What's Boiling Your Pi$$ Today?

MartytheMartian

Legendary Knight
Reading online news items tonight and I can't help notice how shit the people writing this stuff up are at their job. One article, about a fatal accident involving a tank referred to the 'Military of Defense' Police and the next article I read refers to an elderly lady who was about to celebrate her '101th' Birthday. How do you even say 101TH!? When I was a graphic designer I'd have been shot if I'd been that crap at typing stuff up!
 
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Sarky B’stard

Legendary Knight
I blame Bill Gates! Microsoft spelling defaults to US and they’re different because they couldn’t spell in the first place! I even hate ‘couldn’t’. That is reported speech, not prose!

She said, “I couldn’t be arsed.”

As opposed to

She could not be arsed, she said.

I have been on finicky, pernickety holiday too long! The Yanks even put a ****ing ‘s’ in pernickety for ****’s sake! 😫. Persnickety ma bahookie!
 

Public Enemy

Enforcer
Staff member
Reading online news items tonight and I can't help notice how shit the people writing this stuff up are at their job. One article, about a fatal accident involving a tank referred to the 'Military of Defense' Police and the next article I read refers to an elderly lady who was about to celebrate here '101th' Birthday. How do you even say 101TH!? When I was a graphic desirehegner I'd have been shot if I'd been that crap at typing stuff up!
The Devil is in the detail Marty. Far too many people these days are happy to take the lazy route, and in order to facilitate that there has been a lowering of standards in spelling and grammar in schools and colleges over a number of years.
 

Sarky B’stard

Legendary Knight
The Devil is in the detail Marty. Far too many people these days are happy to take the lazy route, and in order to facilitate that there has been a lowering of standards in spelling and grammar in schools and colleges over a number of years.
Funnily enough I woke this a.m. reflecting on the numbers of sheep going along with the Covid narrative and thinking how the decline in educational standards is mirrored in a complete absence of critical thinking. Too many simply lack the mental discipline to logically evaluate what has been put in front of them and determine that if it smells of sh1t it is probably inedible.
 

Old Nick

Legendary Knight
I blame Bill Gates! Microsoft spelling defaults to US and they’re different because they couldn’t spell in the first place! I even hate ‘couldn’t’. That is reported speech, not prose!

She said, “I couldn’t be arsed.”

As opposed to

She could not be arsed, she said.

I have been on finicky, pernickety holiday too long! The Yanks even put a ****ing ‘s’ in pernickety for ****’s sake! 😫. Persnickety ma bahookie!
Select English English in the settings - then Microsoft recognises proper English like wot I speaks:)

The problem is of course the volume of American TV shows now available to our kids where all the bad habits are picked up, gas stations, candy shops, and dumpsters for goodness sake:cautious:

They don’t bloody read books either so their vocabulary is totally retarded:cautious:

And social bloody media is all they read which is all in localised street speech:cautious:

No wonder the youth of today can’t read, write, or articulate itself properly - I know I’ve got several:cautious:
 

chas

Legendary Knight
I blame Bill Gates! Microsoft spelling defaults to US and they’re different because they couldn’t spell in the first place! I even hate ‘couldn’t’. That is reported speech, not prose!

She said, “I couldn’t be arsed.”

As opposed to

She could not be arsed, she said.

I have been on finicky, pernickety holiday too long! The Yanks even put a ****ing ‘s’ in pernickety for ****’s sake! 😫. Persnickety ma bahookie!
Couldn't agree more
 

Sarky B’stard

Legendary Knight
Select English English in the settings - then Microsoft recognises proper English like wot I speaks:)

The problem is of course the volume of American TV shows now available to our kids where all the bad habits are picked up, gas stations, candy shops, and dumpsters for goodness sake:cautious:

They don’t bloody read books either so their vocabulary is totally retarded:cautious:

And social bloody media is all they read which is all in localised street speech:cautious:

No wonder the youth of today can’t read, write, or articulate itself properly - I know I’ve got several:cautious:
I know how to fix it but plenty do not even know the difference when it is under their nose. Consequently, they are schooled and reinforced in error.
 

Judd Dredd

Merlin, Giver Of Drugs & Magic Potions.
Staff member
is that twat London mayor really going to charge anybody not in a EV to go inside the M25?

 

half ton

Legendary Knight

Old Nick

Legendary Knight
is that twat London mayor really going to charge anybody not in a EV to go inside the M25?

Not quite, newer (since 2007ish) ICE vehicles that are compliant with Euro4 emissions and vintage vehicles are exempt plus EV’s everyone else including residents have to pay
 
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