Reply to: Manchester airport 4x4 car hire

[darmstadt]

If you want a 4x4 get a ******* 4x4

don't use your 2.5 year old as an excuse! You're on holiday, it's your money, spend it on what you want and ignore the noise makers

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[Spacecadet]

If you want a 4x4 get a ******* 4x4

don't use your 2.5 year old as an excuse! You're on holiday, it's your money, spend it on what you want and ignore the noise makers

[scooterscot]

No care in the world for class; that seems something that others care to place on me.

[d000hg]

No snobbery is not remotely equated with class. Snobbery is simply being socially inept and hiding behind possessions to mask your lack of fortitude.
I tend to find that these days, the majority of people that have the money to buy ticket items lack the class to understand how to use them properly.
In particular the lack of understanding for humility when dealing with people that are serving you in a restaurant or ability to use of the words Please and Thank you are a key sign of lack of class.

Before you ask: Yes manners are the keystone of having class because to be truly classy you must be able to make those around you feel equal.

Sas feels being classy is all about making others very aware of this fact.

[scooterscot]

Haven't read whole thread but if child is big enough for booster seat (15kg) trunki do a good one that folds into rucksack for hand luggage. Can fit other stuff in zip compartment and very light.

Would not waste your eyesight, it's mostly SAS being SAS.

I mean to give that one some investigation, not something I've come across before.

With hire cars I loose the plot every time trying to understand how to fit a new design I've not come across before. Probably not fitting it safely in the process.

[Old Greg]

They do but my arm does not approve. A suitcase and a pushchair is enough to be going through the airport with.

It is somewhat lacking in flexibility when a car hire firm cannot provide a child seat. They probably blame the EU regulation's too.

Haven't read whole thread but if child is big enough for booster seat (15kg) trunki do a good one that folds into rucksack for hand luggage. Can fit other stuff in zip compartment and very light.

[scooterscot]

Do you keep this massive list of who likes what in your head, or do you have a massive lever arch file to tell you which things you're allowed to like and which you must sneer at?

I'm thinking the arch file, and the full size poster of scooter behind the bedroom door.

Here you go SAS, wonder no more. Would you like to see more? PM me for the specials...

[scooterscot]

You really are a tedious master of the irrelevant and inconsequential statement
A RRS is what a chav who suddenly came into the money would get. Or what Arabs buy for their feckless offspring.
Most non-U.

Well it's not for me really, the bambino likes seeing out the windows from high.

[Archangel]

How old is the mini scoot? I am getting my lot one of these for when we go abroad next time

This. We take one on holiday every time, and will be buying a 2nd one next year. Car hire child seats (especially abroad) seem to be knackered, illl fitting and invariably filthy. Number one son loves his backpack booster and so do we.

[Old Hack]

No snobbery is not remotely equated with class. Snobbery is simply being socially inept and hiding behind possessions to mask your lack of fortitude.
I tend to find that these days, the majority of people that have the money to buy ticket items lack the class to understand how to use them properly.
In particular the lack of understanding for humility when dealing with people that are serving you in a restaurant or ability to use of the words Please and Thank you are a key sign of lack of class.

Before you ask: Yes manners are the keystone of having class because to be truly classy you must be able to make those around you feel equal.

Couldn't agree more to these two comments. Sas all over the former, and particularly inept at the latter.

[Old Hack]

A Range rover sport is not a proper 4x4 (its ground clearance will be too low) and for the record if it snows the last thing you want is a git panzer with 20" racing wheels and grippy summer tyres. Last time it seriously snowed over here my Saab front wheel drive did as well as my V8 Discovery 3. So if you just want to look like yet another Manc WAG then be my guest the New RR Sport is great for people that own white stilettos and think champagne comes in yellow plastic but you dont need a 4x4 to drive round on a road....

The RRS is based on the Disco 3 chassis, so ground clearance is fine.

Don't worry about it, taste is instinctive, you either have it or you don't.
Some people have class, others don't.
Taste and class are the two things you can't buy.

HTH, BIDI

Now, did you buy a stupid little plastic hatchback sports car the other day?

The trouble is, too many people whine on about taste and style, as though they are the last word and authority on it. I think, the more people go on about style and taste, the more they're worried about their own. Style, taste, is subjective, and has always been thus, the fickle way things come into and even faster, out of style surely indicates that to anyone with any wisdom at all.

I think taste and style is dictated by how much of a tulip you give to it. I don't apply any points to anyone's style, for I genuinely don't give two tulips if people think I have any or not. More so when these people drive cheap, ugly sports cars as someone said they're a bit of fun.

[sasguru]

I've got good enough taste to recognise you as an arrogant snob.

I see you don't understand what taste is, as I thought. I rest my case.

[d000hg]

Yah, but 90% can't afford it. You don't have taste or class for example. Sadly no brains either.

I've got good enough taste to recognise you as an arrogant snob.

[bobspud]

Taste is also 100% subjective you utter muppet.

And of course you can buy taste and class, it's called snobby private schooling.

No snobbery is not remotely equated with class. Snobbery is simply being socially inept and hiding behind possessions to mask your lack of fortitude.
I tend to find that these days, the majority of people that have the money to buy ticket items lack the class to understand how to use them properly.
In particular the lack of understanding for humility when dealing with people that are serving you in a restaurant or ability to use of the words Please and Thank you are a key sign of lack of class.

Before you ask: Yes manners are the keystone of having class because to be truly classy you must be able to make those around you feel equal.

[sasguru]

And of course you can buy taste and class, it's called snobby private schooling.

Yah, but 90% can't afford it. You don't have taste or class for example. Sadly no brains either.