XPost: alt.home.repair
From: xenolith@optusnet.com.au
On 27/9/2023 12:41 pm, micky wrote:
> In alt.home.repair, on Tue, 26 Sep 2023 16:16:14 +1000, Xeno
> wrote:
>
>> On 26/9/2023 3:16 pm, The Real Bev wrote:
>>> On 9/25/23 8:42 PM, Xeno wrote:
>>>> On 26/9/2023 1:26 pm, The Real Bev wrote:
>>>>> On 9/25/23 1:37 AM, Xeno wrote:
>>>>>> On 25/9/2023 3:14 am, The Real Bev wrote:
>>>>>>> On 9/24/23 1:09 AM, Xeno wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 24/9/2023 3:23 pm, The Real Bev wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 9/23/23 9:38 PM, Xeno wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On 24/9/2023 1:15 pm, Jim Joyce wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> I absolutely do not want one. I guess I'm not part of the
>>>>>>>>>>> target market because
>>>>>>>>>>> I don't see any pros, only cons.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I'm with you! It not only looks stupid, it *is* stupid.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I wonder how often you have to replace the tires. If you have
>>>>>>>>> them remounted to use the other side, does that mark you as a poser?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Just having that crazy shit on your car marks you as a poseur! ;-)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Just spelling it with a U marks you as a poser!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Not on this side of the world it doesn't. That's the version in common
>>>>>> use here, don't blame us for your need to simplify words.
>>>>>
>>>>> :-) That would be the bottom side, then? Aussies use FRENCH spelling?
>>>>>
>>>> It went from the French, adopted by the English, then *transported* to
>>>> Aus.
>>>
>>> PLEASE don't tell me you pronounce it with the accent on the second
>>> syllable...
>>>
>> Ok, I won't tell you.
>
> I would have thought a poser is someone who poses for pictures and a
> poseur, with the stress on the second syllable, is someone who pretends
> to be what he's not.
That's pretty much the way we see it on this side of the Pacific.
--
Xeno
Nothing astonishes Noddy so much as common sense and plain dealing.
(with apologies to Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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