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@NurseHolliday
I feel like either I didn't explain myself properly or you're all missing the point.
Of course, everyone here doesn't feel like that, I don't raise anyone who has something I don't on a pedestal, nor do I think anyone on here does. Even more so with bikes, to an extent, some high budget builds are appreciated and the owner commended on choices, but people who just open a catalogue, get a shop to build, and write a cheque, are mostly laughed at for their terrible style and lack of knowledge.
However, out there, in the real world, away from from the bike nerds we associate with, away from the watch nerds some of the posters on here associate with, away from the car nerds I associate with, we fraternise with normal people and also, people who have an interest, but their interest is purely as status.
These are the people I refer to, the people in Instagram comments, the people chatting shit in the bar after work about buying their first Rolex, or the sort of people who don't know the model but know it was the most expensive one in the shop. There's far more of them than people like us. Or maybe I just live my life in a bubble of fucking idiots.