Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

misskool

so many things to do and i'm watching heir hunters.

zagubov

misskool wrote: »

so many things to do and i'm watching heir hunters.

It doesn't look a viable industry does it. So many companies chasing a relatively small pool of customers about modest sums of money.

Presumably these people also have day jobs.

I liked the first two doctors but when it went to colour I lost interest as Jon Pertwee seemed boring, and the polots got worse and worse. The Christopher Eccleston reboot was brilliant.

Matt Smith seems too too young; you feel he needs babysitters not companions.

michaels

GDB2222 wrote: »

Word endings - can one of the very erudite NP kindly explain why shrivel becomes shrivelled but rivet becomes riveted? (Two ls, but only one t.) English must be a nightmare to learn as a foreign language!

http://alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxdoubli.html

So there is a 'rule'....if you make the rule complicated enough!

GDB2222

michaels wrote: »

http://alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxdoubli.html

So there is a 'rule'....if you make the rule complicated enough!

So, l is doubled always. Other consonants are only doubled if the final syllable is stressed.

I might be able to remember that. Thanks very much.

lostinrates

Brrrrrr.

Its cold.


I'm going to clean the mattress and bed head this week and get out the heavier winter duvets I think.....

chewmylegoff

GDB2222 wrote: »

A very tall (female) friend of mine refers to that as 'waste of a tall man', on the basis that PN could manage perfectly well with someone shorter.

Taller women can reach things on the top shelf and look over fences all by themselves though.

GDB2222

lostinrates wrote: »

Brrrrrr.

Its cold.


I'm going to clean the mattress and bed head this week and get out the heavier winter duvets I think.....

You are further west than me. Still sunny and fairly warm here. But it's due to rain this afternoon, so we Inner-Outer-Herts people will get our share.

bugslet

lostinrates wrote: »

I'm going to clean the mattress and bed head this week and get out the heavier winter duvets I think.....

I dismantled my bed and mattress this weekend (only way I could move the mattress) ; I did take rather childish pleasure in unfurling all the coils!

New one arriving in 2-3 weeks, until then it's a single mattress on the floor:o. I needed to get rid this week as I have a permit for a van for the tip that expires this week. I know, the unending glamour that is my life.

@GDB, here in the North West, it's fairly piddled down this morning.

GDB2222

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Taller women can reach things on the top shelf and look over fences all by themselves though.

Agreed. Taller women are very useful, but they tend to prefer to stand next to men who are the same height or taller. Really, they ought to realise that their greatest utility is married to a short man.

GDB2222

bugslet wrote: »

@GDB, here in the North West, it's fairly piddled down this morning.

"Comme une vache qui !!!!e", as my DW learned in French classes at school.

Oh, and whilst I am at it, my English teacher said: "using a condom is like washing your feet with your socks on."