Cherished Number query - Retention Nominee (long)

Jonners

Jon Tilson ( snipped-for-privacy@nsblueyonder.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Oh, I dunno. 3.5mill for a house? An Arnage'd be small change for Cherie. Always assuming Bernie Ecclestone or Al Fayed didn't slip it him as a "birthday pressie"

My newest car was made in 1973, and I have used it as a daily driver for the last 12 years. I have no plans to replace it with anything else while it remains repairable.

I have never owned a car that was less than 10 years old when I bought it. I tried a few new cars hired for me for work journeys, and I didn't like any of them, and wouldn't have one as a gift.

Please leave me out of such "we" assumptions.

Jim

Jim Warren ( snipped-for-privacy@OMITblueyonder.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Have to admit, I remain baffled as to how changing the registration number on a car makes it any "newer" anyway...

Does it polish and valet the car? No. Does it service it? No. Does it wind the odometer back? No. So... erm... how does it make it "newer"?

Could it be by disguising its true age? Could it be that the majority of observers don't know that the 2004 BlingMobile has more rounded spiggle bezels than the '02, and so could assume they're looking at the '04 model when they're really not? C'mon, you're deliberately being thick, here.

Aint my fault youre a pauper

Of course.Cough, wheeze...

Gladly. Who said I included you the first time?

michelle ( snipped-for-privacy@zzzxxxzzz.null) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Strange as this may sound, not all of us regard spending a couple of grand a year on depreciation on a new car as a wise use of our incomes.

You did, michelle, when you said "We all do like to have a new car dont we?"

Umm, no, we don't.

Dan Drake ( snipped-for-privacy@comcast.notthis.net) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

But that doesn't *actually* make the car any "newer", does it? Or even appear any "newer".

Which knocks the "We all like a new car" argument out the water. It turns it into "We all like other people to think we have a new car" - a different kettle of fish entirely.

No, but it can make it appear to be *not older* - which may be too subtle for you, especially if you've got your mind exclusively wrapped around *newer*. Clue: "not older" means it's the same age, or younger. That's all, I'm not going to beat this one to death.

Dan Drake ( snipped-for-privacy@comcast.notthis.net) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

You've hit the nail on the head with one word there - "appear". It's as the rest of my post - the important bit - stated :-

If you look at it that way, it's purely an ego/show thing. Back to the "considerably richer than yow" argument that Michelle denied.

"My car isn't really four years old, because we all like a new car - and I can afford one..."

You seem to have a significant emotional investment in the subject matter, whereas for me it's merely a curiosity. Why does it bother you so much?

Just curious.

Dan Drake ( snipped-for-privacy@comcast.notthis.net) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

It doesn't. For me, it's a curiousity, too.

I just prefer to get past the first glib response, and find out what the

*real* reason is. I suspect it's just vanity and a mistaken belief that other people care how old your car is.

You obviously missed the irony in my question

Im getting rather bored with this "he said, she said" stuff. Why the hell do you care? A phone ringtone just lets you know its ringing, so why bother changing it to something you like? A bowl of All Bran (allegedly) satisfies the bodys needs for just about sodding everything, so why eat anything else? A 2CV gets you where you need to go, so why drive anything else? Variety, my friend, is the spice of life - it'd be a pretty sodding boring life if we all did everything exactly the same! *I* like it, and I dont appear to be that rare - about 1 in 10 cars I saw today had some form of obvious personalisation in their plates (no, I wasnt driving). I dont spend my life wondering what makes you boys want to spend every Sunday covered in grease under an old wreck - why on earth are you so fascinated by what makes ME tick?

I question that it's a *mistaken* belief that other people care. Many other people *do* care, that's what 'drives' the whole thing, see?

But if you want to attribute your own opinions and beliefs to all other people, then you're doomed to live a frustrating life where there is much that you don't understand.

Dan Drake ( snipped-for-privacy@comcast.notthis.net) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

This is what I'm trying to understand.

Do you care how old your next door neighbour's car is? Why?

At least we got past the "nobody cares" thing...

Couldn't give a flying lovemaking session myself, you'd better ask someone else that question.

In news:1099681280.3vpsgC18m/4hPM3WTYLX2Q@teranews, The Blue Max decided to enlighten our sheltered souls with a rant as follows

Worse than that, I know a geezer who bought a Porsche 911 to match his private plate..

Plate = £1000 Car..= £68000

Sheesh...

Do you actually talk to your husband about his interests? Does he think that keeping an old classic on the road is a hobby that a pauper would take on?

You are just trying to pick another fight, and in bad English. Corrected, it reads "Ain't my fault you're a pauper"

Jim