2010 OcUK Motors Review/Recap thread.
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whats so wrong with the volvo ?
and how come its a bigger shed than Rover416i's rotter with a leaking roof and rust everywhere ??
The volvo is a 1 owner ex company car with full volvo SH and no rust in sight
My memory of either isn't particularly good, i'd need to use something to jog my memory of either A levels or my GCSE stuff.
If you can remember stuff you did 10/12 years ago perfectly, congratulations you've got a better memory than me. Whats the issue ?
I would have been 7/5 year old...
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The reason why I didnt quote your reply and why I've not 'proven you wrong' is because you still don't 'get it'. Your reply is completely irrelevent to the point I was making. There is no requirement to 'proove you wrong' because you were not wrong in what you said. Why would you be wrong in what you said - it wasn't actually your text.
I'm not sure we want this thread to degenerate into another insult-fest but I guess it would be helpful if I spelt out exactly why people find the post so amusing.
It has nothing to do with you using sources and Wikipedia to jog your memory. Everyone does that - we all do it all the time.
It has everything to do with the fact you willfully and deliberately plaigerised somebody elses work and attempted to pass it off as your own to maintain the impression that you have a certain level of knowledge on these forums. I've no idea why you feel the need to do this, nobody else does, and why does it even matter, but the fact remains that is exactly what you did.
You took that Wikipedia article, pasted it into a new reply window or a word document or something, and then set about subtly changing the odd bit of it so that it wouldnt appear quite so obvious that you had lifted it straight from Wikipedia and attempted to pass it off as your own knowledge. It is so obvious this is what happened - as I said in the original reply we all used to this for homework in Year 7 using Encarta
You were not even very good at doing that, which is why it was so obvious - you forgot half of some of the sentances.
ie 'The election resulted in a Conservative landslide victory, with the now leaderless Labour Party winning only 46 seats' was edited by you to read 'a landside win to the conservatives with the now leaderless labour party only winning 46 seats'
ie you simply changed the first bit a tad. The entire second part is directly copy/pasted.
Hopefully this explains it to you. It's nothing to do with whether the information was right or wrong, it was obviously right. It's everything to do with the deliberate attempt to pass it off as your own knowledge - this is not simply a case of forgetting to reference sources.
When you combine this with how prolific your posts are on such a wide range of topics, everything suddenly fits and people find that hugely amusing.
There is no hidden agenda. You are not the new MikeHiow. Nobody hates you. We just found it hilarious.
Can you imagine the backlash on this forum if somebody found ME doing that? Exactly - it's a hot topic because you post loads, not because of anything else
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Oilgate definitely deserves an honourable mention.
So does Ok so £80k to spend, which car. Not including Porsche or Aston martin
[TW]Fox;18078191 said:
i never claimed it was my own.
I just didn't quote my sources. I tried to write it in my own words so as not to copy it exactly but ended up saying a lot of stuff the same.
If your reply had been, can you quote your source, id happily have linked you the wikipedia article, just like with the Z4m incident.
I'll happily admit when its something i know nothing about, and try to say when i've looked something up for somebody. Like gibbo asking what 4wd system the TTRS used. I didnt know but tried to find out for him.
I still dont buy it, if there was no intention for it to be anything but a quote why did you waste your time re-wording it - why didnt you save yourself 10 minutes disguising it and simply copy/paste it?
It was posted as your own thoughts - that was clear
Either way - thats the position, thats why it keeps coming back. I suspect everyone will get bored in a bit and we'll move onto a new fad but at the moment its really amusing
It was posted as your own thoughts - that was clear
Either way - thats the position, thats why it keeps coming back. I suspect everyone will get bored in a bit and we'll move onto a new fad but at the moment its really amusing
Meh i can understand how it comes across so i won't bother arguing. I'd conclude the same.
All i can say is that if you ever challenge me, i'll happily quote where i've read stuff. I rarely tend to post stuff that i "just know" as my memory is terrible. I've usually read it somewhere and happily post where.
All i can say is that if you ever challenge me, i'll happily quote where i've read stuff. I rarely tend to post stuff that i "just know" as my memory is terrible. I've usually read it somewhere and happily post where.
Nah.
I just try and participate in discussion and help people. People don't believe me all the time, doesn't really matter at the end of the day. Its only the internet.
MrLOL has a pretty decent Volvo actually.
I, on the other hand, have a Lolvo
As for the wiki plagiarism, how do you it wasn't MrLOL who wrote it?
Can I nominate myself for fail of the year? i cba to find it but i was quoted saying i'd never ever swap my civic for a clio... and i did
not to worry, i'll be back in a honda soon
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http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=16964097&postcount=111
yet another
btw, did Mikehowieieiwiai actually get an EK in the end?