You realise the earth is over 90% land - only the surface is 70% water ?Originally Posted by Drick
You realise the earth is over 90% land - only the surface is 70% water ?
FFS. Not shacked up 3 days yet and she has you at this lark.
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We'll have to uncuff him and "de-dildo" him, obviously... Smash up the furniture like he was chasing you all rapey. Fortunately, he's Italian so that shouldn't be too hard to sell.
You do realise that "Land" only exists on the Earth's crust which is a tiny fraction of the matter and mass contained in Earth. "Land" is commonly understood by geologists and geographers as that which is above sea level and/or dry - even if temporarily. Sea bed, sea floor, river bed, sub-oceanic, etc. crust would not be considered "land" by either a scientist or a sailor.
Am I the only one who wants to alter the sign to read "Pedants' Conference"?
You do realise that "Land" only exists on the Earth's crust which is a tiny fraction of the matter and mass contained in Earth. "Land" is commonly understood by geologists and geographers as that which is above sea level and/or dry - even if temporarily. Sea bed, sea floor, river bed, sub-oceanic, etc. crust would not be considered "land" by either a scientist or a sailor.
Perhaps - but actually that is debatable grammatically. You could have a "Farmers Conference" in that it would be a plural collection of delegates rather than an event possessively belonging to them. This would be similar to calling a "Firemen Conference" (a conference of, rather than belonging to, firemen). Therefore, I made the decision long ago that when I name conferences that I should use the following structure to evade criticism from either stance:
"Annual Conference of Pedants"
Right you are, nicely done. And I will fully admit to being a pedant, especially when it comes to words being used incorrectly so rather annoyed at myself over this.
My personal hate being people who describe their food as organic - while everyone know what you mean and some may think it an acceptable usage it really riles me. I'm not sure why though.
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Understandable. My recent pet peeve is people, particularly Dubs, that think they speak properly and who are a bit snobbish towards “dose dat don’t pronounce dere th’s” and who go about sprinkling h’s all over the place where they don’t belong. One that is particularly popular at the moment is “heighth”. Well sodomise me from a heighth! Did I just hear that again!!??
I’m starting to get used to (dumbed into) hearing the h pronounced in “Thomas” and “Thomond”. Rather, I no longer get strong urges to strangle them to debt…I mean death! It is a very strange Irish-ism (It is a bit sad though when you receive something written from someone with a college degree that says “I taught I’d send this” ). Anyhoo…
I actually heard someone on the radio say “Diktath” the other day. I nearly died! I was driving and I had a little bit of a seizure.
It is frighthening the extenth to which people are corrupthing the language with abuses of the alphabeth. I’m waiting to witness one of these enthusiastic H inserters to speak to an OCD grammar cop and say the word “abstinenth” and watch him or her go into apoplectic shock wondering if the person just has a lisp or is referring to the noun or the adjective…
But since:
I will present exhibit A for those that could care less:
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Thames is another one, (pronounced 'temms') 'THaymes' bugs the hell out of me.
For the over the hill and the past-it, nothing is impossible.
i know what you mean, it litherally drives me insane
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He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck either, but a real duck that was actually lame. Maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.
Shamelessly ripped off from boards -
The following graffiti defaced the side of my friends apartment building. It says 'U2 Tax Dodgers'.
Here is Dublin City Council's brilliant response:
Never mind perception because it isn’t real. It’s only what people think. Go out and make them think something else.
- Alan Quinlan on believing in yourself
That's class.
Governments don't ask themselves "what can we do that is good for the people?". They ask themselves "how do we persuade people that what we want to do is good for them?".
Yes, but how much did the smart arse sign cost?
Last edited by Huwie; 12th-November-2012 at 12:00.
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Stanley does not offer his clothing as free advertising space for any company and has always been partial to light blue swimming togs. on himself or others.
So you're saying you got paid for it then?? ;-)
On the internet, you can be anything you want. It always amazes me why so many people choose to be stupid.
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Twould appear that Mr Klimt was on to something
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Main problem was the stuff he was on.
well looka
He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck either, but a real duck that was actually lame. Maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.
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