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Maybe if you spell the two country's names without an upper case I then they will get it right. I think having G Dubja Bush as president when the current Iraq conflict kicked off didn't help. He was illiterate anyway so would be oblivious to any issue. (allegedly)

If Mick had had a puncture on the car!!! I keep mine in the ashtray.... Not my brain, just one of those nuts. I can just imagine the AA man - "weve got a right one ere he's totally lost it!"

Sorry, this is well off-topic!

The car was in for MOT last April but pre-checked by our local garage, I gave them the wheelnut key as I dropped off the car. The key is stowed in a little plazzy bag with the spare wheel in the boot. It's always there, that's where it belongs. I fished it out and gave it to them.

After checking the car over, the car was taken away for testing.
There was a problem on a ball-joint that hadn't been discovered initially, so it failed and came back where it was fixed, taken away for testing again, then brought back. We picked the car up well after 5pm. That was 6months ago, and TBH I've not opened boot floor since then nor even opened the bonnet.

Trouble is, the key wasn't there yesterday.

Where is it?
Three options:
1. The local garage lost it in April and I never checked it wasn't in the car.
2. The local garage left it inside the car and I didn't put it away and I've no idea where it is now.
3. It's been stolen - we don't always lock the car.

2 and 3 are very unlikely, though 1 is denied by the garage.

Iraq is a difficult word to translate as it is made up of 4 arabic letters and the first of them has no equivalent sound in the English language. The initial letter is ع ("ayin") which is often tranliterated in English as an apostrophe which may give a clue to how difficult this letter is for English speakers to pronounce, there being no single English letter which is remotely like it. It has a sound a bit like a sort of back of the throat "ah" but with a nasal twang and a bit of sinus clearing. It is also the same letter which starts the word "arabic" which probably doesn't help much as we start that word with an "a".

meic wrote:Its nothing to get Irate about.

I think I have seen the Iranian born comedienne Shappi Khorsandi poking fun about this subject.

Totally OT

I am surprised there is not a Fatwa against her!

Funny, intelligent, not afraid to see the funny side

The Taliban must hate her

Around the time of the first Iraq war, I was reading the Tolkein triolgy to one of my children. The uruk-hai form one of the races of baddies created by JRRT. They are eventually routed by the goodies and end up in headlong retreat. It seemed a spooky coincidence at the time.

I am surprised Apple haven't sued Iraq and Iran?

Al

irc wrote:I say tomato you say tomato.

They both sound the same when I read this?

You say potato and I say potato!

The 'a' in pasta should be pronounced liked the 'a' in father, not the 'a' in apple.

Please pronounce it correctly.

Thanks.

Children in this country must also have a copyright problem when they shout.

Ipood.

Do Apple own the Iberian Peninsula?

I had my locking wheel nuts removed and replaced by ordinary ones to avoid just this sort of carry on.

Didn't stop the garage at the last service complaining they couldn't find it!

Mark1978 wrote:I had my locking wheel nuts removed and replaced by ordinary ones to avoid just this sort of carry on.

The way forward. 20 years ago alloys were an upgrade and had a good resale value. It wasn't uncommon for all 4 to be stolen and a car left on bricks. I'm guessing that as they are almost standard fitting now thefts are rare and the risk of the hassle of a lost key outweighs the risk of theft. For the average car anyway. Especially flashy alloys may still be at risk.

Vorpal wrote:The 'a' in pasta ...

Which would that be?