[David9694]

A new catch-all Tea Shop thread for those miscellaneous new stories that don’t quite fit with parking, crashing into buildings or trapped/prisoners in their homes. 

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[David9694]

Is my rim brake bike rimmed?

Is my rim brake bike rimmed? “I was riding my rimmed bike the other day”

[Rendel Harris]

bensynnock wrote:

bensynnock wrote:

Except of course that disced and disked are in fact in the dictionary.

Not in the sense used here they are not*, or at least not in either edition I own of the Oxford English Dictionary. Be interested to hear which dictionaries they are in.

*There is a sense “like a disc” as in “the tree’s disced canopy”

[bensynnock]

Except of course that disced
Except of course that disced and disked are in fact in the dictionary.

[brooksby]

stonojnr wrote:

stonojnr wrote:

I’d have used “disc’d” or “disc’ed”

I’m having flashbacks to reading Pynchon’s “Mason & Dixon”… 

[brooksby]

ktache wrote:

A diamond disk will make fairly short work of it and my Hiplock dx1000.

(edited) I’d hope that there aren’t too many thieves wandering around with battery-powered diamond-disced* angle grinders that have been fitted with diamond discs…

 

*”disced” just looks wrong, doesn’t it?  But “disked” doesn’t look any better. 

[stonojnr]

I’d have used “disc’d” or
I’d have used “disc’d” or “disc’ed”

[Rendel Harris]

bensynnock wrote:

bensynnock wrote:

I’m not sure that absence from the dictionary makes a word wrong, just not conventional.

That’s a huge debate and one which could keep – and has kept – linguists and philologists in gainful employment for decades. Generally speaking though the OED is assiduous in gathering up all the words of the English language without making any judgement upon them, so if a word is not in the OED it seems most likely that it is not (yet) part of the language. Maybe one day it will be and brooksby will be cited as the original source! 

[bensynnock]

I’m not sure that absence
I’m not sure that absence from the dictionary makes a word wrong, just not conventional.

[Rendel Harris]

brooksby wrote:

*”disced” just looks wrong, doesn’t it?  But “disked” doesn’t look any better. 

I think because both of them are wrong (at least there’s no adjective “disced” or “disked” in either my concise or complete versions of the Oxford dictionary), there’s no need to modify the noun to use it adjectivally, just “diamond disc angle grinders” is fine, in the same way we say “disc brake bikes” not “disced brake bikes”. “Angle grinders with diamond discs” might be a slightly more elegant way of expressing it?

[mdavidford]

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The signage is said to be 40cm too close to the kerb

…because it’s not nearly obstructive enough of the footway as it is now.

[wtjs]

I’d hope that there aren’t

I’d hope that there aren’t too many thieves wandering around with battery-powered diamond-disced* angle grinders…

I’d like to think that our ‘among the best in the world’ crims, armed and encouraged by police inaction and ‘can’t be arsed’ attitude, will not be discouraged by the hardly taxing job of putting a different disc onto their battery powered angle grinders

[David9694]

Allington residents and

Allington residents and motorists clash as Kent County Council and Croudace argue over ‘no entry’ signs 40cm out of place

Last Friday, George Powell, of Howard Drive in Allington near Maidstone found another driver waiting for him when he left his house to take his wife to her job at Maidstone Grammar School.

The 73-year-old, who has lived there for 13 years, said: “He beckoned at me and when I wound the car window down, he leaned on the car in a threatening manner and began swearing at me.”

Two days earlier, Mr Powell had told the man that he shouldn’t be driving through the “busgate” which connects the new Hermitage Park estate with the older properties in Allington.

“He was very intimidating,” said the pensioner. “And he told me to mind my own f****** business.

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/news/new-no-entry-signs-40cm-too-close-to-kerb-at-bus-lane-abus-314174/

[chrisonabike]

wtjs wrote:

 clearly isn’t one of life’s winners but yet our laws can’t see him deprived of his right to drive for life

Looks like Rab C. Nesbitt!

Sadly that is the first thing I thought…

[wtjs]

 clearly isn’t one of life’s

 clearly isn’t one of life’s winners but yet our laws can’t see him deprived of his right to drive for life

Looks like Rab C. Nesbitt!

[ktache]

Good spot.

Good spot.

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