L/Rover hardly ever a issue....

"PaulpULVITZKA" wrote

So a £75,000 Mercedes is "vastly" better than a £20,000 Landrover, I should hope so too for your sake, presuming you are an Ozzy taxpayer.

Ah your back again, whats up no one crossing your troll bridge? Same old shit different day.

Oh dear... looks the the G Wagen is a lemon...

Mercedes have had 'quality control, issues' for a few years now.

You can get away with poor quality engineering standards on saloon cars, especially big luxury ones, because they don't work that hard and very rarely get asked to operate at the edge of their performance envelope.

However utility vehicles do get asked to do so on a reasonably frequent basis.

The Aussie army eh? What a recommendation. Just how many wars have they won in the last 100 years? They might as well buy 4X4 Ladas

Steady...

They've helped to win at least two global conflicts, plus numerous other, smaller ones.

They've been slaughtered repeatedly on the whim of the English, without complaint and - largely - without recognition.

Gallipoli.

'nuff said, except to say this:

Like the Scots, Welsh and Irish, the Aussies have served well as cannon fodder for the English in two memorable global conflicts - and multiple other skirmishes - and don't you forget it.

Having said that, I'd rather drive a landy (particularly the ADF 6x4 perentie) over a mine than a merc.

"> Steady...

HEAR HEAR Well said that man.

. . .

There used to be a Perentie in the Gaydon museum a while back, not sure if it's still there, or who has it if it's not. One overiding impression of that thing... F*&^ing Huge! I don't know the exact sizes, but it must be getting on for the width of a HumVee, it's longer for sure. I think it's 6x6 too, if not mistaken?

I want one for the daily commute! As even the school run types's would think twice before abandoning (they cant "park") their shiny 4x4's in the middle of the street if you came along in one of them... :)

Dave B.

PS: I agree with the other stuff Hugh said... & Then there's the Gurkhas...

I think if we hadn't had the support of our "colonial cousins" we wouldn't be speaking English now

When we wanted to join the "common market" we kicked them in the teeth

Can you blame them for wanting to dump us nowadays

My sentiments exactly!

My (English) family have been providing cannon fodder for generations.

You and yours are not alone.

:-)

Your ignorance, is showing !

bmc

Proves my point. Not exactly a roaring success was it!

The British army traditionally recruited from the criminal classes.

In message , Brian Colwell writes

On the contrary, the responses so far prove my point, if only by default.

My bad... I think you're right!

Parking it's a bugger, though :)

Of course you are right. Doesn't change what I said though.

...and controlled by... ?

:)

Can't we rid ourselves of this horrible mutilation of the English language?

Of course we can.

Will we? Shall we?

Nope.

I must prostrate myself before your superior intellect and aesthetic appreciation. It seems that I offended you by using a phrase in common modern usage, even though it was clear that no offence was intended. Further, I impinged further upon your valuable time by forcing you to correct my atrocious, acrimonious, nay *excrable* word usage, thus raising your asperity and derision.

For this I apologise.

I'm sorry that you feel so strongly about commonly used modern phrases and idioms, and that my usage of same offended your (apparently) perfect grasp and appreciation of linguistic aesthetics.

By way of remedy, let us rid ourselves, from this moment on, of all linguistic constructs from the latter half of the twentieth century onward.

Indeed, perhaps we should wind the linguistic clock back even further to, say, the time of Chaucer and his contemporaries. Would you prefer that?

Nay, let's go further, to a time before the English language existed... Shall we go back to Norse? Latin? Low German? ...or, diety forbid, vulgar French?

Remember when 'computer' was a clerk with a pencil? Let's get rid of the term. It is ugly to mine ears. What a shame that everyone understands the term. Never mind... it's modern... let us strike it from the record.

At the very least, let us get rid of all terms that have changed their meaning through modern (that's to say post-industrial) colloquial usage:

- "nice". A meaningless word used to convey something that is vaguely pleasant

- "terribly". Most often used *especially* when there is little or no actual terror involved

- "awfully". Most often used *especially* when there is little or no actual awe involved

- "rather" as an exclamation. Rather what? Rather have an icecream? Rather you were immortal? What??? Please tell us!!!

- "jolly good". Something has a degree of goodness. Whether it is 'jolly' or not is irrelevant

Je suis tres desole. Excusez moi. Dispeacenti, ma io non parlo Englesi molto bene. Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa.

I 'can' avoid such abbreviations, but I choose not to. The phrase I used is handy shorthand, the irony being that I was actually *apologising* for an honest mistake!

This (usenet) is not a formal medium.

Linguistic constructs and idioms (especially in the colloquial domain) are not static in a functioning society, and you can't force them to be so by wishful thinking.

Chill out, dude.