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Post by stonepaperscissors on Nov 3, 2015 7:01:15 GMT
As a fairly new member, with only around a dozen posts, I was wondering how long I have to wait to engage with the following?: contradicting and winding up other members. Pay no regard to the actual subject being discussed. Constantly pick up on the bad grammar and punctuation of other members?
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Post by jt on Nov 3, 2015 8:37:33 GMT
You dont have to wait at all. In fact all of the above are actively encouraged.
Infact on you post here I would question why you put the question mark after the first following followed with the :
Someone may correct me but from the way I'm reading it it should have perhaps gone after the first members.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2015 9:03:13 GMT
If people don't contradict each other then the debate will be a bit non-existent. Winding people up, I think there's a rule that you can only do it to someone with less posts than you. Going off subject reminds me of a good book on Oxford pubs I saw in Waterstones at the weekend. We have enough grammar police already, thank-you.
When it comes to interacting with other members - if you lined up Islandstone, Sennockian and Pezza I wouldn't know which is which (though I hear 2 of them are particularly ugly) - I only know Pierre, nws, jt, Tim and Ant personally. I have no idea who LFdVJ is - which is part of the fun.
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Post by daveu on Nov 3, 2015 9:14:52 GMT
As a fairly new member, with only around a dozen posts, I was wondering how long I have to wait to engage with the following: contradicting and winding up other members; pay no regard to the actual subject being discussed; constantly pick up on the bad grammar and punctuation of other members? There! I've done the last one for you
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Post by thescribe on Nov 3, 2015 9:32:38 GMT
If people don't contradict each other then the debate will be a bit non-existent. Winding people up, I think there's a rule that you can only do it to someone with less posts than you. Going off subject reminds me of a good book on Oxford pubs I saw in Waterstones at the weekend. We have enough grammar police already, thank-you. When it comes to interacting with other members - if you lined up Islandstone, Sennockian and Pezza I wouldn't know which is which (though I hear 2 of them are particularly ugly) - I only know Pierre, nws, jt, Tim and Ant personally. I have no idea who LFdVJ is - which is part of the fun. Shouldn't that be 'fewer' posts?
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Post by jt on Nov 3, 2015 9:41:54 GMT
You say tomato he says tomato. Actually that loses everything when written down
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Post by Nick on Nov 3, 2015 9:56:35 GMT
Interesting fruit the tomato. Or is it a vegetable ? Anyhow, history tells us that they originated in South America. Did you know that ? Apparently the Spanish brought them back to Europe in the 1540's Not to labour the point, but language has changed a lot since the times of Chaucer and Shakespeare Now I'm coming to the important bit "tomahto" is the British pronunciation "tomayto" is the American Perhaps we can move on now
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Post by islandstone on Nov 3, 2015 10:26:28 GMT
Can you all please remember to use full stops as it's getting a little bit annoying. ?
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Post by jt on Nov 3, 2015 10:39:31 GMT
Interesting fruit the tomato. Or is it a vegetable ? Anyhow, history tells us that they originated in South America. Did you know that ? Apparently the Spanish brought them back to Europe in the 1540's Not to labour the point, but language has changed a lot since the times of Chaucer and Shakespeare Now I'm coming to the important bit "tomahto" is the British pronunciation "tomayto" is the American Perhaps we can move on now You say potato I say potato
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Post by daveu on Nov 3, 2015 10:55:17 GMT
Interesting fruit the tomato. Or is it a vegetable ? Anyhow, history tells us that they originated in South America. Did you know that ? Apparently the Spanish brought them back to Europe in the 1540's Not to labour the point, but language has changed a lot since the times of Chaucer and Shakespeare Now I'm coming to the important bit "tomahto" is the British pronunciation "tomayto" is the American Perhaps we can move on now Yes, I accepted long ago that the Americans don't know how to speak English.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2015 11:29:04 GMT
How do you pronounce moustache? I've been told my saying "mustosh" is Kentish (and on Pointless Richard Osman, who's from Sussex, also says it with an -osh) - apart from knowing how to say Trottiscliffe and Wrotham, my only Kentish legacy I think.
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Post by jdl on Nov 3, 2015 13:02:25 GMT
How do you pronounce moustache? I've been told my saying "mustosh" is Kentish (and on Pointless Richard Osman, who's from Sussex, also says it with an -osh) - apart from knowing how to say Trottiscliffe and Wrotham, my only Kentish legacy I think. I have not only heard Trottiscliffe residents refer to it as trottis-cliff, but I have even seen official signs where it is written as Trossley! Shortly after we moved down here and discovered the weird pronunciation of some place names (you forgot Meo-fam pronounced mep-ham!!), I chanced across Boughton Monchelsea on a local map. Naturally, I assumed that there was no way this was pronounced as it was spelt and avoided saying it for years, until one day I finally heard a local pronounce it - only to discover that, bizarrely, it was pronounced boughton mon chelsea!! Kentish bastards...
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Post by jdl on Nov 3, 2015 13:07:32 GMT
Interesting fruit the tomato. Or is it a vegetable ? Anyhow, history tells us that they originated in South America. Did you know that ? Apparently the Spanish brought them back to Europe in the 1540's Not to labour the point, but language has changed a lot since the times of Chaucer and Shakespeare Now I'm coming to the important bit "tomahto" is the British pronunciation "tomayto" is the American Perhaps we can move on now More interestingly (or possibly not), the original tomatoes were purple. The red version we know and love was an some plant breeders exotic experiment. And, along the same lines - rabbits aren't native either. They were originally only imported and had to be looked after by special rabbit keepers, so that the posh knobs in their big houses could offer exotic meat to their guests. It was assumed that such a foreign and delicate animal could never survive, let alone breed, in our climate...
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Post by ronaldostone on Nov 3, 2015 14:35:33 GMT
It was assumed that such a foreign and delicate animal could never survive, let alone breed, in our climate... They said the same of French stone.
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Post by jdl on Nov 3, 2015 14:40:02 GMT
They said the same of French stone. I hope he's not breeding!
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