call for a faq

[Walter Roberson]

There should be a better phrase than "English speaker" that means "England
person speaking English".

That is the only country that would have a shed specifically for a bicycle!
No one else could coin a term, that would enter the common vernacular, about
painting a shed - made for a bicycle - before building the house itself.

I the U.S. we just put a hook on the garage wall and hang it there.

Hmmm, the Palo Alto {Stanford University} BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit)
[light rail] station has bike sheds. I've seen them other places
in the USA as well.

 

[Christopher Layne]

You could, of course, accuse him of "bike-shedding" (look it up! It's
funny!) though I would not necessarily agree.

Not in a 1000 years could anyone accuse Richard of bike-shedding.

 

[Christopher Layne]

but my idea is that we could write a schematic, clear and ordered paper
and
not in the forms of 'section at a time' or 'question at time'.

anyway it's only a proposal!

Maybe you could get to work by starting the "XML schema" for it and compulsory
Java program to encode and generate it all.

 

[Mabden]

There should be a better phrase than "English speaker" that means "England
person speaking English".

That is the only country that would have a shed specifically for a bicycle!
No one else could coin a term, that would enter the common vernacular, about
painting a shed - made for a bicycle - before building the house itself.

I the U.S. we just put a hook on the garage wall and hang it there.

Hmmm, the Palo Alto {Stanford University} BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit)
[light rail] station has bike sheds. I've seen them other places
in the USA as well.

OK, but we don't call them bike sheds, and we don't build them before the
BART station. And they are usually just a series of tin boxes in the parking
lot - "painting a shed" implies something fancier and hand-made.

I find it amusing that someone takes the time to come back with a critique
of my little observation that we do things differently, yet doesn't have a
problem with my idea of renaming "English speaking people" to something like
"England living people speaking the English language"; which I thought would
be the hot button of the post.

OK, well sorry for bringing this to the C forum. I was trying to be good...

 

[Sjouke Burry]

There should be a better phrase than "English speaker" that means

"England

person speaking English".

That is the only country that would have a shed specifically for a

bicycle!

No one else could coin a term, that would enter the common vernacular,

about

painting a shed - made for a bicycle - before building the house itself.

I the U.S. we just put a hook on the garage wall and hang it there.

Hmmm, the Palo Alto {Stanford University} BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit)
[light rail] station has bike sheds. I've seen them other places
in the USA as well.

OK, but we don't call them bike sheds, and we don't build them before the
BART station. And they are usually just a series of tin boxes in the parking
lot - "painting a shed" implies something fancier and hand-made.

I find it amusing that someone takes the time to come back with a critique
of my little observation that we do things differently, yet doesn't have a
problem with my idea of renaming "English speaking people" to something like
"England living people speaking the English language"; which I thought would
be the hot button of the post.

OK, well sorry for bringing this to the C forum. I was trying to be good...

Ah.. you dont know what a bike shed is,check link!!
That is what proper bike sheds should look like.
(in Holland)
http://findpictures.trafficlinq.nl/details.php?image_id=1665&mode=1

 

[Richard Bos]

Ah.. you dont know what a bike shed is,check link!!
That is what proper bike sheds should look like.
(in Holland)
http://findpictures.trafficlinq.nl/details.php?image_id=1665&mode=1

*Thwap* Dat is geen Holland, da's Stad. Museumbrug, als ik mij niet
vergis. (Holland != Nederland, en Groningen is bepaald _geen_ Holland,
Roabenhaupt zij dank.)

Richard

 

[Richard Bos]

Since going to the urban dictionary would hardly be the first instinct
of a non-English speaker, here's a link for (s)him:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bikeshedding

Why accept substitutes, when you could just as easily go to the
original?

<http://catb.org/jargon/html/B/bikeshedding.html>.

Richard

 

[Dik T. Winter]

> There should be a better phrase than "English speaker" that means "England
> person speaking English".
>
> That is the only country that would have a shed specifically for a bicycle!

Oh. Dutch "fietsenstalling", "fietsenhok".

 

[Dik T. Winter]

> Mabden said:
>
> It makes more sense when you realise that (whilst sheds for "a bicycle" do
> exist) a typical bike shed is actually intended for sheltering *many*
> bicycles, and is typically installed in schools, workplaces, etc. It
> comprises a long row of bicycle wheel mounts (exact design varies), and a
> rudimentary (typically wooden) roof, but no walls - just support pillars
> for the roof. A shed might provide shelter for 20, 50, or even 100
> bicycles.

In the UK perhaps, in the Netherlands there are fully enclosed bycicle
sheds, even when they are intended for many bicycles. When I was young,
my bicycle was put at night in a "fietsenstalling", which was a commercial
untertaking where you put in your bicycle. I beleive it could cover some
200 bicycles, and was fully enclosed. Bicycles were mounted on racks in
two layers.

 

[Dik T. Winter]

> Ah.. you dont know what a bike shed is,check link!!
> That is what proper bike sheds should look like.
> (in Holland)
> http://findpictures.trafficlinq.nl/details.php?image_id=1665&mode=1

Or a "fietsflat":
<http://www.wereldexpat.nl/assets/expat/kliphuiscolumn1_fietsflat.jpg>
for 2500 bicycles (but it is too small).

 

[Michael Mair]

In the UK perhaps, in the Netherlands there are fully enclosed bycicle
sheds, even when they are intended for many bicycles. When I was young,
my bicycle was put at night in a "fietsenstalling", which was a commercial
untertaking where you put in your bicycle. I beleive it could cover some
200 bicycles, and was fully enclosed. Bicycles were mounted on racks in
two layers.

FWIW, the company I work for (in Germany) has fully enclosed bike
sheds that you can unlock with the same transmitter that you need to
get into the building.
Nice feature for us cyclists

Cheers
Michael