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I don’t know what plane it is
I don’t know what plane it is, but I would have thought that’s more likely a landing gear bay that they’ve forgotten to close, seeing as they don’t appear to have any anywhere else. Although given the rather peculiar looking propeller design I’m surprised they managed to fly at all.
so anyway, has anyone waxed their chain lately?Absolutely, but you’re surely not claiming that as an American import?
[Oh, wait – did you say ‘chain’…?]
It probably does count as a
It probably does count as a loanword from American English, having been mostly lost in British English*, but that’s not the same thing as an Americanism, which implies coinage in America.
[* Formal British English, anyway – how much it remained in colloquial/dialectical English and how much that contributed to readoption is another question again.]
That doesn’t make it an
That doesn’t make it an americanism. It came from here originally.
And even if they have got(ten) it from how people talk in America, so what? This is how language works. If you got rid of everything imported into (British) English from other languages, well there wouldn’t be much left.
I meant the ‘gotten‘ah, another Americanism creeping in to UK English
Except, like a lot of these things, it isn’t an americanism. It’s been around since Middle English. It would be more accurate to describe the use of ‘got’ in dynamic situations as a ‘britishism’.
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Even if you’d been riding
Even if you’d been riding right over in the gutter, and even if they could have done so without breaking the speed limit, I can’t see where in that clip they think anyone would have been able to safely overtake you anyway, given oncoming traffic, parked cars, bend in the road, junctions, etc…
In fairness, it’s hard to see
In fairness, it’s hard to see where the lines are when there’s all those cars in the way…
Officials are being
Officials are being obstructive by refusing to magic money out of thin air to spaff on political appointments:
Ah, true – missed that – just
Ah, true – missed that – just a quote from a random shoehorned in to pad the story out.
All that said, “bombs on
All that said, “bombs on wheels” is, er, perhaps a touch hyperbolic…
Less great to know that they
Less great to know that they seemingly haven’t bothered paying attention to what’s actually been agreed, though:
“Parking remains free for civic hall users”
Oh.
You left out: come on forum
You left out: come on forum to post about how easy it all was and how anyone who complains about disc brakes is a Luddite / what a nightmare it all was and how disc brakes are a terrible conspiracy by Big Bike [delete as appropriate]
Also, it doesn’t appear that
Also, it doesn’t appear that this is a ‘self-driving’ car, so this excuse could presumably be used for any reasonably recent car out there.
Cross? It makes me bloody
Cross? It makes me bloody furious!