Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

lostinrates

Generali wrote: »

They do a 4 door version over here if Dog Dog must go inside. Not sure if they do it in the UK.

My mate in Devon has a 4 door Mitsubishi ute. It's been going for about 15 years now. I sat in the tray once to follow his Mum's fox hunt when hunting was still legal. It isn't very small though.

Driving big cars in the UK is hopeless as the parking spaces are tiny. A man driving a small car here is viewed with deep suspicion: basically it's Unaustralian to drive a small car if you're between the ages of 21 and 71. You can drive a small car if you're a young, attractive woman or a very old lady.

I drive a Yaris and would get men hitting on me all the time if it wasn't for the fact that I am so intimidatingly handsome.

Four door versions are longer though!! ( there are four door utensil/ pick ups in uk)

I like small cars. They are cheap to run, park in ridiculous places and nip.

But they don't fit in a grey hound the size of a wolfhound, a wolfhound and the kiwi, or do much hauling of stuff. As for use on the wreck, pfffft.

I'd be ok with a smaller car if it were dog dog and kiwi but for the hauling of stuff.

vivatifosi

Generali wrote: »

Yup. They sing both versions.

Australia basically has 3 songs: Advance Australia Fair, Waltzing Matilda and Aussie Jingle Bells.

My daughter used to sing Waltzing Matilda thusly:



My old office was where the old Diggers (servicemen) gather for the ANZAC Day parade in the centre of Sydney. Basically we'd spend the entire day listening to Waltzing Matilda. I can confirm from experience that Waltzing Matilda becomes very annoying once you've heard it more than 5 times in a day.

Think yourself lucky that you didn't live in Australia in the 1960s/early 1970s. Before Advance Australia Fair became national anthem there were two Australian songs: one that came out for Christmas and one that was sung at all other times.

The greatest thing that Advance Australia Fair has done for Australia (other than all that stuff about giving a proud nation a true national anthem, yada yada...) is to dilute the number of times that you have to listen to Waltzing Matilda. Although it has existed for longer or as long as WM, there was no way it was as prevalent before it became national anthem.

When we had our morning assemblies at school, we had to stand to attention to sing Waltzing Matilda before standing at ease to listen to the speech. There's no way they would have sung God Save the Queen. I'm guessing things have changed on quite a lot of fronts since then.

I quite often miss Australia, but I never miss Waltzing Matilda.

lostinrates

We're very slow getting started today. Did animals, crawled back to bed. Now getting up.


DH is torn between rice and peas and plantain for breakfast and left over gnocchi from last night. We do have normal choices too....but ....

I'm defrosting a bit of brioche for me, to have with damson jam. If Christus resurrexit, indeed, I feel I can push the boat out for brioche and jam for breakfast

lostinrates

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

I'm a fan.



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.



Yep.

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

My off road capability in terms of terrain need isn't actually that great. My land is pretty level, so the worst I have to deal with is mud or bad poaching and bad poached rutted ground where I haven't rolled in summer. I have some less level areas.


The things we need are some thing to pull heavy stuff not necessarily on wheels ( stumps, bags of poop, preferably fallen trees, junk out of ditches etc. its also much , much more practical to have an off road vehicle that is capable of being stood on to reach things when in field and stuff. With the defender we used it to clear out gutters, of barns , reach lower branches in the field to clear. We'd sit on the Bonnet sometimes to watch stuff ( I'm not ok to get down from the roof).


In many ways a pick up would be ideal, and is the sort of modern decendant of the defender basic I think. I will have a look at hamish's because it sounds good. But it does seem that there are a lot of cars in Landrover/rangerover doing the same sort of thing and not one filling the working /living niche we want more capably on a SWB, which is a great shame.

mystic_trev

Generali wrote: »

Yup. They sing both versions.

Australia basically has 3 songs: Advance Australia Fair, Waltzing Matilda and Aussie Jingle Bells.

My daughter used to sing Waltzing Matilda thusly:



My old office was where the old Diggers (servicemen) gather for the ANZAC Day parade in the centre of Sydney. Basically we'd spend the entire day listening to Waltzing Matilda. I can confirm from experience that Waltzing Matilda becomes very annoying once you've heard it more than 5 times in a day.

…..and then there's the Barmy Armys rather naughty version!:eek:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cS4yk3SXTI

Generali

vivatifosi wrote: »

Think yourself lucky that you didn't live in Australia in the 1960s/early 1970s. Before Advance Australia Fair became national anthem there were two Australian songs: one that came out for Christmas and one that was sung at all other times.

The greatest thing that Advance Australia Fair has done for Australia (other than all that stuff about giving a proud nation a true national anthem, yada yada...) is to dilute the number of times that you have to listen to Waltzing Matilda. Although it has existed for longer or as long as WM, there was no way it was as prevalent before it became national anthem.

When we had our morning assemblies at school, we had to stand to attention to sing Waltzing Matilda before standing at ease to listen to the speech. There's no way they would have sung God Save the Queen. I'm guessing things have changed on quite a lot of fronts since then.

I quite often miss Australia, but I never miss Waltzing Matilda.

The Generalissimos' school song is even sung to the tune of Waltzing Bleedin' Matilda.

You'd think that in 113 years a country could come up with more than 3 songs, 4 if you include Living Next Door to Alice.

PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

You'd think that in 113 years a country could come up with more than 3 songs, 4 if you include Living Next Door to Alice.

Neighbours' Theme Tune?

Doozergirl

Generali wrote: »

The Generalissimos' school song is even sung to the tune of Waltzing Bleedin' Matilda.

You'd think that in 113 years a country could come up with more than 3 songs, 4 if you include Living Next Door to Alice.

Five. You forgot this one.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XfR9iY5y94s&feature=kp

Doozergirl

Six.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tdwOVeFbBBU&feature=kp

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

Neighbours' Theme Tune?

:rotfl: We were on the same path

I recorded that off the telly onto my tape recorder. Me and my best friends danced to it in school assembly. Thankfully mobile phones with videoing capability hadn't been invented yet.