The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

chris_m

Jackmydad wrote: »

Ah you spotted yours!

Pfffft.

Mine's the P1
I don't know much about them either. The only one I can actually remember "seeing" (and then not "in the flesh) was the K1

Hmm, not too keen on that enormous curved rad grille.

Jackmydad

chris_m wrote: »

Pfffft.

chris_m wrote: »

Hmm, not too keen on that enormous curved rad grille.

Some of the later models are probably better looking, and have got an OHV engine as well.
I quite like that about them. But like everything it's a matter of what you like or don't like.
Those narrow cross ply tyres on a fairly powerful for the time, and (I guess) heavy car must have been interesting in the wet though.

chris_m

Jackmydad wrote: »

Those narrow cross ply tyres on a fairly powerful for the time, and (I guess) heavy car must have been interesting in the wet though.

I'll bet.
My first Austin Cambridge was cross-ply shod - great for drifting on roundabouts in the dry, not so pleasant in the wet.
The second Cambridge had radials and I could only drift on the same roundabouts when it was wet, no chance in the dry.

LydiaJ

Doozergirl wrote: »

As long as you don't say "myself", I can cope with either.

The misuse of the word drives me to distraction!

Pyxis wrote: »

Wot, like me, myself and I? (All three of us!:D)

Seriously, though, don't you think it can sometimes have a use as an emphasis?

Yes, of course. "If you're not going to do it then I'll do it myself" is an example of an acceptable use of "myself" as emphasis, because if you remove the "myself" the sentence still says the same thing but without the emphasis. It can also be used not as emphasis but to indicate a reflexive verb such as "I am teaching myself the piano." Here if you remove the "myself" from the sentence, we are left in the dark as to who is being taught the piano. DG, however, was complaining about "misuse" not "use". I suspect the kind of thing that drives her to distraction is the pointless and incorrect replacement of "me" with "myself" by people who appear to think it makes it more polite or formal, such as in "Please complete the attached questionnaire and return it to myself."

Doozergirl

LydiaJ wrote: »

Yes, of course. "If you're not going to do it then I'll do it myself" is an example of an acceptable use of "myself" as emphasis, because if you remove the "myself" the sentence still says the same thing but without the emphasis. It can also be used not as emphasis but to indicate a reflexive verb such as "I am teaching myself the piano." Here if you remove the "myself" from the sentence, we are left in the dark as to who is being taught the piano. DG, however, was complaining about "misuse" not "use". I suspect the kind of thing that drives her to distraction is the pointless and incorrect replacement of "me" with "myself" by people who appear to think it makes it more polite or formal, such as in "Please complete the attached questionnaire and return it to myself."

Got it in one!

The attempt to sound formal by using incorrect English. The same people would never use it in speech, so why commit it to paper?

The letters that come out of DD's grammar school have terrible grammar. I can forgive people who simply don't know, but a school is supposed to set the example.

Jackmydad

chris_m wrote: »

I'll bet.
My first Austin Cambridge was cross-ply shod - great for drifting on roundabouts in the dry, not so pleasant in the wet.
The second Cambridge had radials and I could only drift on the same roundabouts when it was wet, no chance in the dry.

My first "proper" car was a Vauxhall FD estate. I had a "Del Boy" Reliant Regal Supervan II before that on my bike licence, The Vauxhall was very GM, and "American" Shod with biggish crossplies, in the wet it'd go straight on at roundabouts if pushed at all. :eek:

PasturesNew

I'm gonna get a sat nav....

So ... I need to post a few thread in a relevant forum... but, having never seen a sat nav, not sure what to ask really

I'd like to be able to, say, plot a long list of postcodes into it, so I could say "where are these?" then see them all on a map and touch one to get directions to it. Or "what's within 1-2 miles of where I am right now?"

But, without knowing how they work... not sure how possible that is in any case.

GDB2222

A sat nav won't do that for you. Or, at least, not one that I am aware of.

Most people have a smart phone, then put sat nav software on it. Do you have a smart phone? If not, that may still be a better course than buying a dedicated unit.

You can produce a map of all your preferred houses on Google Maps. At least, you could a couple of years ago when I did something similar for DW. Google maps can also give you directions. You can load the app onto your new smart phone, but whether it has all the same features as the web-based version, I don't know.


Search for something like 'plot multiple locations on google maps'

chris_m

GDB2222 wrote: »

A sat nav won't do that for you. Or, at least, not one that I am aware of.

It ought to be able to - my 12 year old TomTom software on a PDA can accept multiple destinations and drive by locations, then plan the optimum route around them all.

It would be a very retrograde step if modern ones cannot do that, although 97 may asking a tad much, especially for the route planning.

Alternatively, they can be put in as "Points of Information", which possibly sounds more like what PN's after. You can get loads of those on - on mine I must have well in excess of 200.

Once the POIs are loaded you can ask it to direct you to a particular one or see your location on the map along with all the POIs that fit on the map at the particular level of zoom you are using.

silvercar

Get a map and photocopy it. Plot by hand the various houses (use google streetview to see where they are on long roads). Then you can plan a route by hand.