Posts by MCMLXV

Re: This is confusing

he should of written

Coherent thought demands coherent expression: "should have". Ditto for all the other semi-literate commentards who do the same.

Father Ted

"The money was only resting in my account!"

Re: No thanks

"I watched England play Germany in a Cretan bar"

Did they move the tables to make space?

Re: Power supply fan

+1 for "internal immolation"

@Emir Al Weeq

Kudos for the handle :)

Re: This is why I like ElReg

"today being quiet and having an abundance of spare time"

Fancy giving me a hand? I'm snowed under!

Haavaard

+1 for the Tom Lehrer reference :)

Re: Grammar as Intelligence Measure

Totally with you there. His honesty and frankness are commendable, though.

While I'm here:

"That one pisses me off to no end."

Re: The Year of Linux on the desktop

The sysadmin workload here is minescule

The spellchecker's workload, however, is slightly greater.

Re: Once Flash finally dies

"grammer Nazis"

Re: Clearly I've missed something but

You have to get multiple ferries to do your shopping?

A pedant writes...

"the hoi polloi"

Can't believe I'm responding to a post from amfM 1. First (and likely last) time ever. <pedant>"Hoi" in this context means much the same as "the" in English so "the hoi polloi" is tautological</pedant>.

Somebody buy me a beer whilst I drown my sorrows with a well-overdue dose of Aristophanes. (If you buggers won't, I'll have to schlepp it to ScotMid and get some myself :-) )

Re: 73 if it takes off on time

Hopefully by then you'll have mastered apostrophes :)

Re: Let's keep crazy and mad and bonkers and looney etc

inexplicably inextricably.

Occured

Huge downvote, especially since this is a tech site. It's occurred, ffs. I haven't had any coffee yet.

Hmm...

UK National Authority for Counter Eavesdropping (UKNACE)

I thought counter eavesdropping meant listening in on a customer's conversation with the shop assistant at the till...

Upvote. That took me a wee minute to work out :)

Re: Corona hits 2020 - for german speakers

Horde isn't a verb; it's a noun, as in "Barbarian hordes". Hoard.

I rather like "hamstern" - ta for telling us :)

Re: Out of the frying pan into the fire ......

Bloody hell - that nearly made sense!

Re: The Mad Hatter Principal

Don't fancy going to his college...

Re: flack is perfectly acceptable

Not to me in this context. Rooted in spelling ignorance.

Perfectly acceptable when talking about Roberta (other Flacks are available).

And don't get me started on underway or (dis)orientated...

She has a sister

And she appears to have been accompanied by her married sister, Mrs. Fanny Grammar-Logic. "...between July and August" is (to my pedantic mind, at least) a slightly unhappy use of "between" and indicates a time interval of exactly zero seconds. Perhaps "...in July and August" instead?

Forgive me: it's been a shit of a day and I'm on my second dram.

I'm surprised we haven't heard anything from T.F.M. Reader yet :)

@jakeisatwat

Ignore The Nazz and the holier-than-thou "Really?" attitude. Wanker. Have an upvote for the splendid handle :)

Re: BBC Basic Bug

"...try it for yourself on an online beeb emulator"

Can't be arsed. What happens?

Re: Well maybe these so-called 'scientists' can explain this...

Utterly brilliant - my favourite post in this entire thread (and the humour seems to have been lost on one sad downvoting soul). Wish I could upvote you more.