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Nov 10, 2019 05:18
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It's actually a Batcave.
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Nov 10, 2019 05:23
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It's good to take your car when it's new to the car park so it can learn to socialize with other cars early.
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Nov 10, 2019 05:26
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Le stationnement!
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Nov 10, 2019 06:49
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you broke my grill posted:Do Brits say car hole or car hold? They call it a car hole
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Nov 10, 2019 10:06
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supernatural blonde posted:I'm sorry to be terribly british here but absolutely nothing in this post makes sense to me? Brits always say "supposed to" and never "meant to" Wrong. Those are different phrases. "supposed to" is future tense. "supposed" is future tense. "meant to" is past tense. "meant" is past tense of "mean". However they are freely interchangable. Stack Exchange Also this quote from Wordref forums: quote:I often use "meant to be" for emotional incidences, so to speak. "Meant to" is usually used to express an innate feeling that is born when one thinks they ought to have/get/be something. E.g. "I was meant to be your wife." "We were meant to be together." "I was meant to be a chef!" supernatural blonde posted:and "spinner"? idk. "car ports" are not common and usually consist of a sheet of corrugated plastic on top of a wood frame built by an old person who doesn't have a garage. I live in a terraced area and that would still be called a shed or a garage. Is "car port" some kind of Zoomerism or something? I have never heard of Spinners either. supernatural blonde posted:I have no idea what you're trying to convey here. Nor I you!
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Nov 10, 2019 22:43
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alexandriao posted:I live in a terraced area and that would still be called a shed or a garage. Is "car port" some kind of Zoomerism or something? If you told your insurance agent or realtor that you had a garage and it was actually a car port, they would not be happy
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Nov 10, 2019 22:57
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I think of car ports as a southern thing for whatever reason.
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Nov 10, 2019 23:08
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I think of car ports as a southern thing for whatever reason. They would probably collapse under snow. We have tons of carports in the non-snow parts of California.
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Nov 10, 2019 23:14
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My grandfather (b.1927) had a car port in southern West Virginia, and snow wasn't a problem.
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Nov 10, 2019 23:41
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I didn't mean to do this I feel like someone well intentioned if a little selfish who tried to do something he thought would be innocuous but turned into a giant cluster I just have no idea what to do with these tossed salads and scrambled eggs
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Nov 10, 2019 23:55
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Cheers just reminded me that canonically Frasier is married to Lilith, again, at the moment of his death
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Nov 11, 2019 03:07
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Calaveron posted:Cheers just reminded me that canonically Frasier is married to Lilith, again, at the moment of his death Some dark pact Lilith invoked, no doubt
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Nov 11, 2019 03:12
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alexandriao posted:I have never heard of Spinners either. Maybe that was meant to be “spanner”, a British word for a wrench?
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Nov 11, 2019 04:17
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HiriseSoftware posted:Maybe that was meant to be “spanner”, a British word for a wrench? Yes this
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Nov 11, 2019 04:25
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Calaveron posted:Cheers just reminded me that canonically Frasier is married to Lilith, again, at the moment of his death That drat bar. edit: Also Niles and Daphne's kid should have been named Ichabod, but I think that was just an application.
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Nov 11, 2019 04:38
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Solice Kirsk posted:That drat bar. At least it's not Jonathan.
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Nov 11, 2019 05:02
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Ghost Leviathan posted:At least it's not Jonathan. Great name for a cat.
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Nov 11, 2019 08:11
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Calaveron posted:Cheers just reminded me that canonically Frasier is married to Lilith, again, at the moment of his death I'm going to need more info on this please.
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Nov 11, 2019 11:03
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I think of car ports as a southern thing for whatever reason. Quite common in Australia although I've only ever seen it spelt as one word.
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Nov 11, 2019 11:56
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alexandriao posted:Wrong. Those are different phrases. I KNOW they're different phrases but brits almost always say "supposed to". A car port is simply a roof on top of a frame to keep the rain off, a shed or garage is a building with a door. We appear to speak different languages! Anyhow this has gently caress all to do with Frasier so I'm going back to posting about that. This morning's episode was the ski lodge with Guy (Ghee!) - not one of my absolute favourites but a classic farce that feels like a stage play.
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Nov 11, 2019 12:33
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HiriseSoftware posted:Maybe that was meant to be “spanner”, a British word for a wrench? That must be it. It's also often used as an insult to refer to a stupid person ie: "you loving spanner!".
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Nov 11, 2019 12:38
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supernatural blonde posted:I KNOW they're different phrases but brits almost always say "supposed to". A car port is simply a roof on top of a frame to keep the rain off, a shed or garage is a building with a door. We appear to speak different languages! I've mentioned that the ski lodge is totally a modification of Niles' apartment. (though I think that came later) supernatural blonde posted:That must be it. It's also often used as an insult to refer to a stupid person ie: "you loving spanner!". And I'm pretty sure it became an insult solely because it's fun to say.
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Nov 11, 2019 12:42
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BrigadierSensible posted:I'm going to need more info on this please. An episode ends with a flash forward gag where Lilith and Freddie are being read Frasier's will and it's specified they were still married
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Nov 11, 2019 13:47
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The Frasier Files: Fight The Future
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Nov 11, 2019 13:58
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Sir Lemming posted:If you told your insurance agent or realtor that you had a garage and it was actually a car port, they would not be happy Definitely a boomer because literally nobody these days can afford to do anything but renting, and who has the money for house insurance.
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Nov 11, 2019 14:10
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supernatural blonde posted:I KNOW they're different phrases but brits almost always say "supposed to". A car port is simply a roof on top of a frame to keep the rain off, a shed or garage is a building with a door. We appear to speak different languages! Yeah no that's blatantly not the case. And here even people with garages just let their cars get wet. Who the gently caress is middle class enough to bother building something to make sure their car stays dry? Why would you want your car to stay dry? I have so many questions.
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Nov 11, 2019 14:13
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alexandriao posted:Yeah no that's blatantly not the case. They also keep birds from making GBS threads on your car and bits of trees from falling on it. They're pretty common in Australia, which has lots of birds and no snow outside a small handful of locations. We have what you might call a semi-garage which has automatic doors and a roof but is open on the inside of the property.
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Nov 11, 2019 14:25
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alexandriao posted:Definitely a boomer because literally nobody these days can afford to do anything but renting, and who has the money for house insurance. This isn't true once you leave the coasts
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Nov 11, 2019 14:50
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alexandriao posted:Yeah no that's blatantly not the case. Where is "here" Does "here" get snow? Or massive plastics and paint-killing sun?
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Nov 11, 2019 14:51
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If you want to hear an alternative Frasier reboot setup, check out the podcast StoryBreak, where some hollywood writers spend an hour each episode drafting the plot points for various unrelated script ideas. The podcast is often pretty good, but they really nailed the ethos of Frasier, I think: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6tiEEBzYSTUoPZW41qdjQO?si=FUSjKswsQ-6vSBJworcIGg 2 of the people on the podcast are actually goons; they even have a Johnny 5 Aces script: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0X3RBthUyBmVyCtX2qmoyY?si=Hkxb6NN9QRS6XSxvH219kw
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Nov 11, 2019 15:06
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alexandriao posted:Yeah no that's blatantly not the case. Yes it is definitely the case, you're just talking out of your arse now. Are you 16 years old or something? Are you even British? Lastly vis-a-vis wet cars, have you ever heard of rust?
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Nov 11, 2019 16:33
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A home? For your car? On your own home for you?! What is this boomer poo poo?!?!?!
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Nov 11, 2019 18:29
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IDK why someone used rain as an example. If it's raining a garage/port might be helpful so that you don't get wet, at least not immediately, especially if it's attached. But it's way more important for protecting against trees, hail, or various other weather type things. Of course, more commonly it's where you keep a bunch of folding tables or whatever.
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Nov 11, 2019 19:24
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Solice Kirsk posted:A home? For your car? On your own home for you?! What is this boomer poo poo?!?!?! Look at mr rich boomer gently caress here with his car
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Nov 11, 2019 20:32
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JK Fresco posted:This isn't true once you leave the coasts I'm inland.
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Nov 12, 2019 04:01
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supernatural blonde posted:Yes it is definitely the case, you're just talking out of your arse now. Are you 16 years old or something? Are you even British?  E: My ethnologue stuff and frequency databases are on my pc and I'm on my phone, so like. Here have this as a preliminary before I can compile more data. Also yes it is 4am Anyway has anyone seen the episode with the woman who played Diane Lockheart in The Good Wife? She didn't disappoint but I wish they could have toned down her character and kept her on longer, I think the dynamic would have been less irritating and could have become a major thing. They probably didn't have the  for that tho
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Nov 12, 2019 05:01
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Sir Lemming posted:IDK why someone used rain as an example. If it's raining a garage/port might be helpful so that you don't get wet, at least not immediately, especially if it's attached. But it's way more important for protecting against trees, hail, or various other weather type things. Of course, more commonly it's where you keep a bunch of folding tables or whatever. Yeah like I know (older) people with garages and BMWs and even they don't bother to put their car in or out, it lives on the street and the garage is where they put all of their hobby crap. I mean hell there's a really busy road a bit down the mountain and it's got everyone's car along it so most drivers get nervous about hitting a parked car or a kid dashing out. Literally nobody has bothered to make a car shed tho, the first I've heard of this.
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Nov 12, 2019 05:13
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Jesus dude carports are a thing all across the US, you're being really weird
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Nov 12, 2019 05:40
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Carports are definitely cheaper than garages too and if you've ever rented an apartment with roofs over parking but no walls then you've parked in a carport. The only thing that surprised me was that there was a word for it.
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