'Veblen goods' - individual failings or a symptom of our general current fuckupedness?

[mauvais]

That's exactly why they're a signal of wealth. They signal to the right people.

But lesser wealth. Maybe I'm thinking about it in a sort of mid-level salesperson stereotype where it's about being seen to have the most, rather than a signal to the really wealthy that you at least have something.

 

[SpookyFrank]

How far do you go with the judging, though? I could have only £4 polo shirts off the internet and no Fred Perrys, and a cheap kagoul rather than a smart Penguin windcheater

You going undercover with Britain First or something?

 

[mauvais]

Also I've got a highly niche nerdy use case for private plates (I don't have and never have had one)

Alfa Romeos have them set off to the side, on a fitting originally designed for smaller Italian plates. UK cars have to put them on a plinth. If you buy a private plate that's sufficiently small then you can legally shrink it down and make it look marginally less silly.

I'm sure there's stiff competition amongst my ouevre but this is probably the least 'real Urbanz' post I've ever made.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Also I've got a highly niche nerdy use case for private plates (I don't have and never have had one)

Alfa Romeos have them set off to the side, on a fitting originally designed for smaller Italian plates. UK cars have to put them on a plinth. If you buy a private plate that's sufficiently small then you can legally shrink it down and make it look marginally less silly.

I'm sure there's stiff competition amongst my ouevre but this is probably the least 'real Urbanz' post I've ever made.

Not sure I'd want to shell out for that particular number plate but it takes all sorts I suppose.

 

[mauvais]

Not sure I'd want to shell out for that particular number plate but it takes all sorts I suppose.

I hear Chuka Umunna was very happy with it, for a time.

(the car's a 4C if that makes the plate very slightly more comprehensible)