A new 'tougher' thread... and so it continues

stiltwalker

If anyone is gluten free on here, Approved Foods has just got a bunch of Gluten free stuff in including corn chips, corn pasta and pastry mix.

Right back to battle on with my OU assignment - I promise to check my grammar and make sure all my apostrophes are in the right place!:D

Actually I always do this as it bugs the heck out of me when there are mistakes. Worst saw as years ago when someone I worked with used to wear a t-shirt which said " Your just jealous the little voices are talking to me!" Aaargh (and she was training as a teacher too!:eek:)

mardatha

Laughing at the poster talking about the current craze for "draws"... (it might work in an English accent but it doesn't in mine) - If somebody says she put her knickers in a draw, I'd have this wee mental picture of all these folk buying raffle tickets to win a pair of knickers :rotfl: I know. I'm BAD!
I have a lovely pal who will persist in "saying a pray". Argghhh
I've spent 3 days in the garden sitting around :cool2::cool2::cool2: but back to normal tomorrow. Just as well nothing has started growing yet because this would muddle it's wee green head up.

jpscloud

VJsmum wrote: »

Thank you to you and everyone else for the hugs and the virtual chocolate. At least virtual chocolate doesn't have the calories. Doesn't taste as nice tho! :rotfl:

Peace seems to have been restored. DS has sincerely apologise to DD for saying she was fat - to any 15 year old this would be an issue but as she is a "big girl" it is even more of one. I spend all my time telling her she is beautiful and the weight will come off as long as she does it slowly and sensibly - then he opens his big gob and undoes all the good. :mad: He was actually trying to be funny - didn't work!

I spend alot of my time marking the assignments of University students (I was going to write University students' essays, but wasn't sure that was right ) - and they wouldn't know where to put an apostrophe if they were paid to. And as for there / their / they're....

Actually I was at Ikea on Sunday, and one of their big advertising posters / boards said that they would take back goods in there original packaging :eek: Someone deserves sacking for that.

So tis lovely, warm and sunny here and, on Thursday, I am off to Stockholm where the forecast is about 5 degrees and potential snow. S'not fair.. On previous study visits I've been to Dubai where it was 32 degrees.

Don't get me started! I did a second degree as a mature student and cringed every time I went for coffee in the university's cafe displaying a laminated sign saying "Please return all tray's..."

One of my other pet hates is mispronunciation... "pacific" instead of "specific", "poduct" instead of "product", "newcular" instead of "nuclear" and there are loads of others I can't recall just now. All by TV/radio presenters or interviewees.

And is it me getting elderly and cynical, or is there a curious penchant for extremely childish girly voices among younger highly qualified women, who also end their sentences with a lilting lift (the Aussie question mark) when they're not asking any questions at all?

OK OK back in my box with me. :rotfl:

VJsmum

AH the good old Australian question inflection? When everything is a question? I have to admit to doing that myself sometimes? Talking of myself - I hate over use of the word myself and yourself (THat's not right for myself as I was saying to yourself yesterday)

My daughter has a habit of saying "like" all the time. THat's like really bad. He hit it like a hundred times - is it like a hundred times or is it a hundred times.

Over use of Literally is irritating too - but I do that as well. I once told my mum that the kids were literally beside themselves Only last week I said to a group of students that you could literally draw a metaphorical line :rotfl: I did literally pull myself up on it though

<<sigh>> I really must pack....

maryb

ending a sentence (any sentence) with "you know?"

grandma247

My pet hate is jewlery instead of jewelry and libry instead of library. The worst thing though is how youngsters change the meaning of perfectly ordinary words into something rude.

LavenderBees

maryb wrote: »

ending a sentence (any sentence) with "you know?"

I do that :eek:.. sorry! So does my dad, so I blame him, you know.:rotfl:

Byatt

I say "Is it?" (a Welsh thing) after sentences, my ex used to take the mickey mercilessly and I became very self conscious about it, now I don't give a d*** :rotfl::rotfl:

I love the diversity of language and all its nuances. It's evolving all the time and it will be interesting to "see" it in 100 years or 500 years.

I do think the written discrepancies often arise as a result of spell check. I've noticed errors have increased in modern books.

PIC, how is Womble and do you have any more pictures?

And how is Bruno and Doc?

paidinchickens

Morning

meme yep we are getting eggs. One chook laid everyday from the day we got her, one took a couple of days and the third took a fortnight.

Byatt I will post some after his "haircut" next Wednesday as I am sure he will look a totally different dawg :rotfl:

My spelling is terrible. I blame my schooling and where I lived (obviously not myself). Living in London as a child but having a Mother from up North the spelling were hard going, bath, castle, grass etc and I am sure the teacher did it on purpose :cool: I think she just liked crossing my RRRRRRRRRRRRR s out :rotfl: I think we were the year they "tried it this way" to find out it just didn't work as everyone in my year is still terrible at spelling.


Went to the carboot yesterday and they no longer let dogs walk round so we went to the park instead and had our packup next to the lake watching the ducks. Lovely day had by us and Womble. I did tell DH I was ringing in sick (from painting fences) yesterday

Update on the littlest, he's been to the docs and has tonsillitis, he does not want to go to his Mums on Saturday and thinks he does not have to go because he is sick. Roll back a few years when he had chickenpox and couldn't go we had the horrible, [STRIKE]nasty piece of work [/STRIKE] woman accuse hubby of making it up and telling her solicitor he was preventing contact, even though the other boy still went to meet her. People really, has it now come to having to get a sick note off the doc for contact?? I don't think she understands that her boys are of the age that they make their own minds up and they are not little any more.


My DS is on a " I want to do jobs for money" drive. I have asked next door if he can mow her lawn and as she hates gardening with a passion she said she will give him a tenner. I hope it goes ok, I will be there with him just incase

Can't hang around here all morning I have a dog to walk and fences to paint and probably a back to work interview from ringing in sick yesterday :rotfl::rotfl:

PIC x

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Mornin Auntie Byatt - I is veri fine fank yew, my Mumi was away wiv my biggist sista atta weekwnd so me an Dadi went toa pubby place alottttt. Ise bin layin inna gardin inna sunniestuff alla week an not doin much walkies cos its Hott!!!! Ise a lucki boy vo cos wen its reely hott Ise gotta nice cowld riva to paddle in an gets cold footses. Ise hopin it mite rain soon cos alla mudd has gon away an its not so Funn wen Mumi dusnt chases me outa ver kitchin cosa mudi foots!!!!! Lotsa luv frum yer frend Docky xxxxx