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news Why copy a yank instead of a Brit?

I don't copy anyone. I do what makes sense.

That's why I don't fart around with ies and use ys instead.

I am logical with some words. I say and write pronounciation,
because
it
comes from pronounce, not pronunce.

I couldn't care less where it comes from.

What matters is whether the individual reading it knows what I
am referring to, and they do when I spell it tire, from the
context.

They also think you're a ****ing idiot.

Only a few fools like you.

No, most people laugh at those who can't spell.

Try facebook and twitter sometime.

A quick note to somebody I can excuse.

IMO its mad to be wasting lots of time teaching
kids how to spell correctly with a language which
has stolen so many words from all sorts of foreign
languages. What matters is whether the meaning is
clear, not if every word is spelt correctly, particularly
with the more obscure stuff like its and it's etc.

I agree on its and it's. In fact I often deliberately write it's if
something belongs to it.

Oh and spelt instead of spelled too. Why have more than one past tense?

Because of english having so many stolen words in it.

Same with fora/forums etc too.

I can appreciate the weird spellings from stolen words, but there's no need for silly pedantic things like two past tenses. You have now, later, and earlier. Three tenses and nothing more.

But if you type whole sentences in an email or newsgroup post, I expect
something more adult.

More fool you. Doesn't matter if a facebook
post is telling a chest of drawers or says draws.

Every so often you get ambiguousness.

Not often enough to matter so it makes no sense
to be spending countless hours making kids spell
stuff so there can be no ambiguity.

When I see someone write draws instead of drawers I just laugh. It's indicative of gross stupidity. They're two entirely different words, one is an action - making a picture, the other is a piece of furniture. Just because they sound the same is no excuse to confuse them.

In spades when the bulk of the english speaking world
uses tires instead of tyres or color instead of colour.

No, only the stoopid yanks.

Wrong, as always.

I've never seen anyone but the yanks write color instead of colour.

Mind you I've recently closed my Facebook account,

More fool you. It still be best place to find cheap
or free stuff local people are getting rid of etc.

No, I get free and cheap local big stuff on freecycle, freegle, and
gumtree.

The facebook buy swap sell groups leave those for dead.

The gumtree UI is ****ed in comparison.

No, Facebook is designed for conversation, Gumtree is designed for selling. You're using the wrong interface.

Smaller things I get on Ebay.

You get **** all free stuff on ebay and no fee is
involved with facebook buy swap sell groups.

You said "and cheap", remember?

all it was full of is friends of friends of friends I've never heard of
posting photos of their MacDonalds meal.

Only one of my friends ever does that and facebook
is a convenient way to keep track of what those who
have moved away from this town are currently up to.

Can't you communicate with them directly?

Corse I can, but its much more convenient for them
to list what they have been up to and have all of
their friends see that and respond if they want to.

And everyone sees everything, how stupid. I prefer to tell specific people about specific things that they're interested in, not just tell everyone about everything.

I talk to my friends by email and phone.

I do too, and using facebook and messenger as well.

Directly is fine, but this bull**** about broadcasting your daily activities to 100s of people is ridiculous, it just spams everyone who knows you, or who knows someone who knows someone who knows you.

Waste of ****ing time. Anyone I actually want to know, I phone, email,
or speak to in person.

Plenty use messenger just as effectively
and plenty don't have an email.

Everybody has email, apart from those not on the internet at all.

Even sillier and more pig ignorant than you usually manage.

Mate of mine does everything on his phone, has no fixed net service at all.

Then he won't have Facebook either.

As for twitter, ****ty designed rubbish, no threads or anything, just
"tweets" which aren't related to any conversation.

The real world is about more than just conversations;

What's the point in a tweet without a reply?

With plenty its just like a blog, done differently.

Blogs are utterly pointless.

And with plenty they tweet news that they have
observed personally like when they have just
been personally involved in a terrorist incident.

The christchurch arsehole broadcast
his atrocity live on facebook.

And if nobody can reply, what's the point?

I don't personally use twitter because
I think the character limit is stupid.

Agreed on that.

Did you run out of energy when changing the wheel?

My energy doesn't have a tread or wear on just one side either.

Why should I have to work out which word you mean from context?

Its automatic for anyone who isnt brain dead.

Now make every word have two possibilities.

But its normally obvious from the context which is intended.

All of what you've written in this thread is perfectly intelligible.

Their ads on facebook for draws etc are too.

You're not making an arse of your spelling like most Facebook users do.

Only you OCDs obsess about about spelling.

I don't care about a few mistakes, but when every other word is wrong I just give up. They clearly don't have a 3 digit IQ and I don't want to know them.

So, why are you spelling fairly well in this post?

Just use the right one in the first place.

There is no right one. FAR more use tire instead of tyre.

You get to like that or lump it.

Only yanks use the wrong one.

Wrong, as always. Most whose
first language isnt english do too.

They have a lower IQ, look up the stats.

So do you hairy legged cross dressing haggis gorgers.

Only if you include Glasgow.

Bull****.

Glaswegians are thicker than everyone else in the UK. Well all the humans that is, forget the Muslims.

Someone please bomb it.

As Connelly pointed out, it would make no difference.

?

was wearing on one side and so needed to
be replaced sooner than it would otherwise need to be.

The alignment was well out and I don't get that effect
anymore now that the alignment has been fixed.

Ah, fair enough, I did that once too. What annoys me is
garages
who
seem
to think it should be done every time you replace a tyre.

I've never had one do that but I mostly use the cheapest tire
specialist
when I need a new tire.

The one that wanted to align it was Kwik Fit. They also sold
me
a
brand
new battery which registered 4 volts, and didn't know how to
change
a
brake calliper (we only do the pads mate).

Clearly an operation best avoided.

Most garages are best avoided.

I havent found that with any of them, but then I do almost
all of the work myself and only get stuff like the tires done
for free because I don't have the equipment to do a proper
dynamic balance or wheel alignment myself and can't
justify the cost of that equipment when I need stuff like a
wheel alignment so rarely. Just the once in 60 years in fact..
And it costs peanuts to get it done by a pro who knows
what he is doing and did a brilliant job. Cost just $66 and
he identified why I was getting a significant wheel tramp
at a particular speed which neither me or my mate who is
also an excellent mechanic didn't realise what the cause was..

I often went to SMS for tyres, since they have every size in
stock
and
fit
it while you wait without booking, just turn up, and they're
cheap.

Same with the operation I use except I did notice that one
customer
had to have their tires ordered. Dunno how common that is with
them. Cant even remember what those tires were for.

That can happen with sporty BMWs with unusual tyres.

I don't recall it was one of those, one of the smaller
asian things that someone had got for his daughter
and she turned her nose up at and signed up for a new
car just after starting her first job with a bank loan.

The point is, is it a rare car for that area?

Dunno given that I can't remember what it was.

But if you have a car many others have, hey should be in stock.

Mine have always been and most of the time others have
showed up while I was there, theirs has been in stock too.
Not always tho. I don't care if they don't have some in stock
and so can charge lower prices for the common tires like mine.

How do those things link together?

If they keep stock of whatever they have ever been asked for,
that will obviously cost more than only keeping the most popular
tires in stock and ordering in the unusual ones as required. So they
will obviously be able to flog me the tires I use cheaper.

Or add the price onto the unusual ones only.

Not going to work when they never sell another of those.

Then they shouldn't buy another.

They need at least 4 of anything they might
sell because plenty change all 4 or 5 at once.

They don't all wear out at once.

They do if you rotate them. And plenty change them
all at once even when they don't rotate them.

What the **** is the point in rotating them? And if only one is worn out, why replace the good three?

I change one at a time.

So do I but most don't, so the tire place has cover what most do.

I've never heard of anyone doing that. A few weirdos replace two at once because they think it's safer to have identical tyres opposite each other.

They should tell the owner of the weird car to buy a normal one.

Great way to get the customer to come back for their future tires.

Who cares about someone who has different tyres to everyone else?

Those that find it works better to always be able to give the
customer what they show up wanting to buy so they don't
go to some other operation which has it on the shelf.

95% of people come in wanting a VW, Ford, etc tyre, keep those in stock. Why bother with the Alfa Romeo owners?

One day I got them to fix my brakes - they charged me £93
(before labour) for a calliper I could have got for £30 on Ebay.

So you should have checked that before you got them to do that.

At that time the car was almost undriveable, I couldn't be
bothered
taking
it back home and in again.

And you know so little about cars that you didn't know what needed
doing.

Not everyone knows everything.

But most don't know as little about cars as you do. Or dogs either.

Most people have no clue how to fix anything on a car.

Another garage, Farmer's Autocare, I took the car for an MOT,
and
they
gave me a list of what needed doing. I bought all the parts,
handed
them to the guy, and he refused to fit them, he wanted markup on
his
own
parts. I called them cowboys, reported them to a few trading
bodies,
and
went to Foz Sports, who did the work without question.

We fit them ourselves.

I'm a **** mechanic. I've never even replaced a brake.

I've done a lot more than that, including wheel bearings.

Lucky you.

No luck involved.

It's a saying.

That mate of mine has just bought a Merc C180 for
just $1500 which had a bit of miss in the engine and
got the non genuine part needed to fix it for peanuts.

But after what Clare and 'Arlen' have said about high end kraut
cars,
it
will be interesting to see what else ends up needing fixing over
time.

Him and his son had previously had 3 Hyundai Grandeurs
that also cost them peanuts and ended up with 2 good ones
and have cost them nothing because they have sold what
parts they didn't need themselves of the third on ebay etc.

Only German car I've had was VW,

Same here.

that was reliable

Nothing like as reliable as the Getz which had no warranty claims
what
so ever. The Golf did, and more than one as well. Important ones too.

But since my 73 Golf, things got much worse.

and cheap parts.

Yeah, but the Getz is even cheaper.

Never owned a Hyundai so I don't know what they're like. But if it
makes
me drive half the speed limit like the rest of the moronic owners
around
here,

It doesn't. Only one of the garage salers
can keep up with me and she's dead now.

Why is it every Hyundai I've seen in the UK is driving very slowly?

Don't believe that and it certainly doesn't happen here.

It certainly does here.

Don't believe it, even in that council sink estate filled with low IQ dregs.

Well it's true, I'm always stuck behind them.

It's the sort of attitude some people have.

Don't believe that either.

They buy cars which are good value, and also adhere to rules like speed
limits.

That's not half the speed limit.

Some of them do, they actually think the limit is an absolute limit and you should be usually well below it!

People like me who drive fast tend to either drive sports cars or old
bangers.

Bull****.

No it isn't. Every time I see a fast car it's either a banger like mine or something really done up.

They're like Rover and Volvo owners.

Doesn't happen with volvos here either.

Ours are mostly driven by what we call squatters,
the rich end of farmers and the don't crawl along
in their volvos.

Rich farmers here drive Range Rovers,

We arent that stupid.

They're actually quite robust.

and yes they go fast.

Yep, born to rule mentality. We even had one as PM for a while.

Why did you just object to driving fast when you do so yourself?

no thanks!

I go to Foz all the time now, the last visit, he replaced an
exhaust
bracket (£3.50) and topped up the gearbox oil (a litre for £2),
then
only charged me half an hour labour on top of that for both
things.

came across a big alsatian out on its own doing something
very
similarly with most of the trees and gates on the street
verge,
and going right down the driveway of some houses and
bailing
up
the dog behind the gate at the end of the drive.
Hilarious.

What annoys me is when people allow their dogs (while
still
on
the
lead!)
to **** on people's property.

You've clearly never walked a dog on a lead.
There is no way to stop that dog behaviour.

You pull the dog away from where it's ****ing.

Doesn't stop it ****ing on the next one.

Pull it again, if it continues, kick it.

Doesn't stop it, psychopath.

They prefer not to get beaten.

Thanks for that completely superfluous
proof that you have never had a dog.

Any animal or human will avoid what makes it be punished.

I'm not actually stupid enough to have a
dog on a lead when out walking with a dog.

Then I guess you have a well behaved dog.

I have never been silly enough to walk any dog like that.

Some dogs are so ****ing stupid that if you take them out without a
lead,
they attack, maim, injure, or kill other dogs.

I have enough of a clue to be selective about the breeds I have.

Why do you think people smack their kids?

Dogs work differently to kids.

No, they learn just like us.

Thanks for that completely superfluous
proof that you have never had one.

I know many people with dogs and have seen them train out bad
behaviour.

Not ****ing on things you havent. You'll
never train a male dog to never do that
when out walking not on a lead.

Or to not sniff things either.

If you kick it hard enough, it'll never do it again.

Thanks for that completely superfluous
proof that you have never had a dog.

Try that with mine and you'd end up dead, quite literally.

So you don't have control over your own pet?

I'm not actually stupid enough to try kicking an immense
great alsatian that weighs almost as much as me.

Why did you buy a pet you cannot control?

I controlled him fine. I'm not actually stupid enough to kick a dog like
that.

How do you control him then?

Why do you think you can make them sit, fetch, etc?

Because they like doing it with fetching.

And they like sitting?

Yep, do it regularly.

Only when they feel like it.

Nope, also when they know they will
be rewarded for doing that like with
the drug and currency sniffing dogs

Slave labour.

You are too.

I am nobody's slave.

Corse you are. You get paid **** all for stuffing **** thru letterboxes.

I don't have to, I choose to.

They ought to rebel and refuse to hunt down people using naturally
occuring plants.

Currency isnt a naturally occurring plant, unfortunately.

I was clearly referring to the drugs. And you tell me to use context.....

Opium poppys are naturally occurring plants too. So is cocaine.

Agreed, what's your point?

And ****ting in the correct place?

Plenty of dogs do choose to do what they decide that
their master wants them to do. Cats don't work like that.

Mine do. 8 of my 9 cats now **** correctly.

Not when you tell them to.

Because I tell them to. They know if they do it in the wrong place I
get
angry.

Hasn't stopped that cat ****ing on your monitor.

I've never told it not to.

Yes, you are that stupid. You should have done that the first time it did
that.

It is the first time it did it.

It no longer goes where I've told it not to.

We'll see...

I've already seen. It stopped ****ting in the shower. Camera above shower, slapped when it did it, no longer does it.

I doubt it. They do it because it pleases the leader of the pack
(you).

That's not why they fetch. They like chasing things and bring
it back so you can chuck it again and they can chase it again.

The stupid dogs fetch it then run off with it.

Nope, dogs don't do that.

I was at a friend's house the other day, I threw a toy across the room
and
it picked it up. It wouldn't give it back to me. Or my friend. She
said
it always does that.

Yeah, plenty of dogs operate like that, it's a game to them.

They do it with other dogs too, have a tug of war.

That's the way those drug and currency sniffer dogs
are rewarded, they get to have a tug of war with
the handler over a big sewn up cloth/canvas thing.

I wonder what the IQ of a dog is.

Much higher than a cat. It's a real rocket scientist
cat that even recognised its own name. All dogs do.

They're both monumentally stupid compared with us, that's why no dog or cat has ever got a mortgage or a driving license.

I just saw one on Youtube try TEN times to get a long stick through a
narrow doorway sideways.

Yeah, that is one thing that they can have a problem with.

But then stupid cat leap up 10' when you put
a cucumber behind them on the ground.

You'd never see a dog do that.

I tried that with SIX of my cats, not one reacted whatsoever. Four ignored it completely, and two just looked at and sniffed it before walking off.

You have to train it to bring it to you.

Bull**** you do with the worst of them.

They bring it to you to get you to chuck it again.

Actually that's pretty stupid. They already possess the toy, why give
it
to you so you can give it back?

It isnt the giving back, they enjoy chasing
it when you throw it and want you to
throw it more so they can chase it more.

Chasing an inanimate object is almost as stupid as when they chase their
own tails.

It aint stupid, they were bred like that to kill rats etc.

Can't they tell the difference between a live animal and a chewy toy?

Hilarious watching some dogs round up little kids in
the backyard. They were bred to do that with sheep.

You must know some stupid kids.

I've even had dogs at garage sales do it, bring
you something they want you to chuck for them.

And can't teach a cat to fetch, for a reason.

Lack of dexterity.

Nope, they arent into getting humans to chuck
something so they can bring it back endlessly.

Because they don't see the point. I don't either, I wouldn't enjoy
throwing something for my dog over and over again.

Irrelevant to why dogs like to do that.

Why do they like it?

They like chasing things. Cats like tormenting small things like mice.

Indeed: https://youtu.be/-TB0AMkEtk0

That was filmed a while ago, she's just given birth to 5 kittens.

Some of them do bring you a present of something
they have killed. Dogs don't do that instinctively.

A couple of mine did that twice each. They won't do it again.

Because you are a psychopath.

No, I prefer to not have local wildlife murdered.

All you are doing is stopping them bring the corpse
to you as a gift. They still murder the wildlife.

No they don't,

Corse they do.

They do not.

as they can't be bothered eating it with feathers on, they prefer prepared
meat.

That's not why they kill them, stupid.

They want food. They think they're providing me with the food to cook and prepare.

They get food out of a tin, they don't need to kill birds.

But they enjoy doing that anyway.

No, they do it because they think they're giving me raw materials to make
the catfood.

Even sillier and more pig ignorant than you
usually manage, and that's saying something.

Farm cats that never get fed by humans and who
have to feed themselves, do that present stuff too.

They are too stupid to notice that humans
don't eat that stuff unless they are chinese
or south americans.

They think the humans use it to make the cat food.