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iPad users 'are the selfish elite', claims survey 
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Sorry Mark I'm not helping paying your wages then. :D
Plenty of other saps are. (8+D

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I don't buy it either, sorry... ;)

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if you are sad enough to judge what a person is like simply based on them having a particular gadget I feel really really sorry for you . :roll:


Then you're feeling sorry for me Alun. I make judgements all the time about people based a massive amount of information I collect from their language, posture, expression and behaviour, as well as what job they have, car, house, family arrangement, the gadgets they use and many, many more things.

The iPad is certainly going to be for a certain demographic, broadly speaking. As a Skoda driver, I'm part of another broad church of people. These things are all useful bits of information to those trying to understand others. However, I wouldn't be so brash as this survey is to claim that I know everything about a person based on one piece of information. I could certainly make some assumptions however.

IMHO it's important to remember the difference.


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What do you drive, okenobi?

I'm toying with the idea of buying a Skoda Fabia diesel.

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My head of department has one and he's a nice guy...Also, my new employer has one, and he must be nice for employing me :P


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my new employer has one, and he must be nice for employing me :P


Haha come back on that one in a year! :P ;)

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What do you drive, okenobi?

I'm toying with the idea of buying a Skoda Fabia diesel.


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Fabia's a great car. Very well built, cheap to buy and run and comfy inside. The 1.4 derv is very economical. The 1.9 100ps derv is very quick and still pretty economical, but a lot rarer. Unfortunately, the vRS is still expensive, but a very good car.


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Cool. I'd be lying if I said I could tell what model that is! :oops:

I am really keen on the 1.4 diesel Fabia. When my current car needs replacing, that's what I will probably replace it with. They don't seem to be too common though, so I'll have to keep my eye out for a good one.

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Cool. I'd be lying if I said I could tell what model that is! :oops:

I am really keen on the 1.4 diesel Fabia. When my current car needs replacing, that's what I will probably replace it with. They don't seem to be too common though, so I'll have to keep my eye out for a good one.


It's an Octavia vRS. The Fabia's a very sensible choice all round. 1.4 dervs are less available than the 1.2 and 1.4 petrol, but there should still be plenty around.


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Cool. I'd be lying if I said I could tell what model that is! :oops:


Green VRs badge on the grill gives it away ;)

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Veering slightly off topic, has anyone been watching the Amish teenager show?

They don't have any of the material possessions we have yet they are balanced and extremely happy. Nuff said.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/amis ... -teenagers

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They don't have any of the material possessions we have yet they are balanced and extremely happy. Nuff said.

I am balanced and pretty happy and have lots of cool stuff. I think I prefer to be me.

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Veering slightly off topic, has anyone been watching the Amish teenager show?

They don't have any of the material possessions we have yet they are balanced and extremely happy. Nuff said.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/amis ... -teenagers


I have been watching it and they do appear happy. However, they don't have all the facts, which I wouldn't like.

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Veering slightly off topic, has anyone been watching the Amish teenager show?

They don't have any of the material possessions we have yet they are balanced and extremely happy. Nuff said.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/amis ... -teenagers


I have been watching it and they do appear happy. However, they don't have all the facts, which I wouldn't like.


But they all get a year in the big wide world to decide if the lifestyle is for them. I've been enjoying the show and I like the way the British teenagers have been looking after them. Makes a change from all the doom and gloom on tele.

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But they all get a year in the big wide world to decide if the lifestyle is for them.
Hahaha one year to catch up on a lifetime spent in seclusion.
Yeah, that's fair.

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But they all get a year in the big wide world to decide if the lifestyle is for them.
Hahaha one year to catch up on a lifetime spent in seclusion.
Yeah, that's fair.

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We shouldn't judge how others decide to live their lives *shrug*

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