in to party etc. If people really don't like it, why live there?

I know of people that have made lots of money renting their properties (anything from chalets to apartments) and other assets to fabulously rich Arabs and Russians and have done very well. It's maybe not an option for everyone to leave their home for a few months a year but it is for some.

As for the speeding and reckless driving, well that's a matter for the police.

EGAddick said:

Yes quite clearly a lot of the residents were confusing road traffic incidents and events with culture and race - and the programme made them look exactly what they are; pompous NIMBY's.

Wherever there is a desirable area, people with money will flock. Think of the residents of Venice, Monaco even the Isle of Man - they 'suffer' a few months of the year where it's packed with tourists or the millionaire jet set fly in to party etc. If people really don't like it, why live there?

I know of people that have made lots of money renting their properties (anything from chalets to apartments) and other assets to fabulously rich Arabs and Russians and have done very well. It's maybe not an option for everyone to leave their home for a few months a year but it is for some.

As for the speeding and reckless driving, well that's a matter for the police.

If people don't like people breaking the law (which could in fact kill them if it went wrong) they should move?

Curb_It said:

EGAddick said:

Yes quite clearly a lot of the residents were confusing road traffic incidents and events with culture and race - and the programme made them look exactly what they are; pompous NIMBY's.

Wherever there is a desirable area, people with money will flock. Think of the residents of Venice, Monaco even the Isle of Man - they 'suffer' a few months of the year where it's packed with tourists or the millionaire jet set fly in to party etc. If people really don't like it, why live there?

I know of people that have made lots of money renting their properties (anything from chalets to apartments) and other assets to fabulously rich Arabs and Russians and have done very well. It's maybe not an option for everyone to leave their home for a few months a year but it is for some.

As for the speeding and reckless driving, well that's a matter for the police.

If people don't like people breaking the law (which could in fact kill them if it went wrong) they should move?

I think the point EG is making is that for some on that programme the problem wasn't with the cars but where the people are from.

Curb_It said:

If people don't like people breaking the law (which could in fact kill them if it went wrong) they should move?

That seemingly wasn't the main issue for the residents in the programme; it was cobbled together with the fact that the 'perpetrators' are from the Middle East, have loads of money and their cars are noisy.

I would never dispute any residents right (wherever they live) to claim that a road is dangerous or encourages reckless driving, but road traffic offences are there for the appropriate authorities to deal with.

A few of the pompous old fool's in the programme were claiming that it was 'reverse colonisation' and the area was 'ruined' because for 2-3 months every year a select bunch of foreigners frequented the same streets as they did. The archetypal NIMBY, possibly even worse.