Periscope down. Dive, dive, dive.....dive, dive, dive.Alec Rivers wrote:Sue Sanders wrote:TAKE THIS POST ELSEWHERE, ALECI like your style, Phil.Phil Reynolds wrote:If you actually care two hoots about any of this, you're posting in the wrong topic.
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Torpedoes away! http://www.dancingsantacard.com/en/?santa=223711Sue Sanders wrote:Periscope down. Dive, dive, dive.....dive, dive, dive.Alec Rivers wrote:Sue Sanders wrote:TAKE THIS POST ELSEWHERE, ALECI like your style, Phil.Phil Reynolds wrote:If you actually care two hoots about any of this, you're posting in the wrong topic.
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Liam Tiernan wrote:Torpedoes away! http://www.dancingsantacard.com/en/?santa=223711Sue Sanders wrote:Phil Reynolds wrote:If you actually care two hoots about any of this, you're posting in the wrong topic.
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Charlie Reams wrote:It's interesting how strongly people cling to what they were taught as a child. Even those old codgers at the ODE were forced to admit that "bored of" is common in informal English which, I think you'll agree, probably includes an Internet forum about a daytime game show.Sue Sanders wrote:Ok, well perhaps the ODE will see fit to change their 'usage notes' under the entry for 'bored'. While they're at it perhaps they'll change the definition of 'black' and 'white'
Just did a google search on Ask The Family's Robert Robinson, which turns up nearly 500,000 hits. But also 'Ask The Family's Robert Robertson' turns up over 100,000. Let's hope Robert isn't such an old ludite as to want to 'cling on' to his actual name under mounting google pressure to be known by two names!
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I can't figure out what you actually googled for but if you put the quotes in a sensible place then you don't get anything like that many results. Anyway I'm sure you're smart enough to realise that there's a difference between points of fact, which are unchanged no matter what Google says, versus points of grammar, which are entirely arbitrary human constructs from the beginning.Sue Sanders wrote:Just did a google search on Ask The Family's Robert Robinson, which turns up nearly 500,000 hits. But also 'Ask The Family's Robert Robertson' turns up over 100,000. Let's hope Robert isn't such an old ludite as to want to 'cling on' to his actual name under mounting google pressure to be known by two names!
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Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?
Thought I would post it here as we are already way off topic anyway.
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Yes, that's been doing the rounds for a while, but it's one of those interesting word-based things which are worth sharing here.Marc Meakin wrote:Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?
That's the problem with being anti anything - it's so hard to find a prominent path to follow so passionately.Marc Meakin wrote:Thought I would post it here as we are already way off topic anyway.
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Well, call me a simpleton, but I went for ask the family robert robinson and ask the family robert robertson.Charlie Reams wrote:I can't figure out what you actually googled for but if you put the quotes in a sensible place then you don't get anything like that many results. Anyway I'm sure you're smart enough to realise that there's a difference between points of fact, which are unchanged no matter what Google says, versus points of grammar, which are entirely arbitrary human constructs from the beginning.Sue Sanders wrote:Just did a google search on Ask The Family's Robert Robinson, which turns up nearly 500,000 hits. But also 'Ask The Family's Robert Robertson' turns up over 100,000. Let's hope Robert isn't such an old ludite as to want to 'cling on' to his actual name under mounting google pressure to be known by two names!
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You need to put the phrases in quotes though, otherwise you'll get back any pages which match the words anywhere. ask the family robert chernobyl gets more hits than ...robertson, for example. Your phrases when quoted entirely return 418 and 1 result(s) respectively.Sue Sanders wrote:Well, call me a simpleton, but I went for ask the family robert robinson and ask the family robert robertson.Charlie Reams wrote:I can't figure out what you actually googled for but if you put the quotes in a sensible place then you don't get anything like that many results. Anyway I'm sure you're smart enough to realise that there's a difference between points of fact, which are unchanged no matter what Google says, versus points of grammar, which are entirely arbitrary human constructs from the beginning.Sue Sanders wrote:Just did a google search on Ask The Family's Robert Robinson, which turns up nearly 500,000 hits. But also 'Ask The Family's Robert Robertson' turns up over 100,000. Let's hope Robert isn't such an old ludite as to want to 'cling on' to his actual name under mounting google pressure to be known by two names!
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Ah, the thing about search terms is that different constructs will return different results - and not always what you were after: Both of your searches would also return plenty of results if the person had an entirely different name, but with contestants' names or article authors' names such as Robert Smith, Fred Robinson, etc. being present anywhere on the same page. To be more precise in these searches, you should enter:Sue Sanders wrote:Well, call me a simpleton, but I went for ask the family robert robinson and ask the family robert robertson.
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Which surely suggests that citing google as a reflection of acceptable usage of grammar is somewhat hit and miss? (Which is going back a wee bit in this thread but, well, it is something of a meandering one.)
I'm sure those of you who have grown up in the computer generation think it second nature to google using a certain format but there are thousands of us out here who have access to a computer, having had little in the way of 'instruction' and we just do our own thing. I often do google using different key words, but yeah, the quotation marks thing is news to me. (I still generally find the information I want.) I just don't get this arguement that mis-using grammar on google hits can in some way be a reflection that the incorrect form is becoming acceptable. If someone had a website called 'I feLL of oFF yOur wall's an u dId to' and it became as popular as Youtube, where would we be then?
I'm sure those of you who have grown up in the computer generation think it second nature to google using a certain format but there are thousands of us out here who have access to a computer, having had little in the way of 'instruction' and we just do our own thing. I often do google using different key words, but yeah, the quotation marks thing is news to me. (I still generally find the information I want.) I just don't get this arguement that mis-using grammar on google hits can in some way be a reflection that the incorrect form is becoming acceptable. If someone had a website called 'I feLL of oFF yOur wall's an u dId to' and it became as popular as Youtube, where would we be then?
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A very good point, indeed. (And a good example as well.) If this were an ideal world, people would check their spelling and grammar before registering a domain name. But it isn't. So they don't.Sue Sanders wrote:If someone had a website called 'I feLL of oFF yOur wall's an u dId to' and it became as popular as Youtube, where would we be then?
Mind you, not checking domain names thoroughly occasionally throws up a corker like the one for Pen Island: http://www.penisland.com (for those who are amused by such things). I'm sure one or two peope will post some other examples.
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I've seen that before, along with Mole Station Nursery and Therapist Finder. However, when I clicked that link my work filter tells me it's blocking it because it's too sexy. I'm guessing it's not about pens (or islands) anymore (if it ever was). And I'm going to get sacked now.Alec Rivers wrote:Mind you, not checking domain names thoroughly occasionally throws up a corker like the one for Pen Island: http://www.penisland.com (for those who are amused by such things). I'm sure one or two peope will post some other examples.
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penisland.net looks to be a pen supplier. penisland.com, which Alex has linked to, is a gay porn stash. Kind of puts his sermon about checking spelling and grammar into perspective.
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I'm sorry to hear that but, in my defence, I didn't intend for it to appear as a clickable link. I deliberately omitted the http bit, but the forum engine added it anyway.Jon Corby wrote:I've seen that before, along with Mole Station Nursery and Therapist Finder. However, when I clicked that link my work filter tells me it's blocking it because it's too sexy. I'm guessing it's not about pens (or islands) anymore (if it ever was). And I'm going to get sacked now.Alec Rivers wrote:Mind you, not checking domain names thoroughly occasionally throws up a corker like the one for Pen Island: http://www.penisland.com (for those who are amused by such things). I'm sure one or two peope will post some other examples.
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Oh, the irony.Paul Howe wrote:penisland.net looks to be a pen supplier. penisland.com, which Alex has linked to, is a gay porn stash. Kind of puts his sermon about checking spelling and grammar into perspective.
(Although actually I made no spelling or grammar mistakes there. Still see the funny side, though.)
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Well, a properly constructed Google search would (with some caveats) back up a claim that a certain usage was widespread. Which I believe is what Charlie was saying.Sue Sanders wrote:Which surely suggests that citing google as a reflection of acceptable usage of grammar is somewhat hit and miss? (Which is going back a wee bit in this thread but, well, it is something of a meandering one.)
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I meant that there are far more important things to focus on getting right. Like not making us look like a bunch of gay porn aficionados .Alec Rivers wrote: (Although actually I made no spelling or grammar mistakes there. Still see the funny side, though.)
Much of the thread does have a "use language in the extremely precise way I prefer or be damned" feel to it.Alec Rivers wrote: EDIT: Sermon? Huh?
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Others include http://www.expertsexchange.com/ and powergenitalia.comAlec Rivers wrote:A very good point, indeed. (And a good example as well.) If this were an ideal world, people would check their spelling and grammar before registering a domain name. But it isn't. So they don't.Sue Sanders wrote:If someone had a website called 'I feLL of oFF yOur wall's an u dId to' and it became as popular as Youtube, where would we be then?
Mind you, not checking domain names thoroughly occasionally throws up a corker like the one for Pen Island: http://www.penisland.com (for those who are amused by such things). I'm sure one or two peope will post some other examples.
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lol. I was only citing an example that I saw a long time ago (hence forgetting the TLD) on a Graham Norton show. I neither expected nor encouraged anyone to go clicking it!Paul Howe wrote:I meant that there are far more important things to focus on getting right. Like not making us look like a bunch of gay porn aficionados .
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Not really. If I use the wrong end of a tape measure, it doesn't suggest that using a tape measure is a "hit and miss" way of measuring something.Sue Sanders wrote:Which surely suggests that citing google as a reflection of acceptable usage of grammar is somewhat hit and miss? (Which is going back a wee bit in this thread but, well, it is something of a meandering one.)
Using Google precisely is harder than it might seem, and I didn't criticise you for doing it wrongly, I only criticised your evidence for being, well, wrong. I was even being polite and everything. I thought you'd be proudSue Sanders wrote:I'm sure those of you who have grown up in the computer generation think it second nature to google using a certain format but there are thousands of us out here who have access to a computer, having had little in the way of 'instruction' and we just do our own thing. I often do google using different key words, but yeah, the quotation marks thing is news to me. (I still generally find the information I want.)
We'd be at a point of creating a major new linguistic phenomenon, I suppose, which lexicographers would be in no position to dismiss as "wrong". But the example is rather misleading for the obvious reason that it hasn't actually happened.Sue Sanders wrote: I just don't get this arguement that mis-using grammar on google hits can in some way be a reflection that the incorrect form is becoming acceptable. If someone had a website called 'I feLL of oFF yOur wall's an u dId to' and it became as popular as Youtube, where would we be then?
Another factor is the question of whether a certain usage forms part of a larger pattern. For example, saying "would of" instead of "would have" is unlikely to be accepted in Standard English any time soon because there's just no precedent for forming modal phrases that way. However, in the case of "bored of", many verbs do work this way (you can be "tired of" something, as mentioned before), so it's really not a major grammatical watershed to use "of" in place of "with".
Incidentally, "arguement" generates a mere 309K results versus 21.2M for "argument".
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Surely using the correct letters is more important?Marc Meakin wrote:Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?
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Hmm. Interesting example. As someone who uses tape measures constantly for my work (though I don't profess to be a surveyor), I would say, give an irregular shaped garden without a right angle in sight and some tape measures to someone who is going to 'wing' it - what you'll end up with is inaccurate measurements produced by using an otherwise accurate measuring tool - and that's ignoring the concept of using the wrong end! So that person's measurements may need to be discounted.Charlie Reams wrote:Not really. If I use the wrong end of a tape measure, it doesn't suggest that using a tape measure is a "hit and miss" way of measuring something.Sue Sanders wrote:Which surely suggests that citing google as a reflection of acceptable usage of grammar is somewhat hit and miss?
I didn't feel criticised, I was saying, there's something a bit rudimentary about taking everybody's opinion and putting it into a big melting pot, without creating tolerances for people getting it wrong. Ha, made you cryCharlie Reams wrote:Using Google precisely is harder than it might seem, and I didn't criticise you for doing it wrongly, I only criticised your evidence for being, well, wrong. I was even being polite and everything. I thought you'd be proud
Sue Sanders wrote: I just don't get this arguement that mis-using grammar on google hits can in some way be a reflection that the incorrect form is becoming acceptable. If someone had a website called 'I feLL of oFF yOur wall's an u dId to' and it became as popular as Youtube, where would we be then?
On browsing the internet over this 'bored of' thing - I discovered a website called 'boredofthehighstreet'. If I search on that, I'm not consenting to giving my vote to 'bored of' being an acceptable use of language - I feel I'm being lured into dumbing down!Charlie Reams wrote:We'd be at a point of creating a major new linguistic phenomenon, I suppose, which lexicographers would be in no position to dismiss as "wrong". But the example is rather misleading for the obvious reason that it hasn't actually happened.
We're back to the crux of the matter then aren't we? To some of us, the principle would be. There's a precedent set for anglicising panini and accepting paninis but then you're going to really annoy Kirk and KaiCharlie wrote:However, in the case of "bored of", many verbs do work this way (you can be "tired of" something, as mentioned before), so it's really not a major grammatical watershed to use "of" in place of "with".
Hee hee. Touche, Mr Reams Right - let's see how I've done with a post of Krypton Factor stylee quoting requirements!Charlie Boy Reamster wrote:Incidentally, "arguement" generates a mere 309K results versus 21.2M for "argument".
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I totally agree, but it is at least interesting as to how our brains work.Kai Laddiman wrote:Surely using the correct letters is more important?Marc Meakin wrote:Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?
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You're not fooling me!Sue Sanders wrote:Oh WOWSER - 'Queen of Quoting' or WHAT!!! t
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Well, quite. You're that person.Sue Sanders wrote:Hmm. Interesting example. As someone who uses tape measures constantly for my work (though I don't profess to be a surveyor), I would say, give an irregular shaped garden without a right angle in sight and some tape measures to someone who is going to 'wing' it - what you'll end up with is inaccurate measurements produced by using an otherwise accurate measuring tool - and that's ignoring the concept of using the wrong end! So that person's measurements may need to be discounted.Charlie Reams wrote:Not really. If I use the wrong end of a tape measure, it doesn't suggest that using a tape measure is a "hit and miss" way of measuring something.Sue Sanders wrote:Which surely suggests that citing google as a reflection of acceptable usage of grammar is somewhat hit and miss?
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Yep - I'm the one whose google surfing can be discounted due to not having learned the quotation marks bit, and I'm the person who can measure a garden like a ....SHITHOT KIRKULATOR!!!!Charlie Reams wrote:Well, quite. You're that person.Sue Sanders wrote:Hmm. Interesting example. As someone who uses tape measures constantly for my work (though I don't profess to be a surveyor), I would say, give an irregular shaped garden without a right angle in sight and some tape measures to someone who is going to 'wing' it - what you'll end up with is inaccurate measurements produced by using an otherwise accurate measuring tool - and that's ignoring the concept of using the wrong end! So that person's measurements may need to be discounted.Charlie Reams wrote:Not really. If I use the wrong end of a tape measure, it doesn't suggest that using a tape measure is a "hit and miss" way of measuring something.
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I'll let you know next time my front lawn needs a trim.Sue Sanders wrote:Yep - I'm the one whose google surfing can be discounted due to not having learned the quotation marks bit, and I'm the person who can measure a garden like a ....SHITHOT KIRKULATOR!!!!
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I know. And rightly proud, too. I just couldn't resist. And, with reference to your garden measuring/designing exploits, after our conversation last week I can attest that you certainly know your trachelospermum from your theodolites.Sue Sanders wrote:I'M HAPPY!
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Er, don't. I'm not a gardener.Charlie Reams wrote:I'll let you know next time my front lawn needs a trim.Sue Sanders wrote:Yep - I'm the one whose google surfing can be discounted due to not having learned the quotation marks bit, and I'm the person who can measure a garden like a ....SHITHOT KIRKULATOR!!!!
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Can we keep this clean please?Charlie Reams wrote:I'll let you know next time my front lawn needs a trim.Sue Sanders wrote:Yep - I'm the one whose google surfing can be discounted due to not having learned the quotation marks bit, and I'm the person who can measure a garden like a ....SHITHOT KIRKULATOR!!!!
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That'll only make it grow faster though.Charlie Reams wrote:I hose it down once a week or so.Brian Moore wrote:Can we keep this clean please?
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Award winning lady, garden designerSue Sanders wrote:Er, don't. I'm not a gardener.Charlie Reams wrote:I'll let you know next time my front lawn needs a trim.Sue Sanders wrote:Yep - I'm the one whose google surfing can be discounted due to not having learned the quotation marks bit, and I'm the person who can measure a garden like a ....SHITHOT KIRKULATOR!!!!
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I'm sorry, did Sue actually miss a double entendre there? Or is this her way of saying "in your dreams"?Sue Sanders wrote:Er, don't. I'm not a gardener.Charlie Reams wrote:I'll let you know next time my front lawn needs a trim.Sue Sanders wrote:Yep - I'm the one whose google surfing can be discounted due to not having learned the quotation marks bit, and I'm the person who can measure a garden like a ....SHITHOT KIRKULATOR!!!!
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If Charlie's a bit lazy about keeping his area nicely trimmed, and would like the opportunity to get his hose out, I could produce a hard landscaping design so a landscaper could turn something like this....
into this....
Nice and easy to tend to.
It even manages the slope rather nicely, if he'd like to dabble in some gentle uphill gardening.
into this....
Nice and easy to tend to.
It even manages the slope rather nicely, if he'd like to dabble in some gentle uphill gardening.
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My apologies for doubting your perspicacity, Sue.
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Liam Tiernan wrote:My apologies for doubting your perspicacity, Sue.
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I never doubted you, Sue.
In case you missed it (there was a mad rush of posts around the same time) lolAlec Rivers wrote:And, with reference to your garden measuring/designing exploits, after our conversation last week I can attest that you certainly know your trachelospermum from your theodolites.
Re: The C4C Football-haters Thread
HERALDEDCharlie Reams wrote:Well, quite. You're that person.Sue Sanders wrote:Hmm. Interesting example. As someone who uses tape measures constantly for my work (though I don't profess to be a surveyor), I would say, give an irregular shaped garden without a right angle in sight and some tape measures to someone who is going to 'wing' it - what you'll end up with is inaccurate measurements produced by using an otherwise accurate measuring tool - and that's ignoring the concept of using the wrong end! So that person's measurements may need to be discounted.Charlie Reams wrote: Not really. If I use the wrong end of a tape measure, it doesn't suggest that using a tape measure is a "hit and miss" way of measuring something.
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Surprised you can't manage it yourself.Charlie Reams wrote:I'll let you know next time my front lawn needs a trim.
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You know when you edit something quickly, it doesn't mention the fact? If you then edit it later and does mention it, would it include the original edit in the count?Alec Rivers wrote:You're not fooling me!Sue Sanders wrote:Oh WOWSER - 'Queen of Quoting' or WHAT!!! t
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EDIT: Okay, that's a bit mean, but kinda funny, too, so I'll leave it.
Edit 1 - Only one way to find out!
Edit 2 - Anyone else as excited as me?
Edit 3 - Anyone else even read this post yet?
Edit 4 - I got three in before the count is mentioned. Can I make it four?
Edit 5 - Yes.
Edit 6 - This is getting boring now.
Edit 7 - It doesn't start the clock again after each edit that makes it inside the time limit does it?
Edit 8 - I'll come back in a bit.
Edit 9 - OK Jon. Let's see!
Edit 10 - Well there you go. This will count as the second edit.
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It only mentions it if someone's already posted after you (in the thread) I believe Gavin. Try now.
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Paedophile priests eh? Kind of over-shadows hand ball in the kick in the teeth stakes.
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It's o.k. Sue. After each rape the Priest will pray for forgiveness, and he knows that the lord will forgive him. Of course though, if he believes that it's normal behaviour to rape children, he wont need to pray, and perhaps that's why he became a Priest. Did you know that when a Priest's reputation as a Paedophile becomes known, he is moved on to another area. My cure for this behaviour is to burn the churches of all denominations, and make these religious nutters work for their living.Sue Sanders wrote:Paedophile priests eh? Kind of over-shadows hand ball in the kick in the teeth stakes.
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I'm lost in this labyrinthian thread. While I find my way out, here is a reason not to play football too.
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I agree in principle, George, but burning them is a waste of resources and increases pollution (as, no doubt, does removing small children from the priests' "care"). Unused churches, particularly the tall ones, make very useful phone masts.George Jenkins wrote: My cure for this behaviour is to burn the churches of all denominations, and make these religious nutters work for their living.
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A splendid Idea Rosemary, and the interiors of churches should portray the history of thousands of murders committed by rival religions. Also the murder of thousands of so called heretics, committed by all religions.Rosemary Roberts wrote:I agree in principle, George, but burning them is a waste of resources and increases pollution (as, no doubt, does removing small children from the priests' "care"). Unused churches, particularly the tall ones, make very useful phone masts.George Jenkins wrote: My cure for this behaviour is to burn the churches of all denominations, and make these religious nutters work for their living.
To get back on topic, I also hate footballers who kiss each other when a goal is scored. Now I feel much better.