Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

PasturesNew wrote: »

DOUBLE Posh Alert!!

You wouldn't say that if you'd seen the state of the boat.

It made Captain Pugwash look glamourous.

silvercar

Cheap pool

PasturesNew

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

You wouldn't say that if you'd seen the state of the boat.

It made Captain Pugwash look glamourous.

I've never known anybody with a boat, not been on one. Most people don't/haven't. Any boat is therefore a posh alert

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

Cheap pool

That's brilliant. I'll remember that if I ever have a wheely bin, looks a brilliant idea to cool down in the summer.

neverdespairgirl

Wouldn't work for us, silvercar - we aren't privileged enough to have wheelie bins. Or any bins at all, actually.

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

Cheap pool

Makes our slurry lagoon look deluxe, huh?

I don't see how we not be in it later today. We were almost in it yesterday evening.



Sweet peas look fab, I'm going to get a picture later I hope.

lostinrates

Oh, and tremendous excitement on starting reading a half decent cheapy kindle book. I'm reading it on my cool down breaks and while I'd rather sit and read it properly it seems actually like a 'properly written book'.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've never known anybody with a boat, not been on one. Most people don't/haven't. Any boat is therefore a posh alert

That's actually an interesting observation, and made me think about how things seen as very ordinary elsewhere are uncommon here, and vice versa.

In the Southern USA, where I was living at the time, boats are about as common/popular as motorbikes are here.

Mostly as an accessory for a very working class activity known as 'Bass fishing', which in my limited exposure to it seems to involve more beer drinking and listening to classic rock than it does actual fishing, but never mind.

It's not unusual to drive through ordinary working/middle class neighbourhoods and see a boat on a trailer parked in every 8th or 10th house.

I do realise I'm unlikely to win this one, as living in another country to begin with may also be subject to a 'Posh Alert', but it's certainly the case that you don't have to be posh to be involved in boating.....

PasturesNew

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

..you don't have to be posh to be involved in boating.....

There has to be a cost of ownership that's an entry level. Even given a free boat there's still cost of a trailer, tow bar, car good enough to tow it, fuel to get it to the water, fuel on the water, launch fees, maintenance, wealthy enough to have space to keep a boat or pay for it to be kept.

zagubov

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

That's actually an interesting observation, and made me think about how things seen as very ordinary elsewhere are uncommon here, and vice versa.

In the Southern USA, where I was living at the time, boats are about as common/popular as motorbikes are here.

Mostly as an accessory for a very working class activity known as 'Bass fishing', which in my limited exposure to it seems to involve more beer drinking and listening to classic rock than it does actual fishing, but never mind.

It's not unusual to drive through ordinary working/middle class neighbourhoods and see a boat on a trailer parked in every 8th or 10th house.

I do realise I'm unlikely to win this one, as living in another country to begin with may also be subject to a 'Posh Alert', but it's certainly the case that you don't have to be posh to be involved in boating.....

We had relatives in the US who liked water-skiing and had a motoroboat and they lived next to an artifical lake. It turned out that the local nuclear plant needed a reservoir for coolant water and the local house developers lined it with luxury houses with jetties for people to use for watersports. This is quite standard apparently in scores of locations around America.

It was a huge selling point as the Americans seemed in general tohave very little worry about nuclear power.