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Richard Deeming wrote: Here in the civilized world, the word is "tyre"
It is but there's no obvious justification for it. It's from the same root as 'attire' which I've never seen spelt 'attyre', have you?
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Originally the spellings tire and tyre were interchangeable, but in the 17th century tire became the settled spelling, which has remained the spelling in the USA. In Britain the development of the pneumatic tyre seemed to require some differentiation from the metal rim, and tyre was revived.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I apologise unreservedly. My spilling is bad and sometimes the spill chicken lets through Mercan words by mistake.
veni bibi saltavi
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Right. Now don't do it again[^].
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Hey! As I an "American" I take offense to your characterization of us. We are perfectly civilized savages!
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As I an
You just proved his point there, mate.
And I'm tired about all this arguing about the correct spelling of tyre.
Yes, I'm American and I use some British terms in place of their American versions. Confuses the hell out of some people!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Coincidentally Pssssssttt is also the sound people make when they see you dressed for dinner.
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Klingon developers don't need spare tyres. They open vi and suddenly the tyre fixes itself.
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Punctured tyres don't suck, they blow...
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: All this happens, of course, when I am very nicely dressed and on my way out to dinner.
That is the Law of Murphy, I believe.
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There are three things (well, not just) I'm checking when I'm buying a car.
- That it has a real spare
- That I can change the bulbs myself without major disassembly
- That it's not French or an Opel/Vauxhall
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Better than the sound of eeeeaaaaawwwweeeeeesssscccrrrrr - which is probably the sound my car made when some git put three 60cm lines of green paint on it and dented the wheel arch when they tried to park next to my 8 week old white car at the weekend.
There is a bounty out on them - although as yet they have not been identified...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Same thing for me over a week ago. The tire had a huge hole in it. Had to get towed. Took over 3 hours. If I'd had a real spare, 10 minutes.
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Ha! No, sadly far more mundane.
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Yeah, those sealants don't do much good when you run over a piece of angle iron, and it slices your tire in half.
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For now it's in my (still secret, yet to be unveiled) take over the over the world project, so I won't talk about it too much! But I need brag to people who can understand what I talk about!
For my secret world take over the world project I created an ....
unbounded multi-threaded spatial index!
Quite proud with myself.
Best thing..... It's working!
TBH it's just some kind of spatial grid (not that innovative) but I added the unbounded and multi-threaded bits! (that's the innovative parts!)
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But can you access parallel worlds, or other dimensions using it?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: But can you access parallel worlds, or other dimensions using it? Well no... maybe... but I'm sure he could mess them up a good deal.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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S. Houghtelin nailed it!
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That way lies madness, or is my code that does that...
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I bet my WDP is betterer than yours! Mine's got sharks!
veni bibi saltavi
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Do they have frickin' lasers on their heads?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Pah!
Mine will easily bring me! Five! Million! Dollars!
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Does it grant regenerations?
Geek code v 3.12 {
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
}
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