Guest Tracker Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 According to my car's handbook the bonnet - as we know it - is no longer a bonnet as it is now an............................................. 'Engine compartment lid.' Which I suppose it is - but what was wrong with bonnet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CliveH Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 It is sexist Tracker - I am surprised you as a sensitive man about town in touch with his feminine half (given half a chance I hear!!!) do not know that. Bonnets were worn by ladies and so calling an "engine compartment lid a bonnet could offend the female sex". Far better then to call it a lid. Can not wait to see what the PC numpties come up with for aeroplanes! After all - do they know the origin of the words "Cockpit" and "Joy-stick" - now that should be fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J9withdogs Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 Where does the word 'trunk', as in an American car 'boot', come from? *-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spospe Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 How about the plumbing term "Ballcock", surely this is a non-PC word? Going back to Tracker's query, possibly the term is one that is of universal application and can be easily and accurately translated into any language. For example, in American English they call the "engine compartment lid" the "hood", whereas the "engine compartment lid" is exactly what it is and needs no explanation. Just a suggestion of mine, disagree if you wish. Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CliveH Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 Ah Ha! - I think I can answer that J9 - It may be sherical objects but i understand that US cars had a flat area where they used to tie their travel trunks onto. So when car makers started making them they were called "Trunks" In the UK the hunting shooting and fishing lot were those that could aford cars at the start and they would often have a "Boot Box" built onto the side of the car to put the muddy boots in so that the interior of the car was not messed up. - Bit like a "wet locker" today I suppose. So when cars started being built with a "Boot Box" it just got shortened to "Boot". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J9withdogs Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 Wow - aren't you clever, Clive! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
howie Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 Watch yourself Richard. Bournemouth Council have banned their staff from using Latin phrases for being 'elitist', so no more 'Nil carborudum illigitimi'. No more 'Christmas' lights in Oxford either, and now we will have a 'Winterlight' festival instead. Well here's my answer to the lot of them. Grease nipples. Grrrr :$ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davenewellhome Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 And when did side lights become "position lamps"??? D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tracker Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 And with the introduction of dual hydraulic braking systems the emergency brake has been demoted to the service brake - but it remains the handbrake to me even though it will only hold the car on a gradient rather than stop it in the event of brake failure.! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J9withdogs Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 And the police no longer call collisions Road Traffic Accidents - they are Road Traffic Incidents. Apparently in our new 'blame culture' there is no such thing as an accident! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colin Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 Is it PC talk or a dodgy translation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michele Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 I dont know but I do know this one is real PC terminology :D Copper PC Its all a LOB :D :D :D :-D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tracker Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 J9withdogs - 2008-11-03 7:29 PM And the police no longer call collisions Road Traffic Accidents - they are Road Traffic Incidents. Apparently in our new 'blame culture' there is no such thing as an accident! Down here it's an RTC - road traffic collision! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Jones Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 When the great Murray Walker used to do Formula 1, it was a "coming together." Make of that what you will!!! >:-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordThornber Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 Rich, being the good Social Worker that I am and being completely and utterly PC, (b******s), I feel qualified to answer you. You see, the thinking these days Is that you are "only as informed as what you can read" Meaning that, "Bonnet" means, well, bonnet, BUT, "Engine Compartment Lid" says EXACTLY what it is. i.e. it is the lid of the compartment that contains the engine. Utter tripe but true none the less. It took me some time to get used to it but believe me or not there are some very important examples of evidencing that have been influenced by this way of thinking. A huge amount of our paper work is left blank because the person completing it may not have the information to hand. So what do they do? They leave it blank, leaving themselves wide open to all sorts of conjecture. The quality approach is to insert, "FE" for further enquiries and date/initial it. Get it? Good. I'm done now 8-) Martyn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tracker Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 LordThornber - 2008-11-04 10:22 AM The quality approach is to insert, "FE" for further enquiries and date/initial it. Get it? Good. I'm done now 8-) Martyn Thanks for your valued guidance Martyn - but surely FA or FO are better answers when you don't know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vindiboy Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 T L A Three Letter Abreviations were always the answer when I used to suffer meetings. if someone did not know what to say or knew little of what they were on about T L A s saved the day for them. *-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
net-traveller Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 Watched 'Jake on the Box' last night and if all this PC rot had been around 30 odd years ago we would never have enjoyed his songs which would have been such a pity. Don't think Fascinating Aida would have got away with it either. ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
york brewery Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 Our company van was in a horrific incedent on the M1 chesterfield tuesday of last week. A pedsestrian jumped in front of our van which was in the fast lane.he had stopped in the fast lane sth bound. got out of his car then jump into the fast lane north bound. suicide. the police dealing with this horrific incedent where called The crash investigation unit. Our driver is having counselling.but thankfully is doing ok Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tracker Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 york brewery - 2008-11-04 6:23 PM Our company van was in a horrific incedent on the M1 chesterfield tuesday of last week. A pedsestrian jumped in front of our van which was in the fast lane.he had stopped in the fast lane sth bound. got out of his car then jump into the fast lane north bound. suicide. the police dealing with this horrific incedent where called The crash investigation unit. Our driver is having counselling.but thankfully is doing ok Hope you did not spill any beer, as that would have been such a waste of a valuable resource in these times of hardship? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Usinmyknaus Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 York Brewery - that must have been horrendous for your driver - I feel bad if I hit a pheasant on the road. Returning to the PC thing though, down here we aren't allowed a "fast lane" on a motorway, the term is "Lane 3" apparently. If anyone wants an antidote to PC twaddle, I can recommend the original "War of the Worlds" film which I watched last night. Ahhh from a time when men were men, women were women and Martians were, well Martians actually. The (male) hero struts his chisel-jawed stuff, all the (male) army-types lay down their lives in fruitless acts of extreme derring-do and the beautiful heroine (for young readers that's not a drug, it's the female version of the word "Hero" and a subtlety of language, like "actress"etc you will not have been allowed to learn at school) anyway, she reveals early on that she has a masters degree in science but this is of course completely ignored. Her contribrution, as the Martians advance, is to don a smart, highly-starched, red-cross style nurses uniform and carry round a large tray of coffee and doughnuts which she delivers to the exclusively male troops. She also screams (lots) and falls into the hero's arms (frequently) and in the spirit of the times has panic attacks and has to be steadied by the ever so clever and brave scientist chap. Much of the film is in the same, gleefully PC-incorrect style. Naturally, I must add that my respect for women in the New Order is boundless and I thoroughly disapprove of the sentiments expressed in the film. (But there is a certain guilty pleasure in watching it guys, tee hee.) Of course nowadays the Martians would not be met with force of arms but instead by an army of social workers, translators, Martian rights lawyers, benefits and housing advisors, immigration advisory charity workers etc.......... Bob ;-) ;-) ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
york brewery Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 No beer on the van.just empty casks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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