TheHoodedClaw
acknowledging ur soup leg
Or road distances, pizza sizes, people's weight and height, TV and monitor screen sizes, shoe sizes. There's probably others.
Edit: weed
Rees-Mogg's "rules"
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Or road distances, pizza sizes, people's weight and height, TV and monitor screen sizes, shoe sizes. There's probably others.
Edit: weed
Raheem
Well-Known Member
His rule doesn't seem to be about Oxford commas, because they come before the and. What the fuck his rule is about, I suppose he will need to be asked.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Also "Organisations should be SINGULAR" brings joy to my heart. It boils my piss when I hear (or read) that "The
Football Association are going to stop being homophobic". There is only one Football Association! It should be
"The Football Association is going to stop being homophobic".
What are your views? (apart from him being a swivel-eyed loon)
Does anyone actually do this? I know data/datum does it but never seen this for organisations.
TheHoodedClaw
acknowledging ur soup leg
He's surely not banning subclauses, so it's more likely he meant Oxford commas and screwed up like the semi-educated gimp he is.
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Raheem
Well-Known Member
So, when a constituent writes to him to complain about a three-metre fence erected without planning permission, they are going to get a reply that converts everything to feet and inches.
TheHoodedClaw
acknowledging ur soup leg
"Liverpool are the champions of Europe" etc
Pickman's model
sunset spires and twilight woods
There once was a tory, rees-mogg,
Who laid down rules like a police dog
He huffed and he puffed
To make out he was tough
And not a sad and bitter weak snob
Who laid down rules like a police dog
He huffed and he puffed
To make out he was tough
And not a sad and bitter weak snob
souljacker
innit
No rule in there about calling Rees-Mogg a massive cunt. He should have put that in.
Raheem
Well-Known Member
The police is appealing for witnesses.
Raheem
Well-Known Member
You mean he should have put "Always refer to me as a massive cunt."
Serge Forward
Felonious Manc
Liverpool and the police are exceptions that prove the rule and Mogg should have pointed that out, the fucking posh twat.
Nine Bob Note
Self-Isolating before it was fashionable
Can we have a Rees-Mogg rule that any thread about him MUST have a picture of him in his top hat and tails railing against the leftist elites in the opening post?
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
Using Ellwood as an example is a bit odd as well - Ellwood is a Privy Counsellor, and has been since April 2017 (when he got his Rt Hon for trying to save PC Keith Palmer during the Westminster Bridge attack).
(edit: sorry, this was pointed out on Twitter earlier)
(edit: sorry, this was pointed out on Twitter earlier)
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Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
You’re insulting the denizens of North Somerset there, they have fuck all to do with electing this cunt.
They’re far more discerning than that and dutifully elected ... Liam Fox
(I think it’s the NE Somerset lot you should be pointing the finger at)
Steel Icarus
an attempt was made
I have today marked the end-of-year headteacher's newsletter that came home with my son the other day. It will be returned in the post. The odd typo is one thing but throughout there were inconsistencies, terrible punctuation errors and some truly confusing sentence structure.
a_chap
When the world came apart, where were you?
If Sting & Co. want to appeal for witnesses that's their business.
If you take "the police" to mean all police officers then they never, as a single entity, appeal for witnesses. But the police force, however, way well appeal for witnesses...
Raheem
Well-Known Member
Is RM perhaps making a point to do with Ellwood having been made a PC under commercial law, so that his appointment in unenforable against a natural person without their consent?
a_chap
When the world came apart, where were you?
I think so.
A contentious issue that, let's be honest, only an intellectual TITAN like Rees-Mogg (wearing a top hat) can resolve
eatmorecheese
He's fallen out of the car again
I don't have much to add to the discussion other than to state that Rees-Mogg is a massive cankerous bellend.
TheHoodedClaw
acknowledging ur soup leg
The missing stapler has been found and, unfortunately for you, it was found in your desk drawer.
Nine Bob Note
Self-Isolating before it was fashionable
Not when you have Miss Typingpoolsworth, an Underwood No. 5 and a clear delineation of responsibilities.
Steel Icarus
an attempt was made
No, but it's a common mistake which I think he was trying to prevent.
Favelado
I'm loving Engels instead.
Organisations can often be singular or plural, and that's according to Swann who writes the best grammar book out there. Any ESL teacher knows this to be the case, and all the main grammars say so. In some cases, such as police, you have to use a plural verb.
Grammar pedants usually don't even know their stuff. Here, it's merely the rules he learnt he is enforcing, and which he assumes are all the time of course.
Grammar pedants usually don't even know their stuff. Here, it's merely the rules he learnt he is enforcing, and which he assumes are all the time of course.
TheHoodedClaw
acknowledging ur soup leg
It's one of the larger differences between US and UK English too.
Supine
Newt Member
I regret writing the sentence and, I expect, I'll regret writing it tomorrow too.
Looks wrong to me
Favelado
I'm loving Engels instead.
For music groups and sports teams is where I notice it most.
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