Just for fun...

Well, when I can see a DeWalt drill attached to a bike, I know what the vid is all about and leave it to the others :)

However, I hardly can stop watching FB Reels related to "Do you know how to pronounce...?" Well, I heard an American pronouncing "route" long in the past and he said /rowt/ while I knew a British would say /root/ Still watching those stupid reels. Now I at least know how to pronounce "citrus" :D

There is a funny guy named Liam Carpenter on FB Reels. A young Englishman who emigrated to Germany, married a German and became a citizen. His observations of the way German behave is just hilarious! He seems to be, however, unaware that many sentences usually said by the German are so close to the British "understatement" :)
 
PedalUma said:
@Art Deco, I was inspired by you to post that.
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YouTube actually worked for me when I was in upstate NY and a new bright blue battery guage appeared on the digital dashboard of Babs BMW. Nothing mentioned in the paper manual of course, and a BWW service shop did a video on it ... they display shows the auxiliary batter is charging ... I didn't even know there was an auxiliary battery ...
Yep it takes a 48volt lithium ion box just to run the dash, the cameras, the lights, wipers, etc.. and since I was driving in the dark and rain, on cruise control with the a/c on, it needed to recharge.

BTW, I bought that bloody sports car because I thought it didn't come with a lithium battery. Just a little one, about the size of a motorcycle battery under the hood shroud that says something like "No user service-able parts inside. Go away. Now."
 
I watched it. I missed that he cut off the crank. That's really a hoot!

There was a time when I would have been more interested in something like this, not that I would have done it

Black and Decker, parent of DeWalt, used to make cheap (corded) drills and other tools. Cheap was their raison d'etre. They even made cheap adapters (I guess you'd call them) that you could use to turn your drill into a circular saw, or a can opener or a hammer, or whatever.... Except for their drills being corded, I can pretty well guarantee they would have made something that would propel a bike with one of their drills if they thought of it.

Bet you'd never see that guy riding with Stefan Mikes! :rolleyes:
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Stefan Mikes said:
Well, when I can see a DeWalt drill attached to a bike, I know what the vid is all about and leave it to the others :)

However, I hardly can stop watching FB Reels related to "Do you know how to pronounce...?" Well, I heard an American pronouncing "route" long in the past and he said /rowt/ while I knew a British would say /root/ Still watching those stupid reels. Now I at least know how to pronounce "citrus" :D

There is a funny guy named Liam Carpenter on FB Reels. A young Englishman who emigrated to Germany, married a German and became a citizen. His observations of the way German behave is just hilarious! He seems to be, however, unaware that many sentences usually said by the German are so close to the British "understatement" :)
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I worked with a successful German immigrant at a client's. I asked him why he moved to the USA ...
"When they told me I couldn't change the tire size on my car" he said.
 
I love the story of the 1914 Christmas Truce. The Brits and Germans in the trenches had more in common with each other that with their officers. So they put down their guns, exchanged gifts, and played football like good young men. The commanding officers hated it and fumed.
 
PedalUma said:
I love the story of the 1914 Christmas Truce. The Brits and Germans in the trenches had more in common with each other that with their officers. So they put down their guns, exchanged gifts, and played football like good young men. The commanding officers hated it and fumed.
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' What if they gave a war, and noone came?'
 
Art Deco said:
That's why I have YouTube blocked. I hate most videos, and finding the one that answers my issue of the day usually takes more time than screwing it up , and redoing the screw up myself.
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YouTube is definitely a mixed bag. My PM likes to OD on "How To" videos before embarking upon a new project. We're subscribed to "Itchy Boots" (a Dutch woman riding her motorcycle solo touring various places in the world, and I subscribe to "Not Just Bikes", "Climate Town" and "Easy Italian". There is useful, interesting content, but also lots of trash to wade through!
 
PatriciaK said:
YouTube is definitely a mixed bag. My PM likes to OD on "How To" videos before embarking upon a new project. We're subscribed to "Itchy Boots" (a Dutch woman riding her motorcycle solo touring various places in the world, and I subscribe to "Not Just Bikes", "Climate Town" and "Easy Italian". There is useful, interesting content, but also lots of trash to wade through!
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I used to watch Rick Steves videos on touring Europe on the big screen , but I have never got a proper answer to a specific question on YouTube. YMMV,
 
Stefan Mikes said:
Well, when I can see a DeWalt drill attached to a bike, I know what the vid is all about and leave it to the others :)

However, I hardly can stop watching FB Reels related to "Do you know how to pronounce...?" Well, I heard an American pronouncing "route" long in the past and he said /rowt/ while I knew a British would say /root/ Still watching those stupid reels. Now I at least know how to pronounce "citrus" :D

There is a funny guy named Liam Carpenter on FB Reels. A young Englishman who emigrated to Germany, married a German and became a citizen. His observations of the way German behave is just hilarious! He seems to be, however, unaware that many sentences usually said by the German are so close to the British "understatement" :)
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"Route" can rhyme with root or snout. Either/both is correct, either/both are used -- interchangeably. Just as sometimes we pronounce "the" thee and sometimes it rhymes with duh 🙄, I don't know if there is even any rule. Sometimes different parts of the country will pronounce words differently. For instance, I pronounce "donkey" dawnkee, while people I know from New Jersey will say it dunkee (rhymes with monkey.) Or different areas of the country will use different words altogether for common items, and Prof Henry Higgins type linguists can pinpoint you onto a map, depending on what you call athletic shoes, or carbonated beverages, or what you call the night before Halloween.
 
ChezCheese:) said:
"Route" can rhyme with root or snout. Either/both is correct, either/both are used -- interchangeably. Just as sometimes we pronounce "the" thee and sometimes it rhymes with duh 🙄, I don't know if there is even any rule. Sometimes different parts of the country will pronounce words differently. For instance, I pronounce "donkey" dawnkee, while people I know from New Jersey will say it dunkee (rhymes with monkey.) Or different areas of the country will use different words altogether for common items, and Prof Henry Higgins type linguists can pinpoint you onto a map, depending on what you call athletic shoes, or carbonated beverages, or what you call the night before Halloween.
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I think the rule is, before a word beginning with a vowel sound ( the end, the only, the ultimate, etc.), it's "thee", and before a word beginning with a consonant SOUND (the boys, the first, the one - sounds like "w"), it's "thuh". I used to be an English instructor and had all these rules at the the tips my fingers, but I'm retired and did a brain dump shortly after it was no longer required for me to know 😁.
 
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