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Accy cyclist
Legendary Member
- Location
- The hills of Accrington
I posted this last Friday in,or is it on? 🤔 ,the Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations? thread
I took the pic' below on the 4th of March this year in the Accrington Job Centre gents toilets,in the hope that one day i'd be able to post pics on CC to let the whole world know of such ( In my opinion) poor grammar. Now that i can i just have to get it off my chest,after six long months!
Surely it should read 'please be aware of the possibility of discarded needles'. Not please be aware of possibly discarded needles?🤔
Edit...and then there's the 'Customer notice' bit. Surely people who use the job centre are clients,not customers? You aren't buying a job,which is what 'customers' do.🤔
I took the pic' below on the 4th of March this year in the Accrington Job Centre gents toilets,in the hope that one day i'd be able to post pics on CC to let the whole world know of such ( In my opinion) poor grammar. Now that i can i just have to get it off my chest,after six long months!
Surely it should read 'please be aware of the possibility of discarded needles'. Not please be aware of possibly discarded needles?🤔Edit...and then there's the 'Customer notice' bit. Surely people who use the job centre are clients,not customers? You aren't buying a job,which is what 'customers' do.🤔
I posted this last Friday in,or is it on? 🤔 ,the Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations? thread
I took the pic' below on the 4th of March this year in the Accrington Job Centre gents toilets,in the hope that one day i'd be able to post pics on CC to let the whole world know of such ( In my opinion) poor grammar. Now that i can i just have to get it off my chest,after six long months!
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Edit...and then there's the 'Customer notice' bit. Surely people who use the job centre are clients,not customers? You aren't buying a job,which is what 'customers' do.🤔
Glad to hear there was nothing dodgy about you standing around in the toilet taking photos.
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
It's worth bearing in mind that the dialects spoken by a large proportion of the population don't use the perfect tense and understand each other perfectly. And then we have a government that makes very few grammatical errors yet don't seem to have a clue what they're doing.
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
Many moons ago, a friend of mine decided to try the 'vibrate' alarm function of his mobile phone... he woke at the set time to watch his phone slowly vibrate off the bedside cabinet and land in a glass of water
Seevio
Guru
- Location
- South Glos
Apart from the lack of full stop, there's nothing wrong with the grammar. It's just that what it means and what the writers intended might differ.I posted this last Friday in,or is it on? 🤔 ,the Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations? thread
I took the pic' below on the 4th of March this year in the Accrington Job Centre gents toilets,in the hope that one day i'd be able to post pics on CC to let the whole world know of such ( In my opinion) poor grammar. Now that i can i just have to get it off my chest,after six long months!
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It implies that there are needles present and that one should be aware of them. The needles present may or may not have been discarded.
The deliberately placed needles are of course, ok.
Salty seadog
Space Cadet...(3rd Class...)
What's that next to your TV then?🧐
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Much like the Guardian editorial?
DRM
Guru
- Location
- West Yorks
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
Ding- dong!
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Shez just ringing mi
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
She's tried to give me a bell, but I told her I'd already got one.
CanucksTraveller
Macho Business Donkey Wrestler
- Location
- Hertfordshire
While we're here can we just address the worst abomination in English grammar in the last few decades?
It's "could HAVE", or "could've" if you prefer. "Would HAVE", or "would've".
It is not "could OF" or "would OF".
Jesus, half the adult population are doing it, and yet my daughter knows the difference at age 9. It's literally primary school English.
Try correcting someone however, and you're the assh0le apparently. And that's how society gets more stupid.
It's "could HAVE", or "could've" if you prefer. "Would HAVE", or "would've".
It is not "could OF" or "would OF".
Jesus, half the adult population are doing it, and yet my daughter knows the difference at age 9. It's literally primary school English.
Try correcting someone however, and you're the assh0le apparently. And that's how society gets more stupid.
Poacher
Gravitationally challenged member
- Location
- Nottingham
Karm doun, deer!
Poacher
Gravitationally challenged member
- Location
- Nottingham
Another one
The primary meaning of to refute is to disprove, yet it's frequently used to deny an accusation without any hint of evidence to disprove the accusation. Today's misuse is from Dildo Harding:
“I strongly refute that the system is failing,” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-to-three-times-uk-capacity-says-dido-harding
