Author Topic: The moaning old git thread (Read 534451 times)

2112 · « **Reply #2480 on:** February 21, 2020, 18:46:34 »

Unprecedented.

Is unprecedented the only word news agencies know these days ? I'm getting quite fed up by this unprecedented intrusion and the unprecedented use of the word unprecedented. This unprecedented use of the word unprecedented will be so overused it will become both unviable AND untenable at the same time...

Hugo Magnus · « **Reply #2481 on:** February 21, 2020, 18:56:58 »

tallpaul · « **Reply #2482 on:** February 21, 2020, 19:41:03 »

Congratulations. You just set a precedent for using the word unprecedented more than twice in a sentence.

MartinW · « **Reply #2483 on:** February 21, 2020, 19:44:30 »

That's ~~unprecedented~~ a record.

Brockett · « **Reply #2484 on:** February 21, 2020, 20:48:45 »

I thought Donald Trump was the precedent.

Barbel Mick · « **Reply #2485 on:** February 21, 2020, 22:05:42 »

TLPower · « **Reply #2486 on:** February 22, 2020, 05:46:36 »

Mick's car now has a present dent from his top box....

UK_Vstrom650 · « **Reply #2487 on:** March 07, 2020, 22:08:23 »

Bloody cars

I had to change the battery on the 2015 S-Max today as the stop/start and heated front windscreen were no longer working even after 'fully charging' the battery. What a pain in the

that was. To get to the battery, you have to remove the airbox - which requires removing several other bits bolted to it, then you can pull the battery forward to access the negative terminal (although the wires aren't long enough to allow the battery to be supported so it has to be wedged in the engine bay) then you can swap it over and reassemble. What should be a 10 minute job becomes a good hour of pratting about. I assume this is so people use dealers to sort out simple jobs and they can get £££s out of people

mr_diver · « **Reply #2488 on:** March 08, 2020, 19:13:02 »

Ford's answer is quite simple...
Drop the engine out the bottom and then you'll be able to simply swap the battery.

Rusty Nuts · « **Reply #2489 on:** March 23, 2020, 07:18:57 »

"Gender-neutral pronouns".
This has popped up yet again with Sam Smith hitting social media news. People refer to this singer as "they" because of Sam's decision to be "non- binary".
Whatever. Nice and fashionable. But "they" is clearly a plural. We, like Germany, already have a non-gender specific set of words. Er, Sie and Es, Der, Die and Das in German. We have he, she, and it. Why can't Sam Smith be it rather than they? It's non-gender, singular and fits the bill. Aerosmith are a they - more than one. Sam Smith (and all others in the same bracket) can be it. All we need to do is lose the perceived stigma about calling a person by a word we have, till now, only used for objects.

Fat Rat · « **Reply #2490 on:** March 23, 2020, 09:53:39 »

Our species consists of male and female, if people want refer to themselves as a Table Lamp instead, I have no opinion, just don't expect me to sign up to the nonsense.

Ianmc · « **Reply #2491 on:** March 23, 2020, 10:34:15 »

Who is Sam Smith ?,never heard of it.

Froglodyte · « **Reply #2492 on:** March 23, 2020, 10:46:17 »

He brews very nice beer in Tadcaster, Ian

Rusty Nuts · « **Reply #2493 on:** March 23, 2020, 10:51:15 »

FR, I was mostly moaning about the linguistic side of all that, using words wrongly when we have perfectly suitable words already.

Fat Rat · « **Reply #2494 on:** March 23, 2020, 11:02:21 »

I am violently agreeing

Ianmc · « **Reply #2495 on:** March 23, 2020, 12:14:12 »

“who is Sam Smith”
I know of Smiths Brewery Alan,I had to go there on a breakdown about 20 yrs ago.The smell of the hops took me back the 1950’s,I used to live about 200 yds from Bank’s Brewery in Walsall when I was a mixed infant.
Still never heard of “Sam Smith”,is he/she/it famous?

MartinW · « **Reply #2496 on:** March 23, 2020, 12:31:20 »

Fancy using the phrase "mixed infant" in this thread.

tallpaul · « **Reply #2497 on:** March 23, 2020, 12:33:50 »

Mixed infant? Is that a drink?

Ianmc · « **Reply #2498 on:** March 23, 2020, 12:36:58 »

That’s what my first school was called, a “mixed infants”.Looking back in this thread I have spotted he is a singer.I shall have to“Wikipedia” him.

Rusty Nuts · « **Reply #2499 on:** March 23, 2020, 12:49:14 »

Them. It. Whatever.