http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39564 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Fri, 24 May 2013 08:57:19 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39564#post-150807 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 12:25:46 +0000 pinxit 150807@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Ooer. Still, better than being bummed by a spanner, I s'pose.</p> <p>(Marginally). </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39564#post-150805 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 11:50:24 +0000 Boutros 150805@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Oh bloody hell, it's been bumped by a spammer. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39564#post-113061 Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:21:29 +0000 Haywood Manley 113061@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Cheers for the info - like I said it's not a big deal. Still learning how it all works here. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39564#post-113049 Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:57:16 +0000 Vertically Challenged Giant 113049@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>It's credited now, at the bottom right of the article.</p> <p>The bit that says "Posted: Mar 13th, 2012 by Guest" is what BJ is referring to. Once you've had a few more the "guest" in that bit changes to your name, then you can click on it and it acts as a link to all of your stories.</p> <p><a href="http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=26371" rel="nofollow">http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=26371</a> </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39564#post-113041 Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:34:19 +0000 Haywood Manley 113041@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Fair enough, not a big deal really. Cheers fellow guest. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39564#post-113040 Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:31:26 +0000 dvo4fun 113040@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>yep - good job haywood </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39564#post-113039 Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:29:08 +0000 beau-jolly 113039@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Haywood. Not sure how the system works but the first few appear to be attributed to "guest". Don't know how you change that or how many guest contributions you need before you are attributed by name. As I have had so few I think I'm still a guest after over a year. I'll have to write something good and see. I'm sure the more prolific can enlighten. I remember asking the question when I got my first, possibly last, NIB. Can't remember the answer though. Old age is a bastard.<br /> Congrats by the way. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39564#post-113038 Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:03:52 +0000 Haywood Manley 113038@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Wow, finally got something on the front page. No credit though, or is it just me that can't see it? Cheers anyway. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39564#post-112430 Thu, 08 Mar 2012 08:29:45 +0000 Scroat 112430@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Excellent. I remember the first time I ever saw this - in an email from a company director. I couldn't believe it. That was a few years ago, and now it's everywhere. They say the language evolves. This evolution in reverse.</p> <p>No death by chocolate option Perks? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39564#post-112428 Thu, 08 Mar 2012 08:10:59 +0000 John Ffitch-Rucker 112428@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>This post gets ten stars or less. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39564#post-112403 Wed, 07 Mar 2012 23:54:52 +0000 The All New Jeni B 112403@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Death by cholestoral Arry. Takes a while, but you can enjoy yourself while you do it. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39564#post-112401 Wed, 07 Mar 2012 23:37:13 +0000 FlashArry 112401@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>More stars and a push back up the ladder - nice</p> <p>Pastry-suicide - how does that work FFS ? slashing your wrists with a sharpened vol-au-vent ? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39564#post-112371 Wed, 07 Mar 2012 21:20:20 +0000 ianrbland 112371@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>All posts are to checked be for spellar and gramming.</p> <p>5 star's. (Yes I know...) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39564#post-112342 Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:23:13 +0000 Haywood Manley 112342@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Hmm, didn't do that on purpose. I wonder what law I broke there? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39564#post-112340 Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:17:49 +0000 bonjonelson 112340@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Haywood - a beautifully ironic link there. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39564#post-112322 Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:04:36 +0000 beau-jolly 112322@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Will it correct "your" to "you're" as well?<br /> A young facebook "friend" (well employee) recently split with her boyfriend. All of her friends from the 6th form sent the same message: "Hope your OK". I'm afraid I had to correct them all.<br /> If I get a text saying "Hope your well" I reply, "Hope my well what?" </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39564#post-112305 Wed, 07 Mar 2012 11:10:59 +0000 Haywood Manley 112305@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Still can't believe I didn't fall foul of Muphry's Law on this one. Or maybe I did.</p> <p><a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry" rel="nofollow">http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry</a>'s_law </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39564#post-112301 Wed, 07 Mar 2012 10:42:24 +0000 Perks 112301@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>It also reminds me of this gem<br /> <img src="http://i52.tinypic.com/jt4a4l.jpg"> </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39564#post-112300 Wed, 07 Mar 2012 10:37:57 +0000 bonjonelson 112300@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>My favourite computer-grammar-checker story is this one:</p> <p><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/07/23/msword_2000_offensive_to_lesbians/" rel="nofollow">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/07/23/msword_2000_offensive_to_lesbians/</a> </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39564#post-112296 Wed, 07 Mar 2012 10:28:42 +0000 Perks 112296@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>as someone who has been more guiltier of poor grammas in the past than others, I give you 5 </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39564#post-112290 Wed, 07 Mar 2012 09:33:53 +0000 Vertically Challenged Giant 112290@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I would of given yourself some stars for this but my computer is playing up. I'm waiting on a man coming to fix it. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39564#post-112289 Wed, 07 Mar 2012 09:21:35 +0000 dvo4fun 112289@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Yep<br /> And that's not an echo you can hear when you do so Jeni - it's me shouting at the same thing from south of the border. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39564#post-112287 Wed, 07 Mar 2012 09:14:34 +0000 The All New Jeni B 112287@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>If it corrects "loose" for "lose" I'm buying it.</p> <p>Purely on the basis that this sub deals with something that makes me actually shout out loud, I'm giving you five stars. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39564#post-112279 Wed, 07 Mar 2012 07:47:51 +0000 Haywood Manley 112279@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>In what one industry analyst has described as "a last desperate effort to yank humanity back from the edge of the abyss," Apple's soon-to-be-announced iPad 3 will in all likelihood include a variation on spellcheck software that will replace juxtapositions of the words "would" and "of" with the far less moronic and so fucking obviously grammatically correct "would have", you frigging idiots! Sorry.</p> <p>The automatic correction software would also administer a sharp electric shock to any semantically challenged imbecile committing the error, utilising the device's capacitive touch screen technology to do so.</p> <p>As reports emerged of Stephen Fry apparently dissolving smugly into a pool of "plummy bliss" on hearing the news, Richard Bell, professor of Linguistic Pedantry at Lincoln University had this to say: </p> <p>"It's about time these illiterate twerps were given a short, sharp shock. Yes, that will learn them." </p>