On 30/05/2017 13:44, TMS320 wrote:
On 30/05/17 12:45, JNugent wrote:
On 30/05/2017 08:26, TMS320 wrote:
On 29/05/17 19:07, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Mon, 29 May 2017 19:02:33 +0100, wrote:

No, I need someone to show where in government legislation I can
find road tax defined.

Why do you need this? Just what's wrong with your ****ed up head?
Do you never meet people, do you never hear it called road tax?
Everybody either calls it road tax or a tax disk (before they made
it paperless).

Everybody does not.

You probably meant "Not everybody does", because "Everybody does not"
(with its completely different meaning) is patently untrue and a
non-starter.

Most people will understand the meaning. Besides, my phrase does not
mean "nobody does" so is not an untruth.

That being the case, we can easily forgive your clumsy attempt at
manipulation of the language and accept that you were right in what
you were trying to say but couldn't quite manage: there are indeed
some people who - for various reasons which are entirely their own -
do not call Road Tax "Road Tax". For that reason JSW's "Everybody
either calls it road tax or a tax disk" has to be seen as a figure of
speech with "everybody" only meaning "a majority".

There, for instance, some people who cannot deal with anything in
terms not provided for in "government legislation". There are others
who cannot deal with any concepts in a way which undermines a point
they wish to try to make and are prepared to go to ever more extreme
extremities to avoid admitting the truth. There may well be a
considerable overlap between those two groups.

Look up the evolution of the English language, colloquialisms,
something, please. You're boring the group to tears.

Taking about something nick named "road tax" is the truly boring bit.

The real boring bit is the anorak-ish harumphing insistence that the
majority are wrong and the self-interested minority are right.

JSW is right insofar as he remarks (in terms) that most people call
Road Tax "Road Tax" and that is is perfectly acceptable to refer to
that tax in that way. I would add that anyone professing not to
undserstand the term is trying, but failing, to be deceitful.

"Government legislation" so loved of another poster here has never yet
managed to define and prescribe the English language as she is spoken.

It is notable how you consistently dare not use the term VED as though
you're frightened it will summon the devil. It is very simple to say
"most people refer to VED as road tax".

Remind us - what is "road tax"? Try to keep it to one sentence
containing less than 10 words.


Ten words would be too few and would leave out something that the anal
retentives will argue about.

Road tax, is a tax which is paid by the majority of UK (and most other
countries') motor car, motorcycle and lorry, owners, so that said
vehicles may be legally (as far as that tax is related) driven or parked
on the public roads on a regular or irregular, frequent or infrequent basis.