New car...

Yes, but the Ka looks pretty stupid full stop, so obviously no one gives a toss in that situation.

I'm assuming that your reply is in jest.

Anyone who states a Rio or Matiz is engineering excellence is obviously a comedian, and as for the comment on the transformation to "boy racer" by the exchanging of wheels... well, lets just hope that he hasnt replaced the speakers/head unit! That would turn you into a pure neo-nazi doof-doof brigade thug!*

my apologies if your post wasnt serious... I'm not too familiar with your british banter ;)

Heh - I certainly don't. That's part of the fun...

It's turning into a real reverse-psychology situation at the office. Everybody else is swanning about in what could be badgeless and nameless "family cars," like the Rover 75, Mondeo, BMW 3-Serie and more Audis than I can shake a fist at.

Then I turn up in me lowered, loud-exhaust and green (not black or silver) Ka with funky headlights.

People genuinely don't know what to make of it. There's none of this "oh it's a Golf TDI, he must be a junior" or "it's a 330i, must be a good salesperson" crap, heh.

:-)

Thank you. I've been saying for ages that I wanted to break into that field of work.

You're obviously not a regular around these parts. There's a regular poster on here that keeps on inundating us with that sort of drivel, under a variety of different posting names, and then there's me. I just talk a lot of s**te, and am a bit funny. In both senses of the word. Some would say in just one sense.....

Ah - American? Explains it. I reckon we should run compulsory irony/sarcasm crash courses for all American tourists, and insist on doing a BA in Irony and Sarcasm studies before granting them residency.

That's *scary*.

Well they still wouldnt be standard would they! I had a set of 5 spokes on my other one which I could have swapped over but I didnt want to

No idea 4x100 with 54.1 centre i think

Er, the owner of the car.

But that's exactly the point - the MR2 doesn't look shit with 16" rims - it looks really rather nice

I think those aftermarket jobbies suit it perfectly. Don't you agree ?

Hehehehe :-)

I did before he pointed out they scrub the arches...

Aye, that really is a rather large issue !

Oh ok... I understand now, its all good :)

Most definitely not! A bit further south, and in the opposite direction (well, unless you keep going the same direction, then... well... nevermind). I've always thought of the Americans as the kings of sarcasm, since most of the humour in the US sit-coms we get here down under is either of that type or the "stating-the-obvious-then-play-canned-laughter" type.

Aussie then. And yes, you can get there by going past America, but it takes an age - last time I flew to Oz that way it took 40 hours, door to door. And that involved missing all but about 2 hours of Christmas day thanks to the date line - d'oh!

How does that make them the kings of sarcasm - the fact that some of their comedy is, and some of it (Friends and the like) is just boring predicatable s**te?

Hmmm... I've always wanted to live on the date line... just for kicks i guess...

Well most Americans that I know, or have met, seem to love sarcasm. In fact I have trouble telling any other types of jokes. My friend got into a lot of trouble over in the USA with his Aussie humour (i.e. taking the piss out of everyone and everything). I've lost track of the amount of fights he's narrowly avoided due to them not realising it was supposed to be a joke... :)

My experience has been the exact opposite.

I don't quite get you! You start off by saying that most Yanks you've known or met seem to love sarcasm. And then you go on to say how a lot of people your mate met in the USA didn't appreciate his piss-taking, not realising he wasn't being completely serious (i.e., sarcastic). Eh?

I've never had that problem.

Fraser

Oh sorry, how do I put this... A lot of Australian humour is laughing at ourselves and others, not in a harsh way, but in a "mateship" kinda way. Its not being sarcastic, it's more pointing out faults or aspects of a person in a good-natured way.

Yeah, I know what you mean - my point was that it's not a million miles away from sarcasm, IYSWIM, hence me not getting why you thought Americans were the kings of sarcasm.