Seth Hammond wrote:
>
> "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.
Nobody speaks American, you drawl it through your spittle. Fortunately
you all have nothing worthwhile to say so nobody bothers to correct you.
>
> - why would anyone
>> google them as a single term when the meaning is quite clear as written?
>
> To learn and end blatant ignorance?
It's useless information - knowing what it is adds absolutely nothing to
one's level of knowledge.
>
>>
>> Mobile: (a) capable of movement.
>
> Wheels under a dwelling keep it from being mobile?
No wheeels certainly helps to make it immobile.
>
>> 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.
I've yet to find a yank here with a lick of sense.
>
>> 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?
When you tell me a US mobile home is both mobile and not mobile in the
same sentence, I become unsure whether you mean you're stipd or you're
very stupid.
>
>> You mean a crap quality building that is capable of being
>> moved.
>
> You mean a porta-potty like they use on construction sites?
Is it mobile? Is it your home?
>
>> 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?
Yank homes fall down without aircraft crashing into them(?)
