http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/tags.php?tag=more-gentle-ribbing-than-a-specialist-condom The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sun, 26 May 2013 05:52:53 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54314&page=2#post-157592 Sun, 13 Jan 2013 18:48:23 +0000 Boutros 157592@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Sorry I ever drew attention to the errors. It's the sub editor's job to fix that, after all.<br /> We are just the creative engine.</p> <p>Or should that be engines? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54314&page=2#post-157474 Sat, 12 Jan 2013 15:21:14 +0000 Titus 157474@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Lucy4: yes, I am interested. Got a link please to an explanation of Mr Shakespear's "Winter of discontent" joke?<br /> _ _ _ _</p> <p>Regarding the poor abused apostrophe: I feel like John Cleese seething "LOOK! IT'S PERFECTLY SIMPLE!!!"</p> <p>"Its" as the posessive version of a personal pronoun does not have an apostrophe, any more than "hi's", "her's", "our's" or "Their's". </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54314&page=2#post-157379 Fri, 11 Jan 2013 19:41:28 +0000 sigmund 157379@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Have stars / Star’s / Starrs’. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54314&page=2#post-157341 Fri, 11 Jan 2013 12:18:45 +0000 Midfield Diamond 157341@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Stupid idea, writinginbsl. Greengrocers would have to sell each item individually and my local caf'e would have to shut down. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54314#post-157333 Fri, 11 Jan 2013 10:49:16 +0000 writinginbsl 157333@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>dont ever be a slave to apostroph's es ies e's es'</p> <p>they are our slave's not our masters'</p> <p><a href="http://grammar.about.com/od/punctuationandmechanics/a/Should-The-Apostrophe-Be-Abolished.htm">hear that? ....thats the wind of change.....</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.killtheapostrophe.com/">killers</a> </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54314#post-157329 Fri, 11 Jan 2013 10:16:34 +0000 rickwestwell 157329@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Muphry's Law, yup. It says if you criticise anyone's spelling or grammar, there will be a spelling or grammar mistake in your criticism. Look, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry's_law">here.</a></p> <p>Cheers, VCG, Im on the verge of a comeback - I like the cut of the NewsBiscuit jib at the moment. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54314#post-157328 Fri, 11 Jan 2013 10:11:26 +0000 Vertically Challenged Giant 157328@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>You should come back more often Rick, its great. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54314#post-157326 Fri, 11 Jan 2013 10:07:38 +0000 Rootin Tootin 157326@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Is that a "Whoosh!" </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54314#post-157324 Fri, 11 Jan 2013 10:05:51 +0000 Boutros 157324@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Muphry's law? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54314#post-157320 Fri, 11 Jan 2013 09:39:59 +0000 rickwestwell 157320@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Fuck me, nobody told me it was this exciting round here these days! It's Muphry's law gone wild! </p> <p>"An early summer is on its way" is absolutely correct, as is "It's not uncommon".</p> <p>"South Wales valleys roosting grounds" is technically correct (although old fashioned grammar bores would hyphenate it) but is very clumsy, poor style and needs a good thrashing. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54314#post-157189 Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:21:15 +0000 Lucy4 157189@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Bugger this! I still can't find Wally. He might be hiding in the Norfolk mountains. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54314#post-157180 Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:39:36 +0000 Des Custard 157180@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>"...their South Wales valleys" looks OK to me. You wouldn't say "their Norfolk' valleys" or "their Norfolk's valleys". The usage is adjectival, not possessive. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54314#post-157179 Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:35:53 +0000 Bourbon 157179@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>May be but im stil write. It has can be rote as it's</p> <p>It's become apparent / it has become apparent</p> <p>Case closed. Bourbon is numba 1 for enlandish; </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54314#post-157178 Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:29:39 +0000 waylandsmithy 157178@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>The NiB is also riddled with errors, perhaps the key to making the front page is to just bang away at the keyboard with your face?</p> <p>'been seen'</p> <p>'MET'</p> <p>'South Wales(apostrophe missing) valleys' </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54314#post-157177 Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:27:34 +0000 Lucy4 157177@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>It have lots of mistakes. You wouldn't normally say it has got lots of mistakes just it has lots of mistakes and therefore you wouldn't write it's lots of mistakes.<br /> Wayland- I was surprised when I thought you'd made such a schoolboy error, please hand your prize to the more deserving Bourbon.<br /> My expertise on this matter is all a front, you know, I frequently have to check my address book for how to spell my own surname.<br /> Talking of groundhog day/Candlemas, though, I can get from that to why the winter of discontent line in Richard III is one of Shakespeare's best jokes. If anyone's interested. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54314#post-157172 Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:54:43 +0000 Bourbon 157172@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>It's got lots of mistakes instead of it has got lots of mistakes</p> <p>I even checked Wikipedia </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54314#post-157167 Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:43:20 +0000 waylandsmithy 157167@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>It says 'Clarin's girl' too, should be 'Clarins girl'. Simonjmr, are you taking the piss? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54314#post-157166 Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:41:16 +0000 waylandsmithy 157166@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Lucy, the sub said 'it's' when it should have been 'its'. Definitely no apostrophe required. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54314#post-157165 Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:22:45 +0000 Lucy4 157165@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>It's never means it has it only ever means it is. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54314#post-157152 Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:38:47 +0000 Bourbon 157152@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Or it has. My creamy centre hurts. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54314#post-157151 Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:34:55 +0000 Lucy4 157151@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>its is the possessive of the word it. It's is only used when you mean it is, the apostrophe indicating that you've omitted the i.<br /> Ain't the English language grate. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54314#post-157150 Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:18:39 +0000 Bourbon 157150@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Two Boobies for Lucy</p> <p> Wayland is correct. 'It's' is possessive in that sentence. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54314#post-157149 Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:12:21 +0000 Lucy4 157149@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>And a booby prize for Mr Smithy:"its" is correct though South Wales valleys maybe should be South Wales' valleys.<br /> As a matter of possible interest to someone out there. Groundhog day corresponds to Candlemas (02 Feb) which, in Medieval times, was the date you took your Christmas decorations down. Imagine having to have your Christmas lights on all that time. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54314#post-157129 Thu, 10 Jan 2013 11:46:31 +0000 waylandsmithy 157129@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>'...to been seen'</p> <p>'an early summer is on it's way'</p> <p>Pedantry is ace! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54314#post-157126 Thu, 10 Jan 2013 11:30:56 +0000 Mr Target 157126@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>'h' needed in 'Merthyr Tydfil' and Groundhog day para has a bunch of syntax issues...</p> <p>I'm sure you are doing this on purpose to get extra bumps. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54314#post-157105 Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:32:54 +0000 simonjmr 157105@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Amateur meteorologists today have been drawn to Bristol City centre, where a murmuration of Clarins counter girls has unexpectedly been sighted.</p> <p>In weather circles such gatherings are linked to weather patterns that are associated with spring and sunny days.</p> <p>"What we have in Bristol today, is an unusual phenomenon for this time of year, never in living memeory have so many perma-tanned, electric pink lipstick wearing Clarins girls been seen in these numbers in January" said David Wellbeck of the Met Office.</p> <p>"It's not uncommon for one or two to been seen on the streets, but we have literally dozens wandering the precincts and shopping malls, followed by a thick fog of Chanel, CK One, Sunflowers and Dior. We don't know what migratory instincts have lead them to desert their South Wales valleys roosting grounds so early, but it can only mean that an early summer is on its way" </p> <p>Whilst the USA and Canada, have the yearly Groundhog Day celebrations that are used to determine whether the end of winter is in sight. The most popularly known of these groundhogs are Wiarton Willie and Punxsutawney Phil, well kept as part of Groundhog Day festivities in Wiarton, Ontario and Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, respectively. Meteorologists in South Wales and the South West area have been using Clarin's girl sightings to gauge how long is left of winter.</p> <p>Merthyr Tydfil's famous Cosmetics Ciara, is renowned as being an ardent sun-worshipper, with an almost 25% success rate in predicting the end to winter, folklore started in 1995 suggests that if Cosmetics Ciara can see her considerable shadow on 21st January, then the valleys can expect another 6 weeks of winter.</p> <p>More soon. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54314#post-157075 Wed, 09 Jan 2013 23:37:27 +0000 Sir Lupus 157075@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>And there's a full stop missing after more soon. But away, pedantry! Five stars and hoping to see this brilliant sub on NiB very soon... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54314#post-157016 Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:32:26 +0000 rikkor 157016@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Misspellings and Justin Bieber smoking pot make me want to self-harm. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54314#post-157013 Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:21:53 +0000 Lucy4 157013@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Is there an echo in here?</p> <p>Actually, it should be Met Office but let's not be picky. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54314#post-157005 Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:50:07 +0000 Oxbridge 157005@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>And "never in living memory have" since it's plural. Neat idea mind. </p>