On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 11:27:50 +0000, neil wrote:

I've also got a large and very thirsty petrol 4x4, as well as a nice
sensible economical hatchback and three or four classic cars. And a
couple of old mopeds. And several bicycles.

Wow, someone must've left you a nice trust fund.

Yes, because that's the only possible solution you can come up for your
jealousy that not everybody's a wage slave in a grim suburb, isn't it?

Its not that grim and its in london. Where's you house? Oh , thats
right, according to your blog a while back you didn't even have one and
were squatting in the camper van. Nice.

Well, the house in a really very pleasant corner of the home counties
which we were renting out whilst we were away sold in three weeks for
quite a lot of money - just as well, really, since we were in the throes
of buying a rather large and lovely house in a beautiful rural part of
the country, thank you for asking. With a nice chunk left over after
paying off the mortgage.

So, at just over 40, here I am - mortgage free - in my dream house. Poor
us. How's the wage-slavery going?

Showing your missus the high life eh?

She seems very happy with life, and certainly was enjoying life on the
road.

The camper's worth the same as we paid for it, 40k miles and 2yrs ago.

Bugger all then to a normal person.

shrug Who cares?

The 205 cost £100 four years ago - and regularly returns mid-40s mpg.
The 4x4 cost £800 with a year's MOT.
One moped was free, the other cost £100. They're each worth about £300
now.
One 2cv cost £100, one cost less than a grand, and she's owned the third
for 30 years next year. That one'd easily fetch £5k+ tomorrow, not that
it's for sale.

So in other words a load of pikey scrap sitting in a yard somewhere. Ok,
I take back my trust fund comment - I'd expected someone who posts to a
driving group to own at least 1 decent vehicle.

With the exception of the 4x4 - proof-of-necessity short-term purchase -
they're all cars that we love dearly, and all bought for being bloody
excellent at the job. So, yes, they're definitely "decent vehicles". The
fact that you think the value's more important than the driving dynamics
shows you as the sort of vacuous urban-centric **** that you are.

I think you've just blown any eco credentials you had out the water
however.

What "eco credentials" are those, then? I've certainly never laid claim
to any.

Well you seem to champion cyclists and get all irate when someone dares
to suggest they should be taxed. Why would anyone other than a dyed in
the wool Cyclopath give a ****?

a. Because I genuinely don't think bicycles are half as much of a traffic
problem as the kind of ****wit who gets red mist at the thought of them
b. Because I genuinely don't like snide hidden agendas promoted by
duplicitous little ****s.
c. Because I genuinely don't think bikes need taxing and I don't think
cyclists need licensing.

Its far more fun not telling.

Jesus. It's that embarrassing, eh?

Lets just say even at 5 years old its still worth more than all the
scrap you own combined.

Gosh, really?
Your 5yo whatevercommutermobile is worth rough count up £15-20k?

I don't believe you. And - one thing's definitely for certain - the value
of your whatevercommutermobile's only going one way, and it ain't the
same way as the value of our fleet is.

One other thing's for certain... I'm sure that the value of your car
bothers you far more than the value of mine bothers me.