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[dprac1ng]

 

Spud_133, on 04 Oct 2014 - 4:47 PM, said:

Am I the only one who often has to correct people from saying stupid things, and sometimes just things which are wrong, like last night, me and my girlfriend were following a focus RS, and I said that I liked them, however she said her friend had one in bright orange, and I had to stop myself saying it isn't an RS then, it's only an St, but I stopped

Sometimes you can't help it. I've got a friend who always says "pacific" instead of "specific". It drives me mad and I tell her every time. She gets really annoyed and says "does it actually matter??". I think it does because it's just WRONG!. Correcting someone on a car though when they wouldn't know (or care) about the difference. Does it really matter?? You tend to end up with lots of eye rolling in reply  and I think you were right to stop yourself there.

 

 

Me and my mate can't even talk without everyone in the room getting up and walking out... Usually it revolves around how one of the school bus driver's should not have passed his test etc etc. Mostly car stuff or engineering stuff. Anyone know what we are doing wrong?

[Ben_O]

 

 

Spud_133, on 04 Oct 2014 - 4:47 PM, said:

Am I the only one who often has to correct people from saying stupid things, and sometimes just things which are wrong, like last night, me and my girlfriend were following a focus RS, and I said that I liked them, however she said her friend had one in bright orange, and I had to stop myself saying it isn't an RS then, it's only an St, but I stopped

Sometimes you can't help it. I've got a friend who always says "pacific" instead of "specific". It drives me mad and I tell her every time. She gets really annoyed and says "does it actually matter??". I think it does because it's just WRONG!. Correcting someone on a car though when they wouldn't know (or care) about the difference. Does it really matter?? You tend to end up with lots of eye rolling in reply  and I think you were right to stop yourself there.

 

 

Me and my mate can't even talk without everyone in the room getting up and walking out... Usually it revolves around how one of the school bus driver's should not have passed his test etc etc. Mostly car stuff or engineering stuff. Anyone know what we are doing wrong?

 

It's just one of those things.

 

when i start talking about the Mini in front of people who don't get it, they loose interest pretty quickly.

[dprac1ng]

 

 

 

Spud_133, on 04 Oct 2014 - 4:47 PM, said:

Am I the only one who often has to correct people from saying stupid things, and sometimes just things which are wrong, like last night, me and my girlfriend were following a focus RS, and I said that I liked them, however she said her friend had one in bright orange, and I had to stop myself saying it isn't an RS then, it's only an St, but I stopped

Sometimes you can't help it. I've got a friend who always says "pacific" instead of "specific". It drives me mad and I tell her every time. She gets really annoyed and says "does it actually matter??". I think it does because it's just WRONG!. Correcting someone on a car though when they wouldn't know (or care) about the difference. Does it really matter?? You tend to end up with lots of eye rolling in reply  and I think you were right to stop yourself there.

 

 

Me and my mate can't even talk without everyone in the room getting up and walking out... Usually it revolves around how one of the school bus driver's should not have passed his test etc etc. Mostly car stuff or engineering stuff. Anyone know what we are doing wrong?

 

It's just one of those things.

 

when i start talking about the Mini in front of people who don't get it, they loose interest pretty quickly.

 

Haha I just have to mention my Mini and everyone leaves. I don't talk about it anymore. Even my mate gets bored because he doesn't like Mini's. I was once asked to tell my mates as much about Mini's as I knew. They were trapped in a room and got fairly angry pretty quickly. I only got uo to 1961...

[M J W J]

What is the point of car alarms? No one pays any attention to them apart from the owner of the car and usually they are a long way away so can't hear it.

 

Also I am fairly sure that I saw an ice cream man earlier dealing drugs. Either that or there are some really chavvy teenagers in Market Drayton who have seriously bad ice cream addiction and need to buy ice-cream in the pitch black and pouring rain at 8:20 pm in the evening. What's funny is you can see the smoke rising up from around the group of them as they are smoking.

 

Considering where the ice-cream van was parked I know which one I am putting my money on.

[Ben_O]

What is the point of car alarms? No one pays any attention to them apart from the owner of the car and usually they are a long way away so can't hear it.

 

Also I am fairly sure that I saw an ice cream man earlier dealing drugs. Either that or there are some really chavvy teenagers in Market Drayton who have seriously bad ice cream addiction and need to buy ice-cream in the pitch black and pouring rain at 8:20 pm in the evening. What's funny is you can see the smoke rising up from around the group of them as they are smoking.

 

Considering where the ice-cream van was parked I know which one I am putting my money on.

It is surprising how many people either don't recognise their Alarm or even know their car has one!

 

I had a Sparkrite alarm from Argos on my first car in 02 and it used to talk. 'CAUTION! THIS VEHICLE IS FITTED WITH AN ALARM, PLEASE STEP BACK'

 

The panic button on the fob also made it say that too, used to be funny pressing it as people walked past.

 

Looking back, it seems really sad..

[M J W J]

 

What is the point of car alarms? No one pays any attention to them apart from the owner of the car and usually they are a long way away so can't hear it.

 

Also I am fairly sure that I saw an ice cream man earlier dealing drugs. Either that or there are some really chavvy teenagers in Market Drayton who have seriously bad ice cream addiction and need to buy ice-cream in the pitch black and pouring rain at 8:20 pm in the evening. What's funny is you can see the smoke rising up from around the group of them as they are smoking.

 

Considering where the ice-cream van was parked I know which one I am putting my money on.

It is surprising how many people either don't recognise their Alarm or even know their car has one!

 

I had a Sparkrite alarm from Argos on my first car in 02 and it used to talk. 'CAUTION! THIS VEHICLE IS FITTED WITH AN ALARM, PLEASE STEP BACK'

 

The panic button on the fob also made it say that too, used to be funny pressing it as people walked past.

 

Looking back, it seems really sad..

 

 

I once had some really ugly fat woman ask me if we sold "personal alarms' (to use their correct name) when I worked at wilkos. We did and she bought one.

 

I couldn't help think if she did have to set it off (unlikely) and someone did turn up to help, who would they try and help? The fat woman because they thought someone was attacking her or the person attacking her as they thought the fat woman was trying to eat them?

[Miniminx71]

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Edited by Miniminx71, 06 October 2014 - 11:05 PM.

[Ben_O]

Is it Volks wagen or vokes vargen

[Miniminx71]

Ben_O, on 09 Oct 2014 - 12:33 AM, said:

Is it Volks wagen or vokes vargen

Folks Vaggen - just to annoy you

[Ben_O]

When i was a kid, I pronounced Peugeot, Pergetto and my brother pronounced it Puegit 

[sledgehammer]

When i was a kid, I pronounced Peugeot, Pergetto and my brother pronounced it Puegit 

 

I just call em Pug's

[M J W J]

Why am I getting adverts for Smyths Toys when ever I go to log in to my e-mails or view the mighty car mods forum without logging in?

 

It does make a change though from the normal hot Russian single girls in your area or Euro car parts adverts that I seam to get.

[Ben_O]

Apparently the adverts are based on your browsing history

[M J W J]

Apparently the adverts are based on your browsing history

 

I've heard this and I think its somewhat true but I don't think its as clever as people think. I think they can just work out whether your male or female and send you adverts accordingly or adverts that fall into a category that you are looking at.

 

If it was based on what I have been searching, then in the last 3 days I should have be getting adverts for clothes (was looking at Asda George website), sheet steel (looking for metal merchants in my area) and RC plane parts (ripmax website).

 

Its usually Asian girls in my area that I seam to get rather than Russian. I think it picks up on my friend Dodo (nickname of a Thai girl I went to university with) when I talk to her via e-mail, linked-in or skype. She has told me she gets adverts on "how to get a green card" to the USA, Europe, etc for a while after she has spoken to me.

 

I often seam to get adverts for RS components and Nicki Minaj which I have never searched in my life.

 

I haven't been searching for anything to do with kids toys either which is really puzzling why I am suddenly getting adverts for.

Edited by M J W J, 11 October 2014 - 09:40 PM.

[M J W J]

A few that I have had today.

 

Who invented the spoon?

 

How many hypochondriacs have gone to their doctor's thinking they have Ebola and wanted to get some antibiotics for it when in reality all they have is a cold and antibiotics do nothing for viral infections?

 

And then after I started thinking about the above I combined the two random thoughts above together and came up with.

 

Is fairy liquid able to clean an Ebola contaminated spoon enough so its safe to use? This could potentially make a good PR stunt for the people who make fairy liquid.