I believe an awful lot of people don't know how to use their heating/ventilation.
I noticed several this morning bundled up in coats, with a window open and they weren't all smoking.
That's another thing. Why do smokers seem to feel the need to drive with the window open. Is it for the convenience of the big ashtray outside the car?
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Anything over five miles, shirt sleeves whatever the weather. I like to feel unrestricted. Anything under five miles, whatever I happen to be wearing when I unlock the car.
( bt. smokers open the window because they like the taste but dislike the smell. Odd coves really. )
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( bt. smokers open the window because they like the taste but dislike the smell. Odd coves really. )
Not being a smoker, I can't speak for them, but I have always wondered if perhaps they also have one eye on a future sale, and the likely value reduction of a car that stinks of smoke.
Since the market upturn, people are snapping up houses on our road, but there is one that stinks of smoke and they just cannot get a buyer. With greater similarity between cars than houses, why pay the same for a car that stinks of smoke?
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Since the market upturn people are snapping up houses on our road but there is one that stinks of smoke and they just cannot get a buyer. With greater similarity between cars than houses why pay the same for a car that stinks of smoke?
Seems crazy given you can get rid of the smell of smoke in a house by redecorating and refurnishing. A car is much harder, of course.
If you smoke in a car with the window open, and you don't use the ashtray (littering is a separate discussion), the smell doesn't get ingrained. I smoked in my car for over a year, and then quit, and frankly even my most rabid anti-smoking friends can't tell it was ever smoked in.
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I noticed several this morning bundled up in coats with a window open and they weren't all smoking.
The "morning after" drivers like the windows down - BiB are known to take "windows down" as a potential clue to Drink Driving
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Summer - open neck shirt sleeves unless visiting solicitor or very important new client I need to impress
Winter - long sleeve open neck shirt, lightweight jumper and/or sports jacket or anorak. Long journeys back to jumper at most.
Why do I see young women in the winter driving around with a little vest top and almost othing else or alternatively dressed for a trip to Norway?
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I don't like driving with my coat on because it just gets in the way, it is a small narrow car so a coat is a bit baggy. I just stick it on the passenger seat.
I sometimes have my window down a bit if I have got wet clothes and forgot to put the windscreen blower on the second I get in the car, its only way to stop it steaming up.
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does that include your speedo,s ( motoring link)
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I've never understood the need to wear any kind of hat in a car (not counting the baseball-cap-backwards morons)
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Don't knock it Armstrong. At least wearing a hat makes it easier to spot the myopic mimser driving his missus to the shops in a Honda at 40 mph (everywhere!).
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The fleece jacket was one of the best items of clothing ever invented in my opinion - warm, not bulky, lightweight and dries in minutes. Ideal for driving in.
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Big fat RAB Summit jacket all day today - I don't care it was cold.
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Warm Wimp.
Edited by Pugugly on 15/12/2009 at 08:41
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I wear a T shirt, light fleece and heavy fleece on top of that. Gloves and a fleece cap.
I`m still cold and can get to the point where I can hardly use my hands.
I suspect it`s age and weight related (tell me if it`s not) I`m 61yrs, 6`2" - only 10st 11bs
When I was 50yrs and 14.5 st , I could wear just a T shirt outside with a frost and my hands were always warm.
Age? age+ too thin? something else. If you will forgive the question, it`s a chance to ask if anyone else is the same?
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Base layer T shirt, shirt. X type warms though in half a mile so no need for much more. In the boot there will be either a waterproof coat or HH quilted jacket similar to the RAB - it's like wearing a duvet!
Santa should be bringing me a new one as the HH one is past its best, but after 10 winters use I can't complain.
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Tweed jacket over collar and tie complete with trilby,then pop down to shops in the Honda....oh
i see i've been noticed....
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i see i've been noticed....
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How do you maintain 40mph everywhere, do you use cruise control? :-)
Edited by Old Navy on 14/12/2009 at 20:54
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I do indeed, very handy when one wants to take ones slippers off!
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and have you got your wife to knit a nice cover for the airbag?
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Not yet but i think i know what i want for christmas now...
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I suppose 95% of the time I wear more or less the same type of clothes. Usually jeans and a casual shirt with some form of chelsea boots or similar. Will chuck a heavy coat and scarf on in the cold or a waterproof jacket in the rain. In the car I prefer to not wear a coat.
When driving long distances though, I do sometimes like to take my boots/shoes off. I like to "feel" the pedals for some reason. This has been inconvenient on occasion when forgetting to put them back on at petrol stations etc.
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I know - its tough for us girls to drive in heels.
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Three days' beard. Tee shirt and Brooks Brothers button-down white shirt, slightly frayed. Sweat shirt with a name on it, or when my wife complains a pullover. Trousers. Old white leather tennis shoes (Rod Laver model), never cleaned and getting nicely run in. Long beige Burberry in need of a clean (dirty mac).
None of that dapper carp round here. That's for Johnny-come-lately m************** types.
Edit: Oh please! Discredited financial operative types working in the city then. Tsk!
Edited by Lud on 14/12/2009 at 21:33
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Going to work I wear just my office wear of a shirt and tie, or company polo shirt if the ironing isn't done.
In my own time it's always jeans and a t-shirt, hate driving in anything restrictive and the seats heat up so quickly that it's almost pointless. Longer runs may tempt me to dig my trackies out just for the comfort, some people think it looks rough but I bet I'm more comfortable than them so don't care!
I normally have some form of jacket in the car to cover me until I can get a tow if I have a problem but on local journeys I don't worry as I can't exactly get stranded in the city centre!
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This week it has been thermal base layer, cashmere roll neck, double cashmere cardigan and a cashmere wrap, fine leather gloves, jeans and sheepskin lined boots (NO, not Uggs) - after Thursday when the new heater motor is in place, several layers will be abandoned!
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Usually a jacket and tie.
For short journeys in winter, when the car doesn't have time to heat up, I might wear a coat as well.
In the summer it depends on the weather. The jacket or tie (or both) may go.
Edited by tyro on 14/12/2009 at 22:29
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>Age? age+ too thin? something else. If you will forgive the question it`s a chance to ask if anyone else is the same?
Age, Oily. I'm a svelte 16 stone and a magnificent 5' 11''. I feel the cold now like never before ! Thumbs seize up, eyes run, can't wait to get in and do the crossword. Should be in the workshop but can't face it...even with a heater. 64 this month
Ted
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Oh, I forgot to say, if it's a long drive I tend to make sure that the carpets are clean and then take my shoes off and drive barefoot, thanks to the Cruise I can go for many miles without touching a pedal anyway!
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Back to clothing, what a lot of fops and dandies some of you are. Regular wear for me........Southbay polo shirts..specially selected and ordered from my tailors...Premier Man mail order......black trousers, £3.99 from Lidl......short coat and velcro shoes from PMan.
I don't need to go out to shop for shmutter...it all gets delivered.
Now, I just want a pair of tartan slippers with zips up the front......Baffies, I think they're called.
Of course, I don't dress this smart for messing about in the garage or house. Bought two pairs of trousers from the market for £2.50 each for that !
Ted
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There`s some reassurance in that Ted, Thanks.
I still have that temptation to get another fast (ish) bike - but there is just no way I could take the cold - even if the whole suit and gloves were electrically heated. Probably just as well, really.
By the way - do you want to contact me by email via the Mods? There is something that may interest you...
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Ah - Bikes - this weeks wear has been two pairs of socks, Alt Berg Clubman boots, Heine Gericke leather trouswers, BMW Rallye 2 jacket, Triumph branded gloves (6th Season) - silk inner gloves and my latest acquisition a Schuberth S1 Pro Helmet - quieter than the interior of an MX5 at 70mph. Snug as a bug aided by two stage heated grips.
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I can remember 16 mile trips into college on my SR 500, in the little ice age of 80/82. I would sometimes overnight - bike left outside, as I was single then and remember one week where the seat was rock hard with absorbed frozen moisture.
I used to ride in with a folded bath towel as seat insulation, but it was never enough..
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It's never occured to me to wear any different from what I happen to have on - the car's just another room, and I don't dress for dinner any more.
But I do notice there are two kinds of people - those who can drive in gumboots, and those who can't.
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In the everyday car I normally wear jeans, shirt and sweat shirt with a fleece as an optional extra.
In the MX-5 (roof down) it is the same but with a beany hat and the fleece as a necessity, a little cold at the moment until the heater warms up then really snug.
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I tend to dress like the local scaffolder during the week: jeans, boots or hefty shoes, Dickie's padded jacket (bought at Halfords - v-good buy!), shades, baseball cap & stubble.
Although I work sitting at a desk (my home office) these days, I have done heavy manual work & still retain a rough & ready appearance that doesn't look out of place in work-wear type clothes still.
Weekends - complete contrast. Very much the 'Barbour' / shooting jacket look with waxed cap & freshly shaved!
I like to be wrapped up in winter with the window open, heated seats on & heater on. From previous remarks I'll be more careful when passing BiB in case they think I'm an alchy.
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I can wear what I like to work, so for me its Jeans, T-shirt,Fleece and trainers in the winter and delete the fleece and jeans and wear shorts in the summer. Very comfy all year round. Must be horrendous to have to wear a suit and tie everyday.
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Usually a suit and tie, just workwear for me - not unlike a mechanic's overalls. Has the advantage of having plenty of pockets, not sure I understand all these people who think this is somehow uncomfortable ? If I'm driving any distance I'll take my jacket off and I never wear an overcoat in the car - it's like driving in a straightjacket IMHO.
SWMBO by contrast habitually gets into her car at this time of year with full winter coat, scarf and gloves, hence whilst I run my climate control at (say) 21-22DegC, she runs hers at 18 or 19DegC.
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SWMBO by contrast habitually gets into her car at this time of year with full winter coat scarf and gloves
I don't understand how anyone can drive wearing gloves. On the odd occasions I've tried, I find I lose most of the feeling for the controls. Can't grip the steering wheel properly - feels like it's spinning through my hand; impossible to get heating/radio controls because you'd hit about six at once. It just feels so restrictive and downright potentially dangerous
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Wore a full santa outfit on saturday. look part in a local charity 10k run......
beard gets a but itchy.....
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weekend shorts and t-shirts even in the snow......
always carry emergency clothes just in case of a breakdown.....
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paul.
driving down to London last year for the marathon in a huge pink wig caused a few laughs and stares, but when I'm raising money for 2x diabetes charities I don't give a damn what I look like as long as people get there wallets out....
I've got a huge clowns wig for 2010.....
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help for heroes and JDRF charities in 2010
hahahaha
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i dress for the weather when i go to work
today i have 2 pairs of socks on my feet
proper boots
long johns under asdas finest £4 jeans
teashirt/2 jumpers/fleece jacket
bobble hat
plus underpants of course under longjohns
im not cold and havent replenished the propane heater here yet
i do need to warm up usually when i get home though
compo lives...........see
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Nah! Benny from Crossroads !
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I?m no dancer, I dress for myself, sometimes I?m a show-off prancer
I read these posts and join in with a dasher wit, I often read with a pint and a donner being a right twit.
My other half is a real vixen and cupid made me smitten. She?s always blitzen the shops with my money no fret, but I find my solace shopping at comet.
Anon
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Oily, always interested in something of interest ! As long as you're not offering me some cast-off clothes !
Don't mind if you email me direct
jowettland@ntlworld.com
Ted
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