Pet peeve!! MOBIL not MOBILE

[930.engineering]

I wonder what the NOAK is of that Mobile 1?

True, it's actually 'Noack' (the engineer's name who invented this test).

Many Germans say 'Body Bag' (instead of Rucksack, a German word),
'Handy' for a mobile phone or smartphone, 'Kita' instead of Kindergarten
(again a genuine German word, while "Kita' is GDR/east German initially).

Foolishness won't never be at risk of extinction.
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[wpod]

Life is brutal.

 

[Pablo]

cadillac converter vs catalytic

Neva herd that won!!

 

[Pablo]

Life is brutal.

Then you dye.

 

[ATex7239]

I hate when people ramble and talk too much. Like yesterday when the Mrs and I took a little trip to the store to get some shopping done. Her bad knee started to flare up so I had to push the shopping buggy. Which I don’t like to do let me tell you what. Especially when we do our monthly big item shopping. And of course we were. She sometimes carries a cane now. On account of the bad knee. She got it from her friend Diane who had a bad fall last winter. I guess Diane kept it. So the check out line at the store was unusually long cause the cashier kept jaw jacking and I hate that. She just kept talking and talking about her life. Now I was a bit hungry which didn't help matters. But we had things to do. We did have coupons for ground beef, so that was nice. You know I wish Phill was still the manager of the grocery store - he kept things moving in there. He wouldn’t have allowed that kind of lallygagging. But he had to retire last year due to his ongoing gout problems. He probably has cane now too if I had to guess. I should give him a call this weekend. Anyhow yeah I hate when people ramble.

 

[The Lube Guy]

Translate the German Mobil site to English, and you get this:

 

[PF52]

I hate when people ramble and talk too much. Like yesterday when the Mrs and I took a little trip to the store to get some shopping done. Her bad knee started to flare up so I had to push the shopping buggy. Which I don’t like to do let me tell you what. Especially when we do our monthly big item shopping. And of course we were. She sometimes carries a cane now. On account of the bad knee. She got it from her friend Diane who has a bad fall last winter. I guess Diane kept it. So line at the store was unusually long cause the cashier kept jaw jacking and I hate that. She just kept talking and talking about her life. Now I was a bit hungry which didn't help matters. But we had things to do. We did have coupons for ground beef, so that was nice. You know I wish Phill was still the manager of the grocery store - he kept things moving in there. He wouldn’t have allowed that kind of lallygagging. But he had to retire last year due to his ongoing gout problems. He probably has cane now too if I had to guess. I should give him a call this weekend. Anyhow yeah I hate when people ramble.

That sounds EXACTLY like most calls to "Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers...." Eventually they get around to their question, do I use the regular Mobile or the Mobile 1 oil in my Camry?

 

[Zee09]

I hate when people ramble and talk too much. Like yesterday when the Mrs and I took a little trip to the store to get some shopping done. Her bad knee started to flare up so I had to push the shopping buggy. Which I don’t like to do let me tell you what. Especially when we do our monthly big item shopping. And of course we were. She sometimes carries a cane now. On account of the bad knee. She got it from her friend Diane who had a bad fall last winter. I guess Diane kept it. So the check out line at the store was unusually long cause the cashier kept jaw jacking and I hate that. She just kept talking and talking about her life. Now I was a bit hungry which didn't help matters. But we had things to do. We did have coupons for ground beef, so that was nice. You know I wish Phill was still the manager of the grocery store - he kept things moving in there. He wouldn’t have allowed that kind of lallygagging. But he had to retire last year due to his ongoing gout problems. He probably has cane now too if I had to guess. I should give him a call this weekend. Anyhow yeah I hate when people ramble.

You must be a Led Zeppelin fan.

 

[ARCOgraphite]

Then you dye.

Hung by the neck?

I think I am getting bad advise here ..

 

[JohnnyG]

Granite, you have a legitimate pet peev!

 

[eljefino]

They want the best synthetic oil (because it's a Corvette ) but get furious if it costs more (because it's just a Chevy )

They want exclusivity yet attainability, for them. They are the most special snowflakes in this moment. Best thing you can do to troll them is park next to them or rattle off some stupid stat like your uncle had one with a 500 cu in motor that would go 250 MPH "because that was as high as the speedometer went."

Now that I think of it, maybe they're trolling us with this Mobile stuff.

 

[PF52]

They want the best synthetic oil (because it's a Corvette ) but get furious if it costs more (because it's just a Chevy

If I remember right, many of them say "Use Mobil 1" right on the oil cap. Because as everyone knows, the car will explode if you use any other brand!

 

[kschachn]

If I remember right, many of them say "Use Mobil 1" right on the oil cap. Because as everyone knows, the car will explode if you use any other brand!

Wait, put the breaks on. The fill cap on my VW says Castrol. You mean I could use Mobile 1 instead?

Is the Mobile 1 at Walmart the same as at Autozone? I saw on Facebook that it’s watered down at Walmart.

 

[Snagglefoot]

Saying lithium is easier if you have a lisp.

 

[uc50ic4more]

Gotta get some of that MOBILE WON lol

You should know better than to use the American spelling. The next time you authour a post for our neighbours, humour me, do us a favour and please do not harbour intentions of that kind of behaviour.

* Moubil

 

[burbguy82]

My pet peeve is pet peeves.

I hate the word peeve. Is peeve without the word pet in front the same thing, and if so, why add the word pet?

 

[burbguy82]

Good ole Chevy Vortex motor.

 

[eljefino]

Where's Morbid Bundtman in this thread?

 

[kschachn]

Where's Morbid Bundtman in this thread?

Looks like he was on around midnight.

 

[Jimmy_Russells]

I hate when people ramble and talk too much. Like yesterday when the Mrs and I took a little trip to the store to get some shopping done. Her bad knee started to flare up so I had to push the shopping buggy. Which I don’t like to do let me tell you what. Especially when we do our monthly big item shopping. And of course we were. She sometimes carries a cane now. On account of the bad knee. She got it from her friend Diane who had a bad fall last winter. I guess Diane kept it. So the check out line at the store was unusually long cause the cashier kept jaw jacking and I hate that. She just kept talking and talking about her life. Now I was a bit hungry which didn't help matters. But we had things to do. We did have coupons for ground beef, so that was nice. You know I wish Phill was still the manager of the grocery store - he kept things moving in there. He wouldn’t have allowed that kind of lallygagging. But he had to retire last year due to his ongoing gout problems. He probably has cane now too if I had to guess. I should give him a call this weekend. Anyhow yeah I hate when people ramble.

There's a guy at work that I dread having to talk to because I can ask him a simple yes or no question and I'll have to stand there for ten minutes listening to him babble about how it depends on the phase of the moon and the current barometric pressure.

In terms of grammar, people can't even figure out the they're/there/their thing or the your/you're thing. I want to say I wish most of the mistakes were from people where English was not a first language, but I highly doubt it. It's not that hard.