AIBU to think the term 'bus wankers' is a piss take out of bus users themselves?

[Lillyvanilla]

As the title says really. I've heard people comment (and read fb posts) about how they are having to join the 'bus wankers' as their car is off the road, or are having to 'be a bus wanker' for the day because they don't want to drink/drive etc, as well as other reasons.
I understand that this is a quote from the inbetweeners, however, I don't know if people are just referring to the actual 'bus' itself being a 'wanky' thing to have to go on, OR if those people who make this comment actually believe bus users are 'low lives' or 'beneath them' because they don't use a car like the commenters do iyswim?
I drive, although I have friends and family members who regularly use the buses, including my oap parents and my student dd. I would hate to think people are taking the piss out of them (and other decent people like them) just because they catch a bus!

Does anyone else find this term insulting or am I stupidly taking this way out of context, when its not really aimed at bus users in general?

' 'bus wankers' - we say this a lot since seeing the inbetweeners. I don't have a car at the moment, so I too am a 'bus wanker'. lol.
Try hitchhiking if you really want people to think you are beneath them...

YABU. The whole point is that Jay from the inbetweeners was a wanker and he came up with a ridiculous, meaningless insult which he got into trouble for.

A bit like me walking past someone pruning roses yelling 'rosewanker'. The joke is that I am the dick not the person pruning roses.

Perhaps inbetweeners is a bit highbrow for you?

I loathe getting the bus. Absolutely hate it.

I am happy as Larry on trains, walking, trams, driving, the tube, you name it, but I hate buses.

I don't look down on people who use the bus, but dear god, they can be grim places to be. And you're subject to the vagaries of whose at this stop or that, when they'll arrive etc.

Back on the actual topic - my peers and I don't use Bus Wankers, but it's a running joke that celebration cards are custom orders now saying Birthday Wanker/Wedding Wankers/Mortgage Wankers.

Makes us lol and is childish.

Out of every single episode of the Inbetweeners, the "bus wanker" incident is the only one that offends you enough to create a thread about it?

I might need to do some googling at this - im about to be a bus wanker with new job as its cheaper than petrol for driving and a lot easier to not worry about parking/traffic (that's the drivers job :))

I drive but also use the bus sometimes for convenience. I refer to myself a bus wanker on those days and on other occasions I refer to myself as Olive (On The Buses) and have even had Olive as my profile pic on Facebook for a while when my car was in the garage.

I think there are more important things to take offence at and to give deep and meaningful thought to.

Thanks for the comments! I see now I've been a massive twat for over thinking it
I hadn't really heard about the inbetweener connection before. I just knew it was some sort of quote from it. I don't feel insulted now and see how its meant to be taken!
Oh and I'm not normally offended easily by the way, and I really do have a sense of humour!
I just took it wrong, probably because the people I've heard say it (or seen write it) happen to be the type who think they're above everyone.

You might be unreasonable about the term, but you're not unreasonable about the attitude. As several people on this thread have already stated, in some places, public transport users are seen by some car wankers as second class citizens.

I would really like to see air quality indicators placed at the side of major arterial roads in cities. I think it could seriously transform attitudes to public transport use.

Re Sheldon, my pretentious BIL (very like Sheldon) says he has no suitable clothes to wear on public transport, now I know where he got it from. W**nker!

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Once my tram was suspended and we were all turfed off and told to get a bus half a mile away. There were hundreds of people waiting and every bus was going past full. I was crimson with anger.

Then a car drove past and shouted 'BUS WANKERS'. I just had to laugh, really.

I'm a bus wanker and proud :)
Even if I actually manage to get a driving license I will remain a bus wanker, because a weekly pass is £15 (£18 for a swanky any bus one) and the cost of a car, petrol, tax and insurance will be loads more than that!

I couldn’t stop laughing when I saw this on the Inbetweeners. It was very funny.

I think you are reading too much into it.

Op, lovely that you came back to admit you overthought it. sorry if I was rude

I'd recommend that episode, bus wanker does really make me laugh (and I speak as a former bus user).

i love buses, front seat top deck. Brilliant. And I think car drivers are wankers for fucking up our environment and killing people.

I aspire to be a sit-on lawnmower wanker, but I don't even have my own lawn.

OP just feel pleased that you don't share a sense of humour with people who think it's hilarious to come out with TV catchphrases in real life. It's on par with those who go for a 'cheeky Nando's' imo.

Ah console yourself op that you didn't take it literally and assume people were actually wanking on the bus.

Fwend, fwend, Mumsnet Fwend

Is your carer about OP? No shit Sherlock.

My OAP parents use the bus almost every day - I think they'd be hurt to be called 'wankers'.

Don't tell 'em then!!

INTERNET DISCUSSION FORUM WANKERS!!!!

OP just feel pleased that you don't share a sense of humour with people who think it's hilarious to come out with TV catchphrases in real life. It's on par with those who go for a 'cheeky Nando's' imo.

Forum Wanker!!!

People who say "cheeky Nandos" are being ironic surely? I am anyway in the same way I would reference "naice ham".

Piffle I've no intention of doing so; but people on the thread have described the phrase as having been shouted out of car windows to people standing at a bus stop.

It evidently requires a backstory from the TV show to explain why it's a. funny and b. not offensive. Fair enough if people who like the show want to use it as an in-joke, but it's very annoying when people make non-initiates the public victim of in-jokes.

It's also irritating when people assume everyone else must share the same frames of reference - everyone must be familiar with the same media/cultural references that they have.