Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

chewmylegoff

Range Rover Sports are the preserve of premiership footballers, WAGS and traders who couldn't work out what to do with their bonus. Surely the genuinely posh drive around in 25 year old volvos with 175,000 miles on the clock, wearing wellies and ill fitting tweed jackets with holes in the elbows and are as mad as a box of frogs.

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

... genuinely posh drive around in 25 year old volvos with 175,000 miles on the clock, wearing wellies and ill fitting tweed jackets with holes in the elbows and are as mad as a box of frogs.

I'm climbing that social scale; I started at the end of the list
It's just the assets/wealth/income part that eludes me.

PasturesNew

Family day out ....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-27078566

neverdespairgirl

Generali wrote: »

I was specifically replying to michaels's post, asking for a car that is U.

One worrying thing in that article "A Mercedes-despising barrister or publisher, for instance, may well drive a top-of-the-range Audi, which costs about the same as a big Mercedes, but is regarded as more elegantly understated. (The Royal Family mostly drive Audis.)"

My Dad drives as Audi, but I've no idea if it's top bottom or middle of the range. My mother has a Peugeot.

The AA is currently recharging my battery - just worked out that the last time I actually drove was New Year's Day!

CKhalvashi

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Range Rover Sports are the preserve of premiership footballers, WAGS and traders who couldn't work out what to do with their bonus. Surely the genuinely posh drive around in 25 year old volvos with 175,000 miles on the clock, wearing wellies and ill fitting tweed jackets with holes in the elbows and are as mad as a box of frogs.

I do actually agree with that to an extent.

When the company really started to fly, I bought a Ford S-Max to replace a 4 year old Peugeot 406 (also at about the same time as we moved out of London), then 4 years later, bought another one.

The car I have now, I drive because I like, but truth be told, I'm seriously considering another Ford next, again because I like the styling of it. I'm going to wait for the new Alfa estate to come out before making a final decision, but some of the best looking/driving cars on the market now seem to be standard family cars.

The real high end stuff just doesn't interest me any more.

LydiaJ

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

One worrying thing in that article "A Mercedes-despising barrister or publisher, for instance, may well drive a top-of-the-range Audi, which costs about the same as a big Mercedes, but is regarded as more elegantly understated. (The Royal Family mostly drive Audis.)"

The importance of keeping things understated doesn't transfer across the Atlantic - hence the inclusion of the highly non-U framed degree certificate in the American posh list.

lostinrates

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Range Rover Sports are the preserve of premiership footballers, WAGS and traders who couldn't work out what to do with their bonus. Surely the genuinely posh drive around in 25 year old volvos with 175,000 miles on the clock, wearing wellies and ill fitting tweed jackets with holes in the elbows and are as mad as a box of frogs.

Are those the ones that look like they have been sat on at the back with tiny rear wind shields?

We have what I suppose if I HAVE to think about the subject, not something I no
Ther with much, a non u four by four. The reason was we hoped it would do the same job as the defender but give us the bonus of better fuel consumption and a more decent interior, and a particularly advantage relevant to big dog.


Apart from big dog it hasn't met our needs.

I don't want a discovery or range rover, I don't want or need a big car, but I do need a meaty four by four, which is why I have to look at swb defender a gain, Those little LR and range rovers don't have the oomph to do the job sadly I think. Why they don't brink something out that's swb to park fairly and reasonably in Town and capable of grunt work but comfortable and I don't know. Most people I suppose have two cars nowadays. . I just think the chances are I'm going to have to sacrifice my licence in the next few years, so having two cars will be really stupid then. A second car for us would barely get used.

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

The importance of keeping things understated doesn't transfer across the Atlantic - hence the inclusion of the highly non-U framed degree certificate in the American posh list.

I don't think that's quite so actually. America is different, but its not necessary al brash at all, particularly in areas NDG made reference to earlier.

LydiaJ

lostinrates wrote: »

I don't think that's quite so actually. America is different, but its not necessary al brash at all, particularly in areas NDG made reference to earlier.

I stand corrected. Thank you. Are there a sort of U class of Americans who wouldn't be seen dead with their degree certificates on the wall, or are they understated about different things from U English people?

FWIW I have lovely American friends whom I wouldn't describe as brash at all, but that still leaves me with no idea where they stand on the framed degree certificate issue. I've never given it a great deal of thought, I'm afraid. Framed degree certificates come in a category of things I wouldn't do myself but would neither notice nor care whether anybody else did. It helps that I am one of the world's most visually unobservant people.

neverdespairgirl

Car battery now re-charged. The very sweet AA man looked at me as an RSPCA member might look at someone who said they'd not fed the dog for 3.5 months, when I admitted not having driven since New Year's Day. Perhaps he'd like to ban me from keeping cars for 5 years.....