Language is living, breathing, has cadence, music...
Forgive me, but for me, it is all of the above that is naive. Do you actually think anyone PAYS PBS for any episode within this series?
I am pained by both yr cynicism and lack of understanding of the history of the singular and formidable PBS.
I never make promises I do not keep. So, as I promised early this aM when I was keeling over from fatigue, to demonstrate the worthlessness of the differential judgment of a virulent attacked in this thread, in this cased rer what I shared re my experience with such as leather, wood, veneering.....saying happily, despite all of it, I was still stunned at the level of excellent in those things at Bentley......I was, as usual, speaking truth.
So, I chose some items from my cabinetry file, which is huge. (Ikea book shelf MY BUTT.)
[Irrelevant twaddle removed for brevity.]
I also wanna say, i would bet money that most people here posting negative comments are not being honest about what they did not know. Starting with who, precisely we can thank for aluminum block engines.
I must slept through that part. Is Continental made the same way as the Mulsanne? Maybe I can't appreciate good interior or craftsmanship but I didn't find the Continental all that special .
Entirely proper for me. Language is living, breathing, has cadence, music and is never doctrinaire Again, you are stuck in the leaves.
Since you don't understand, here's how it works. PBS says, "we want to make a documentary about building X." Then PBS contacts the company that builds it and asks for access to their production facilities for filming. The company producing the product then puts conditions upon the grant of access. Conditions like having only that company's personnel talk about the product and restricting what is said about the product.
The only people who ever talked about the Bentley were employees of Bentley. They were not objective observers but rather interested parties with obvious motivation to describe the product only in glowing terms. Bentley sells not cars, but an image and their employees are going to bend the truth as necessary to maintain that image. It is in their interest to do so and if you cannot see that then you need to grow up.
I never said anything about your bookshelf. The IKEA reference was to illustrate the fact that veneering is a process used even by the cheapest mass-produced products and is not particularly special. It's merely a way to save money by using a cheap underlying material with the tiniest amount of desirable product layered on over the top. Rather than being a demonstration of "excellence," veneering is a demonstration of cheapness; it's a superficial surface layer to disguise the structural components, nothing more.
Yes, pretty things can be done with veneer, but that doesn't change the fact that the process itself is the same thing used by IKEA to cover up particle board.
You would lose your money.
This is an automotive subforum. People here have immersed themselves in the minutiae of automobiles (and, very often, aeroplanes, boats, and nearly any piece of machinery involving engines) for their entire lives.
And, as I pointed out, aluminum engine parts existed years before W.O. Bentley commissioned a set of aluminum pistons in 1912. He was merely one of many experimenting with the material at the time.
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Exactly! And you struck a hideously wrong note!
So...you fancy yourself America's Shakespeare.
Riiight.
Your ear is depressingly conventional. When you get paid for writing (first Seeing), get back to me.
When you get paid for writing (first Seeing), get back to me.
Most native English speakers wouldn't know the word "abrogation".
My heart is now somewhat wounded.
Dangler, do you also say "lef-tenant" or "shed-ule"?
And, as I pointed out, aluminum engine parts existed years before W.O. Bentley commissioned a set of aluminum pistons in 1912. He was merely one of many experimenting with the material at the time.
Really they did? Unalloyed so, so soft like butta?
When you get paid for writing (first Seeing), get back to me.
I have, so I'm getting back to you.
Don't you find it disingenuous that this "documentary" only mentions W.O.'s first use of aluminum pistons and then goes straight to the current Bentley engine, which is a German design having nothing at all to do with W.O.?
If you can get paid for writing, then good.
But ideally you should be able to switch styles between when writing things which are for money (books?), and when trying to communicate to other people on the internet.
Otherwise you may come across as being hostile/arrogant/annoying/problematic etc.
Example
I say I think you are 99.9999% perfection
You say WHAT, I am 0.0001% horrible/bad/evil/terrible/troubled, WHY YOU SO HORRIBLE TO ME ?
(I have had a poor success rate with examples in this thread, so this may be a bad post).
I haven't been this entertained since reading a PAB post and the subsequent responses.
...it was more important to me to be both the sorority girl and the cheerleader and the cutest girl on the block.
Well! Just strike that Continental off that list of vehicles you were considering! Right click on that puppy and send it to the recycle bin and hit EMPTY!!!!!
I know. It's like having LOUISSS or fleabag back. :biggrin:
ZV
Bentley Continental is not a car I would consider even if I could easily afford it. I drove it once and it was enough. I don't care for its styling and I'm not really a dash stroker. My cousin bought one last year and sold it after only about 4-5 months. He didn't really care for it either. He replaced it with BMW 7 series and Maserati GranTurismo convertible. He said he likes the 7 series more than the Bentley.
The lack of continuity in his posts is painful. And if he gets paid for writing text like that.... good god.
It's a she.
He/she/it is a troll. But sometimes it's fun to have a punching bag.
ZV
No, not unalloyed. W.O. did not invent aluminum alloys. He experimented with them and created some of his own, but there were others before he came onto the scene. Duralumin, an alloy of aluminum, copper, magnesium, and manganese, was invented in 1903. And non-alloyed aluminum was used with sleeved cylinder liners even before that time.
There are hundreds of different aluminum alloys and there were several that predated W.O.'s work.
Technological advances are seldom truly the work of a single person. That's not how it works. What happens is that dozens, or even hundreds, of people are all working along the same line and who gets to the finish line first is often more dependent upon luck than people would like to admit. W.O. Bentley contributed massively, but was also often in the right place at the right time with the right funding.
I spent three years being paid to write on topical legal issues for other lawyers, and a year being paid to teach other lawyers how to write. Try again.
ZV
Writing legal briefs, case law delineation and anything related, inherently
arcane and without a pulse or eros/music of any species. There are good reasons people hold legal speak in such contempt.
Relatedly, writing in AMA speak re medical peer review journals also takes no real talent. Clinical stuff never does. Simple protocols to learn.