Just need to vent...

In my state, people have been tagged to pay tolls for cars from other states with plate styles and color patterns similar to our own. Or for plates similar to styles we used to have, years ago, with numbers that match old archived DMV records of cars that people here used to have, long ago. Never mind that those cars, plate styles, and plate numbers (just 6 characters back then) were retired long before our automatic toll systems were built.

 

Not sure what it is now, but lack of insurance once resulted in driver license suspension for a year. First time DUI was just 6 months. That was in NJ.

A separate vent. Spellcheckers flagging correctly spelled words.

 

That sounds like ... a skill.

It is illegal to put lives at risk in a chase, but people very rarely drive off if they're pulled over.

 

Oh dear. He really walked into that one.

 

It could be worse: you could be like me, writing in a language that your browser seems to think has been superseded by another...

 

Isn't there an option to select whatever one considers proper English?

My vent stems from having poor spelling skills. I want to use the right spelling, so when a word gets flagged in a comment here, I take the time to correct it. Which becomes time wasted.

 

It tends to then confuse everything else, and makes more of a mess than it solves.

Oooh, that would be very annoying.

 

Drive-offs used to be infrequent here too, with most involving offenders fleeing crime scenes or having serious outstanding warrants, but they were enough to cause some tragic high profile collateral damage. Then after a series of very highly publicized killings of minorities by police, leading up to George Floyd, more minorities starting fleeing minor stops claiming to be in fear of their lives.

About that time, and partly in response to long standing discriminatory patterns of abuse of force, my state passed a law seriously restricting police chases to a very narrow set of crimes or circumstances. That quickly lead to a huge increase in people driving off from traffic stops, or refusing to stop in the first place, because they knew it was now illegal for police to chase them. Their chances of escaping without being identified are reasonably good in general, or excellent in a stolen car. Kia and Hyundai have provided a large supply of easily stolen cars.

 

People should acknowledge that what used to be called English is now branching into multiple languages. The divergence will very likely keep increasing.

 

I can think of one member here who is already his own language group.

 

I'm not sure about divergence increasing. It did, certainly, for a while, but I think now there's more of a convergence. We all watch the same TV and movies, and I think this has led to a reduction in the differences in English usage over the past few decades. I've seen the same in Chinese too.

 

If Chaucer or Shakespeare were online, they'd vent about spell checkers. Poore deares.

 

And more eloquently than I.

 

And speaking of starting a sentence with 'and', those pesky Grammar Nazis

Glad that rule finally died out ....
Don't EVEN get Grammar Nazis started on the totally backwards meaninglessness of the word 'irregardless'
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That's some nonsense up with which I would never put.

 

I'm a fan of the Oxford comma...

 

It's good to avoid using a preposition to end a proposition.

 

On Monday, took my 2021 Prius AWD (30,000 miles) down to Tire World to get four new tires.

When picking it up, manager informed me the technician had, accidently, broke a TPMS on one of the tiresd but they replaced it, no charge.

My TPMS light came on while driving home so I hooked up my scanner and cleared the codes and reset the TPMS on the car dash. Looked like everything was good but it came on again on the drive into work today....GRRRR

What stinks is I didn't get which TPMS it was he replaced and it's not written on my receipt. I was going to just stop by the Toyota dealer and pick up an OEM for them to put on but those things are over $100 for one.....GRRRR

Back to the store on my next day off.

 

When it can't hear (via radio waves) a particular sensor, it takes a while to turn on the light. When I forget to reprogram it after a seasonal wheel swap, the alert has appeared something like 5 to 8 miles down the road, including waiting for several traffic lights.

There is no reason change the sensor again. You don't even need to know which wheel has it. Just have a competent tire shop pull out their TPMS tool to read all the ID codes through the sidewall, then plug into the OBDII port and reprogram for the entire set. Even the Toyota shop ought to be able to do this. Even if you have to pay some real tire shop to read and reprogram this, it should still be cheaper than replacing a sensor.