Golite/Eureka “NIGOR” Packs.

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Mr. Perry,
Thank-you for reminding me that I really wanted to order one of packs. It should be perfect for the typical Fri-Sun Boy Scout campouts. If I can get the guys into intelligent conversations regarding the pack name and their impressions then I will be happy. If they can't seem to grow up and get beyond it then I suppose I could sew a Conch Republic flag over the NIGOR and just be done with it.

Well said, Miguel. Thank you.

Europe is pretty diverse…
Racism in "Europe" is hard to define, complicated and not exactly parallel to this country's.
Southerns migrating north, both in their own country and abroad, have held the more menial jobs and historically have been subject to what we would call racism. Northern Italians complain about how other countries are prejudiced against them, yet they have been doing the same to their southern neighbors for centuries. Every country seems to have their own group, defined either by their ethnicity, their religion or something else, that they get to pick on, blame and treat unfairly. Same for African countries, same for Mexico, where the short dark people from Oaxaca are called "negros" and treat as inferiors.
I know I am not saying anything enlightened here..
North African immigration is pretty new to a lot of Europe, a little older to France because of their "colonies". Racism is alive and well in a lot of Eurpoean countries , and I would say more so than in the US. On my last visit to Italy the graffiti that I saw two years previous was still there. It said "Negri ai forni". Now "Negri" is the PC word, where as "neri" ( blacks) is the derogatory word. It still read " Negri to the ovens". I would have to believe that in this country that graffiti would have been removed pretty quickly.

I don't think the pack name has anything to do with any of this though.

If you like the No Va story you should read about the Pajero (Mitsubishi)

Another case in point to illustrate just how difficult coming up with a new name is.
The hardest part is avoiding names that "sound" like something else or simply idiomatic terms that, by definition, don't translate the way you think they do.
Silly examples, the Italian word for fennell can be the vegetable or the slang and derogatory word for a male homosexual , lemonade can mean a french kiss..

BTW, as Katharina has already pointed out, in Italian the accepted word for "black" is negro (niger (black) in Latin) and of course there is the African country of Niger with the Niger river crossing it and their southern neighbours Nigeria…

The Swastika has been used since the Bronze Age in India as well as several Asian countries.

whenever i see an ad for campbells CHUNKY soups i get REALLY offended …

i mean really are those campbells folks soooo insensitive that they dont realize that it sounds like ch-nky …. as an azn this is absolutely and utterly insulting …

BURN THEM ALL !!!

;)

I feel the same way Eric when people honk their horn at me or offer me crackers.

The overweight azn population really has a beef with campbells.

Wonder bread- you're next!

Yeah, That Enriched White. Like it was named after the 1%

I have a Spanish name but look more like my mom's Russian. Does that make me a Spigor?

Hmm,

SW Spigor seeks lightweight Nigor for low volume fun. Outdoors lover a plus…

"whenever i see an ad for campbells CHUNKY soups i get REALLY offended"

Dang Eric, at least they say it has extra big pieces… ;-)

"SW Spigor seeks lightweight Nigor for low volume fun. Outdoors lover a plus…"

That is funny as hell, Ray!! Nice!

Lol- "low volume fun". Ahhh the entendres

+1 Miguel.

That being said, my first car was a 1986 Nova. It went.

Eric:

"No… I meant, where are you FROM?"

http://www.youtube.com/embed/DWynJkN5HbQ?autoplay=1

;>D

(I guess this thread is officially off topic now…)

I lived in costs rica for a while and liked to wear this futbol jersey…

although Italian, i'm what's called a "white guy".
i have spent my entire life being mortally offended by this product…

You can still wear your beembo jersey. Bimbo sells in the US and is gaining ground.

is the new model for 2015 with the back pocket lighter than the one before (with only side pockets)?

http://www.eurekaeurope.com/p/moyo

Nigor is a separate brand with his own website: http://www.nigor.eu/

Yes three different brands.
Golite, Eureka and Nigor.
It just happens that Nigor are the Eureka (and Helinox) importers for some European countries and some of their designs are very much GoLite like designs…

"Yes three different brands.
Golite, Eureka and Nigor.
It just happens that Nigor are the Eureka (and Helinox) importers for some European countries and some of their designs are very much GoLite like designs…"

"Golite like designs'? No, it's a bit more than that. It's not like the Tarptent Rainbow/ Pheonix Phreeranger similarities (that I have a hard time believing is coincidence, by the way), it's because Golite sold the rights to the packs/tent designs to them before going belly up. At the time, I bet they were selling just about everything in anticipation of the bankruptcy.

anyway they are improving the packs

I can't find real information on pack weight of the nigor 2015 and before

Well, it's even more complicated for at least some products. Take the Golite pyramids. I believe it were the Shangri-La models. When Golite decided some time ago to go with a new businessmodel, they decided to concentrate themselfs first on the US and pull out of the European market. As the Shangr-La's were sought by enough people, Eureka stept in with their almost exact copy of the Shangri-La's, the WickiUp's.
The motherholding of Eureka is called Nigor.Net. Then, a few years ago, a new brand was started under the Nigot.Net umbrella, called Nigor. And Nigor combines some former models of Eureka with new models.
I was told that Nigor wants to rival Hilleberg in quality. So we will see if that happens ?

Eureka is part of the Johnson Outdoors group. (Jetboil/Silva)