Call to Arms - we may lose the battles but will win the war

My favorite was the one that was parked in the edge of the road
between Alexandra and Yark (not sure of spelling). Parked right on
the white line where there is a small series of hills with double
lines. To get passed hime safely in the car you "had" to cross the
double lines. I'm sure they would have pinned a head on there as the
result of "speed".

Regards


steve

 

Yarck.

Nev..
'02 CBR1100XX #2

 

"Nev.." wrote

Sounds more like a statement.

Theo

 

Point is, if its difficult to read it won't be read
Take it from a chalkie.
I'd fail what you wrote just on the basis of the shocking grammar, or at
least get you to rewrite it so it can be intelligible.
Corks is just a failure full stop though
Cheers.

 

Ok, point taken. Just a quick check is Corks 'Intach Kneeslider' ? (I am
new to this group)

Cheers
Conrad

 

"Conrad" wrote

I hadn't considered that possibility......... Naaaaaah!

Theo

 

Thanks - just checking.

Didn't realise this group would have so many sticklers for the rules of
written language. After spending much of my online time in other groups I
have started to write like you program, I have also developed habit of
excessive use of TLAs (so much so every car license plate I see nowdays
means something, I am starting to get very worried about my state of mind!)

Cheers
Conrad

 

"Conrad" wrote

A very well edumicated lot here. Bunch of pedants actually.

I don't program.

mind!)

Leave all the TLA's to the people who play in IRC and SMS.

Oh, some people don't like top-posting. Including me.

Theo

 

I guess I had better not upset to many applecarts, hence the bottom posting
despite me having a preference for on top and always remember the advice a
gentleman always when on top uses his elbows to support his weight.

Conrad

 

Funny!

I hope to be able to upgrade to the 2003 R6 within a few weeks. Might cop my
first speeding fine still - although I'll book a superbikeschool day asap to
get that out of the system

j

 

See, there you go again... in your original letter, you open with statements
which have public servants driving Volvos, playing lawn bowls (or lawns
bowl, as you'd have it, which really sounds like a version of indoor soccer
played in one's backyard), and carrying some grudge against the private
sector.

Now, in your response to my criticism, you come up with the above; a
caricatured image of a "boffin".

Note to you about cliches, Conrad, especially derogatory ones which lead
into a poorly-typed (missing punctuation, spelling errors, sentences not
commencing with capitals...) missive which lays out, with almost evangelical
energy, a proposal as oft-repeated as the never-funny stereotypes which
preceded it...

If I was AMCN editor (if I was, I'd probably start punching myself for being
responsible for such a consistently limp publication), I'd look at your
letter and I'd go:

1. Public servants drive Volvos... gees, where have I heard that one before?
2. Solve the speeding fine epidemic by herding everyone into the courts to
contest it... hmmm, bit of a parallel between that one and hub-centre
steering on bikes, isn't there?
3. The speeding fine epidemic is an assault on our personal freedoms... nice
to see someone_else_pays that much attention to the phraseology used by Bill
O'Reilly.
4. More spelling and grammar errors, and wonky sentence structure than, as
the letter's author might himself have put it, you can poke a stick at.

Conclusion: The bloke's a legend in his own kitchen... bin.

Although, knowing Wootton, he'll probably run a spell-checker over your
letter and publish it...

 

Well, we do ride (almost) the same bike, and his exhaust used to be my
exhaust...

Helps keep the idiots who use statements like "I'm an advanced individual
making a rational argument which" out... for illustration of what is meant,
skim over the crossposted "78 New Cameras..." thread...

OK. Read that back to yourself, and tell me that that doesn't make you sound
like a slacker; if you can't be arsed putting in the smidgen of extra effort
it would take to construct your sentences properly, let alone not resort to
having statements like

#include <stereotype.h>
#include <cliche.h>
#include <misspelt_out_of_context_big_word.h>

in your source code, how much stock can you expect anyone to put into what
you're saying; it's the equivalent of talking while scratching your nuts...
think about how your eyes roll back in their head when someone within
earshot starts complaining about the BSOD (there you go, a FILA) as if it's
only just been unleashed on an unsuspecting tech support department...

mind!)

Should try CGI... when you find yourself walking down the street and having
buildings, lamposts, cars and people spontaneously devolve into amalgams of
wireframe cylinders, ovoids and boxes, it's time to stop sitting at the PC
till 4am on a schoolnight...

 

I'm afraid that my programming structure doesn't even slightly
resemble the way you write! ;-)

True, I haven't seen any "DOA" plates for a while though...


BTH
(Non-Volvo-driving public servant)

 

That's a "pod of pedants", Theo.

(I'll leave the spelling falme to someone else!) ;-)


BTH

 

Yeah, and they're _both_ Rip Hangary Snr...

big (and Hamish too, I suspect!)

 

I'll take it you falmed on purpose.

Theo

 

I actually don't have anything against the public sector, its really more
something I have against lame brained individuals. My response was mainly
attacking the position that to be taken seriously, correct spelling and
grammar was required (despite the fact that I wasn't totally serious at the
time). People who do play lawn bowls are normally pretty scary on the road
though (only a cliche as it is a consistent truth).

Take a complement and enjoy it.

Sorry typing diarea (often support by verbal too), but better out than in
hey?

Or maybe really bored at the time.

just wanted a freebie

 

Of course it is. It is the most important element of your correspondence.

Nev..
'02 CBR1100XX #2

 

Fooled me...

"_Were_required", but I digress... how hard is it to keep track of whether
your next character should be a punctuation mark or a capital? How much time
does it take to read back a sentence you've just typed to convince yourself
it makes sense? If you demonstrably fail to perform these two very low-level
tasks, what are we to make of you?
That you're too lazy to do it, in which case how much effort did you expend
on formulating the view you're trying to present?
That you simply haven't got the brain capacity to spare; if so, how coherent
a view on anything are you capable of forming?
How seriously do you take someone who comes across as a slacker and/or an
idiot?

Consistent? As in "obvious"? As in, "easy"? As in, "more evidence that you
think off the shelf, that you can't be arsed thinking for yourself and are
happy to see if stringing together a bunch of threadworn expressions will
impress anyone"? Shit, I just described the methodology of commercial
software development... maybe it all does fit...

As a joke to be shared among programmers, that one's quite the
knee-slapper...

Is "diarea" something like the overwrought style of writing which can often
be found in someone's diary, or... oh, wait, I get it! You meant
"diarrhoea". OK, then. Think about what would be the bowel-movement
equivalent of sauntering up to a public forum and announcing your presence
with an overlong concatenation of cliches. Maybe something like dropping
your daks, squatting and letting spray wherever the needs finds you? Do you
do that, as well, or do you actually seek out a toilet?

That's even better; now you're saying, "Hey, you, the editor of a major
nationwide (and New Zealand) publication. Yes, you with more deadlines to
meet and more industry supporters to keep happy than there are hours in the
day. Here, have a read through this thing I put together 'cause I had
nothing better to do..."

"Faken self-important brat...grumblemumblecunt..."

OK, that one's got me beaten. Wtf's a flippant "Just wanted a freebie"
supposed to mean in this context?

Moral of the story, opinions may well be like R1's, but some R1's get
regular oil changes and aren't ridden around on flatspotted tyres and stock
suspension settings...

 

In aus.motorcycles on Wed, 13 Aug 2003 16:32:31 +1000

As is refraining from cliched humour.

Why? Because otherwise you look like a loser, and who will follow a
loser?

If you want people to put themselves out for something, to spend time
and money on it, you have to convince them you have a clue. You have to
convince them you know what you are talking about. Schoolboy humour and
schoolboy writing spell schoolboy who wasn't paying attention in English
class, meaning he probably has no idea how the real world works either.

Presentation is vital when you want people to do things you ask them to
do. Especially if what you want is going to mean work for them.


Zebee