XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y   
   From: CFKinsey@military.org.jp   
      
   On Tue, 07 May 2019 23:30:04 +0100, Rod Speed  wrote:   
      
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   > "Commander Kinsey"  wrote in message   
   > news:op.z1funfnkwdg98l@desktop-ga2mpl8.lan...   
   >> On Tue, 07 May 2019 02:49:54 +0100, Rod Speed    
   >> wrote:   
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   >>> "Commander Kinsey"  wrote in message   
   >>> news:op.z1d7h3x1wdg98l@desktop-ga2mpl8.lan...   
   >>>> On Mon, 06 May 2019 20:44:56 +0100, Rod Speed    
   >>>> wrote:   
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   >>>>> "Commander Kinsey"  wrote in message   
   >>>>> news:op.z1dt8mopwdg98l@desktop-ga2mpl8.lan...   
   >>>>>> On Mon, 06 May 2019 20:00:11 +0100, Rod Speed   
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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   
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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   
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   >>>>>>>>>> wrote:   
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   >>>>>>>>>>> "Commander Kinsey"  wrote in message   
   >>>>>>>>>>> news:op.z1buwkkiwdg98l@desktop-ga2mpl8.lan...   
   >>>>>>>>>>>> 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.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> 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 fucked 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 fuck 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 bullshit 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 fucking 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, shitty 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.   
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