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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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That's ok .
I'll just start driving like a fucking boy racer and see how they like it.
(, Tue 1 Mar 2011, 9:01, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
I thought you drove like that anyway!

(, Tue 1 Mar 2011, 9:02, Reply)
Erm................
might do.
(, Tue 1 Mar 2011, 9:03, Reply)
For Bonza Boy-Racer Deals
Girls get onto Blousies' wheels!
(, Tue 1 Mar 2011, 9:05, Reply)
yeah, but
I don't drive like a boy racer (on the road anyway) and I've never had an accident that's been my fault in 18 years of driving. Why should I be punished because I share genitalia type with some fucktards? If you tried to do insurance premiums based on ethnicity you'd be fucking slaughtered by the press and anti discrimination people so why is doing it based on sex acceptable?
(, Tue 1 Mar 2011, 9:05, Reply)
'Nig-nogs are shit drivers. 25% off for Aryans'


Get onto 'Galliano's Wheels'
(, Tue 1 Mar 2011, 9:07, Reply)
Early contender for POTD

(, Tue 1 Mar 2011, 9:08, Reply)
oh, well played there.

(, Tue 1 Mar 2011, 9:08, Reply)
tying it back in to your question earlier
the Welsh cannot fucking drive.
(, Tue 1 Mar 2011, 9:10, Reply)
To be honest I didn't even know women got cheaper insurance than men.
I thought it was just young lads who got blasted with high premiums.
(, Tue 1 Mar 2011, 9:10, Reply)

high premiums DF's semen
(, Tue 1 Mar 2011, 9:11, Reply)
chortles

(, Tue 1 Mar 2011, 9:12, Reply)
I seem to get mysteriously high insurance premiums, given that I have never crashed
people keep telling me it's because I'm under 30, but I'm fairly sure that is also bollocks.

My personal opinion is that the insurance companies just completely make it up on a case by case basis. I recall getting my first insurance and the cost ranged from £460 to about £1500. Fucking stupid.
(, Tue 1 Mar 2011, 9:12, Reply)
My first insurance was £460 then the renewal (without any accidents, etc) was £1200

(, Tue 1 Mar 2011, 9:13, Reply)
ouch
I need to find out how much it's going to cost to insure my van when I get it...

I feel like I want to use a price comparison website, but I cannot bear to use confused or compare the market as a protest about their advertising.
(, Tue 1 Mar 2011, 9:14, Reply)
I used confused.com last year and was confused
comparethemarket was good, I'd recommend them

*stifles urge to type simples*
(, Tue 1 Mar 2011, 9:16, Reply)
You either are under 30 or you aren't.
Why aren't you sure?
(, Tue 1 Mar 2011, 9:14, Reply)
stop deliberately misconstruing

(, Tue 1 Mar 2011, 9:15, Reply)
And lose 50% of my 'act'?

(, Tue 1 Mar 2011, 9:17, Reply)
only 50% to go then.
And then these boards will be free of your menace.
(, Tue 1 Mar 2011, 9:21, Reply)
it's about 50% less for women then men in the 17-22 age group and across the board it's lower to some degree
Look, it's difficult, because insurance is based on risk assessment, and young men are the most likely to crash. But, statistically, it might well be young uneducated men, right? so why can't I get 25% off for my PhD? Maybe in certain postcodes it's statistically Asian drivers that have more accidents, so how about another 10% for being white? People would go mental if insurance discriminated on intelligence, eduation and ethnicity but somehow sex is OK? Never got that.
(, Tue 1 Mar 2011, 9:14, Reply)
If it's men that are being discriminated against it's FINE.
I am more than a little bitter on this subject.
(, Tue 1 Mar 2011, 9:17, Reply)
I couldn't agree more
'Positive discrimination' bullshit.
(, Tue 1 Mar 2011, 9:29, Reply)
Yeah - especially white middle class males who are the real minority in modern Britain!
*ticks another Daily Mail cliche from list.*
(, Tue 1 Mar 2011, 9:36, Reply)
Haha!
Fuck the Daily Mail, I'm against all forms of discrimination.
(, Tue 1 Mar 2011, 9:37, Reply)
Well said brother.
(Or sister, transgendered individual, or person of undetermined sexuality.)
(, Tue 1 Mar 2011, 9:40, Reply)
The sex shouldn't matter! GAH!
You should have said "Well said, fellow human", but then that discriminates against Scientologists. Which I'm alright with.
(, Tue 1 Mar 2011, 9:43, Reply)
No - all types must be acknowledged.
It is fascist to deny the existence of other forms of sexuality.
Scientologists - well they should be rounded up and gassed.
(, Tue 1 Mar 2011, 9:50, Reply)
Just telling it how it is, you couldn't make it up !

(, Tue 1 Mar 2011, 10:02, Reply)
I passed my test first time aged 26
I even got the Pass Plus under my belt, but if I'd been packing a vagina instead then I would have saved about 50%. As Vipros said, my initial quotes varied from £800 to £2k a year, on a car worth £3k that was parked in a garage over night in a nice quiet town.
Utter gouging cunts.
(, Tue 1 Mar 2011, 9:34, Reply)
It's not about your car though, it's about the other persons.
If you crashed it into a buggetti or a nuclear truck or something, it'll be alright.
(, Tue 1 Mar 2011, 10:04, Reply)
insurance premiums
Are based on facts and calculated risks. It has nothing to do with discrimination, it just looks that way.
(, Tue 1 Mar 2011, 9:11, Reply)
they aren't based on anything
they are made up, on a case by case basis.
(, Tue 1 Mar 2011, 9:13, Reply)
nope.
See above. A range of risk factors which apply to the driver in question.
(, Tue 1 Mar 2011, 9:18, Reply)
Of course it's not actual discrimination
I know exactly how it works, but I'm saying insurance companies aren't allowed to use education, intelligence, race etc to compile premiums so why should they be allowed to use sex? it's still unfair.
(, Tue 1 Mar 2011, 9:17, Reply)
Stop whinging.
Women are discriminated in other things too.
(, Tue 1 Mar 2011, 9:19, Reply)
I'm not whining.
I genuinely think it's a very important point. And in most areas (not all, granted, but most) where women are discriminated against they have at least methods of recourse. This has just been an arbitrary punishment for being born with a cock for about 15 years now.
(, Tue 1 Mar 2011, 9:22, Reply)
they probably do use ethnicity to a degree.
Just as a contributory part of one of the risk profiles.
(, Tue 1 Mar 2011, 9:19, Reply)
they most certainly don't, because they aren't allowed to ask.

(, Tue 1 Mar 2011, 9:22, Reply)
fair enough then.

(, Tue 1 Mar 2011, 9:24, Reply)
They just look at the names.
Messrs Singh, Patel and N'kumu are unlikely to be Klansmen.
(, Tue 1 Mar 2011, 9:25, Reply)
Unless they are under cover as happened in Blazing Saddles.

(, Tue 1 Mar 2011, 9:29, Reply)
You're also discriminated by where you live.
Surely this is wrong also?
(, Tue 1 Mar 2011, 9:26, Reply)
Even insurance brokers know the North smells of coal and tears.

(, Tue 1 Mar 2011, 9:28, Reply)
I will have you know the North smells lovely
without a trace of "jellied eel"
(, Tue 1 Mar 2011, 9:30, Reply)
You can choose where you live.
You aren't born with an address. Also, if the area you live in has high car theft, that's not something you can effect one way or another. Every car is at more or less equal risk. Whereas not all men drive like cunts.
(, Tue 1 Mar 2011, 10:01, Reply)
If you follow this up by saying you can choose your sex now
I think we can all agree the internet has won again.
(, Tue 1 Mar 2011, 10:02, Reply)

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