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I'll offer up part of the latest E-mail from http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/ for something to talk about: A piece of jargon we hadn't heard before, but quite like, is "tyre-kicker", a salesmen's phrase for the type of gullible customer who would feign expertise by kicking the tyres of a second-hand car to test its quality."Tire-kicker" is a very common expression among USns. Is this indeed new to y'all Brits? Oh, and here's a query on rhyming slang: ...Some of the celebrity-based rhyming slang sounded extremely dubious. We'd love to know if any readers have ever heard phrases such as "Nelson Mandela" for "a pint of Stella" [Artois, a lager], "Colonel Gaddafi" for a café, or "Kat Slater" (a British soap-opera character) for "catch you later".
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"tyre-kicker"--argh, why didn't they spell tire right?? And apparently they spell furor with an e on the end, which to me sends the word into a 3-syllable pronunciation like curare. Why do they do this?!? Could it be because..
THEY'VE GOT BLINDERS ON!? :-/
{sorry about that outburst; lost control there for a second.}
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Do you have ANY idea how expensive tyres are on a Furore?
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Why do they do this?!? Could it be because..
THEY'VE GOT BLINDERS ON!? :-/
{sorry about that outburst; lost control there for a second.}
OK, who are you and who's got tsuwm?!?
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Tyre-kickers oughtn't to be confused with R-biters.
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R-biters: the rhotically-challenged?
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OK, who are you and who's got tsuwm?!?
Heh heh, I ghosted him...
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Oh dear, are we going to be invaded now to protect us from the insurgents who insist upon retaining their fundamentalist approach to the language?
Sorry, couldn't help myself either...:-P (you know I really love all the USsians I know)
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Tire -kickers oughtn't to be confused with R-biters. Arbiters? shanks--raspberries to you! 
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Arbeiters as in in workers, but Petronius works as well for me. Trimalchio, let's dine!
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you know I really love all the USsians I knowHmmm...is that a bit like saying "some of my best friends are Brits"?
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No. Love can be a one way flow. Best friends flow both ways. 
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