Brake rotors and other Americanisms.
Brake rotors and other Americanisms.
You buy yourself a nice shiny new bike with disc brakes. Fast forward x miles and you find yourself searching online for replacement parts.
Why on earth do UK resellers insist on selling you rotors for you disc-braked bike?!
Look up car parts and you don’t* find rotors listed under brake parts.
What Americanisms annoy you?
*unless you’re shopping online for parts for your car imported from America that I had to do a number of years ago.
Why on earth do UK resellers insist on selling you rotors for you disc-braked bike?!
Look up car parts and you don’t* find rotors listed under brake parts.
What Americanisms annoy you?
*unless you’re shopping online for parts for your car imported from America that I had to do a number of years ago.
Re: Brake rotors and other Americanisms.
Tires
The older I get the more I’m inclined to act my shoe size, not my age.
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peetee wrote:Tires
Just means "runs out of energy", surely.
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I find if I widen my mind,Americanisms within the (constantly evolving)English language don't trouble me at at all .
What I do find mildly irritating are people who think UK citizens have the right to lay claim to a language that's beyond their control a is somehow preserved in aspic
What I do find mildly irritating are people who think UK citizens have the right to lay claim to a language that's beyond their control a is somehow preserved in aspic
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Re: Brake rotors and other Americanisms.
Rotor=disc?
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I don't mind Americanisms if they add something.
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Now I will 'fess up that I detest all Americanisms but only because they're American. This is generally known as a prejudice of the xenophobic kind - not a vice I care to have .... but I somehow have it when the Yank hoves into view.
Such feeling about other nations are absent from my word-processing wetware. I'm sure that my detestation of Yank is something unpleasant growing like a metaphysical brain tumour, caused by the toxic elements of Yank kulture with it's many gross and inhumane attitudes, habits, pastimes, violence, "winners-losers" shtick (that's Yank!) and other doings of a grating nature.
Once I enjoyed American cultural stuff - when I was a bairn and probably too naive to recognise just how addictive & toxic their pervasive violent & aggressive attitudes are. Slowly, the light dawned. I now resent not only their gross behaviours in the world but their ability to infect everything and everyone with rabid individualism and consumerism.
On the other hand, "Made in America" by Bill Bryson is a fascinating and entertaining exploration of English how she is spoke in our two countries, inclusive of some surprising history concerning the various difference of spelling and meaning.
Cugel
Such feeling about other nations are absent from my word-processing wetware. I'm sure that my detestation of Yank is something unpleasant growing like a metaphysical brain tumour, caused by the toxic elements of Yank kulture with it's many gross and inhumane attitudes, habits, pastimes, violence, "winners-losers" shtick (that's Yank!) and other doings of a grating nature.
Once I enjoyed American cultural stuff - when I was a bairn and probably too naive to recognise just how addictive & toxic their pervasive violent & aggressive attitudes are. Slowly, the light dawned. I now resent not only their gross behaviours in the world but their ability to infect everything and everyone with rabid individualism and consumerism.
On the other hand, "Made in America" by Bill Bryson is a fascinating and entertaining exploration of English how she is spoke in our two countries, inclusive of some surprising history concerning the various difference of spelling and meaning.
Cugel
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Re: Brake rotors and other Americanisms.
Short. At least, I assume that that's an Americanism?
A British cyclist may get short of breath. But will do it while wearing shorts, and holding handlebars to steer the forks that hold his/her front wheel.
A British cyclist may get short of breath. But will do it while wearing shorts, and holding handlebars to steer the forks that hold his/her front wheel.
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I could write a novel on this one...
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'Fannie Mae', this always makes me laugh in the context of the financial mortgage industry. Even more so in the context of our domestic political crisis
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Independently of this discussion, a friend has posted on Facebook tonight the following
Given that Americans are unable to correctly spell simple English words, could it be that the right to bear arms mentioned in their constitution actually gives everyone the right to wear short sleeved garments?
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I do not have a problem with people from the States speaking their own language but I do have a problem with Brits who adopt said language because their hollow lifestyle and/or principals are saturated with US-lead technology, marketing and media.
The older I get the more I’m inclined to act my shoe size, not my age.