"Greg Procter"
ihug.co.nz> wrote in message
news:48027924.C538B508@ihug.co.nz...> Seth Hammond wrote:
>>
>> "Greg Procter"
ihug.co.nz> wrote in message
>> news:4802327E.3D6549A3@ihug.co.nz...>>> Seth Hammond wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>I think this whole discussion is occuring because of another of
>>>>>>those
>>>>>>terminology shifts:
>>>>>>To me, a "mobile home" would be a home that is _mobile_, ie movable
>>>>>>like
>>>>>>a Winibago or a caravan.
>>>>>>I'm suspicious that Sarah, Seth etc are talking about a home that is
>>>>>>"transportable", something like a works site office built into a
>>>>>>container, although that might better be called "portable".
>>>>>>
>>>>>>It can't be that surprising that I've been somewhat confused by a
>>>>>>description of a "mobile home" that apparently isn't a mobile home?
>>>>>>When we get this one sorted we can try "manufactured home" and ...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Regards,
>>>>>>Greg.P.
>>>>>
>>>>> Well, in Florida, mobile homes are commonly called 'trailers.' In
>>>>> one
>>>>> hurricane
>>>>> shelter I informed all the displaced folks that they it was deemed
>>>>> safe
>>>>> to
>>>>> go
>>>>> back to their 'trailers.' I caught some flak for saying that from
>>>>> the
>>>>> mobile
>>>>> home owners.
>>>>>
>>>>> In the US, a Winnebago (or any other manufacturer of a motorized
>>>>> camper)
>>>>> is
>>>>> called a motor home. A caravan is called a camping trailer,
>>>>> although
>>>>> the
>>>>> word
>>>>> 'caravan' has a completely different meaning in the US. A mobile
>>>>> home
>>>>> is
>>>>> a
>>>>> semi-permanent home that can be transported on either permanently
>>>>> mounted
>>>>> or
>>>>> temporarily mounted axles. By semi-permanent, I mean that they can
>>>>> easily
>>>>> be
>>>>> hooked up and transported to a new location, although they are
>>>>> normally
>>>>> not
>>>>> moved once set up.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You're wasting your time, Joe. Dumbfucker grog can't learn anything.
>>>> He's
>>>> been told those facts over and over. It only confuses him.
>>>
>>>
>>> The "facts" are that "mobile homes" in the US are not mobile and would
>>> barely qualify is homes in first world nations.
>>
>> Motor homes? Travel trailers? Pop-up campers? Park models?
>> Double-wides?
>> Er, there's only two of those categories that *usually* but not always
>> stay
>> on forever at their first site. See can you guess which, dipstick.....
>
>
> Seth, old Fuckhead,
> "mobile home" is two normal english language words
Right there was your first mistake. Fuck english. We speak American, as
does nearly all the world.
- why would anyone
> google them as a single term when the meaning is quite clear as written?
To learn and end blatant ignorance?
>
> Mobile: (a) capable of movement.
Wheels under a dwelling keep it from being mobile?
> Home: (n) dwelling place.
>
> It's taken over a dozen postings to get from you and Sarah that
Anyone with a lick of sense would have required only one posting.
> when
> yanks say "mobile home" they don't mean a dwelling place that is capable
> of movement.
Every single one is capable of movement. All they need are the assemblies
removed when delivery is complete, either trailer or axle assemblies.
Why do you have so much trouble understanding the most simple things?
> You mean a crap quality building that is capable of being
> moved.
You mean a porta-potty like they use on construction sites?
> The World Trade Centre fell into that category. Was that a
> "mobile home"?
Do you know the difference between office buildings and homes that people
live in?
