Mower belts direct from the factory come in scanes or bales with nothing on them to identify them ( MTD is the exception )
Then they go usually to a sheltered workshop to get the name & size put on the belt
And this is probably where the mis sizing originates
And you can keep your racist ? comments to yourself .
Generally government education is far superiour to privet schools because their efforts go into educating the students and not getting students to ace tests .In my first year of University the student s who had the most difficulty were those from the very wealthy schools and they were all top 10 in the state in the final and the bulk were plain dumb .
Lots of answers in their skulls but not a single one could actually think
Trump went to a private school and look where that got him 9 bankrupted businesses , 3 of which were casinos, I mean how can you go broke running a casino ?
And now 91 indictments with another 49 awaiting the results of those 91
There was nothing racist about his statement at all.
Opinionated- yes. Negative and derogatory towards a public school system (US I'm assuming)..... but not racist.
If we're going to be accurate and specific in our discussions about parts, specifications, belt size etc then we also should be accurate with our use of words describing other things.
This racism, or racist term is often used as too broad of a stroke and often quite an accurately.
Another thing that we seem to continually run into and this forum is the fact that things are different in Australia than in the US.
I will default back to some of my previous statements or maybe they were questions -- what percentage of the members of this group or at least the ones who have actively posted in the past 2 years are from the US?
What percentage are from Australia?
The burden of explanation or whatever you want to call it is always going to be on you if there is something different that you have experienced or you want to explain something that is simply different in australia, or anyone else's area, that in the majority of the way most others in this forum experience it.
It might not be right for everyone to assume and it might be annoying to have to continually point it out but that's just the well it is.
Going back to that example, I will have to say that I have no idea about the public versus private school system in a place in the world let's say like Europe or more specifically just England.
I could make some guesses and assumption but I don't know how the two compare.
I do know that in the US it is common knowledge that the vast majority of the public school systems have a lot of issues and are not up to par and typically lag quite behind private schools.
This certainly is not to say that they are not private schools that suck also.
I we'll also assume that the trend of private schools being superior or considered superior to public school systems occurs in more places than just the US.
If someone is somewhere that this is not the case or it is actually reversed, or even equal let's say, then the logical burden is on them to point this out.
They should not be offended by the factual statements made about other areas or other entire countries.
No reason to have any chips on anyone's shoulders due to things that are absolutely true or even stereotypes that also contain a lot of truth.
I'm glad these things get pointed out though as the differences because this is why I like open discussions and letting conversations go where they want because - people learn things!
Most of us live in one country or even one place for most or all of our lives and we tend to have a very narrow focus or even realization of anything about the rest of the world.
It's easy and a logical trap to fall into thinking it's about the same everywhere so it's good when we had discussions and can let people know of how certain things are different and sometimes completely different than what they think is normal everywhere.
No reason for people to take it offensively or get upset about how other say things.
For instance, in the US, we have been poking fun at rednecks for a long time.
It's usually more of a southern state thing or sometimes just more rural area and people just all the time.
Very few take it offensively and some (often those who certainly fit some of the stereotypes) really embrace it.
