One for the spelling police
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Vipers said:
Twunt of the day. Van abandoned (because it's certainly not parked) a good 2 ft from the kerb, and one irate trucker fuming as he cant get pass, plus about another 6 taxi drivers queuing to turn into the road after the truck, as at the end of the one way street is a taxi rank.
Trucker finally manages to get pass with millimetres to spare, and I mean millimetres. Certainly not enough for a fire tender to get pass.
I came back exactly 59 minutes later heading back to the car park and the van was still there. Fortunately the name of the school was on the door, so I fired off a polite email to them about their driver who has absolutely no idea of how to park, and almost bought part of Aberdeen to a standstill.
Obviously wasn't sure whether to write 'passed' or 'past' so wrote 'pass' insteadTrucker finally manages to get pass with millimetres to spare, and I mean millimetres. Certainly not enough for a fire tender to get pass.
I came back exactly 59 minutes later heading back to the car park and the van was still there. Fortunately the name of the school was on the door, so I fired off a polite email to them about their driver who has absolutely no idea of how to park, and almost bought part of Aberdeen to a standstill.
Edited by ATTAK Z on Tuesday 1st December 17:50
For those of us who sometimes like to get it right, here is a list of the most commonly misused words and phrases. 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/12026653/Th...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/12026653/Th...
Ace-T said:
For those of us who sometimes like to get it right, here is a list of the most commonly misused words and phrases.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/12026653/Th...
Harvard scholar - i.e. a colonial who can't even spell "colour" correctly. Bah. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/12026653/Th...
(and they don't even list "more than" as in "5 times more than" vs. "5 times as many as" ).
CS Garth said:
Apologies for sounding harsh but that is the most mind numbingly mundane story of white goods based disposal I have ever heard. This is a motoring forum not a municiple facility review forum.
I look forward to tales of an epic road trip to pick up a whisk or your favourite driving road to the local euronics centre to acquire Hoover bags
I look forward to tales of an epic road trip to pick up a whisk or your favourite driving road to the local euronics centre to acquire Hoover bags
S0 What said:
I often get asked as a mechanic why do i drive a 27 year old TD pickup truck and not a more modern vehical with all that great extra power and MPG ?
Well this is why \/
Back ground is, citroen dispatch 1.6 HDI, owned from new, serviced regular IE 6K on the dot, millage now at 98K.
It recently came in for a it's 10 year timming belt and water pump change and could i find out what the new rattle was, the new rattle was the timming chain tensioner had shatterd resulting in a top end rebuild, nowt exciting there but what i found in this well serviced and looked after van was !
si using lots of this The actual head inlet runners where blcked even worse but they needed 4 hours on and off with a blow lamp to burn off the oils leaving only the carbon i could hoover out ( i blew up 3 hoovers doing this so find a cheap/scrap one first) .
Other residue from the clean up Total bill for this was ni on a grand (with 2 new CVs discs and pads), that was mates rates and took about a week to compleat.
just thought i'd share what i do daily and why i drive that old shed of a pickup, without and EGR and without a highly stressed turbo, all turbos let by some oil but add this to the crap an egr add into the inlet and you have a sticky paist that is simply a b
h to remove, in fact 2 walls of my workshop now need re whitewashing due to the filthy black ste splashing all over the dam place, my overalls are fit only for the bin and my fingernails will be black for weeks, i hate diesel oil and soot !!!
I wonder how often he is asked if he can spell his own name.....;)Well this is why \/
Back ground is, citroen dispatch 1.6 HDI, owned from new, serviced regular IE 6K on the dot, millage now at 98K.
It recently came in for a it's 10 year timming belt and water pump change and could i find out what the new rattle was, the new rattle was the timming chain tensioner had shatterd resulting in a top end rebuild, nowt exciting there but what i found in this well serviced and looked after van was !
si using lots of this The actual head inlet runners where blcked even worse but they needed 4 hours on and off with a blow lamp to burn off the oils leaving only the carbon i could hoover out ( i blew up 3 hoovers doing this so find a cheap/scrap one first) .
Other residue from the clean up Total bill for this was ni on a grand (with 2 new CVs discs and pads), that was mates rates and took about a week to compleat.
just thought i'd share what i do daily and why i drive that old shed of a pickup, without and EGR and without a highly stressed turbo, all turbos let by some oil but add this to the crap an egr add into the inlet and you have a sticky paist that is simply a b
h to remove, in fact 2 walls of my workshop now need re whitewashing due to the filthy black ste splashing all over the dam place, my overalls are fit only for the bin and my fingernails will be black for weeks, i hate diesel oil and soot !!!Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff