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What is 'Business Navigation' - is it like sat nav for people that have a mediocre job, but want to feel important?

Feel free to correct me....


 
Posted : 16/10/2015 11:38 pm
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Sat nav to the little boys room?


 
Posted : 16/10/2015 11:40 pm
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Doesn't do residential addresses but can find it's way to an industrial estate in Slough?


 
Posted : 16/10/2015 11:41 pm
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Sat Nav without fancy 3D graphics. Works,but not as pretty as the pro version.


 
Posted : 16/10/2015 11:59 pm
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A tool for upper mnagement to use to guide their company in a "direction"


 
Posted : 17/10/2015 5:40 am
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"Critical path" only???


 
Posted : 17/10/2015 6:08 am
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[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34488480 ]More BMW bellendery...[/url]

Just like the thread on TFI, more vacuous stuff to fill airtime. Progress eh?


 
Posted : 17/10/2015 6:08 am
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It's so the sad social climbers can find there way back to their 'executive' homes. (I've seen many a house advertised as an executive home and it makes me cringe that people are so shallow as to aspire to such shite).


 
Posted : 17/10/2015 6:44 am
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'executive' homes

Jeez, really!!!? People buy into this? ๐Ÿ˜ฏ I bet they have academic qualifications too ...


 
Posted : 17/10/2015 6:56 am
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It used to be 'Business Media' and reffered more to the fact that it would show your calendar etc on the display. Very useful and logical function, and odly enough very handy for work.

Seeing as most 3 series are purchased as company vehicles sounds logical to me.

Sour grapes anyone?


 
Posted : 17/10/2015 7:08 am
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It's just a name for a system of extras, that describes their target market. Business users.

https://www.bmwbusinesspartnership.co.uk/improved-standard-specification-now-bmw-3-4-series-range/

Hardly something to get wound up about is it.


 
Posted : 17/10/2015 7:21 am
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This is a joke?

You can't take the piss out of 'business navigation' for bellends, then kneel at the alter of the most ridiculous man-****y industry going, constantly creating aspirational items/upgrades, using near-comical language!

Reverb [i]stealth[/i] (cable's hidden)

Kashima Coated (it's a gold colour)

[i]Turbo[/i] trainer (?)

Pro 2 Evo (it's a professional and an evolution!)

..and let's have a quick flick through the classifieds for fairness:

Elite SuperCrono Power Mag ElastoGel Trainer!

Selle Italia Max Gel Flow SLR (it's a saddle)

Epic FSR Expert Carbon World Cup (awesomeness!)

RockShox Pike RC 29, Solo Air spring, 160mm travel, compression adjust, rebound adjust, tapered steerer, 46mm offset, 15mm Maxle Ultimate thru-axle (jizzes)

"Business navigation" is weak ๐Ÿ˜€


 
Posted : 17/10/2015 7:24 am
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Try the kayaking world

Dagger make the Mamba, complete with snake logo. Other boats are called things like Whiplash, Blast, Jefe, Burn and 4Play.

Business navigation is poor in comparison.


 
Posted : 17/10/2015 8:07 am
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Does it help you find your way back to your wheelhouse from outside the box?


 
Posted : 17/10/2015 8:12 am
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It's so the sad social climbers can find there way back to their 'executive' homes. (I've seen many a house advertised as an executive home and it makes me cringe that people are so shallow as to aspire to such shite).

Amazing, isn't it? I went back to a lovely big explosives factory I explored once, and it's now all "executive homes" - even said so on the drive. Rows of little boxes with tiny windows, each with a big BMW in the driveway.

I only hope they got all the leaked nitroglycerine out of the soil.


 
Posted : 17/10/2015 8:15 am
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turbo trainers are so called because the latin for spinning is turbo.

got to be worth points on QI


 
Posted : 17/10/2015 8:19 am
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Pro 2 Evo

I love Hope, but their names for stuff always sound like they're intended for spotty yoofs in tracksuits with Burberry baseball caps.


 
Posted : 17/10/2015 8:24 am
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Caravans.

Especially the ones called Swift, JetLiner etc. And the irony of being stuck behind one crawling along a single track road for 40 miles.

Especially if being pulled by The Ultimate Driving Machine


 
Posted : 17/10/2015 8:27 am
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Always a nasty aftertaste of bitterness and jealousy in these threads (I don't own a BMW BTW :roll:)


 
Posted : 17/10/2015 8:36 am
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Rows of little boxes with tiny windows, each with a big BMW in the driveway.

Reminded me of this ๐Ÿ˜€


 
Posted : 17/10/2015 8:37 am
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It is used when "going forwards".


 
Posted : 17/10/2015 8:40 am
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Puts hand up and waves!

I like it, the screen is about 50% wider so I can leave the normal sized satnav screen on the left, but can also get a detailed junction 'plan' on the right which is great for some junctions that I'm not familiar with

๐Ÿ˜€


 
Posted : 17/10/2015 8:44 am
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Bentandbrokenbellend ๐Ÿ˜€


 
Posted : 17/10/2015 8:54 am
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BN - have we met or did I carve you up without using my indicators? ๐Ÿ˜€


 
Posted : 17/10/2015 8:59 am
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Hardly something to get wound up about is it.

and Bearnecessities +1. Now off to the mindfullness thread with you.

Interestingly, when I bought mine recently I had a choice of Business Nav or not between two cars. I chose the one without as I'd rather my car was a sanctuary from not an extension of my work environment, and of course it was cheaper. FWIW Google Maps sat nav plays through the stereo should I need it, you don't really need the screen display. With ref to mindfulness I didn't feel the need to have it for oneupmanship either.


 
Posted : 17/10/2015 9:14 am
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Its the special thingy that makes me feel special ๐Ÿ˜€


 
Posted : 17/10/2015 9:28 am
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Replaced my BMW business head unit with a Sony multimedia unit that works with Apple.

I use my indicators and drive sensibly btw.


 
Posted : 17/10/2015 9:38 am
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Yup as Neal says it's just the name. Our work BMWs have a Business Stereo fitted, all it means is the cars are built purely for a lease spec so have different components in. Still if you want to build up anger and hatred over such things being named that or homes as executive then feel free.


 
Posted : 17/10/2015 9:48 am
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the screen is about 50% wider so I can leave the normal sized satnav screen on the left, but can also get a detailed junction 'plan' on the right which is great for some junctions that I'm not familiar with

so that's why they're terrible at junctions - they're looking at their little screens!

(I had a BMW and swapped it for a monster truck)


 
Posted : 17/10/2015 9:57 am
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Still if you want to build up anger and hatred over such things being named that or homes as executive then feel free.

It's not anger or hatred about "executive" homes, it's amusement at the gullibility of others ๐Ÿ˜‰


 
Posted : 17/10/2015 10:30 am
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[quote=bigrich ]so that's why they're terrible at junctions - they're looking at their little [s]screens![/s] <connection terminated>


 
Posted : 17/10/2015 10:34 am
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Jeez, people get het up about the strangest things don't they?
If that annoys you, can you believe that Vauxhall have an Insignia named [i]Elite[/i]? Maybe I shouldn't have told you that, it could send you over the edge.


 
Posted : 17/10/2015 10:45 am
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Vauxhall have an Insignia named Elite?

no, that's because it looks like it was designed on a BBC micro


 
Posted : 17/10/2015 10:50 am
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For a 'premium' brand, they do seem to be tight as a ducks arse on features. A satnav [i]not[/i] having 3D display? WTF


 
Posted : 17/10/2015 10:51 am
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Sour grapes anyone?

This place runs on them.


 
Posted : 17/10/2015 11:04 am
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No sour grapes here and can't say I'm exactly getting that wound up about it thanks. After hearing it on a radio advert for the tenth time in a day, I thought I'd mention it.


 
Posted : 17/10/2015 11:07 am
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Yours seemed to be a genome query true enough.

It's not anger or hatred about "executive" homes, it's amusement at the gullibility of others

Because they bought a home with the word Executive in? Maybe they liked the house or the idea of living in an old explosive factory. Some people even get a bit excited about such places be an abandoned, I know I do.


 
Posted : 17/10/2015 11:14 am
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Right, I'm off to the garage to put the roof rack on my Ultimate Driving Machine.

๐Ÿ™‚


 
Posted : 17/10/2015 11:27 am
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Citroen Picasso?


 
Posted : 17/10/2015 11:35 am
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I'm just fitting the bike rack to mine so I can drive my Orange 5 to Swinley for a gentle bimble round the blue trails before having lots of cake in the cafe*

*parts of this may not be true


 
Posted : 17/10/2015 11:36 am
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How very dare you synonomise my vehicle with an globally influential artist of some fame! [s]People[/s] TAFKASTR will think I'm trying to sell it for its artistic design and imagary!

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I'm just fitting the bike rack

Surely you mean "Social alternate vehicle trasnspotation media system"?


 
Posted : 17/10/2015 11:37 am
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I'm just fitting the bike rack[/i]

Surely you mean "Social alternate vehicle transportation [s]media[/s] interface system"?

That's better ๐Ÿ˜‰


 
Posted : 17/10/2015 11:45 am
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I went cheap and bought the Thule one instead of the BMW one so its a bike rack ๐Ÿ˜‰

I couldn't afford the indicators either ๐Ÿ˜€


 
Posted : 17/10/2015 11:50 am
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How very dare you synonomise my vehicle with an globally influential artist of some fame! People TAFKASTR will think I'm trying to sell it for its artistic design and imagary!

Sorry I thought you'd have an imagination. ๐Ÿ˜†


 
Posted : 17/10/2015 11:53 am
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BMW bellendery...

What is 'Business Navigation' - is it like sat nav for people that have a mediocre job, but want to feel important?

Feel free to correct me....

No sour grapes here and can't say I'm exactly getting that wound up about it thanks.

Erm. To a neutral observer it does sound sour, and posting on an internet forum indicates a certain level of being would up.


 
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