Troglodytes

**LandyAndy** · 5th January 2016, 07:12 PM

Anybody short on tee shirts.
https://teespring.com/discovery-hero...0029&sid=front
Andrew

**Disco Muppet** · 5th January 2016, 07:31 PM

Battered cars are Battered cars Chops, doesn't matter what they are

Unless it's a Camel Trophy vehicle.
Now that's character.

MrLandy · 5th January 2016, 07:37 PM

Originally Posted by LandyAndy

Anybody short on tee shirts.
https://teespring.com/discovery-hero...0029&sid=front
Andrew

Far too stylish for us Defender Troglodytes 😉 but we can let them live in hope.

MrLandy · 5th January 2016, 07:41 PM

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Our 95 Disco 300Tdi was great, took us lots of places, gave us some grief, but I learnt a lot from it.
Our Defender is more modern than the Disco was, but has a much longer history. It makes me smile, people wave, Asian tourists take selfies with it, its supremely capable and feels like it is meant to be used. Plus, my wife loves it and urges me to wave back - how good is that!

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Yes it's certainly a cultural aspect specific to Defenders...they spark conversation between strangers and camaraderie like no other vehicle. What a relief in our fast homogenising world! As Vin Rouge says,

A Defender opens doors! Try that in an anonymous jelly-mold.

**Disco Muppet** · 5th January 2016, 07:51 PM

My anonymous jelly mould has had plenty of people come up and chat to me about it

**Toxic_Avenger** · 5th January 2016, 08:21 PM

I still don't wave to discos.
There.
I said it.

**Col 110** · 5th January 2016, 10:05 PM

Originally Posted by Toxic_Avenger

I still don't wave to discos.
There.
I said it.

So - if they wave at me I wave back - I have had one (only one) wave at me - and I am a sucker for a wave so it was returned

**steane** · 5th January 2016, 10:28 PM

I'm not sure why a Defender owner = cave dwelling human. I'm not really getting it.

In my opinion there are more than a few 2.2 owners that are more at home in a wine bar than the front bar and plenty that seem to fizz at the bum hole at the very notion of owning what is an automotive barbarian. Another glass of Jasper Hill Shiraz will restore their calm facade.

There are one or two 300TDi owners that are much the same

I suspect there is more fun to be had comparing nouveau 2.2 Deefer owners with other Deefer owners.

The Disco owners know what they want, ie all the comfy stuff the Deefer doesn't offer!

And Muppet, "anonymous jelly mould" so sums up the Disco design! In my twisted view at least

**manofaus** · 6th January 2016, 09:59 AM

Thats awesome.....

There are 10 types of people in this world. Those that understand binary, and those that don't.

MrLandy · 6th January 2016, 10:57 AM

Only 10? 😉 Indeed binary is a significant cultural indicator. At first glance one might presume that the tech savvy modernist landscaper might have the binary edge and that the troglodyte might not. Yet binary is as old as the hills, simply meaning combined of two parts. It might even be argued that a Defender owner has a stronger binary relationship with their Defender than any other human and vehicle.

Only 10? ...indeed the limitation of binary 1&0 in the context of intercultural diversity and roving in general as a modus operandi might surely be the clearest example of the severe limitations imposed by techno filtering (and the lack of infinity as a possibility) vs actually being there, less- or even un-mediated by binary data (for example by winding the window down and conversing with others in the world, including the wind and rain).

Connectivity comes in many forms. Perhaps here lays the nub of this discussion?

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