Pretentious nobbery

[Blue Hills]

Those metal flasks are a thing of beauty though, so you get a free pass on those surely. I always feel they should be carrying dinosaur DNA or atomic material.

I am always in awe of flasks and the way they keep hot things hot, and cold things cold. Amazing. Do you know what I keep in mine? A cup of tea and a choc ice.

OH has a fancy bean to cup coffee machine but I don't count that as pretentious as he uses it every day.

Yes. Has a cap you can drink out of and a sensible screw stopper, not one of those "new improved" push button tops i don't trust to not leak.

 

[Blue Hills]

Meet my pretentious corkscrew. I don't even drink

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I had one of those. Gave it to some nit to take for me, put it in hand luggage and it was confiscated.
So now use my homer simpson one, which works just as well.

 

[Blue Hills]

https://www.wiggle.co.uk/selle-italia-novus-boost-kit-carbonio-superflow-saddle/
Does this count.👍

Very definitely, unless you have a superflow arse.

 

[Levo-Lon]

If you are hoping for blue tits, I think you may need to up the residences from a terrace to detached, with some degree of their own land. Blue tits can be territorial, particularly during the breeding season.

Indeed
Sparrows will like that, you may get one pair of blue tits but they will fight if another pair dare move in

 

[Blue Hills]

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Does this count?
A Condor cycles storage bottle for tools, food etc.

Definitely most definitely counts. You are supposed to be carrying water. Once on a ride i was leading i once refused water to some pretentious bod using one of those. I think he expired staring misty eyed at his brandcool

 

[Bazzer]

On the subject of corkscrews.....



On the plus side, even the most difficult corks find resistance is futile.

 

[stephec]

Mr WD owns a very respectable ensemble consisting of a Rab C Nesbit looky likey string vest and Y fronts that he purchased in the Army and Navy store in Birmingham about 30 years ago. He wears the Y fronts pulled up to his chest of course. It's the only way to wear them.

I think you'll find that's to keep himself safe from you.

 

[stephec]

OH has a fancy bean to cup coffee machine but I don't count that as pretentious as he uses it every day.

They can't be as I've got one that I use everyday.

 

[welsh dragon]

I think you'll find that's to keep himself safe from you.

It will work really well.

 

[raleighnut]

Back to footwear, do Dune Suede boots count as further nobbery or are they just cool,



Oh and BTW I've never owned a pair of 'trainers'

 

[derrick]

Back to footwear, do Dune Suede boots count as further nobbery or are they just cool,

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Oh and BTW I've never owned a pair of 'trainers'

Defo not cool.

 

[classic33]

I like dragos thread but must admit to thinking he chose a poor example. I very much approve of apparently overengineered daytoday things.
Now if it had been a carbon flask....

https://blog.carbonfibergear.com/the-macallan-the-flask-a-900-way-to-drink-scotch/

 

[raleighnut]

https://blog.carbonfibergear.com/the-macallan-the-flask-a-900-way-to-drink-scotch/

Nah I'll stick with my Leather one,

 

[classic33]

Do you own an item that is a blatant piece of pretentious nobbery?

A coffee machine modelled on the Sizewell B reactor?

A turntable manufactured by NASA for missions to pluto, with a stylus made from a virgins fingernail?

An Apple XXXVIX mobile phone in a custom case, plated with gold from Steve Jobs teeth?

Then this is the thread to tell us all about it.

Being such a down to earth ruffty tuffty sort there's not much jn the Drago household that fits the bill, but I did find one item. Being the Desperate Dan lookalike that I am I can't just have a Thermos or a cheap flask from Poundland. No, a stainless steel behemoth, made in America by rough men with names like Lance and Brad, from a design that has remained more or less unchanged in 107 years, with a lifetime guarantee, a design so long lived that pre war examples are still in daily use 4 generations on from their original owner. Ladies and gentleman, I give you the Stanley vacuum flask:

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Just out of curiosity, how old is it? I've a Thermos 2.5litre flask bought in '94, which is still in use.

 

[mustang1]

Some watches have the weirdest branding. Throw in a couple of black and white photos of vintage airplanes and hey presto, an association with the old days of flying even though the brand started in the 1980s. Bizarre.