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I don't have a problem with single quotation marks: it's grave and acute accents being used in place of apostrophes and quotation marks that irritates me.I find double spaces after full stops absolutely infuriating and can't understand why people do it. It was only ever necessary on typewriters with monospaced typefaces: there has been no reason to do it for at least 25 years.
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I've never come across anyone who couldn't spell 'July' before now? ;oO
Perhaps we could offer up our Services as Proof Readers to these Scammers?"This time next year we'll be Millionaires!" ... ;o> ... ;o> ... ;o>
Yeah? - Okay? ... well, maybe some of us might be? ;o>
suzysunshine7 wrote: "I've never come across anyone who couldn't spell 'July' before now? ;oO"I've got one up on you then. One of my brother's best friends at school was known as Jully throughout secondary school (and for many years beyond), having misspelled the month while writing the date on the blackboard in class.
Do you know if he went on to change his name by Deed Poll to 'Gingerlily'? ;o>
Nicknames seem to be a boys’ thing. I don’t remember there being any nicknames at my school, except for a couple of teachers.Several of my husband’s school friends had daft names, my favourite was always ‘Sticky Lice Stenson’. Good job I never met him, I’d have fallen about laughing.
suzysunshine7 wrote: "Do you know if he went on to change his name by Deed Poll to 'Gingerlily'? ;o>"Nope. Definitely not me. I kan speel purfectley!
I have to constantly edit my posts as I use touch screen on my tablet, even then the occasional fopar slips through. Of seems to be a particular favourite and always comes out 9f.
Fopar is a deliberately humourous misspelling.
Not sure if I should correct ‘humourous’........ ;-)My main problem is an ‘n’ appearing when I want a space, so joining two words together. Also an ‘s’ instead of an ‘a’.
Lez wrote: "Not sure if I should correct ‘humourous’........ ;-)My main problem is an ‘n’ appearing when I want a space, so joining two words together. Also an ‘s’ instead of an ‘a’."
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This made me laugh out loud ;o> ...A Fur Seal slaps a passing Kayaker in the face with a Giant Octopus ...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018...
I like the way the Telegraph still refers to "our foreign staff".
I like the way the Seal improvises on trying to knock out his Lunch on a passerby ;o>
Wait, Seal is hitting people with a octopus? Rock stars are out of control these days....
♫ ... "But we're never gonna survive unless - we get a little crazy" ... ♫;o>
I used to get told off for playing with my food :)
You sidled up to your Mum and smacked her in the Face with an Octopus?!! ;oO
One of the 'worst' things that I remember doing as a seven year old was stealthily sneaking up on my naughty Baby Brother who was fast asleep on the Sofa and getting great satisfaction from smacking a Raw Egg down on the top of his Head ;o>... then I realised that my five year old Baby Brother was stood beside me looking rather bemused and bewildered?! ... and my poor old Nan sat up and glared over the side of the Sofa at me!!! ;oO
... and I ran like the Wind down the Garden to hide behind the Shed!!! ;o>
suzysunshine7 wrote: "You sidled up to your Mum and smacked her in the Face with an Octopus?!! ;oO"
Given how often, sat at the dinner table I heard the words "Chew, chew....swallow!", we must have had octopus on a regular basis :)
Given how often, sat at the dinner table I heard the words "Chew, chew....swallow!", we must have had octopus on a regular basis :)
It can be more than a bit rubbery! Like squid. I've had calamari that could be used to attach a bed onto a car roof!
Two drunk Russians. One, holding hands behind his back,- Vasya, it's time for games. Have a guess in which of my hands is the last bottle of Vodka.
Right answer - we drink it up. Wrong answer - I will ****ing smash it!!!
- Erm, left?
- Think harder Vasya, THINK HARDER!!
Post Soviet wrote: "Think harder Vasya, THINK HARDER!!"... HA HA HA HA HA!!! ;o>
Sorry! We thought you said biscuit!!!
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WoW?!! ;oO ..."A tiny millionaires' playground has knocked the likes of Miami and Monte Carlo off their mantles to become the most expensive stretch of coastal real estate in the world.
An 850ft stretch of road in one the UK's most exclusive enclaves, Sandbanks, contains just 13 harbour-side mansions that total a staggering £93 million in value.
The narrow plots measuring between 40ft and 60ft wide on Panorama Road in Poole Harbour, Dorset make it the most expensive piece of coastline in the world in terms of price per square foot" ...
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/homean...
Gingerlily - All kinds of everything! wrote: "I'll have two."Sorry, I'm only selling one at the moment. If my dog decides to sell his I'll let you know.
I'm not that impressed myself - they are sandwiched together quite tightly with little space around them and not much privacy from each other. And I'm not really all that keen on any of the architectural styles and designs of them either ...
There’s one 3-bed for £3.5million but it’s got a bathroom with a horrendous original pink 1970s suite and unmatching chintzy curtains.
They seem to be an odd looking mis-matched row of either really ugly and dated or really ugly and modern?
What does ‘knocked off their mantles’ mean? Mantelpieces?
If I remember rightly, Nick lived in Poole at one time. Must have fallen on hard times.
The M26 will be closed every night for six weeks so that it can be turned into giant Lorry Park if Britain leaves EU without a deal ;oO ...http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/brexit/...
That'll be the overflow parking for the M25 then :)
It just keeps on with getting ever more troublesome and complicated and confusing as it all unfolds, doesn't it?There was a very strident vocal supporter of all things Brexit on the Amazon Forums who used to take both of their Dogs away on extended Holidays all around Europe for several months of every year - and I keep on wondering what they make of it all now that it seems that their Pet Passport Travel may no longer be permitted?
The more we hear, the worst it seems to sound. Disability Charities are reporting that Disabled Access has already no longer become the issue that it once was - now that the Government will soon get it's own way on no longer having to answer anymore to the European Court of Human Rights on such things. Recent reports have come in of several huge new planning developments being set in motion that no longer have any of the current requirements of Disabled Access included.
It could well be back to a shocking return of the 'Dark Ages' of only just a couple of decades ago for all of the disabled people of the UK in future - just as so many of us had feared that it might be ;o<
We will still be answerable to the European Court of Human Rights.From Wiki:
European Court of Human Rights
NOT TO BE CONFUSED with the European Court of Justice, the highest court of the European Union.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR or ECtHR; French: Cour européenne des droits de l’homme) is a supranational or international court established by the European Convention on Human Rights. The court hears applications alleging that a contracting state has breached one or more of the human rights provisions concerning civil and political rights set out in the Convention and its protocols.
47 member states of the Council of Europe
Location
Strasbourg, France
Authorized by
European Convention on Human Rights
47 judges. One from each of the 47 member states of the Council of Europe
An application can be lodged by an individual, a group of individuals, or one or more of the other contracting states. Aside from judgments, the Court can also issue advisory opinions. The Convention was adopted within the context of the Council of Europe, and all of its 47 member states are contracting parties to the Convention. The Court is based in Strasbourg.
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Found this:
Rule 7. Use single quotation marks for quotations within quotations.
Example: Dan said: "In a town outside Brisbane, I saw 'Tourists go home' written on a wall. But then someone told me, 'Pay it no mind, lad.' "
Note that the period goes inside both the single and double quotation marks. Also note that, as a courtesy, there is visible space between adjacent single and double quotation marks.