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. ![hehe](/inc/images/hehe.gif)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/12026653/Th...
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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. ![hehe](/inc/images/hehe.gif)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/12026653/Th...
Harvard scholar - i.e. a colonial who can't even spell "colour" correctly. Bah. ![hehe](/inc/images/hehe.gif)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/12026653/Th...
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(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 s
te 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
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