On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 13:53:49 +0100, David Cantrell wrote:

There are bicycles out there on which the purchaser would pay a
considerably higher amount of VAT than they could on a new car.

Really? There exists a bicycle with a price tag over a million quid?

You're not very bright, are you?

Here's a clue. What I _actually_ said equates to some expensive bicycles
cost more than some cheap new cars.

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 01:25:43PM +0000, Adrian wrote:
On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 13:53:49 +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
There are bicycles out there on which the purchaser would pay a
considerably higher amount of VAT than they could on a new car.
Really? There exists a bicycle with a price tag over a million quid?
You're not very bright, are you?

Now now, no name-calling please.

Here's a clue. What I _actually_ said equates to some expensive bicycles
cost more than some cheap new cars.

If that were the case then you would have said "... than they would on
a new car". Instead you said "... than they could on a new car". One
letter difference.

But we all make mistakes sometimes.

--
David Cantrell | top google result for "internet beard fetish club"

On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 13:17:34 +0100, David Cantrell wrote:

There are bicycles out there on which the purchaser would pay a
considerably higher amount of VAT than they could on a new car.

Really? There exists a bicycle with a price tag over a million quid?

You're not very bright, are you?

Now now, no name-calling please.

It was more a statement of the bleedin' obvious than name-calling. The
other conclusion is that you're being deliberately obtuse in a vain
attempt to score some vacuous point.

Which?

Here's a clue. What I _actually_ said equates to some expensive
bicycles cost more than some cheap new cars.

If that were the case then you would have said "... than they would on a
new car". Instead you said "... than they could on a new car". One
letter difference.

Umm, no. Because they're very different things. I can't imagine the kind
of person who buys a £10k roadbike then buying a new Cit C1 or Dacia, so
"would" does not apply. But they could have.

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 02:16:00PM +0000, Adrian wrote:

Umm, no. Because they're very different things. I can't imagine the kind
of person who buys a ??10k roadbike then buying a new Cit C1 or Dacia

I can. I can imagine that someone who can afford to blow 10 grand on a
bike which is only a tiny little bit better than a much cheaper bike can
do all kinds of things. After all, they're the sort of person who has
plenty of money to spend unwisely.

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You may now start misinterpreting what I just
wrote, and attacking that misinterpretation.