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Alec Rivers

... "There's about 20 people waiting outside" ... I was working simply on the basis that "there's" is a contraction of "there is". ... that word "about" muddies the waters even further ... Well, I don't agree the waters are muddied yet, and I also don't think...

Alec Rivers

It must be a generational thing. To my ears it just sounds so ugly, inelegant and uneducated to say 'there is' for a simple plural. :( Don't worry, there's nothing wrong with using gut feeling to think about grammar; it's not like English has any formal rules. But would you really say "There a...

Alec Rivers

Crikey. It shows up an autistic trait in me: If I didn't know, I'd have sworn that your avatar and that picture show two different people. :shock: Well, they were taken around five years apart, so statistically most of the physical composition of my body will have changed in the interim. :geek: Ver...

Alec Rivers

Nice one, Matt.

Alec Rivers

In the four years I went to school there, I'm pretty sure I only ever heard people say something like 'Sand-witch', with no audible dg or similar sounds. So I suppose if I'm saying that, the chances must be that Alec's and my paths didn't cross. You misunderstood me. The ending I use is pronounced ...

Alec Rivers

Crikey. It shows up an autistic trait in me: If I didn't know, I'd have sworn that your avatar and that picture show two different people.

Alec Rivers

It must be a generational thing. To my ears it just sounds so ugly, inelegant and uneducated to say 'there is' for a simple plural.

Alec Rivers

36 secs to get the handle in the same place; that's the sort of thing I do, too. I thought it was just me. I'm not a complete nerd after all The other possible deduction from those premises is, of course, that we both are. :oops: I know, but I just didn't have you down as one, so I couldn't come to...

Alec Rivers

Phil Reynolds wrote:
Jon Corby wrote:Most miniscule, surely?
I think not.

lol. I didn't even notice he'd misspelled it! I was only concentrating on my deliberate misuse of the superlative.

Alec Rivers

... if you can't be arsed ... Arsed? 'If you can't be asked', surely? :shock: Have you genuinely never heard the expression "I can't be arsed"? I have often heard the expression "can't be asked" lazily mispronounced as "can't be arsed". Honestly, the original phrase wa...

Alec Rivers

Jon Corby wrote:Except you'd have the paper on top, which will fall off as soon as you move. I'm really confused

Coins held in (partial) fist by middle finger, ring finger, and little finger, leaving the thumb and index finger free to hold the notes.

Alec Rivers

B) When you have a bastard of a father who shouts at you for getting the smallest, tiniest, minusculest thing wrong. Minisculest? Most miniscule, surely? (hee hee) lol. I know you're joshing but I'll explain it anyway. As it was a heartfelt statement figuratively delivered through gritted teeth, I ...

Alec Rivers

Another addition to my list are people who work in call centres ... And what's with all this "Thank you for providing me with that information, Mr Rivers" bollocks. It's SOOOO effin' patronising! I actually tell them to stop it. I say something like: "I know you've been trained to us...

Alec Rivers

Derek Hazell wrote:
Alec Rivers wrote:In everyday parlance I would call it a sandwich but, in a situation where it mattered, I'd say it is equivalent to half a sandwich.
Possibly the definititive solution to this indigestible conundrum.

Thanks, Derek. Loving the typo - mucho titties.

Alec Rivers

In everyday parlance I would call it a sandwich but, in a situation where it mattered, I'd say it is equivalent to half a sandwich. Quite, although I'm struggling to visualise an example of "a situation where it mattered". ;) Example situations: A) Medical circumstances where a doctor or ...

Alec Rivers

Why do all microwave ovens, regardless of make, seem to have turntables that rotate at exactly 5rpm? I noticed years ago, when I bought my very first microwave, that it took exactly 12 seconds for the turntable to complete one revolution; and used this knowledge when zapping something in a mug, or ...

Alec Rivers

I'm sure most people, when asked to give a succinct definition of a sandwich, would say it is "two slices of bread with something in between". Therefore, if you cut it in half you get two halves. Reading the thread (or glancing at the poll atop this page if you can't be arsed to do that) ...

Alec Rivers

Gavin Chipper wrote:Nice one.

Marseille nil.

Alec Rivers

For this, the complete (uncut) round or the half round rectangle (square if cutting a round into 4) is infinitely better, as a triangle sandwich is liable to spill contents from the pointy bits. But leaving the centre of the sandwich to eat til last is an infinitely more satisfying experience. Some...

Alec Rivers

Derek Hazell wrote:I'll be lucky if there are one person ...

Alec Rivers

I need a round. A round tuit. I'll get so much stuff done once I get a round tuit.

(BTW, it's 'riposte'. Sorry for being picky.)

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Charlie Reams wrote:
Alec Rivers wrote:You say 'are'!! Get it? THERE ... ARE!!!"
Why?

You're kidding, right? 'There are twenty people', not 'there is twenty people'.

Alec Rivers

Just thought of something else: expensive, unnecessary cosmetics and their commercials. I loathe them with a passion. I think they use the most deceptive form of advertising allowable by law. It's overloaded with pseudo-scientific jargon and carries so many false implications about what the products...

Alec Rivers

Separate hot and cold taps. Me, too. And when people say: "There's twenty people waiting outside." I just want to shake them and shout: "It's ' are '! You say ' are '!! Get it? THERE ... ARE !!!" But, then again, I'm not mental, so I don't. http://i648.photobucket.com/albums/uu2...

Alec Rivers

Pseudoscience, hypercorrection (especially phony pluralae), linguistic snobbery, impunctuality, superstition, ticking clocks, fuzzy thinking, misuse of the word "genius", toenails, intellectual dishonesty, nationalism, cake, amateur psychology ( ie all psychology), musical snobbery, preoc...

Alec Rivers

My solution was 50/10=5;75/5=15;8+3=11;11x15=165 all within 30 sec - presumably James rearranged to achieve his big number :geek: Erm, not that it matters, but it was me using the big number. Nested-quote parsing error, I think. http://i648.photobucket.com/albums/uu203/SpiritmanProductions/grin2.gif

Alec Rivers

I met up with a girl off the Internet a while back, and we just wandered round the streets with her and her mates, and the whole time she kept dribbling on the ground. I thought maybe she had a medical condition - until her friend started doing it as well! No word on whether they also dribble while...

Alec Rivers

If you get scared half to death twice, do you die?

Alec Rivers

And the final spot must be reserved for people who walk straight at you expecting you to dodge out of their way. So much so that I have opted to never again lose this particular game of 'arsehole chicken', and exploit the fact I'm 13 stone and have an overly large torso. :twisted: A couple of tacti...

Alec Rivers

Gavin Chipper wrote:
Derek Hazell wrote:
JackHurst wrote:I'm not Batman, I'm an orange. Just look at my avatar.
I've never really been into being dribbled on before, but if you dribble fresh orange juice it could be quite nice.
Look at his avatar again. That is not orange juice.

No, it looks saltier than that.

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Excellent find!

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Kirk Bevins wrote:Trains still do dump their contents on the tracks, particularly high speed services. You see the spray of the toilet being flushed as trains fly through Doncaster station for example.

I'm amazed to hear that. It sounds so primitive!

Alec Rivers

You thought up this question in your head before you posted it; so you asked it to yourself. So, you cannot ask that question in this thread; I'm not going to answer it. In that case, the only way to ask a valid question is to type completely thoughtlessly (on auto-pilot, so to speak) and see what ...

Alec Rivers

Is that thing about not using the train loo in the station really because it just empties straight onto the tracks.....George? That doesn't apply anymore, since the replacement of basic toilets with chemical ones. Flush whenever the fancy takes you. ;) Ooh, ta Alec - I'd forgotten your train connec...

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Sue Sanders wrote:Is that thing about not using the train loo in the station really because it just empties straight onto the tracks.....George?

That doesn't apply anymore, since the replacement of basic toilets with chemical ones. Flush whenever the fancy takes you.

Alec Rivers

SPOILERZ!

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Kangaroo.

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I thought I'd reply to a post that I couldn't make sense of with a post that makes no sense.

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Jason Larsen wrote:Alec, you're absolutely right.

Phew. Makes a change.

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Alec Rivers

No one has ever explained to me how SOON, which is an adverb not an adjective, is allowed to have comparative and superlative forms. Doesn't it apply to any adverb not ending in -LY? I ran fast He ran faster She ran fastest Have you been waiting long ? She has been waiting longer I have been waitin...

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Hope I'm not spoiling a joke by stating the obvious, but didn't he perhaps think the four large numbers are easier to cancel out than a set of small ones? e.g. 100+25-75-50

Alec Rivers

Matthew Green wrote:I'm still waiting patiently for A. Poll's decision.

lol. She's busy until next month.

Alec Rivers

I'm rubbish at doing stuff like working out from a sky high number like 8000, so I leave that to people like Alec Thanks, but not in 30 seconds I can't! :P Here's one: 8 + 3 = 11 ; 11 × 10 × 75 = 8250 ; 8250 / 50 = 165 Did you use some kind of custom solver for that? http://i648.photobucket.com/alb...

Alec Rivers

... this whole exercise could be pretty degrading for some of us. :cry: With so many people on here, being the 11th person someone thinks of (and therefore not receiving a vote) is surely no disgrace. It's not a particularly scientific poll, anyway. Maybe I should have set the voting limit at 99. :...

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Julie T wrote:
Alec Rivers wrote:Any chance of switching the forum time from BST?

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=301&hilit=BST

Oops. Thanks. I thought it was linked to server time.

Alec Rivers

"It's my first game" is still no excuse for this. (And round 3 wasn't much better.)

Alec Rivers

Matt Morrison wrote:speed metal

Isn't that just a wall of noise with piercings?

Alec Rivers

Any chance of switching the forum time from BST?

Alec Rivers

Matthew Green wrote:
James Robinson wrote:Of course, it's not either nowadays, it's the Europa League.

Surely the word 'neither' exists so we don't need to use the phrase 'not either'?

Useful for a subtle difference in emphasis, perhaps?

Alec Rivers

All I am certain about is that there is significantly more to our existence than science currently knows. It's all just speculation at the mo, so I can't really think of a suitable bet. Soz.

Alec Rivers

Ben Hunter wrote:what the

This

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JackHurst wrote:Alec Rivers for typing out a giant list of names.

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Brian Moore wrote:Stephen Pinker's The Blank Slate is worth reading

It is indeed.

Brian Moore wrote:... if you've got good eyesight ...

This.

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Dinos Sfyris wrote:... not-too-difficult maths problem ...

lol. Define "not too difficult".

Alec Rivers

Brian Moore wrote:... will the bloodsport on the other channel prove more exciting?

I don't doubt it for a moment. And isn't that a sad reflection of our culture: we take more pleasure in showing our contempt than our appreciation.

Alec Rivers

Richard Brittain wrote:Hardcore.

Thanks. Glad you think so.

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