Screw the ger, I want this:

Not interested in nomadic outdoor living? How about a $125,000 custom-built library from luxury book publisher Assouline? It has custom-carpeting, objets d'art and framed prints, as well as 250 current or vintage books of the customer's choice.

God Is My Co-Pirate: Screw the ger, I want this:

Not interested in nomadic outdoor living? How about a $125,000 custom-built library from luxury book publisher Assouline? It has custom-carpeting, objets d'art and framed prints, as well as 250 current or vintage books of the customer's choice.

That's a real steal compared to a semesters worth of text books.

Kebla sold me a very nice double bladed sword on Taris.

God Is My Co-Pirate: Screw the ger, I want this:

Not interested in nomadic outdoor living? How about a $125,000 custom-built library from luxury book publisher Assouline? It has custom-carpeting, objets d'art and framed prints, as well as 250 current or vintage books of the customer's choice.

I used to really want something like that. Like I'd sit around in my wingback chair with my tweed jacket next to a globe and smoking a pipe.

Now I think, what the hell do I want all those paper books for?

I'd buy one to put next to my wigwam, but I'm afraid it'd make me two tents.

So if I get a yurt I can come off the steppes and invade city wok

You know you're the ultimate hipster if you're packin' it in a luxury yurt.

WTF is a yurt?

/dnrtfa

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The two whut?

Came for the judge, leaving satisfied.

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The two whut?

DAMN YOU!

Just kick it off the platform and steal its armor. It gives +18 resistance to poison.

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Just build your own and save $74,000+.

today , I learned there's a "luxury book publisher"

At least it's non-fat.

"Of all my thirteen brothers and sisters, I was the one sent on the scholarship; the rest stayed behind in the yurt."
"What's a yurt?"
"A tent made of beaver skins. It's not so good."

It's not news, it's marketing. Seriously, who doesn't realize by now that they put a few random, silly things in their catalogs to get their catalog mentioned on slow news days? It's 170 pages and most of it's rich white people clothing and accessories.

I think I found a good way for the OWS crowd to spend some of that $300K

You can buy an authentic Mongolian ger (yurt) a lot cheaper in Ulaanbaatar. I don't remember offhand how much the gers were going for, but it was somewhere between $300 and $1000 I think. Even if you throw in the cost of airfare, it would be cheaper to fly over there, buy one, and fly back, compared to tens of thousands of dollars. Knew a guy living there who was talking about trying to export them to North America. I didn't have the heart to tell him that it's already been done:

http://www.yurtinfo.org/companies.php

Porous Horace: "Of all my thirteen brothers and sisters, I was the one sent on the scholarship; the rest stayed behind in the yurt."
"What's a yurt?"
"A tent made of beaver skins. It's not so good."

Not enough Black Books love out there!

No I am not.

Hmmm, you know, if you could get a mortgage actually use the yurt as a permanent luxury house hooked up to the utilities, that's not too bad an idea. You'd just need some land.

/currently subletting a room from a crazy chick's shiatty apartment in the ghetto
//moving out next week to a much better place

There's a house in my neighborhood that's shaped like a yurt but with modern amenities. If it's view wasn't of the back of a huge computer store and a drainage ditch I may consider buying it one day. It's still cool, though...and I guess you could always look out the back windows at the woods and ignore the view from the front door.

Yurts are really cool, but they're not really tents in the way we commonly mean when we use the term. They're big things, with lots of parts. Very VERY cool for living for an extended period out in the wilds, but they're not nearly as portable or easy to set up as a tent.

So basically, if you can leave it in place for a few months you're in good shape. If you have enough pack animals (or a large enough vehicle) to transport it to another spot and then set it up there you're golden. They were made for a nomadic lifestyle with a lot of pack animals, not weekend camping trips.

Unless you're paying someone to stay in theirs for some "glamping", which might be fun but that hardly counts as camping...

$75,000?

Must be Needless Markup.

*clicks link*

Yup.

I wouldn't pay above $65,000 for one of these...

Its what you would like to live in once your home had been foreclosed. That is if you can find some land to put it on. Much more durable than a tent, and better be really durable for 75k. My bet is that it would fall apart fast because they never expected anyone to actually try and live in it.

"The yurt contains potassium benzoate..."

i'd much rather have this.. "a $5,000 Johnnie Walker scotch tasting, complete with an authentic Scottish bagpiper and master of whisky telling the history and attributes of the various spirits."

kyleaugustus

Kebla sold me a very nice double bladed sword on Taris.


How the hell did the elves get a blacksmith shop up into the tree??

mongbiohazard: Yurts are really cool, but they're not really tents in the way we commonly mean when we use the term. They're big things, with lots of parts. Very VERY cool for living for an extended period out in the wilds, but they're not nearly as portable or easy to set up as a tent.

So basically, if you can leave it in place for a few months you're in good shape. If you have enough pack animals (or a large enough vehicle) to transport it to another spot and then set it up there you're golden. They were made for a nomadic lifestyle with a lot of pack animals, not weekend camping trips.

Exactly. Yurts are ideal for a specific lifestyle. They make very little sense for someone who wants to live in a fixed location for years on end -- that's what houses are for. They also don't work well for something as short-term as a camping trip, like you said. They are great for the "in-between zone" of living in one location for three months, then moving to a new location. If that isn't your lifestyle, then you really don't need a yurt.

I think it takes about a day to set one up or break it down for transport, and it takes about one horse to carry a smallish yurt. Not really feasible for ordinary camping

Gers (Mongolian yurts) are also designed for cold weather and hold heat in amazingly well. If you're going to be in a warm place, a traditional yurt might not work for you, but if you replace the felt walls with canvas, that might work. (And that's exactly what some of these companies do, make a warm-weather yurt with canvas instead of felt).


Unless you're paying someone to stay in theirs for some "glamping", which might be fun but that hardly counts as camping...

I know almost nothing about "glamping," but I'd guess if you were the sort to do that, you wouldn't be the sort to set up and break down your own yurt. Paying someone else to do it sounds about right.

/lived in Mongolia (apartment building for me, family in a yurt next door)
//getting a kick, etc.

Diogenes: abhorrent1: WTF is a yurt?

/dnrtfa
Mongolian "tent". My aunt and uncle stayed in one when touring China.

Okay I gis'd it. Those aren't tents. They farking buildings!

Diogenes: Mongolian "tent". My aunt and uncle stayed in one when touring China.

abhorrent1: Okay I gis'd it. Those aren't tents. They farking buildings!

They're just about halfway between a tent and a building. Much more like a permanent structure than a tent, almost infinitely more portable than a building. They really are a class of their own, kinda like how a liquid is neither a solid nor a gas.