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[turtle777]

BMW Car Club of BC - bimmer vs beemer perspective

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[Doofy]

Canuckistan is wrong (nothing new there then). Around here, it's "bimmer" for bikes and "beemer" for cars.

[OreoCookie]

Originally Posted by Doofy 

Canuckistan is wrong (nothing new there then). Around here, it's "bimmer" for bikes and "beemer" for cars.

Ditto, that's what I was told as well.

[subego]

Bimmer sounds goofy and wrong, so that's the one I use.

[JMan09]

I've only seen it spelled Bimmer because of the magazine with the same name.

[Waragainstsleep]

I saw it spelled Bimmer once ages ago and assumed it was a transatlantic thing. I have seen it spelled that way a couple of times in the last week or so oddly.

[Railroader]

Only when someone is making fun of BMW owners.

[abbaZaba]

A beemer is a two-wheeled BMW whereas a bimmer is a four-wheeled BMW. everyone know this

[finboy]

I've only seen it spelled like that by the ignoragentsia. It's been pronounced "beemer" since the early 70s, when I can first remember hearing it. About a bike, and then a car shortly thereafter.

[exca1ibur]

I've seen it spelled that way, but never do myself. I always thought of it as "B"-mer, when I heard it, so that just makes more sense to me.

[ajprice]

I have seen it as Bimmer on a car forum where they put it in every BMW thread because their search filter doesn't find 3 letter words, but I've always thought it was Beemer.

[subego]

Originally Posted by Railroader 

Only when someone is making fun of BMW owners.

Exactly.

Note, I am a BMW owner.

[Railroader]

Originally Posted by subego 

Exactly.

Note, I am a BMW owner.

You own a bimmer?

[imitchellg5]

Bimmer :: The Magazine About BMW

[Doofy]

Originally Posted by abbaZaba 

A beemer is a two-wheeled BMW whereas a bimmer is a four-wheeled BMW. everyone know this

No. Wrong way around. Like the way you use red for conservative and blue for liberal. Just plain wrong.

[Railroader]

Originally Posted by Doofy 

No. Wrong way around. Like the way you use red for conservative and blue for liberal. Just plain wrong.

Agreed!!!

[flmiller]

Bimmer - car, Beemer - bike. Always been that way.

Frank

[Macfreak7]

I've stopped caring ever since I sold my 3er, but now I call it Škoda

[Spheric Harlot]

Originally Posted by Doofy 

No. Wrong way around. Like the way you use red for conservative and blue for liberal. Just plain wrong.

Incorrect.

Americans use red for conservative and blue for slightly less conservative.

There are no actual liberals in America, just the crackpot fringe, whose color, much to the dismay of normal humans, is also green.

[Doofy]

Originally Posted by Spheric Harlot 

Incorrect.

Americans use red for conservative and blue for slightly less conservative.

There are no actual liberals in America, just the crackpot fringe, whose color, much to the dismay of normal humans, is also green.

Red/green colour-blindness is the most prevalent, of course.

[Spheric Harlot]

Red is the colour of social democrats, socialists, and communists, which are left of center, so I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to say.

Interestingly, Baden-Württemberg (one of the largest and wealthiest German federal states) just elected a Green prime-minister.

He's staunchly conservative — but an environmentalist.

[Doofy]

Originally Posted by Spheric Harlot 

Red is the colour of social democrats, socialists, and communists, which are left of center, so I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to say.

The cure for environmental problems happens to be the exact same thing as the cure for capitalism. I find this to be an interesting coincidence. Clear enough?

Kretschmann is in Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, no? Which are centre-left. How's he manage to be staunchly conservative in that party? And wasn't he in Kommunistischer Bund Westdeutschland? A leopard doesn't change its spots.

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by Spheric Harlot 

There are no actual liberals in America, just the crackpot fringe, whose color, much to the dismay of normal humans, is also green.

I assume you are using "Liberal" in the Sense of Socialist.

And you're wrong, there are plenty of very liberal idiots in the Democratic party, some more liberal than what you find the in SPD. (Beside the crackpot "greens")

Also, even in the German SPD, you have a wide range. Some of them would clearly also qualify as "slightly less than conservative".

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[OreoCookie]

Originally Posted by Doofy 

Kretschmann is in Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, no? Which are centre-left.

<offtopic>That's a common misunderstanding, but Germany's political spectrum is not two-dimensional. The Bündnis 90/Grünen started as an environmental movement when German mainstream politics did not think of environmental policies as a central theme in party programs. In the beginning, Die Grünen was a weird amalgamation of everything under the sun from conservative Christians to the left-wing.

Them becoming part of the political process injected topics like environmentalism and the opposition to nuclear power in the other mainstream parties (initially the conservatives CDU/CSU, the social democrats SPD and the libertarian FDP (in German they're called `Liberale', but they're the equivalent of libertarians)). The current conservative government was the one to really not not abandon nuclear power was carried by the current conservative government (meaning: the last party changed its mind). The Greens are conservative at times (e. g. genetically modified food) and progressive at other times (e. g. when it comes to gay rights). The election of Kretschmann is a consequence that long-term `Green Party' topics have arrived in the center of the German populous, that's why they're winning votes in elections at the moment. </offtopic>

[Patrick]

Bimmer should rhyme with simmer, if we're speaking English here.