Things that have bothered you for a long time.

[mudsticks]

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And after going to such great pains to explain it wasn't in any way shape or form a flounce..

Huh.

You've almost got me wanting to do a proper full on flouncey flounce now, and do it reeal goood too.

"The Full Flamenco"

Even

But best get back to the dull ol admin sorting instead..

 

[mudsticks]

well mudsticks, I may have shied away from commenting (and I stress again not criticising Chris's post) but I must say you have posted without saying anything about your views at all.
Or are you just telling us that you have read a book?
I trust you aren't accusing me, or chris for that matter, of "ill informed prejudice".
You'd need more (like some) evidence for that.

I said I read this book as it was instructive on an issue that I personally knew very little about, and it thereby relieved me of some of the burden of any ill informed prejudice, that I might be carrying.

I know nothing of your levels of knowledge.

That is all.

 

[Threevok]

The Coca Cola Truck

With all the worry about climate change and cutting our carbon footprint, how can they justify driving a big lorry all around the country, that isn't even delivering anything ?

 

[Yellow Fang]

Why did the BBC cancel the John Sullivan (I think that was his name) sitcom Dear John after the second series? I thought it was a bloody good show, at least as good as Just Good Friends and Citizen Smith, both of which went on for years. I wanted to know if Kirk got off with Tiger, and now I'll never know.

 

[Yellow Fang]

If the plural of mouse is mice and the plural of goose is geese, why isn't the plural of moose meese?

Not really something that has bothered me for long. I just thought of it now. Perhaps the plural of moose is meese. I can imagine it is just moose, e.g. there's a herd of ten moose over there. Where did they get the word 'moose' from anyway? Is it a Native American word? Our word for them was elk, although they have been a long time extinct.

 

[Yellow Fang]

In the New Testament, Jesus talks about separating the wheat from the chaff, and the sheep from the goats. What is wrong with goats? I like them, probably more than sheep. I gather chaff is the waste byproduct of wheat, although I don't know for sure.

 

[classic33]

"Moose derives from Algonquian, a Native American language. It kept the same plural ending it had in its original language instead of adopting the normal S ending of most English plurals."

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/moose-plural/

 

[Yellow Fang]

Shakespeare: I don't really understand him, and when I do, I don't really like him particularly. Does that make me thick. Similarly, classical music.

 

[classic33]

Shakespeare: I don't really understand him, and when I do, I don't really like him particularly. Does that make me thick. Similarly, classical music.

In't he a wee bit dead?

 

[Yellow Fang]

In't he a wee bit dead?

I meant his writing.

 

[sheddy]

Why were laptops never fitted with a built in handle ?
So expensive and yet so easily broken.

 

[Drago]

Ken Barlow. How come he's such a hit with the chicks? That really bothers me cos it just makes no sense.

 

[Yellow Fang]

Ken Barlow. How come he's such a hit with the chicks? That really bothers me cos it just makes no sense.

I have often wondered, but it did not bother me particularly. He was a druid though. Maybe it was enchantment.

 

[Yellow Fang]

Peking and Bombay: why do we now call them Beijing and Mumbai? We don't insist the French call London London and not Londres. The Germans are fairly relaxed about us calling Koln Cologne. Alright, Beijing and Mumbai might be a little closer to the native pronunciation, but if you say them in a British accent, it is not going to sound anything like the natives would say it.

 

[swee'pea99]

If the plural of mouse is mice and the plural of goose is geese, why isn't the plural of moose meese?

Not really something that has bothered me for long. I just thought of it now. Perhaps the plural of moose is meese. I can imagine it is just moose, e.g. there's a herd of ten moose over there. Where did they get the word 'moose' from anyway? Is it a Native American word? Our word for them was elk, although they have been a long time extinct.

You remind me of one of my dad's favourite jokes, about the guy writing a letter to another zoo, asking if they could send him two mongooses...er, mongeese....er....

"Please send us a mongoose. While you're about it, send us another one."