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Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2022 10:45 pm
by Mr. Dazzle
Maybe he's referring to two different people called Oliver?
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2022 10:49 pm
by Taipan
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Tue Jan 25, 2022 10:45 pm
Maybe he's referring to two different people called Oliver?
Corps, regiments, divisions...
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2022 11:35 pm
by JackyJoll
Saga Lout wrote: Tue Jan 25, 2022 10:27 pm
Oliver's Army annoys me somewhat:
"Oliver's army is here to stay
This army is stationed as a military unit.
"Oliver's army are on their way"
They advance as a large number of soldiers.
Also poetic licence: the writer thinks it has a better rhythm.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2022 11:57 pm
by Saga Lout
JackyJoll wrote: Tue Jan 25, 2022 11:35 pm...
Also poetic licence: the writer thinks it has a better rhythm.
Well the writer are wrong.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2022 8:44 am
by JackyJoll
Saga Lout wrote: Tue Jan 25, 2022 11:57 pm
JackyJoll wrote: Tue Jan 25, 2022 11:35 pm...
Also poetic licence: the writer thinks it has a better rhythm.
Well the writer are wrong.
Luckily for him, the record buying public was just as wrong.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2022 8:55 am
by Horse
Saga Lout wrote: Tue Jan 25, 2022 10:27 pm
Oliver's Army annoys me somewhat:
"Oliver's army is here to stay
"Oliver's army are on their way"
Is Oliver's army singular or are Oliver's army plural. Make up your bloody mind, Elvis.
You ought to start a new thread, 'Song lyrics that annoy SL'. Might it run to some length?
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2022 9:00 am
by MingtheMerciless
Package arriving via Royal Mail today, I got a text from them saying when it’s arriving and if I’m not going to be in follow the link to see delivery options. So follow the link and input all my details to be told delivery options are not available on this package!
#RoyalFail
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2022 9:30 am
by Saga Lout
Saga Lout wrote: Tue Jan 25, 2022 11:57 pm
JackyJoll wrote: Tue Jan 25, 2022 11:35 pm...
Also poetic licence: the writer thinks it has a better rhythm.
Well the writer are wrong.
After switching the computer off I thought: I should have said "He was a writer of wrongs".
The French have a phrase for it: l’esprit de l’escalier, which is especially appropriate as I thought of it as I was going upstairs to bed.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2022 4:12 pm
by Ant
Listening to people on the radio, pronounciation of words is getting worse...
Facts are now facs, or maybe just call it fax.
Secretary is now secratree, or even sometimes secachee
Lots of ter instead of too.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2022 4:29 pm
by slowsider
Ant wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 4:12 pm
Listening to people on the radio,
pronounciation of words is getting worse...
It's nearly as bad with spelling.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2022 4:38 pm
by Ant
slowsider wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 4:29 pm
Ant wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 4:12 pm
Listening to people on the radio,
pronounciation of words is getting worse...
It's nearly as bad with spelling.
See what I did there
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2022 9:16 pm
by petrolpete
Americanisms.
Have been watching draining the oceans and the narrator says nukelar.
I thought only mericans were unable to pronounce nuclear.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2022 7:18 am
by Mussels
I like the idea of radio clocks, those ones that use a broadcast signal to keep perfect time. I don't like the reality as when they go wrong it's big, my clock currently says it is 16:15 on Sat Feb 3rd.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2022 11:54 am
by Saga Lout
Email from Decathlon:
The beginning of the year is the perfect time to get back into cycling. It’s great for your mental and physical health, so harness the power of peddling and get back to it.
If you're peddling pedalling stuff, shouldn't you know the difference?
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2022 1:44 pm
by Mussels
Docudramas, stop twisting hstory to give it a woke angle and put some more effort into the script to get favourable reviews.
Hopefully this will make them rethink it a bit.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-60167723
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2022 4:46 pm
by Yorick
Bloody IKEA.
Just sat in the sun on the front steps with a cold beer.
I'd forgotten that Mrs Y had toddled off to IKEA a couple of hours ago.
Well, she just turned into the drive and the wheels were nearly scraping the wheel arches
Took her 10 minutes to unload the bloody car. Her in IKEA is like me in Screwfix
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2022 8:19 am
by weeksy
Other forums who claim to have 200,000 members, but get 5 posts a day.
I know all apart from about 0.5% of them are spam members not actual posters.
But anyone looking sees us at 502 and thinks "what's the point" but we as a forum are incredibly active as you all know.
I do wonder how many people it puts off though.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2022 8:25 am
by Nordboy
weeksy wrote: Sun Jan 30, 2022 8:19 am
Other forums who claim to have 200,000 members, but get 5 posts a day.
I know all apart from about 0.5% of them are spam members not actual posters.
But anyone looking sees us at 502 and thinks "what's the point" but we as a forum are incredibly active as you all know.
I do wonder how many people it puts off though.
I'm sure it puts a few people off, but when I look at other forums I tend to look at how many and when the last posts were, so I look at the amount of traffic/ posts going through there?
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2022 8:34 am
by Horse
Nordboy wrote: Sun Jan 30, 2022 8:25 am
weeksy wrote: Sun Jan 30, 2022 8:19 am
I do wonder how many people it puts off though.
when I look at other forums I tend to look at how many and when the last posts were
Ditto
I've happened across a forum, then seen it's not had posts for years. Read anything interesting and move on. If the members are that inactive then anything you post is a statement not a conversation.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2022 2:48 pm
by Jody
Waze sat nav app
bloody POS sent me through Annecy at 5:45 on a Friday eve, there's another route that avoids the city altogether !!