If I were you, I'd ....

[ToughButterCup]

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?

[Construction Channel]

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.....

[Construction Channel]

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

[SteamyTea]

I don't get annoyed, just even

[ProDave]

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.

[Construction Channel]

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 

 

[richi]

5 minutes ago, ProDave said:

miss used grammar.

 

She did, did she? 

[ProDave]

Where's your Grammar.

 

She's out with me grandad.

[Nickfromwales]

There's no way I'm joining in this one. I know my limits

[Nickfromwales]

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. 

[Nickfromwales]

Steak was nice though. 

[newhome]

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

[newhome]

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

[Hecateh]

Woman without her man is lost

 

Place the missing comma(s)! 

[Construction Channel]

Just now, Hecateh said:

Wo. man without her man, is' lost

 

how'd I do?

3

 

[Hecateh]

2 minutes ago, Construction Channel said:

 

Not how I would have done it.  

[Onoff]

"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...

 

[Ferdinand]

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

[jack]

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.

[Onoff]

19 minutes ago, jack said:

 

Colon required, surely:

 

Woman: without her, man is lost.

 

Semicolon surley or capital "W" on without?

 

 

[Hecateh]

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'

[ProDave]

9 hours ago, newhome said:

A picture paints a thousand words and is also a way to dodge @PeterW‘s profanity checker 

 

 

 

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I like 15 and 16

[richi]

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.

[ProDave]

I think we all need to go and read "Eats shoots and leaves"

 

 

[richi]

Don't get me started on which vs. that.