Dag Hammar
Senior Member
- Location
- Essex
Using the word ‘curb’ when it should be ‘kerb’.
Even more offensive to my eyes, as this is a cycling forum, is when people type ‘peddles’ when it should be ‘pedals’.
Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?
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Using the word ‘curb’ when it should be ‘kerb’.
Even more offensive to my eyes, as this is a cycling forum, is when people type ‘peddles’ when it should be ‘pedals’.
Red17
Guru
- Location
- South London
I think breaks for brakes just edges that one for me
ExBrit
Über Member
- Location
- Southern California
Insure instead of ensure. As in tighten the pinch bolts to 6Nm to insure your bars don't slip.
And it's 6Nm not 6nm. Newton was a man, not a greek prefix!
And people who start sentences with And.
Wow, this new coffee is great!
Sterlo
Early Retirement Planning
- Location
- East Riding of Yorkshire
Time Waster
Veteran
We've just had a new engine in ours so we're going to sell. Market value about 10-11k base van but we've put a lot into it.
Still only a day van but it has pop top with two berth up top and crash tested / rated bed seat for another two people below. Leisure battery with bled lights, USB charging points, fully lined out in a way that you can take panels out to complete a full conversion later. Diesel heater. Hookup extension to double red cutoff sockets. Extra side windows with slide opening on both door and non door sides.
Overall I've seen vans with a lot less asking for £16k to £19k on quirky campers sale pages.
So we're hoping to get at least £15k to pay back the repair bill from our savings and leave £10k for a car. Unfortunately you can no longer get a 4 or 5 year old used car for £5k so it's looking like £10k will only get us a 7 or 8 year old car big enough for our family needs.
Depressing how prices have gone up due to covid and possibly chip shortage issues creating a supply / demand issue of cars at that age. £10k might not be enough!
Time Waster
Veteran
6 nano metres is not the right units for other reasons not just missing capitalisation!
ExBrit
Über Member
- Location
- Southern California
6 nano metres is not the right units for other reasons not just missing capitalisation!
People who think light-year is a unit of time. As in "It'll be light-years before that happens."
figbat
Slippery scientist
- Location
- South Oxfordshire, UK
6 nano metres is not the right units for other reasons not just missing capitalisation!
Not nautical miles then?
Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
And another thing, anyone who can't understand should have and makes it should of.
That one does annoy me when used in writing. It doesn't bother me too much when spoken.
matticus
Guru
That is one of those (these?!?) things that I'm sure I knew when I was 15, but I've since seen it wrong so many times that I'm confused again!
This has the benefit that I stop noticing the mistakes, as I get the intention from context :P
(But I do know how to use "should have", just for the record ... )
ExBrit
Über Member
- Location
- Southern California
I believe it is "concrete kerb", but "curb your enthusiasm".
My American spell checker just flagged "kerb". Stoopid spell checker.
matticus
Guru
Wouldn't it be easier if the Concrete one also started with a "C" ?!?
raleighnut
Legendary Member
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- One of the 'Elite'
My Great Grandfather was the Union man for Enderby Quarry where they made Granite Kerb and Sett stones (cobbles)
ExBrit
Über Member
- Location
- Southern California
I guess in America, it does. FTFY
Chris S
Legendary Member
- Location
- Birmingham
A few years ago I bought an inner tube which had 'Schrader valve' on the box. I've just used it today and it's actual a Woods/Dunlop valve. Hopefully they're not as leaky as they used to be.
