XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y   
   From: CFKinsey@military.org.jp   
      
   On Mon, 06 May 2019 20:00:11 +0100, Rod Speed  wrote:   
      
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   > "Commander Kinsey"  wrote in message   
   > news:op.z1dsdawawdg98l@desktop-ga2mpl8.lan...   
   >> On Mon, 06 May 2019 00:35:54 +0100, Rod Speed    
   >> wrote:   
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   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> "Commander Kinsey"  wrote in message   
   >>> news:op.z1b04czrwdg98l@desktop-ga2mpl8.lan...   
   >>>> On Sun, 05 May 2019 19:08:24 +0100, Rod Speed    
   >>>> wrote:   
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   >>>>>   
   >>>>> "Commander Kinsey"  wrote in message   
   >>>>> news:op.z1buwkkiwdg98l@desktop-ga2mpl8.lan...   
   >>>>>> On Sun, 05 May 2019 17:20:30 +0100, Rod Speed   
   >>>>>>    
   >>>>>> wrote:   
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   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> "Commander Kinsey"  wrote in message   
   >>>>>>> news:op.z1bqs9czwdg98l@desktop-ga2mpl8.lan...   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> The trouble with putting a tire on your car is it's not   
   >>>>>>>> distinguishable   
   >>>>>>>> from running out of energy.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Of course its distinguishable from the context.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> It still makes you look like an American dumbass.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Only to fools like you.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I use proper English.   
   >>>   
   >>> I couldn't care less what stupid poms claim is proper english.   
   >>>   
   >>>>>>>>>> Do you also say aloominum, erb, stoopid, stoodent?   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>> Nope, and I say tire the same way you do too.   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> But I know how to spell it properly.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> I know how you poms spell it and arent silly enough to spell it that   
   >>>>>>> way.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> We invented the language.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Nope, you stole it from everyone else.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> It's called English, because it's from England.   
   >>>   
   >>> Wrong again, and it isnt from that soggy little   
   >>> frigid island anyway, its stolen from all sorts   
   >>> of places all over the world, even from the pakis.   
   >>   
   >> We combined several languages   
   >   
   > Had many fancy words imposed by those unspeakable   
   > Normans with the worst of the grovellers to the Norman   
   > invaders choosing to use norman words when english   
   > already had perfectly serviceable words like fuck and   
   > arse and dick etc already.   
      
   We still use fuck and arse and dick, what are you talking about?   
      
   >> and made the universal language that most of the world uses.   
   >   
   > But had quite a bit of the world that used that language choose   
   > to bin some of the sillier aspects of it and do their own.   
      
   Yeah the stoopid yanks fucked everything up, they call solder sodder.  There   
   is an L!   
      
   > And you lot have always had plenty of unique regional words   
   > that hardly any of the rest of england, let alone the rest of the   
   > world had even heard of too.   
      
   And we laugh at those morons, specifically the Glaswegians.   
      
   > That's the way living languages work.   
   >   
   > Only the stupid frogs have ever been actually stupid enough   
   > to have a handful of stuffed shirts proclaim what words can   
   > and cannot be used and how they must be spelt.   
      
   France has regional dialects too.  I met a bloke who said sink instead of sank   
   (as in the number 5, cinq).   
      
   >>>>>> 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 fucking idiot.   
   >   
   > Only a few fools like you.   
      
   No, most people laugh at those who can't spell.   
      
   >> 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?  Just use the   
   right one in the first place.   
      
   >>>>>>>>>>> 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,   
      
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