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?

I've had it shouted at me on a few occasions waiting for a bus. Always men or boys. Also had colleagues say they have to slum it with the great unwashed on the bus when the car is in for a service. And how it's a different class of person use the bus. I appreciate some is said in jest but some truly believe people who chose to commute by bus are beneath them.

It. Is. A. Joke.

But I think you're absolutely right that some people look down their nose at public transport users and think they are somehow lesser.
Yep, my EH used it as a nasty term for non car drivers (which included his Mum and I).
My current DP refuses to get on a bus even if it means missing a night out

When stood at the bus stop, I would prefer to be regaled wth "bus wanker!" rather than the much more low brow "get yer tits out" or even worse "smile love, it might never happen"

I thought a bus wanker was one of those creepy blokes in macs who wank on buses. I am so naive.

Screaming - Making far too much of it methinks.

I've just had to listen to the daily exodus of school kids going past on their way home & have heard much, much worse terms used by the little darlin's.

Did you even go to Nandos if it wasn't cheeky?

I'm in stitches (sorry) but that scene is hilarious 😎

Piffle Why are you keen to defend the idea of someone being called a 'wanker' in public by a stranger? Yes, OK, there's a marvellously hilarious 'context' that makes it acceptable for people who've watched this tremendously witty TV show - but anyone could throw any insult out and claim it as a quote - I can't understand how that makes it acceptable.

I never knew.

Right, off to tell DH he's a bus wanker. He's every other kind of wanker already.

Unfortunately as a bus user myself I can indeed confirm that some people could be categorised as bus wankers.

Eg drunk folk, shouting folk etc. Not what you can be arsed with after a long day 🤪.

I don't think I've encountered a wanker driver though. They must have a lot of patience though.

It's only a joke. It's not meant to be nasty.

Using a bus is something middle class and well paid people in professional careers do, AND people who don't work and are on low income. It's not skanky to use a bus! I rarely use one as the public transport where I live is shit, (rural.) But when I lived in a town (Wolvo,) I bussed it everywhere.

Inbetweeners also called Will a briefcase wanker, when his mom got him a briefcase for school. When my daughter started uni a few years ago, she got an imac, and an iphone, and an ipod. So me and her dad called her an apple wanker. She was very amused by it actually actually, and put that on her twitter bio!

But yeah, people are only pissing about. Don't take it to heart @LillyVanilla

AnyFucker I once had ‘get your rat out’ shouted at me while waiting for a bus. I was visiting a friend in Margate and she had to explain what it meant!

I don't know what that means either

A girl at college once referred to the bus as “The peasant coach” now that I was offended by.

Better than a former colleague of mine who used to refer to buses as povver wagons which was horrendous.

It's the sort of phrase jo marney would use

Jo Marney is a racist. Bus wanker is not a racist term.

Jo marney doesn't just spout racist b.s. She's exactly the sort of person who'd look down on someone who uses public transport

Jo Marney has nothing to do with this. Do you know her personally ? Will you invoke her name every time somebody says something you disapprove of ? She would certainly enjoy that level of infamy, for sure.

Stop being so menstrual about this...

I know that in London respectable people use the bus all the time, but here in Leicestershire when you see a male bus wanker in a business suit, you assume he has been a naughty boy and lost his license.

Anyfucker - just making the point it's a dumb thing to say.

In the US version of The Inbetweeners they changed the line to “bus turds” Doesn’t quite have the same ring to it!

my mum - 72 - refers to herself as a 'bus pass wanker'!

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