ToughButterCup Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 If I were you, lad, I'd ......... I've had enough of that: I bet you have too. What after-the-horse-has-bolted advice has annoyed you most? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Construction Channel Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 I'd have just turned the bucket around. in relation to underpinning with the digger and the special adaptor I made, I mean FFS as if I didn't try that first..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Construction Channel Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 I should add a lot of the frustration comes from how it is worded, (youtube comments) "could you not have........" ill give you an answer explaining why "i'd have just.........." GFY 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteamyTea Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 I don't get annoyed, just even Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProDave Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 I'll vent my pet hate at miss used grammar. If I had £1 for every time I have heard someone say "you could of done that....." FFS OF is not the same word as HAVE. It should be "you could have done that....." There. I can sleep easy tonight now that is off my chest. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Construction Channel Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 1 minute ago, ProDave said: I'll vent my pet hate at miss used grammar. If I had £1 for every time I have heard someone say "you could of done that....." FFS OF is not the same word as HAVE. It should be "you could have done that....." There. I can sleep easy tonight now that is off my chest. if I had to pay £1 for every grammatical mistake I would be verging on the national debt I'm not as bad since I downloaded Grammarly 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richi Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 5 minutes ago, ProDave said: miss used grammar. She did, did she? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProDave Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 Where's your Grammar. She's out with me grandad. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nickfromwales Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 There's no way I'm joining in this one. I know my limits Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nickfromwales Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 2 hours ago, recoveringacademic said: If I were you, lad, I'd ......... I've had enough of that: I bet you have too. What after-the-horse-has-bolted advice has annoyed you most? Took my missus out after what seemed like an age of us just not getting to go anywhere. Decided to go for shandy and drove. Found a nice car park with loads of cameras and thought tidy, vans safe here. Get back at 11:30 pm to find the entrances to the car park chained up and a guy saying "oh, they lock this place up after 11 on Fridays". WHERE WAS THE FACKING SIGN THAT SAYS THAT YOU BASTARDS !!!!!!!?!?!?!?!? 45 min wait for a £15 taxi ride home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nickfromwales Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 Steak was nice though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newhome Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 (edited) 1 hour ago, ProDave said: I'll vent my pet hate at miss used grammar. How to soothe a grammar pedant There, their, they’re Edited April 16, 2018 by newhome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newhome Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 (edited) A picture paints a thousand words and is also a way to dodge @PeterW‘s profanity checker Edited April 16, 2018 by Construction Channel it'll probably still get removed ;p 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hecateh Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 Woman without her man is lost Place the missing comma(s)! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Construction Channel Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 Just now, Hecateh said: Wo. man without her man, is' lost how'd I do? 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hecateh Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 2 minutes ago, Construction Channel said: Not how I would have done it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onoff Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 "I'd have knocked the place down and started again, people have built houses in the time it's taking you to do a bathroom!" I think it might have been ME said that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferdinand Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 (edited) I prefer: "If you were me, you would..." The slogan on that mug is a remarkable piece of the printers art. It has been done to look exactly as if photoshopped without adjusting the text to be a curve when photographed. Impressive. Edited April 17, 2018 by Ferdinand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 8 hours ago, Hecateh said: Woman without her man is lost Place the missing comma(s)! Colon required, surely: Woman: without her, man is lost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onoff Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 19 minutes ago, jack said: Colon required, surely: Woman: without her, man is lost. Semicolon surley or capital "W" on without? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hecateh Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 1 hour ago, jack said: Colon required, surely: Woman: without her, man is lost. 1 hour ago, Onoff said: Semicolon surley or capital "W" on without? I think it's a semi BUT the for the people I was training, getting them to see that commas did have a use and weren't just there for decoration. I should have asked, place punctuation I guess. There was also the difference between Let's eat Grandma and Let's eat, Grandma and another favourite 'Helping your Uncle Jack off a horse'. and 'Helping your uncle jack off a horse' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProDave Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 9 hours ago, newhome said: A picture paints a thousand words and is also a way to dodge @PeterW‘s profanity checker Hide contents I like 15 and 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richi Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 Colon is correct, because the second part is as a result of the first. You'd use a semi if you had two sentences to join together, but style guides increasingly suggest eliminating semicolons wherever possible. Some style guides have it that you'd capitalise the W if the phrase after the colon was a complete sentence, which it is. But there's no hard-and-fast rule. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProDave Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 I think we all need to go and read "Eats shoots and leaves" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richi Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 Don't get me started on which vs. that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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