You know I have not the foggiest idea what you are talking about?
Brian
On 30/12/2022 08:58, Brian Gaff wrote:
You know I have not the foggiest idea what you are talking about?nothing new there then
No I remember 1963, walking along much higher up than usual then as it
thawed found a Mini roof in my footway.
From experience of that year, any gates to keep snow at bay would need
to
be very very strong, as I've seems drifts push over brick walls that
year.
Then when it all thawed mud was the problem, sliding into the street now that the wall had gone.
Where are people expected to store them if they don't have a garage or
shed? The living room?
Owning two sets of wheels can be fucking expensive with some cars.
If they're already on wheels, why do you need a tyre centre?
It's more fun with summer tyres. Just floor it and carve a path.
I find any car with ABS brakes excellently in snow. There's always a
wheel or two with a bit of traction, and it quickly swaps between them.
On 02/01/2023 19:52, rbowman wrote:
The house on the outside corner going the other way started with an ornate >> white wooden fence. Now they're up to railroad ties and a hardware store's >> worth of reflectors. Somebody will drive through it before winter's end.
There's a house just down the road we looked at before we bought this
one. We decided we didn't like the location.
It was a good call. They have a new front fence... but being the UK it's built of railway sleepers :)
I don't see anyone driving through it. A lorry might perhaps roll over it.
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I will continue to write English they way I was taught at school and
resist attempts to Americanise the language.
The use of single quotation marks appears to date to 1908, when Fowler recommended them in _The King's English_.
Americans would appear to be more conservative in their usage.
On Sun, 15 Jan 2023 23:05:57 +0000, Colin Bignell wrote:
On 15/01/2023 22:13, S Viemeister wrote:
On 15/01/2023 21:52, rbowman wrote:
On Sun, 15 Jan 2023 06:54:58 -0000, Commander Kinsey wrote:Was it perhaps 'Taggart'?
On Mon, 09 Jan 2023 17:13:57 -0000, rbowman <[email protected]>
wrote:
At least we don't start lisping in the middle of 'murder'.
Timestamp? A lisp is on an s, changed to a th. Hence lithp - the >>>>> word is unsuitable for it's own sufferers to use. I fail to see how >>>>> you can lisp a word with no s in it.
I've heard it pronounced something like 'murther'. It might have been
Henshall in 'Shetland'. His accent is a little different even in
'Primeval'
My thought exactly.
I haven't seen that one but threw it on my Netflix queue. I'll see how
that works out.
There's a rumor Netflix plans to drop the DVD business and
it's getting sketchy. I'm translating 'Very long wait' as 'Never, and
'Short Wait' for a Midsomer Murders Series 5 Disk 1 as 'Maybe'.
On Sat, 04 Feb 2023 20:15:21 -0000, Joe <[email protected]> wrote:
On Sat, 04 Feb 2023 18:15:57 -0000
"Commander Kinsey" <[email protected]> wrote:
I'd love to know the reason any language has this insanity of
masculine and feminine inanimate objects. Male and female is very
specific, it's to do with mating to reproduce, or to do with things
fitting inside other things (electrical connectors). If all cars are
feminine, how do they make more cars?
It goes back at least to Latin, with not only masculine and feminine
nouns, but also neuter ones.
That would make sense if masculine and feminine was for things which are actually masculine and feminine. A table should be neuter, but I bet it isn't.
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