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[Message updated, sensitized]
Weeks back, The highly respectable general manager of a company, who also happens to be my neighbour, started to look like a Jackass^ with his months old VW Jetta. 
Seriously, Got an inevitable tendency to look low on people owning VW.*
Any VW owners here? 
--Update--
I think I've raked the hearts of VM owners with the crude message above.
Please apologize if it did so.
I think I shouldn't have conveyed that as a joke. But put it as a plain fact, that I felt is happening. When I look at someone who can esaily afford to change his car for an eco-friendly one and not doing it, I felt there's some tilt (in me) towards the -ve end for his personality. As much as I feel the tilt towards the +ve end, for the owners who drive electric vehicles. Of course , by no means, the owners of VW have done a mistake here, it falls 100% on the maker. It's just a tendency , [I Don't get the better words to explain this].
So VieWers, please take it light! 
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
modified 6-Nov-15 9:11am.
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Vunic wrote: Seriously, Got a new tendency to look low on people owning VW.
Why? Simply because they did buy a car where the manufacturer cheated? Yes, that is something they should have checked, eh?
Vunic wrote: Any proud VW owners here?
I'm not allowed to drive, but I would go for a VW Beetle.
One of the first models.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Why? Simply because they did buy a car where the manufacturer cheated? Yes, that is something they should have checked, eh?
lol, helpless owners. Ended up looking losers/evil.
Losers - The one that bought the car and now scrambling to replace it with other Eco friendly , Honest maker.
Evil ones - The ones that bought the car and has no plans to change it any time soon.
Inevitably they are put in one of these categories.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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..so, you are attempting to lift yourself by making others look foolish, for something they had no hand in?
Vunic wrote: The ones that bought the car and has no plans to change it any time soon
So, not having enough money to replace a car that is faulty due to the factory, they are "evil"?
Take a good look in the mirror and categorize yourself.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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The mirror shows me red with two horns on the head and one arrow type tail at the back.
There was one reason, I marked the thread as "Joke". Looks like you've completely missed it? Nevermind!
I do sympathize the owners. Unjustifiably, there's a dent on their image just because they own a brand that cheated on a serious subject - Environment.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Vunic wrote: There was one reason, I marked the thread as "Joke".
The joke icon does not give you the freedom to put down others. It is there to mark stuff as "funny".
Vunic wrote: Unjustifiably, there's a dent on their image
No, there is not.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Peace[^]
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Accepted.
It is not because I like VW. It was because you are putting down their customers. Had you been attacked the company, managment, I'd agree. Not some customer who has no technical option to verify all claims made about the product.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Vunic wrote: there's a dent on their image
Not at all.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Not sure if I put the right words, but please read it again here[^]
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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I have a farm more inquinating 1998 Fiat Seicento. I would be way less evil once you'd deposit on my bank account the 25000 € needed to buy myself a new, ecofriendly car.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
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Vunic wrote: Any proud VW owners here?
Not any more.
But my first own car was a Beetle (not the new one; it was build in 1974).
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A friend of mine drives nothing but VW Passats.
Ever since about 12 years ago he was in one that got clipped by a van, flipped over the central reservation of the motorway into oncoming traffic, on its roof, where it was hit by another van and sent spinning across the other lanes.
He climbed out without a scratch on him.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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So, you're saying they didn't cheat on the safety tests too? 
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Vunic wrote: like a Jackass^
Princess Fiona: Where are you going? The exit's over there!
Shrek: [going to save Donkey] Well, I have to save my ass.
Princess Fiona: [shocked] What kind of knight ARE you?
Shrek: One of a kind.
Vunic wrote: Seriously, Got a new tendency to look low on people owning VW.
Any proud VW owners here?
Chances are good that we have some more cheaters and it's payback time when you look like said ass in your car. Usually with interest.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I hope nobody swapped their VW for a Vauxhall Zafira[^]. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Like the one in the last picture of this story?[^]
Anyone know why Yahoo objects to them?
Quote: We did not find any results for zafira because SafeSearch is active and your query contains some restricted word(s).
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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chriselst wrote: Anyone know why Yahoo objects to them?
It's apparently the name of a Hungarian porn actress. In the first page of results from DuckDuckGo, only one refers to the car; all of the others are decidedly NSFW.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Ah yes, her Filmography section on IMDB makes for interesting reading, she's been a busy girl.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Quote: the name of a Hungarian porn actress
"Vauxhall" is a strange name for a girl - even for a porn actress!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Richard Deeming wrote: I hope nobody swapped their VW for a Vauxhall CatchFirea[^].
FTFY!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Mk7 GTI. (Not a diesel)
Great car. Fast, fun, gobs of torque, beautiful interior, practical and still gets 30mpg around town.
I used to have a 2003 diesel Golf - before the US adopted low sulphur diesel and tightened the emissions regs. That car was bulletproof and averaged 42 mpg - a little slow but not too bad.
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Vunic wrote: Got a new tendency to look low on people owning VW.
Started looking down on those owning Audi / Bentley / Porsche too? They are also VW brands.
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Have to look in the rear mirror for those.
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Not any more, just sold my piece of junk Passat for an underprice thanks to that bloody cheating. 
No I didn't have a problem with the cheating, I want a warmer climate. Remember where I live. 
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