Argee
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Mike - as my favourite stand-up comedian, Lewis Black, once said: "MTV is to music, as KFC is to chicken!"MikeW":2seq26z0 said:
BTW, I see that Jon Stewart is to host the OSCARs - is he up to the job?
Ray.
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BTW, I see that Jon Stewart is to host the OSCARs - is he up to the job?
Ray.
MikeW
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I like the MTV/KFC sentiment!Argee":183vrgtb said:Mike - as my favourite stand-up comedian, Lewis Black, once said: "MTV is to music, as KFC is to chicken!"
BTW, I see that Jon Stewart is to host the OSCARs - is he up to the job?
Ray.
As to Jon Stewert and the Oscars...I have no idea. I don't really watch much TV, opting instead for watching the odd DVD. Sometimes very odd. :roll:
Take care, Mike
Who didn't know the Oscars were on tonight.
Steve Maskery
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Alf":2kyekvw2 said:
Let's just be clear about this, that's Alf trying to get the to/too thing in, not Alf trying to get into a tutu thing...
I'll get me coat.
S
Alf
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Dear me, talk about being mugged down Memory Lane; this thread has it all... That one reminds me of the jokes when my school (think St Trinians, complete with Lacrosse sticks <shudder>) merged with a ballet school. There was a match made in hell; mainly 'cos the flippin' ballerinas were such spiteful and catty folks, and that included the blokes... :roll: :lol:Steve Maskery":14yybm3p said:
Cheers, Alf
Neomorph
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I used to be dyslexic but I'm all left, err, right, err.... now!
:wink:
BTW, MTV wasn't the sign of the end... Microsoft was. As most computer software is done with Americanised english it affected a large amount of people since the mid 80's.
I started out as a programmer in 1979 on mainframes and noticed as the IBM-PC took hold that programmers for that platform were invariably bad at spelling. As same words got spelled slightly different it caused a heck of a lot of confusion.
I still remember yelling at a computer software compiler who claimed my syntax was incorrect yet I knew it was perfect. All it turned out was that I spelled "Center" as "Centre" and I still to this day forget which is UK english and which is USA english. :roll:
What is funnier is that when I was at school in the 70's I failed English Language O Level four times with two "E" grades and two "U" grades. I recently went back to college to try and finally pass the exam. When I passed it with an "A" grade I was amazed but I think it was only because I had given up doing computer programming as a job and have spent a lot of time reading over the years.
:wink:
BTW, MTV wasn't the sign of the end... Microsoft was. As most computer software is done with Americanised english it affected a large amount of people since the mid 80's.
I started out as a programmer in 1979 on mainframes and noticed as the IBM-PC took hold that programmers for that platform were invariably bad at spelling. As same words got spelled slightly different it caused a heck of a lot of confusion.
I still remember yelling at a computer software compiler who claimed my syntax was incorrect yet I knew it was perfect. All it turned out was that I spelled "Center" as "Centre" and I still to this day forget which is UK english and which is USA english. :roll:
What is funnier is that when I was at school in the 70's I failed English Language O Level four times with two "E" grades and two "U" grades. I recently went back to college to try and finally pass the exam. When I passed it with an "A" grade I was amazed but I think it was only because I had given up doing computer programming as a job and have spent a lot of time reading over the years.
PowerTool
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"Centre" - UK
"Center" - US
"Center" - US
trevtheturner
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It amuses me to see how many woodworkers, on here, manage to do their planning on their planers instead of on their drawing boards. :roll: :lol:
Cheers,
Trev.
Cheers,
Trev.
Johnboy
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Did you hear about the dyslexic, insomniac, agnostic that lay awake all night wondering if there was a dog?
John
John
Neomorph
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Johnboy":3prankgv said:
It took me a couple of seconds to get it but when I did get it I scared the cat when I burst out laughing. :lol:
I've got one for you too...
"I used to be ambidextrous but I'm all right now!"
... which actually is true for me. I was ambidextrous up until a school holiday job caused me to injure my left wrist tendons. A pan of brass fittings was on the back of a lorry... I put my hands through the handles and slid it off the back of the lorry bed. Unfortunately when the pan passed the mid point it tipped over and all the weight went through my left hand which got jammed in the handle.
When it happened I got laughed at and blushing I went to pick the brass fittings that had tumbled all over the place. I wasn't until I found that my left hand wouldn't work that I realised that I had actually injured it. It just refused to move... no pain (yet I might add) but it was like it had just switched off.
Well six months later the surgeon said that the injury looked to be permanent and I had only 30% use of it... bummer. Years later I went to an accupuncturist who asked about all my physical probs and I told her about my hand but said it was permanent. She said she would try anyway and went about turning my wrist into a pin cushion... two months later I had increased my wrist use back up to around 95% - I only have a numb little finger now but unfortunately I'm still not ambidextrous.
Sorry for the life story... damn morphine makes me pretty verbal lol.
engineer one
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seems to me we should not be blaming the americans, rather our lazy educators here who want everyone to sound the same, and have no dialect, or too much, without the joy of local intonation.
spelling has changed because we allowed micro soft to provide too many of the programmes, and nobody wants to correct the spell checker, ( is that chequer!!!!!!! :lol: )
when i was dragged up we were given spelling bees, and had to learn the words, that stopped because it became competitive, and some of the little darlings did not like coming second.
but seriously if enough people actually complain to the authors, and the magazines, then things will change. apathy is the largest political party in both america and the UK, but the next change only requires people complaining for some things to change.
lets start with spelling and grammar, and then maybe we could stop people spitting in the streets, etc.
if you cannot write properly in your own language, how are you going to respect yourself????????????
paul :wink:
spelling has changed because we allowed micro soft to provide too many of the programmes, and nobody wants to correct the spell checker, ( is that chequer!!!!!!! :lol: )
when i was dragged up we were given spelling bees, and had to learn the words, that stopped because it became competitive, and some of the little darlings did not like coming second.
but seriously if enough people actually complain to the authors, and the magazines, then things will change. apathy is the largest political party in both america and the UK, but the next change only requires people complaining for some things to change.
lets start with spelling and grammar, and then maybe we could stop people spitting in the streets, etc.
if you cannot write properly in your own language, how are you going to respect yourself????????????
paul :wink:
Neomorph
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OK.... What about what education was about in the UK in the early part of last century...
The Three R's
Reading, Riting and Rithmatic
:roll:
I kid you not... ](*,)
The Three R's
Reading, Riting and Rithmatic
:roll:
I kid you not... ](*,)
engineer one
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john when i learnt my three "R's" i was told it was because
so many words in proper english had silent first letters,
like the word *rse.
but seriously the only people who can change things are we who read, if we do not complain, then it will continue.
paul :wink:
so many words in proper english had silent first letters,
like the word *rse.
but seriously the only people who can change things are we who read, if we do not complain, then it will continue.
paul :wink:
