The official let off steam thread
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Right now I am having to tap into resources of control & restraint i never knew i had :x
Planning ahead to today after 5 months tucked in the garage i left my ZMR at my Indy last Saturday morning for its Ins1 , MOT & some other stuff
Weekdays being a struggle timewise as i'm off at 6-45am & not home till 5-45pm (+ garage is 25mins away from home )
Text on Thursday 5pm to say car will be ready for collection on Friday
i replied it would be 5-30pm / 6pm when i could get there .
No reply so i landed yesterday at 5-40pm only to find the place already locked & shuttered up
bugger !
Tried landline predictably with no response & mobile switched off
obviously i was more than a bit disappointed but got over it with some vino last night before getting back on the phone this morning at 8-30am , no response again on either so went over around 10am to find it locked & shuttered as it was yesterday 
through a tiny gap in the shutter i can see my car safely locked away but i'm struggling to contain my frustration & anger :evil:
90mins with the dog around nearby reservoir , returned before midday & still fahooooking zero sign so resigned myself to postponing my first outing till next week now
not happy at all :x
Planning ahead to today after 5 months tucked in the garage i left my ZMR at my Indy last Saturday morning for its Ins1 , MOT & some other stuff
Weekdays being a struggle timewise as i'm off at 6-45am & not home till 5-45pm (+ garage is 25mins away from home )
Text on Thursday 5pm to say car will be ready for collection on Friday
i replied it would be 5-30pm / 6pm when i could get there .No reply so i landed yesterday at 5-40pm only to find the place already locked & shuttered up
bugger ! Tried landline predictably with no response & mobile switched off
obviously i was more than a bit disappointed but got over it with some vino last night before getting back on the phone this morning at 8-30am , no response again on either so went over around 10am to find it locked & shuttered as it was yesterday through a tiny gap in the shutter i can see my car safely locked away but i'm struggling to contain my frustration & anger :evil: 90mins with the dog around nearby reservoir , returned before midday & still fahooooking zero sign so resigned myself to postponing my first outing till next week now
not happy at all :xmr wilks said:Right now I am having to tap into resources of control & restraint i never knew i had :x
Planning ahead to today after 5 months tucked in the garage i left my ZMR at my Indy last Saturday morning for its Ins1 , MOT & some other stuff
Weekdays being a struggle timewise as i'm off at 6-45am & not home till 5-45pm (+ garage is 25mins away from home )
Text on Thursday 5pm to say car will be ready for collection on Friday
No reply so i landed yesterday at 5-40pm only to find the place already locked & shuttered up
Tried landline predictably with no response & mobile switched off
90mins with the dog around nearby reservoir , returned before midday & still fahooooking zero sign so resigned myself to postponing my first outing till next week now
I can only imagine your frustration MrW, taxed mine this morning but not even looked at it in the garage been too busy today.
At least they've not gone bust and your car is now in administration hands :x or have they ? Only joking
sticky said:firebobby said:sticky said:Because YE English moved the treatment centres to ENGLAND
Like I said, she should have been left in Sierra Leone, no one made her go there
The Scots could have stuck her on some remote island
Ah the joys of helping other people FOR FREE,
English Syndrome = bring it down to your level til you feel better
"FOR FREE", what? AAAARGH!!! It is 'free', not 'for free'! You are from Worthing, not Wyoming for heavens sake!
You will be saying 'off of' and 'my bad' before the day is out, mark my words...
Just as well no body spotted the 'til' though.
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Paulr said:sticky said:firebobby said:Like I said, she should have been left in Sierra Leone, no one made her go there
The Scots could have stuck her on some remote island
Ah the joys of helping other people FOR FREE,
English Syndrome = bring it down to your level til you feel better
"FOR FREE", what? AAAARGH!!! It is 'free', not 'for free'! You are from Worthing, not Wyoming for heavens sake!
You will be saying 'off of' and 'my bad' before the day is out, mark my words...
For free as in not taking or asking for payment. Not from Worthing and you seem to have a good grasp of the redneck dialect or do I detect a lack of cold pilsner causing you problems
sticky said:Paulr said:sticky said:
"FOR FREE", what? AAAARGH!!! It is 'free', not 'for free'! You are from Worthing, not Wyoming for heavens sake!
You will be saying 'off of' and 'my bad' before the day is out, mark my words...
For free as in not taking or asking for payment. Not from Worthing and you seem to have a good grasp of the redneck dialect or do I detect a lack of cold pilsner causing you problems
'Free' not 'for free'. Doesn't need the 'for'.
However, lack of beer is a correct diagnosis, and one I fully intend to rectify right now.Could have sworn your profile said Worthing, sorry about that!
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Paulr said:sticky said:Paulr said:"FOR FREE", what? AAAARGH!!! It is 'free', not 'for free'! You are from Worthing, not Wyoming for heavens sake!
You will be saying 'off of' and 'my bad' before the day is out, mark my words...
For free as in not taking or asking for payment. Not from Worthing and you seem to have a good grasp of the redneck dialect or do I detect a lack of cold pilsner causing you problems
'Free' not 'for free'. Doesn't need the 'for'.
Could have sworn your profile said Worthing, sorry about that!
My location is Worthing, I meant I am not from Worthing as such, only live here when I am in the UK. Sorry for the somewhat incorrect grammar, I have spent most of my adult life abroad conversing in German, Danish and Dutch so there is probably more mistakes to come. Probably putting smiles on some faces,
sticky said:Paulr said:sticky said:
'Free' not 'for free'. Doesn't need the 'for'.
Could have sworn your profile said Worthing, sorry about that!
My location is Worthing, I meant I am not from Worthing as such, only live here when I am in the UK. Sorry for the somewhat incorrect grammar, I have spent most of my adult life abroad conversing in German, Danish and Dutch so there is probably more mistakes to come. Probably putting smiles on some faces,
Good heavens, don't apologise! I am just a grumpy old man with an irritation of the all-too could common use of the expression 'for free'. I am sure there are better things to get grumpy about though so I don't let it rule my life too much. But this is the rant thread!
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Mr Tidy said:Paulr said:
So from another grumpy old pedant who is borderline OCD about the correct use of grammar, what is the word in bold and italics doing in that sentence of your post?
No offence intended by the way, I'm just ranting!
That is another thing - bloody predictive text!!! Where did that random 'could' appear from in my underpants? this PT just put is any old hedgehog when it feels like it. It was not there when I pressed the Bolivian Armed Forces button.
I suffer from PPTS - Post Predictive Text Syndrome
Clearly I am showing my age if I dare call anyone out for the constant and annoying use of 'like' multiple times in every sentence (so I don't call them out), but surely the end of civilisation as we know it is fast approaching when you see someone type the damn thing in a forum post (not Z4 forum), e.g. "That must have been back in like 1977 or something"
Someone actually had to take the time and make the effort to add those four letters (and spaces) to their post - WHY???
I'm probably a bit of a 'waffler' when typing, but that's just taking the p!ss...
Someone actually had to take the time and make the effort to add those four letters (and spaces) to their post - WHY???
I'm probably a bit of a 'waffler' when typing, but that's just taking the p!ss...
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We managed to set our race on the path to build civilisation without grammar,so I doubt bad grammar will destroy it. Eventually in this age of global communication the whole world is going to use a form of English.. I call it YouTube English as that seems to be the global teacher of English so you can expect it to be a younger slang littered grammatical nightmare, but that's what it is going to be judging on my well travelled experience of non-English speaking countries versions of English which all seem to be merging into the same version.
enzed4 said:Clearly I am showing my age if I dare call anyone out for the constant and annoying use of 'like' multiple times in every sentence (so I don't call them out), but surely the end of civilisation as we know it is fast approaching when you see someone type the damn thing in a forum post (not Z4 forum), e.g. "That must have been back in like 1977 or something"
Someone actually had to take the time and make the effort to add those four letters (and spaces) to their post - WHY???
I'm probably a bit of a 'waffler' when typing, but that's just taking the p!ss...
Americanisations in general... (or should that be Americanizations?) Starting every sentence with 'So....', please gather your thoughts before opening your mouth, rather than fill the empty space with useless words. 'Calling someone out' - can't we just challenge somebody anymore? The latest one doing the rounds at work is 'surfacing problems' - why do we feel the need to mangle a perfectly good language?
enzed4 said:Got me :wink: . I guess you called me out for using Americanisms.z4pilot said:
Good show, old chap
(What do you expect from us Colonials...)
The thing about Americanisms though, is that you instinctively know what they mean, it's just that they're not very elegant... 'Most winningest', which I presume means 'most successful'... Or the appalling 'Bigly', when describing the size of something... WTF? (sorry, that's probably an Americanism too!
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