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Discussion in 'General Motoring' started by Elle, Jun 23, 2008.

  1. Elle

    AZ Nomad Guest

    Not only that, but if honda and toyota only offered a 200 mile warranty,
    it still wouldn't have a bearing on the fact that their cars routinely
    run flawlessly for 130,000 miles and their engines make often make it
    to 300,000 miles with only scheduled maintenance. The #1 factor that
    prevents the average lifespan from being 200,000 miles are car crashes
    and owner neglect -- the owner failing to provide the recomended maintenance.
     
    AZ Nomad, Jul 17, 2008
  2. Elle

    AZ Nomad Guest

    Not only that, but if honda and toyota only offered a 200 mile warranty,
    it still wouldn't have a bearing on the fact that their cars routinely
    run flawlessly for 130,000 miles and their engines make often make it
    to 300,000 miles with only scheduled maintenance. The #1 factor that
    prevents the average lifespan from being 200,000 miles are car crashes
    and owner neglect -- the owner failing to provide the recomended maintenance.
     
    AZ Nomad, Jul 17, 2008
  3. Elle

    AZ Nomad Guest

    And of course, nobody has ever seen a hyundai as having a warranty
    over 40,000 miles is so amazingly rare.

    I looked drove around for a bit and it was a whole 2 fucking minutes
    till I was one of those rare wonders. I bet nobody else has ever
    seen so many of them!

    Anybody ever seen a mercedes? Those are rare.
    Anybody ever seen a volvo? There also rare. I bet there aren't 40
    of them in the U.S.

    I once saw a SAAB. I didn't know what an incredible feat that was.
    Should I have called channel 4 news to call in the news reporters for
    this rare observance?
     
    AZ Nomad, Jul 17, 2008
  4. Elle

    AZ Nomad Guest

    And of course, nobody has ever seen a hyundai as having a warranty
    over 40,000 miles is so amazingly rare.

    I looked drove around for a bit and it was a whole 2 fucking minutes
    till I was one of those rare wonders. I bet nobody else has ever
    seen so many of them!

    Anybody ever seen a mercedes? Those are rare.
    Anybody ever seen a volvo? There also rare. I bet there aren't 40
    of them in the U.S.

    I once saw a SAAB. I didn't know what an incredible feat that was.
    Should I have called channel 4 news to call in the news reporters for
    this rare observance?
     
    AZ Nomad, Jul 17, 2008
  5. Elle

    jim beam Guest

    no, i'm dead serious.

    easy. click on that link and do some homework. or you can go to school
    and study things like engineering for a few years.
     
    jim beam, Jul 17, 2008
  6. Elle

    jim beam Guest

    no, i'm dead serious.

    easy. click on that link and do some homework. or you can go to school
    and study things like engineering for a few years.
     
    jim beam, Jul 17, 2008
  7. Elle

    jim beam Guest

    "i can now see more clearly what sort of person you are".

    english. math. what are our schools coming to?
     
    jim beam, Jul 17, 2008
  8. Elle

    jim beam Guest

    "i can now see more clearly what sort of person you are".

    english. math. what are our schools coming to?
     
    jim beam, Jul 17, 2008
  9. Elle

    AZ Nomad Guest

    You think his English is bad? Out of my immediate group of coworkers, five out
    of seven are from India. A couple of them sound like indians from an early
    hollywood western. It's also related to our broken educational system -- the
    company wouldn't be able to find enough software engineers if having english as
    a first language was a serious requirement.
     
    AZ Nomad, Jul 17, 2008
  10. Elle

    AZ Nomad Guest

    You think his English is bad? Out of my immediate group of coworkers, five out
    of seven are from India. A couple of them sound like indians from an early
    hollywood western. It's also related to our broken educational system -- the
    company wouldn't be able to find enough software engineers if having english as
    a first language was a serious requirement.
     
    AZ Nomad, Jul 17, 2008
  11. Elle

    jim beam Guest

    that's odd. all the indian engineer's i've worked with have had
    excellent english. thick accents when speaking, but excellent written
    english. it's the language of all higher education in india from what i
    understand.
     
    jim beam, Jul 18, 2008
  12. Elle

    jim beam Guest

    that's odd. all the indian engineer's i've worked with have had
    excellent english. thick accents when speaking, but excellent written
    english. it's the language of all higher education in india from what i
    understand.
     
    jim beam, Jul 18, 2008
  13. Elle

    AZ Nomad Guest

    I dunno. They range all over the place. At one end of the spectrum, I have
    an indian coworker who can handle any idiom I care to use. At the other end
    of the spectrum is a coworker who can't assemble a complex sentence to
    save her life. The latter obviously didn't use 'british english' much if at
    all while growing up and must have used the regional languages primarily.
    She says that she went to grad school in london. I figure that it gave her
    about 2 years exposure to english which sounds about right.

    And don't get me going about their seventy syllable names. Their
    name tags on the cubicles have to be done in an 8 point font.
     
    AZ Nomad, Jul 18, 2008
  14. Elle

    AZ Nomad Guest

    I dunno. They range all over the place. At one end of the spectrum, I have
    an indian coworker who can handle any idiom I care to use. At the other end
    of the spectrum is a coworker who can't assemble a complex sentence to
    save her life. The latter obviously didn't use 'british english' much if at
    all while growing up and must have used the regional languages primarily.
    She says that she went to grad school in london. I figure that it gave her
    about 2 years exposure to english which sounds about right.

    And don't get me going about their seventy syllable names. Their
    name tags on the cubicles have to be done in an 8 point font.
     
    AZ Nomad, Jul 18, 2008
  15. Elle

    Tony Harding Guest

    For sure, as do the gallons of gas *not* burned.
     
    Tony Harding, Jul 19, 2008
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