Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

CKhalvashi

They look really cool Hamish!

If we were staying here, I'd get something like this purely for the reasons you mention above, plus Georgia is mountainous with a lot of bad roads, making it essential for straying off the main paths.

Lower budget option is this, which whilst less luxurious, would be just as good off road.

The E55 we have (imported from NL last summer) is good for what we use it for (10 weeks of urban/Tbilisi to Yerevan/Batumi per year), but not if we were staying permanently.

Toyotas are popular here, and for good reason.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

CKhalvashi wrote: »

They look really cool Hamish!

I'm a fan.

If we were staying here, I'd get something like this purely for the reasons you mention above, plus Georgia is mountainous with a lot of bad roads, making it essential for straying off the main paths.

Lower budget option is this, which whilst less luxurious, would be just as good off road.

Both those are the 3.0l Prada/Colorado series.

They're baby land cruisers, using a different chassis and engine.

Much smaller and less capable, although still pretty good off road for what they are.

Toyotas are popular here, and for good reason.

Yep.

You see that everywhere on earth that has rugged terrain. They're the vehicle of choice in remote areas.

LydiaJ

lostinrates wrote: »

My niece who made us one person removed is 'sort of Anglo' ( in fact not English in the least, apart from born here, she has no genetic British in her whatsoever!) American. . Bet you have met very few snobbier parents. Her American parent wouldn't have a degree on the wall, BUT I would say the things aren't directly translate able if one is the type who worries about them. I find the British far more forgiving of their social rules and less 'rigid' actually. There is little as unyielding as an American snob.

I only meet Americans over here, so have no idea of how snobby they are about their rules at home. British people, IME, may find it interesting to discuss things like the book mentioned earlier, and may or may not find it accurate, but I've never met anyone who thought it was important. In the social circles in which I move, class differences of that sort are regarded in much the same way as they are here on the NPT - perhaps of passing interest a la "do you like mushrooms" but nothing more.

lostinrates

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

And if you're completely mad like me, your lottery-win fantasies revolve around buying a base vehicle for silly money, and then spending even more silly money converting it into the ultimate off-road camper for round the world travel.

Like one of these....

I am delighted to be completely mad in my own entirely different way from you.


But I will try the car. .

CKhalvashi

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Both those are the 3.0l Prada/Colorado series.

They're baby land cruisers, using a different chassis and engine.

Much smaller and less capable, although still pretty good off road for what they are.

Ah, you mean these?! At $2000 more (that's US$, so about £1200), that certainly is a little more of a bargain for a year older. Budget version again here, although I'd be tempted to go for a newer, smaller one at this money

I don't know what the UK prices are, so can't comment on the comparison.

ETA: The first of these two was £45000 car new ($75000), so 30% off in few years isn't bad.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

CKhalvashi wrote: »

I don't know what the UK prices are, so can't comment on the comparison.

A new full size Landcruiser Amazon (200 series) in the UK is about £55K with the 4.2 diesel.

A really nice second hand Amazon (100 series), say around 2004 model, also 4.2 diesel and with around 80K miles on it (still a baby for these things) would be about £20K.

An older 100 series with higher miles can be had for around £10K, but it's still a good buy as they run forever.

The petrol versions in the UK are cheaper second hand, but thirsty.

The Landcruiser Colorado, which is the smaller one with a 3 litre engine, are much cheaper. But it's like comparing a Range Rover Sport with a full size Range Rover.... Nowhere near as capable off road or for towing.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

CKhalvashi wrote: »

Ah, you mean

Yes, that's the one.

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

Too much work.

Too much, too much.

Its on a completely different scale here, but I know what that feels like. I think if by the end of the summer the weeds aren't more overgrown than they are now and I've managed to get rid of the rubbish (esp the rusty old swing frame that I've discovered I can't get the bolts out of) that was left in the garden I'll be pleased. That and this year's list of things to do to the house.

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

I only meet Americans over here, so have no idea of how snobby they are about their rules at home. British people, IME, may find it interesting to discuss things like the book mentioned earlier, and may or may not find it accurate, but I've never met anyone who thought it was important. In the social circles in which I move, class differences of that sort are regarded in much the same way as they are here on the NPT - perhaps of passing interest a la "do you like mushrooms" but nothing more.

I have never discussed class so much as in the NPT. Anywhere!

The places I have had more comments made about things that are really ' well, not what we might do' with no raising of eyebrows from others present have usually been out side uk . The next most common place has probably been British reservoirs OUTSIDE the uk ... The sort of hhp having and officialdom or social groups that go with them where people like England and are sad about the demise of lots of what made Britain great and feel a lot of it can be reclaimed in other places . People don't quite use the word 'darky' but you sort of get the sense they want to. This sort of person often didn't fit in here so things its declining standards. Actually, its often just changing tolerance, where we have perhaps too much tolerance for some sort of stupidity and none left for another outdated sort. This sort of person was surprise my parents sent me to local schools and let me play with local kids. I also think that as well as the propensity for accents I picked it was probably this sort of person who got me sent to the uk for school, in that my parents probably wanted me out of this sort of environment

My mother was a little upset DH used the word 'bathroom' in the uk. That was pretty much it. She's not British , but you wouldn't know it. Like sibling. My sibling hand her husband are decidely upset my mother married trade in my father and that I married DH My sibling said several times I could have done so much 'better'. ( which makes me see red and behave VERY badly) And was very upset I stopped seeing the guy I was seeing when I met DH, but we had a casual and open if very good relationship and I never WANTED to settle down with guy, We just were great friends and good lovers. He and DH get on very well as it happens. It has NEVER mattered to me what the job, colour, class or various other things of the person I settled down with. Admittedly I remain somewhat surprised its DH, and overwhelmed at my luck and sense to recognise it was DH, ip and his silliness to stick with me.


When we were getting married its funny, because both families had a lot to say about it, but for different reasons. In retrospect, a lot of it was all concern, and we did what was right for us anyway, but I'm glad others' opinions didn't matter to us much!

My sibling lives in fear of children and partner finding out a past relationship was with someone they would deem ' not suitable' and is terrified I will mention it. I wouldn't, not because I think its unmentionable, far from it, its one of the better moments in their life IMO, but because I have no desire to rock other people's boats in that way.

I have things I have ( like decanters) because I like them, and because I have been given them often, because I am lucky, or bought them because I have seen something I liked). Not because I think I have to or fear being judged on not having them. I have quite happy swigged wine from a bottle too. I have napkin rings because its how you tell a napkin apart from others between washes, so its actually quite scuzzy . Cannot remember what else was on that silly quiz....

Oh , guest linen...yes, it fits guest beds and pets haven't slept on it, seems much more fair for people who might have pet hair aversion.

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

Oh , guest linen...yes, it fits guest beds and pets haven't slept on it, seems much more fair for people who might have pet hair aversion.

I ticked 'yes' to guest linen.

I have 3 sets that are I've had for years which are definitely 'mine', my parents brought over some spare bedding which was bought when my brother was at Uni which is used on the spare double. I have some single bedding which I bought when I was in halls which is used on my spare single. The double which is still in the dining room is going to go on freecycle when I get round to it so it doesn't have it's own set of bedding.

I'm not sure any of it particularly increases my social standing (although the stuff that I bought was from pre-Homebase Habitat and House of Fraser if that helps, my brothers stuff will have come from Tesco).

Edit: In fact I'm sure it probably decreases my social standing seeing as some of it was student linen!