God, tubeless tyres can be a sweat sometimes

"TOG@Toil" <> banged this out on the
bongos:

Twas TST tyres who replaced the tyre and fitted a correct tube, the
fitter wandered into the waiting room (I was just getting a coffee,
before going back for a natter) and said "'Ave you seen the fucking
state of this?!", on cracking the bead.

It wasn't a 19" tube, but closer to 25" - no idea what it was off, we
guessed at a dumper truck. Looked like there was more tube crammed in
than there was space for, between the tyre and the rim.

 

*snigger*

 

Well, this whole thread does bring one Very Important Question
to mind - how is it, since "tires/tyres" are presumably a fairly
recent invention (relative to how long it takes to make really
complicated things, like, say, languages), we wound up with
two different spellings in American vs. British English?

Is there some particular fondness for the "y" on that side of the
pond, for instance?

Bob M.

 

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=tire
The original spelling was "tyre", which had shifted to "tire" in 17c.-18c.,
but since early 19c. "tyre" has been revived in Great Britain and become
standard there. Rubber ones, for bicycles (later automobiles) are from
1870s.

 

Wikipedia attributes the differences to the Johnson (UK)
and Webster (USA) dictionaries.

 

Yes. Is there some particular fondness for the 'i' on that side of the
pond?

 

Hmmm...at least in my experience, dictionaries only document
the standard usage. So even if the dictionaries were different, there
would still have to be some earlier reason for that. Or maybe the
"i" key was busticated or Mr. Johnson's typewriter?

Bob M.

 

Ah, so in this case, we here on the western side of the Atlantic are
actually the ones preserving the traditional spelling! (Not the ORIGINAL
spelling, but then I can't see how they could've made "attire" into
"tyre" in the first place.)

The Americans and the British - two peoples forever separated by
a common language...;-)

Bob M.

 

As I understand it, prior to dictionaries spelling was
more or less free form. Johnson and Webster codified it.
We're talking 18th and early 19th century here.

 

heh, it's "Compleate" not "complete" the current spelling is not
correct NOR appropriate to how the word is spelt.

 

as it should be. ;^) Also spain and south america are seperated by a
common language.

 

Yes sometimes you stick the I right where the politicians will find it
most uncomfortable...preferablly sideways.

 

Damn, boy!

You're as phony as a three dollar bill. You should emigrate to England
as go live
amongst Neil [The English Mental Patient] Murray's sodomite circle.

 

You say that as if Sodomy is a bad thing.

 

The anal sphincter is an *exit only*, dood!

And don't start waxing eloquently about the "joy" of coprophagy in
reeky.

You need to go to a *German* NG for that...

 

What is the matter NAMBLA reject? Jealous of my intelligence,
education or the fact that I have actuall sex with an acutal woman who
is my age, loves me AND that we've been married over 20 years.


OR oh impotent one is it simply that you can't stand people who are
not afraid to call you the failure and pedophile you are? Or is it
pointing out your racism? Your extremist political views?

Or MAYBE JUST MAYBE, you get all cranky because you've shit yourself
and I wont have sex with your diseased gericatric deviant self...

 

It is? Sheesh, I thought it was a fine form of birth control.

 

Hmm. Can I suggest you never get taken ill whilst visiting France? The
doctors there are, I gather, quite fond of prescribing suppositories.

 

Or maybe YOU are as phony as a three dollar bill with all those
British affections of speech, as indicated by your spelling?

You ain't a gecko, yannow, you ain't *cute*.

 

Just shattering your arm is cause enough for a French nurse to get her
finger in your arse.

Not that one objects you understand.