An overseas Adolescence viewer was amazed plumbers drive Mercedes and these Brits were happy to help
There’s been no end of discussion about devastating Netflix series Adolescence which will surely end up the most talked-about show of this year (and for quite a few years).
But there was one rather less serious talking point that may have passed you by, and that’s the vehicle driven by Stephen Graham’s self-employed plumber, Eddie.
I am watching a British show.
This character is a plumber. pic.twitter.com/J6oKnanc0w
— Ravi Handa (@ravihanda) March 30, 2025
The tweet by @ravihanda, a YouTuber (among other things) in India, got no end of attention and it was this Brit who surely said it best.
Bro. That's a mercedes work van. Not a G Wagon. https://t.co/805yIPNH8r
— ybees3 (@ybees3) April 1, 2025
Fair point, well made. But the discussion didn’t end there (and thank goodness for that, or this would be a very short post indeed).
You’re fundamentally misunderstanding. In the European market Mercedes does not only make luxury cars. It is only in Asia and America that they are luxury only.
— Jibran Khan (@ScholarsInk) April 2, 2025
I am not misunderstanding anything.
I am just cursing my bad luck that I live in country where even after being in the 1%, I can’t afford it.
— Ravi Handa (@ravihanda) April 2, 2025
Plumbing is an expensive job outside india. Having a merc isn’t a big deal I guess
— Ahaan Pandit (@ahaanpandit) March 30, 2025
It isn’t. I understand that.
I am just saying that even the rich in India can’t just “get a Mercedes” like a plumber in the UK has.
— Ravi Handa (@ravihanda) March 31, 2025
Plumbers, electricians, and carpenters are rich folks outside India.
Also, Mercedes for them is like Honda for us.
— Narayanan Hariharan (@narayananh) March 30, 2025
The amount of money he paid to buy paint to spill it over his car in anger just to destroy the window glass is more than the daily wages of plumbers here.
— Kiranjit Das (@KiranjitDas86) March 30, 2025
I think it was 3500₹. That is the wage of top 1% in India.
— Ravi Handa (@ravihanda) March 30, 2025
And the debate ran and ran, with these people’s focus switching all the way over to America.
People in the US don’t know or understand that the luxury lines here manufacture all classes of automobiles/trucks in Europe lol.
— Wife (@pinkieblouse) April 2, 2025
American mind can’t comprehend German cars aren’t THAT expensive in Europe
— meeks07 (@asot138) April 1, 2025
Just had a plumber get paid £140 to change one pipe which took him 15 mins. Plumbers make bank
— Craig Johnson (@CraigJo98153674) April 1, 2025
Americans don’t understand that in most parts of the world Mercedes makes work vans.
Like they can’t conceptualize this.
— Imani: That Good Craic (@imanilfc) April 2, 2025
And finally, this, very much this.
this is a running joke in People Just Do Nothing ahaha Chabuddy always referring to the van he lives in as “the merc”
— jos (@josiahhughes) April 2, 2025
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