This is true. It's also about how you appear.
I had a boss like that, "oh, they know what I mean". Yes, but you look ignorant.
Grammar Nazi, or educator?
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This is true. It's also about how you appear.
I had a boss like that, "oh, they know what I mean". Yes, but you look ignorant.
Soldato
I was standing in the Post Office queue earlier and reading a banner poster advertising PO services
Avoid the ques... get our que jumping (something), I could read no further.
But then I read; If your using a franking machine...
Do they employ numpty poster designers and printers? I would have thought that the Post Office at least should be literate? Perhaps they compensate by being extra numerate however I do not see that either. It should be point of principle not to place material likely to denigrate your image in public view.
Avoid the ques... get our que jumping (something), I could read no further.
But then I read; If your using a franking machine...
Do they employ numpty poster designers and printers? I would have thought that the Post Office at least should be literate? Perhaps they compensate by being extra numerate however I do not see that either. It should be point of principle not to place material likely to denigrate your image in public view.
Man of Honour
Apostrophe abuse has no place anywhere!
Mods can eat my short's!
Mods can eat my short's!
Man of Honour
Gotta get a tan as high as possible after all 
Maybe they were trying to be helpful, but you interpreted their help as rude or disrespectful.
Thinks; Jeez, I hope that I never tried to gently help dave28
That's frankly appalling
especially when you think how many people would have seen it before being displayed!
Man of Honour
Most people don't even notice really. Just like all these garages around town offering MOT's.
Soldato
One near me offers MoT's
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A Word document.
I was producing a quotation for technical project. Word decided to help me out. I wanted to type "Borehole Pump Set" Word had other ideas. "Brothel Dump Site" she decided..............
I was producing a quotation for technical project. Word decided to help me out. I wanted to type "Borehole Pump Set" Word had other ideas. "Brothel Dump Site" she decided..............
You can come build some of those brothel dump sites round our way, if you like.
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Where would you like them to be put?
Within touching distance, please.
Soldato
One near me offers MoT's
Ignoring the apostrophe, isn't MoT more technically correct than MOT?
Unless I'm mistaken, it stands for Ministry of Transport (test), where the "of" is lower case
Soldato
So it does! I don't know what I thought it stood for, but it wasn't that.
Now it's going to bug me that "getting an MOT" doesn't make much sense.
It's a shortened form of "having an MoT test done". It's not an MoT, it's an MoT test.
One that does bother me a bit is the company policy reminder posters spread around on walls at work - someone obviously rushed it and it looks so unprofessional to anyone who might visit. Been up a few years and I keep thinking I should just replace it myself and see how long before anyone notices.
Soldato
Thank you for the grammar lesson