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Nice! If I were there I'd be trying to get some skiing in if possible. Hahaha, you remind me of my wife. Every time I go on a business trip somewhere she says "You're so lucky" and starts to reel off all the reasons why I'm so lucky. All of them completely overlook the fact a business trip goes like this... 1. Early morning train (if you're very lucky) to Gatwick airport (more commonly a walk to the train station, a ticket purchase, a subsequent train cancellation, a call to a taxi company, a taxi ride to the airport in awful traffic meaning I might miss my flight) 2. Two hours in gatwick airport (if you're lucky and there's no flight delays) 3. 7 Hours on a big plane 4. 3 hours in Toronto (or Halifax) airport lounge 5. 1 hour on a DeHavilland Bombadier (like sitting motionless inside a water park fun chute pumped full of farts and halitosis) 6. 1 hour in a well used Toyota taxi cab 7. Check in to the world's most badly run hotel, fall asleep 8. Up at 6am, walk to a military base building and enter a room that was built long before environmental wellbeing was a thing 9. Remain in that room until 6pm, breathing n the same second hand breath and slowly roasting to death - oh and the water is poisonous so can't be drunk 10. Back to world's most badly run hotel to find out what fresh chaos they have crafted for me there 11. Sleep (if you're lucky) 12. Go back to step 8 and repeat twice 13. Go back to 6 and repeat steps 6 to 1 until you get back home. There is no skiing involved in this.  |
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glenanderson
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I used to spend weeks/months away from home for work. Most of my friends and family appeared to consider it being on paid holiday. None of them, to my knowledge, have had to shower in the rainwater runoff from a 40’ artic trailer, or remove, strip, repair and refit a starter motor on a wagon in a Hungarian petrol station in -20°.
Sometimes it’s just easier to agree that you spent 99% of your time swanning around listening to the radio with your arm out the window. 🤣
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My worst worry about dying is my wife selling my stuff for what I told her it cost...
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I used to spend weeks/months away from home for work. Most of my friends and family appeared to consider it being on paid holiday. None of them, to my knowledge, have had to shower in the rainwater runoff from a 40’ artic trailer, or remove, strip, repair and refit a starter motor on a wagon in a Hungarian petrol station in -20°. Sometimes it’s just easier to agree that you spent 99% of your time swanning around listening to the radio with your arm out the window. 🤣 Yep. I agree. There's probably huge money to be made by the right kind of entrepreneur who can set up a travel/tourism business founded upon the idea of providing authentic business trips for people who don't ever get to go on business trips. People would only go once, but I'd happily pay that company to take my wife on just one business trip, just to end the endless envy of my so-called glamorous lifestyle. |
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yup i totally agree , just back from 6 weeks hard labour in vancouver , i even got forced to go to mexico for 10 days ,it was grim.
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Nice! If I were there I'd be trying to get some skiing in if possible. Hahaha, you remind me of my wife. Every time I go on a business trip somewhere she says "You're so lucky" and starts to reel off all the reasons why I'm so lucky. All of them completely overlook the fact a business trip goes like this... 1. Early morning train (if you're very lucky) to Gatwick airport (more commonly a walk to the train station, a ticket purchase, a subsequent train cancellation, a call to a taxi company, a taxi ride to the airport in awful traffic meaning I might miss my flight) 2. Two hours in gatwick airport (if you're lucky and there's no flight delays) 3. 7 Hours on a big plane 4. 3 hours in Toronto (or Halifax) airport lounge 5. 1 hour on a DeHavilland Bombadier (like sitting motionless inside a water park fun chute pumped full of farts and halitosis) 6. 1 hour in a well used Toyota taxi cab 7. Check in to the world's most badly run hotel, fall asleep 8. Up at 6am, walk to a military base building and enter a room that was built long before environmental wellbeing was a thing 9. Remain in that room until 6pm, breathing n the same second hand breath and slowly roasting to death - oh and the water is poisonous so can't be drunk 10. Back to world's most badly run hotel to find out what fresh chaos they have crafted for me there 11. Sleep (if you're lucky) 12. Go back to step 8 and repeat twice 13. Go back to 6 and repeat steps 6 to 1 until you get back home. There is no skiing involved in this. You SAY that, but I bet you are gadding about like a poncy gadfly, just like Hotwire is  |
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Hotwire actually IS poncing about like a gadfly... he isn't on a business trip he's gone to see the greatest ever world's greatest custom car show in the world ever. He's more likely to go skiing than me, even though I'm snowbound in Ottowa and he's sweltering in Las Vegas.
There must be an alpine themed hotel n Vegas by now, with the world's longest and most challenging downhill ski run from the rooftop garden to the reception area.
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Nice! If I were there I'd be trying to get some skiing in if possible. Hahaha, you remind me of my wife. Every time I go on a business trip somewhere she says "You're so lucky" and starts to reel off all the reasons why I'm so lucky. All of them completely overlook the fact a business trip goes like this... 1. Early morning train (if you're very lucky) to Gatwick airport (more commonly a walk to the train station, a ticket purchase, a subsequent train cancellation, a call to a taxi company, a taxi ride to the airport in awful traffic meaning I might miss my flight) 2. Two hours in gatwick airport (if you're lucky and there's no flight delays) 3. 7 Hours on a big plane 4. 3 hours in Toronto (or Halifax) airport lounge 5. 1 hour on a DeHavilland Bombadier (like sitting motionless inside a water park fun chute pumped full of farts and halitosis) 6. 1 hour in a well used Toyota taxi cab 7. Check in to the world's most badly run hotel, fall asleep 8. Up at 6am, walk to a military base building and enter a room that was built long before environmental wellbeing was a thing 9. Remain in that room until 6pm, breathing n the same second hand breath and slowly roasting to death - oh and the water is poisonous so can't be drunk 10. Back to world's most badly run hotel to find out what fresh chaos they have crafted for me there 11. Sleep (if you're lucky) 12. Go back to step 8 and repeat twice 13. Go back to 6 and repeat steps 6 to 1 until you get back home. There is no skiing involved in this. Not to be smart but is there no possibility of flying early or coming back a day later and getting a bit of time to yourself? |
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My wife has had to spend the week away with her colleagues in Manly even though we live 20 minutes away in Neutral Bay. I've come out to join her for a couple of days. Not a bad place to be. Whilst she works bloody hard they do go for meals in the evening. Unfortunately it's a case of whether you want to or not. Not forgetting the party bus they had on Wednesday.  |
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Not to be smart but is there no possibility of flying early or coming back a day later and getting a bit of time to yourself? Yes of course there is. There is always that option. |
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Nice! If I were there I'd be trying to get some skiing in if possible. No skiing for at least a month, likely two. Hills will want 30-50 cm of base minimum so this little snow, even if it stays, isn't nearly enough. |
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I know it’s off topic but these last post struck a chord with me. These last 2 years I’ve had to spend some time in Singapore, it’s not a bad place but it’s busy, hot and humid. I get the response of, huh, your off on a paid holiday again, well, if my idea of a holiday was to work on a construction site in 35 degree heat and 90% humidity while wearing a hard hat, boots, gloves and overalls and climbing 4-7 stories carrying tools and working on our machines where the engines are pre heated all the time to around 50 degrees, then, yes, I’m on a paid holiday!
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Triumph Stag
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The thing is, I need a little runaround to drive back and forth to the ElCamino in the workshop. There are no train stations nearby so I'm limited to days when I can borrow the wife's car. She's not happy with the idea of me buying a small runaround in order to get to my big car. However, this has been on sale for about 8 months now. The price has dropped and dropped and it's still for sale and now has a 'make me an offer' button. Technically it's not a little runaround, so maybe there's a loophole I can exploit in the automotive section of our marital contract. I'm quite tempted. It looks like a ride share car used by Dolly Parton and Boss Hogg right now, but take all those stupid graphics off, the tat, the flags, the added silver trim lines etc and this would be the basis of a decent car I think...  *fingers the offer button tentatively* |
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The thing is, I need a little runaround to drive back and forth to the ElCamino in the workshop. There are no train stations nearby so I'm limited to days when I can borrow the wife's car. She's not happy with the idea of me buying a small runaround in order to get to my big car. However, this has been on sale for about 8 months now. The price has dropped and dropped and it's still for sale and now has a 'make me an offer' button. Technically it's not a little runaround, so maybe there's a loophole I can exploit in the automotive section of our marital contract. I'm quite tempted. It looks like a ride share car used by Dolly Parton and Boss Hogg right now, but take all those stupid graphics off, the tat, the flags, the added silver trim lines etc and this would be the basis of a decent car I think... *fingers the offer button tentatively* I'm pretty certain that, when it was originally advertised, it was sh*te graphics free. I am also thinking that this car has been for sale, on and off, for longer than 8 months, I could swear I remember it for sale over a year ago? Maybe. |
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I've only ever seen it in sh1te graphics mode, so maybe there was another white Galaxie for sale previously? Who knows though.
I am fairly sure the location was Glasgow when it first appeared on my radar however, and now it's in York.
The ad is so completely full of "everything is fine" that I'm skeptical. Those stainless steel covers along the entire length of the bottom edges smell of panel rot to me. And if that's the case then the rest of the 'everything is fine' is not worth the pixels it's written on.
I had a good look around a later model Ford Galaxie near me shortly before I bought the ill-fated AMC Ambassador before the ElCamino. It was advertised in similarly robust terms, and the owner was absolutely confident it was entirely free of rot and told me it was dry stored and had been for many many years, only coming out on sunny days. He clearly didn't like lying down though because there wasn't a part of his car I stuck my head under that wasn't absolutely rotted right through. I had to take pictures to show him, because he didn't believe me and thought I was just trying to knock the price down. I had to assure him I would not be buying his car before he'd even look at the pictures, and then he looked a bit pale once he had.
I suspect these big old Galaxies are utter rotters if not dry state cars that have been properly cared for after import.
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Buy a Honda C90.
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My worst worry about dying is my wife selling my stuff for what I told her it cost...
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Did think about that but A. Winter B. Dead parent tragedy potential |
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Did think about that but A. Winter B. Dead parent tragedy potential A. They have legshields as standard. Windscreen and hand guards are bolt on. Late 12v ones have enough electrical output for heated grips. B. Your kids are better off without you if you’re the kind of parent that can’t handle a moped. To be honest though, in the long run it’s probably cheaper and easier to just get a taxi rather than try and run another vehicle you don’t actually want. |
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Did think about that but A. Winter B. Dead parent tragedy potential A. They have legshields as standard. Windscreen and hand guards are bolt on. Late 12v ones have enough electrical output for heated grips. B. Your kids are better off without you if you’re the kind of parent that can’t handle a moped. To be honest though, in the long run it’s probably cheaper and easier to just get a taxi rather than try and run another vehicle you don’t actually want. It's not me not handling a moped that is the concern, it's the dickhead in the repmobile texting whilst swiping through his music selection at 50mph at an icy junction after a couple of pirely medicinal whiskeys to keep the winter chill out. Whatever I buy it will be a vehicle I ultimately don't want or need long term, but it will serve a purpose short term and then it can be moved on. Taxis there and back are likely to be in the region of £40-£50 a day. I earn good money when I earn, but not enough to throw £150 a week on taxis. Let's not problem-solve this non-problem though, I was merely declaring my temptation to buy another enormous slab of Merican metal. |
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I've got the height at the back, especially when I jack up the air shocks, but I think I might want to lower my nose a little, and paint it black, and get 4-1 side pipes...  |
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Just a few more additions like eyebrows and a Ming spoiler.
Remind you of anything?
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