I find myself spending more and more time every week at NanoTrax. I am still shit at driving the radio controlled cars, but the racing is fun and the company is amusing; none more so than the owner, Q’on.
Q’on is American, and you don’t need to meet him to discover this. Only an American would write a report and describe someone being beaten in a race as being “pimp slapped” (which is not a term I have heard before but intend to use in future whenever I deem it appropriate).
Being British, I waste no time on berating him on his appalling mutilation of the English language. A favourite and obvious provocation is to ask him to pronounce aluminium. Of course he pronounces it “aluminum”, and would probably spell it that way if he could find an excuse to use it in a sentence. “If Chuck had used aluminum wheels he would not have gotten pimp slapped, y’all”.
This morning I was delight to discover that the aluminium/aluminum debate has spread wider than the confines of the NanoTrax club. Gizmodo has a report on The Greatest and Most Dramatic Wikipedia Edit Wars, and alumin(i)um is right up there alongside The (the) Beatles.
The latest entries are rather lacking in the professional niceties one would expect from academics.
“shit eatin aluminium fuck ass poop balls”? Someone needs a good pimp slapping.
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2010-08-07| Q’on saysjust for the record, its aluminum. speak american… its the right way. at nanotrax, spike only pimp slaps… i BITCH slap. just keepin it real.
2010-08-08| Brigadier Buffy Frobisher (rtd) D.S.O. saysOh dear, oh dear. Further proof, not that any is needed, that we should not have given these colonial chappies their independence. No respect for Her Majesty The Queen and total disregard for the finer points of tea drinking etiquette.
Up against a wall and a firing squad is the only solution.