I own a 1990 ford mustang conv. im a chevy person but i got the car for some kicks. Last night i went driving at a local car show and a friend want to go for a ride so i did. we turned around at a stop sign and speed up from their i came around a corner ar 55 on a 35 graemlins/clonk.gif and hit loss gravel or my tire blow out i went it to the ditch(this is your country ditch very deep ) and went all the way in to the other side a i stadled it to back toward the road of corce the tire what of the rim but the car keep running what else could have i broke and how much will it cost. :confused:

P.S. im lucky it didnt flipit or the air bag go off dont really like the seat belt.

Your profile says "Student, one more year". Obviously not an English major huh? Please use spell check and grammar check if you have it. Please don’t drive like an a$$, you never know who’s kids are walking around, especially that close to a car show (if I read that correctly).

anyone want to take a stab at translating this into english? :D

Sounds like a new tire. The tire shop can tell you if you damaged the rim. While it's jacked up look around under it. Chance may be that nothing else was damaged.
I only type with a couple of fingers and have difficulty formulating sentences in the active voice.

Srubydo

I think your writing is more wrecked than your suspension could ever be.

Take it slow! One sentence at a time (and no more 55mph in a 35mph zone, save it for the dragstrip!). What does the word "stadled" mean? Is that stabilized, steered, and straddled all rolled into one?

Just having a little fun with you man!

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Amzanig huh?

Maybe he was just testing us!?!?

I could understand you 70el_66ch. That is wierd, but i still don't know what the original guy said smile.gif

I am guessing that was difficult to write since you were purposly mispelling words.

The whole thing sounds like something I saw on Cops once... :D

Originally posted by srubydo:
I own a 1990 ford mustang conv. im a chevy person but i got the car for some kicks. Last night i went driving at a local car show and a friend want to go for a ride so i did. we turned around at a stop sign and speed up from their i came around a corner ar 55 on a 35 graemlins/clonk.gif and hit loss gravel or my tire blow out i went it to the ditch(this is your country ditch very deep ) and went all the way in to the other side a i stadled it to back toward the road of corce the tire what of the rim but the car keep running what else could have i broke and how much will it cost. :confused:

P.S. im lucky it didnt flipit or the air bag go off dont really like the seat belt. Your Phord belongs in a ditch. It was just trying to get home, where it belongs.

If you love it, set it free and leave it there. If it was meant to be, it will come back to you

"all the way in to the other side a i stadled it to back toward the road of corce :confused:

Unlike M.M.'s previous post, your FORD MUSTANG does not belong in a ditch. You need to take the car to a reputable mechanic and have him/her give it a once over. Me personally, I have never ran a car in a ditch, but I did get hit from behind in my GTO and it wasn't a pretty sight; the car. My wounds healed, but the car was totalled and I only had it a month so I was P.OFF beyond recognition. The driver of the Blazer, a 17 year old kid, said he didn't see me turning in the driveway (a bright white car) and that's why he hit me. You sound a little like him, maybe you need to slow down a little and think about what you are doing before you go and do it. Now, I've had 2 Mustang GT's in the past and unfortunately I sold them both to buy other things (04 F150 & My Chevelle). I know that the GT's can be modified and become missles and not everyone can handle one, not right off the bat. You didn't mention what Mustang you had, but sounds like you need to take it easy with it, if it's not totalled.
So, take it for what it's worth; you are alive.
These guys are just giving you a hard time for being a knucklehead, so don't take it personal. Just a little advice from a bunch of guys that have been there and done that...and have the T-Shirts to prove it. Take care and hope you learned your lesson and your Mustang isn't going to be "ditched" by your insurance company. tongue.gif

this has to be the funniest post and thread I have read yet!
Rob tongue.gif

Originally posted by srubydo:

P.S. im lucky it didnt flipit or the air bag go off dont really like the seat belt. You should learn to wear your seat belt.

Hey guys take it easy on the kid, we have all done stupid things (I.E the 66 Super Sport I put into a wall when I was 16) the kid aint an english major, who cares this is a car site not a writing site!

Tom
Not trying to downgrade anyone, but we all should care!! I notice more and more that people of adult age not able to communicate.

I agree, this is a car site not an english class, but what are you going to do when it get's so bad that you can't understand what a person is trying to ask you? You can't be of much help to them if you don't know what is being said.


Rocky

Originally posted by chevelledude71:
Unlike M.M.'s previous post, your FORD MUSTANG does not belong in a ditch. I reject this argument. :D

And yes, giving him a hard time for the reason you stated.

Go hang out on a Honda site for a day. This guy will sound like an English Professor after that experience. :eek:

As if talking in ebonics wasn't bad enough, it's becoming "cool" to write that way too.

Step away from the meth.

slow down and stay in school

Originally posted by Hot66ss:
Hey guys take it easy on the kid, ...the kid aint an english major... This just struck me as funny. :D (Sorry Hot66ss!)

Originally posted by ZZ69chevelle:
Step away from the meth. oh shyt.....hahahahaha. lmao :D

This is a GREAT post.

I have wanted to see this topic addressed for a long time. I will never cease to be amazed at some of the sentence structure and spelling skills on this and other forums. It is incredible just incredible.

Single sentences the length of entire paragraphs written by folks who are trying to sound like engineers! Pseudo technical descriptions of air flow differences between rectangle and oval BBC heads or 60 ft times with automatic s versus standard transmissions. Makes one wonder...people think they understand engine design, cam dynamics and basic physics but they cannot construct a sentence.

A basic grasp of the English language and the written word was once a criteria for getting out of GRADE SCHOOL! Now it seems people get out of High School with less spelling and composition skills than formerly were required to get out of grade school. What gives???????

I want to believe, I REALY want to believe, that this post is a joke but someplace deep inside me I know that even if this one is a joke there really are people who would be hard pressed to put an idea on paper as clearly as this post suceeded in doing. That is a frightening reality of the school systems we pour endless amounts of money into.

As a mechanical engineer I can only tremble at the thought of what level of math skills are being attained by todays students.

Originally posted by oman:
... That is a frightening reality of the school systems we pour endless amounts of money into.

As a mechanical engineer I can only tremble at the thought of what level of math skills are being attained by todays students. It is frightening but I hope you're not blaming the schools. I have 2 kids that graduated high school with honors, I'm not bragging, well maybe I am. The point is they graduated with honors because my wife and I made them graduate with honors. We were involved with their education from day one and made sure it came first.

The schools can only do so much if the parents don't care/don't have time. Then the same parents will raise hell if you try to hold their kid back a year. It can be a no win situation for the school if the parents don't help.

<---- Hey, check that out, I have a flag now too.

Originally posted by oman:
As a mechanical engineer I can only tremble at the thought of what level of math skills are being attained by todays students. I must respond!

Both of my brothers are engineers. (Okay, the younger one will be an engineer in three more semesters.)
Some of us in my family are good with words, others with numbers. One day we were poking fun at my middle brother for some sort of grammar/spelling error he made. He said, "You wanna hear something funny? You think I suck, but everyone on my floor brings me their papers to proofread! They say I'm the best at writing!!!"

Naturally, I still make fun of any of my family when they screw up the English language. :D Ain't I sumpthin'?

Finally

I agree completely that you helped make those kids honor students. I doubt that most schools have the capability to even graduate someone after giving them a real education with a real cirriculum if the parents are not pushing HARD on the kids. My point is in total agreemnt with yours.

The schools are a weak linK and many parents are another weak link. Can't really blame the kids for that. My issue is the fact that the schools keep whining for funding for all sorts on non academic nonsense and they still can't produce a graduate that can tell the difference between the use of there and their. Let us not even head into mathematics.....forget that.

We need money for field hockey and a football STADIUM and we need money for a band and we need money for........... But do we have money to attract and pay real teschers. NOPE. It is about priorities. We can hire nut case teachers with wacked liberal ideals but not teachers that know the subject matter.....teachers that just flat demand performance from the students AND parents that back up the demands of the schools when Johnnie and Mary come home at night.

We have kids with wireless PC's "Studying" at the local Wireless Hot Spot at night. Wanna guess how much studying gets done? We had two star football players steal an SUV down in the Atlanta burbs and go out knocking over mail boxes with the vehicle. The coach kicked them off the team. The parents and the student body went nuts "How can we win the championship"? The crowning moment of the debachle was a TV interview with a senior girl from the school..."Well they really did not steal it, the owner left the keys in the car so it is not like they really stole the car" What the F---K? The coach was almost fired for demanding excellence and looking at playing on the team as a reward not a right.

It is all just out of control. If I stole that SUV I would not have any issues about playing football! I would have issues about sittin down or walking straight after the thumping my father would have handed me. IT IS OUTTA CONTROL.

You are to be commended for demanding what is right and what is needed for basic survival in an increasingly tough world.

Oman,
You have no idea what truth you have spoken. My wife is a para professional in the Shawnee Mission school district, one of the finest in the country!

My wife tells me the horror stories of the kids who can't spell, can't read, can't count, the list goes on and on. As long as the schools refuse to hold anyone back because of poor performance you will see a trend.........we thought ebonics was a joke, give it few more years and that what our youth is turning into.

I made a copy of the original post and my wife took it to school with a note that this is whats being turned out in the schools today and put it on the teachers BB, it didn't last two days befor someone took it down!!!!

You hit the nail on the head, it all starts at home.


Rocky

Both my parents were NOT involed with my schooling. I am not a stupid man but, I thank I would have gone to college and done better in life if my parents had been involed. I think it starts with the parents. They need to be involed!
When my wife and I have kids I will be on them like white on rice. I don't want my kids turning wrenches like me. I have done well for living in Silicon Valley. Houses are REALLY expensive. I bought when they were low. I was very young (23yrs.). Had I not done that I would not be able to live here. Please push your kids very young it pays in the long run.
Rob

Oman
Probably the wrong forum for this discussion, but we’ve already started down this path. I understand your frustration and concerns, all valid. I don’t agree with all the points you make. The football stars stealing an SUV, been there, done that, but punish the kids severely for some trivial act if they aren’t on the football/basketball, swimming team. Parents a weak link in the education system definitely. Wacked liberal teachers, maybe.

We lived in a small school district in Michigan, not much more than a mile square. We knew the teachers, principals, and other in the school system. My wife worked for the schools for over 10 years and we got to know these people. At first meeting some of the teachers seemed over the edge, I mean really out there. But you know after talking to them and getting to know them I don’t remember one that wasn’t truly interested in educating. They were all willing to do what ever it took to help a kid, as long as the parents agreed and would work them. Before school, after school, whatever, as long as they weren’t fighting a losing battle. Of course a lot of them get burned out over the years, no help from the parents, no help from school board, it’s a shame.

My wife didn’t work until both kids were in school, then she worked for the schools so she could be home when they were home. Our choice, I know not all families can do that, and I’m not saying they should. Kids aren’t Chevelles, you can’t just have them then leave them sit in the garage all winter. You have to love them, push them, help them. I do love my Chevelle by the way. My son graduated from U of M this spring and my daughter just started her senior year. They both went to college because I insisted. I told them you can collect garbage if you want, no offense to anyone, but if you do it will be because it’s what you choose, not because it’s the only thing your qualified for. Honestly, I don’t care what profession they choose, I just want them to have choices.

Enough, bottom line is I think most of the blame lies with the parents. They don’t have time, don’t want to be bothered, or just don’t understand what they’re doing to their kids. You can’t expect a teacher to turn your kids into educated adults, 30 at a time 6 hours a day, if you’re not there the rest of the time.

I see now that others have already chimed in on this.

Well, I may as well jump in too.
I had a mother that lived in a different city then my brother, sister and myself. Our father worked nights, never did a thing with us on the weekends, nor the summer. He only complained when we brought home a "B". Never said, "good job" when we stayed on the Honor Roll. I'm now in the Marine Corps going on 13 years and 3 classes away from getting my Associates Degree in Restaurant and Culinary Management. This is part of my MOS in the Corps, so this degree will help me along my way in what I plan to do after I retire. I do plan on continuing my education while in the Corps.

So, it's not just up to the parents, it's up to the individual. I hated not being able to study at night, or after school. The wicked step mother would have something for us to do afterward. At night when we were in the bed, if our dad seen the light on when he came home from work he would yell up the stairs to, "turn off the damn light". So, I would cover my head and turn on the little black and white TV my brother and I had; to use as light. In the winter months, I would cover my head and use the little space heater we had upstairs for heat; to use as light. I know today this wasn't a very good idea, but at the time, making the Honor Roll was what was important...to me. I decided to go to college last year, and I'm 9 credit hours away from my Associates Degree, and I did it all myself. No help from my parents, no congratulations from my parents, and I didn't tell them I started school. When they found out, still no word of encouragement to this day. OH WELL, I'm still doing it.
On the other side of the coin, I'm terrible in Math. Come to find out a few years ago...my dad is a Math genious (according to my Grandmother). So, all the years of struggling with after school study hall with the teachers, I could have been getting help from my father. Either before he left for work or help on the weekends. Just for the record, I do help my children with their school work. Regardless if they ask me or not.

WOW :eek: All this over a simple post...I can't help but feel sorry for the topic starter for the verbal bloodbath he just endured.

Although I do agree with everything that was said, I just hope he doesn't stop posting all together..

Srubydo,PLEASE try to take your time & get your point across more clearly so people can try to help you ;)

I know, this was not meant to be a direct attack against him, but keep in mind, this is an actual person your talking about...

Scott

I received an application for employment from a young man who stated on the application that he had graduated from High School. There were fifteen mis-spellings on the application.... including the significant one...'metel' instead of 'metal' which is what we sell.
However, just because he cannot spell, he will not be precluded from the possibility of being hired. More serious is the guy who cannot read or comprehend a tape measure... as in, "what does a quarter, 1/4 and .250 have in common?"

'bear

chevelledude71,
Congratulations to you, you’re an exceptional person. I mean that honestly, most people require help, guidance, prodding, to do what you’ve done. You’ve done it on your own with no help.

scrubydoo, no criticism to you. I don’t think you know what you’re missing. The ability to write/speak clearly and intelligently is the most important thing you could ever learn. I don’t care what profession you choose. It’s not just important at work, I can’t count the times a clearly written letter has gotten me exactly what I wanted. All the ranting, raving and gibberish would have gotten me nothing. No one will ever take you seriously, right or wrong, if you can’t communicate well. The people that can or could help you won’t bother with you if they think you’re an idiot. I’m not saying you are, hell you may be a genius and know more than all of us put together. But look what’s happened, no one is even sure of what it is you said or how to respond to you. These people are willing to help but can’t because they’re not even sure what it is you tried to say. If you learn nothing else, learn to speak and write well, it will be well worth it.
ssal396 >How cool is it that my initials are all over my car. I love that, great signature.

One thing to keep in mind is some people that post here are not from the USA so you can't really expect them to be perfect at English and grammar.

I didn't think interpreting the post was really all that hard to do myself although I did have to read it over a couple of times.

Rocks66

There it is!!!!! They just don't want to hear anything negative about the situation. Administrators are afraid to enforce rules because the majority of parents will hand them their A$$, teachers are all mixed up with this "Don't mess with their young formative psychies (perhaps because they went to the same kind of schools????) and the parents are just too busy to give a hoot....they are more concerned about after school Baby Sitting Programs called extra cirricular activities so they (the parents) can play tennis or golf or whatever.

Most of this is generalization, I know some teachers care, many parents demand excellence and many administrators do enforce the rules. I speak as an outside observer of this process, just a poor simple working stiff who gets the bill for what the schools deliver (or don't deliver)!

Frankly I am feeling ripped off as far as value received for my money. I see kids at the local store who are totally befuddeled when you buy something for under $10.00 but give them more than $10.00 in order to get some change out of your pocket. I see kids that cannot find California on a map, never mind locate the Middle East, I see kids that think it is cool to use archane / inane abbreviations when posting on forums.....the list just runs on and on.

I don't claim to understand the entire problem and I don't mean to jump on these kids BUT this post took me to the point of speaking up. In the initial post we see a car enthusiast trying to convey a message to other car enthusiasts and the READERS CANT UNDERSTAND THE MESSAGE. This is not the first time I have seen this phenomina. More than once I have responded (to myself) "WHAT the hell are you saying?" and moved on rather than try to decode the drivel. Extrapolate this problem to a situation where our junior scholar HAS TO COMMUNICATE with someone who does not have any interest in the message. What is going to happen then????? Like it or not our little professor is living in the same world as kids who were honor students (in language skills or mathematics or humanities or whatever) and he she is going to have to compete with those former honor students. By definition honor students are those that stand out above some level of standard achievement therefore everyone cannot be an "honor" student. EVEYONE can try to be a better student however. The dumbing down of America is a direct result of "Oh don't pick on the kid...........this is a car forum" Standards get lowered and expectaion get relaxed and pretty soon Johnnie can't read, write or add and subtract.

I travel to Europe occasionally on business (mostly Germany) and it is embarrasing. The Germans I work with all speak German AND ENGLISH. They have real command of BOTH languages and they usually have advanced technical or math degrees. We are a joke. Without THEIR (not there) ability to speak English in Germany I could not travel to Germany and communicate with them. MY GRANDPARENTS GAVE ME SOME GERMAN WHEN I WAS A KID and I think I have a prety good grip on the language of the country I live in.

Time to stop fooling around here in America. We need to first start demanding achievement while understanding that achievement is defined differently for everyone based on their (not there) own inate ability. We just have to stop the excuse generators. Kids who get bad grades see the application of simple rules! Bad grades = STAY BACK and do it over till ya get it right or get in a cirriculum that is more tuned to your (not youre) abilities.

I am done not coming back to try to change the world. Enjoy this little off topic discussion as you will.

WOW, seems alot of people are seeing the problem. I've noticed it has gotten worse over the last couple of years. On another forum I post on, if grammar and spelling are not correct they will give you the worst flaming in history. That is for the first offense, further grammar/spelling errors on posts result in being banned from site.

It is important to check spelling and try to make sure your post reads correctly. I am pretty sure most people posting are at least 15 or so. I would hope by that point in life some English teacher had gotten through to you. I realize not everyone has the luxury of living in the U.S.A. so I do pay attention to things like number of posts and location. Srubydo has almost 50 posts and lives in Nokesville, sounds like a city in the states, no?

I have 3 children, 1 is not in school yet, the other 2 run a 4.0 GPA. They are both very intelligent and score very high on standardized testing. The odd thing is that the oldest is starting to talk like an idiot, apperently it is "cool" to talk in an ebonics type spin off purposely mispronouncing words and misusing adjectives. What has hapenned to our society?

I think this might have gotten off topic a little, are we in suspension and brakes still...

oman, tell us how you really feel. Kidding, I agree with you. I’m a computer software engineer, my job hasn’t been sent over to India yet but many of my former coworkers lost their jobs that way. India has over 40 local dialects so most of the people there speak their local dialect, they also speak Hindi, so they can communicate with people from other regions and absolutely English. They are also highly educated. The same is true in China. So if you can get a highly skilled computer programmer in India for 1/4th the price of one here, where are you going to go.

People complain about manufacturing jobs going overseas. You can’t protect those jobs, as much as you may want to. It’s the skilled professions going offshore that we should be worried about and we opened the doors, we caused it. We weren’t turning out enough skilled people to meet demand. India and China saw that and jumped in to fill the gap.

You want those manufacturing jobs back? Pretty soon that’s all we’ll have, we’ll be the third world country with a huge, cheap labor force. We’ll be the ones sitting in sweat shops cranking out Nikes to ship overseas. America does need to wake up. The things that made us the richest, most powerful country in the world just won’t hold up in today’s world.

Hey, anybody want to talk about Chevelles?

Finally, I appreciate your comments, and I would like to talk about chevelles. Matter of fact, I'm going to buy some bucket seats for my Chevelle on October 1st.

What kind of buckets? I'm still not sure I like the ones I put in, they sit really low. Have to get some steel and make some little brackets lift em' up about 2". I should have gone with Corbeua's!

I agree with what oman has said about the "dumbing down" of our school system. The "No Child Left Behind" legislation has made it really tough for teachers. My friend is a science teacher and he says it is almost impossible to control the students because they are not allowed to discipline them in any way except by sending them to the office for detention. By contrast, the students are pretty much allowed to do or say anything the wish.
After years of teaching he almost quit recently. Fortunately, he has moved to another city and believes he has found a better school system in which to work. I'm hoping that it works out for him, as he is a very enthusiastic teacher who has just had his fill of the BS.

Oh, and it has always bugged me that we can't use standard paragraphs on this BB. It makes communicating more difficult.

I don't have buckets in the Chevelle. It's a bench seat. I'd like to keep the bench, but get it modified so you don't slide out when you take a corner over 5mph. Wonder if someone can do that for a reasonable price?

Yea, like he said, what kind of buckets? I've noticed that one of mine sits a lot lower than the other. Maybe one is original and the other a replacement? Feel like you're sitting on the floor.