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Buying a car from the Rep

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  • qwert_yuiop
    qwert_yuiop Posts: 3,617 Forumite
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    motorguy wrote: »
    Northern Ireland forum board therefore hardly confusing for anyone with an IQ in double figures or greater, and Northern Ireland and Ireland are separate countries - or hadnt you noticed - though presumably you're trying to make some feeble point.

    Here's my feeble point - I read the first post and assumed he was in England.

    Who ever calls the south "ireland"? Surely most people here just call it "the south". My parents still call it "the free state", lodged firmly pre 1949. NI is just referred to as "here." I once met a girl from magherafelt when I was living in NZ. We both started talking about "here", meaning here. It only seemed odd after we'd both said it.
    “What means that trump?” Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare
  • motorguy
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    Here's my feeble point - I read the first post and assumed he was in England.

    Who ever calls the south "ireland"? Surely most people here just call it "the south". My parents still call it "the free state", lodged firmly pre 1949. NI is just referred to as "here." I once met a girl from magherafelt when I was living in NZ. We both started talking about "here", meaning here. It only seemed odd after we'd both said it.

    Thread title says "buying a car from the rep"

    The first post then reads "What is the process of buying a car from Ireland"

    2+2 =?
  • qwert_yuiop
    qwert_yuiop Posts: 3,617 Forumite
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    motorguy wrote: »
    2+2 =?
    2+2 = a lack of consistency, possibly. And, aye, who calls it ireland?
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  • motorguy
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    edited 1 July 2015 at 12:57PM
    2+2 = a lack of consistency, possibly. And, aye, who calls it ireland?

    Rep in the heading and Ireland in the first line?

    Then a reference to "from the south" in the next post?

    That confused you and Risteard did it?

    Seems perfectly clear to everyone else who responded.
  • qwert_yuiop
    qwert_yuiop Posts: 3,617 Forumite
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    motorguy wrote: »
    Rep in the heading and Ireland in the first line?

    Then a reference to "from the south" in the next post?

    That confused you and Risteard did it?

    Seems perfectly clear to everyone else who responded.

    As indicated earlier, I read the first line and immediately lost interest. A rep there would usually mean a sales rep to me. You hadn't thought of that?

    Who knows, there may be the odd bargain there if the euro dives with all this Acropolis now carry on, although probably not.
    “What means that trump?” Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare
  • motorguy
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    edited 1 July 2015 at 1:45PM

    As indicated earlier, I read the first line and immediately lost interest. A rep there would usually mean a sales rep to me. You hadn't thought of that?

    So someone has a topic heading on the Northern Ireland board of "Buying a car from the rep" and you immediately thought of a sales rep?

    Ok.....

    Who knows, there may be the odd bargain there if the euro dives with all this Acropolis now carry on, although probably not.

    Yes, as has been said older big engined cars are the ones to go for from the rep.
  • qwert_yuiop
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    Yes.

    Do you use the word rep in conversation to mean Republic? I don't. I do refer to sales reps quite often.
    “What means that trump?” Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare
  • motorguy
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    Yes.

    Do you use the word rep in conversation to mean Republic? I don't. I do refer to sales reps quite often.

    Stuff like this must really throw you...

    betfair-rep-ire-poland-boost.jpg

    :rotfl:
  • motorguy
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    You're head will explode trying to understand this one..

    1402673935-Export_sales_to_Re_of_Ireland.jpg_700x300.jpg?bucket=am-public
  • qwert_yuiop
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    edited 1 July 2015 at 2:36PM
    Not at all. Both are followed by the dead give away "of Ireland". A rep in isolation is still a sales rep in my mind until proven otherwise, particularly when the discussion involves a transaction, as this does.

    When you take a walk down the road in waringstown there, do you pass the local church of Ireland, or do you go the other direction past the church with the nice pillars and the sign outside "Presbyterian church in Ireland"?
    This is the difficulty. There actually isn't an entirely satisfactory name for either entity on our dear Island home.
    “What means that trump?” Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare
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