*I swear, it’s like sipping from a firehose some days.
h/t Mike in Montreal
20 Replies to “Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors*”
You know. The print media deserves to go swirling down the toilet,but,darn. I sure am going to miss all the comedy.
Just got a call from the Toronto Star wanting me to get a subscription. And they are always in the lobby at the grocery store trying to give the red star away….
Just how hard up are they for customers?
HST
Bwahahahahahahahah
Whew, passed another galling SDA comprehension test after leaving puzzled and returning determined:
6 words eh?
Kate, do you move your lips while reading?
Read out loud?
Read one word at a time?
Are you always in proof read mode? Bloody tiring proof reading!
Are you a slow reader?
“Lemme check witda manager”
Problem solved.
Maybe its not math that is hard, but English…
Now Kate, why are you picking on a lowly automotive journalist? This just looks like a lack of restraint and evidence of ill temper.
Alright, at the risk of embarrassing myself:
“four of 10” should be “four out of 10”
“39 per cent” should be “39 percent”
“wants to hear” should be “want to hear”
“four words” should be “six words”
What else did I miss?
The way to buy a car is to find the retail value, write out the check as to how much you`re willing to pay, (taxes etc. included, and banks do lend money for cars,) and sell your used unit after taking delivery of the new car. You`ll save up to 25%.
I only have one question for the sales manager. “Where is my new hat?”
I like it when they go back to their manager – several times. That’s how I bought a Camry once; I kept saying, I can’t make that deal, and sent him back three or four times. That’s what it took to get a reasonable price out of those guys. Great car though.
“None of them” is short for “not one of them,” so the singular of ‘want’ is correct. I know, it’s a tough language.
It seems, to me, that maybe, just maybe, the sentence could use less, or has no shortage of, punctuation, in the singular form of: commas.
Why am I reminded of when I was learning to drive and let go of the clutch without hitting the gas?
Funny,ain’t it? Now that I can afford to buy a new car, without taking on a crazy load of debt, I find that there’s nothing in the dealerships that remotely interests me. Zero, zilch, nada.
Actually, the four words I would not want to hear would be “Would like a free copy of the Globe and Mail?”
‘”None of them” is short for “not one of them,” so the singular of ‘want’ is correct. I know, it’s a tough language.’
You are correct Frank! I should have realized – that was an easy one. Thank goodness I’m not a journalist.
Two words.
Meth is herd.
Seriously, if he isn’t going into his managers office you’re leaving money on the table.
Something tells me that dhimmi here lacks some reading comprehension skills. Those “four words” are not Kate’s but rather the “journalist” she is quoting. Correcting quotations to suit is a MSM ploy. Pay more attention, you are missing out on a good blog.
We all know liberals cannot count. That’s why we have enormous state debts.
Being J Cato, I’m surprised he wasn’t being growlly about
dealerships not having a “carbon footprint manager” as well.
Me No Dhimmi, how rude. It is none of those things you suggest because a group of six things is visibly different from a group of four things. Had it been a group of 106 things VS 104 things, that would be different, and 106 things VS 4 things are certainly visually different, as it is, the experience while reading at any speed silently or orally in editor mode or casual reader mode with tongue in or hanging out and drooling knuckles dragging or properly proportioned, looks like this:
Here comes four @s, “@@@@@@”.
On the other hand, contrary to that, I had a girlfriend who asked “Isn’t it great automatically knowing if a word fits without counting?” We were doing a crossword. Actually, she was teaching me how to close a NYT crossword, and I answered, “No. Because I can’t do that. That is a problem.” I couldn’t estimate it, and often didn’t have enough or too many.
You know. The print media deserves to go swirling down the toilet,but,darn. I sure am going to miss all the comedy.
Just got a call from the Toronto Star wanting me to get a subscription. And they are always in the lobby at the grocery store trying to give the red star away….
Just how hard up are they for customers?
HST
Bwahahahahahahahah
Whew, passed another galling SDA comprehension test after leaving puzzled and returning determined:
6 words eh?
Kate, do you move your lips while reading?
Read out loud?
Read one word at a time?
Are you always in proof read mode? Bloody tiring proof reading!
Are you a slow reader?
“Lemme check witda manager”
Problem solved.
Maybe its not math that is hard, but English…
Now Kate, why are you picking on a lowly automotive journalist? This just looks like a lack of restraint and evidence of ill temper.
Alright, at the risk of embarrassing myself:
“four of 10” should be “four out of 10”
“39 per cent” should be “39 percent”
“wants to hear” should be “want to hear”
“four words” should be “six words”
What else did I miss?
The way to buy a car is to find the retail value, write out the check as to how much you`re willing to pay, (taxes etc. included, and banks do lend money for cars,) and sell your used unit after taking delivery of the new car. You`ll save up to 25%.
I only have one question for the sales manager. “Where is my new hat?”
I like it when they go back to their manager – several times. That’s how I bought a Camry once; I kept saying, I can’t make that deal, and sent him back three or four times. That’s what it took to get a reasonable price out of those guys. Great car though.
Auto manufacturing in Canada in long-term decline, report warns
The Canadian industry is attracting less investment, creating fewer jobs, and comprises a shrinking share of North American output, the report by DesRosiers Automotive Consultants found.
http://www.globalautoindustry.com/article.php?id=9655&jaar=2013&maand=4&target=Ameri
“None of them” is short for “not one of them,” so the singular of ‘want’ is correct. I know, it’s a tough language.
It seems, to me, that maybe, just maybe, the sentence could use less, or has no shortage of, punctuation, in the singular form of: commas.
Why am I reminded of when I was learning to drive and let go of the clutch without hitting the gas?
Funny,ain’t it? Now that I can afford to buy a new car, without taking on a crazy load of debt, I find that there’s nothing in the dealerships that remotely interests me. Zero, zilch, nada.
Actually, the four words I would not want to hear would be “Would like a free copy of the Globe and Mail?”
‘”None of them” is short for “not one of them,” so the singular of ‘want’ is correct. I know, it’s a tough language.’
You are correct Frank! I should have realized – that was an easy one. Thank goodness I’m not a journalist.
Two words.
Meth is herd.
Seriously, if he isn’t going into his managers office you’re leaving money on the table.
Something tells me that dhimmi here lacks some reading comprehension skills. Those “four words” are not Kate’s but rather the “journalist” she is quoting. Correcting quotations to suit is a MSM ploy. Pay more attention, you are missing out on a good blog.
We all know liberals cannot count. That’s why we have enormous state debts.
Being J Cato, I’m surprised he wasn’t being growlly about
dealerships not having a “carbon footprint manager” as well.
Me No Dhimmi, how rude. It is none of those things you suggest because a group of six things is visibly different from a group of four things. Had it been a group of 106 things VS 104 things, that would be different, and 106 things VS 4 things are certainly visually different, as it is, the experience while reading at any speed silently or orally in editor mode or casual reader mode with tongue in or hanging out and drooling knuckles dragging or properly proportioned, looks like this:
Here comes four @s, “@@@@@@”.
On the other hand, contrary to that, I had a girlfriend who asked “Isn’t it great automatically knowing if a word fits without counting?” We were doing a crossword. Actually, she was teaching me how to close a NYT crossword, and I answered, “No. Because I can’t do that. That is a problem.” I couldn’t estimate it, and often didn’t have enough or too many.